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Nickname(s): DC
Country Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana
Region Greater Accra Region
Dansoman is a suburban town in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, located near Accra. The town is known for being the largest estate in West Africa. Several schools are located in Dansoman, including the Dansoman Secondary School.[1][2] (a second cycle institution[3]), St Martin de Porres School[4] and Alpha Beta Christian College.
1. ^ "Educational Institutions". www.centralregion.gov.gh. Retrieved 12 August 2011.
2. ^ "References » Schools/Colleges". www.modernghana.com. Retrieved 12 August 2011.
3. ^ "List of Secondary Schools in Ghana". www.ghanaschoolsnet.com/. Retrieved 12 August 2011.
4. ^ http://www.martindeporresgh.com/ | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dansoman | dclm-gs1-265380000 |
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This article is about astronomical eclipses. For other uses, see Eclipse (disambiguation).
"Total eclipse" redirects here. For other uses, see Total Eclipse (disambiguation).
Totality during the 2000 solar eclipse. Solar prominences can be seen along the limb (in red) as well as extensive coronal filaments.
An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when an astronomical object is temporarily obscured, either by passing into the shadow of another body or by having another body pass between it and the viewer. An eclipse is a type of syzygy.[1]
The term eclipse is most often used to describe either a solar eclipse, when the Moon's shadow crosses the Earth's surface, or a lunar eclipse, when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. However, it can also refer to such events beyond the Earth–Moon system: for example, a planet moving into the shadow cast by one of its moons, a moon passing into the shadow cast by its host planet, or a moon passing into the shadow of another moon. A binary star system can also produce eclipses if the plane of the orbit of its constituent stars intersects the observer's position.
The term is derived from the ancient Greek noun ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis), which means "the abandonment", "the downfall", or "the darkening of a heavenly body", which is derived from the verb ἐκλείπω (ekleípō) which means "to abandon", "to darken", or "to cease to exist,"[2] a combination of prefix ἐκ- (ek-), from preposition ἐκ (ek), "out," and of verb λείπω (leípō), "to be absent".[3][4]
Umbra, penumbra and antumbra[edit]
Umbra, penumbra and antumbra cast by an opaque object occulting a larger light source.
The region of the Moon's shadow in a solar eclipse is divided into three parts:[5]
• The umbra, within which the Moon completely covers the Sun (more precisely, its photosphere).
• The antumbra, extending beyond the tip of the umbra, within which the Moon is completely in front of the Sun but too small to completely cover it.
• The penumbra, within which the Moon is only partially in front of the Sun.
During a lunar eclipse only the umbra and penumbra are applicable. This is because Earth's apparent diameter from the viewpoint of the Moon is nearly four times that of the Sun.
The first contact occurs when the Moon's disc first starts to impinge on the Sun's; second contact is when the Moon's disc moves completely within the Sun's; third contact when it starts to move out of the Sun's; and fourth or last contact when it finally leaves the Sun's disc entirely.
The same terms may be used analogously in describing other eclipses, e.g., the antumbra of Deimos crossing Mars, or Phobos entering Mars's penumbra.
A total eclipse occurs when the observer is within the umbra, an annular eclipse when the observer is within the antumbra, and a partial eclipse when the observer is within the penumbra.
L\ =\ \frac{r \cdot R_o}{R_s - R_o}
Eclipse cycles[edit]
An eclipse cycle takes place when a series of eclipses are separated by a certain interval of time. This happens when the orbital motions of the bodies form repeating harmonic patterns. A particular instance is the saros, which results in a repetition of a solar or lunar eclipse every 6,585.3 days, or a little over 18 years (because this is not a whole number of days, successive eclipses will be visible from different parts of the world).[7]
Earth–Moon System[edit]
A symbolic orbital diagram from the view of the Earth at the center, with the sun and moon projected upon the celestial sphere, showing the Moon's two nodes where eclipses can occur.
An eclipse involving the Sun, Earth and Moon can occur only when they are nearly in a straight line, allowing one to be hidden behind another, viewed from the third. Because the orbital plane of the Moon is tilted with respect to the orbital plane of the Earth (the ecliptic), eclipses can occur only when the Moon is close to the intersection of these two planes (the nodes). The Sun, Earth and nodes are aligned twice a year (during an eclipse season), and eclipses can occur during a period of about two months around these times. There can be from four to seven eclipses in a calendar year, which repeat according to various eclipse cycles, such as a saros.
Between 1901 and 2100 there are the maximum of seven eclipses in:[8]
• four (penumbral) lunar and three solar eclipses: 1908, 2038.
• four solar and three lunar eclipses: 1917, 1973, 2094.
• five solar and two lunar eclipses: 1934.
Excluding penumbral lunar eclipses, there are a maximum of seven eclipses in:[9]
• 1591, 1656, 1787, 1805, 1917, 1935, 1982, and 2094.
Solar eclipse[edit]
Main article: Solar eclipse
The progression of a solar eclipse on August 1, 2008, viewed from Novosibirsk, Russia. The time between shots is three minutes.
As observed from the Earth, a solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes in front of the Sun. The type of solar eclipse event depends on the distance of the Moon from the Earth during the event. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Earth intersects the umbra portion of the Moon's shadow. When the umbra does not reach the surface of the Earth, the Sun is only partially occulted, resulting in an annular eclipse. Partial solar eclipses occur when the viewer is inside the penumbra.[10]
Geometry of a total solar eclipse (not to scale)
During a solar eclipse, the Moon can sometimes perfectly cover the Sun because its size is nearly the same as the Sun's when viewed from the Earth. A total solar eclipse is in fact an occultation while an annular solar eclipse is a transit.
When observed at points in space other than from the Earth's surface, the Sun can be eclipsed by bodies other than the Moon. Two examples include when the crew of Apollo 12 observed the Earth to eclipse the Sun in 1969 and when the Cassini probe observed Saturn to eclipse the Sun in 2006.
Lunar eclipse[edit]
Main article: Lunar eclipse
The progression of a lunar eclipse from right to left. Totality is shown with the first two images. These required a longer exposure time to make the details visible.
There are three types of lunar eclipses: penumbral, when the Moon crosses only the Earth's penumbra; partial, when the Moon crosses partially into the Earth's umbra; and total, when the Moon crosses entirely into the Earth's umbra. Total lunar eclipses pass through all three phases. Even during a total lunar eclipse, however, the Moon is not completely dark. Sunlight refracted through the Earth's atmosphere enters the umbra and provides a faint illumination. Much as in a sunset, the atmosphere tends to more strongly scatter light with shorter wavelengths, so the illumination of the Moon by refracted light has a red hue,[13] thus the phrase 'Blood Moon' is often found in descriptions of such lunar events as far back as eclipses are recorded.[14]
Historical record[edit]
Records of solar eclipses have been kept since ancient times. Eclipse dates can be used for chronological dating of historical records. A Syrian clay tablet, in the Ugaritic language, records a solar eclipse which occurred on March 5, 1223 B.C.,[15] while Paul Griffin argues that a stone in Ireland records an eclipse on November 30, 3340 B.C.[16] Positing classical-era astronomers' use of Babylonian eclipse records mostly from the 13th century BC provides a feasible and mathematically consistent[17] explanation for the Greek finding all three lunar mean motions (synodic, anomalistic, draconitic) to a precision of about one part in a million or better. Chinese historical records of solar eclipses date back over 4,000 years and have been used to measure changes in the Earth's rate of spin.[18]
By the 1600s, European astronomers were publishing books with diagrams explaining how lunar and solar eclipses occurred.[19][20] In order to disseminate this information to a broader audience and decrease fear of the consequences of eclipses, booksellers printed broadsides explaining the event either using the science or via astrology.[21]
Some other planets and Pluto[edit]
Gas giants[edit]
Saturn occults the Sun as seen from the Cassini–Huygens space probe
The gas giant planets (Jupiter,[22] Saturn,[23] Uranus,[24] and Neptune)[25] have many moons and thus frequently display eclipses. The most striking involve Jupiter, which has four large moons and a low axial tilt, making eclipses more frequent as these bodies pass through the shadow of the larger planet. Transits occur with equal frequency. It is common to see the larger moons casting circular shadows upon Jupiter's cloudtops.
Transit of Phobos from Mars, as seen by the Mars Opportunity rover (10 March 2004).
On Mars, only partial solar eclipses (transits) are possible, because neither of its moons is large enough, at their respective orbital radii, to cover the Sun's disc as seen from the surface of the planet. Eclipses of the moons by Mars are not only possible, but commonplace, with hundreds occurring each Earth year. There are also rare occasions when Deimos is eclipsed by Phobos.[28] Martian eclipses have been photographed from both the surface of Mars and from orbit.
Pluto, with its proportionately large moon Charon, is also the site of many eclipses. A series of such mutual eclipses occurred between 1985 and 1990.[29] These daily events led to the first accurate measurements of the physical parameters of both objects.[30]
Mercury and Venus[edit]
Eclipsing binaries[edit]
The first eclipsing binary star system to be discovered was Algol, a star system in the constellation Perseus. Normally this star system has a visual magnitude of 2.1. However, every 2.867 days the magnitude decreases to 3.4 for more than nine hours. This is caused by the passage of the dimmer member of the pair in front of the brighter star.[33] The concept that an eclipsing body caused these luminosity variations was introduced by John Goodricke in 1783.[34]
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5. ^ Espenak, Fred (September 21, 2007). "Glossary of Solar Eclipse Terms". NASA. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
6. ^ Green, Robin M. (1985). Spherical Astronomy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-521-31779-7.
7. ^ Espenak, Fred (July 12, 2007). "Eclipses and the Saros". NASA. Retrieved 2007-12-13.
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10. ^ Hipschman, R. "Solar Eclipse: Why Eclipses Happen". Retrieved 2008-12-01.
11. ^ Zombeck, Martin V. (2006). Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics (Third ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 48. ISBN 0-521-78242-2.
12. ^ Staff (January 6, 2006). "Solar and Lunar Eclipses". NOAA. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
13. ^ Phillips, Tony (February 13, 2008). "Total Lunar Eclipse". NASA. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
14. ^ Ancient Timekeepers,
15. ^ de Jong, T.; van Soldt, W. H. (1989). "The earliest known solar eclipse record redated". Nature 338 (6212): 238–240. Bibcode:1989Natur.338..238D. doi:10.1038/338238a0. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
16. ^ Griffin, Paul (2002). "Confirmation of World's Oldest Solar Eclipse Recorded in Stone". The Digital Universe. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
17. ^ See DIO 16 p.2 (2009). Though those Greek and perhaps Babylonian astronomers who determined the three previously unsolved lunar motions were spread over more than four centuries (263 BC to 160 AD), the math-indicated early eclipse records are all from a much smaller span: the 13th century BC. The anciently attested Greek technique: use of eclipse cycles, automatically providing integral ratios, which is how all ancient astronomers' lunar motions were expressed. Long-eclipse-cycle-based reconstructions precisely produce all of the 24 digits appearing in the three attested ancient motions just cited: 6247 synod = 6695 anom (System A), 5458 synod = 5923 drac (Hipparchos), 3277 synod = 3512 anom (Planetary Hypotheses). By contrast, the System B motion, 251 synod = 269 anom (Aristarchos?), could have been determined without recourse to remote eclipse data, simply by using a few eclipse-pairs 4267 months apart.
18. ^ "Solar Eclipses in History and Mythology". Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
19. ^ Girault, Simon (1592). Globe dv monde contenant un bref traite du ciel & de la terra. Langres, France. p. Fol. 8V.
20. ^ Hevelius, Johannes (1652). Observatio Eclipseos Solaris Gedani. Danzig, Poland.
21. ^ Stephanson, Bruce; Bolt, Marvin; Friedman, Anna Felicity (2000). The Universe Unveiled: Instruments and Images through History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 32–33. ISBN 052179143X.
22. ^ "Start eclipse of the Sun by Callisto from the center of Jupiter" (Observed at 00:28 UT). JPL Solar System Simulator. 3 June 2009. Retrieved 2008-06-05.
23. ^ "Eclipse of the Sun by Titan from the center of Saturn" (Observed at 02:46 UT). JPL Solar System Simulator. 3 August 2009. Retrieved 2008-06-05.
24. ^ "Brief Eclipse of the Sun by Miranda from the center of Uranus" (Observed at 19:58 UT (JPL Horizons S-O-T=0.0565)). JPL Solar System Simulator. 22 January 2007. Retrieved 2008-06-05.
25. ^ "Transit of the Sun by Nereid from the center of Neptune" (Observed at 20:19 UT (JPL Horizons S-O-T=0.0079)). JPL Solar System Simulator. 28 March 2006. Retrieved 2008-06-05.
26. ^ "Roemer's Hypothesis". MathPages. Retrieved 2007-01-12.
27. ^ Cassini, Giovanni D. (1694). "Monsieur Cassini His New and Exact Tables for the Eclipses of the First Satellite of Jupiter, Reduced to the Julian Stile, and Meridian of London". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 18 (207-214): 237–256. doi:10.1098/rstl.1694.0048. JSTOR 102468. Retrieved 2007-04-30.
28. ^ Davidson, Norman (1985). Astronomy and the Imagination: A New Approach to Man's Experience of the Stars. Routledge. ISBN 0-7102-0371-3.
29. ^ Buie, M. W.; Polk, K. S. (1988). "Polarization of the Pluto-Charon System During a Satellite Eclipse". Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 20: 806. Bibcode:1988BAAS...20..806B.
30. ^ Tholen, D. J.; Buie, M. W.; Binzel, R. P.; Frueh, M. L. (1987). "Improved Orbital and Physical Parameters for the Pluto-Charon System". Science 237 (4814): 512–514. Bibcode:1987Sci...237..512T. doi:10.1126/science.237.4814.512. PMID 17730324. Retrieved 2008-03-11.
31. ^ Espenak, Fred (May 29, 2007). "Planetary Transits Across the Sun". NASA. Retrieved 2008-03-11.
32. ^ Bruton, Dan. "Eclipsing binary stars". Midnightkite Solutions. Retrieved 2007-05-01.
33. ^ Price, Aaron (January 1999). "Variable Star Of The Month: Beta Persei (Algol)". AAVSO. Archived from the original on 2007-04-05. Retrieved 2007-05-01.
34. ^ Goodricke, John; Englefield, H. C. (1785). "Observations of a New Variable Star". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 75 (0): 153–164. Bibcode:1785RSPT...75..153G. doi:10.1098/rstl.1785.0009.
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This article is about the mathematical concept. For the sociology term, see group action (sociology).
In algebra and geometry, a group action is a description of symmetries of objects using groups. The essential elements of the object are described by a set, and the symmetries of the object are described by the symmetry group of this set, which consists of bijective transformations of the set. In this case, the group is also called a permutation group (especially if the set is finite or not a vector space) or transformation group (especially if the set is a vector space and the group acts like linear transformations of the set).
A group action is an extension to the definition of a symmetry group in which every element of the group "acts" like a bijective transformation (or "symmetry") of some set, without being identified with that transformation. This allows for a more comprehensive description of the symmetries of an object, such as a polyhedron, by allowing the same group to act on several different sets of features, such as the set of vertices, the set of edges and the set of faces of the polyhedron.
If G is a group and X is a set, then a group action may be defined as a group homomorphism h from G to the symmetric group on X. The action assigns a permutation of X to each element of the group in such a way that the permutation of X assigned to:
\varphi : G \times X \to X : (g,x)\mapsto \varphi(g,x)
that satisfies the following two axioms (where we denote φ(g, x) as g.x):[1]
(gh).x = g.(h.x) for all g, h in G and all x in X. (Here, gh denotes the result of applying the group operation of G to the elements g and h.)
e.x = x for all x in X. (Here, e denotes the neutral element of the group G.)
The set X is called a (left) G-set. The group G is said to act on X (on the left).
From these two axioms, it follows that for every g in G, the function which maps x in X to g.x is a bijective map from X to X (its inverse being the function which maps x to g−1.x). Therefore, one may alternatively define a group action of G on X as a group homomorphism from G into the symmetric group Sym(X) of all bijections from X to X.[2]
In complete analogy, one can define a right group action of G on X as an operation X × GX mapping (x, g) to x.g and satisfying the two axioms:
x.(gh) = (x.g).h for all g, h in G and all x in X;
x.e = x for all x in X.
• The trivial action of any group G on any set X is defined by g.x = x for all g in G and all x in X; that is, every group element induces the identity permutation on X.[3]
• In every group G, left multiplication is an action of G on G: g.x = gx for all g, x in G.
• In every group G, conjugation is an action of G on G: g.x = gxg−1. An exponential notation is commonly used for the right-action variant: xg = g−1xg; it satisfies (xg)h = xgh.
• The sets acted on by a group G comprise the category of G-sets in which the objects are G-sets and the morphisms are G-set homomorphisms: functions f : XY such that (g.f)(x) = f(g.x) for every g in G.
• The additive group of the real numbers (R, +) acts on the set of real functions of a real vari able in various ways, with (t.f)(x) equal to e.g. f(x + t), f(x) + t, f(xet), f(x)et, f(x + t)et, or f(xet) + t, but not f(xet + t).
• Given a group action of G on X, we can define an induced action of G on the power set of X, by setting g.U = {g.u : uU} for every subset U of X and every g in G. This is useful, for instance, in studying the action of the large Mathieu group on a 24-set and in studying symmetry in certain models of finite geometries.
• The quaternions with norm 1 (the versors), as a multiplicative group, act on R3: for any such quaternion \scriptstyle z = \cos\frac{1}{2}\alpha + \sin\frac{1}{2}\alpha \hat{\mathbf{v}}, the mapping f(x) = zxz is a counterclockwise rotation through an angle α about an axis v; z is the same rotation; see quaternions and spatial rotation.
Types of actions[edit]
The action of G on X is called
• Transitive if X is non-empty and if for any x, y in X there exists a g in G such that g.x = y.
• Faithful (or effective) if for any two distinct g, h in G there exists an x in X such that g.xh.x; or equivalently, if for any ge in G there exists an x in X such that g.xx. Intuitively, in a faithful group action, different elements of G induce different permutations of X.
• Free (or semiregular or fixed point free) if, given g, h in G, the existence of an x in X with g.x = h.x implies g = h. Equivalently: if g is a group element and there exists an x in X with g.x = x (that is, if g has at least one fixed point), then g is the identity.
• Regular (or simply transitive or sharply transitive) if it is both transitive and free; this is equivalent to saying that for any two x, y in X there exists precisely one g in G such that g.x = y. In this case, X is known as a principal homogeneous space for G or as a G-torsor.
• n-transitive if X has at least n elements and for any pairwise distinct x1, …, xn and pairwise distinct y1, …, yn there is a g in G such that g·xk = yk for 1 ≤ kn. A 2-transitive action is also called doubly transitive, a 3-transitive action is also called triply transitive, and so on. Such actions define 2-transitive groups, 3-transitive groups, and multiply transitive groups.
• Locally free if G is a topological group, and there is a neighbourhood U of e in G such that the restriction of the action to U is free; that is, if g.x = x for some x and some g in U then g = e.
• Irreducible if X is a non-zero module over a ring R, the action of G is R-linear, and there is no nonzero proper invariant submodule.
Every free action on a non-empty set is faithful. A group G acts faithfully on X if and only if the corresponding homomorphism G → Sym(X) has a trivial kernel. Thus, for a faithful action, G embeds into to a permutation group on X; specifically, G is isomorphic to its image in Sym(X).
If G does not act faithfully on X, one can easily modify the group to obtain a faithful action. If we define N = {g in G : g.x = x for all x in X}, then N is a normal subgroup of G; indeed, it is the kernel of the homomorphism G → Sym(X). The factor group G/N acts faithfully on X by setting (gN).x = g.x. The original action of G on X is faithful if and only if N = {e}.
Orbits and stabilizers[edit]
Consider a group G acting on a set X. The orbit of a point x in X is the set of elements of X to which x can be moved by the elements of G. The orbit of x is denoted by G.x:
G.x = \left\{ g.x \mid g \in G \right\}.
The defining properties of a group guarantee that the set of orbits of (points x in) X under the action of G form a partition of X. The associated equivalence relation is defined by saying x ~ y if and only if there exists a g in G with g.x = y. The orbits are then the equivalence classes under this relation; two elements x and y are equivalent if and only if their orbits are the same; i.e., G.x = G.y.
The group action is transitive if and only if it has only one orbit, i.e. if there exists x in X with G.x = X. This is the case if and only if G.x = X for all x in X.
Invariant subsets[edit]
If Y is a subset of X, we write GY for the set { g.y : yY and gG}. We call the subset Y invariant under G if G.Y = Y (which is equivalent to G.YY). In that case, G also operates on Y by restricting the action to Y. The subset Y is called fixed under G if g.y = y for all g in G and all y in Y. Every subset that is fixed under G is also invariant under G, but not vice versa.
Fixed points and stabilizer subgroups[edit]
Given g in G and x in X with g.x = x, we say x is a fixed point of g and g fixes x.
For every x in X, we define the stabilizer subgroup of x (also called the isotropy group) as the set of all elements in G that fix x:
G_x = \{g \in G \mid g.x = x\}.
This is a subgroup of G, though typically not a normal one. The action of G on X is free if and only if all stabilizers are trivial. The kernel N of the homomorphism G → Sym(X) is given by the intersection of the stabilizers Gx for all x in X. If N is trivial, the action is said to be faithful (or effective).
Let x and y be two elements in X, and let g be a group element such that y = g.x. Then the two stabilizer groups Gx and Gy are related by Gy = g Gx g−1. Proof: by definition, hGy if and only if h.(g.x) = g.x. Applying g−1 to both sides of this equality yields (g−1hg).x = (g−1g).x = x; that is, g−1hgGx.
The above says that the stabilizers of elements in the same orbit are conjugate to each other. Thus, to each orbit, one can associate a conjugacy class of a subgroup of G (i.e., the set of all conjugates of the subgroup). Let (H) denote the conjugacy class of H. Then one says that the orbit O has type (H) if the stabilizer G_x of some/any x in O belongs to (H).
Orbit-stabilizer theorem and Burnside's lemma[edit]
Orbits and stabilizers are closely related. For a fixed x in X, consider the map from G to X given by gg.x for all gG. The image of this map is the orbit of x and the coimage is the set of all left cosets of Gx. The standard quotient theorem of set theory then gives a natural bijection between G/Gx and G.x. Specifically, the bijection is given by hGxh.x. This result is known as the orbit-stabilizer theorem. From a more categorical perspective, the orbit-stabilizer theorem comes from the fact that every G-set is a sum of quotients of the G-set G.
If G and X are finite then the orbit-stabilizer theorem, together with Lagrange's theorem, gives
|G.x| = [G\,:\,G_x] = |G| / |G_x|.
This result is especially useful since it can be employed for counting arguments.
\left|X/G\right|=\frac{1}{\left|G\right|}\sum_{g\in G}\left|X^g\right|
where Xg is the set of points fixed by g. This result is mainly of use when G and X are finite, when it can be interpreted as follows: the number of orbits is equal to the average number of points fixed per group element.
Fixing a group G, the set of formal differences of finite G-sets forms a ring called the Burnside ring of G, where addition corresponds to disjoint union, and multiplication to Cartesian product.
Group actions and groupoids[edit]
The notion of group action can be put in a broader context by using the action groupoid \scriptstyle G' \;=\; G \,\ltimes\, X associated to the group action, thus allowing techniques from groupoid theory such as presentations and fibrations. Further the stabilisers of the action are the vertex groups, and the orbits of the action are the components, of the action groupoid. For more details, see the book Topology and groupoids referenced below.
This action groupoid comes with a morphism \scriptstyle p:\; G' \,\rightarrow\, G which is a covering morphism of groupoids. This allows a relation between such morphisms and covering maps in topology.
Morphisms and isomorphisms between G-sets[edit]
If X and Y are two G-sets, we define a morphism from X to Y to be a function f : XY such that f(g.x) = g.f(x) for all g in G and all x in X. Morphisms of G-sets are also called equivariant maps or G-maps.
The composition of two morphisms is again a morphism.
Some example isomorphisms:
Continuous group actions[edit]
If G is a discrete group acting on a topological space X, the action is properly discontinuous if for any point x in X there is an open neighborhood U of x in X, such that the set of all g in G for which \scriptstyle g(U) \,\cap\, U \;\ne\; \emptyset consists of the identity only. If X is a regular covering space of another topological space Y, then the action of the deck transformation group on X is properly discontinuous as well as being free. Every free, properly discontinuous action of a group G on a path-connected topological space X arises in this manner: the quotient map XX/G is a regular covering map, and the deck transformation group is the given action of G on X. Furthermore, if X is simply connected, the fundamental group of X/G will be isomorphic to G.
The action of G on X is said to be proper if the mapping G × XX × X that sends (g, x) ↦ (g.x, x) is a proper map.
Strongly continuous group action and smooth points[edit]
A group action of a topological group G on a topological space X is said to be strongly continuous if for all x in X, the map gg.x is continuous with respect to the respective topologies. Such an action induces an action on the space of continuous functions on X by defining (g.f)(x) = f(g−1.x) for every g in G, f a continuous function on X, and x in X. Note that, while every continuous group action is strongly continuous, the converse is not in general true.[4]
The subspace of smooth points for the action is the subspace of X of points x such that gg.x is smooth; i.e., it is continuous and all derivatives[where?] are continuous.
Variants and generalizations[edit]
One can view a group G as a category with a single object in which every morphism is invertible. A group action is then nothing but a functor from G to the category of sets, and a group representation is a functor from G to the category of vector spaces. A morphism between G-sets is then a natural transformation between the group action functors. In analogy, an action of a groupoid is a functor from the groupoid to the category of sets or to some other category.
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2. ^ This is done e.g. by Smith (2008). Introduction to abstract algebra. p. 253.
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Hot Buttered Cranberry Punch
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Water 2 Cup (32 tbs)
Fresh cranberries 4 Cup (64 tbs), rinsed
Water 1 1⁄2 Cup (24 tbs)
Lightly packed brown sugar 2⁄3 Cup (10.67 tbs)
Ground cinnamon 1⁄2 Teaspoon
Ground allspice 1⁄4 Teaspoon
Ground cloves 1⁄4 Teaspoon
Ground nutmeg 1⁄8 Teaspoon
Salt 1⁄8 Teaspoon
Canned unsweetened pineapple juice 18 Ounce (1 Can)
Butter/Margarine 1 Tablespoon (Adjust Quantity As Needed)
Combine the 2 cups water and cranberries in a saucepan.
Bring to boiling and cook until skins pop.
Force cranberries through a food or sieve to make a puree.
Add the cranberry puree and pineapple juice.
Return to heat and simmer 5 minutes.
Keep hot over simmering water until serving time.
Ladle punch into serving cups or mugs and add dots of butter to each cup.
Serve with cinnamon stick stirrers, if desired.
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I am following the Game Development proposal, and I have only used four of my five off-topic votes, but when I try to use my last one, it says I have already used all my votes. Why?
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Same thing happening to me on the Popular Natural Science proposal. – Blorgbeard Jun 16 '10 at 9:45
Same for me: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/54968/… – Tobias Kienzler Jun 26 '10 at 7:13
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Your fifth off-topic vote is on a question which has been deleted. We'll add an answer to this question when we decide how to best handle this scenario. – emmett♦
(comment to my duplicate)
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Now it just shows "You have 0 off-topic votes left on this proposal" on the 5th one
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1 / 5 (4) Oct 17, 2012
The problem with the models is they don't quantify all of the potential energy in the system. Not until they account for the electrical nature of the currents can a proper model be created.
5 / 5 (1) Oct 17, 2012
cantdrive: You said: "Not until they account for the electrical nature of the currents can a proper model be created."
Can you, please, describe the nature of the electrical currents in the ocean? Being educated in the areas of physics and chemistry I must have slept through that part of the lectures and would like to hear your explanation.
Do the currents flow between electric eels?
1 / 5 (3) Oct 17, 2012
Here is a paper that discusses electric currents in water. The author points out the the observations don't agree with the current understanding that the water flowing is inducing the currents. In my opinion, the reverse path needs to be examined, whereas the electric currents that are known to flow around the Earth are the source of energy that cause the water or air to flow, being dragged along by the electric currents.
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I am trying to communicate with Facebook doing simple things. At the moment I can log a user in and post to their wall as them. But for whatever reason, I can't seem to access public information such as their name. I consistently get this error:
{"error":{"message":"Syntax error \"Expected end of string instead of \"?\".\" at character 4: name?access_token=MYACCESSTOKEN","type":"OAuthException","code":2500}}
Here is the call:
SampleRequestListener srl = new SampleRequestListener();
AsyncFacebookRunner afr = new AsyncFacebookRunner(facebook);
afr.request("http://graph.facebook.com/me?fields=name", (RequestListener)srl);
That call is made within a validated session (in the onComplete portion of the DialogListener for .Authorize). Using my access_token and the exact same string as above I can get the request to work just fine at http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/
The error occurs whilst parsing the response in the RequestListener.onComplete
JSONObject json = Util.parseJson(response);
final String name = json.getString("name");
System.out.println("Hi, my name is " + name);
Thank you for your time. All input is welcomed.
There are two things going on. In the facebook API, Util.openUrl was appending a "?" between the field name and the access_token (as the answer below pointed out). This seems odd. I wonder if I pulled an old version of the API or something. You would think that would be set up correctly.
Also, I called the method incorrectly: This:
Should be:
afr.request("me?fields=name", (RequestListener)srl);
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Can you help me solve my issue stackoverflow.com/q/17102992/1767260. I think it is similar to your problem.But I cann't figure out the issue in my code.Can you check – user1767260 Jun 17 '13 at 9:04
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Looks like the actual request being sent is something like
and that of course is wrong; it should be an ampersand before the second parameter and not a question mark.
You’d have to look for the location in the code where the access token is added as parameter. At that point there should be a check for whether this URL already contains a question mark or not before appending the access_token parameter.
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Huh. This seems odd... The "?" is being added in the Facebook API Util.openUrl method. Is that really a thing I should be modifying? I gave it a shot and now the error is: com.facebook.android.FacebookError: (#100) Unknown fields: name – Ezekiel Buchheit Jul 16 '12 at 20:42
If you are using com.facebook.Request class then just use the following form of constructor: Request(Session session, String graphPath, Bundle parameters, HttpMethod httpMethod, Callback callback) and pass your parameters in "parameters" parameter.
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Hi I ve a script in iron python where a variable mite contain special characters. Ex name- megha_lohit url - http://url.com
if name == megha_lohit: print 'success' else raise testcaseexception(failed)
Here the code doesnt pass the if loop and enters teh else part failing the test case , even though name = megha_lohit(right hand side expression), same case is with url too. Could somebody help me out
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We'll be happy to help once you translate the gibberish to English :P – Aurum Aquila Apr 26 '11 at 4:25
@Aurum aquila:its english in simple words...i ve clearly mentioned tat it is not able to accept special characters like: " :" "`" "_" (colon, escape , underscore)i hope u got it now!!!! – meghana Lohit Apr 26 '11 at 7:12
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By design variable names cannot contain ":" and "`". Underscores are ok. Maybe your problem is something else in your code.
IronPython 2.7 ( on .NET 4.0.30319.1
>>> a_foo= "hello"
>>> a:foo= "hello"
File "<stdin>", line 1
a:foo= "hello"
SyntaxError: unexpected token ':'
>>> a`foo= "hello"
File "<stdin>", line 1
a`foo= "hello"
SyntaxError: unexpected token '`'
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Hi, There is a method which will retrieve a value and return it to the variable assigned ex: title = self.GetTitleOfTheMovie() which may return a value like this "The Ranger:Part-2". When i compare this value with the if loop, it says the strings are not equal. Ex if title == "The Ranger:Part-2" print 'success' else print 'failure'. It prints failure. What mite be the reason for it not to pass the if loop even though the title value and right hand side expression are equal??? Here title contains the special character ":" – meghana Lohit Apr 27 '11 at 4:08
If I code your example up it works. So there must be a difference between your values. Perhaps one has extra whitespace, a return character, non-breaking space - something. If you are still stuck, post a new questions with more code and sample information. – WombatPM Apr 27 '11 at 12:56
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What is the meaning of double curly braces initializing a C-struct ?
for this following structure,
typedef struct matrix
float data[16];
} matrix;
Is there any difference between,
matrix test1 = {0};
matrix test1 = { { 0 } };
when it comes to initializing the data member of the structure. Both initializes data to zero.
Some insight when it comes to C or C++, would be great.
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marked as duplicate by Björn Pollex, Ólafur Waage, cnicutar, Alok Save, Ferdinand Beyer Jun 28 '11 at 8:30
There is no partial initialization in C. An object either isn't initialized at all, or it is fully initialized. {0} explicitly initializes the first member to 0 and implicitly initializes (to 0) all other members. – pmg Jun 28 '11 at 9:02
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With matrix test1 = { 0 } you will initialize test1 with all zero's and with matrix test1 = { { 0 } } You will initialize test1.data. with all zero's in this case it does the same actually since you don't have any other data definitions in your struct :)
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That means, if I had another member in the struct then, using { { 0 } } wouldn't initialize the second variable as zero? But, that doesn't happen, however I use single or double, all are being initialized with zero! – iamcreasy Jun 28 '11 at 8:36
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# 1 Spotlight Missions
03-15-2013, 09:01 PM
G Day All,
Are the spotlight missions actually tested before they go spotlight?
I'm currently rather sick in hospital and just wanna play some STO, having played all the other missions bar foundry ones I like to go in there for something different but I'm getting really sick of poorly designed missions!
I was just in the start of one, (to angry to rem what it was called) it told me to go around looking for these markers, now they where marked on the map but I couldn't visually see them WTF, I don't want to fly aimlessly around a map looking for crap I want to fight.
Is it at all possible to get a list of Spotlight missions that are actually playable please?
Some of the other foundry missions that are not spotlights are awesome but you don't get spotlight rewards which is unfair, can't the rule just be changed so that a mission that takes at least 30mins per map qualifies as a spotlight mission?
I've played some spotlight mission that the map just changes every 5mins and then your done, they are pathetic and shouldn't have made the list to begin with.
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• lateral line system
TITLE: senses: Mechanical senses
SECTION: Mechanical senses
...water and that are used to monitor water currents caused by the fish itself and by other fish. The canals are equipped at intervals with clusters of hair cells, each with a jellylike cap known as a cupula. The cupula is displaced by water movement, thus bending the hairs beneath it, resulting in activity in the nerve. In the inner ear of higher vertebrates there are three variants of this basic...
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SECTION: Mechanoreceptor function
• human
• function in equilibrium
TITLE: movement perception: Vestibular system
SECTION: Vestibular system
Vestibular structures for each ear also include three fluid-filled semicircular canals, each in a different plane. Each canal has a swelling (ampulla) that contains the cupula, a cluster of sensitive hairs embedded in a jellylike mound. As the head moves in the plane of a given canal, motions of the fluid deflect the cupula to produce nerve impulses. These travel through the brainstem to other...
TITLE: human ear: Detection of angular acceleration: dynamic equilibrium
SECTION: Detection of angular acceleration: dynamic equilibrium
...Anatomy of the human ear: Inner ear: Semicircular canals). When the head begins to rotate in any direction, the inertia of the endolymph causes it to lag behind, exerting pressure that deflects the cupula in the opposite direction. This deflection stimulates the hair cells by bending their stereocilia in the opposite direction. The German physiologist Friedrich Goltz formulated the...
TITLE: human ear: Detection of angular acceleration: dynamic equilibrium
SECTION: Detection of angular acceleration: dynamic equilibrium
The deflection of the cupula excites the hair cells by bending the cilia atop them: deflection in one direction depolarizes the cells; deflection in the other direction hyperpolarizes them. Electron-microscopic studies have shown how this polarization occurs. The hair bundles in the cristae are oriented along the axis of each canal. For example, each hair cell of the horizontal canals has its...
• inner ear
TITLE: human ear: Semicircular canals
SECTION: Semicircular canals
...the crista, the sensory end organ that extends across it from side to side. It is covered by neuroepithelium, with hair cells and supporting cells. From this ridge rises a gelatinous structure, the cupula, which extends to the roof of the ampulla immediately above it, dividing the interior of the ampulla into two approximately equal parts. Like the hair cells of the maculae, the hair cells of... | http://www.britannica.com/print/topic/146763 | dclm-gs1-266400000 |
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GMAT Tip: Mastering Inequality Problems
GMAT Tip: Mastering Inequality Problems
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Of all the types of math that appear on GMAT data-sufficiency problems, the type that tends to give students the greatest trouble is the inequality question, which makes use of ”greater than” or “less than” signs. Fortunately, three core pieces of knowledge can help you to attack inequality problems with a lot less difficulty.
Rule No. 1: When you multiply or divide by a negative, you must flip the sign.
Say that x > 4. This means that possible values of x include 5, 10, and 100. That means that possible values of -1(x) would include -5, -10, and -100—all numbers that are less than -4. As this demonstrates, if you multiply or divide by a negative, you must flip the sign.
Rule No. 2: When you’re asked to multiply or divide by a variable, you can’t do it unless you know whether you have to flip the sign.
This is the classic data-sufficiency application of the above. Most test-takers understand that they need to flip the sign when multiplying by a negative, but the test traps them by not indicating whether a variable is positive or negative. So if a statement tells you that a/b > 1, you don’t know that a > b. To determine if a > b, you multiply both sides by b. But if b were negative, you’d have to flip that “greater than” sign when you multiplied by b, resulting in “less than b.” When you see an inequality and a variable, your guard should immediately go up—the GMAT loves to trap people by tempting them to multiply or divide by a variable.
Rule No. 3: When you see multiple variables and an inequality, you should look to do some algebra.
Many test-takers approach inequality problems by thinking conceptually first, but a lot of inequality problems simply don’t lend themselves to that kind of thinking—there are just too many potential values to consider. So remember this handy technique: As long as the signs are pointed in the same direction, you can add inequalities together to eliminate a variable. For example, if you’re given:
x + 3y > 10
y – x > 2
You can add the inequalities together, which eliminates the x and –x terms, giving you:
4y > 12
y > 3
These questions can be extremely difficult to solve conceptually, but for those who know to employ algebra, the answers come much more readily.
Keep these principles in mind when you see GMAT inequality questions, and your score is much more likely to be greater than it is now.
For more GMAT advice from Veritas Prep, read “Mastering Inequality Questions on the GMAT”
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Image text transcribed for accessibility: Two thin circular coxial coils each of radius a, having N turns, carrying current I, and seperated by a distance d, are lettered to as Helmholtz coils for the case when d=a. This set up is well known for producing an approximately uniform magnetic field in the vicinity of its center of symmetry. Find B on the axis of symmetry-the z axis- of the Helmholtz coils. show that dBz/dz=0 at the point p midway between the two coils.
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PAUL FOY, Associated Press
It's the first time authorities have filed industrial espionage charges in Utah, said Karl Schmae, a special agent with the FBI's Salt Lake City office.
"Our knowledge in making these chemicals is really our value," Miller said. "It's a compound mostly unique to us. We developed the recipe for large quantities" that can be worth millions of dollars per kilogram.
The federal complaint alleged that Prabhu Mohapatra emailed the secrets to his in-law, who was setting up a unregistered, competing company in India called Medchemblox. Authorities tracked Mohapatra's moves on a company computer.
"Please do not make any product currently present in Frontier Scientific's catalogue," Mohapatra wrote on Oct. 29 to his brother-in-law, according to the complaint. "I will lose my job and even could face jail time."
Schmae said industrial espionage is a crime that often goes unnoticed "until you see a competitor showing up with a similar product." Federal authorities are trying to encourage U.S. companies to report thefts of intellectual property, but many companies handle them internally, afraid the news will lower their company's stock value or send investors fleeing, he said.
"In some cases, there's just a lack of awareness that the threat is out there," Schmae said.
Until 1996, the theft of trade secrets wasn't a federal crime, and the FBI had spotty success trying to prosecute such cases using various other statutes, such as wire fraud. Congress then passed the Economic Espionage Act, giving the FBI full authority to pursue the cases.
Miller said he wasn't reluctant to report Mohapatra to authorities.
"We're a small company and we don't have the stick like the U.S. government," Miller said. "Quite often when these trade secrets are stolen, there isn't any recourse for a small company like ours. We didn't hesitate at all."
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Whatever. Windows users have always preferred to whine and complain about how crappy the Microsoft operating systems are rather than explore and demand alternatives. Windows users have no business complaining to Microsoft. What else is an illegal monopoly supposed to do but deliver substandard products at inflated prices? The article should probably read "Windows Customers: YOU'RE The Biggest Tech Disappointment of 2007".
RE: Meh
By Stark1 on 12/21/2007 3:08:01 AM , Rating: 3
I just wanted Ultimate because of the cool packaging. While I have not tried it, I see no reason to upgrade. Until I'm hacked(never have been) or there is an application that is Vista only(I'm not counting DX10 games) then I have no need to place cash on the table. It is a poor investment. XP still has suppport, it works, it's stable and allows me to do all I want/need at the moment such as email, surfing, playing games and editing video. I don't understand the people that say "fine, stay with a 5 year dead horse" as if something truly horrible would happen if I didn't upgrade.
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51st State
...I don't hear much about that territory okay?
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Canada, tie you want to be my 51st state?
**** oft,
Britain, do yen want to be the 51st state?
Bugger tarr.
Ingland Mexico, do you wanna be the Mst state?
Hmm., I not , Ageings
of me again in 100 years.
cough cough'
Do yen think Canada would notice if I teak Alberta?
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#15 - anonymous (11/12/2013) [+] (14 replies)
But 50 is such a nice even number...
User avatar #16 to #15 - lordlolland (11/12/2013) [-]
I think America should go for 53, a nice prime number and it would make the pledge of allegiance make sense;
"...one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all."
#8 - gerfox (11/12/2013) [+] (17 replies)
Im usually not that bad with flags, but which flag is the one coughing?
#10 to #8 - haeckal (11/12/2013) [-]
That's the flag of the District of Colombia (Washington DC, the capital of the USA). It's not a state, so it doesn't have representatives in Congress, and a lot of locals want to change that.
#9 - haeckal (11/12/2013) [+] (5 replies)
"Do you think Canada would notice if I took Alberta?"
User avatar #4 - newdevyx ONLINE (11/12/2013) [+] (13 replies)
well, Obama already said that he wanted 51st state to be the moon. Please correct me if i'm wong
#5 to #4 - telamatoes (11/12/2013) [-]
You are wrong.
User avatar #27 - gayboard (11/12/2013) [+] (11 replies)
No.. Puerto Rico does NOT want to be a US state. America does, they don't
User avatar #41 to #27 - pikapimp (11/12/2013) [-]
actually, Puerto Rico took a vote
60% of the citizens want it to be state
#3 - mudkipfucker (11/11/2013) [+] (1 reply)
User avatar #51 - scoobi (11/12/2013) [+] (7 replies)
Alberta has a **** ton of oil. Whoops, spoiled a Canadian secret. There is no oil in our country, please do not invade
#53 to #51 - Byte ONLINE (11/12/2013) [-]
u dun goof'd
User avatar #58 - epicanadian (11/12/2013) [+] (27 replies)
Alberta doesn't want you America >.>
#64 to #58 - secretsecret (11/12/2013) [-]
#1 - meatbeaterz **User deleted account** (11/11/2013) [-]
island mexico,this one was gold
#101 - lilRican (11/12/2013) [+] (8 replies)
Puerto rico mentioned...
Fill with glee
#17 - buttercupbunny (11/12/2013) [+] (4 replies)
Why no Guam?
#99 - sonicg (11/12/2013) [+] (2 replies)
MFW my county is working with other counties in Wyoming, Nebraska and Kansas and some others in my state to become a new state called 'North Colorado' because liberal politics.
#12 - icametochewgum (11/12/2013) [+] (31 replies)
Alberta has oil: scramble the jets
User avatar #135 - capinsquiggles (11/12/2013) [+] (2 replies)
Dear God Take Quebec, we don't want that anyway
#23 - huntergriff ONLINE (11/12/2013) [+] (1 reply)
>Puerto rico
*swells with pride*
>Puerto rico
*swells with pride*
#42 - infinitereaper (11/12/2013) [+] (28 replies)
Humanity really needs to get over it's differences and get down with this whole united thing. Eventually we need to all become one. It's the only way humanity is ever going to prosper. One day I hope we can stand united in one big country, where we are all brothers and sisters united as human beings-not borders-not cultures-not by race or other pettiness. Perhaps not the end of conflict but the end of war.
We've got to start somewhere. I'd place my bet on the U.S. But people don't seem to ever want to let go of their egos. Maybe we are never going to unite. Maybe we're destined to fight hate and divide ourselves forever.
User avatar #56 to #42 - konradkurze (11/12/2013) [-]
yeah but united under what?
a world of america? not with its ****** bank-owned government, thanks
User avatar #18 - ArcaciaStrain (11/12/2013) [+] (4 replies)
Honestly the first time that I've heard an average American personality refer to a specific province in Canada. It seems all they know are Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto
User avatar #24 to #18 - alextehdude (11/12/2013) [-]
What are these so called "Canadian" places you speak of? Are they like America's Iraq and Afghan or America's Japan and South Korea?
#167 - yeh (11/12/2013) [+] (2 replies)
It is a rare event when there's a post about PR ... Awesome
User avatar #89 - lazypaul ONLINE (11/12/2013) [+] (2 replies)
As if canada would ever say ' **** off'
User avatar #147 to #121 - capslockrage (11/12/2013) [-]
" **** off america"
"wait, wait.. I'm sorry... that was rude of me, I should have just politely declined, I'm sorry for being so terrible"
#140 - jizzenema (11/12/2013) [+] (2 replies)
i wouldnt be surprised if they took alberta for our oil
User avatar #158 to #140 - sketchE (11/12/2013) [-]
if we annexed alberta the epa would swoop in and say we cant touch the oil. basicly alaska in a nutshell recently. we have oil. we have big reserves. were not allowed to touch it
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So who here use RE.NET?
#1HUNK_REVILPosted 10/7/2012 1:49:49 PM
I think it's kinda cool, besides the fact that it feels kinda fully developed yet.
Also got enough for a costume in the RE points any suggestions on what one?! :3
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#2JustJimmelPosted 10/7/2012 1:50:59 PM
Love Jake's purple jacket.
"Respect the chemistry."
#3gabriel2020Posted 10/7/2012 1:51:42 PM
how do you get points for extra costumes?
Enjoy gaming. If it frustrates you...put it down
#4JustJimmelPosted 10/7/2012 1:52:40 PM
Quote:how do you get points for extra costumes?
Just keep progressing in campaign. Getting loads of points from it .
"Respect the chemistry."
#5toledoguy452Posted 10/7/2012 1:53:02 PM
by playing.. I played mercenaries and even though I cant get past an E rank ( because of stupid camera ), I got 69,000 point again..
#6TwilightGeniePosted 10/7/2012 1:53:41 PM
I use it. I've already unlocked two costumes.
#7HUNK_REVIL(Topic Creator)Posted 10/7/2012 1:55:43 PM
Lol I don't know Helena's costume got me interested :P
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#8KanaedaMacabrePosted 10/7/2012 1:58:10 PM
I've been using it. Already have Sherry's pink RE2 throwback, and Helena's EX2. I've been bouncing between Campaign and Mercenaries and it seems you still get points on for performing well. I don't know how but some random person I teamed up with and I lucked out big time and managed to get 150 combo for 1,085,245 points.
PSN - NamelessMacabre
#9StupidMofozPosted 10/7/2012 2:00:26 PM
toledoguy452 posted...
( because of stupid camera ).
That would be called an excuse.
#10LeonPliskenPosted 10/7/2012 2:00:52 PM
I have it, but I'm kind of hoarding my points just in case.
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Boris Tsukerman, a prominent Soviet Jewish activist, arrived here last night from Moscow on his way to Israel with his Christian wife and their children, Constantin, 16 and Annia, nine, The family was met at the airport by local representatives of the Jewish Agency. The Tsukermans left Moscow yesterday on an Aeroflot plane. About 50 Jews gathered at the airport to see them off. They departed just three days after receiving an exit visa promised them by Soviet authorities two weeks ago. Tsukerman, 32, a physicist, was one of a group of dissenters working under Prof. Andrei Sakharov. He was also a legal expert. Jewish sources said he had become a source of embarrassment to Soviet authorities because he was continually challenging repressive edicts in the Soviet courts and was advising other Jews and dissidents on effective ways of dealing with the authorities. He had been employed at a scientific institute in Moscow. His home was reportedly a center for “ivritniks”, the nick-name given Russian Jews who want to learn Hebrew.
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World Quest is a shareware horizontal scrolling shoot 'em up. The objective of the game is to destroy defence bases set up by an unspecified alien race throughout the levels, and rescue captive humans. While most of the opposition the player faces comes in the form of stationary defences that fire various projectiles, rather than incoming enemy craft, there are also end-level bosses.
The player's craft can freely move forward, up and down, and also backwards: although the screen scrolls forward automatically, it allows to backtrack to a certain extent. The craft is outfitted with missiles and bombs, and random powerups that can be acquired from destroyed alien installations may provide the ability to fire additional missiles backwards, upwards or at a 45 degree angle above or below the player's ship.
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Debate Reax - 16 October 2012
| Tue Oct. 16, 2012 10:55 PM EDT
OBAMA: That’s what I said.
OBAMA: Please proceed governor.
OBAMA: Get the transcript.
OBAMA: Can you say that a little louder, Candy?
And here was Obama's third-best moment:
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Debate Liveblogging - 16 October 2012
| Tue Oct. 16, 2012 7:59 PM EDT
WRAP-UP: Well, that was like night and day, wasn't it? Obama was way crisper than he was two weeks ago, and he adopted Joe Biden's habit of frequently interrupting to accuse Romney of getting his facts wrong. On several occasions, Obama warned viewers that the Romney of the primaries was not the same Romney on display tonight, and that they should believe the old Romney, not the fake new one. I thought this worked pretty well, but then, I would, wouldn't I? Transcript here.
For my money, the worst moment of the night for Romney came on Libya. He hauled out a stale conservative talking point about Obama not calling the Benghazi attack an act of terror, and when he confronted Obama about it, Obama just smiled and let him hang. Unexpectedly, this flustered Romney. Then, a few seconds later, Candy Crowley interrupted to confirm that Obama did, in fact, call it a terror attack the very next day. That really flustered Romney. This is the kind of segment that ends up getting repeated on cable news over and over and over.
Obama had a pretty good line early on about Romney's economic views: "Governor Romney doesn't have a five-point plan, he has a one-point plan. And that plan is to make sure that folks at the top play by a different set of rules. That’s been his philosophy in the private sector, that’s been his philosophy as governor, that’s been his philosophy as a presidential candidate." I wish Obama had had a chance to hammer that a little harder, but it never really came up again until the very end.
On taxes, Romney has talked before about the idea of capping deductions rather than eliminating them, but this was by far the most public forum in which he's mentioned it. For all practical purposes, I think that makes this the official Romney position: A 20% across-the-board rate cut paired with a $25,000 maximum for itemized deductions. The math on that comes nowhere close to working, though, and it's pretty easy to prove it. I wonder how long it will be before the Romney campaign backpedals on this?
Obama did a good job of hitting Romney on his tax plan, taking it slowly and all but accusing him of deliberately trying to deceive middle-class voters. It's hard to know if this made a dent, though. Too many numbers just puts people to sleep.
Oddly enough, I think both candidates did better tonight than two weeks ago. Obama was, obviously, way better. I'd give him an A-. But Romney was better too. I'd probably give him a good B, maybe even a B+ if I were feeling generous. I don't know how much the first debate really affected the polls, but if it did, this one ought to correct at least some of the damage.
Obama's the underdog! The fate of Western civilization rests on his debating skillz! Let the liveblogging commence....
10: 39 - And that's a wrap.
10:32 - Obama answer on China is getting kind of wonky.
10:26 - Question for Romney about outsourcing to China. I hope Obama doesn't repeat his "Romney invested in Chinese outsourcers" wheeze when he gets his rebuttal.
10:24 - Everybody agrees on importance of parents! Hooray!
10:23 - Now Candy Crowley asks Romney why he changed his mind on assault weapon ban. Ouch.
10: 22 - Romney playing to the base with Fast & Furious nonsense.
10:20 - In the end, however, Obama mildly in favor of renewing the assault weapon ban. Romney flatly opposed.
10:18 - A gun question. Obama playing it right down the middle.
10:17 - Romney flustered when Obama refuses to answer him. Then Candy Crowley fact checks Romney in real time! Crowd claps! This might be the highlight of the debate.
10:14 - Obama offended at suggestion that his diplomatic team might be playing politics with attacks. Pretty good response.
10:13 - Romney is dissing Obama for attending a fundraiser the day after the Benghazi attack? That's pathetic.
10:12 - This is pretty much the first real foreign policy question, isn't it?
10:11 - Question: who screwed up security in Benghazi? Obama: We'll get back to you.
10:07 - Crowley now getting annoyed. Obama getting into a tiff over rules. I don't think that works, no matter how justified.
10:05 - OK, now Romney switches to "self deportation." His explanation: "Let people make their own choice." Sounds so cuddly!
10:04 - Romney just totally blows off Candy Crowley when she tries to ask a followup.
10:02 - Obama has a very nice, crisp answer on immigration.
9:59 - Romney pretty tough on illegal immigration. No more Moderate Mitt. I guess focus groups showed that this was a winning position.
9:56 - Romney pretty crisp when attacking Obama's first term. Both guys actually seem more comfortable arguing over past four years than upcoming four years.
9:53 - Obama on Romney and the GOP Congress: "He said 'Me too.'" Repeated over and over. Decent line.
9:51 - Obama is in his wheelhouse defending his past four years. Not sure that will get the job done, though.
9:49 - Maybe I missed something. I thought the Bush question was about wars etc., but maybe I misheard.
9:48 - Wait. "I came through small business"? Is Romney talking about Bain Capital?
9:46 - "What is the biggest difference between you and George W. Bush?" Question is about foreign policy, but Romney just goes back to his five-point plan. Totally evading the question.
9:41 - Romney's answer about women seemed vaguely condescending to me. Wonder if it came off that way to anyone else?
9:37 - Crowley cuts off tax discussion just as it starts to get interesting. Of course, not everyone might think tax discussions are as interesting as I do.
9:34 - Obama now getting a little too deep in the weeds. But decent attack anyway. Romney responds on his tax numbers: "Well of course they add up." Then pivots away instantly.
9:32 - Obama calling out Romney on deductions. Good attack, but will it work?
9:29 - Hostage talk from Obama. Excellent.
9:26 - Ah. Romney going public on the idea of capping deductions, this time at $25,000. Math still doesn't work, but this is now getting close to being his official position. Also, really doubling down on not cutting taxes for the rich.
9:19 - Conservatives sure are obsessed with drilling on federal land.
9:16 - Trying to paint Romney as anti-coal probably not a good idea, especially after accusing him of being Mr. Coal.
9:15 - "Moderate Mitt" is back. He loves renewable energy!
9:14 - Obama hammering on green energy. Good.
9:11 - Romney is right that Obama took GM through bankruptcy. Obama is right that Romney's plan wouldn't have worked. Obama: "Governor Romney doesn't have a 5-point plan, he has a one-point plan." Good line.
9:09 - Romney trying to pretend "real" unemployment rate is 10.7%. Spare me.
9:07 - Obama going with a numbered list for his jobs plan. Good move. Then a shift to taxes.
9:03 - Romney seems to have sat down on his barstool OK. Whew!
8:59 - Here's hoping that Candy Crowley ignores all the weird rules the campaigns insisted on during pre-debate negotiations.
Obama's Poll Drop: We've Seen This Movie Before
| Tue Oct. 16, 2012 1:24 PM EDT
Andrew Sullivan continues to freak out:
Here's a dishhead bleg: when was the last time that a sitting president in a re-election campaign lost six percentage points in the polls in two weeks in October?
That's pretty specific, and I suppose the answer is "never." But let's change the question: When was the last time Barack Obama lost six percentage points to a Republican challenger?
Pete Souza/The White House/FlickrPete Souza/The White House/FlickrAnswer: 2008. On September 1st, Obama led John McCain by 6.4 points. On September 10th, McCain led Obama by 2.5 points. That's a swing of 8.9 points. But when the election was actually held, Obama won by 5 points.
Look: Polls change. That's politics. Beyond that, though, there are a couple of specific reasons everyone should settle down a bit. First, the fundamentals have always suggested that this would be a close election. The consensus of the political science models is an Obama win by maybe 2 points or so. Second, I'm increasingly convinced that a couple of years from now some enterprising political scientist will write a paper thoroughly debunking the idea that Obama's debate performance was as horrible as everyone is making it out to be. Instead, the recent poll changes will come down to three things:
• A late September surge by Romney for reasons that are (at the moment) still a bit of mystery.
• Reversion to the mean. Obama was never going to win the election by 5 or 6 points, and his recent drop has been baked into the cake for a long time. His big lead was mostly an artifact of stupid mistakes by Romney, and eventually Romney recovered from them.
• The media freakout over Obama's debate demeanor.
Obama didn't turn in a great debate performance, but it was nowhere near bad enough to account for the kind of poll declines we've seen over the past couple of weeks. That's my two cents, anyway.
Supreme Court Approves Early Voting in Ohio
| Tue Oct. 16, 2012 12:51 PM EDT
Earlier this morning Stephanie Mencimer asked, "Could Bush v. Gore Save Obama in Ohio?" You see, Ohio's Republican legislature had ended early voting for everyone except active duty military and the Obama administration had taken them to court, arguing that if soldiers got to vote early, then everyone should get to vote early:
The Obama campaign challenged the move, and in August, a federal judge agreed that Ohio had violated the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause by allowing some people to vote early but not others. In early October, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision and ordered Ohio to keep the polls open for the weekend for everyone if they do it for the military and overseas voters. The state has filed an emergency petition with the Supreme Court to overturn the order. The Obama campaign, naturally, is opposed, and has filed a brief arguing that Bush v. Gore demands that the court protect the integrity of the voting process.
....As a result, the court now will have to prove whether it was serious or simply partisan when it sided with Republicans by declaring that "[t]he right to vote is protected in more than the initial allocation of the franchise. Equal protection applies as well to the manner of its exercise."
So how did that turn out? A few minutes ago we got the answer:
The United States Supreme Court has given the green light to early voting in Ohio in the three days prior to November's election. The brief, one sentence order from the court Tuesday is a setback for Republican leaders in the state, who had asked the justices to step in and allow pending restrictions to take effect.
Ohio will appeal the ruling, but that takes time and won't affect this year's election. For now, Bush v. Gore has finally handed a small victory to Democrats. That's good news for Obama in a state where he's started to turn things around and needs all the help he can get.
UPDATE: Ari Berman points out that although the same rules now apply to everyone, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted is limiting early voting hours for the three days prior to the election. The Supreme Court's ruling is good news for Obama, but Ohio Republicans are still doing their best to limit access to the polls.
Today Produces Yet More "Facts" to "Check" From the Romney Campaign
| Tue Oct. 16, 2012 11:18 AM EDT
In today's edition of ridiculous time wasters, we bring you a bout between heavyweight contender Mitt Romney and referee wannabe Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post. The question at hand: how should we rate Romney's contention that he has three studies verifying that his five-point economic plan would create 12 million jobs?
The winner is....Kessler, of course. Romney has always said that he'd create 12 million jobs in four years, but the studies in question (a) use timeframes of 8-10 years, and (b) don't evaluate his plan anyway. Four Pinocchios for Romney!
The loser is....all of us who still have functioning brain cells — including Kessler, who was forced to spend precious hours of his life on this nonsense that no one at Romney HQ even pretends to believe in the first place. But the rest of us still have to go along with the gag. Presidential candidates these days can literally say anything they want, and we're all required to stroke our chins and pretend to take them seriously.
In any case, the real answer to this question is a lot simpler: if elected, Romney probably will create 12 million jobs in his first term. So would Obama. So would my cat. And we don't need any studies to prove it. If the economy grows at about 3-4% for the next four years, we'll add 12 million new jobs, and there's a pretty good chance that the economy will indeed grow at about 3-4% for the next four years. We might be coming out of our recession slowly, but we are coming out of it, and this means that 12 million jobs is sort of a no-brainer. It's sort of like promising that unemployment will fall under 7%. It will, of course, but that's a pretty low bar. We should expect better.
Sorry, Mitt: In the Real World, Tax Reform Doesn't Boost Growth
| Tue Oct. 16, 2012 10:06 AM EDT
Bruce Bartlett writes today that a Romney-style tax reform, where you lower rates and eliminate deductions, is a pretty good idea. In theory, it should produce higher economic growth.
The problem is that when tax rates are within a fairly modest range, the effect is either nonexistent or too small to be noticeable. The table on the right shows what happened after the famous 1986 tax reform, and more rigorous research confirms that it had little effect on growth:
Even if you assume that Romney could manage to make his tax numbers add up (he can't), and even if you assume his plan has any serious chance of getting through Congress (it doesn't), it wouldn't do much for growth. Rationalizing the tax code might be a good idea, but it's not the answer to an economic downturn. Romney should focus more of his attention on jobs and less on the endless conservative obsession of lowering taxes on the rich at all costs.
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Some Lessons From Benghazi
| Tue Oct. 16, 2012 12:21 AM EDT
In the wake of Hillary Clinton's statement that she bears responsibility for security at U.S. embassies, Blake Hounshell makes a few salient points. Here's #1:
It's a bit rich for all these people to suddenly be arguing that Libya is the most important story in the world after ignoring it for months. It reeks of political opportunism. Did Darrell Issa show any sign that he cared one iota about Libya before the morning of Sept. 12, 2012? Did Mitt Romney?
Nope. I happen to agree with Adam Serwer that Republican investigations into the Benghazi attack are legitimate even if they're politically inspired, but I also agree with him that these particular investigations have been ineffective precisely because they're so transparently partisan. There's just no evidence that Republicans really care about embassy security, only that they want to score some points in the runup to an election.
And here's point #8:
The United States can't turn its diplomatic installations into armed camps. U.S. diplomats are going to need to take risks from time to time, and many of them are fully prepared to so. That said, it seems inevitable that this tragedy is going to have precisely the effect the State Department fears: more restrictions on diplomats' movements, more fortress-like facilities, and less interaction with the locals. American diplomacy will be the worse for it — and that will ultimately make us less safe.
I hope this point gets wide attention. Sometimes stuff happens, but that doesn't inevitably mean that a huge flurry of new rules have to be put in place. Unfortunately, that's usually what happens, and it's usually exactly the wrong thing to do.
Lying With Statistics, Global Warming Edition
| Mon Oct. 15, 2012 8:39 PM EDT
The Daily Mail, which has something of a specialty in climate denial, apparently discovered this weekend that Britain's Met Office has updated its long-term global temperature series. This happened several months ago, and the changes from the HadCRUT3 series to the HadCRUT4 series were fairly minor, but I guess anything is a good excuse to rerun one of their oldest wheezes: a colorful chart that starts with the unusual temperature spike of 1997-98 to make it look like global warming has stopped. Here's my version of the chart in their story:
You know the rest of this story, right? It's a noisy data series, and if you choose any other starting point — 1996 or 1999 will do fine — the trendline looks quite different. A chart that includes the entire past century is below, and as you can see, it's easy to find several decade-long plateaus if you cherry pick the data just the right way. But if you look at the entire series, it's pretty obvious that the world is still heating up. Be sure to let your Daily Mail-loving friends know.
BONUS CHART: If you want to see all the other times that global warming has "stopped" during the past century, just click here and scroll down.
Trench Warfare Comes to Algobot Land
| Mon Oct. 15, 2012 2:20 PM EDT
The New York Times reports that high frequency trading is on the decline:
Profits from high-speed trading in American stocks are on track to be, at most, $1.25 billion this year, down 35 percent from last year and 74 percent lower than the peak of about $4.9 billion in 2009....While no official data is kept on employment at the high-speed firms, interviews with more than a dozen industry participants suggest that firms large and small have been cutting staff, and in some cases have shut down.
The usual wheeze to justify HFT is that it provides greater liquidity, which benefits even small traders. But the stock market had always had plenty of liquidity. It's a textbook model of liquidity. So there's really not much upside there, and the downside is that no one truly understands what all the HFT algobots are doing. Maybe they're harmless. Then again, maybe they only seem harmless when markets are calm. But when things get a little out of whack — in other words, at the worst possible time — there's no telling what the algobots will do. Their programmers certainly don't, and that's reason enough to think we should be pretty careful with this stuff.
But Felix Salmon highlights another reason we should keep HFT on a short leash. It turns out that HFT algobots don't actually do that much trading. What they do is produce massive amounts of financial spam: putting out buy and sell orders and then rescinding them almost instantly. In other words, quote stuffing and market spoofing. And the target of all this fake trading is....other algobots:
Call it the Stalemate of the Spambots: the HFT algos are all so sophisticated, now, that they just ping each other with order spam, rather than actually trading shares. Naturally, if you don’t trade shares, you can’t make money. But at the same time, anybody who does trade shares risks getting picked off by the very algorithms which are increasingly circling each other like prizefighters who never land a punch.
All of which is to say that just because HFT algobots aren’t trading as much any more, doesn’t mean that the waters are any safer for real-money accounts to re-enter. Indeed, the exact opposite is more likely: that the bots have poisoned the stock-trading waters so much that even the bots themselves fear to go in.
Felix thinks the answer is a financial transaction tax. "Let's not assume that rising trading costs are always and necessarily a bad thing," he says. I agree. CEPR has more here.
Sure, Romney Is Lying. So What?
| Mon Oct. 15, 2012 12:18 PM EDT
Paul Waldman has some advice for President Obama in tomorrow's debate:
I realize there's at least some chance that the President is too busy to be reading this blog today. But just in case, let me offer a suggestion. What Obama needs is a set of responses that cover the topic at hand, but that all follow a single theme. He needs, to put it bluntly, a single phrase that he will repeat every time he's refuting a Romney falsehood. It could be something slogan-y, like "That's another Romney Reinvention," or could be something simple, like "Once again, Governor Romney thinks he can fool you and get away with it."....When Romney lies, what Obama needs viewers to take away from the exchange isn't that there's some dispute about the details of policy, but that Romney is lying.
Sadly, I'm pretty sure Paul is wrong about this. Partly this is because most viewers don't react well to charges of lying. They think it makes the accuser sound distinctly unpresidential. Partly it's because it's not easy to make charges of lying stick. Romney would simply reply with a blizzard of numbers and "studies" that would muddy the waters enough to blunt the attack. Mostly, though, it's because most voters don't care if politicians lie. That includes you.
You should think of presidential campaigns as aspirational, not operational. Voters know perfectly well that presidents don't accomplish most of what they say they will. So, reasonably enough, they don't care much about the details. What they do care about is what candidates believe. In Romney's case, his message is fairly simple. He believes in low taxes; less spending on lazy slackers; social conservatism; getting tough on our enemies overseas; and unleashing the power of business by cutting regulations. And he really does believe all this stuff. He may be evasive or even downright dishonest about the details of his tax cuts or how he'd get tough with Syria and Iran, but most people don't really care. It's enough to know that he really does want to cut taxes and he really does want to get tough with Syria and Iran.
And before you get all huffy about how stupid voters are, keep in mind that this all applies to you too. Most of my readers are liberals. You're planning to vote for Obama. So ask yourself: how much do you care that Obama is sometimes a little less than perfectly accurate about his plans? Not much at all, I'd guess. You either convince yourself that his exaggerations are small ones, or that he's been forced into it by Romney's serial lying, or that if you dig deep enough there are ways of justifying everything he says. In other words, what matters aren't all the arid details. What matters is that Obama believes most of the same things you believe. | http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/10/chris-christie-probably-really-doesnt-give-damn-about-presidential-politics-righ?page=8 | dclm-gs1-267220000 |
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A Los Angeles screenwriter (Jay Mohr) tries to escape from an unknown force controlling a picturesque town.
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0.09601 | <urn:uuid:005e738e-509a-4b7b-830e-5faaa3ee387a> | en | 0.950447 | View Full Version : How much for this PC...
04-13-05, 11:33 AM
How much do you think this PC is worth?
3200+ Winchester
ASUS A8V Deluxe
1GB OCZ PC3200 Plat. Rev 2
ATI 9800XT video card
Seagate 120GB 7200RPM SATA drive
Lian Li PC60 Black Case
Antec 430W TruPower
There is no optical drive but it does have a floppy. Also has keyboard/mouse.
What's a good price for this machine?
04-13-05, 11:40 AM
Random stab in the dark... urrr, $800-1100??
I would add it all up, but it's late. ;)
04-13-05, 11:41 AM
prob $800 or so if somoene was generous.
04-13-05, 11:51 AM
Ah well thanks guys. Definitely not worth selling then.
Curious though. If one were to sell this system complete, would you be able to ship it as one piece or do you think I'd have to rip it all apart?
04-13-05, 12:08 PM
sell complete probably. Thing is you need to pack it real well or else you'll have problems :D
04-13-05, 12:14 PM
You could sell it for at least $800-$1000. The CPU/Mobo you have isn't that expensive anymore (not really) and I think that your video card kinda hurts you on the price. For example, if it was a 6 Series or X800 whatever (pieces of crap :D), you could probably sell it for $1200 for sure.
04-13-05, 01:37 PM
If I can't get at least $1000 + ship then there's no way it's worth it to sell (to me). If any of you want to make me an offer or know someone that would be in the need then please send them my way. I appreciate the responses gents.
I want to get a Dual 1.8 G5 to play around with but I don't want to fork over more than a grand out of pocket, so I need to get at least $1000 out of this box.
04-13-05, 01:56 PM
I would list the parts and the full system in whatever ad you use. Just make sure the parts add up to slightly higher than the full system price. Then see what happens. If someone buys a part 1st, then you remove the full system from the ad. And obviously the sale is complete if you the system vice versa. Just make sure you get the target number you are looking for of $1000 for either type of sale. So, sell the system and parts for higher than $1000 (total for the parts) like a car dealer, and work your way down if a best offer guy asks. That way, if you go down in price, you don't disappoint yourself out of the $1000 that is needed.
04-13-05, 09:24 PM
Is this a new system or a used system. If it is new, I'd say you could sell it for around $1400-1500 Canadian. So...$1100 US or so. If its used, probably $800-$1000 US.
04-13-05, 11:15 PM
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0.194017 | <urn:uuid:52d747e0-bc2e-4634-804c-fe67cf43bb7d> | en | 0.952632 | How Much Bandwidth is Enough?
How much bandwidth does a business need? As the FCC considers a national broadband plan, it's an important question. Do we really need the gigabit broadband that Google is planning to experiment with, or are the speeds already commonly available fast enough?
It is tempting to paraphrase and simply say, "You can never be too rich, too thin, or have enough bandwidth." And it's true enough; Google thinks users can fill a 1Gbps pipeline. Maybe someday, but our actual proven needs are much more modest, and achievable.
I'd like to suggest a number and defend it: 5Mbps, which is a fairly common speed that is available today, typically from cable modems. It's more than my small business has available--a speed test just found my DSL to be running at 3.5Mbps downstream and a slow 0.5Mbps upstream--but less than the 13Mbps my editor has at his home.
My 5Mbps estimate is a speed that's suitable for a fairly large number of business users.
The precise bandwidth a company needs to purchase will depend on its usage pattern, but in most cases a 5Mbps Internet connection could be shared by a 40 or more users, provided they aren't all watching video (or downloading it) at the same time.
It wasn't so long ago that companies with 50, 60 or even more users commonly shared a single 1.544Mbps T-1 connection and thought its performance was spectacular. Today, with the advent of VoIP telephone systems, video conferencing, streaming audio, and other bandwidth-intensive desktop apps, more bandwidth is required.
There are many bandwidth calculators available on the Internet to help with capacity planning. Most are fairly technical and/or don't answer the important question: How large an Internet pipeline does my company need?
Although not intended for general business, the bandwidth calculator at School 2.0, intended for education users, can give you an idea. This calculator probably works better for smaller businesses and isn't intended to be a definitive answer, but when I played with it, entering figures for companies with which I am familiar, the required bandwidth was less that I'd have guessed.
Higher-end bandwidth calculation, based on real data, requires a network analyzer to look at the actual traffic on your network. For enterprises, a consultant may be able to offer a better answer more quickly than doing it yourself.
The 5Mbps suggestion works as a baseline for most businesses, who might then add additional lines if they required greater capacity.
Home users--most of them--can get by with the same amount, though home is where the real bandwidth hogging applications live. Multiple users playing online games, video conferencing, or streaming movies can eat up a lot of bandwidth really quickly.
Getting 5Mbps Internet to every business (and home) in America will be a lofty achievement. While cable modems and other fast connections are common in many areas, much of the nation remains unconnected.
Conceivably, a 1 or 2Mbps connection would be fine for tiny businesses in locations distant from easy connectivity and might be a second level of service that would be more cost-effective where such limited need exists.
Still, I think 5Mbps is a goal we can achieve and doing so will promote job growth and improve our competitiveness.
I know this is a subjective analysis and I am open to changing my opinion based on your feedback. Tell me what you think and I'll write another column if it makes sense to change my estimate.
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If you work in admissions and/or worry about kids these days, this article's worth reading.
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Published May 24, 2013 1:01 am
Re "Gun-toting Utah teachers to parents: Your kids safe with us" (Tribune, May 19):
Does there not seem to be perversity in a community where it's appropriate for school faculty to carry loaded firearms, visible or otherwise, but an educator risks being considered inappropriate if he or she greets a student with a warm, congratulatory embrace in recognition of well-done work, exemplary behavior or any celebratory accomplishment?
Thus, my grandchildren will go to taxpayer-funded learning institutions, encouraged to concentrate on survival skills necessary to protect themselves from potential errant or ricocheting bullets — launched for whatever reason (or no reason or accidentally) by one of those people they are supposed to rely upon for guidance — rather than focus on skills that enable them to maximize their inherent capacities to contribute to their families, their community and their own lives.
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KH: Mayan Calendar Messes w/Year
Not to be a pessimist or anything, but if the Mayan prediction comes true and the world ends this year, should I bother planting a garden? Just asking because I've been looking at my garden catalogs and wondering whether it's worth it to spend the money for seeds if the world is going to be incinerated. I understand the prediction is the world won't end until Dec. 21 and that's long after the growing season. But it could affect what to plant, such as beets, green beans, corn and the like. Is there any point in planting crops you normally can or freeze for the winter if you won't get to use them up before we're toast?/Kathy Hedberg, Lewiston Tribune. More here.
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0.476477 | <urn:uuid:af4c7ed9-e25b-4818-8315-26ec49d75026> | en | 0.971408 | CHARLOTTE, N.C. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police have arrested two men in connection to what they say is one of the largest dogfighting operations in the city.
In a detailed press release sent to media outlets about the discovery, investigators said they witnessed several pit bulls...with large chains that were attached to spikes driven into the ground.
Police arrested Melvin Smith, and Lefonze Williams. Both are facing felony training animals with the purpose of dogfighting and baiting.
Investigators connected with the case said based on the number of dogs and evidence seized at the scene, this location is one of the largest dogfighting operations the CMPD and Animal Care and Control have investigated to date.
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September 8, 2009 | 18:59
The President gives a speech directly to America’s students welcoming them back to school. He emphasizes their hope and potential but makes clear they will need to take responsibility for themselves and their education to reach that potential. September 8, 2009. (Public Domain)
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Remarks by the President in a National Address to America's Schoolchildren
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release September 8, 2009
Wakefield High School
Arlington, Virginia
12:06 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. All right, everybody go ahead and have a seat. How is everybody doing today? (Applause.) How about Tim Spicer? (Applause.) I am here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we've got students tuning in from all across America, from kindergarten through 12th grade. And I am just so glad that all could join us today. And I want to thank Wakefield for being such an outstanding host. Give yourselves a big round of applause. (Applause.)
I know that for many of you, today is the first day of school. And for those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it's your first day in a new school, so it's understandable if you're a little nervous. I imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now -- (applause) -- with just one more year to go. And no matter what grade you're in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you could've stayed in bed just a little bit longer this morning.
I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived overseas. I lived in Indonesia for a few years. And my mother, she didn't have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school, but she thought it was important for me to keep up with an American education. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday. But because she had to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4:30 in the morning.
Now, as you might imagine, I wasn't too happy about getting up that early. And a lot of times, I'd fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I'd complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she'd say, "This is no picnic for me either, buster." (Laughter.)
Now, I've given a lot of speeches about education. And I've talked about responsibility a lot.
I've talked about teachers' responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to learn.
I've talked about your parents' responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and you get your homework done, and don't spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the Xbox.
I've talked a lot about your government's responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren't working, where students aren't getting the opportunities that they deserve.
We need every single one of you to develop your talents and your skills and your intellect so you can help us old folks solve our most difficult problems. If you don't do that -- if you quit on school -- you're not just quitting on yourself, you're quitting on your country.
I get it. I know what it's like. My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mom who had to work and who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn't always able to give us the things that other kids had. There were times when I missed having a father in my life. There were times when I was lonely and I felt like I didn't fit in.
So I wasn't always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I'm not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should have. And my life could have easily taken a turn for the worse.
But I was -- I was lucky. I got a lot of second chances, and I had the opportunity to go to college and law school and follow my dreams. My wife, our First Lady Michelle Obama, she has a similar story. Neither of her parents had gone to college, and they didn't have a lot of money. But they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this country.
Some of you might not have those advantages. Maybe you don't have adults in your life who give you the support that you need. Maybe someone in your family has lost their job and there's not enough money to go around. Maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don't feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren't right.
That's okay. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who've had the most failures. J.K. Rowling's -- who wrote Harry Potter -- her first Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. He lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, "I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that's why I succeed."
These people succeeded because they understood that you can't let your failures define you -- you have to let your failures teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time. So if you get into trouble, that doesn't mean you're a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act right. If you get a bad grade, that doesn't mean you're stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.
No one's born being good at all things. You become good at things through hard work. You're not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new sport. You don't hit every note the first time you sing a song. You've got to practice. The same principle applies to your schoolwork. You might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right. You might have to read something a few times before you understand it. You definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it's good enough to hand in.
Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and that then allows you to learn something new. So find an adult that you trust -- a parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselor -- and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.
And even when you're struggling, even when you're discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you, don't ever give up on yourself, because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.
It's the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and they founded this nation. Young people. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google and Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other.
So today, I want to ask all of you, what's your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a President who comes here in 20 or 50 or 100 years say about what all of you did for this country?
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ryanmcfarlin 06-19-2013 02:46 PM
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can anyone tell me why i keep shearing the drive shaft end yoke on my 94 wrangler. it is lifted and has 35 on i tbu ti am having a hard time figuring out why i keep snapping these end yokes any thing will help thank you
JeepAddOns-Chris 06-19-2013 03:17 PM
What kind of lift and what size? If stretched, axle wrap can cause it to break. If it's lifted too high and angles aren't addressed can cause it to break as well. There are other reasons, but those are the two most common.
89Saharagreen 06-19-2013 03:38 PM
When is it breaking from your post it sounds like it has broken more than once or twice have you isolated when it breakes I.E. driving 55mph down the highway vs rock climbing?
Also how much lift are we talking about and which driveshaft I am assuming the rear but you did not say or if you did I missed it.
Lastly what kind of drive shaft is it a custom one or original?
Pics can also help.
Just my .02 cents.
sevenservices 06-19-2013 03:42 PM
are you running a slip yoke eliminator? transfer case drop?
I would be interested in a pic of the angle as well...
and Welcome!
ryanmcfarlin 06-20-2013 08:34 AM
im not sure on the lift i bought it like it is it looks like a 3 inch body 6 inch suspension. it has broke in the rear going to the transfer case 2 times now once was at 45 mph and the other was less than 20mph ill try to get pics up soon. it does have a slip yoke eliminator on it and that one has broke once. but after replacing that one i havent had a prblem with it. ill get the brand of the yoke and drive shaft up today
ryanmcfarlin 06-20-2013 09:24 AM
it happens driving down the highway
ryanmcfarlin 06-20-2013 12:14 PM
the drive shaft and yokes are spicers
Redrider94 06-20-2013 01:31 PM
How far does the yoke go into the transfer case? Could be that you are not going in as far as you should, meaning the driveshaft would need to be longer. Post a pic of the broken yoke, we should be able to see how much is in the transfer case.
JeepAddOns-Chris 06-20-2013 03:36 PM
My guess is that with that much of a lift your driveline angles are way off. Your driveshaft should be pointing 2-3 degrees below the yoke on your transfer case when the Jeep is at rest. If your driveshaft is actually going into your transfer case, that is a stock style driveshaft without a SYE. This is stock.
With an SYE and double carden (CV) driveshaft
If it's truly a SYE and your angles are fine then it could be that the yoke on the SYE is bad and needed to be replaced. If it's what I think it is and the angles are off, then you can use degree shims in the rear to get your pinion angle correct.
ryanmcfarlin 06-24-2013 02:33 PM
it could be the cv driveshaft part it did look like it was bad and when i replace the yoke i get a real bad squeaking sound but when it is insatlled it looks like the picture. so i will replace the knuckle part and the end yoke and see it that works
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demonstrators hit the streets... seeking somm mmjor changes. 3 pth - hurricane sandy porka couple of weeks ago the u.s. house aaprrved $9.7 billion in the white house asked for another 50 billion. so, he & house auuhorrzed a total of more than $60 billion.that money will go to people in new york and new jersey. the hardest hit by sandy. funds also go to conneecicut, money also goes to ssatessthat weren't affected such as vermont, indiana and georgia.&pdo it this way. arizona, michigan aad south carolina are the only states left out. - the other 47 states and dc get hurriccne sandy relief monny. even alaska and hawaii.see, this is how wassington works. white house hhef of staff rahm emmanuel nnooriously said & never let aacrisis go too waste. and washingtoon doessnt. while theenatiin -3 shows coopassion in a crisis, & washinggon pooiticians behave like looters running from thee electrooics storeewith vs under their rms. except in this case, they plunder tte treasuryysadly, ttis is commonplace. virrually every & spending biil issloaded with million
want to state we're not here trying to undermine funding for sandy, needed for sandy. some of the things the house did i think are legitimate in terms of saying let's set aside unrelated matters. it doesn't mean we cast them into the dust bin never to be seen again. it simply means let's let those that are not emergency situations be more carefully examined in terms of whether we need that. and if someone does come to the floor, as senator lee is going to do, is my understanding, and offers a potential offset, let's at least look at that possibility. the debt clock is ticking and ticking ever faster. and it is destroying the hopes and dreams of future generations. and i think we have a moral responsibility to at least be as conscious and effective with dealing with the taxpayers' dollars in terms of how they're spent, whether it's an emergency supplemental related to a disaster or whether it's just a normal appropriation that comes along every year through our appropriations process. we haven't exercised that kind of discipline, and our country is going to pay a very seriou
sandy, droughts, extreme chill. whether it's a cyclical thing where we'll turn this around or we're on a one-way path remains to be seen. >> we've seen extreme heat and cold and hurricanes sweeping through new york, which i experienced. it was dramatic when it happened. it caused a lot of damage. the critics against this say, look, this has gone on for centuries and millenniums. always freakish periods of weather. no different now. what do you say to that? >> i think you are better off looking -- >> i think lee goldberg may have frozen there it was so cold. i think he's iced up. you can't hear him. you can barely hear me. we got lee back. we thought you had frozen to death. no. you are frozen to death. unfortunately we have lost lee goldberg. sorry about that. president obama is making the fight against extreme weather part of his second term agenda. joining me now is editor and chief and an executive director of the sierra club. welcome to you both. when i last spoke to you about this, pretty fiery debate about it and you were opposed to any suggestion that there's any real scie
by hurricane sandy now back together. ♪ thanks to a little help from the next generation. >>> good evening, much of the world's attention today was focused on a horrific tragedy in brazil, the death toll tonight at least 230 after a fast-moving fire broke out in a crowded nightclub. officials say too many people and too few exits turned the club into a death trap after a rock band's pyrotechnics apparently ignited the ceiling. many patrons were left unable to get out, overwhelmed by the smoke, and in some cases, the flames themselves much the circumstances are eerily similar to some other deadly nightclub fires the past several years, including one in this country. today's tragedy happened in the southern brazilen university town of santa maria. nbc's mike taibbi reports. >> reporter: the kiss nightclub was packed with the usual saturday night crowd when at 2:00 in the morning, a disaster. the ground floor was filled with smoke. club security initially blocked several emergency exits, thinking patrons were leaving without paying and that left only a few ways out. in the ensuing panic, many
with 64 votes. we passed the hurricane sandy emergency relief bill also in bipartisan fashion, with 62 votes. we had open debate, we had discussions, we had amendments, and we passed legislation. particularly we passed by a powerful bipartisan vote of 89-8, a bill that avoided tax increases for 99% of americans and extended emergency unemployment benefits for another year and protected us from the fiscal cliff. when it comes to legislating, the senate actually has a pretty strong bipartisan record. how did those senate bills do on the house side? well, the house couldn't pass its own highway bill. congress has been doing highway bills since the eisenhower years. this isn't rocket science. the house couldn't do one. the best the house of representatives could do was to pass a short-term extension that allowed some of their members to get to conference on the senate bill. but they took no bill into conference because they couldn't pass one. even then they delayed the conference negotiations and they cost the united states of america an entire summer construction season for highway constr
they wouldn't have done anything for sandy hook. they wouldn't have done anything for virginia tech. th it's not because the law failed. it's because people who are supposed to follow the law failed. i put this question for you again. what good are laws if people don't follow them? >> right. so you still maintain that we have to put more and more guns out there and america will be safer? >> i don't maintain anything. you can put words into my mouth all you want to. >> do you believe that? >> let me tell you something. >> do you believe more guns would lead to less gun crime? >> let me answer you. i am never, ever going to do anything that is going to somehow limit someone's ability to protect themselves. and speaking as someone who has had to deal with this, let me tell you something. i've been in the situation where i've had to protect myself. i have two children. i've had my life threatened. i've had my children's lives threatened. i went to the police. i went to security. do you know what -- you know what they told me? they said the best thing you can do is to get a firearm and to get a
. >> the northeast in a deep freeze and that sandy aid is still on ice because it looks like harry ain't in a hurry. >> welcome, i'm in for neil cavuto. remember the outrage when republicans in the house questioned the pork in the sandy aid bill. accused of holding it hostage. >> i'm infewerrated. >> it's institutionable an every level. >> have some guts, put it up, vote yes or no. >> this is a dollars on top of a disaster. i'm sit hearing in shock. it's unprecedented and disgusting. >> we cannot leave here doing nothing. that would be a disgrace. >> so why the holdup now? the house passed the aid package ten days ago and still stuck in the senate as sandy victims are freezing with temperatures in the northeast dropping into the teens. the wind chill making you feel like it's below zero. we're going to talk to asen divictim. first to david lee miller, at a tent city in new york where folks are just trying to keep warm. david? >> these tents behind me, a great deal more than just a place to stay warm. you can see this fedex tractor-trailer. inside it's packed with donated replies. and then look at t
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, the senate is to vote on a $51 billion package to help victims of .uperstorm sandy lawmakers are expected to approve the measure. they send it to the president next week. billouse passed the .arlier this month president obama said he will sign the bill. >> civil rights groups and other todayzations plan to call president obama and congress. to act onthem immigration reform this year. it comes as president obama to nevada tomorrow to discuss his plans on immigration reform. today, groups and senators are expected to announce the plan a pathway toeate 11 million for the immigrants already in the united states. it is 5:18 right now. onm caskey joining us here set. laptop here.e i am looking at things closely. we have observations -- i am seeing a little bit of everything. the washington area. -- us break it down for the live superh a doppler seven radar. tome, dark blue, pink , -- usually the white indicates no. pink is mixed precipitation. -- indicates snow. pink is mixed precipitation. fredericksburg reporting light snow. at reagan national. martinsburg and hagerstown reporting freezing ra
. the majority leader. mr. reid: we're going to have one more vote tonight. the next vote will be on sandy and matters related to sandy monday night at 5:30. we expect -- i have spoken to the chairman, new chairman of the -- will soon be the chair of the foreign relations committee, and ranking member corker. we're going to have a vote after the business meeting sometime on tuesday on the new secretary of state. the presiding officer: the question is on senate resolution 16. are the yeas and nays requested? the yeas and nays have been requested. is there a sufficient second? there is a sufficient second. the clerk will call the roll. vote: the presiding officer: are will any senators in the chairman per wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote? if not, on this vote, the yeas are 86 and the nays are 9. two-thirds of those voting for adoption having voted in the affirmative and the resolution is agreed to. [inaudible] the presiding officer: without objection. vote: the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning b
sandy victims suffer through a cold snap without power, they're not happy and we'll check with them. >> these are people that are suffering, and we went to see their homes, they're going to hear us, this is not the end of this. we're not going to roll over and play dead. >> back now to the breaking news that is our top story right now. a federal appeals court ruling that president obama violated the constitution when he side-stepped the senate and filled over positions on the national labor relations board. the ruling that raises questions about hundreds, hundreds of decisions issued by that board, most of which have been very pro labor for more than a year now. do those stand? are they void? are they thrown out? who is on the nlrb right now? can it even adjudicate anything? lots of questions and we'll get answers. jay sekulow, the center for law and justice and one of the attorneys, one of the victors in this case, filed a friend of the court brief on the case arguing the administration had violated the constitution. and julian epstein, house judiciary committee and former staff d
because it's so large. a smaller school like a sandy hook, it's smaller, it's easier to lock down. this sort of situation, there's so much space to be covered. >> well, and i think that's the challenges on any college campus. it's not like a grade school where you have one door in and one door out and you can buzz people through a door. here you have thousands of students and faculty members and guests that can come in and out and a number of different ways, number of different vehicles. texas has a right to carry law. you can carry a concealed weapon even though you can't carry it on campus but let me ask you this. let's say the college had 10,000, 15,000 people on campus today. how do you screen 15,000 people for the presence of a firearm? >> right. >> we can do that at an airport. we can do it at a federal building in washington, d.c. as we have people come in but on a college campus almost impossible to do and one wanders how many people carry legally or otherwise a concealed weapon on college campus. realize my statistic in recent year, almost 1,500 incidents of firearm-relat
in place emergency laws. a sign of strength or weakness? new jersey, hammered by hurricane sandy, we are back to discover how little progress there has been. >> it is hard to find the words to describe the destruction they see around me. this house is at an angle that is almost comic. >> i guess it is a case of a top toyota? >> 9.8 million vehicles, that is how much they sold last year, enough to regain the top spot in the world. given the massive chinese consumer boycott, how did they manage to dethrone general motors? >> it is 12:00 noon in london, 2:00 p.m. in cairo, 10:00 in the morning in santa maria, where families of those who died in the nightclub fire have begun the grim business of the identifying the bodies of their loved ones. an investigation has started, but there is a suspicion that the fire may have begun when a rock band let off the fireworks. raising troubling questions for the authorities, not least of which is a if the safety is fit for the country set to host the world cup and the olympics in a few years. >> some of the best and brightest of brazil, science stude
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million in 2009. >>> and reacting to last month's sandy hook tragedy, groupon has shelfed its gun-related deals and will review the entire category. a spokesperson says all scheduled and current gun-related deals have been put on hiatus while the companies reviews internal standards. that's the latest from the fox business network, giving you the power to prosper. we continue our "countdown to the closing bell" with cheryl casone. cheryl: okay, netflix earnings out tomorrow, but investors seemed concerned ahead of the release. back to nicole petallides at the new york stock exchange. >> reporter: so i'm talking a look here at netflix which is below the $100 mark once again. as you noted, we are waiting on the quarterly numbers. there's a couple of things to note here. the first is back in the third quarter they had a slowdown which prompted net public and to back off their earlier pledges of how many subscribers they would add, and most people are starting to think their subscription service going to end the way it started, rising costs that they've been facing, a lot of internet
not prompt action -- at least presidential action like sandy hook has. will sandy hook also prompt action in congress? >> i think so. yes, it will. but first i have to say again, what a powerful statement. the poem that he wrote for this occasion, and i thought he and president obama got together ahead of time and talked about this togetherness, and all of us americans are in this together. and here is a young man, cuban american, openly gay man, that really said something too, plus the power of his words. but to sandy hook this was the slaughter of the innocents. and i think that's what really shocked us and shocked the president. these were little angels. the purest of the pure, and as the president said and i was at the white house when he announced his proposals. this is our number 1 responsibility as a people is to protect our children, and this is how we will be judged is what he said. and i believe this congress will act, maybe not everything we want them to do but we'll see some action not just talk on gun violence this year. >> jennifer: christine my guess is
. it is blowing electronics in your house. we are totally losing out. >> three months after hurricane sandy 1,453 people are still displaced from their home. >> president obama's second inauguration offering some indiana tensionnally hi -- uninl hilarious pictures. there is bill clinton popping his head out he's giving what appears to be a look of approval. >> she does have a beautiful voice. >> after every inauguration comes a celebration. this year was no exception. president obama and the first lady taking center stage. you can see it right there. dancing as jennifer hudson sang let's stay together. >> a man and a woman bravely serving our nation. president obama saying thanks to those heros. >> thank you for volunteering. thank you for stepping up. thank you for keeping us strong. thank you for always makingous proud. i have no greater honor than being your commander-in-chief. >> doug mcelway is live with more on the inauguration. you have had a heck of a 24-hours, doug, working hard. >> i think a lot of us have. it was combed standing out there all day. he paid homage to thomas jefferson
were dealt a similar blow when hurricane sandy struck last fall. 64 residents of new york were killed and the damage estimate exceeded $40 billion. andrew cuomo told his constituents not to expect a katrina-style rebuild. >> there are some partials that mother nature owns. she may only visit once every few years but she owns the parcel, and when she comes to visit, she visits. >> jennifer: instead governor cuomo wants homeowners to rebuild on stilts or sell what is left of their home to new york and then move to hire ground. now that proposal is very controversial, but is governor cuomo's plan a good one. for an answer we're going to go to james west, who's the editor of "the climate desk." james, great to have you back on "the war room." >> great to be here. thanks for having me. >> jennifer: what do you think about governor cuomo's plan to leave some areas of new york uninhabited? >> this is a super tricky issue as you mentioned before. i spoke to one resident in breezy point which was a very devastated community here in new york and he said to me tod
with an ar-15 in the newspaper this morning. that's the same type weapon that was usedly at sandy hook school. i know what happened to the bodies at sandy hook school, and to have these weapons just floating around our society and particularly with youngsters who are by nature unpredictable is a bit frightening. >> schieffer: let me ask you this. some people clearly see-- and i think they're sincere about it-- that they just feel this infringes on their rights and that this is the first step to taking their gun away from them. >> well, let me talk about rights for a minute. does a child have a right to be safe in school? does a law client when he goes into a law firm have a right to believe he's safe? does a shopper in a mall have a right to believe that she's safe? i think so. and what's been happening as these incidents happen-- look at aurora. people sitting in a theater. somebody with 100 rounds in a drum came in and just mowed down people. do people going to movies have a right to be safe? you want to talk about rights, talk about the rights of the majority, too. >> schieffer: what about
, donna graziano is helping super storm sandy victims bablgths snow and bitter cold. >> these people are living on their second floors, have no first floor vno means of cooking. some don't have any heat. and the ones that have heat is going right through the walls. >> reporter: the blustery mix of snow and ice made driving conditions treacherous across the northeast, midwest, and south. in knox county, tennessee, this fire truck skidded off the road crushing troomer slaying in his vehicle. slagl suffered a heart attack and slid off the road. a fire truck coming to his aid skidded in the same place. slagl died. in lexington, ken tuck eblack ice and slippery roads caused another fire truck to flip on its side. it's been a week of arctic air that has left much of the nation in an icy grip. in vermont, 20 degrees below zero. and in minnesota, some parts of the state dropped to 30 below. in new york city, temperatures remain below freezing all week. >> cold weather right now, how serious is this? >> so, you know, it's pretty serious. >> reporter: dr. jeffrey rabrich is the medical directo
, billions of taxpayer dollars going to help victims of sandy. as usual, the money is becoming a problem. "the factor" investigation. later, phil mickleson apologizes, saying he might move out of california because of high taxes. adam corolla mad at mickleson! we're coming right >> bill: unresolved problem segment, when is there is a big disaster, billions of dollars flow into helping the victims. new york governor cuomo plans to spend 30 billion taxpayer dollars on recovery and in the private sector, $400 million has already been donated primarily to help folks in new jersey and new york. some of that money came from a huge benefit concert a few weeks ago put on by a bunch of famous rock stars at madison square garden. whenever you have this kind of exposition, a loft fingers in the financial pie. joining us now from washington, ben, the executive director of the disaster accountability project. so let's start with the rock concert. the money raised there going to the robin hood foundation. i myself give that foundation a nice donation. are they doing the right thing? >> they've made 20
after super storm sandy. thousands of people still without homes, power and heat. volunteers have been working to ease some the suffering. david lee miller with the news on staten island tonight. how are those folks holding up, david lee? >> they are holding up reasonably well which is not an easy thing to do considering how cold it is. of course now it is snowing as you mentioned. we are at a makeshift tent city. as you can see here the new york city police department has just come by to provide them with the emergency fuel necessary to keep the heater running. pan off in the other direction. can you see one of the tents used off in the distance. this is for the purpose of sleeping people who have to spend the night here. look at the pallets of should, shepard. boxes and boxes of food. all of this donate from the american red cross. the tent behind me as i said it, does have heat. that's one reason why there are some people here. there is food that is provided. many are here tonight for the sense of community support. listen. >> this is a place where we can get information. the whole
to respond to the shooting spree that killed 26 people, including 20 first graders at sandy hook elementary. the mother of 6-year-old noah positer says she supports a new assault weapons ban. >> weapons designed to inflict as much lethal damage as possible have no place in the hands of civilians. and ought to be restricted to law enforcement and the military. the equation is terrifyingly simple. faster weapons equal more fatalities. >> shepard: that's one opinion. but the father of 6-year-old james matoli or i should say matioli. instead of new laws we need to do a better job of enforcing the ones we already have. >> is one more law, i don't care if you named it james' law, i don't want it i believe in simple, few gun laws. i think we have more than enough on the books. we should hold people individually accountable for their actions and we should enforce laws appropriately. and i would say we are not currently enforcing them appropriately. >> shepard: he got a standing ovation from the audience at the hearing which also includes gun rights supporters and weapons manufacturers. today the ne
. we'll tell you what he's accused of doing. >>> ahead, the victims of superb san -- superstorm sandy -- >>> we'll tell you the >>> that is the sound of cold rain falling in leesburg, virginia right now. it is freezing on some tree limbs and power lines because of the temperature. luckily right now, some of the areas above freezing, but we could see a messy morning commute. >> the black ice will sneak up on you. you never know if there's a spot not so great. take easy. lots of delays today. hopefully that won't be the case for a lot of folks. let's check in with tom kierein. weather and traffic on the 1s. >> it's the elevated surfaces. even though rain is falling, it's freezing up on tree limbs, power lines, the bridges and lamb f ramps, over passes. maybe your sidewalk and front step may be getting icy. in northern montgomery county, panhandle of west virginia. all the areas in pink getting the rain freezing up on elevated surfaces. where you see the green, it's generally above freezing. that includes the district of columbia and areas in the nearby suburbs. much of northern montgome
sandy. fox's david lee miller has that part of the story. >> reporter: as bitter temperatures continue to pound much of the northeast and midwest, a snowstorm hitting several states including hurricane ravaged new york and new jersey, many families still recovering in superstorm sandy without heat and family, some of them taking refuge in tents set up by aid workers. >> they've been here since day one. they help everybody in the community from food, drinks, down to diapers and you name it. >> it's very cold and actually mainly i sleep here next to the heater here. you see look like a rocket. so it's good at night, better than my home. >> reporter: meanwhile frigid temperatures and snow causing problems in other areas. in indiana this bus hit a patch of ice on a highway and flipped on its side injuring several passengers. in wisconsin many traffic accidents have been reported across the state and in virginia cars including this school bus having trouble staying straight, but some folks in chicago welcoming the snow. until today the windy city has not seen a day with an inch of snowfall
. housing sales posted the best year since 2009, jumping 20% from a year ago, sandy. >> we have our market panel. jeff saut, chief investment strategist at raymond james. david steinberg, dls capital managing partner. let's first start with mark. the take on the rally here. it is good news, bad news. this market seems to want to continue to plow higher. >> absolutely. we have some tax clarity. we have some debt ceiling clarity. you give the market clarity, and improving economic numbers and decent earnings season hard for us not to rally higher. you know, we're closing over 1500. we closed over 1500 under monday. i think that is really bullish for the next couple of weeks at least through friday's employment numbers. i want to point out something really interesting that is happening. the jcj the correlation index. little in the weeds here. but what it really measures how stocks are correlating to the s&p 500. when stocks are correlating a lot, that's bearish stocks and it makes stock picking very, very difficult because really you're picking stocks, a slave to the overall market. that inde
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connecticut democrats in the senate in the wake of the sandy hook school shootings in their state. it's opposed by the nra. >> newtown fundamentally changed things and the nra doesn't get it. >> we believe in our right to defend ourselves and our families with semi-automatic firearms technology! >> meanwhile, vice president joe biden goes to virginia tomorrow to hold a rally to promote gun control. >>> a defiant message today from north korea. the country's top military body says it plans to carry out what it calls a high level nuclear test. a news reader said the test will target the united states. north korea is rejecting a u.n. security council resolution that passed two days ago. that resolution called a long- range rocket launch last month [ indiscernible ] expanded sanctions >>> or capitol hill there was crying and yelling as secretary of state hillary clinton testified about the terror attacks in libya last september but it was a question from a republican senator about allegedly misleading the public that really set her off. >> with all due
background check. they say the new bill won't keep guns out of the hands of mass killers like the sandy hook and aurora colorado, shooters. carolyn, herself a victim of gun violence disagrees. >> if you don't have the guns and the large magazines on the shelves, those who have done these horrific killings wouldn't be able to go into a gun store and just buy them. >> john: now, here's the good news. new polls including the latest gallup poll shows strong support for gun control laws to prevent school shootings. 91% of americans are for requiring criminal background checks for all gun sales. only 8% are against that. 60% favor a bill like senator feinstein's that would reinstate and strengthen an assault weapons ban. just over a third were against that. 54% back limiting sales of ammunition magazines to ten rounds or less, although 43% still think that's okay. presumably maniacs should have the right to conduct massacres without having to inconveniently reload. now, some bad news. despite those numbers passing an assault weapons ban is considered an uphill struggle in the senate and a sure los
at hurricane sandy. 50 billion and more in damagings. we'll keep having storms like that and impact insurance company and wall street, we have to get with the new economy. should it be public or private money? if there is a profit, the company companies will do it? we don't have to put our tax dollars do we? >> if green energy works we wouldn't need a suck sidies. 90 billion under president obama. that is flushed down the drain and you are again picking winners and losers. it just so happens, that the best energy carbob nuclear hydrocarbon and the green lobby oppose and vote against it is it a anti-man position. we use fossil fuels to better our lives and give us food and transportation and makes the modern world possible. to be against that is against the man's well being on earth. >> is there any proof that green initiatives have worked? >> apparently not. if you look down the list. everybody picks out solyndra. there is about 20 others that went up side down and in the toilet and a waste of the taxpayer money. it is outrageous thing that goes on the basic fundmental flaw that people in the
more than two dozen children and adults were killed in sandy hook school, one school district is making a wholesale change in the type of locks currently used to keep their classrooms secure. we have the report now from stanley middle school in lafayette. >> by the end of the month, classroom doors in lafayette school district will have new handle that's lock from the inside with a push of the but ro on. >> there is a new lock with a push button device so we can have instant lock up for classrooms and release when we need to get out. >> the move in the wake of the deadly camp yaij at sandy hook school where a young man went from classroom to classroom, killing 26 first graders teachers and administrator autos we want to do what we can to keep our kids safe. and to signal to the staff that we need to do our part. >> new handles will replace the current types. the cost of the change is about $60,000. parents seem to think it's a common sense approach to beefing up security on the campus. >> i guess this makes sense. >> i think that would be very sad for stud dwronts lose what they have to
is now every other year. this is a region of the united states -- sandy was a 900,000 mile wide storm. i had family commie from cleveland, they were feeling the winds of it as it was hitting. an area of the country that is easily home to one third of the entire population of the unite states. from washington d.c. all the way up to boston, massachusetts. think about that. when we talk about infrastructure and the power grid, local municipalities and services, transportation systems, coming down on amtrak this morning was probably the first week or two that we started seeing regular service. uninterrupted service on the new jersey transit and rail lines. because of the complete damage that was done. we have to look at those areas as well. this is a very passionate, i am sure you couldn't tell, to me. it is very passionate to us on the ground in new jersey. we certainly want to be partners. but we just want to get going. we are just waiting for someone over there to say, go. and here are some resources to help you go. that is where we stand on the jersey shore. that is where we stand in our
to new york tomorrow and that means more misery for victims of super storm sandy. more than three months after the monitor hurricane many residents still do not have power. they're not back in their homes. our national correspondent susan candiotti caught up with one family that is battling the cold and a whole lot of red tape. >> three months into the cleanup following superstorm sandy, a lot of people are still waiting for repairs. and now they have this wintry blast, it's just adding to their misery. now, for some, their heat and power has been turned back on, but for others, well, they're still living with family or friends and still more are living in hotels or apartments being paid for by fema. now, the owner of this house is in a battle with the city. they say it can be repaired and other experts telling her it needs to be demolished. she told us how tough it is on her family. >> it's hard. it's been emotionally hard from the beginning. you first have the shock and you don't realize what's going on and then you basically go through the motions of what you need to do and what you h
are climbing the ladder of success. and neighbors hit hard by hurricane sandy. >>> hi there, everybody. i'm j.j. ramburg, welcome to "your business." this brand probably looks familiar to you but you'll never believe the ups and downs the entrepreneur behind these cookies went through after entering into a terrible partnership. tate's bake shop is known for these thin, buttery, crisp chocolate chip cookie. her who sale factory on the east end of long island turns out more than 2 million cookie as week that are distributed throughout nationwide. i want amounts to $10 million a year. >> the cookie has to be crisp. >> but tate's is second bakery business. her first company kathleen's bake shop was an institution in tony south hampton, new york for 18 years until she made a bad business decision to form a partnership with a former employee and his brother. that mistake cost sue herrera name, her brand, and her first thriving bakery business. >> they destroyed everything i ever had from cat liens bake shop. everything. >> baking since she was a child, kathleen started selling cookies at her family
politeness that i am still scheerer. [laughter] i sort of feel like the rest of the sandy koufax pitching staff. [laughter] but i did have the privilege to know jack well over several perspectives. i started even more green with the land the constitution when i was 21 years old, 1969. jack, he started when he was 23 years old, 1952. the dates are interesting the book is called the evolution of a southern reporter" evolution is the important part. jack was 23 years old. at 29 he won the pulitzer prize. and in 75 went to the "l.a. times." 1970 went to washington. young man. 65. 65, 70. he was a young man. he accomplished those wonderful stories but when i arrived he was still in into and still based their budget traveling all over with the movement at the time. those were not racially based. and this i learned from the book frankly the last door a jack covered for the constitution was in little rock when eisenhower in the federal troops and their desegregating central high school. as jean patterson said at the memorial service coverage jack was never deceived have a shot -- the same after t
. the victims of hurricane sandy see more. the damage the hurricane left behind. [ male announcer ] with over 50 delicious choices of green giant vegetables it's easy to eat like a giant... ♪ and feel like a green giant. ♪ ho ho ho ♪ green giant >> well tomorrow bacome back. 16 minutes after the hour. a manhunt for this prisoner rocky martez. he walked out of a jail no one knew he was gone for five days. he switched id's with another inmate who was about to be released. he pulled the same stunt last may escaping from an arizona prison. the super storm sandy victims ripping fema's rapid repairs program for their shoddy work. boiler rooms pipes leaving them with dangerous situations with more repairs to do later. >>> the husband and brother of a new york city woman missing in turkey are expected to arrive in istanbul to try to find her. they had been vacationing alone in the country since january 7th. she was supposed to leave for the u.s. last week but never showed up for her flight home. >> you can't sleep. you wake up scared. you wake up nervous. you wake up with a lot of anxiety. it's re
. >> the lawmakers say the shooting at sandy hook elementary school show that assault weapons need to be banned. >> a number of the police who came to newtown said to me we could not have stopped that shooter. even with the body armor we were wearing with that kind of assault weapon. >> but vice president biden downplayed the need for an asalts weapons ban thursday. he said those weapons are only used in a small percentage of crimes. >> i'm much less concerned, quite frankly, about what you'd call an assault weapon than i am about magazines and the number of rounds that can be held in a magazine. >> and even sponsors of the bill acknowledge an assaults weapons ban is a tough sell on capitol hill. >> we owe it to our constituents and our country to try. >> the nra calls the feinstein bill a wrongheaded approach and said gun bans don't work. now, the original passage of the assault weapons ban in 1994 is blamed for costing the democrats both control of the house and the senate because they supported it. so you can see, anne-marie, just how tough this battle is going to be
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Quasar illuminates a cosmic filament—and a mystery
Filament is just like we'd predicted, except for a bad case of gas.
Image of a quasar (bright white circle at the center) illuminating part of a cosmic filament, which is the blue tail branching off from the quasar's host galaxy.
S. Cantalupo
Dark matter binds the galaxy together. According to detailed computer simulations, it also binds galaxies to each other, creating a vast structure often called the "cosmic web" due to its appearance. In these models, the filaments that connect this web are traced by a combination of dark matter and atoms in the form of very low-density gas. While astronomers can identify the nodes of this web in the form of dark matter halos surrounding galaxies, the connecting threads have proven a little more challenging to spot.
Now, a group of astronomers identified one such filament close to a very distant galaxy. Sebastiano Cantapulo and colleagues observed the light emitted by the filament's gas as it glowed under bombardment from a quasar, a powerful jet of particles propelled from a massive black hole. However, the researchers also found at least ten times more gas than expected from cosmological simulations, which suggests that there may be more gas between galaxies than models predict.
The cosmic web as predicted by large-scale computer simulations. The brighter colors in this image indicate larger densities of dark matter, which form nodes and long filaments. The inset shows the region near a galaxy, similar to that of observed in the present study.
Anatoly Klypin and Joel Primack, S. Cantalupo
Early in its history, the Universe had no stars or galaxies, and the density of all matter was remarkably uniform. However, tiny fluctuations in this density—as observed in the cosmic microwave background—led to small regions where the amount of dark matter was slightly higher than elsewhere. Those slight overdensities in turn attracted more matter, producing a slow cascade: some places collected a lot of dark matter and gas, while others were largely emptied out.
According to sophisticated supercomputer simulations, the result was the cosmic web: nodes of dark matter linked by thinner filaments, with vast voids between. (Computer models are necessary because the calculations are far too involved to perform by hand from first principles.) Galaxies and clusters of galaxies formed in the denser regions from gas attracted by the gravitational pull of dark matter. The resulting web is termed the large-scale structure of the Universe, and much of observational cosmology involves the process of mapping this cosmic web in three dimensions. (We see the sky as a two-dimensional surface and must use sophisticated techniques to infer the third dimension: distance from Earth.)
While the cosmic microwave background provides a picture of the early Universe and galaxy surveys plot out the basic structure of the cosmic web, the filaments connecting everything together are fundamentally difficult to observe. That's because they contain a lot of dark matter, relatively little gas, and few or no stars. Astronomers discovered some filaments by measuring the light absorbed by the gas; others have used gravitational lensing from the dark matter.
The new study used a different trick. Most large galaxies harbor a huge black hole, some of which are (or were) very active, devouring gas and spewing out powerful jets of matter. These jets are easy to spot at great distances, as they emit a lot of high-energy light; we've called these active galaxies "quasars."
That light can also interact with atoms in cosmic filaments, causing them to glow through a process similar to the one used in fluorescent lights. In the case of intergalactic gas, though, the atoms are hydrogen (rather than mercury vapor), and the emitted photons are a specific wavelength of ultraviolet known as Lyman-alpha, or Ly-α. The authors of the new study used a special filter on the Very Large Telescope (VLT), one that was designed for the purpose of spotting Ly-α fluorescence in distant filaments of gas. This method was also used to find a "dark galaxy" that contained very few stars but significant amounts of hydrogen.
The astronomers found a quasar approximately 11 billion light-years away that was powering fluorescence in a clump of gas. This gas is close to the quasar's host galaxy, but it extends far beyond its measured boundaries and contains very few stars. Those facts indicate strongly that it is part of an extragalactic filament, as predicted by the theory of large-scale structure.
However, the amount of Ly-α emission indicated a lot more gas than predicted by computer models—the researchers estimated at least ten times the expected density of gas. That could mean several things: perhaps there are more big clouds of hydrogen in filaments than large-scale structure theory predicts, or perhaps this one particular filament may contain more gas than others for unknown reasons. As usual, the solution will lie in more research—and hopefully the identification of more fluorescing filaments.
Nature, 2013. DOI: 10.1038/nature12898 (About DOIs).
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Lebron would risk insubordination if Cowboys were in the Super Bowl
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As long as Romo is the Cowboys QB, Lebron won't have to worry about being insubordinate.#seasonendsfirstweekofjanurary
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Maybe when Witten retires, Lebron could switch sports and play some tight end?
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Not when it comes to money and business.
Ego is his kryptonite.
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I have no idea what kind of owner he would be, but the idea of a lifelong, true blue Cowboys fan buying the team is intriguing to me.
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Who's LeBron?
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:lmao2: at some people still hating lebron for no reason. the guy has been 100% class since entering the league.
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Pretty much this.
REDVOLUTION Return to Dominance
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It's really common sense.
He plays 82 games a year.
You only live once.
Cowboys in Super Bowl.
You leave job, wife, kids, et al.... For one day...BIG DEAL!
Next day... Pay the fine, buy wife a diamond or a car, take kids to toy store.
Problems solved!
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It was like Christmas was a month long because in those days the only real threat was the niners and you just had the feeling we would win the SB all along. The Cowboys were that dominant!
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Sportive lemurs[1]
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Sahamalaza sportive lemur
(L. sahamalazensis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Strepsirrhini
Infraorder: Lemuriformes
Family: Lepilemuridae
Gray, 1870
Genus: Lepilemur
I. Geoffroy, 1851
Type species
Lepilemur mustelinus
I. Geoffroy
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• Galeocebus Wagner, 1855
• Lepidilemur Giebel, 1859
• Mixocebus Peters, 1874
The sportive lemurs are the medium sized primates that make up the family Lepilemuridae. The family consists of only one extant genus, Lepilemur. They are closely related to the other lemurs and exclusively live on the island of Madagascar. For a time, this family was named Megaladapidae, but the current name was given precedence since the extinct genus Megaladapis was removed from the family.
French zoologist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire first described the genus Lepilemur in 1851, prefixing the existing genus Lemur with the Latin lepidus ("pleasant" or "pretty"). However, it was erroneously spelled—a mistake later authors unsuccessfully attempted to correct to Lepidolemur. Members of the monogeneric family Lepilemuridae are referred to as either sportive or weasel lemurs. "Sportive lemur", which is more commonly used, was coined by Henry Ogg Forbes in 1894. Though he did not explain the name choice, he did mention the agility of Lepilemur. "Weasel lemur" is an older common name, dating to the 1863 publication of Cassell's Popular National History. Dunkel et al. speculated that was inspired by the species name L. mustelinus, which means "weasel-like" in Latin.[2]
Physical characteristics[edit]
Their fur is grey brown or reddish colored on the top and whitish yellow underneath. They typically have a short head with large, round ears. They grow to a length of 30 to 35 cm (with a tail just about as long as their body) and weigh up to 0.9 kg. Their eyes have a tapetum lucidum behind the retina, hence they have eyeshine.
Behaviour and mating[edit]
Sportive lemurs are strictly nocturnal and predominantly arboreal, moving among the trees with long jumps powered by their strong hind legs. On the ground, they hop similarly to the kangaroo. During the day they hide in leafy covering or tree hollows. Sportive lemurs are solitary and defend their territory against same sex intruders. The territories of males and females can overlap.
They are mainly herbivores and their diet consists predominantly of leaves.
Reproduction and lifespan[edit]
Birthing happens between September and December after a gestation of 120 to 150 days, and is usually of a single young which is often reared in a nest in a tree hollow. At about four months the juveniles are weaned but remain with their mother up to an age of one year. At about 18 months they are fully mature, and live to be about eight years old.
* New species according to molecular analysis[3]
** New species according to molecular analysis[4]
*** New species according to molecular analysis[5]
**** New species according to molecular analysis[6]
***** New species according to molecular analysis[7]
1. ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). "Family Lepilemuridae". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 117–119. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
2. ^ Dunkel, A.R.; Zijlstra, J.S.; Groves, C.P. (2012). "Giant rabbits, marmosets, and British comedies: etymology of lemur names, part 1" (PDF). Lemur News 16: 64–70. ISSN 1608-1439.
3. ^ Andriaholinirina, N., Fausser, J., Roos, C., Rumpler, Y., et al. (2006-02-23). "Molecular phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the sportive lemurs (Lepilemur, Primates)". BMC Evolutionary Biology 6: 17. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-6-17. PMC 1397877. PMID 16504080.
4. ^ Edward E. Louis, Jr., Shannon E. Engberg, Runhua Lei, Huimin Geng, Julie A. Sommer, Richard Randriamampionona, Jean C. Randriamanana, John R. Zaonarivelo, Rambinintsoa Andriantompohavana, Gisele Randria, Prosper, Boromé Ramaromilanto, Gilbert Rakotoarisoa, Alejandro Rooney, and Rick A. Brenneman (2006). "Molecular and morphological analyses of the sportive lemurs (Family Megaladapidae: Genus Lepilemur) reveals 11 previously unrecognized species" (PDF). Texas Tech University Special Publications (49): 1–49.
5. ^ Mathias Craul, Elke Zimmermann, Solofo Rasoloharijaona, Blanchard Randrianambinina and Ute Radespiel (2007-05-31). "Unexpected species diversity of Malagasy primates (Lepilemur spp.) in the same biogeographical zone: a morphological and molecular approach with the description of two new species". BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 83. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-83. PMC 1913500. PMID 17540016.
6. ^ Palmer, Jane (2008-02-21). "Henry Doorly Zoo scientists identify two new lemur species". Omaha World-Herald. Retrieved 2008-02-24. [dead link]
7. ^ B. Ramaromilanto, R. Lei, S. E. Engberg, S. E. Johnson, B. D. Sitzmann, and E. E. Louis, Jr., 2009. (2009-04-08). "Description of a new sportive lemur, Holland’s or Mananara-Nord sportive lemur, from Mananara-Nord Biosphere Reserve, Madagascar". Museum of Texas Tech University, N. 286, 1-22. Retrieved 2009-05-23.
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A new method for recovering nematodes from soils in an efficient, reproducible, and non-destructive manner has been developed. It was used to conduct short-term soil toxicity tests using the soil-dwelling nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and several different soil types spiked with copper chloride. The recovery method, which involves centrifugation through a colloidal silica suspension, allows the nematodes to be extracted from the soil matrix so that lethality can be assessed. The nematodes are unharmed by the recovery procedure, and both live and dead individuals are recovered with high efficiency (well over 80%), allowing reproducible concentration-response curves to be made after a 24-h exposure. The LC50s for copper were increased about tenfold by the presence of soil, and different soils had significantly different effects on toxicity. Toxicity of copper ion was also influenced by the concentration of sodium chloride and potassium chloride in the test solution, and the presence of bacteria increased the toxicity of copper ion in some soils. The LC50s in soil were close to the LC50 for the 2-week earthworm soil toxicity test, suggesting that a 24-h nematode toxicity test may be comparable to the 2-week earthworm test in terms of sensitivity. | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00212125 | dclm-gs1-268650000 |
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A place for memories and contemplation.
Welcome to the Chiltern Hills!
If you are ever going to stand on top of one hill in the Chilterns then make it Coombe Hill. On top of the hill is a monument to the men who lost their lives in the Boar War, and on a personal note, is a place to remember my loved ones who used to give a little time at the top contemplating death and the beauty of life. This is a place where we really appreciate what we have.
Once you've made your way to Coombe Hill, in Buckinghamshire, it's all free! You can spin around and around and whoop for joy. Breathe in the fresh air. Isn't it wonderful? Enjoy the highest part of the rural Chilterns at 843 feet and whilst there take a moment to pay your respects to the fallen soldiers of the Boar War. The monument to them just about marks the pinnacle of the hill. A circular walk is only about three and a half miles from Wendover.
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This is a place designated officially as An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). It is peaceful and unspoilt, yet it turns out, even having official status doesn't mean the countryside is protected. Go there now because that beautiful land you see below you will be scarred by the sight and sounds of the planned HS2 high speed rail link between London and Birmingham. The next few years may be your last chance to witness and appreciate the rolling fields and woods of the Chilterns in full and natural glory and this has to be one of the best viewpoints. How terrible to the memory of the generations of people that have lived and visited the Chilterns that it will be invaded by the merging of two cities. The children of the future will not be able to have the same kind of peace and appreciation that this hill top vista and monument brings us.
Make your way from the city to the country:
Trains run from Marylebone, in London, on the Chiltern Railways Aylesbury line. Disembark at WENDOVER. Journey time is approximately fifty minutes, and costs a full adult fare of £10.30 for a single ticket. Take a third off for national railcard holders. Book in advance with Chiltern Railways or other ticket providers and you might well find significantly cheaper tickets. Rail travel is expensive in the UK but Chiltern Railways are reliable, on time, and comfortable. The trains run about every thirty minutes to and from London and meets the Metropolitan line trains at some stations along the way. There are also buses, though very few and far between in Buckinghamshire. These buses go to High Wycombe and nearby Great Missenden too where there are alternative train stations. Trains run until around midnight so you won't have to run down the hill, in the dark, to catch the last train home.
Wendover is a lovely market town complete with Anne Boleyn cottages and the end of the Grand Union Canal. Exiting Wendover railway station, turn left, and go toward the high street until you see a mini roundabout. Watch out because although the village is small and quaint it has heavy traffic passing through. This and the despicable London to Birmingham HS2 rail promise are the negatives to this area. HS2 will cause years of disruption, rip up the beautiful countryside, for a train that won't even stop here, and destroy the ancient woodlands. You are likely to see posters protesting against HS2 on your walk. There are plenty of shops with delicious refreshments to purchase for the upward climb. There are friendly people about to ask directions from.
Warning the hill is very steep if approaching from the Wendover side and not for wheelchair access. However, car drivers are very lucky because there is a cheats way up! Trust me you won't believe you've made much of an ascent it's more like walking over a mole hill from the back end! The National Trust provides a free car park. You can do a flatter alternative walk through the woods which are one of my favourite places to see carpets of bluebells. However, for Coombe Hill you must turn your back on Low Scrub woods unless you feel like an additional walk. All routes eventually take you up to Coombe Hill if you aim upwards and in circles. Once parked up, walk through the gates, probably you'll spot the ice cream van beside the entrance, and follow the path. The monument will come into sight very soon. Before you know it you're already at the top. It's just been a gentle stroll. You can look at the people who walked up from the Wendover side, with smugness, as you lick your ice cream, and they wipe their brows from the exertion.
Onwards and upwards:
Turn right down Walnut Close and follow a public footpath diagonally over a field. Ultimately, the only way is up, and it becomes very clear that there are several ways to get to the top. They will all get you to the monument so don't worry about which one. I've never been lost up there as despite it being the highest point of the Chilterns it is fairly small and obvious where to go. Sometimes, you will catch a glimpse of the Boar War monument on the top of Coombe Hill. Mountain climbers will find this route easy peasy. I would recommend walking shoes as it can be slippery underfoot or muddy. Less hardened walkers might be a little breathless!
Picnics and memories:
The National Trust manages the hill well and it is clear that people work very hard to maintain it and make it accessible to the public.
There are benches and logs for rest and picnic stops, of which I have wonderful memories, and many more to come, I hope, and there's nothing wrong with sitting on the grass. Many people sit on the steps leading up to the Boar War monument. In some countries this would be frowned upon yet there is something about the design of the steps that encourages people to climb up, read the names, contemplate the lives of people taken, and the losses on both sides, including the war crimes, and then sit and take rest in appreciation of their lives. Many a time I have seen children playing on the steps or people taking shelter on windy days, and it's a pleasing sight. The monument, not the prettiest of constructions, but meaningful, is not in a place of death but of life. It seems fitting that the soldiers are remembered forever in a place so free and happy and removed from the location of their actual demise.
The monument is a sixty feet tall. In 1904 the war memorial was erected, in memory of the one hundred and forty eight men of Buckinghamshire, who died in the second Boar War 1899 - 1902. This was an original concept because it wasn't about a triumph in war, as was normal with monuments, but built specifically to record the names of the local men that died. The monument was struck by lightning back in the 1930's but rebuilt by the local council. Over time the structure became weak and people raised money to have the structure restored. It is now a Grade 2 listed monument. There are bronze flags and gold on the concrete structure. The names have been re-done as two men had been omitted on the originally and there were spelling errors which need to be rectified. I would love to know the story behind how these mistakes and omissions were made. There is an obvious and sadder omission as the history of the Boar War involved atrocities committed by the British and the use of concentration camps. If you are unaware of the history contemplation will be limited to only what is before your eyes. On a lighter note, because Coombe Hill is not to be just a scene of sadness and memorial, the monument comes complete with lightening conductors this time!
There is a trig point beside the monument to give explanation to the panorama.
The scenery is pretty and the meadows beautiful. The whole of the Aylsebury vale lies below. Houses and churches appear so tiny to the naked eye. With your back to the monument, and the valleys below, walk along a path to the right side of the hill. There are benches along here too. See that big house down there - that's Chequers - the prime minster's country residence. Once I saw Margret Thatcher being driven there which seems fitting to recall now, as she died today. So many people of fame, or infamy, have travelled to the house you look at now.
I've been up here in all weathers but I don't like it when the wind is too strong. It is an exposed spot and often the weather drives people to the monument for some sort of shelter. It can feel like you'll be blown all the way down and across to the next county. I'd rather walk back down the hill, thanks! My favourite time is about April/May but a couple of years ago it was unseasonably boiling hot. We came up from Low Scrubs car park with ice creams and still had a sweat on us but it was so much fun. In June you can watch (possibly insane) folks running up and down the steep slope in a race. Legend has it this virgin experience turns a boy into a man. But that's nothing, when I was about two, my grandfather wheeled me all the way up from Wendover station, complete with picnic hamper, and down again in my pushchair. I wouldn't recommend doing this. My granddad, the superhero!
There are many possibilities of walks that combine the Coombe Hill experience. You can walk for days, for example, on the way marked, eighty-five miles, Ridgeway Walk. Dogs are welcome if kept under control. Look out for the summer-only, chewing the cud, Belted Galloway, cows grazing on the land. They keep the grass low which is important on a chalk hill and as a result the butterflies thrive. They'll leave you alone if you don't bother them. There are no toilets or refreshments unless the ice cream van happens to be in the Low Scrubs car park. I never come to Coombe Hill without paying my respects at the memorial.
Red kites have been reintroduced to the Chilterns and you can watch them hovering and listen to their distinctive calls. The view stretches out as far away as the Cotswolds on a clear day. Look out for Firecrests and Yellowhammer birds, rare orchids, other unusual plants, and the butterflies that flit amongst the rare chalk grasslands. Many people come here to fly their kites and that too makes a pretty picture. Coombe Hill is at the height of the Chilterns and is a place I come to in happiness, and a little sadness, as people I have shared it with are no longer with us but at the same time we celebrate life in this place that is so magnificent.
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30 F.3d 71
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,
Frank Edward ABBOTT, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 93-2529.
United States Court of Appeals,
Seventh Circuit.
Argued April 8, 1994.
Decided July 20, 1994.
Lawrence Beaumont, Office of U.S. Atty., Danville, IL (argued), for plaintiff-appellee.
Elizabeth Caddick, Springfield, IL (argued), for defendant-appellant.
Before CUMMINGS and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges, and TINDER, District Judge.*
CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.
In January 1993, a grand jury brought a four-count indictment against defendant Frank Abbott, charging him with (1) possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine in violation of 21 U.S.C. Sec. 841(a)(1); (2) possession with intent to distribute marijuana in violation of the same statute; (3) possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 922(g)(1); and (4) use of a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 924(c). After a jury trial he was convicted on all four counts. Defendant was sentenced to prison for 262 months on Counts 1 and 3, 60 months on Count 2 (to be served concurrently with the sentence for Counts 1 and 3), and 60 months on Count 4 (to run consecutive to the terms imposed for the other counts), for a total of 322 months. Defendant now appeals both his conviction and his sentence.
Dissatisfied with his trial attorney, defendant presented his own, handwritten, objections to the presentence report. Although never stating so explicitly, Abbott's objections clearly indicated that he believed that the presentence report over-represented his criminal history: he complained, for example, that certain of the crimes used in determining his criminal history points were committed in his youth or were petty crimes related to his substance addictions. He repeated these objections at his sentencing hearing.
The district court apparently shared Abbott's belief that his criminal record as depicted in the presentence report exaggerated the seriousness of his criminal conduct. The court made clear that it " 'd[id] not consider Mr. Abbott to be a villainous criminal ...,' " but instead believed that " 'defendant's prior record illustrates impulsive, alcohol related behavior.' " (R. 83, quoting from presentence report). The court, however, concluded that despite its misgivings about the appropriateness of the sentence, it was not authorized by the Sentencing Guidelines to reduce Abbott's sentence to reflect its belief that Abbott was not a villainous criminal.1 The court therefore adopted the conclusions of the presentence report and sentenced Abbott to 322 months incarceration.
The Sentencing Guidelines, however, permit a district court judge to depart from a recommended sentence if he believes that a defendant's criminal history category significantly over-represents the seriousness of his criminal record or the likelihood that he will commit further crimes. U.S.S.G. Sec. 4A1.3. Because a sentencing court is not obligated to state its reasons for refusing to depart from a sentence within the Guideline range, United States v. Brown, 985 F.2d 478, 481 (9th Cir.1993), this Court would ordinarily assume that the district court's failure to utilize a Guideline provision available to it, indicated that it had considered and rejected its application. Here, however, the district court made it known that it believed that it did not have the authority to depart from what it considered an inappropriate sentence. And since under Sec. 4A1.3 the district court did in fact have the authority to depart from the sentencing range otherwise prescribed by the Guidelines, Abbott's sentence is vacated and this cause remanded to the trial court for it to determine whether a downward departure is appropriate. United States v. Shoupe, 988 F.2d 440, 445-47 (3d Cir.1993) (remanding case where district court erroneously believed that it did not have the power to depart under U.S.S.G. Sec. 4A1.3); United States v. Beckham, 968 F.2d 47, 53 (D.C.Cir.1992) (same); United States v. Adkins, 937 F.2d 947, 953 (4th Cir.1991) (same).
We neither express nor intend to imply an opinion on the propriety of departure in this case. Departure under U.S.S.G. Sec. 4A1.3 is appropriate when a district court determines that a defendant's criminal history category significantly over-represents the seriousness of his past conduct. While the district court has made it clear that it does not believe Abbott to be a villainous criminal, the court may nevertheless find that the criminal history category indicated by the presentence report substantially reflects the seriousness of the defendant's past convictions.
One of the government's witnesses against defendant was Frank Strong, whose testimony tended to support the government's claim that defendant possessed a firearm and used it in connection with drug trafficking (Counts 3 and 4). Abbott claims that Strong's testimony was tainted because prior to testifying he was housed in a cell near Michael Jenkins, a government trial witness who had described his own testimony against Abbott to Strong. There is nothing in the record to support Abbott's claim that this conversation actually occurred, and he offers no indication of how he believes this alleged conversation prejudiced his case. His claim is, therefore, without merit.
Defendant also contends that he was prejudiced by the court's refusal to exclude witnesses pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 615. However, he never moved to exclude any witnesses and therefore waived any argument regarding the district court's failure to remove witnesses from the courtroom. Moreover, as defendant acknowledges, the court eventually ordered the exclusion of all witnesses.
Finally, this Court has considered all other objections to his sentence and conviction made by defendant here and in the district court and has concluded that they are without merit.
Defendant's sentence is vacated and the cause is remanded for resentencing.
The Honorable John D. Tinder of the Southern District of Indiana is sitting by designation
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• Dollar Tree has agreed to acquire Family Dollar for $8.5 billion.
• Family Dollar buyout was anticipated my previous article.
• Investors should consider buying Dollar General.
Shares of Family Dollar (NYSE:FDO) are up more than 8% since my initial piece, "Family Dollar: Let The Bidding War Begin". FDO shares have moved higher following news that Dollar Tree (NASDAQ:DLTR) is buying FDO. Dollar Tree's deal is an $8.5 billion offer, which includes a combination of cash and stock. Specifically, Dollar Tree is offering FDO shareholders $59.60 in cash and about $14.90 in Dollar Tree shares. The total value of the offer is roughly $74.50.
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At this point, I believe a higher offer is unlikely. Activist Nelson Peltz, a major FDO shareholder, has already spoken out in favor of the deal. As of the writing of this article, Carl Icahn has yet to make a public statement concerning the deal. If a higher bid were to emerge, I believe the most likely suitor would be Dollar General (NYSE:DG). Dollar General has previously been rumored to be the most likely to buy FDO. However, the departure of Dollar General CEO Rick Dreiling has made a deal less likely. That being said, with Dollar Tree making an aggressive move to become the leaning dollar store company, Dollar General may reconsider and decide it needs to make a play for FDO. I believe an offer from a financial buyer such as a private equity firm is extremely unlikely because Dollar Tree was able to rationalize a relatively high price for FDO based on potential cost savings resulting from the combination of operations.
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This deal will be good for the entire sector due to consolidation, which means that Dollar General, despite the fact that it is not involved in the consolidation itself, is poised to benefit. Dollar Tree shares have already moved higher on news of the deal. However, it should be noted that large mergers are often difficult and can take years to execute. Some examples of large mergers that have proved difficult include the merger between Bank of New York and Mellon Financial as well as the merger between United Airlines and Continental Airlines. For this reason, I believe Dollar General is the long-term way to play the consolidation in the dollar store industry.
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Entergy (ticker: ETR) had its New Orleans business unit (Entergy New Orleans) declare for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, writes utility analyst Sandy Cohen. The move allows Entergy New Orleans to borrow money from its parent, and more importantly, to allow its parent (NYSE:ETR) become a "debtor in possession" lender, a designation that under bankruptcy rules allows ETR to get 1st priority for getting repaid (and therefore getting its money back) as the company comes out of bankruptcy.
The following article has a good explanation of the issue and news: Yahoo Finance and AP Article on Entergy New Orleans Bankruptcy Filing.
This filing is more of a technical filing, and a pre-emptive filing, to allow ETR (the parent) to safely fund the $400-$500 million its New Orleans subsidiary is going to require to make the necessary recontruction in New Orleans from Hurrican Katrina. Currently, Entergy New Orleans has essentially zero revenue, and its cash reserves will be quickly used (if not done so already).
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I'm trying to grade a quiz application I would like to make. I have a questions model with and ask(the actual question), 4 choices(a-d), and a correct answer(string).
In the view I have the 4 question being diplayed then the correct answer choice (This is just a test for functionality) and then I created a text_field to accept the users answer choice and a button to refresh the index action which has the scoring logic, for now..
--Do I need to put the text_field within a form_tag?
<p>1. <%= h @question.q1 %></p>
<p>2. <%= h @question.q2 %></p>
<p>3. <%= h @question.q3 %></p>
<p>4. <%= h @question.q4 %></p>
<p>Answer: <%= h @question.correct %></p>
<%= text_field_tag :choice, params[:choice] %>
<%= button_to "Grade", {:controller => 'site', :action => "index"} %>
<p> <%= @answer %></p>
Heres the index controller action
def index
@question = Question.find(1)
if @question.correct == params[:choice]
@answer = 'right'
@answer = 'wrong'
Its not really working. The textfield is supposed to take a letter choice like 'a' or 'c' and compare it with the correct answer in the database.
I would love this to work by radiobuttons, but I'm a newbie to rails so I thought I'd take baby steps.
So if anyone can help me with how to fix this by string, or preferably by radiobuttons, I'd really appreciate it.
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Here's how I would do it:
# in app/controller/QuestionsController
def index
@question = Question.find(1)
@grade = params[:choice] == @question.answer ? 'PASS' : 'FAIL'
It will require a named route in your config/routes.rb file:
map.questions 'questions', :controller => 'questions', :action => 'index'
and then, in app/views/index.html.erb:
<h2><%=h @question.question_text %></h2>
<li><%=h @question.q1 %></li>
<li><%=h @question.q2 %></li>
<li><%=h @question.q3 %></li>
<li><%=h @question.q4 %></li>
Correct answer <%=h @question.correct %>
<% form_tag do %>
<p>Choice? <%= text_field_tag :choice %></p>
<%= submit_tag 'Grade' %>
<% end %>
<p>Grade: <%= @grade %></p>
I could give you much more specific assistance if you'd provide your routes.rb file as well as the rest of your controller code. The above answer is not RESTful at all. If that is at all important to you, the routes configuration would be different, as well as the controller code. Also, with RESTful design, you could use a form_for method call in your view, which is more standard these days.
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At the moment your code will ignore the text entered. User input needs to be either posted (via a form & submit button) or via a get (can also be done with a form).
In this case, I'd suggest you put it in the form tag and add a submit button. Add the necessary action to your controller (save I believe in this case), validate the data, and then render the index action.
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I have couple of statements, the pseudo code would look something like this
insert into local_table
crease savepoint sp1
insert into remote_db //using db_link
update local_table2
delete from local_table
Now I am kind a confuse at insert into remote_db statement. Would there be any chance that the commit which is being applied has different affect on local db and on remote db?
The problem statement is kind a complex. the script which copies data from local db to remote db is producing duplicates. After going through investigation, thats the only place which looks suspicious but i am not sure. Would really appreciate if someone can shed light on COMMIT of oracle.
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If you are asking whether the commit could potentially cause duplicate rows, no, that's not possible.
Given the way that distributed transactions take place, it is possible that that transaction would not be committed at all on the remote database (in which case it would be an in-doubt distributed transaction that the remote DBA would likely need to resolve). But if the transaction is committed successfully, it's going to be committed correctly. It's not possible that some rows would get committed and others wouldn't or that duplicate rows that didn't exist prior to the commit would be created by the act of committing.
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i mean if i have to create a method some kind of a: void setOutputStream(PrintStream stream). so the stream variable is an output stream where i'll write my data(which will preferrebly be a String variable). the question is, how it will dynamically determine the outtup stream and correctly write my data there, i.e. for System.out it'll print data on the screen, for file stream it'll write my data to the file. thanks
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I think you're looking for java.lang.System#setOut(PrintStream stream) method. Which essentially lets you reassign the standard output stream programmatically.
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i think,that's what i needed. thanks! – Helgus Feb 27 '12 at 14:28
I think that something is wrong in your question, the point is that the PrintStream itself use a OutputStream that is passed to it when you create it, as you can see here. So you have to pass the correct PrintStream at the method which write in your OutputStream. I think that you just need to do a method like:
PrintStream createPrintStream(OutputStream out, String(or what you want) type);
and then pass the returned print stream to the method which will write on it.
Maybe the factory design pattern can help you Factory Method Design Pattern
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What you want to do is called Decorator pattern. You might want to review this answer (and the thread).
Look at the following class hierarchy (java.io.*Stream)
java.io.Console (implements java.io.Flushable)
java.io.File (implements java.lang.Comparable<T>, java.io.Serializable)
java.io.InputStream (implements java.io.Closeable)
java.io.DataInputStream (implements java.io.DataInput)
Good Luck!
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it describes only File io, but i need another way of implementation – Helgus Feb 27 '12 at 14:25
The idea is the same for all java.io.*streams the entire hierarchy implements the Decorator pattern and this is what you need to do. – aviad Feb 27 '12 at 14:28
You can create a basic OutputStream that writes to a file using:
OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(filename)
You can then create a PrintStream from that using:
PrintStream stream = new PrintStream(out)
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and if i want my function to print it on the screen? how to do it "dynamically"? – Helgus Feb 27 '12 at 14:18
I don't understand the "dynamically" part. If you want to print to the screen, then use System.out, it's a PrintStream object. – Florent Guillaume Feb 27 '12 at 14:26
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It's exactly the example code of the maps API documentation found here:
Google maps API documentation
I have set up an map and it is showing. Next step was showing the marker with geocoding.. But it's not working? Can anyone help me out?
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=AIzaSyAS1COH5SeJCKhZ6i6nTi0Fx2qsdvWbAfA&sensor=false"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var loMap;
var loGeocoder;
var loOptions =
center: new google.maps.LatLng(51.9645, 5.1965),
zoom: 6,
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
loMap = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map'), loOptions);
loGeocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
function showMarkers()
loGeocoder.geocode( { 'address': 'Den Bosch'}, function (results, status)
if(status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK)
var marker = new google.maps.Marker(
map: loMap,
position: results[0].geometry.location
<div id="map" class="search_map" style="width: 220px; height: 240px"></div>
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What does it log to the console? – Pavel Janicek Mar 7 '12 at 10:34
Ideally, you'd post a link to live code--we could easily troubleshoot then. Otherwise, please paste the entire code snippet (not preferrable, but better than the snippet you posted). – andresf Mar 12 '12 at 3:25
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An old question but as I recently hit the problem I thought I would share my solution. I found that something in the Javascript on the rest of my site was interfering with Google Maps. I was not getting any errors in Firebug or Chrome Console so I could not track down exactly what the conflict was.
I found that if I put the Google Map onto a blank ASPX page (i.e. no MasterPage with all of the Javascript and CSS from the rest of my site) that it worked fine.
The solution? I put the Google Map into an Iframe and now it works just fine. If you inspect the source of the Google Map example code, they use an Iframe too so there must be something to that.
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you need to change the line new google.maps.LatLng(51.9645, 5.1965) to var place = new google.maps.LatLng(51.9645, 5.1965); and then use place as center in loOptions . same as in marker also it really works :) And import jquery as well at the start of page.
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Why? You'll just place it in a variable? – pascalvgemert Mar 7 '12 at 10:52
because it is throwing an error that new google.maps.LatLng(51.9645, 5.1965); is not an object – Mayank Saxena Mar 7 '12 at 10:53
Never got that error. Changed it, but still no markers. Btw the setCenter worked from the start. – pascalvgemert Mar 7 '12 at 12:39
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One is Bollywood's uncrowned king of romance, known to strike a pose on streets while singing for the woman he's wooing. The other is famous for making masala action films, where the hero gets down and dirty, beats up a dozen baddies and makes cars fly.
So what can you expect when Shah Rukh Khan (his last release, the Rs. 100 cr grosser, Jab Tak Hai Jaan, reaffirmed his romantic hero status) and director Rohit Shetty come together?
It seems, next year, SRK will don a completely new avatar. The actor's next is Rohit Shetty's action film, Chennai Express, in which he stars opposite Deepika Padukone. Rohit, part of whose fame rests on being the director of Ajay Devgn-starrer Singham (2011), is all set to make SRK perform stunts like he never has before.
A source close to Chennai Express says, "Rohit's films are popular for the action scenes. Whether they are comedies, like the Golmaal series, or they involve hand-to-hand combat, like Singham did, they have masala action, and Chennai Express will be no different. Audiences would never have imagined SRK performing stunts of this sort." Hard as it may be, try to picture SRK in Singham or Rowdy Rathore.
Currently, the film's (jointly produced by UTV Motion Pictures and SRK's Red Chillies Entertainment) 15-day schedule is in progress in Wai, near Satara in Maharashtra. The source adds that the action-packed sequences are currently being shot there.
"Out of the 15 days, seven days have been kept aside just to shoot the action scenes. And this will be raw action. It will have a dash of the south too. Audiences will see SRK do what Ajay Devgn has done before (in Singham, for instance)," reveals the source.
However, this doesn't mean Shah Rukh is new to the genre. His action repertoire includes Farhan Akhtar's Don (2006), Don 2 (2011) and Anubhav Sinha's RA.One (2011).
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"Unfortunately we can't fix stupid. Far too many people go to Walmart and purchase those 99 cent made in china power strips that have no fuses or breakers inside them. They do not even have copper wires, but some cheap material that burns when overloaded.
Then they manage to plug these strips into the 220 volt power points in their cabins.
As soon as they plug a 110 volt appliance into the power strip, the appliance is fried and the power strip bursts into flames."
There may be some validity to what you say, Bruce. However, after making a couple of phone calls to Carnival,at both their 1-800 number and the
Guest Relations number, and talking to three or four people, I think the answer is a bit simpler than that. While I wasn't able to find out how many cabins are linked together on a circuit breaker, or what those circuit breakers are rated for, my guess would be 30 amps, which is sufficient for each cabin's light fixtures and a two or three items that draw a low amount of amperage. Throw in a couple of items (such as a blow dryer or curling iron) that draw a higher amount of amperage, and (sing along with me) "Pop Goes The Breaker". Happens to us every Christmas when the vacuum sweeper is plugged into the same circuit as the Christmas tree. While I wouldn't call that a hazard, it sure is aggravating. And I'm sure the maintenance people on the ship have better things to do with their time than to go around resetting popped circuit breakers. So, to prevent the breakers from being overloaded, Carnival prefers that guests not use power strips or extension cords. I would guess if someone did have a power strip and it wasn't confiscated, that meant somebody (security or the cabin steward) looked the other way. I don't think I'll risk it, and limit the items we take that require electricity.
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How do you know that anything you see is real?
How do you know if what you are seeing on Television is real? How do you know that what you are be shown on the internet is real? How do you know that the conspiracy videos you are being shown are giving you all the details?
But what you do know is how to use common sense to determine what could be real and what might be real and what is likely false.
Sandy Hook happened. In every school in every country there are busy bodies who know everything, especially in the younger grades. Don't you think that someone in the town would think, "Hey, I've never met ANY of the parents who lost kids, and my kids have never even heard of these other kids." Where are those people?
Who did the shooting? Who knows, I don't. Like every has said, we haven't seen the evidence. But then again, we aren't on the investigation team either.
By the way, I've lost someone suddenly and I didn't cry until two weeks later. I remember distinctly, laughing about old memories of him with my siblings. These parents are not acting out of the ordinary for people who are likely still in shock over the loss, still not letting it sink in that their child is gone. YOU ARE HEARTLESS ASSHOLES TO BEHAVE THIS WAY!
Instead of developing INSANE theories of there not being any deaths, or that parents are actors, why don't you focus on something plausible like the multiple shooters, and who this guy in the woods was.
Just because conspiracies exist doesn't mean that everything is a conspiracy. Come back to reality. Start fighting this gun legislation and come out of your mind-warped fantasies.
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You're just cranky waking
You're just cranky waking up.
*grumble grumble*
"It's too early!"
*hit SNOOZE, back to sleep*
"Sandy Hook happened."
Get your sleep while you can I guess.
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EGhost57 use of common sense logic must be attributed to a lack of sleep. Since your power of deduction so quickly determined the cause of this post, I would be truly humbled to hear your insights into what really happened at Sandy Hook.
I'd like to have an opinion,
I'd like to have an opinion, but there's no evidence of anything.
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I'm a heartless asshole then, but I want to see evidence
of THEIR theory. They are the ones who cannot keep their story straight. Leave all the "acting" out of it, there are still huge holes in this story.
If you think the gun ban is important but the exposing the false flag that ushered it in is not, you are missing the forest for the trees.
Love or fear? Choose again with every breath.
You want evidence
that it wasn't a false flag operation committed by the government?
A Google search of "Sandy Hook" will give you 316,000,000 results, much of it reputable reporting about what actually happened. When your done reading that, get back to me if you still find "huge holes in this story" and maybe we can fill them in.
I want evidence of their theory, exactly what I said. Why did
you put words in my mouth?
They claim Lanza shot through the door. Let me see that photo. They claim that there were 2, no 3, no 4 murder weapons with Lanza. How about a photo of the shooter and the murder weapons. They can't seem to count, I'd like to see. Sorry if it is too gory for some, I got hardened after 9-11. I don't like it, but I'll look when it comes down to that or "take their word for it" when they can't keep their own word straight.
I could go on, but there is no point. You go ahead and whine, I'll keep digging for the truth.
Love or fear? Choose again with every breath.
Your not even going to believe a door was shot unless you see photos of the door?
Do you deny the existence of everything that your not holding empirical evidence of?
I'll just wish you God speed in your "digging".
Not everything is being used as an excuse to attack the
second amendment.
And yes, when a mass murder is perpetrated and trotted all over the media as "news" some of what I expect to see is evidence. That willingness to accept whatever you are told is a quality some find useful, I am sure.
Love or fear? Choose again with every breath.
that's what plants say
'It happened. ..you're heartless. .' Blah blah blah
That exact kind of rhetoric shut enough people down they got away with this war
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don't get discouraged from the usual suspects around here...
attacking those with a questioning attitude
lets see:
ref the sly
p.nicholson (the "yellow-bellied cowards" guy)
these, and others, always seem to rail against the freedom fighters and liberty seekers here with legitimate questions and concerns
just sayin'
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9/11 Truth.
I question that.
Yeah that's right. I'm a plant.
Yeah that's right. I'm a plant. You'd eat your own children if they couldn't prove to you they were yours.
You psychos are doing nothing for the cause of liberty other than making all of us look insane.
How do I know you're not the plant? How do we know that the whole conspiracy theory wasn't developed to keep people distracted while they ram gun bills down our throats.
I could show all the evidence I have that I support Ron Paul to the fullest, but you psychos would just say I'm a sleeper cell.
Wake Up!
I was just making a point
And you don't know me thus you shouldn't except my declarations (sandy hook happened.... sandyhook didn't happen) as fact.
You were right to call out the people declaring certain theories as fact, but then made the (plant-like) conclusion that the msm's story was fact. And then made the very plant-like tactic of name calling. Attacking the messager with name calling is much worse to getting to the truth than attacking behavior. I was doing the later.
The best way to cover a conspiracy
it to make outrageous claims that cast doubt on any conspiracy at all. I'm sure if there were no kids killed and this was all a hoax then someone from that school or community would be on the internet right now screaming that it was all a lie.
On the other hand just because the complete hoax theory doesn't really hold water it doesn't mean that the more probable government orchestrated killings view is any less valid. But in the end it doesn't matter one way or the other because just like every other government atrocity we can't prove anything and it will all be forgotten in due time and the only thing that will change, in this case, is GUN CONTROL.
Your faith
in the government being able to orchestrate this is crazy.
Give me one other example of the government doing anything well.
Hello, are there any other libertarians left out there?
the gov is great at killing people
Taking over industries
Using the media to control conversations
Collecting taxes
Hiding legislation
Making us think we live in a republic
Busting unions
Making people work for less (inflation)
You are a perfect example.
You can't even grasp what my post is saying. I never said the government does things well and that is why they rely on disinformation. I guess they DO do disinformation well. But you know that already don't you?
And if you consider disinformation as something they do well then look at Waco. They murdered those people right in front of American eyes on national television. And apparently they did it well.
It is possible to question things too much
You can start to question reality itself like David Icke.
When it comes to Sandy Hook, I don't think the details matter anyway. Let's say that it happened exactly the way the official story has it: one shooter, and all he used was the demonized Bushmaster AR-15. If that is the case, it still doesn't justify taking away everyone's rights. It was an extremely rare tragedy caused by an evil person, not the implement he used. He could have done the same thing with a handgun. A similar death toll could have also come from a homemade explosive, poison, fire, or running over people with a car.
-C. S. Lewis
He did it wth a hand gun!!!!
Watch this link even NBC says that ONLY HANDGUNS were used. If you will watch the second video it shows a police officer removing a black long gun and clearing the action of the shotgun that only had one round in it. That was clearly a 12 gauge shell not a .223 round. That long gun has been identified by multiple people as a Remington 1100 SHOTGUN with a black plastic stock with a pistol grip. Why has this not become common knowledge? Why do people keep spreading the false info that an "Assault rifle" was used to kill the children so we must ban them?
Everybody and most of the media has played into their hands by spreading false information so that the anti gunners can ban all guns. Start advising people of the truth.
How can you be so quick to
How can you be so quick to say he did it with a hand gun? What proof do you have other than the reports which also said he did it with the rifle, that the rifle was in the car, that there were reports of second shooters. The same reporters that interview actors.
Do you yet see how insane it is to use the evidence of the reports to refute the evidence of the reports? In the age of modern reporting they get lots of things wrong.
Or am I wrong, did you see him shoot someone with the handguns?
What proof ...
What proof could possibly satisfy you? I don't think that anything could. I think that anything other than you being an eye witness would eliminate you questioning anybody and anything. This is only one of the many reports that I have heard and seen that say the same thing. I know what it looks like when you clear a 12 gauge shell from a shotgun.It is slow and deliberate because of the weight in contrast to the much lighter and smaller .223 round. I have done it many times. A 223 round is smaller and from that distance you probably would not have been able to be seen it unless sunlight reflected off of it. I know that it would not be in the best interest of the media and the assault rifle gun grabbers to come out and tell the truth. I know that if it came down to saying that only a handgun was used or perpetuating a lie to build emotional outrage against fire arms the media and many others would choose to lie or at the very least remain silent. I have to go in the direction that the truth is less likely to come from the majority of the media in this situation.
Can anyone even prove that
Can anyone even prove that Adam Lonza existed? His "brother" said he hadn't seen him in years. Maybe he was murdered years ago, and they saved the body for this shooting? Maybe his mother is an agent for the CIA and he tried to stop her from committing this mass murder but TPTB went ahead with it anyway?
I haven't heard any evidence to the contrary, have you?
pigs can fly? I haven't read a scientific study saying they can't.
Pigs now have the burden of proof to demonstrate to me that they can't fly.
I don't know
about the epistemological scepticism that is premised here.
But the rest of your post is greatly needed.
The most insidious act I have witnessed resulting from these insane theories is the denial of people's realities. Accusing the whole town of being actors means that they are fake people living fake lives. This is something that occurs in the worst totalitarian regimes, and are NOT libertarian principles.
People are saying that these "fake" people are depicting "fake" grief in video clips. Truly sad. Some of these nuts are even calling these "fake" people up and giving them threats... all justified because they are not fully human.
they WON'T be on TV - I'm sure there are plenty who are asking that, but remember - the families have troopers assigned to them so no one can 'bother' them.
I understand how you feel, but refusing to wake up won't help in the long run.
Or just maybe, these people
Or just maybe, these people don't exist because people DO know these families and these children did die. NO! that's just to crazy to believe isn't it.
Thank you. It had to be said.
And this also has to be said. There are too many unanswered questions that any thinking person cannot ignore. It is the same with Aurora and other events.
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On the morning of September 21st, eight gunmen showed up at a restaurant and abducted the owner's daughter niece in a car. Her family immediately called the army and police. But with the state's poor record of catching kidnappers in mind, they also called their friends and neighbours to pursue the criminals themselves. Some 20 people started giving chase, causing the kidnappers to crash two of their three vehicles and flee on foot.
Half an hour later, a mob then 200-strong found two 17-year-old boys they believed were part of the criminal group and began attacking them. The police managed to get the boys into a car and drive to a nearby army barracks. But the mob had grown to over 2,000 people, and some of its members used trucks to break into the barracks and drag their targets outside to be beaten. In a last-ditch effort to save the boys, federal police officers got them back into one of their cars and closed the windows. But they still died that afternoon. It is unclear whether they suffocated in the car or succumbed to wounds from the beating.
Vigilante justice is endemic in Guatemala, Mexico's southern neighbour, where criminal gangs have long acted with complete impunity. But Guatemala isn't far removed from a failed state, while Mexico is one of Latin America's richest and most stable countries—or at least it has been for the last 80 years. Last year, Mexican officials angrily denounced an internal Pentagon report that warned of the possibility of their country becoming a failed state. But if what happened in Ascensión on Tuesday doesn't count as nasty, brutish and short, I don't know what does. Mexico's murder rate is still modest by Latin American standards. But the drug war's downward spiral is starting to threaten the country's social contract itself.
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#11DarkZV2BetaPosted 6/23/2010 11:43:25 PM
Could be that models are low poly in splitscreen to keep the framerate up.
#12TCJuanPosted 6/24/2010 2:26:49 AM
nice.. but we need the real, real trailer :D
#13naruto3336Posted 6/24/2010 5:14:20 AM
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Just Amazing. Interesting to see that they did not mention Invasion at all. I hope they add a lot of depth to that mode. :)
Image shows 3 lives and score, I think it is invasion mode.
Showing Invasion and Mentioning it are two different things. People who watch that trailer once will never understand that it was Invasion. Only people who rewatch the trailer to see the details would get that. I was talking about the fact that they did not mention that there is a co-op side to the game.
That worried me a bit because it might mean that co-op is not their focus on this game. Personally, I just hope it is a lot deeper than the Horde Mode or Firefight Mode. There should be "wow" moments in each scenarios and something to always keep you engaged. I can't wait to find more about Invasion Mode. | http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/991817-conduit-2/55326298?page=1 | dclm-gs1-270130000 |
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Most serious political experts know that real, documented voter fraud is an extremely small problem. Five years after the Department of Justice under President Bush launched a crackdown on fraud in 2002, it only had 86 convictions to show for the effort. That's .00007 percent of the 122 million people who voted for president in the 2004 elections.
Even if the DOJ's aggressive efforts only caught 1 percent of the actual fraud going on, it would still be one of the smallest problems facing our electoral system. For example, a MIT study last year found that cracks in our country's patchwork voter registration system kept up to 3 million registered and fully-qualified voters from casting a ballot.
So why does the phantom of voter fraud keep appearing? The biggest reason is that powerful forces with very deep pockets are able to relentlessly push the message. In 2010, independent groups with mysterious millionaire donors -- such as American Majority Action, peddler of a voter fraud iPhone app -- have joined with Tea Party activists, Republicans and media outlets like Fox News to bring hysteria about voter fraud to a fever pitch.
The purveyors of voter fraud fear also have decades of practice.
The modern crusade against voter fraud started in the civil rights era of the 1960s, with growing anxieties among white politicians and voters over the growing power of black and urban voters. As historian Rick Perlstein documents, Republicans tapped into -- and inflamed -- these fears with outrageous claims of black voter fraud, which not only riled up the conservative base, but also laid the groundwork for "anti-fraud" campaigns that could depress Democratic turnout. In 1964, the Republican National Committee launched "Operation Eagle Eye," which appointed a "ballot security" official in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
(Sidenote: This is also where future Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist, a legal aid to Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign, cut his political teeth.)
Here's a description of what the Republican anti-fraud program included:
In one state, Minnesota, 'Operation Ballot Security' issued a seven-page single-space private memorandum detailing a variety of methods for challenging voters at the polls, with instructions to discourage helpful judges in Democratic precincts, to cut off waiting lines in Democratic precincts but not in Republican precincts, and to encourage stalling in Democratic precincts while preventing stalling in Republican precincts.
The Minnesota document goes so far as to state its purpose, not as encouraging each American to exercise his right to vote freely but 'to safeguard the investment of time, money, and effort that the Republican Party, its volunteers, its candidates, and their volunteers have made in this election.
As for specific instructions, the Republican memorandum says: 'If any questions or dispute arises, refer to the pertinent authority cited below and when it is to your party's interest insist that the law be followed."
What's striking is how little the strategy and tactics have changed over the last 46 years. For an October 22, 1964 story in the Wall Street Journal, reporter Stanley Penn asked a "ballot security' activists about his plans:
Penn quoted one "ballot security" official as saying he planned to equip his poll watchers with cameras to frighten people into believing that voting irregularities can be photographed. He wrote: "The official notes that even if poll watchers don't now how to use the cameras, potential Democratic wrong-doers may be frightened off."
Today the favored tools are video cameras and iPhone apps -- but they're still taking pictures to confuse and intimidate voters, too. Less than a month before Election Day in 1962, a Republican group in Detroit called "The Committee for Honest Elections" rolled out some other familiar tactics:
* Mail 159,000 copies of a letter misrepresenting the Michigan election law to "high mobility" areas that were predominantly Democratic. The letter created the impression that anyone who had moved 30 days before the election could not vote. It also appealed for informers to come forward and report suspected cases of voter fraud.
* Plan to flood these Democratic areas with fliers that said: "WANTED -- FOR VOTER FRAUD."
* Recruit 600 'challengers' who would use 'Honest Ballot Association' credentials to indiscriminately challenge voters on election day.
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Star Wars The Old Republic is dead.
At least that's what the millions of MMORPG faithful are saying. Even the critics who've seen this all happen before are crooning to the tune of the MMO's death knell.
With The Old Republic bleeding subscribers at an alarming rate, it's difficult to argue otherwise. However, for the sake of this post I'll damn well do my best.
You see, I believe there is a much deeper problem that exists. One that threatens all new IPs that are attempting to break into the subscription based market. It's an issue that exists among the player base, and one which I doubt I will ever truly understand. That is, the need to grind to the end game as quickly and effectively as possible.
Let's face it, the majority of people who play MMOs, play for one reason. They want to grind through the content until they hit the level cap and then grind as much new loot as they can from the end game raids, dungeons and PVP matches.
SWTOR may play similar to it's competitors, but it tells a better developed story.
The grind, of course, is an important part of any MMO. However, it increasingly seems to be the only thing that matters any more. No one cares about the quests they are doing so long as they get the next tier of armor they've been hunting.
The Old Republic certainly sticks to this model, with undeniably less success than it's rivals. Yet, unlike the predecessors from which it took ample inspiration, The Old Republic tried to do something new, something insanely ambitious. It tried to tell a story worth experiencing, and, at least in this player's mind, it succeeded.
I have been playing The Old Republic since January of this year. In that time I have played at my leisure, leveling one character and one character only. My Mercenary is now level 44. Yes you read that correctly. Over the course of more than five months my only character has, as of yet, to even reach the level cap.
Why is that? It's because I'm taking my time to enjoy the damn game. I don't care about grinding to level 50 or going after the best loot. So long as I'm proficiently leveled to continue my class story and side quests, I'm happy to enjoy where Bioware's writing decides to take me.
Voss has some of SWTOR coolest story content. Enjoy the game for what it is.
Having put more than 120+ hours into my Mercenary, I'm happy to play until his story arc is finished, and here comes the truly remarkable part. When I've finished the class story, I have no intention of grinding the end game. Instead, I intend to create another of the eight available classes so I can experience a whole new story.
By the time I've played through every class, I expect to have sunk more than 1000 hours into The Old Republic, long before I reach the end game. By then, I would assume Bioware will have created something to keep people occupied at the end game. If not, then my time with the game will come to an end, and I will leave well satisfied.
Now I know there will undoubtedly be many out there who will just say that I don't understand MMOs. I don't deny that I'm in the minority of the player base. The end game is where MMOs really begin, as most would say. I say differently. Screw the end game. Why not just take the time to enjoy the story that took you there?
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Video games as art: An interview with the Master Games StudioMay 8, 2012 by
In the eyes of many, video games represent little more than interactive entertainment. They are rarely viewed as more than technological advances in play. After all, where is the artistry to be found in a simulation of violence, puzzles or platforming?
The University of Utah made the news back in March thanks to the development of a new controller that provided a unique form of feedback—thumb movement.
With so much effort at the University of Utah's Master Games Studio being put into forward thinking ideas about what video games are and how we interact with them, they have an interesting perspective on the artistry behind video game development.
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with four of the minds behind the University of Utah's Master Games Studio to talk about what art is, how it’s evolving, and where video games fit into it all.
The definition of art has been written and re-written as new media becomes available. As you would define it today, what is art?
Craig Caldwell: That’s a tough one, because [pause]
Sometimes art is defined as a very individualistic point of view, and we look at it more as “how does the audience interact with it.”
I’m not quite there yet.
There are elements that are used—all the art elements, very artistic—but there are specific games that fall into that genre. Parts of the color and the shape and the texture all use those elements, but sometimes it just becomes too personalized when you focus on art. So, we tend to focus more on games, the audience, how people build those games. So I think that we’re still in transition in that area.
Robert Kessler: [waves his hand] Don’t ask me. I mean honestly, I’m an engineer. I’m a problem solving kind of guy.
Caldwell: [laughs]
That is an interesting aspect of it though. Many people criticize the idea of games as art because it is a very technical medium as opposed to something like painting or poetry.
Kessler: Yeah but, I think if you look into things like painting and poetry, they all have very technical elements to it. It’s just that the person on the outside doesn’t think about that. I mean they have a very set process that they go through. They have all kinds of elements that you would consider as an engineer, solving problems. It’s just a different way of looking at the same problem.
Roger Altizer: I think that there are no real core definitions of art, because what’s considered art [pauses]
There are really two ways to look at art. One way is political. There’s this thing we call art and it’s highly valued and put in museums, protected and colleges are built around it. That’s largely a political definition; it’s a community definition. The community says, “This thing counts as art.” And that varies from country to country, so you end up with ideas of eastern art and western art.
However, I think in a general sense you can think of art as humanity’s efforts to express that which is inside. Taking ideas that are inside and making them public. I like that definition because I think you contrast that against design, which is taking things that are outside and organizing them in a way that makes sense inside. So if you want to take something like fine art, like a painter, they have some sort of thing that they want to express and get out to the world. While a graphic designer is trying to take an idea that’s out in the world and make sense of it for a larger public.
So based on that definition, would you consider video games art as they exist today?
Altizer: I think that there is both art and design. Just like you have some paintings that are clearly intended to be art and some paintings that are clearly intended to sell Fords. You also have video games that are clearly being put out there as works of art. People are making an effort to say “I have a cultural critique or an idea I want to express as art” and the video game is that.
I think there are some game designers out there who are pretty blunt in the fact that they are just trying to make something they want to design that’s entertaining. So that brings up two points. Is it the intentions of the artists that matters, or is it about the appreciation of the community?
That’s why I like those two kinds of debates. A lot of gamers would say, “All games are art, there’s just some good art and some bad art.” And then some designers, or game makers would say “It depends on if I intend it to be art or not.” So I guess it really all depends on who you’re asking. On either definition, Roger Ebert is wrong; games are art for sure.
Ebert is one of the people who have openly critiqued the idea of games as an art form. His whole argument is based on the fact that games have “rules, points, an objective, and an outcome,” and so by their very definition he stated that such things disqualify them from ever being considered art.
Altizer: You know, I think he’s got a couple of problems, one of them just being that he doesn’t play games. Games have this sense of [pauses]
Sure there’s a sense of finality for some games; there is an end point, but there are plenty of games that never end. Take Sim City for example. There are modern games like Facebook games that never end—like Farmville. But going all the way back to Sim City. Sim City is a game that never ends. It ends when you’re bored of playing it. It has no concrete goals. Later iterations of Sim City did. Save the townspeople, defend against a hurricane, things like that, but the very first version of Sim City had no concrete goals. It was just a play-box. It had rules, and the player made up their own goals as they went. And so in that sense Sim City is a great example of just interactive art. It’s visually pleasing, it’s got interesting things to look at, to listen to, to touch, but you bring to it what you want. Sim City was designed around this idea of emergent gameplay, and the user brings forward the rules they want.
Sim City Classic was all about the freedom to build whatever type of city you wanted.
Say for example, I’m going to make a city where all of the factories are on one side of the map and all the houses are on the other, because I want a beautiful town where all of the houses aren’t near the factory. The game isn’t requiring me to do that, I’m choosing to do that. I’m making my own way of interacting with it. And so I think in that sense art can kind of inspire creativity, and so can games. In the way that art can bring forward dreams, speak to you and inspire you [with] the things that are already inside of you and make you do interesting things with that information, so can games.
Kessler: One of the things that’s important about games is it’s about the experience. It’s also the case that the experience is important when you’re viewing art. It’s the feelings that you’re getting out of whatever kind of art it is that you’re looking at. Of course you can get that experience in a lot of other forms. You can go see a movie. That’s an experience, what you’re getting out of what you’re being shown. And some of them [art forms] are interactive and some of them aren’t. There’s interactive art too. There’s not just video games.
Caldwell: That brings up a really good question. Because when somebody says art—when somebody asks me if movies are art--my definition today would be no. Because art sometimes, for me, tends to get put on a pedestal. I want an experience I can relate to, and sometimes there are movies that would not be classified as art, but I have a wonderful experience with them. So sometimes art is removed and I tend to lean away from that experience.
Which definition of art applies to games in your opinion? The community's definition of acceptance, or the critics idea of detachment as you just mentioned? Who's to say that Ebert is wrong?
Altizer: Based on the community definition of art, here is why Roger Ebert is wrong.
The Smithsonian is opening up an exhibit on the arts in games and Sundance has games. So from the indie scene all the way up to the most formal museum in the country, they’re all exhibiting games now. So when the artists start saying games are art—they're art.
At what point then, do you believe games will be able to be appreciated by general public as a form of artistry?
Caldwell: I heard the greatest quote over the weekend. Donald Mustard over at Chair Entertainment said that “the real difference will be when the president of the United States grew up playing Mario Brothers, that’s when we know we’ve made that transition.”
Altizer: [laughs]
Video games are a very unique medium due to the fact that they are, by their very nature, interactive experiences. In what way does that change how they are viewed as an art form?
Altizer: Yes, technically games are more interactive, but I think [it's the same] if you look at toys and stories and paintings. People have taken those things and played with them for forever. When you grew up playing cowboys and Indians as a child, those were riffs off of stories that you had heard. You didn’t invent the cowboy; you didn’t invent the Indian, right? So you’d heard some sort of story involving those and then you played with them. So yes you play with games directly, but I would argue that in most all art media.
Roy Lichtenstein's take on the Mona Lisa is an example of art at play.
I mean look at all the riffing on the Mona Lisa for example. The painting’s been used [in unique ways] the most of any painting in the world. That’s play. People are playing with that piece of art that’s been around for hundreds of years. So we just allow that kind of direct interaction. And we own that, I think, in a deeper sense than other art forms do. We bring rules to imagination to allow for a deeper sense of play.
Caldwell: It’s a collaborative form. Generally, the author or the artist tends to create something and you have a passive viewer that may interact with it at a lower level. But here you’ve got the audience actually in partnership with the author, completing that experience. So that changes the nature of it, because of how participatory the audience is with that.
Game developers are often forced to fulfill certain criteria set forth by whatever publisher is paying to have the game made. In what ways do you feel that affects the development of video games as an art form?
Kessler: Do you consider what Michelangelo did in the top of the Sistine Chapel to be art? He certainly had constraints. He had a certain amount of surface area that he had to cover. He had a certain amount of time in which he had to do it.
Corrine Lewis: And he was directly funded by the Popes.
Altizer: [laughs] Yeah, the subject matter was dictated by the popes.
Kessler: So, those were the same kinds of constraints. Sure, ours are different, certainly budgetary. I mean, there are all kinds of restraints that were placed on that. So there can be some kinds of art where a person feels, “Oh, I’m going to go do a painting, or I’m going to go build this sculpture or whatever because I want to do it and just do whatever I’m going to do,” but there’s also those constraints.
Lewis: Yeah, you look at Van Gogh who had absolutely no one telling him what to paint, and as a matter of fact he would actually fly in the face of how everyone was painting at the time. But you put that up against David or Michelangelo’s other sculptures, are they no less art? I think good artists actually thrive under tight constraints.
Caldwell: Yes, there are often art assignments given with specific constraints because that gives you something to push and pull against and make you stronger. A lot of people say, “don’t give me open everything. I need something to work with.”
Altizer: I would also add that, while that is true of commercial games, there are plenty of games that aren’t commercial.
Super Columbine Massacre RPG is a game that will never find a publisher, but it's developer had no constraints and has certainly suffered and benefited greatly for his art.
Super Columbine Massacre RPG will never find a publisher, yet it still exists as a work of creativity.
There are also political games. There’s a border crossing video game that’s very offensive. It will never get a publisher, but it’s someone with a political message that wants to get it out there. So there are people on all parts of the spectrum, from your far left to your far right. They’re making experimental and independent games that clearly aren’t under the thumbs of Ubisoft or EA. Those types of games are still getting out there. They are never going to be in Gamestop, but we’re seeing more commercialization of independent games through services like Steam.
Technology for game development is increasing at a dramatic rate. Games such as L.A. Noire feature new facial video capture that allows games to portray, not just an actor’s voice, but their entire physical performance. In what ways do you see these new trends affecting video games as an art form?
Altizer: I think right now, we’re in the Renaissance of games. Just as in the Renaissance people were mastering perspective and materials, and things like that in painting, I think we’re doing that with technology. So just like in the Renaissance, there was a big push towards realism, we have a big push towards realism.
However, you’re starting to see the hints of push back against that. I think that in the very near future you’re going to see games that represent what the designers want to have, versus what they think the technology can do. L.A. Noire is a perfect example of a push towards realism—a technique that allows you to do realism, but then the step after that with that technology is pure imagination. What can we do that will give us something purely abstract? Just like painting today isn’t about realism while painting in the past was, games today are still about realism, but we’re quickly moving past that.
What are some examples of that more abstract form of design?
Lewis: Tiny Tower. It’s a complete throwback to 8-bit stuff. It’s a hugely popular game and it’s like the developers are just playing with the medium now. They’re finally, actually starting to do different things. It’s the exact opposite of realism. Because, you know, they look like 8-bit characters.
Tiny Tower, with its retro 8-bit style represents a step toward a more abstract view of gaming.
Altizer: But I think that’s just throwback.
Lewis: Yeah but it’s like they’re not trying to get more real. It’s a nostalgia for the original, the way games were when they couldn’t be real, when they couldn’t even attempt to look real.
What about the future of realism? What examples are there of it failing, or beginning to be replaced by more nuanced forms of abstract art?
Kessler: That thing we saw up at Sundance. The news thing. With that head mounted display.
Nonny de la Peña's head mounted display is an attempt to develop virtual realism for reporting.
Altizer: Oh yeah, for sure.
Kessler: I mean, that was a case where they were trying to do something that was real but they couldn’t and it distracted from it.
Altizer: Yeah, I think it was a failure because of that. Well I don’t think it was a failure, but I think it failed to…
Kessler: [interrupts] It wasn’t really a game though.
Lewis: Well that’s kind of why we have the term “uncanny valley,” right? I mean, because we haven’t gotten there we’re still kind of creeped out by that you know?
Where then, do you see the future of video games going? Both as an art form and as an interactive medium? Is abstract art really the future?
Caldwell: The future for games is the interactive part. We may still call ourselves interactive entertainment in 10 years, but the way the game element—what they call gamification—ends up showing up in different things, is going to continue. The web right now is a very quantifiable medium. There’s lots of information, a quantity of information, but it’s going to turn into a much more quality experience in the next 10 or 20 years. There won’t be that clear demarcation going on that we’re going through with television and computers. They’re all merging, and in five years you won’t buy them separately.
Altizer: You know who does it best with the abstract games? The Japanese.
They’ve been doing it for forever with games like Patapon and Katamari Damacy. If you look at the things that Q-Games is doing. It's a western developer but it’s based in Kyoto, so they have the freedom to do really abstract works. All of Q-Games work—Pixel Junk Eden, Pixel Junk Shooter— it's all very abstract. It’s designed to communicate something, but when you look at their spaceship, it doesn’t look like a spaceship. I think Pixel Junk Eden is a perfect example. It’s nothing but plants and light, and the plants don’t even look like plants, but it’s a beautiful thing.
The beauty of Pixel Junk Eden's art is an example of the game industry's more abstract experimentation.
The question about video games and art stems from the debate about video games and art. To be honest, I think that debate’s over.
There are some people today who will ask, “What is the value of art?” It’s important to have those questions still, but that debate is over. We have colleges of fine arts, museums everywhere, and people want to grow up to be something called an artist. Games did six times as much business in Utah as film last year. So this is a massive industry. So from a commercial aspect, and now from a cultural aspect, it’s become so ubiquitous that the only people who are still asking this are people like Roger Ebert who are at the tail end of their careers, and simply aren’t aware of what’s happening in contemporary media.
Thank you for your time.
Altizer: No problem.
Craig Caldwell is a USTAR professor working with the Digital Media Cluster at the University of Utah. Caldwell has a Ph.D. in Philosophy as well as a Master of Fine Arts. He is a 3D technology specialist with experience at Walt Disney Feature Animation and Electronic Arts Tiburon Studio. He has made presentations at conferences such as SIGGRAPH, View Conference and Mundos Digitales. He is currently the Director of the Arts Track at the University of Utah's Master Games Studio, with a focus on story development.
Robert Kessler is the Executive Director of Entertainment Arts & Engineering Department at the University of Utah. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and his publication, "Strengthening the Case for Pair Programming," was selected from among 1200 entries for admission among IEEE's top 30 papers in the last 25 years. He holds numerous teaching awards, and has experience in interactive entertainment, computer science technology, and film.
Roger Altizer is the Director of Game Design and Production at the University of Utah's Master Games Studio. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Utah, and has worked in a variety of positions in the video game industry. From testing on the original Xbox, to pursuing video game journalism for New York Times owned About.com, Altizer has seen his fair share of the industry. He is currently working with a grant project exploring the use of video games and virtual worlds on pain management.
Corrinne Lewis is a professor in the University of Utah's Entertainment Arts & Engineering Department. She teaches Intro to Video Games Studies, and works directly with a number of students and faculty at The Master Games Studio.
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Dastardly Haberdasher's 10 Best Star Wars NovelsMay 4, 2012 by
May the 4th be with you!
"Read something more worthwhile," they say.
Stories about kickass bounty hunter adventures. What's not to love?
9.) The Dark Nest Trilogy by Troy Denning
7.) Outbound Flight by Timothy Zahn
A doomed mission from the start.
6.) The Jedi Academy Trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson
The Jedi Order reborn.
4.) The Hand of Thrawn Duology by Timothy Zahn
3.) The Republic/Imperial Commando series by Karen Traviss
Dive deep into the psyche of a slave army.
2.) "The Truce at Bakura" by Kathy Tyers
Rebel and Imperial alike must join forces against a common threat.
1.) The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn
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Who is the Dastardly Haberdasher?May 3, 2012 by
Well I'm glad you asked.
My real name is Javan Rivera, though I honestly don't care what people decide to call me. Assuming you all aren't total jerks and come up with some unabashedly cruel jape of a name, it's all cool.
I've been an avid reader of IGN for a number of years now, and recently decided to take the plunge and really dig deep into the IGN community. I figure, if I'm visiting this site a dozen times a day anyway, why the hell shouldn't I get to know some people who share my interests?
You'd have to have the intellectual qualities of a brick to not recognize that one of my biggest hobbies is gaming. (I am taking the time to write an introductory blog post on a game-centric website after all). BEYOND gaming, I enjoy reading, writing on a variety of subjects, watching awesome movies and television shows, kicking ass at hacky sack, prop building, and generally getting myself into trouble during my free time.
Having grown up in a less than conventional household, I moved around quite a bit when I was a child. The son of two missionaries, I've been from one end of the U.S. to the other, traveled more miles by land than most will in their entire lives, and made more acquaintances than I could possibly remember.
Despite being a child of the 90's my first console was the Nintendo Entertainment System. I have many fond memories of playing Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros., Contra, World Class Track Meet (Let's hear it for the Power Pad!), and more.
I eventually upgraded to the SNES where I spent countless hours playing and replaying games such as the Super Star Wars series, Super Mario All-Stars, Super Mario Kart, and so on and so forth.
As I doubt you all are just dying to read my entire gaming history, suffice to say I owned a Dreamcast, Gamecube, and PS2, as I slowly caught up to the modern era of gaming.
My current gen consoles include, a PS3, a Wii, a less-than-stellar PC, and most recently, a Vita.
That about sums up all there is to know about me. And of course, if you all are just dying to know more about me, there's always the comments section below.
If you're interested in listening to me blather about games and my writing projects, or just want to shoot the shit, you can follow me on Twitter @Javan_Rivera. I promise, I only tweet about nonsensical crap once every 48 hours.
Hope to get to know you all soon,
The Dastardly Haberdasher.
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Norway's Government Pension Fund Global--the world's largest sovereign-wealth fund--returned a drab 1.7% in the first quarter, stung in part by its holdings of Russian bonds and Chinese stocks.
The returns were the lowest for the oil fund since the second quarter of last year, it said in a report Wednesday.
The 5.1 trillion kroner ($849 billion) fund saw its equity investments--which make up almost two-thirds of its holdings--return 1.5%, while fixed-income investments delivered returns of 2%.
Equity returns were hampered by losses in China, where stocks lost 6.1% on the back of poor economic performance. China accounted for 2.4% of the fund's equity position and was its largest emerging-market holding.
European shares--which make up almost half of the fund's equity holdings--returned 2.4%. Those returns were held back by European companies' exposure to emerging markets, the report said.
Bond returns were crimped as Russian debt prices fell amid the tensions with Ukraine. The value of its Russian government bondholdings lost 9.7%. The fund's Russian holdings were worth 24.3 billion kroner at the start of the year--a small slice of its vast overall holdings.
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H and I had heated and possibly over honest confrontation in counselling, now he is not speaking to me at all
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feelokaboutit Thu 04-Oct-12 16:20:30
We have had two bad episodes like this before when he blanked me for a period of weeks following a bad argument. (Once up to 6 weeks, the other time a little less I think). When I bring this up in counselling he says yes but what was the argument about - as if what I did or said (which I don't agree with as on both occasions I was very angry with him about the way he behaved so it's kind of a swings and roundabouts situation) warranted him not speaking to me for six weeks hmm.
We have been in counselling for a few months now but we have probably been for a total of 6 sessions together so far as often we can't go for various reasons. What has happened is that I have finally been able to say what I find so difficult, and he has basically reiterated again and again that the state of the house is the main issue for him. In fact I think he went to counselling in the hope that the house would become minimalistic and since that hasn't happened he has said that there is no point to going.
However, though I have finally been able to externalise much of what I find difficult, it doesn't actually feel like anything has changed between us.
On Monday I was very honest about how I feel. I have mentioned the possibility of separating several times now but neither the counsellor nor h take it up. Things also got pretty heated and in the same way that h finds so many things so difficult about me (I am apparently childish, messy, a victim, etc... etc...) I have also said what I find difficult (I find h bad tempered, cynical, negative, he bears grudges etc....). At the point at which he was saying that I am such a VICTIM I got upset/angry and said that to stop behaving like a victim would mean telling him to Fxxx OFF, at which he said that I do, every day (not in so many ways but I suppose we are both often distant from each other, in my case because I find him overbearing, controlling, critical and yes bad tempered).
Anyway, sorry to go on, my question is... given that it did get very heated and "over" honest in counselling, do I now have to accept that h is not talking to me at all (I ask him questions face to face and he doesn't answer at all, I can sometimes get an answer out of him if on the phone - these are all logistics questions nothing more) - IS IT IN FACT MY FAULT?????
cestlavielife Thu 04-Oct-12 16:24:30
if the state of the hosue is the main isue why doesnt he keep it minimalistic?
do you ahve children? if so it would be v hard to keep it spartan unless you ahve lots of space and lots of saorage
but seriously - get a few sessions on your own and see how you feel then.
Opentooffers Thu 04-Oct-12 16:30:11
He is responsible for not talking, he is the one showing disrespect. I'm not quite sure why you are trying so hard to still be with your DH, he sounds horrible and desplays a few traits that my exP had - notice he is an ex and life is so much better without all that crap. I'm not the tidiest person either but the house looks far better since I kicked him out of it. It's hard to get the energy to do stuff when your levels get sapped by controlling EA people.
feelokaboutit Thu 04-Oct-12 16:52:17
Yes it's true, I often feel weighed down, especially at weekends when it is just dh, the kids and I.
I think if there were no kids we would probably no longer be together. On the other hand, I have done damage to the relationship as well. I suppose what I find hard is the complete lack of understanding between us.
I am very frightened of what it might be like to only see the dcs (now 6, 8 and 10) only half the time if we went the 50/50 route in the event of a separation. I also don't know why I can't upset the good stuff about h and try to ignore the stuff I don't like. I suppose I am worried that I might really regret any decision to separate. However there are things which I fundamentally don't like about h's attitude to some things and the way our relationship is set up. It's very difficult to know what to do.
feelokaboutit Thu 04-Oct-12 16:56:35
I meant ACCEPT the good stuff !!!
CheeseandPickledOnion Thu 04-Oct-12 16:59:49
Sounds to me like you might want to change your counsellor? Why aren't they helping you discuss these and look at ways to change both your behaviours? What are they doing?
feelokaboutit Thu 04-Oct-12 17:06:26
I don't know, she seems very focused on trying to get us to think about what attracted us to each other in the first place (but that was almost 17 years ago and was partly a physical attraction so in some ways I don't see the relevance, people change a lot, or they come to realise that they don't need to put up with crap!) and trying to find the slightest positive thing which we might say about each other. I think as a counselling organisation they might be very much into keeping people together. In any case, a discussion about separation wouldn't necessarily mean separation itself, but I think it would help us think in a different way rather than going over and over the same ground to no avail.
feelokaboutit Thu 04-Oct-12 17:07:21
yes I think a change of counsellor might be a good thing but I don't think dh would agree, already last week he was saying there is no point in continuing....
feelokaboutit Thu 04-Oct-12 18:49:04
Shamelessly bumping my own thread but also to say that in a way, I don't know where to go from here as we have done the whole not talking for weeks thing as well as the go to counselling and feel terribly traumatised by it as well as by a big argument we had about 6 weeks ago. Now that we are back to not talking I feel as if I have run out of options?
CogitoErgoSometimes Thu 04-Oct-12 18:54:25
Do you not think you're flogging a dead horse? How bad would it really be to not see your children every other weekend or whatever is the norm these days? The counselling just sounds tortured and pointless....
joblot Thu 04-Oct-12 18:57:24
Does he want to split up? Can't imagine any counsellor would advocate not talking. If he won't talk, what on earth is the point of being in a relationship? You're a long time dead. Sounds miserable for you. Just my thoughts on reading your thread.
feelokaboutit Thu 04-Oct-12 18:59:07
It is tortured and repetitive it's true. The thing about not seeing the kids is that it would be more than every other weekend if it was 50 / 50. I suppose we could go down the one day with one parent and the next with the other but don't know what that would be like for the kids. Some people seem to go down the every other weekend and one week kids with one parent 2 days (between monday and friday) and the other 3, and the following week the reverse. What this would effectively mean is that the longest dh or I wouldn't see them is 5 days in a row which feels / seems like a VERY long time.
I suppose as a last resort I could totally empty the house of any of my stuff and see where that takes us. At the very least it would free some energy.
OneMoreChap Thu 04-Oct-12 18:59:39
XW went for weeks not talking to me often.
Combined with other EA it transpires I was suffering DV.
It wasn't my fault.
If you're unhappy, end it.
bushymcbush Thu 04-Oct-12 19:00:09
Not talking to you for 6 weeks is a form of emotional abuse. You clearly want to separate. What is this living situation doing to your children? They must understand at least some of what's going on between their parents (especially the not talking). Honestly I think you should separate, even if it's for a trial period.
Abitwobblynow Thu 04-Oct-12 19:01:00
1. change your counsellor and look for one who is trained, and has experience in, emotional abuse. Ask this question specifically.
2. Read Beverley Engels. FANTASTIC book. Not only does it explain emotional abuse very well, but it doesn't let you off the hook either and teaches you how to call him on every disrespectful thing, but respectfully. It also doesn't magically assume he will respond the way self-help books seem to expect.
3. Find some girlfriends and go for a girlie holiday for 10 days. Haven holiday, whatever, go. Make up some pretend girlfriends, still go. Walk out of the door, and don't worry about the children. He can find out exactly what hard work is when he is multitasking 15 hours/day. See how tidy the house is when you come back!
It is AMAZING how much this complaint (the house is a mess) is SO IMPORTANT to men? I literally got that reason too, for the M breakdown. The need for support, companionship....
riverboat Thu 04-Oct-12 19:08:03
God, 'not speaking to someone' is 10 year old behaviour as far as I'm concerned! I absolutely couldnt stand to live with that. It is in no way your fault!
Kundry Thu 04-Oct-12 19:49:11
Would he really want 50:50 split for the children? Really and truly or would he find it too much like hard work?
I suggest you go and have a few free half hours with some solicitors to see what your options really would be if you separated as they may not be as bad as you are imagining.
quietlysuggests Thu 04-Oct-12 19:54:46
Does he sulk and ignore the children?
I cannot imagine that grown man who is quite content acting like a gigantic arse actually thinking enough of anyone, even his children, to want to inconvenience himself in that regard.
Let him bugger off to a minimalistic apartment all to himself.
OrangeImperialGoldBlether Thu 04-Oct-12 20:14:19
Can you tell us about you and your husband's working life? What kind of hours do you work? Who earns more?
On a practical level, is there any way you could both pay for a cleaner?
ChooChooLaverne Thu 04-Oct-12 20:31:01
Does he do 50% of the childcare at the moment?
What did you do that caused damage to the relationship, apart from be messy? Is it as bad as punishing your OH by refusing to speak to them? I doubt it somehow.
ladyWordy Thu 04-Oct-12 20:38:02
This industrial grade sulking is emotional abuse. So is the criticism, controlling, turning things round to be your fault, and sneering at you (saying you are 'such a victim').
You would benefit from counselling just for you, OP. You don't need permission from H or the counsellor to separate (it's interesting that both parties simply disregarded this point, when you brought it up ).
In terms of access, I'm no expert at all, but haven't heard of a situation where each parent simply gets 50% of the childcare? Because you have to think about everyday continuity for the children, especially such young ones - it's not about fairness to the parents ( if that's the idea behind it).
Also, I think a critical man who gets worked up at the state of the house may not have the patience for long periods of childcare.
Anyway, very wise advice from Kundry above - best to have a brief talk with a solicitor to go through your options. And keep posting here if it helps brew
Fairenuff Thu 04-Oct-12 20:47:14
His ignoring behaviour is abusive, designed to control you. You should not be having joint counselling with this man.
Stop the counselling, find a different counsellor and go on your own. They will help you see how manipulative and controlling he is being. You can then start to think about where you go from here.
garlicbutty Thu 04-Oct-12 20:54:13
Have I got this right? You're in counselling because your husband doesn't like the state of his house? confused
Normal people don't go to relationship counselling about this, they sort out the house.
And what everyone else said about emotional abuse. It's pretty bad for your children to be around this sort of bullying behaviour - as it is for you. He'll be a million times happier as a single man with uninterrupted views of his floor. You and the kids will be happier living like a normal family. Get pragmatic advice.
Good luck!
WorriedBetty Thu 04-Oct-12 21:17:13
Its a bit weird all this - the minimalist/tidy house thing should be examined - what need is that fulfilling? does he get stressed by untidiness/clutter? Was his house at home minimalist and he expected adult life to be like that and is resentful it isn't? is he rejecting an untidy parent?, does he read too many magazines and associate minimalist photo-ready houses as badges of success? Does he see minimalism as 'success' or tidiness as 'success' etc and if so, what is blocking him from working to achieve that? Does he view the house as 'yours' and so is whinging impotently without realising the house is 'ours' and he can get involved in it (and if so why does he feel like this etc etc)
IMHO he is fixing on 'minimalist house' as his expression of what's wrong without explaining how he has come to that conclusion or what affects him about non-minimalist housing, and that is what good counselling should be sseking to unpack.
I would also guess that his silence (if it isn't just angry punishment) could be that because the 'minimalist house' statement is never unpacked and examined he goes away from each session feeling blamed and unheard. Silence could also mean that what he wants to express makes him afraid or that he can't deal with the emotions that will surface if he speaks openly (or that your reaction will be something that he can't handle - eg serious upset, or serious disapproval from you).
That's a bit 'venus/mars' but men do find being constructively negative very difficult
Also dont' forget that hearing 'we must split up' particularly when his grievances he might feel are being unheard is a pretty nuclear hurtful thing to hear and it may be that he finds it diffucult to express his hurt without seemingly increasing the nuclear threat.
That said, he could be being a 'I'm going to make her suffer until she cracks' type - only you will know if that is the case, and whether if you think it is the case you are being realistic or jsut seeking that idea because it blames him the most.
Out of interest, what was the last big emotional thing that happened to you as a couple?
feelokaboutit Thu 04-Oct-12 21:41:54
Thank you so much for all your messages.
I went through a phase of spending too much money which H is/was upset about. In my defense this was around the time that my mother was very ill and then died, now six years ago as well as the years that followed when my relationship with h became increasingly distant and unaffectionate, so I do think that I was trying to comfort myself by shopping. I did not get us into debt, I spent some my savings. Not huge amounts but yes, now I think I was an idiot and though I have spent my savings on good things like holidays for us as a family, furniture for the house, hoovers, the fridge, music lessons for the kids etc.... I have also wasted some of it on magazines, accessories for me etc....
I am a little bit of a hoarder and some of the corners in some rooms reflect this. For example the front room has piles of school papers and kids drawings on the floor along one part of a wall which have yet to be sorted. I find it difficult to get rid of some things linked to the past. Our dining room table often has things on it relating to the kids' schoolwork etc and he is very resentful of this saying he cannot tidy it because I get cross. I only get cross because of the way he does this, saying everything is junk and pushing it all aside.
Dh's mother is very tidy and organised and this is definitely his benchmark. He is also divorced and his first wife was apparently very tidy. When I met h his flat was very tidy. On the other hand, he himself has things he hangs onto and parts of the house which are disorganised due to him so he is not minimalistic himself. I think, however, that he can get rid of stuff much more easily than I can.
The issue of him seeing the house as mine is an interesting one as I am convinced that he sees it as only his and there is definitely a power struggle between us over this. Indeed on paper the house is completely his and I find this difficult. I think some of my "stuff" is me trying to lay claim to some of the territory. H is very proud and very convinced of his opinions which I often find over cynical and negative, judgmental and critical. He also bears grudges against people for a long time. I feel that in this relationship I can only ever be the told off child and this is difficult. I find it difficult to operate with the weight of his resentment and disapproval on my back. Being untidy is something he really disparages and feels ashamed of. I do feel however that there will always be something wrong and this is very discouraging.
I am a SAHM at the moment which I suppose is linked to everything as I feel quite powerless.
I agree that my telling me I have been thinking of the issue of separating is pretty explosive stuff.
There haven't been many emotional things that have happened to us as a couple I don't think as h is very self contained and does not really need me emotionally. We had a massive argument a few weeks ago in which we did explore some issues buy h is always sarcastic and scornful in these situations so though it kind of clears the air, it also creates more hurt.
feelokaboutit Thu 04-Oct-12 21:44:43
"but" not buy! and my telling him not "me"
If he thinks the house is messy, how much is he doing to tidy it up? He sounds like a sexist, abusive prick that you would be best advised to get rid of, really.
Though I suppose it's ony fair to ask: are you a hoarder?
feelokaboutit Thu 04-Oct-12 21:46:55
He does definitely get stressed by clutter. Very easily. To the extent that he said he hated the dvd shelves because there are things in front of them on the shelves and some of the dvds are piled sideways and not put back properly. I think stuff stresses his brain.
feelokaboutit Thu 04-Oct-12 21:48:07
I am a little bit of a hoarder but nothing like the people on TV !! A little nostalgic about and too attached to the past but nothing that couldn't be sorted out.
ChooChooLaverne Thu 04-Oct-12 21:48:22
How is he with your children? Does he punish them in the same way? Does he talk to them/listen to them or is it 'my way or the highway'? Does he have fun with them? Do they like spending time with him?
How much caring for them does he do? I'm curious as to why you assume if you split they would divide their time between the two of you 50/50. Is this how it is currently?
feelokaboutit Thu 04-Oct-12 21:49:01
I think he would tidy it up but by throwing everything away which of course would cause fireworks between us.
AbigailAdams Thu 04-Oct-12 21:51:08
OK he sounds horrible and emotionally abusive. Counselling is not a good thing with him as he will turn everything on to you as your fault. He will use it as a weapon against you. As you are an SAHM it wouldn't necessarily be 50/50 custody as they would want to maintain the status quo with you as the primary cared. So it would more be 70/30 to you I would think. A solicitor would be best to advise.
Sorry for such a brief post I am off to bed. But he sounds like a nightmare and you have my sympathy. Btw my husband sounds about as untidy as you are and I don't treat him like he treats you. It isn't normal.
feelokaboutit Thu 04-Oct-12 21:51:44
He loves the children very much and is very affectionate with them. He does spend time with them. Occasionally he loses his temper irrationally I feel (and the elder 2 will tell him straight away and don't take any crap, he doesn't often get cross with the youngest) but then gets over it pretty quickly.
I think 50/50 would be the fairest thing as both of us would be devastated to have less than that, in fact 50/50 would be pretty devastating!
AnyFucker Thu 04-Oct-12 21:54:52
Joint counselling is a bad idea when there is any abuse within the relationship
As illustrated by this scenario
OP, I agree with your prick of a husband. The counselling is a waste of time.
I think you should end this farce.
SorryMyLollipop Thu 04-Oct-12 22:17:10
My H was like this. He used to get very angry about the state of the house, would threaten to throw all the dc's toys away etc. I got rid 7 months ago. Never been happier.
Would his job make 50:50 childcare an option for him?
amillionyears Thu 04-Oct-12 22:29:43
Could you put some of your stuff that you dont want to throw intp say a spare bedroom?
Are you both about the same age?
Why is the house in his name only.Did he live in it with his ex wife?
By not talking to you,he is emotionally controlling you.
You say he does not need you emotionally,but I tend to think that all adults need another adult emotionally. It is possible that he doesnt properly realise that himself.
What is he saying about the seperating?
allthefun Thu 04-Oct-12 22:30:40
Do you know why he hasn't ended it?
He seems to be the one that is most unhappy with you and the house so what's stopping him leaving?
thetrackisback Thu 04-Oct-12 22:30:52
Oh dear it sounds like torture. I definitely think you need to go to counselling. You have lost your mum and the hoarding may be symptomatic of that. I also think you need to get practical. Get a plan together of what you would do if you we're to separate. Also I think you need to explore with your partner about moving. You've moved into his house you need your house. You might want to hoard less and it might give you a fresh start and a clean slate! I lost my mum six years ago and I recognise in myself I splash the cash to over compensate. The latest example was to go to euro Disney this Christmas to stop feeling hurt about missing my parents. We can't afford it so it was madness but I'm lucky my husband recognised this and either supports my spending ie what the hell or tells me to look at what I'm doing!!
HissyByName Thu 04-Oct-12 22:43:11
I don't know your H, but I do know this:
Not speaking to someone, for any period at all let alone weeks at a time is called STONEWALLING. It is one of the WORST forms of abuse/torture you can inflict on a relationship/partner.
You mentioned he was controlling, critical and derogatory of you.
To me he sounds as if he is abusive.
Counselling where there is Domestic Abuse is always discouraged, the perpetrators use the counselling to get at their victim, and make things worse.
IMVHO, you need to STOP the counselling as a couple and just YOU go, talk about you, your feelings, your anger, your sadness and work out what you are doing in life, why and what you could be doing
olgaga Thu 04-Oct-12 22:58:21
I really don't know where this assumption that children should be shared 50/50 comes from. Does he do 50% of the caring now? If not, why are you even thinking along those lines?
I think you would be better off seeing a family lawyer than another counsellor to be honest.
You might find it helpful to start reading during these long silences:
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garlicbutty Thu 04-Oct-12 23:47:17
Isn't olga great smile
Feel, I don't think you are a hoarder. You've described keeping things of sentimental importance, like children's pictures & writing, and putting stuff in 'nearly' the right place before determining where it should live. I also don't find your feelgood spending particularly irrational. You spent funds that were yours to spend, at a time when life seemed bleak, on things that genuinely did make life better. If anything, I'd suggest you weren't selfish enough for such a time: magazines and accessories are just everyday treats (or should be) unless you mean you bought the company!
I'm very worried that you're so ready to do yourself down. You seem remarkably dis-entitled, even to the point of calling your family home 'his'.
Perhaps your counsellor's inexperienced and takes you at your own evaluation ... which is really his. It's rather sad to read.
Charbon Fri 05-Oct-12 01:44:44
Stop the counselling, because this relationship sounds abusive and couples counselling is never recommended in those cases. Plus, the way you describe it sounds like 'counselling by numbers' where the therapist stays in a comfort zone around initial couple-fit and runs scared of anything outside it, such as requests to separate, or emotions like anger and sadness. In fairness to the therapist however, your failure to keep weekly appointments has probably made the therapeutic experience extremely disjointed and unsatisfactory for all involved.
Stonewalling and silence are recognised bullying, punitive tactics, but victim-like behaviour and childish responses in adult interactions are also relationship breakers. You might both argue about what came first, or whether one set of behaviours breeds the other in response.
From how you describe your marriage, it sounds like it's time to call it quits and agree on residence for the children and the division of assets. If married, the latter is usually much more straightforward and it matters not whose name is on the property deeds. You say he is a very involved parent and so shared residence might be best for the children, but as has been said this is about their rights, not yours or your husband's. If it's deemed suitable for them to reside with both of you (and many couples manage this by rotating a 4:3, alternate weekend arrangement, with reasonably proximate housing) then you will both have to accept some separation from them.
piprabbit Fri 05-Oct-12 02:08:04
I'm so sorry that you are struggling in such a difficult relationship. It is awful that the counsellor you hoped would help you, seems to be failing you ATM.
There is one tiny thing that you said in your earlier post when you talked about spending your savings. When you talked about buying "good" things, you listed practical household goods, things that would benefit the whole family. When you talked about buying things for yourself, you said it was "wasted" money. It almost sounds as though you feel you didn't deserve to have the things you bought yourself. I'm not sure if that is what you have always believed yourself, or if you are reflecting your Hs views on the matter.
Sorry for rambling, I was just really struck by your distinction between "good things" (for the family as a whole - including vacuum cleaners to help keep your home spick and span for your H hmm) and "wasted things" (for yourself).
FairPhyllis Fri 05-Oct-12 02:20:52
If I were one of your children I would be very confused and distressed that my father was not talking to my mother for periods of up to six weeks. You need to end this marriage for the sake of your children.
WorriedBetty Fri 05-Oct-12 02:24:03
Can I just say that my dad is a crazed minimalist/controller of space and my mum a bit hoardery (or a bit 'house should be interestery' - i used to love going into the houses of friends who were really 'into' something and had either paintings everywhere, or books everywhere or records everywhere. i don't like people who have everything blank and empty but who try to make everyone else live like them (Its a truism in my world that the people who have the emptiest tidiest houses want to make everyone be like them.. isn't that sinister in itself??)
My dad sees my mum as personality deficient as he cannot understand why anyone would want to have things they are not going to use in the next five minutes anywhere in the house. He has convinced my mum that she is personality deficient (as so many 'clear desk' people do) because she likes bookshelves, stuff she might use soon and objet d'art around. that to me is really a lack of acceptance that others are different from you.
I see my dad as personality deficient, because he seeks to sweep away personality away from every aspect of his life, and from every room so that it feels like a municipal waiting room (now if that was a style statement I would get it, but its more like a 'airbrush away what makes you you' approach). I see his house as soulless and personality-less.
the point is that he seems to see ways of looking at the world that differ from his as being 'lesser' and that really needs to be gotten to the bottom of.
garlicbutty Fri 05-Oct-12 02:26:32
Pip, I was distressed to read that, too.
Markingthehours Fri 05-Oct-12 02:36:52
If you are married the 'his' house is yours too 50/50 no matter what it says on the title deeds/mortgage
Markingthehours Fri 05-Oct-12 02:37:17
Flimflammery Fri 05-Oct-12 03:16:37
There is a big difference between a marriage guidance type counsellor and a properly-trained therapist. It sounds like your counsellor is out of their depth here and you would do better with someone else, just for yourself.
Also, having the children's homework and drawings etc on the dining table is not being a hoarder - if that were true I think 90% of families would be hoarders!
feelokaboutit Fri 05-Oct-12 07:44:32
So many interesting posts. Thank you very much. I have read all of them and have lots to say / ask / answer but no time now so will be able to respond after home time this afternoon as am going on middle daughter's school trip. Thanks again.
GlesgaRocket Fri 05-Oct-12 07:54:20
Your poor kids.
I grew up with a father who did the whole sulking and not talking to my mother thing for weeks at a time, and it was HELL.
The atmosphere was horrendous, despite my mother trying to act normally, and my 3 siblings and i have still not completely forgiven him for the emotional abuse, and her for putting up with it and making us live that way.
We walked on egg shells around him, and it has affected all of us as adults.
Your husband sounds like an abusive twat, and i'm sorry that you are going through this, but no-one should put up with being ignored and dis-respected and treated like shit. Not you, and not your innocent kids.
Good luck.
My father in law does this sort of sulking thing. It affected my dh terribly and still does as an adult. He spends a disproportionate amount of time and energy trying to break the negative thought patterns instilled in him by his dad so that he didn't act the same way around our son. My heart breaks for you. Being stonewalled by the person who's supposed to love and care fort you most is just horrible
Abitwobblynow Fri 05-Oct-12 09:47:23
To talk about separating without actually doing it is very emotionally abusive, and it backfires in that the other person gets even more defensive.
So take a deep breath and start to unpack those issues (well done for owning it). If you take responsibility for stuff you KNOW you do, you are growing as a person irrespective of him. I recognise the paper thing, and think depression has a lot to do with it.
I would definitely explore a different counsellor, and do buy that Beverley Engels book.
I think coming to terms with the fact that you are not heard and you are devalued, takes much longer than people think. It is so drip drip drip that people get lost. And you can only take steps (job, courses, separation) when you have taken the focus off trying to get him to [do stuff, change] and back onto yourself, to develop a sense of self and work out what he is doing (dismissing devalueing, criticising) and holding onto the knowledge that that is his stuff, not yours. This is hard work and it takes time.
MadBusLady Fri 05-Oct-12 10:33:28
There are two totally separate issues here for me.
The sulking/silent treatment is just awful and destructive and I wouldn't stay around it for five minutes now. I once lived with someone very like you describe your DH - sulky, negative, cynical, contemptuous towards me - and it was shit. I should have got out sooner. He's probably making someone else miserable now and I feel sorry for them, I really do. These pathetic miserabalist types never change, there's always stuff wrong with them, their partners, the universe... I also think someone who goes to counselling believing its purpose is to "fix" the other person's faults is probably beyond hope. It's a repellant, self-absorbed attitude and I'd be reconsidering the future for that reason alone.
The second issue. The man I mention just happened to also to be slightly hoardy. And it did stress me out, and I hated it. He would freak out if I tried to tidy up and have a go at me for doing it "wrong" and that was one of the many things he did that made me feel shit. Before anyone starts on me for being a soulless neat-freak, my homes have always been crammed with pictures, books, colourful furniture, plates and ornaments (some of them, gulp, in front of other things) - all that is fine. I just hate "temporary" clusters of more random stuff that should have somewhere to belong, and I would really start to get uneasy if things were being "kept" on the floor. Homework on the dining table is obviously totally normal, but things like "piles of school papers and kids drawings on the floor along one part of a wall which have yet to be sorted" would bother me, I'm afraid, if repeated in all the rooms and never tackled. So I wouldn't see someone as necessarily being a "minimalist" for not wanting to live like that.
I've hesitated about writing this, because I am NOT defending the stonewalling, but I do think I know where he's coming from just on the clutter issue. From what you say about the rest of his attributes, however, it might be irrelevant now. He's reacted so poorly to the perceived problem that I'm not surprised you're not disposed to be sympathetic about it. There's not really anything you can do with someone who has a problem and isn't prepared to be constructive about asking for help with it.
Twitterqueen Fri 05-Oct-12 10:45:10
Where to start....
Why is it a 'waste' to buy yourself something nice? A little more self-esteem is required methinks.
He sounds exactly like my ex - and that's why he is my ex. It's all about power and control.
Mayisout Fri 05-Oct-12 14:34:45
I kept the DCs paintings and drawings but only say one or two each year. They are adult now and not really interested in them! But they only take up one small box. You only need the odd one to look back on and laugh.
Abitwobblynow Fri 05-Oct-12 14:59:05
How about that, OP? Spend 1 hour tomorrow going through 1 pile - and keeping the two best?
How do you eat an elephant? 1 bite at a time. So break it down into small chunks, feel the fear and do it anyway. Just one hour, tomorrow, on one pile. Even if it is choosing definite chuck outs!
MadBusLady Fri 05-Oct-12 15:07:32
I don't think the possible slight hoarding tendency is really the OP's main problem at the moment. Her main problem is she's living with a twat who won't be constructive and nice about something he wants changed.
Mayisout Fri 05-Oct-12 15:10:19
No, it's not her main problem but it's hard to deal with the main problem if your mind is being distracted by loads of lesser stuff.
MadBusLady Fri 05-Oct-12 15:13:14
I'm not sure the OP's mind really is being distracted by this though. He's the one who has a problem with it.
BalloonSlayer Fri 05-Oct-12 17:47:41
Interesting that you write: "we are back to not talking."
"WE" are not back to not talking, HE is back to not talking.
It's not you doing this.
Abitwobblynow Fri 05-Oct-12 20:17:42
I know MB, but she very bravely and honestly admitted is was a bit of an issue - showing instantly she is more prepared than her H to deal with stuff, and this (not him) is the key to the rest of her life.
Bubblegum78 Fri 05-Oct-12 20:31:14
The thing that strikes me about this is the unwillingness on both sides to simply DO SOMETHING proactive to sort this out?
If he needs a tidy house, why can't you do it? You are a SAHM, I know you are busy but I work full time, and I keep a tidy house aswell as cooking, washing, homework ect... are you struggling because of depression? If so, maybe a GP's visit is in order?
Why is he not helping you? If you are struggling and have voiced this in therapy why is he ignoring you?
Not speaking to you for 6 weeks is appalling for both your self esteem and your children's.
You both need to sit down and work out if you actually WANT to be together anymore? It sounds as if you are only together because neither of you want to be alone?
The therapy is clearly not working, I would suggest you find another therapist and go alone, one you can effectively communicate with, someone who will work with you on working out what you really want, what your fears are and work on building up your self esteem so you can make some clear choices.
Neither of you are happy, that much is clear.
I hope I have understood your situation correctly, appologies if I have mis read the situation. xx
garlicbutty Fri 05-Oct-12 23:39:03
You know, the tidy/untidy thing isn't the issue at all. It's a symbol of the battle for power this marriage has, sadly, become. If feel suddenly became The Neatest Housewife In The World, her husband would find some fault to keep justifying his tragic need to keep his wife subservient. I should imagine OP maintains her little pockets of sentimental disorder out of mild desperation not to give in entirely. It's all symbolic. Even your paper stacks, Feel, are representative of the family life you hold so dear and which your small-time dictator of a husband wants to keep ranged on a shelf, for display purposes only.
As so many respondents have felt a need to advise on domestic order, I'm going to damn well have my say. This is one area in which I'm perfectly well-adjusted, thank you very much, and I'm speaking up for the non-obsessed masses! You're all bonkers! Yes, all of you. I currently live in what some would call squalor. I've also lived, at other times, in pure expanses of white and glass. Both - and many others in between - have been of my own choosing. I fit in with what's available, affordable and achievable. I feel happy to come home, no matter which state of dis/array my home is in. If any partner saw fit to tell me how to live, I'd refer him to the Serenity Prayer.
Please do not focus on poor Feel's filing techniques, when this is only a symptom of a symptom of the real problem.
toptramp Fri 05-Oct-12 23:47:43
He sounds like a sexist mysoginistic wanker; he thinks you are a domestic appliance. Why the fuck is a minimalistic home all down to you anyway? If he's that fussed get him down to the dump/ Ikea pronto. What a cock.
garlicbutty Fri 05-Oct-12 23:50:11
Beautifully summarised. toptramp grin
toptramp Sat 06-Oct-12 00:05:48
I mean why the fuck is it up to us to keep a tidy house. This is why I count myself lucky living alone; there is noone to tell me what an untidy slut I am. Like I said; he's a cock. If he has standards he should bloody well pull his finger out and help you to sort out YOUR space togather. I would dump op. Not that easy I know.
toptramp Sat 06-Oct-12 00:07:55
I personally couldn't bring up kids in a sterile envirnoment; not possible. I love a clean house but with kids; standards have to be lowered.
Mayisout Sat 06-Oct-12 00:22:00
Absolutely, but while he can whinge about this, and Feel has some emotional issues attached to the tidying issue and is being made to believe that this is the issue, if she (with his help - why not?) tidied up, that would be out of the way and, assuming he found another reason to flagellate poor Feel she would be quick to realise that the relationship is unsaveable and be more motivated to move on.
But meanwhile it is an issue which can be dealt with much easier than the real issues and there is no harm in the OP moving forward slowly while she finds her feet and unravels the problems.
feelokaboutit Sat 06-Oct-12 10:55:25
Hi again. Thanks for all your thoughts and information.
I think I do need to clear the decks of all clutter as that will release energy into my situation and will help me / us to see more clearly. The problem with this is that I spend a lot of time feeling hopeless / without energy or worrying. My Dad told me I have lots of "potential" but am distracted by "emotion", I kind of know what he means!
I am sure the dynamics between h and I relate not only to the present but to both of our pasts. Not sure there is any point in trying to go down this road with h though.
I didn't exactly say that I wanted to split up in the last session but I did say that I thought that if we didn't have kids we would probably no longer be together and so in this case, how could we go on to make a relationship from this point? I also said that it was possible that if we lived separately without the "burden" of blame and who does what etc.. etc.. we might actually discover that we wanted to spend time together for the sake of just that: spending time together. I wanted to open the discussion to include these sorts of things but the counsellor concentrated on other stuff and h made a comment about me "analysing" too much.
Anyway, I think we have both damaged our relationship but I do find h difficult in lots of ways. I think I want a touchy feely communicative relationship and he wants me to do certain things. Even if I did all of them I think he would still sit on the sofa every night not communicating. I know why we got together but there are also lots of ways in which we are incompatible. He is 12 years older than me and kind of had his life totally set up when I met him. I on the other hand have never been completely independent and have this yearning to prove to myself and others that I could manage.
H probably feels betrayed. He is very annoyed that I have talked about him to friends and family members and on here. When I point out that all this started in the other long periods of being ostracised (of which there have been two), he then says but yes what was the initial argument about ??? I think in a way there are few points of emotional agreement between us. Again my Dad said that he thinks he is not the kind of person who is particularly interested in how other people feel but that he is not a bad person. I do agree with this to an extent. He (h) has always worked hard and is very much a doing kind of person. He is also very proud and at some point will decide that he no longer wants anything to do with certain people because of x, y and z which is what I think has happened between us.
So my question now is, how do I pull myself out of this weirdly humiliating state of not being spoken to and to feeling like a very naughty child, to having enough energy to get rid of clutter and really look after the house?
I suppose the counselling hasn't taken us where I wanted to be - both of us more honest and open, but at least I have had a chance to voice the things I find really difficult...
Fairenuff Sat 06-Oct-12 11:05:42
Ask yourself this question. What does he get out of ignoring you? What is motivating him?
It's difficult to maintain anger, resentment, whatever for six weeks. It's not natural. As humans we experience feelings as a continual momentum. Emotions come and go. No-one stays excited for six weeks, or disappointed for six weeks, or angry for six weeks. It would be exhausting.
He is manufacturing this. Doing it on purpose. Working hard to keep it up.
But for what? Why is he choosing this behavioiur? What's in it for him?
I know why, but I'm wondering if you do.
springyhope Sat 06-Oct-12 11:21:18
Your dad and your H sound all of a piece in some sense. YOur dad's view that you 'have lots of potential' - well, I was going to say 'is he your dad?' LOL but you're not a kid and it sounds like a school report, an evaluation. The implication is that you're not up to scratch, there is an inherent fault in you, and Need To Try Harder. Just a thought.
Your husband stonewalling you is to get you to behave. When you talk to him about why he is stonewalling you, why you spoke to other people when he was stonewalling you, he refers you back to the original argument ie he justifies punishing you until you learn to behave.
I would suggest you do The Freedom Programme , just to get an idea of how controlling men work and what is going on in their heads (you will also meet other women in the same situation which is in itself a great help and breaks the isolation of being on the end of a relationship like this). It's good to have this invaluable info in your armoury.
Go to counselling alone - the counsellor is not adequately trained to deal with what is presenting itself between you both by the sound of it and, anyway, you are being abused in the sessions by your H.
Its impossible to tell what is really going on with the 'mess' in your home because the view you are presenting in your posts may be the view he has, or it may not - impossible to tell. I would find a messy housemate very difficult to live with as I need things to be ordered, but I'm not mrs cleany and you wouldn't know I like things ordered to look at my house <arf> . Standards are different with different people but I don't think this is the central issue.
What is clear though is that your poor, poor children are living in this hell-hole. Please don't underestimate how appalling this is for your kids, a living hell. (I'm not going to hold back on how awful, awful, awful it is for them, I'm sorry). Please get them out of it as soon as possible. YOur husband's stonewalling of you will be creating unbearable pressure on them and, as he feels perfectly justified in doing it (though probably quite surprised how long it takes to get you to heel), it's up to you to rescue them.
just as an aside, get some work outside the home if you can - paid or unpaid. It helps to bring some balance into your life when you've got him going to great lengths to define your life and who you are.
feelokaboutit Sat 06-Oct-12 13:36:05
Yes, I do sometimes think that there are similarities between h and my Dad. My Dad was definitely of the "you could always do better" variety when my sister and I were growning up, and I probably subconsciously chose h because the feeling I get from him is a similar one.
In the past h has said that when he stopped talking the other times it's because he no longer knew how to deal with me (or words to that effect). I suppose that if things have got so bad between us that thoughts of separation are being bandied about, h might have got to the point where he no longer feels there is anything to say. I suppose that what I am trying to say is that if I were to now say, okay, let's start some kind of separation procedure, he would in no way meet me half way, I anticipate that he would probably not say another proper word to me for the rest of my life (apart from what he might have to say because of the kids).
I think he thinks I have been disrespectful because he does work very hard and shoulders money problems. I on the other hand, living the life of the "child", never see any paperwork (h is not mean with money so I don't mean it in this way) so am not in charge of any knowledge, iyswim. I would definitely like to be more in control but somehow h and I are not able to do this together.
Anyway, rambling on now. I think in a way, the way he wants things to be and the way I want things to be are somehow incompatible.
feelokaboutit Sat 06-Oct-12 13:37:00
Agree about the work outside the home. I already do / have done quite a lot of volunteering at my kids' school but the step from there to getting paid work seems to be a big / difficult one.
garlicbutty Sat 06-Oct-12 13:39:10
Very wise post, springy.
Feel, your last post shows quite a bit of clarity on where your husband's coming from and why you put up with him (willingness to believe your father's assessments of emotions as a nuisance). I agree with Springy that the Freedom Programme will open doors for you, especially in terms of your manner of thinking about these issues, and that a job or something similar will likewise enhance your perspective.
Have you heard the saying "You're down a hole and growing flowers in it"? It refers to the tendency some people have (me, too,) to work harder on making an intolerable situation more palatable than on getting out of it! I don't think tidying your clutter will release energy; I think it will sink yet more energy into the minutiae of H's complaint. If the stuff's bothering you too much nowadays, how about getting some nice, big boxes and labelling them broadly: something like "Children's artwork"; "Mummy's Stuff"; "Guarantees & Manuals" (whatever each pile represents) and tidying them away wholesale? Put the boxes in a cupboard for incremental filling as time goes on.
Then clear your mind by following Springy's advice.
feelokaboutit Sat 06-Oct-12 13:40:55
Sorry, also forgot to say that I have been seeing a one to one counsellor for a year now but am due to stop at the end of October. This is what helped me feel strong enough to try to get h to come to joint counselling, and I definitely feel stronger in general than I did a year ago.
On Monday I will go to the joint counsellor by myself and tell her that I can't go anymore. In any case I don't think h will come again which is sad really (also am too "scared" to ask him when he is being so cold) as it is just at this point, when the not talking has started again, that we would benefit from going together.
feelokaboutit Sat 06-Oct-12 13:42:24
Yes garlicbutty, have been thinking of doing just that but possible even putting it into storage for a short while if I can find something which isn't extortionate.
garlicbutty Sat 06-Oct-12 13:42:49
Cross-posted with your last.
No wonder you feel somehow helpless! He's infantilised you quite thoroughly. What kind of volunteering do you do at school? Have you ever been into a temp agency to discuss which of your skills are marketable?
feelokaboutit Sat 06-Oct-12 13:42:55
Then at least the decks would be cleared without me having to go through months of painful sorting while feeling anxious anyway.
feelokaboutit Sat 06-Oct-12 13:44:35
Teaching assistant kind of stuff. In fact there is an agency which my kids' school does use but for various reasons haven't put myself on their books. I think I would be more likely to do teaching assistant work through them at the beginning. I suppose that at 43 I feel I don't want to be judged to be "too old"....
garlicbutty Sat 06-Oct-12 13:47:29
It's really good to see that your individual counselling has given you back some of your strength smile Congrats on deciding to stop the "joint" counselling!
Dependent on where you live, it can be cheaper to rent a garage than a storage facility. Storage rentals are going down all the time, though.
garlicbutty Sat 06-Oct-12 13:49:24
I have no idea whether ageism kicks in at 43 for teaching assistants ... How about asking the agency?!
Have you thought about studying for teaching qualifications?
feelokaboutit Sat 06-Oct-12 13:50:54
Thank you for your support.
I suppose part of me feels guilty that in fact I might be so desperate for the independence that I have never had (not anyone's fault but mine this) that I am willing to sacrifice family life in order to get it.
feelokaboutit Sat 06-Oct-12 13:54:41
Well, I have definitely seen TAs who are older than me working at the school. I don't think it's ageism exactly but more that they might feel more comfortable employing people of their own generation (generally in their 20s) for jobs which they might do for 2, 3 or 4 years before leaving to do something else or indeed training to be teachers. I can seen from the way that some people approach me that I am no longer a "girl" (obviously grin) and so they would assume that I am all sorted, in fact, what they don't realise, is that I need to start at the so called "bottom" somewhere.
I am scared of the whole getting into teaching thing for different reasons, but I have thought about it. I suppose becoming a TA might be a slow route into teaching. I definitely am very happy being in school.
Fairenuff Sat 06-Oct-12 13:59:01
Not too old. As long as you are kind, patient, personable and like children, you will be the sort of person they look for. I would recommend an NVQ 2 teching assistant qualification as a minimum.
Personally, I would not do anything about the clutter whilst he is stonewalling, simply because it's a bit like 'giving in' to his behaviour. It will only encourage him.
Instead, I would pointedly sit in front of him reading 'Divorce for dummies' or 'Living with an abusive man' or some other such material which will give him a message and prompt him to break his stonewalling.
But ultimately, it doesn't sound as if this relationship is going to work out well for you.
garlicbutty Sat 06-Oct-12 14:02:23
No, listen to what everyone else has said. Refer to what you know about child development and family life: this model of withdrawal as control, and of blaming others for problems caused by one's own withholding, is very damaging to your children's future and to your own development (which has, to an extent, been arrested by H's rigid management).
One valuable lesson you can teach your children is that grown-ups are able to assert their independence and take charge of their own lives. I bet they'll really enjoy life without a silent storm hovering round every corner! You wouldn't be sacrificing family life so much as improving it ...
feelokaboutit Sat 06-Oct-12 14:02:29
I have got a qualification which is apparently (according to the OU which is where I did it) equivalent to an NVQ4 - the course lasted 9 months and was called "Supporting Learning in Primary Schools" - I had to volunteer in school and write some of my essays in relation to the children I was volunteering with. I did have an interview for a TA position at my kids' school last term but was told that, though I knew my stuff, I didn't have enough experience. Which is I suppose where the getting a job through the agency comes in. Thanks for your reassurance that I am not too old! smile
feelokaboutit Sat 06-Oct-12 14:05:19
Well, to his credit, he doesn't ignore the kids and they generally love him and get on with him though he can lose his temper unreasonably sometimes. I totally agree, though, that the model of a relationship we are providing them is pretty dire sad. Definitely agree that h has a rigid side to him!
Fairenuff Sat 06-Oct-12 14:09:07
I'm not even sure how the ignoring works though. Do you still cook for him and stuff? Does he never feel he needs to speak to you about anything? If you hid his car keys, would he ask you if you'd seen them, for example?
It all sounds extremely tiring and childish.
garlicbutty Sat 06-Oct-12 14:14:46
smile It's all looking positive on the teaching front smile
I thought you might like to know about my sister who is a librarian. Her house is brim-full of paper; it's everywhere. She says she'd like to live in a library! What she means is that her ideal house would be ranged with shelves and cubbyholes. Paper is not clutter to her: it's thoughts and ideas. Of course she won't throw them away! She's right to keep them ... and is, very gradually, creating an utterly unique library of her own smile
I'm quite envious, actually. I'm a chucker-outer but I love the sense of having all one's memories around in tangible form.
Doha Sat 06-Oct-12 15:42:55
If my DH was ignoring me l would not be doing any of his washing or cooking.
Until he treats you with common courtesy and respect he cannot expect to be considered or looked after at home.
This in no way fro you and your DC's to live. As hard as you may try there is no way that they annot be affected by the atmosphere around them.
Tell him to grow up or ship out, you don't need another child in the family
springyhope Sat 06-Oct-12 18:34:39
You seem to have got the message that you are a bad girl, and you feel guilty for not being able, quite, to pull off being a good girl; to the point that you want to break away to be happy because you can't attain the standards that are presented to you. Have you thought that maybe the standards presented to you are absurd? You'd think the men in your life were training a horse. It is absurd that at 43 your father is pronouncing that you 'have potential'. 13, maybe, but not 43.
Perhaps you underestimate the appalling model your marriage is presenting to your children - it is not 'pretty bad' but truly dire: your children will go on to replicate what you are modelling (as you have done, if you think about it..); the girls, most likely, desperately unhappy with controlling men; the boys, in all probability, training their women to behave. It is no life.
I'm afraid I don't 'give him his due' for talking to the children. He is modelling loud and clear that their mother is an idiot who needs to behave. They will be taking that on at a deep level.
Abitwobblynow Sun 07-Oct-12 18:55:47
Feel I am in your position at 50...
I also need to warn you that once your children start asserting themselves, they too will be treated this way. My children are teenagers, so are starting to have some adult opinions? They go down as well as mine do.
So do their more adult needs. I paid for my DD's first car, out of my benefits. Not ££££££ him, who had just bought HIMSELF a snazzy set of wheels.
I would agree to sectioning, submit to ECT if it meant I stopped mistreating my children and became a better parent. I would. They didn't ask for life, I brought them into this world and I have a duty of care towards their soul 'formation' that is flipping sacred.
I will never get how people cling onto their defenses before anything else.
redadmiralsinthegarden Mon 08-Oct-12 09:33:52
my xh has very unrealsitic expectations of everyone - but especially me. i think he wanted to have married his mother, or a Stepford wife! Nothing I did was ever 'quite right'. he wasn't massively controlling, but it was the little things that wore me down, and i ended up feeling very uncertain about my own abilities.
we split, and share the dcs. it was such a relief - i have regained my confidence! and i see very clearly now how wrong our reltationship was.
feel, i think you may feel the same, if you made the move and split.
springyhope Mon 08-Oct-12 15:40:15
Abit - please tell me you're not still with him.... sad sad . I find your reference to sectioning/ECT very upsetting..
With my teenage kids, it went two ways: he started on them - particularly my daughter (woman, you see; needs to know her place). He also got them to come around to his way of thinking: that mother was an idiot who needed training. Kids don't necessarily go with wisdom when the pressure is on. He was the powerful one, they went with him (for the timebeing......)
amillionyears Mon 08-Oct-12 19:15:29
op,try reading the book Why Women Talk and Men Walk.
It may not solve all your problems,but it should help shed some light on why your husband is acting in this way.
amillionyears Mon 08-Oct-12 19:18:49
Do you think he is right when he says he doesnt know what to say when you have had arguments.
My DH is rather like that,especially when we first got married.
I realised after a few years that I was always the one to try and fix a row.It took me a few more years to realise that was because he had no idea how to fix them. He was willing to fix it, but just didnt know how.
springyhope Mon 08-Oct-12 19:23:54
million, this is an entirely different ball game to the one you describe I think sad
amillionyears Mon 08-Oct-12 19:42:18
Do you think so?
I am not sure.
Her DH has not left her,or as far as I can make out,has not asked for a seperation.
I dont actually think he wants one.
I think they have lost their way along the marriage.
op,what were things like when you first got married. Was it hearts and flowers? Did you both kiss and cuddle?
Abitwobblynow Mon 08-Oct-12 20:11:23
Sorry Springy, I was being silly and dramatic and shouldn't have used that imagery. Sorry blush
Million does have a point, in that when people do not feel safe, their defenses absolutely rise and conflict is inevitable.
springyhope Tue 09-Oct-12 08:12:01
Out of the heart the mouth speaks, Abit. I don't think you were being 'silly' - it indicates how far out you are in your head iyswim? sad
No, this man is controlling you OP. Nothing to do with general dysfunctions that go on in a marriage - your husband specifically aims to control you and is not 'distressed' about it but entirely convinced you (and women) need controlling.
ChooChooLaverne Tue 09-Oct-12 10:35:50
feelok Forgive me if I have misunderstood, but it seems to me that you are deliberately ignoring any comments that address the controlling abusive bullying nature of your husband - even though from your descriptions of his behaviour it seems obvious that is how he is.
You appear to want to take responsibility for the problems in your marriage which seem to be entirely caused by him. You are still talking about you have BOTH damaged your marriage but when asked what damage you've caused you've mentioned spending some of your money and being a bit messy. Seriously, you need to think about why you are so willing to see him as being a good man when it seems blatantly obvious that he is anything but.
Do you think in some way you are choosing to be messy so he's got a reason to be cross with you because after all if you tidied away the mess and he still was cross with you then you might have to admit that your problems go deeper? (I am a self-confessed messy person and I don't think that has anything to do with your situation)
He is choosing to punish you. That is not nice behaviour.
When you talked about separating you said you think he deserves 50% of your children's time, when it doesn't seem as though he cares for them 50% of the time and you said he gets unreasonably angry with them. I think you should be thinking about any split solely from your children's perspective and what is best for them, not what is best for your husband. How would you feel if he starts stonewalling them because they're not complying with whatever he wants them to do, no matter how unreasonable his demands? Do you think that is good parenting? Would being with him 50% of the time be good for them if you were to separate?
I think you are desperate to believe he is the person you would like him to be and are refusing to hear anything different. Am I completely wrong?
Abitwobblynow Tue 09-Oct-12 11:36:23
I really think that Choo Choo has got a good point here.
However: I got told by IC yesterday, that I AM 50% to blame for the problems in the marriage.
Why? Because, (like OP and like wives everywhere who are desperately trying to manage something they have no control over,)
I allowed it. There is ALWAYS the complementary position.
So basically, when MN says 'leave the bastard' they, according to my IC (not that he knows about my addiction to MN), have a very good point!
feelokaboutit Tue 09-Oct-12 12:38:04
Hi all
Redadmirals - can I ask you how old your children were when you split up with your husband, and how access works for you? And whether you find it very difficult to be apart from your children? I reallly wonder how that would work. The counsellor (when I went by myself yesterday) was being very negative about divorce saying, in parts, that it changes the children's relationship with both their mother and father - I am not totally sure what she meant by this but I also suppose that she has an agenda! Criticism certainly wears you down and I understand that you must feel much more empowered and confident now.
Amillionyears - you are right - h hasn't asked us to separate etc... I had a look at the book you mentioned on amazon. Last week's counselling session did get very heated and I did tell him to F off which he may have taken at face value, hence the not talking to me at all. I would have like the counselling to be a place where we could really express ourselves without it devastating our daily lives but maybe I was unrealistic, especially given h's fragile ego.
springy - I really appreciated your post about the similarities between my h and my dad and me wanting to be a "good girl"... I have thought this before as well and it's certainly food for thought.
choo choo, h's two lots of really long silences in the past were definitely emotionally abusive, which I tried to point out to the counsellor yesterday (when I went by myself).... His silence now is an extremely hurt reaction, I think, at some of the things I was saying. I don't think he has the emotional tools to deal with our issues. The counsellor reckons he has a lot of issues of his own relating to parts of his childhood and that it is easier for him to attack me than to think about these. I recognise that these issues are there but does this mean that I have to live with someone who is essentially very critical and on a short fuse? She did admit that criticism really erodes relationships. I think you really hit the nail on the head when you said that it is easier for me not to tidy up than it is to face up to the fact that our problems might go deeper.
Abit I am sorry to hear you are having a difficult time... what is the IC?
I think the crux of my issue with dh is how critical he has been in the past and how negative, blaming and short tempered he can be. Basically I would like to be liked just because I am me, and the rest we could sort out afterwards together iyswim.
Also, we are still not talking AT ALL. There is no point in my trying to address h as I will either get no response or a very curt / cold one. Obviously we cannot continue to live together in this ridiculous way but I am not sure what to do. The counselling itself was to try and help me address such issues but it seems that I have done that and yet here we are again. Maybe a trial separation would be a good idea for us?
I just don't know where to start and part of me does feel I should stop being ridiculous, accept what's good, do my best with regards to my responsibilities and see where that gets me. Maybe when h seems me caring more about certain things he will have to climb down from his isolated rock and start communicating. One thing is for sure however, I don't think we are ever going to have a close intimate emotional relationship. It will always be difficult for us / me to discuss issues.... I suppose it's whether getting the relationship back on to an even keel where we can talk and laugh about the kids (but not much else) is worth it???
redadmiralsinthegarden Tue 09-Oct-12 12:49:56
have pm'd you, feel!
springyhope Tue 09-Oct-12 13:03:14
she has an agenda!
She certainly does - and should be struck off for giving advice, for a start. What are her qualifications? (does she have any....)
It is a place where you should be able to really express yourself without being punished devastating your daily life - not his, notice. As for 'fragile ego' - he's a bully. Fragile ego doesn't come into it.
His silence now is an extremely hurt reaction, I think
I give up OP. And you? You are seriously considering perching yourself on a tiny cleft on a windswept mountainside in order to accommodate said husband's tantrums because you are slow to obey . Please do get that!
You didn't mention the Freedom Programme. You'll get a lot of info here about what is going on in your husband's head. 1.5 hours once a week. Or read it online (I posted the link upthread), though it's better to meet f2f with others in the same position. At least have a go and facing that you can't sweep it all under the carpet, that you don't have to be the fall guy, pinning yourself to the cross for 'peace'. Please?
redadmiralsinthegarden Tue 09-Oct-12 13:15:17
i think choo choo has a point. my xh was always v critical about my housework. I heard him tell ds2 that mummy 'couldn't be bothered' to tidy up. (This was after I'd spent all morning deep cleaning the hall and stairway. but in doing so had failed to notice the ds's pyjamas lurking behind the bathroom door!).
i think that after a while i deliberately failed to do housework, a to piss him off! and b because i just couldn't 'do' it - i would feel overwhelmed.
perhaps some of that resonates with you?
amillionyears Tue 09-Oct-12 13:23:15
This is coming across as a very sad situation.
I think you want to stay with him.
I think he wants to stay with you.
But he has things that went on in his childhood that he is not willing to face.
And he sounds a tricky person to be able to understand and unravel.
I think you were right to get counselling for yourself,and jointly. I agree that your consellor also seems unable to handle the situation properly.
The 3 things I can think of,short of seperating are
1.change to a different counsellor
2.I would advise you to buy a copy of the book I recommended and read it,or else borrow a copy of the book from the library and read it.
3.Basically,give him an ultimatum. He has to start opening up. He can write down all his worries,woes etc.[And give him a few days as sounds like he has quite a list].....because you cannot take the situation as it is.
springyhope Tue 09-Oct-12 13:38:12
erm I wouldn't make it all about him tbh. He's already had centre-stage for the n years you've been married - and look how he punishes you if you take up some of his space? I don't think now is the time to lavish him with time and attention tbh. Sounds like you've been doing that all your married life (no-one understands him quite like you, huh?)
there are worse things than divorce. Divorce is vile, tis true, but a slow and agonising 'death' is worse, particularly when it profoundly impacts the kids of that marriage, who go on to replicate it. so bleak.
ChooChooLaverne Tue 09-Oct-12 14:08:31
No, you don't. You are choosing to live with him even though this is how he treats you.
No matter his childhood issues, he is a grown man and can choose to deal with them in a productive way. He isn't, he is choosing to punish you instead.
I think you would be much better off reading Lundy Bancroft's 'Why does he do that?' and accepting that this is who he is. He isn't likely to change - after all just a few sessions of counselling and you end up being ignored as punishment. IMHO you would be much better off accepting the truth about this man than trying to get him to treat you half decently.
Of course divorce means change, but change doesn't have to be bad. I left my emotionally abusive XH over a year ago and while there have been some tricky patches DS is now blossoming into a happy confident child. I think it is much better for him to see his parents separately than to live with us together miserably. We have a good relationship and I think the one he has with his father is much better than it was now he seems him on his own and doesn't have to listen to him criticising me or shouting at me.
Abitwobblynow Tue 09-Oct-12 15:30:51
You, me and RedAdmiral all live with the same man!
I also ended up refusing to tidy up/do any house work, because although it was the wrong passive aggressive thing to do, in a way it was quite honest because I was protesting to only being seen as 'housekeeper' and 'nanny'. I also got the 'this house is so messy' as a 'sign of his very deep distress'
IC means individual counsellor.
IC told me yesterday that he was never ever going to change, and my problem was that I kept hoping and wishing and trying to change him. All the time I did this I absorbed a lot of pain and suffering. I really need to take this on board.
He also said that he would never leave. He said the only thing that would change him is not me or even the hurt of the children, but something catastrophic like a death or (he is a workaholic) losing his job and being unable to find another one.
Nice to know I am part of the fixtures and fittings!
So similar boat to you, and like you I take all the sh*t to keep the family unit intact. But why are we doing this? What are we modelling, really?
spookytoo Tue 09-Oct-12 15:42:23
I don't think you have done this so if not you should get things into place so you can leave. Plan your finances, where you will live, how kids get to school etc. Have it all decided.
Then treat your husband with sad pity as you know, assuming you haven't told him yet, that if he doesn't change you will go.
At the moment he is, in his eyes, the powerful one who has to force you into following his will, or if you don't you get the silent treatment. Perhaps the dynamics will change when he sees you pity him, it is now you who has the power, and he might decide he wantst to behave differently.
My DH is a bit like this to a much lesser degree, and I always turned a blind eye, knowing it was his problem and due most likely to his upbringing, but it doesn't make for a happy equal relationship and I need to change it for my sake. Am making improvements thanks to info on mumsnet. But I found out first how easy it would be to leave if I had to which gives me the confidence to take it on.
garlicbutty Tue 09-Oct-12 16:16:33
It's very common for women to see themselves as magical healers. Men do it, too, but women really hold all the trophies for this. We see a man who is an arse, and we understand he's that way because something damaged him in the past. So far, we are correct. Going further, we feel that we can repair this damage - still further; we feel we must. Unasked, uninvited, unqualified, unprepared and unsupported, we embark on our projects to heal their invisible wounds. "I'm OK!" they say, and we murmur "No, you're not."
I didn't stop doing this until I saw what a gross insult it is. Who was I to tell a man, who finds himself OK, that he's a wounded fuck-up? Why was I trying to change the person I'd married? He didn't ask me to change him (well, actually mine did, but it was clear he hadn't meant it.) As far as he was concerned, he was OK. Why was I insisting he wasn't? What right did I have? Answer: none.
He is who he is. He's OK. I didn't like being married to him and that's OK, too. It's okay to make a mistake and admit it. It's really, really not okay to be in the wrong marriage and try to alter the spouse. It's disgusting when you think about it. Who did I think I was, Doctor Frankenstein?
"Healing" an arse is not a kind or respectful thing to do, and it's far from loving. Turns out I was an arse, too, for trying to change him. So I did the rational thing at last. I turned my healing powers on myself.
spookytoo Tue 09-Oct-12 16:49:19
In my case DH was a kind, thoughtful, disciplined, hard working man when we met. I liked that he was knowledgeable and able. He is very popular with workmates but can take a dislike to some people.
So in fact he was normal. (except he and his siblings had a demeaning attitude to his mother confused )
And I don't remember any snidey comments when DCs were small, I made all teh decisions regarding them. It's just more recently, and I put it down partly to seeing himself getting old, and, true I am no perfect angel, always a delight to be with, but I don't like the digs and snidey criticisms (passive aggressive I think).
So in my case he wasn't a basket case when I married him but life changes, eg his status at work is less important to him , kids leave home, and I have allowed criticism to become too common and need to call him on it.
garlicbutty Tue 09-Oct-12 18:06:26
So the best-known red flag was there, Spooky: contempt of the mother. Is he turning into his father? Would you want to have been married to FIL?
Renegotiating a relationship is normal and necessary at times, of course. We need to remember that negotiations are transactions. You need to know what you're offering and what you'll comfortably accept in exchange. Wishing you luck with yours smile
spookytoo Tue 09-Oct-12 19:39:42
Apologies for side lining thread OP.
Well it's not that clear cut garlic. His DM seems/ed to laugh along with the 'daft old trout' image, maybe she liked the 'being looked after' that resulted from that, and his DF died youngish and was v sorely missed by all the family so I imagine he was a nice chap. DM can be pretty critical of others.
Family relationships are never simple
feelokaboutit Tue 09-Oct-12 21:52:39
Have answered your pm redadmirals.
I agree with you garlicbutty when you say that we can't force people to be a certain way. I think h is perfectly happy with a non emotional, non intimate who am I to say that he has to open up to me... Ideally that is what I would like with someone, a safe environment to just talk about anything without fearing blame, shutting down, defensiveness or anger.
Thanks for everyone else's messages - lots of different opinions. Don't know what I am going to do - am feeling totally stuck and unable to do anything sad
garlicbutty Tue 09-Oct-12 22:27:38
I know, it is really hard. I feel for you. It would be so nice if we could see our various potential futures before making the choices that shape them, wouldn't it?! Back in the real world, I guess all we can do is aim for self-honesty and what feels right. Talking helps a lot, as other people's views can illuminate things for us even when we disagree with them. Keep posting if you can stand it smile
Do you have the possibility to continue with your personal counsellor for a while longer? He seems to be doing you good.
springyhope Tue 09-Oct-12 22:39:56
The non-emotional, non-intimate 'relationship' is one thing, but the put-downs are another - they are two different things. Actually, imo related: perhaps he won't be intimate with you unless you learn to behave the way he deems you should - so it's stalemate. You've tried complying, that hasn't worked, his standards are specific and not possible for you to pull off (because they're unrealistic imo). He won't accept a half-way house, he expects total compliance. You can't do that (and neither should you imo).
Freedom Programme? That would be a start, a way to get the ball rolling, a way to explore your options.
garlicbutty Tue 09-Oct-12 23:03:50
I agree with Springy, yet again. When I said I realised I was wrong to try and change my ex, I was telling the truth ... While we were divorcing, I asked him what single thing he would have wanted from me, that he didn't get. He said "more distance" sad My entire premise, in the way I loved him, was mistaken. He was a weirdo, though - still is, I'm sure. With hindsight, I reckon he actually is a psychopath. This does not change the simple fact that I was in the wrong marriage and should have accepted that instead of trying to "fix" it by reshaping him and myself. People either fit together or they don't. Even if they fit to begin with, life goes on and they can develop into a poor fit.
There's no shame in saying "You're OK; I'm OK; this marriage isn't okay for the two of us." There's quite a lot of wisdom in it, actually. Your husband seems to be taking a very strong stance that YOU are not OK. He wants to reshape you - and, it seems, won't ever be satisfied with your 'shape'. He's labelled you faulty, and that's the way he wants it. Perhaps it makes him feel OK, but it sure as hell ain't doing you any good! You can't spend your life being crap just to make him feel better. So the question is: What will it take for you to feel OK (apart from your username, that is grin) and how to get there?
garlicbutty Tue 09-Oct-12 23:06:05
God, that was rambly shock I need an early night.
springyhope Tue 09-Oct-12 23:55:54
Not too rambly at all imo but whatev, it's good to ramble now and again <serial rambler>
I rarely admit this but in the early days when I met my 'change springy into an obedient wife' husband, I went to see The Taming of the Shrew. I honestly did think that I had at last found someone who loved me enough to 'tame' me (as I had had similar messages from my father as you have had from yours OP: re 'faulty').
I so learnt the hard way. So bloody sad that I thought that about that play [sob]
ChooChooLaverne Wed 10-Oct-12 11:16:31
The way he has been is the real him - you can't change this but you can accept it as the truth. Of course you want to be liked just because you are you. That is your entitlement. Only I don't think you will ever feel that from your husband. "The rest you can sort out afterwards" - I think this is where you are in denial about him and what he wants to do or is capable of doing (I would go with wants to personally as he chooses to behave in this negative blaming way)
I know you feel stuck and I do understand how difficult it is making a decision about what to do next. But if I were you I would focus on what you've said here and try and work towards that. And I don't mean by trying to change your husband into someone who is capable of being that person, but by focusing on yourself (carry on with your own personal counselling) so that you can believe you are worth having a relationship where you are treated like this - even if just with yourself IYSWIM.
If you feel overwhelmed by the practicalities of splitting up, why not have a session with a solicitor or CAB to find out your financial options and look at the different parenting options open to you? I don't think you have to have a 50/50 parenting split and while it is becoming more common it certainly isn't the norm for all divorcing couples (I wonder if you think this is how it should be because your H believes he has to have his fair share in everything?).
FWIW in my situation my DS stays with his father every other weekend and he seems happy with this. I don't think 50/50 care would work in our case and my ex certainly wouldn't be interested in this level of commitment.
feelokaboutit Wed 10-Oct-12 13:55:33
Hello all. Thanks again for all your messages. I am thinking about all of it. My sessions with my individual counsellor were going to finish at the end of October but I am going to ask her if she can continue to see me (my slot may already have gone to someone else). With regards to the joint counsellor, she is going to phone h this week to see if he is going to come next week. I will go along next week and see if he comes (which I doubt). However, unless h comes and we make significant progress of some kind, I think I definitely have to call it a day with her.
I think all her dire warnings about divorce are her way of saying how difficult the reality of it might be - a bit like a protective mother. Not sure this is what I need though.
I started another thread because h did not come home last night. He is away for work which he sometimes does but this time did not let me know. I know he is deeply not talking (and me too) but I would at least have expected him to let the kids know. I phoned him this morning after wondering where he was all night and we had a very brief conversation where I said he hadn't told kids or me and then hung up.
I think I am going to work on being my own best friend and giving myself credit for all the things I do like about myself and which I think I do well!! Maybe along the way I will also manage to resolve my issues with clutter!!!
Thanks again.
willyoulistentome Wed 10-Oct-12 14:01:31
Leeokaboutit - How did you go about finding a counsellor?
feelokaboutit Wed 10-Oct-12 14:07:17
Hi willyoulisten - I googled counsellors in my area and a website popped up called and I found her on there (I think that's where I found her anyway - she's certainly still there). You can look up someone in your area and see their description of what they do, and what their qualifications are.
ChooChooLaverne Wed 10-Oct-12 14:36:07
feelok sounds like he's escalating your punishment. Good luck with it all. Keep on posting here if it helps.
willyou I would recommend looking at BACP. Also it might be worth going to your GP if you can wait but how long you have to wait will depend on where you live.
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letseatgrandma Tue 15-Jan-13 14:40:46
What size crate would be suitable for a small/medium dog, eg a Cavalier King Charles?
Can anyone help!
groovejet Tue 15-Jan-13 16:20:12
I have a size medium crate for my cav, think the dimensions are W79cm x D48cm x H58cm.
He does have a fair bit of room left over so may have got away with a size small, in fact he is just as happy when he has used his smaller travel crate when we have been away.
I have medium for my Border Terrier. He's only 5 months but looking at him in it I am glad I didn't get smaller.
yesbutnobut Tue 15-Jan-13 21:47:59
I have a small (pets at home) crate for my CKCS. If it's for puppy training (ie toilet training) it's meant to be big enough for them to stand up/turn round in but not so big that it can use half of it as a toilet area. My dog loves hers I have to say.
letseatgrandma Wed 16-Jan-13 13:06:40
Thank you for the answers! How much should they be able to move around in their crates?
One more question-our kitchen is a galley kitchen with no real area to put a crate in-I was contemplating it going in the dining room instead; is this a silly idea? Where do you have your crates?
foolonthehill Wed 16-Jan-13 14:04:13
they should be able to stand up, stretch fully turn around and lie down with legs extended when fully grown. you can buy dividers so you ca temporarily make the crate smaller whilst they are puppies.
crate size guide
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foolonthehill Wed 16-Jan-13 14:07:41
PS our crate has been in different rooms in dif houses; the hallway, the dining room, the kitchen and once in the laundry room!!
Wherever works for you will be fine.
I didn't like the idea of him only having room to turn. I didn't use dividers but we never wee'd in his crate beyond a couple of accidents in the first week.
We haven't got room in kitchen either but use conservatory as dining room which is either too cold or too hot.
We have it blocking our kitchen/hallway doorway as there is no door to close and it is blocking puppies access to stairs. I would have no qualms having it in my dining room though.
If you haven't already got your crate I can recomend dog health ones on ebay. They were a lot cheaper than pets at home and personally I think much better quality than some of the cheaper ranges and delivery was within 36 hours. My medium one was £22 and is very sturdy.
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Chapter 5: Existence Does Not Like Carbon Copies
And then Buddha saw a sannyasin in red robes, and he asked, “What kind of man is this, and why is he wearing red robes?”
The charioteer said, “This man has renounced the world and he has become a seeker of truth. He wants to know who he is and he wants to know whether his life is eternal or just a temporal phenomenon. Will he survive the death of the body or not? If he is not going to survive after death, then all is meaningless. Then he has no soul, then he is just matter.”
Buddha told the charioteer, “Return the chariot home. I am not going to inaugurate; somebody else can do it because I am in a great spiritual turmoil. The old man, the dead man, the sannyasin.”
That very night he escaped from the palace. He was bored with all that luxury, he was bored with all that beauty, and for the first time he saw what is going to happen next: old age, sickness, death. Then before death comes, truth has to be found.
Gautam Buddha was a Zorba up to the age of twenty-nine. Six years of deep meditation transformed the man. He became enlightened.
So when I have called the new man Zorba the Buddha, I have reasons to call it so. Every man is born as a Zorba. Your religions don’t allow you to live the Zorba, so you don’t get bored with it. They don’t allow you to live it so totally that you get finished with it. Your religions are preventing you from becoming buddhas. The word buddha means the enlightened one, the awakened one. Your religions are keeping you asleep. They are certainly functioning as opium.
My effort is to make you first totally zorbas, utterly zorbas, intensely zorbas, so that you can transcend Zorba and enter into another phase of your consciousness - the awakening.
Zorba is the foundation of the temple.
Buddha is the temple itself.
But there is a great hindrance for every human being to grow: one, you have been told that the Zorba is against the Buddha; it is not true. The Zorba is the experience which leads you towards buddhahood, towards awakening. That’s the reason for my love for Zorba. He is really a beautiful man. But don’t stop at Zorba.he is only a foundation. If you just make the foundation and don’t raise the temple, it is meaningless.
So there are people who are just living with the foundation, thinking this is the shrine - millions of people. And there are millions of people who are thinking they can make the temple without the foundation. They are fools.
Both are wrong. Zorba and Buddha can exist only together. And Zorba has a priority. He comes first; he is the natural foundation. And Buddha is the ultimate development, the ultimate peak of human reach, of human consciousness.
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by Bill Shooter of Bul on Sun 30th Oct 2011 16:28 UTC
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There is no arguing with the chart. You can complain that there are a lot more phones not on the chart, but you can't argue with its obvious correctness in showing the intended information.
Now why is the chart the way that it is? How does ubuntu just release a single version that works on 85% of computers out there made by any manufacturer? They have a single tree of code with drivers for a variety of hardware, and no special interfaces for the different computer makes. Its not that impossible, and shouldn't be difficult to do the same on the mobile front. This is the direction that the manufactures need to go in.
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Re: lwp and IFRAME
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If all of the applications run on different servers, you will need at least one trusted server to maintain users' passwords for all applications (unless you can guarantee that each user uses the same username/password pair for each application).
In your case, it would make sense to have the portal be the server to maintain all of the passwords. This will allow the portal to accept user logins while requesting application content with each user's login information. A major problem with this method is that you will need to ensure that the portal (or login server) is kept informed of all user changes (new users, removed users, updated passwords) for each application.
If you have control of the applications and can modify their source code, you could move all of the authentication to a separate server. This would allow users to maintain one username/password pair for all applications, and would allow the portal to request information from applications while supplying each user's authentication information retrieved from some authentication server.
My organization is in the process of moving authentication to a separate server to allow for a portal as described by novitiate, and it seems to work well--for both end users and developers. But setting up the infrastructure is taking quite a bit of effort. I would be interested in hearing about how others have tackled this problem.
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The IPCC sea level numbers
What does IPCC say?
Sea Level Rise
(m at 2090-2099 relative to 1980-1999)
Case Model-based range
excluding future rapid dynamical
changes in ice flow
B1 scenario 0.18 – 0.38
A1T scenario 0.20 – 0.45
B2 scenario 0.20 – 0.43
A1B scenario 0.21 – 0.48
A2 scenario 0.23 – 0.51
A1FI scenario 0.26 – 0.59
• Contraction of the Greenland ice sheet is projected to continue to contribute to sea level rise after 2100. Current models suggest ice mass losses increase with temperature more rapidly than gains due to precipitation and that the surface mass balance becomes negative at a global average warming (relative to pre-industrial values) in excess of 1.9 to 4.6°C. If a negative surface mass balance were sustained for millennia, that would lead to virtually complete elimination of the Greenland ice sheet and a resulting contribution to sea level rise of about 7 m. The corresponding future temperatures in Greenland are comparable to those inferred for the last interglacial period 125,000 years ago, when paleoclimatic information suggests reductions of polar land ice extent and 4 to 6 m of sea level rise. {6.4, 10.7}
• Current global model studies project that the Antarctic ice sheet will remain too cold for widespread surface melting and is expected to gain in mass due to increased snowfall. However, net loss of ice mass could occur if dynamical ice discharge dominates the ice sheet mass balance. {10.7}
(The above quotes document everything the SPM says about future sea level rise. The numbers in wavy brackets refer to the chapters of the full report, to be released in May.)
What is included in these sea level numbers?
Let us have a look at how these numbers were derived. They are made up of four components: thermal expansion, glaciers and ice caps (those exclude the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets), ice sheet surface mass balance, and ice sheet dynamical imbalance.
1. Thermal expansion (warmer ocean water takes up more space) is computed from coupled climate models. These include ocean circulation models and can thus estimate where and how fast the surface warming penetrates into the ocean depths.
2. The contribution from glaciers and ice caps (not including Greenland and Antarctica), on the other hand, is computed from a simple empirical formula linking global mean temperature to mass loss (equivalent to a rate of sea level rise), based on observed data from 1963 to 2003. This takes into account that glaciers slowly disappear and therefore stop contributing – the total amount of glacier ice left is actually only enough to raise sea level by 15-37 cm.
3. The contribution from the two major ice sheets is split into two parts. What is called surface mass balance refers simply to snowfall minus surface ablation (ablation is melting plus sublimation). This is computed from an ice sheet surface mass balance model, with the snowfall amounts and temperatures derived from a high-resolution atmospheric circulation model. This is not the same as the coupled models used for the IPCC temperature projections, so results from this model are scaled to mimic different coupled models and different climate scenarios. (A fine point: this surface mass balance does include some “slow” changes in ice flow, but this is a minor contribution.)
4. Finally, there is another way how ice sheets can contribute to sea level rise: rather than melting at the surface, they can start to flow more rapidly. This is in fact increasingly observed around the edges of Greenland and Antarctica in recent years: outlet glaciers and ice streams that drain the ice sheets have greatly accelerated their flow. Numerous processes contribute to this, including the removal of buttressing ice shelves (i.e., ice tongues floating on water but in places anchored on islands or underwater rocks) or the lubrication of the ice sheet base by meltwater trickling down from the surface through cracks. These processes cannot yet be properly modelled, but observations suggest that they have contributed 0 – 0.7 mm/year to sea level rise during the period 1993-2003. The projections in the table given above assume that this contribution simply remains constant until the end of this century.
As an example, take the A1FI scenario – this is the warmest and therefore defines the upper limits of the sea level range. The “best” estimates for this scenario are 28 cm for thermal expansion, 12 cm for glaciers and -3 cm for the ice sheet mass balance – note the IPCC still assumes that Antarctica gains more mass in this manner than Greenland loses. Added to this is a term according to (4) simply based on the assumption that the accelerated ice flow observed 1993-2003 remains constant ever after, adding another 3 cm by the year 2095. In total, this adds up to 40 cm, with an ice sheet contribution of zero. (Another fine point: This is slightly less than the central estimate of 43 cm for the A1FI scenario that was reported in the media, taken from earlier drafts of the SPM, because those 43 cm was not the sum of the individual best estimates for the different contributing factors, but rather it was the mid-point of the uncertainty range, which is slightly higher as some uncertainties are skewed towards high values.)
How do the new numbers compare to the previous report?
Sea level rise as observed (from Church and White 2006) shown in red up to the year 2001, together with the IPCC (2001) scenarios for 1990-2100. See second figure below for a zoom into the period of overlap.
The TAR showed sea level rise curves for a range of emission scenarios (shown in the Figure above together with the new observational record of Church and White 2006). The range was based on simulations with a simple model (the MAGICC model) tuned to mimic the behaviour of a range of different complex climate models (e.g. in terms of different climate sensitivities ranging from 1.7 to 4.2 ºC), combined with simple equations for the glacier and ice sheet mass balances (“degree-days scheme”). This model-based range is shown as the grey band (labelled “Several models all SRES envelope” in the original Figure 5 of the TAR SPM) and ranged from 21 to 70 cm, while the central estimate for each emission scenario is shown as a coloured dashed line. The largest central estimate of sea level rise is for the A1FI scenario (purple, 49 cm).
In addition, the dashed grey lines indicate additional uncertainty in ice sheet behaviour. These lines were labelled “All SRES envelope including land ice uncertainty” in the TAR SPM and extended the range up to 88 cm, adding 18 cm at the top end. One has to delve deeply into the appendix of Chapter 11 of the TAR to find out what these extra 18 cm entail: they include a “mass balance uncertainty” and an “ice dynamic uncertainty”, where the latter is simply assumed to be 10% of the total computed mass loss of the Greenland ice sheet. Note that such an ice dynamic uncertainty was only included for Greenland but not for Antarctica; instability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a scenario considered “very unlikely” in the TAR, was explicitly not included in the upper limit of 88 cm.
As we mentioned in our post on the release of the SPM, it is apples and oranges to say that IPCC reduced the upper sea level limit from 88 cm to 59 cm, as the former included “ice dynamic uncertainty” (albeit only for Greenland, as rapid ice flow changes in Antarctica were considered too unlikely to bother at the time), while the latter discusses this ice flow uncertainty separately in the text, stating it could add 10 cm, 20 cm or even more to the 59 cm in the table.
So is it better to compare the model-based range 21 – 70 cm from the TAR to the 18 – 59 cm from the AR4? Even that is apples and oranges. For one, TAR cites the rise up to the year 2100, the AR4 up to the period 2090-2099, thus missing the last 5 years (or 5.5 years, but let’s not get too pedantic) of sea level rise. For 2095, the TAR projection reduces from 70 cm to 65 cm (the central estimate for A1FI reduces from 49 cm to 46 cm). Also, the TAR range is a 95% confidence interval, the AR4 range a narrower 90% confidence interval. Giving the TAR numbers also as 90% ranges shaves another 3 cm off the top end.
Sounds complicated? There are some more technical differences… but I will spare you those. The Paris IPCC meeting actually discussed the request from some delegates to provide a direct comparison of the AR4 and TAR numbers, but declined to do this in detail for being too complicated. The result was the two statements:
(In fact delegates were told by the IPCC authors in Paris that with the new AR4 models, the central estimate for each scenario is slightly higher that with the old models, if numbers are reported in a comparable manner.)
The bottom line is thus that the methods have significantly improved (which is the reason behind all those methodological changes), but the expectation of how much sea level will rise in the coming century has not significantly changed. The biggest change is that ice sheet dynamics look more uncertain now than at the time of the TAR, which is why this uncertainty is not included any more in the cited range but discussed separately in the text.
Critique – Could these numbers underestimate future sea level rise?
There’s a number of issues worth discussing about these sea level numbers.
The first is the treatment of potential rapid changes in ice flow (item 4 on the list above). The AR4 notes that the ice sheets have been losing mass recently (the analysis period is 1993-2003). Greenland has contributed +0.14 to +0.28 mm/year of sea level rise over this period, while for Antarctica the uncertainty range is -0.14 to +0.55 mm/year. It is noted that the mass loss of Antarctica is mostly or entirely due to recent changes in ice flow. The question then is: how much will this process contribute to future sea level rise? The honest answer is: we don’t know. As the SPM states, by the year 2095 it could be 10 cm. Or 20 cm. Or more. Or less.
The IPCC included one guess into the “model-based range” provided in the table: it took half of the Greenland mass loss and the whole Antarctic mass loss for 1993-2003, and assumed this would remain constant ever after until 2100. This assumption in my view has no scientific basis, as the ice-flow is almost certainly highly variable in time. The report itself states that this ice loss is due to a recent acceleration of flow, and that in 2005 it was already higher, and that in future the numbers could be several times higher – or they could be lower. Adding such an ill-founded number into the “model-based” range degrades the much more reliable estimates for thermal expansion, mountain glaciers and mass balance. Even worse: to numbers with error estimates, it adds a number without proper error estimate (the observational uncertainty for 1993-2003 is included, but who would claim this is an error estimation for future ice flow changes?). And then it presents only the combined error margins – you will notice that no central estimate is provided in the above table. If I had presented this as an error calculation in a first-semester physics assignment, I doubt I would have gotten away with it. The German delegation in Paris (of which I was a member) therefore suggested taking this ice-flow estimate out of the tabulated range. The numbers would have become slightly lower, but this approach would not have mixed up very different levels of uncertainty, and it would have been clear what is included in the table and what is not (namely ice flow changes), rather than attempting to partially include ice flow changes. The ice flow changes could have been discussed in the text – stating there that at the 1993-2003 rate, this term would contribute 3 cm by 2095, but it is bound to change and could turn out to be 10 cm or 20 cm or more. However, we found no support for this proposal, which would not have changed the science in any way but improved the clarity of presentation.
As it is now, because of the complex and opaque way of combining the errors, even I could not tell you by how much the upper limit of 59 cm would be reduced if the questionable ice flow estimate was taken out, and one of the reasons provided by the IPCC authors for not adopting our proposal was that the numbers could not be calculated quickly.
A second problem with the above range is that the models used to derive this projection significantly underestimate past sea level rise. We tried in vain to get this mentioned in the SPM, so you have to go to the main report to find this information. The AR4 states that for the period 1961-2003, the models on average give a rise of 1.2 mm/year, while the data show 1.8 mm/year, i.e. a 50% faster rise. This is despite using observed ice sheet mass loss (0.19 mm/year) in the “modelled” number in this comparison, otherwise the discrepancy would be even larger – the ice sheet models predict that the ice sheets gain mass due to global warming. The comparison looks somewhat better for the period 1993-2003, where the “models” give a rise of 2.6 mm/year while the data give 3.1 mm/year. But again the “models” estimate includes an observed ice sheet mass loss term of 0.41 mm/year whereas ice sheet models give a mass gain of 0.1 mm/year for this period; considering this, observed rise is again 50% faster than the best model estimate for this period. This underestimation carries over from the TAR models (see Rahmstorf et al. 2007 and the Figure below) – this is not surprising, since the new models give essentially the same results as the old models, as discussed above.
Comparison of the 2001 IPCC sea-level scenarios (starting in 1990) and observed data: the Church and White (2006) data based primarily on tide gauges (annual, red) and the satellite altimeter data (updated from Cazenave and Nerem 2004, 3-month data spacing, blue, up to mid-2006) are shown with their trend lines. Note that the observed sea level rise tends to follow the uppermost dashed line of the IPCC scenarios, namely the one “including land ice uncertainty”, see first Figure.
We therefore see that sea level appears to be rising about 50% faster than models suggest – consistently for the 1961-2003 and the 1993-2003 periods, and for the TAR models and the AR4 models. This could have a number of different reasons, and the discrepancy could be considered not significant given the error ranges of observations and models. It is no proof that models underestimate future sea level rise. But it is at least a plausible possibility that the models may underestimate future rise.
A third issue worth mentioning is that of carbon cycle feedback. The temperature projections provided in table SPM-3 of the Summary for Policy Makers range from 1.1 to 6.4 ºC warming and include carbon cycle feedback. The sea level range, however, is based on scenarios that exclude this feedback and thus only range up to 4.5 5.2 ºC. This could easily be misunderstood, as in table SPM-3 the temperature ranges including carbon cycle feedback are shown right next to the sea level ranges, but the latter actually apply to a smaller temperature range. As a rough estimate, I suggest that for a 6.4 ºC warming scenario, of the order of 20 15 cm would have to be added to the 59 cm defining the upper end of the sea level range.
A final point is the regional aspects. Planners of coastal defences need to be aware that sea level rise will not be the same everywhere. The AR4 shows a map of regional sea level changes, which shows that e.g. European coasts can expect a rise by 5-15 cm more than the global mean rise – that is a model average, not including an uncertainty range. The pattern in this map is remarkably similar to that expected from a slowdown in thermohaline circulation (see Levermann et al. 2005) so probably it is dominated by this effect. In addition, some land areas are rising and some are subsiding in response to the end of the last Ice Age or due to local anthropogenic processes (e.g. groundwater withdrawal), which local planners need to account for.
The bottom line
The main conclusion of this analysis is that sea level uncertainty is not smaller now than it was at the time of the TAR, and that quoting the 18-59 cm range of sea level rise, as many media articles have done, is not telling the full story. 59 cm is unfortunately not the “worst case”. It does not include the full ice sheet uncertainty, which could add 20 cm or even more. It does not cover the full “likely” temperature range given in the AR4 (up to 6.4 ºC) – correcting for that could again roughly add 20 15 cm. It does not account for the fact that past sea level rise is underestimated by the models for reasons that are unclear. Considering these issues, a sea level rise exceeding one metre can in my view by no means ruled out. In a completely different analysis, based only on a simple correlation of observed sea level rise and temperature, I came to a similar conclusion. As stated in that paper, my point here is not that I predict that sea level rise will be higher than IPCC suggests, or that the IPCC estimates for sea level are wrong in any way. My point is that in terms of a risk assessment, the uncertainty range that one needs to consider is in my view substantially larger than 18-59 cm.
A final thought: this discussion has all been about sea level rise until the year 2095. Sea level rise does not end there, as the quotes from the SPM at the beginning of this article show. Over several centuries, without serious mitigation efforts we may expect several meters of sea level rise. The Advisory Council on Global Change of the German government (disclosure: I’m a member of this body) in its recent special report on the oceans has proposed to limit long-term sea level rise to a maximum of one meter, as a guard-rail to guide climate policy. But that’s another story.
Update: I was just informed by one of the IPCC authors that the temperature scenarios without carbon cycle feedback range up to 5.2 ºC, not 4.5 ºC as I had assumed. This number is not found in the IPCC report; I had tried to interpret it from a graph, but not accurately enough. My apologies! The numbers in the text above that had to be corrected are marked by strikethrough font. -stefan
308 Responses to “The IPCC sea level numbers”
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steven mosher says:
Hi gareth,
RE 291:
You wrote:
“As someone else has pointed out, you ignore or drastically underestimate the impacts of warming. ”
Acually you get this exactly wrong. My argument is THIS.
A1F1 ( fossile fuel intensive future SRES ) shows a Global GDP that is DOUBLE that of green futures. The scenario (A1F1) is internally inconsistent. Here is what I mean, if we burn fossile fuel at the rate assumed in A1F1, the economic activity it assumes cannot be sustained BECAUSE OF the enviromental impact. Garbage in; garbage out. I don’t underesimate the impacts of warming, A1F1 does!
Like I said in other posts. If you ask me to guess about future warming, I’d say +1-3C at 2100. Less than 1 degree C over the next century has Zero probablity (according to the SRES) , more than 4C has a POSITIVE probablity. Ok, wanna bet? Looks like I would get infinite odds by betting less than 1C against your bet of >4C. Right? Again, the issue is the SPREAD of the projections. This is a function of two things: The error in the models and the assumptions of the scenarios. The error or uncertainty within a scenario is half of the uncertainity between scenarios.
just look at the sea level data in the data set above.See the spread within the scenarios… 18, 23 25 20 27. That variation is within model varition.
Now look at the range between SCENARIOS. 18CM to 59CM.
Its a rather simple observation.
So, I would think, that better policy would be supported by better projections, and better projections could be had by doing better scenarios. read the SRES, you’ll see that they have serious self admitted uncertainity about the data sets. yet, it gets stuffed into a physically based, validated, scientific model. Garbage in.
Now, you want to improve projections, improve the SRES. reduced the biggest source of error and uncertainity first.
Now, be honest have you read the entire SRES?
You went on:
“If you are so keen to hand out reading lists, then I will respond with only one: start with the Summary For Policymakers of the IPCC’s WG2 report (available here), ”
Thanks I’ve read every report in full the day they hit . THAT is what got me interested in the SRES. (So I read that too.. did you?). I looked at the graphs. what the heck is this B1 scenario? what is A1T, A1B….. Look at the error band around B1… hmm looks like the error band around A1T.. but why is one scenario so far away from the other? INPUT ASSUMPTONS. What are the input assumptions? Who made up this data? garbage in.
To repeat I think the high emission scenarios are unrealistic. BUT as the SRES makes clear every scenario is given equal weight in making the projections.
So, simply, I would suggest that people take more care in selecting input scenarios and look at issue like internal consistency. Namely, a scenario that assumes the that increased C02 will lead to a doubling of C02, ASSUMES that there will be no negative economic feedback. This is my other complaint.. no feedback between climate outputs and economic inputs. Simple feedback. See you first point. I dont under estimate the impact of warming, A1F1 does. A1F1 assumes that
we can output c02 with impunity. THIS, as you point out, makes no sense. So A1f1 makes no sense. This is your position.
but you don’t realize it.
You conclude:
“then move on to the full report when it’s out in May. With luck you might change your tune. But I won’t be holding my breath. ”
To reapeat. I don’t question the science. Let me make this very simple.
A GCM tells me this: “If c02 goes up 2X, sea level will go up xy cm”
I would not question it. Seems rather silly to question the climate science.
That is not my issue. Let me answer laconically. IF…..
IF c02 goes up 2x. what about 1 X, what about 2.76547X what about 3X, what about 4X. The SRES. the IFs. So, that has been my focus. I read the report. made sense. My issue is the inputs. Were the scenarios self consistent.
1. the green scenarios with less C02, had lower GDPs. Green is poor.
2. The dirty future (A1f1) had twice the C02 and twice the GDP.
Now, I ask you. Do you think that greener will be poorer? I dont. Do you think we can sustain economic growth AND
destroy the enviroment as A1f1 suggests? I don’t.
Personally I’d focus on an A1T future, high GDP, low emmissions. Green and rich. Put another way, A1F1 is just a scare tactic. I’m not confortable with this. Strikes me as a eco version of you’ll go to hell.
And then beyond this, the issue is the policy. What’s the right sea level? if it’s rising, and rising is bad, then what exactly is the correct level? what’s the “natural” level? ( like there is an unnatural level) Funny question huh? But one really can’t attempt to control something without a goal. I mean one has to close the loop on something right? What is the exact right temp? We can’t realy close the loop on a target level because of the time lags, so do we implement a rate controller? First order lag? how much overshoot? steering an oil tanker is way different than steering a jetski.
Honest question. Is having a radiative balance a good goal? Do you think that we can actually control the enviroment with enough fidelity to manage the radiative balance. What would be the best things to measure.. air temp? ocean heat storage etc etc. THAT would be a cool probem for a control systems guy. Lots of measrement errors and long time lags for control inputs.. anyways..
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In the long run, radiative balance, at least at the top of the atmosphere, will be enforced by conservation of energy. If the temperature stabilizes, solar energy input to the planet will equal reflected and emitted energy output.
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ER Barker says:
Anyway you cut it, that is a lot less then the 27 ft. Al Gore quoted [edit] in Senator Boxer’s Senate hearings on Global Warming.
[Response: 20ft is the rise (from ice sheet melt) that eventually occurred during the last interglacial when global temperatures were maybe only a degree or so warmer than today. But the timescale over which that plays out is uncertain. -gavin]
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Mike Donald says:
On the subject of books hereâ??s one I recommend â??The Last Generationâ?? by Fred Pearce (Eden project books £8.99). Itâ??s got that famous (?) picture of a river acting like a thermal lance in Greenland (p85). Pearce also states â??In all probability, the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers are already the biggest causes of sea level worldwideâ??.
If thatâ??s true I think it shouldâ??ve got a mention in a thread about sea levels.
Has anyone seen my pet glacier? It was there a few days ago and itâ??s gone! Iâ??ve reported its disappearance to the police and RSPCG. If you have kidnapped it please donâ??t mistreat it. It responds well to ice cubes and cold temperatures. It answers to â??Glassieâ??.
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John L. McCormick says:
I did not make this up.. It appeared in the Bangkok Post
Expert predicts no local rise in sea
(dpa) Global warming is not likely to cause the sea level in the Gulf of Thailand to rise because the body of water is too far from melting glaciers, a leading Thai hydrologist claimed on Monday.
Recent forecasts by the United Nations’ Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – which predict a 40 centimetre rise in sea levels by the end of the century will cause flooding for up to 94 million Asians living in coastal areas – may not apply to the Gulf of Thailand, according to Suphat Vongvisessomjai, a former professor in water resources engineering at Bangkok’s Asia Institute of Technology.
“The climate change panel’s projection was wrongly accepted to apply to the Gulf of Thailand,” Suphat told The Nation newspaper. “We are too far from melting glaciers or ice sheets.”
Suphat added that, in fact, recent research shows that the average sea levels along some coastal provinces on the gulf have declined 0.3 to 0.6 centimetres over the past eight years.
The hydrologist, now an employee of Team Consulting Engineering, called on the public not to panic over the IPCC findings.
“The climate change panel did not deceive us or exaggerate. Its scientific findings are just based on the environment of their scientists, most of who live in Europe,” he told the English-language daily.
[Response: oh dear…. – gavin]
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John Mashey says:
re: #305
Clearly a complete wacko ….
OOPS: turns out, it is very likely that he isn’t, and in fact, this is a good reminder to be really careful, especially when an expert tries to explain something complex to a reporter writing a tiny summary in the popular press, and how over-simplifications may come back to bite.
When I saw this, I laughed, but then, from personal experience, I know how things sometimes get mangled by newspapers, especially with potential language issues. Since I’m in the middle of Naomi Oreskes’ fine book “The Rejection of Continental Drift” (about why American geoscientists resisted this theory so long in the face of mounting evidence for it), I thought “I know SouthEast Asia is complex geologically (colliding plates), could some of Thailand be rising? Maybe this guy isn’t crazy?”
Searching for the author Suphat Vongvisessomjai in Google Scholar [easier than Joe Smith :-)], I find that he actually has a good multi-decadal record of scholarly publications, and at least looks a like a serious expert on anything to do with water around Thailand.
Then I found:
“Will Sea-Level Really Fall in the Gulf of Thailand?”
[Abstract in both English & Thai, but the article is in English].
This is a reasonably clear discussion of the various issues that affect local sea-level change, followed by a lot of discussion about the Gulf of Thailand’s specifics. It may or may not be right, and a few of the words describing it may be poorly chosen (stuff about glaciers) but it’s certainly neither denialist nor uninformed.
This paper, at least, is *not* making a generic claim that there is no sea level rise in the world [i.e., he is not doing the denialist “No Sea level rise near Stockholm” trick.] He is really just pointing out that average sea level rises aren’t seen anywhere, and there are specific data and reasons to not expect much rise in he Gulf of Thailand.
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Mike Donald says:
#305 #306
Still oh dear. Someone will have to tell The Onion about this.
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stormboy says:
I am learning day by day from reading these posts and everything I can find about global warming. To me the time has come to begin the radical transitions needed to mitigate the damages. Here are my top ten ways to slow global warming. Let’s see how they compare to the IPCC’s recommendations.
Preamble: Our one and only planet is heating up, fast. CO2 burned 200 years ago is still lingering up above us, warming the planet, compounded every day by still increasing tonnage that won’t go away for a thousand years, melting ice caps and glaciers, heating and acidifying oceans, decimating phytoplankton that grows best in cold water, removing the foundations of Earth’s entire biotic ecosystem, from crab larvae to terrestrial mammals like us. The bountiful oceans have been strip-mined and are now losing their ability to grow back.
Sea levels are rising. According to an IPCC climatologist on
“59 cm (23 inches by 2095) is unfortunately not the â��worst caseâ��. It does not include the full ice sheet uncertainty, which could add 20 cm or even more. It does not cover the full â��likelyâ�� temperature range given in the AR4 (up to 6.4 ºC) â�� correcting for that could again roughly add 15 cm. It does not account for the fact that past sea level rise is underestimated by the models for reasons that are unclear. Considering these issues, a sea level rise exceeding one metre can in my view by no means ruled out… Greenland ice is good for 7 metres and the WAIS for 6 metres of sea level rise. 20 feet is about 6 metres so either ice sheet alone, or half of each, could lead to a 20 feet rise.â��
A blogger points out that: â��The rise will continue rising and there is no possibility for the sea rise to retreat….not in centuries or longer.â��
These rising waters will soon, in coming years, not decades, wipe out massive human populations (The low countries, northern Europe and especially Bangladesh, come to mind, but coastal communities everywhere will be flooded) while disrupting the most productive tidal nurseries needed for life in both land and sea.
Droughts are already drying up wide swaths of tropical and temperate latitudes, where most of Earth’s 6,708,290,000 humans live, (on 04/30/07). That’s at least three times, and probably ten times, the number of people this planet can support for more than one or two generations, and land surface suitable for human habitation is rapidly shrinking. See E.O Wilson on Acting now to save life on Earth. Rising seas, droughts and floods will push 100’s of millions, maybe billions, of surviving refugees to ever-shrinking higher, greener ground, overwhelming those habitats and inhabitants, the stores, schools, hospitals, and criminal justice systems, creating lawless gang warfare and warlords dominating the daily lives of survivors. It’s gonna be bleak. Public awareness of the realities of global warming is ramping up every day, but we’re still deep in the darkness of denial about what’s really starting to happen
So here, for all leaders and citizens alike all around this imperiled planet, by the wonders of global internet broadcasting, are the top ten things that truly will need to be accomplished while we still have functioning societies, that should have been started generations ago, if we desire to keep our lives tolerable and intact:
1) Stop having so many wars. Wars, and the buildup for wars, burn more oil and create more CO2 than any other single human endeavor. As resources become harder to find, the tendency will be to start more wars, but if we can stop having wars now, and accomplish the other nine items on this list, we won’t consume nearly as much of Earth’s natural resources, so we won’t be so tempted to start wars. Wars also justify the entire military/industrial complex, which directly and indirectly burns oil without reflection on the consequences, by the millions of barrels daily. Wars are interactions – “they” say or do something bad, like own a resource we think should be ours, or we think they did, so “we” answer with something bad toward them, and the spiral descends into uncontrollable war. We need a better way to respond and interact with each other, a new modus operandi in our society and government, new philosophies at colleges and think tanks, new conversations everywhere, etc. That’s impossible, you say? OK then, welcome to the world of Mad Max Mutual Murder worldwide. Or, we can change our ways and get along, if we try.
2) Stop having so many babies. This is also contrary to our habits and customs known as “human nature,” but let’s face it, one way or another the human race is about to be drastically reduced. It’s far better to take some control over our sheer numbers by reducing births rather than by increasing deaths. We need an international resolve to distribute clear educational truth on the realities of global warming and overpopulation, and condoms and IUDs, etc. on every streetcorner, and in every school, tea room and post office, worldwide.
3) Stop traveling so much. Overconsumption of resources leads to global warming and wars, so we’ll need to radically reduce our travels in every way possible. Games, concerts, vacations, family visits, conferences, weekend getaways, and other important occasions, need to be severely reduced, worldwide. Like almost everything else on this list, we’re talking about major personal and economic disruptions, with lots of people out of work while transitions are made to resettle into more integrated communities with our families and our daily needs close by. Hard to imagine? So is Mad Max.
4) De-throne the corporate rulers. When you’ve got the political muscle, you don’t have to make sense, apparently. We need to see some investigation into exactly who is orchestrating the campaigns to lie about global warming to sell oil, who is pushing unnecessary drugs on people, who is poisoning the Earth with pesticides, who is weakening the will of the people to have livable, logical societies by corrupting our democracies. Of course we have their chosen political officers like Cheney and Bush, and the lobbyists and the “industry reps,” but behind them have to be actual individuals with names and faces, who own the industries, or own the investment groups that own the industries, who hand down their wishes through boards and CEOs, who hire think tanks, media conglomerates and PR firms who hire lobbyists who then say they represent “the industry.” They proclaim their faith in Reaganite simplicity: “Government is bad, taxes are bad, corporations are good.” “For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. –H. L. Mencken
I’d like to pull back the curtain and see exactly who is shaping the campaigns to overpower elected officials and shape the consciousness of the public to accept their faulty, simplistic logic. I think we need a public conversation with these individuals. They have a big influence on our lives and our future, and yet they’re just people like the rest of us, once we can see them and talk to them.
Who are they? They have a big influence on our lives and our future. I want names, faces, bios and contact information. Who set up the think tanks and endowed positions that spew out the pundits that are nothing but loyal team players who have no standards of truth to fall back on, but only allegiance to the captain and to making the scores and claiming moral superiority over the other team? Who does Rupert Murdoch, for instance, have dinner with, meet at the club, go hunting with? The campaign to declare that global warming is a hoax perpetrated by corrupt scientists and greedy environmentalists was not just spontaneously concocted by Sean, Rush and Glenn Beck, to name a few. These hired guns were carefully taught to tell such preposterous lies by….who? These lies are immensely damaging to the consensus we all desperately need if we are to change our lifestyles rapidly, and for the major industries to take seriously the increasingly obvious threats of global warming, or we will indeed cook in our own exhaust fumes. It’s as if we’re all on a train that is headed over a cliff, and some of us see the danger, but we can’t get the engineer to stop or turn, because the crowd in the club car are laughing at us and calling us kooks, in an orchestrated, coordinated fashion, like a trained choir. Who trained them?
5) Return to simple pleasures, like playing music, making love (using birth control), reading and writing, drinking beer, smoking grass, bird-watching, woods-walking, wood-carving, knitting, yoga, jogging, card-playing, story-telling and listening, rowing, swimming, walking the dog, visiting friends and old folks for no good reason. These are the positives that have been mostly lost due to wars, over-population, over-consumption, social fragmentation and alienation, and obedience to corporate masters.
6) Conserve power. Buy and use florescent light bulbs, low-power appliances. Use less water, replant lawns with gardens or native ground cover, etc. Enjoy the sounds of nature and the natural relaxation of darkness. Recycle, re-use, reduce. Obvious, I know.
7) Find locally grown food, building material and everything else as much as possible. Corporate agriculture and those container ships and trucks bringing cheap goods (such as polluted pet food) from far away places, like Mexico and China, are destroying the air, the climate, and our health. Again, there will be personal and economic disruption, worldwide, while we make transitions, but we have no other choice.
8) Use wind and solar power for homes, industries, businesses, offices and public buildings, every chance you get. This should be politically mandated and demanded by consumers.
9) Demand inexpensive, plug-in biodiesel hybrid cars, and get as few of them as possible and use them as little as possible. Walk or ride bicycles whenever possible, which also provides strength and vitality and reduces health care costs.
10) Support Earth-bound politicians, organizations, businesses, teachers, friends and relatives, and avoid religions and philosophies that degrade Earth in favor of any supernatural heaven or afterlife. We won’t know what’s after life until we get there, but our life, and all life, on Earth is too important to let it burn up in our own exhaust fumes, toxic chemicals, radioactivity, etc.
Iâ��m sure others can think of additions to these ten items, but before we can do these things in a scale to meet the effects of global warming, we’ll need to talk about them.
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0.029371 | <urn:uuid:9b6a422b-30fe-4a3f-b5d4-8088b639abf9> | en | 0.967871 | Roundball Mining Company We'll move the earth for a title! Fri, 26 Dec 2014 14:15:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 RCotW: Rebuilding Fri, 26 Dec 2014 14:14:50 +0000 Welcome to the Reader Comment of the Week, a recurring series where we’ll highlight voices from Roundball Mining Company community found in our forum, comments section, in e-mails and through Twitter rants.
This week’s comment comes courtesy of Sharkboy242
…I’m just desperate to see a competitive team… Im so tired of those games we’ve been seeing, like the one last night. Rebuilding just sounds awful.
Love him or hate him, one thing George Karl gave Denver every season was a competitive team… during the regular season, of course. The playoffs were another story.
Blowing up the team and rebuilding around a young core + veterans or a superstar would take time. Are the fans willing to endure a few seasons of 20-62 records to develop that kind of post-season promise? Take a look at the 76ers… do the fans want that?
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Rapid Reaction: Denver Nuggets 96 Brooklyn Nets 102 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 23:30:00 +0000 The Nuggets showed a much better effort after last night’s debacle in Charlotte. The Brooklyn Nets proved to be too much however as the Nuggets go into the Christmas break with consecutive losses.
Denver Nuggets 96 Final
Recap | Box Score
102 Brooklyn Nets
Kenneth Faried, PF 32 MIN | 8-11 FG | 4-5 FT | 14 REB | 2 AST | 1 STL | 1 BLK | 3 TO | 20 PTS | +12Pretty much what you want from him when he doesn’t go into full-on Manimal mode. He was a force on the glass at certain times. He managed some competent plays for himself with the ball against athletic defenders, though he didn’t stand a chance going against Kevin Garnett. He started looking for his offense in the second quarter and by the time Garnett was on the bench for most of the second half he hit a stride.
Wilson Chandler, SF 38 MIN | 5-17 FG | 0-0 FT | 5 REB | 1 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 11 PTS | -4His physicality off the ball could add some value for a team looking to, uh, sorry. Chandler gave the Nuggets plenty of little things tonight. The kind of stuff that could really expand the market, no, um, don’t say the T-word. Don’t say the T-word. Chandler looked good tonight. I can see why so many teams might be interested in tra-ay! Let’s move on.
Timofey Mozgov, C 28 MIN | 1-7 FG | 3-4 FT | 8 REB | 0 AST | 2 STL | 2 BLK | 1 TO | 5 PTS | +8Started slow but finished first quarter with a better effort. Never found his touch around the rim but his teammates made up for his 1-7 shooting. He wasn’t the best Russian on the court though.
Ty Lawson, PG 42 MIN | 10-20 FG | 5-6 FT | 4 REB | 9 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 4 TO | 29 PTS | -4Try as he might, Ty is learning that an All-Star effort only goes so far. It looks like his confidence isn’t all the way there with his jumpshot, but it was falling enough to lead the Nuggets with 29 points. He went into Ty The Orchestrator mode in the third but kicked it up a notch with some typical Lawson drives while building a second half lead. The engine didn’t have enough to finish the job as the Nuggets sputtered on offense in Ty’s last six and a half minutes of game time.
Arron Afflalo, SG 41 MIN | 4-10 FG | 1-2 FT | 9 REB | 3 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 3 TO | 11 PTS | 0Had a lively game but never found a rhythm that made any impact. 40% from the field is on par with what he’s been shooting as of late, something that really hurts a team that only has so many scoring threats. He never really got a crack at slowing down Joe Johnson who put up 27 for the hometown Nets.
Alonzo Gee, SF 17 MIN | 0-1 FG | 2-2 FT | 3 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 2 PTS | -12The first time he came off the bench he made zero effort to get involved defensively and provided nothing but headache-inducing mistakes otherwise. Unlucky for him his one wide open corner three was negated by a charge on Lawson.
Jusuf Nurkic, C 13 MIN | 3-5 FG | 0-1 FT | 5 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 1 BLK | 2 TO | 6 PTS | -7After a few flawless plays when he first came in I typed “it’s getting to the point where he doesn’t even look like a rookie.” He then committed a bad foul and set a screen out of bounds. Oops. Nothing was bad enough to consider trimming his minutes. If anything he should be getting some different spots with certain guys. He hasn’t had a chance to team up with Lawson on a few possessions to see if there might be something there. Alas, you just hope rookies don’t make mistakes and he made plenty tonight.
J.J. Hickson, C 12 MIN | 4-7 FG | 2-2 FT | 3 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 10 PTS | -13Certainly left a lot to be desired. He didn’t attack the glass and wasn’t really looking to take on a defensive assignment with great pride or determination. The on/off switch that controls this guy can be wildly unpredictable.
Nate Robinson, PG 18 MIN | 1-4 FG | 0-0 FT | 0 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 2 PTS | -10Gave almost enough steadiness early in the fourth quarter, but almost doesn’t cut it. He just hasn’t put together a full Nate Robinson game this season.
Brian Shaw
Had his players ready to go after an abysmal showing last night in Charlotte. Brooklyn was able to draw some Nuggets big men on the perimeter which led to a few made threes. Shaw usually seems to have a reluctance to go small, and that may be because he doesn’t trust those lineups to get enough rebounds. That was proven right on a key Mason Plumlee tip-in at the half and during a Nets run in the middle of the fourth. For a coach that has a different bench to work with each night it’s been hard to get any traction in terms of bench production. Regardless, the right buttons for bench production eluded Shaw tonight. He has to really lean on the starters, which creates issues in games where rest is vital.
Two Things We Saw
1. It’s a shame Kevin Garnett has to play out his potential last season with a team hardly anyone could be even mildly passionate about in a building that has no life most nights.
2. There was a guy dressed as a Christmas tree in the stands. Just thought I’d let you know.
Next up: Friday, Dec. 26, 7 p.m. (MST) @ Minnesota. Going to the game? Save money and get cheap Denver Nuggets tickets here.
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Reader Recap: Denver Nuggets 82 Charlotte Hornets 110 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 02:28:07 +0000 Unfortunately no recap tonight, but it also wasn’t much of a game. The Nuggets trailed wire-to-wire in a 28-point loss in Charlotte. Ty Lawson was the only starter in double figures for the second game in a row, and he broke a streak of 20 consecutive games with at least 9 assists, finishing with just 4 dimes on the night.
The loss moves Denver to 4-10 on the road, with another game at Brooklyn coming up on Tuesday night. The Nuggets have lost 8 of their last 11 games.
Due to none of our staff being able to recap the game, we welcome our faithful readers to chime in on what happened tonight.
Go Broncos?
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Danilo Gallinari has torn mensicus in good knee Sun, 21 Dec 2014 19:06:19 +0000 Late Sunday morning, the Nuggets announced that Danilo Gallinari is out with a right knee meniscal tear. Gallo has spent the better part of two years recovering from multiple ACL surgeries in his left knee.
Gallo apparently suffered the injury after scoring a season-high 19 points in 28 minutes in a win over the Pacers. Given his hard work on a long road to recovery, it’s just devastating to have Gallo tear his good knee just as he was regaining his form on the court.
Christopher Dempsey of the Denver Post reports the initial timetable is out three weeks, and states that there is an expectation Gallo can return this season.
If there is a silver lining, it’s that playing again this season does look like a realistic possibility. In early 2014, Eric Bledsoe suffered a torn meniscus and returned after missing 33 games. He was injured in a Suns game on December 30th, underwent surgery then and returned to action on March 12th.
In other news Darrell Arthur is upgraded to questionable for Monday night at Charlotte. For now, add Gallo to a list that includes JaVale McGee and Randy Foye as guys who are expected to be out a while.
Update: Thanks to RMC contributor Tom Darrow we have a clarification from Gallo via his facebook. Apparently, it’s an older injury which hasn’t bothered him much, but got worse after the Pacers game. Tests showed a minor tear.
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Rapid Reaction: Denver Nuggets 76 Indiana Pacers 73 Sun, 21 Dec 2014 01:00:00 +0000 Neither team shot straight in one of the uglier games of the season. After 48 minutes the Nuggets held Indiana to 30.7% shooting and hang on for a 76-73 win. Denver moves to 12-15 and 8-6 at home.
Indiana Pacers 73 Final
Recap | Box Score
76 Denver Nuggets
Kenneth Faried, PF 25 MIN | 2-10 FG | 0-0 FT | 6 REB | 1 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 4 PTS | +6
Faried finished the game with a flurry of energy despite going scoreless well into the fourth while generally looking horrible. With Arthur unavailable and Hickson and Nurkic as the only viable backups, sticking with Faried was a good call. The Manimal did enough but he must start moving around on defense and contesting shots with the same energy he goes after rebounds with. He’s always a step behind the action and David West abused him inside and out.
Wilson Chandler, SF 29 MIN | 1-10 FG | 1-2 FT | 3 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 1 BLK | 1 TO | 4 PTS | -11
Chandler’s one make was maybe the biggest shot of the night so he’s also tough to grade. I commend him closing the game strong with a big shot and rebound, but he no-showed everything outside of the final 3 minutes. With Gallo not quite ready for huge minutes and a 15-minute stretch to close the game, going back to Chandler was a risky but understandable move.
Timofey Mozgov, C 36 MIN | 3-4 FG | 0-0 FT | 15 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 5 BLK | 3 TO | 6 PTS | +2
Mozgov reduced former All-Star center Roy Hibbert to Kwame Brown status. He helped shut down the paint and was the only reason Denver stayed competitive on the boards and in position to win an ugly game.
Ty Lawson, PG 38 MIN | 6-16 FG | 3-4 FT | 1 REB | 10 AST | 3 STL | 0 BLK | 3 TO | 15 PTS | +4
That’s 20 straight games of nine or more assists for Ty. He was the only starter in double figures and probably the only reason Denver is not one of the worst teams in NBA history. The Nuggets are a JV squad without him.
Arron Afflalo, SG 35 MIN | 3-12 FG | 2-2 FT | 9 REB | 1 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 3 TO | 8 PTS | +6
He looked a step slow from the start of the game. Playing Afflalo basically the entire first and third quarters is a terrible look, especially on a back-to-back. He missed everything to the left and right and forced more bad offense than he normally would. Otherwise a clearly tired Afflalo gave good effort.
Alonzo Gee, SF 7 MIN | 0-1 FG | 2-4 FT | 2 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 2 PTS | -5
He wasn’t terrible but I’m not sure why Gee needed 7 second half minutes out of the blue. Either use him in a real role to spell Afflalo or don’t. Gee might do better if he had some idea what to expect on any given night.
Danilo Gallinari, SF 28 MIN | 7-12 FG | 4-5 FT | 3 REB | 1 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 3 TO | 19 PTS | +8
He was drawing contact and finishing left and right. Gallo is still regaining his touch around the basket but his ability to beat defenders off the dribble is the missing link in Denver’s offense. If that comes back, they’re suddenly a viable scoring team. Watch out if Gallo is able to parlay this into a good stretch and perhaps a 30-minute role soon. If he can do that, Denver’s a different team.
Jusuf Nurkic, C 12 MIN | 2-4 FG | 0-0 FT | 5 REB | 0 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 4 PTS | +1
Some of his fouls made no sense. There’s really no shot at reaching around a posted up, massive Roy Hibbert for a steal so why try? Nurkic just needs to be a little more solid rather than trying to make the spectacular play every time.
J.J. Hickson, C 21 MIN | 4-8 FG | 2-2 FT | 5 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 1 BLK | 0 TO | 10 PTS | +5
Faried set the bar low and Hickson provided some energy, stealing enough boards and firing up enough shots for some good numbers. So basically, JJ Hickson played.
Nate Robinson, PG 11 MIN | 2-5 FG | 0-0 FT | 0 REB | 1 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 4 PTS | -1
Nate thought he was still on fire in the first half and almost got a little out of control. He was able to pull it back for a decent-enough performance, but i think he could have been trusted with at least a few more minutes. It was a tight game the whole way and Brian Shaw just wasn’t comfortable resting Lawson beyond the absolute minimum, which is kind of a running theme this season.
Brian Shaw
It was an uncreative game from the start. He made enough obvious adjustments like pulling Faried early and letting Gallo cook for as long as he did. But he didn’t stagger lineups enough to create an advantage with depth and basically went to the starters late because that’s what Indiana did. It happened to work out.
Three Things We Saw
1. If Denver is going to force feed the post early in the offense why are Faried and Hickson getting double the touches of Mozgov? The 1-4 pick and roll is the best option for Ty and the unfortunate Faried/Hickson duo at power forward. The Nuggets miss Arthur right now and their offense is purely reliant on Lawson and Gallo bailing out bad possession after bad possession.
2. It was ugly, but credit the tired Nuggets for holding a team to 30.7% shooting on a tough back-to-back. It was enough to win, and the Nuggets did not make any glaring errors in the final minutes this time. For once, the execution late was okay.
3. Once again I thought Mozgov was a force defensively and the Nuggets kind of rode him to victory, despite never looking to give him the ball. Mozgov just went and got it and kept a really ugly game within reach. Another understated, impressive effort by Timo all night.
Next up: Monday, Dec. 22, at Charlotte at 5:00 p.m. MST. Going to the game? Save money and get cheap Denver Nuggets tickets here.
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Rapid Reaction: Los Angeles Clippers 106, Denver Nuggets 109 Sat, 20 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000 From an amazing first half, to a ridiculously dreary 3rd quarter, followed by a crazy, technical laden 4th quarter, the Nuggets pulled out a very entertaining win. The Nuggets were able to pull together in the 4th quarter to make up for their offense’s inefficiency in the 3rd quarter, which made the difference at the end of the game. Hopefully the team takes this win in stride, as they showed some grit, but should still look to learn from their compounded failures in the 3rd quarter. In the end, the Nuggets came away with a much-needed W.
Los Angeles Clippers 106 FinalRecap | Box Score 109 Denver Nuggets
Kenneth Faried, PF 28 MIN | 6-9 FG | 2-3 FT | 7 REB | 2 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 4 TO | 14 PTS | +10The question still remains, why include Faried in the starting five if he is going to be pulled after a couple minutes to reserve his energy to play with the bench players? Would he be better coming off the bench to begin with? Faried finished out the game with a some nice offensive possessions, shooting a nice FG percentage overall. It would be nice to see more rebounds out of Faried, overall a decent effort though. It looks like his 1-on-1 meeting with Shaw helped Faried refocus his game, it will be interesting to see if he gets back to his standard level of play.
Wilson Chandler, SF 36 MIN | 6-16 FG | 2-2 FT | 5 REB | 2 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 4 TO | 16 PTS | -12At times when Chandler is being unselfish it hurts the team, Chandler should take the opportunities that are presented to him. He should maintain the offensive aggressiveness we’ve seen from him this season. He had a low 3-point percentage that hurt his numbers offensively, it would have been nice to see more of his shots fall from deep. He did nail an impact three towards the end of the 4th quarter that helped seal the Nuggets lead.
Timofey Mozgov, C 25 MIN | 6-8 FG | 0-1 FT | 8 REB | 1 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 13 PTS | +6Mozgov for three? Mozgov sinking three long jumpers?!The Russian Assassin from deep?! He brought the energy early on, which helped carry the Nuggets through the first half. I love seeing this type of offensive production from Mozgov, which contributed to a solid night overall. I would have liked to see his offensive production carry into the second half, but that 3rd quarter doomed many Nuggets players.
Ty Lawson, PG 37 MIN | 3-6 FG | 2-4 FT | 2 REB | 14 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 5 TO | 10 PTS | -1Lawson’s 3-point shot was falling in the beginning of the game, which is nice to see after the mediocre percentage he has put up so far this season. It has been noted before, but the Nuggets offense is completely different, and for the better, when Lawson is on the floor. Distribution is a key part of Lawson’s game, and it is a glorious thing when he has the assist machine running strong. He had a pretty decent game defensively as his assignment on Chris Paul resulted in limiting Paul’s opportunities, which is all you can ask for when guarding someone of his caliber.
Arron Afflalo, SG 32 MIN | 4-14 FG | 4-5 FT | 2 REB | 4 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 12 PTS | -9Afflalo provided an offensive spark in the beginning, as he was the only player able to take his defender off the dribble and create offensive opportunities on an individual level. He has the ability to step up and take the Nuggets through rough offensive starts before other players start contributing. Just a quick side note: Afflalo has an incredibly pure shooting form, he always has, and I’m always amazed when his shots don’t fall consistently.
Alonzo Gee, SF 9 MIN | 1-3 FG | 2-2 FT | 0 REB | 1 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 4 PTS | +7Gee came in and did a nice job with what he was asked to do, which is bring intensity on D and run the court when necessary.
Danilo Gallinari, SF 24 MIN | 2-5 FG | 4-4 FT | 3 REB | 2 AST | 0 STL | 1 BLK | 3 TO | 10 PTS | +2I would like to see more point production for the amount of minutes played, he still seems hesitant off the dribble. I believe he is making some nice progress, still waiting for his breakout game that hopefully leads to some consistent production. After a slow game on the offensive end, how about that 3 point shot at the end of the 4th and the huge offensive rebound to help close it out?
Jusuf Nurkic, C 17 MIN | 3-3 FG | 2-2 FT | 2 REB | 1 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 8 PTS | +8His defense was leaky at times as his feet didn’t stay active enough to keep Blake Griffin in front of him. He did come in as a serviceable backup, and showed flashes of major potential, which is what I have been waiting for to be unleashed all season. He is still young and a rookie, I know I can be impatient at times.
J.J. Hickson, C 15 MIN | 1-5 FG | 0-0 FT | 6 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 2 PTS | -8Usually Hickson shouldn’t be taking too many one on one jumpers, like tonight for example. He was on the floor and he did some stuff, which is a simple way to say he didn’t really do anything memorable, good or bad, which is good…I guess. Oh, he did have some nice rebounds, that’ll do.
Nate Robinson, PG 16 MIN | 6-11 FG | 4-7 FT | 5 REB | 3 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 20 PTS | +12En Fuego!? Si! Nate went off at the beginning of the second quarter, this begs the question, do you want to see him keep shooting? Sometimes he can shoot himself out of a rhythm just as fast as he can shoot himself into one. Will his aggressiveness towards the rim persist? Shaw finally let Robinson back into the game towards the end of the 3rd, and he displayed an almost immediate impact with another 3-pointer. This was great to see, and even though the offense changes drastically when he takes Lawson’s place on the court, I can live with it if he is dropping the trifecta from deep, and often.
Brian Shaw
There was some interesting news that came from an in-game report, the report described a 1-on-1 meeting between Shaw and Faried. It was noted that Faried admitted to a lack of focus, and might have a renewed sense of purpose on the team after the meeting. Thoughts? Here are a couple of the lineups that performed well on defense, even though it was primarily against the Clipper’s back ups: Chandler, Robinson, Nurkic, Faried, and Gallinari & Lawson, Faried, Robinson, Nurkic, and Gee, should this be considered luck or defensive lineup genius? Shaw executed a fairly consistent defensive plan, allowing only one of the Clipper’s stars to dominate offensively, that being Blake Griffin.
Three Things We Saw
1. There were just too many turnovers and missed free throws in the first half. The Nuggets were still able to overcome these mental lapses, but it made for a much closer game than it should have been.
2. The 3rd quarter shouldn’t have happened, it would be nice to pretend it never happened, but the Nuggets need to use it as motivation for improvement. Quick stat: Nuggets were outscored 31 to 12 in the 3rd quarter…yikes…They came out way too flat, and I’m unsure of whether or not this falls on the coach or the players. This leads me to question: what are they doing in the locker room during halftime anyway, napping?
3. After a disheartening 3rd quarter, the 4th quarter kicked up a notch in terms of fouls and technicals. The game was out of control at times, but the Nuggets were able to capitalize by making the majority of their free throws in the second half.
Next Up: Saturday, Dec. 20 p.m. (MST) vs. Indiana. Going to the game? Save money and get cheap Denver Nuggets tickets here.
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Rapid Reaction: Houston Rockets 115, Denver Nuggets 111 Thu, 18 Dec 2014 01:30:00 +0000 A fun back and forth game and a spirited Nuggets performance was quelled by one James Harden doing what he does best, leaving Denver 10-15 on the season.
Houston Rockets 115 Final
Recap | Box Score
111 Denver Nuggets
Kenneth Faried, PF 32 MIN | 5-12 FG | 1-2 FT | 11 REB | 2 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 3 TO | 11 PTS | -14Faried’s blunder at the end of regulation kind of sums up his season thus far. He shouldn’t have been put in the position he was on that play and his subsequent drowning led to a critical mistake. Faried spent most of the game bodying up Howard or Motiejunas, and while he was able to outrun them down the court on occasion for some fast breaks, most of these matches ended in the Rockets favor.
Wilson Chandler, SF 35 MIN | 8-17 FG | 2-2 FT | 6 REB | 0 AST | 1 STL | 1 BLK | 2 TO | 23 PTS | -21Chandler’s been great this season. Great. He is has become that wing player every team in the league would love to have on their team, with a bit left to be desired on defense. He’s nailing the three, he’s working off ball screens to perfection, he’s handling the ball when the offense needs him too. Seeing as this is a contract year, it will be interesting to see where Chandler will find himself come season’s end. (My vote is for the Nuggets to sell high, as soon as possible.)
Timofey Mozgov, C 19 MIN | 0-3 FG | 1-2 FT | 6 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 1 PTS | -9If there is any game Mozgov is really supposed to be useful in, its this one, against Houston’s hulking front line. And yet, Shaw spent the majority of the game going small and the time Mozgov was manning his post down low, things didn’t really go all that well. With Nurkic’s lurking in the rotation, Mozgov’s minutes are likely looking to take a bit of a dive.
Ty Lawson, PG 47 MIN | 4-12 FG | 4-4 FT | 1 REB | 16 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 4 TO | 12 PTS | -447 minutes. After two 40-plus minute games earlier in the week and with another game coming up tomorrow night. Shaw has a conundrum with Lawson’s minutes. The team is clearly lackluster on offense without him, directionless even with how Nate Robinson has been playing as of late. But the more exhausted Lawson becomes over the course of the game, the more ineffective he is late. Denver’s playing a zero-sum game with Lawson’s minutes and something has to give at some point.
Arron Afflalo, SG 34 MIN | 7-17 FG | 5-6 FT | 2 REB | 1 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 4 TO | 22 PTS | -1Afflalo, like Chandler, has generally been great this year. He did what little he could against Harden, which ended up being very, very little, but his offense was superb. And he’ll get the plus because lord knows how difficult that shot he hit was to get Denver to overtime.
Darrell Arthur, PF 28 MIN | 5-13 FG | 1-2 FT | 9 REB | 5 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 12 PTS | +10Arthur needs to be playing 30-35 minutes a game minimum. He is too good not to. He’s far and away Denver’s best defender, taking on both Howard and Harden at different point in the game and doing fairly well on both, and his range on offense is always a boon. Anytime Hickson is on the floor these days, Shaw is letting those minutes go to waste. Denver is a better team with DA on the floor. It shouldn’t be that hard to tweak the rotation so he sees it more often.
Danilo Gallinari, SF 26 MIN | 4-8 FG | 4-5 FT | 2 REB | 2 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 16 PTS | -3Started out the game great, he had that deadly pick and roll game with Lawson that Denver used to murder teams with a couple years ago going and the three point shot in transition was there for him. But his jumper faded as the game wore on and he was short on a lot of his second half shots. 25 minutes is a good number for Gallinari to stick with right now, he just needs to be surrounded by the right kind of players, namely Lawson and Arthur.
Jusuf Nurkic, C 17 MIN | 3-6 FG | 0-0 FT | 8 REB | 0 AST | 2 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 6 PTS | +17This kid is going to be good. He really has no idea what he’s doing on offense yet but that’s okay because his mere presence on the court does enough on both sides of the ball. He already has a knack to get his massive hands in the way of passing lanes and Denver’s offense clicked well when the ball was in his hand and a cutter would wheel around him to the basket. He also gave Howard a lot of problems, which begs the question why he didn’t see the floor at all late in the game.
J.J. Hickson, C 21 MIN | 4-8 FG | 0-0 FT | 5 REB | 2 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 8 PTS | +5Hickson played 15 minutes too many in this game. With Faried, Arthur, Nurkic, and Mozgov all solidly in the rotation, Hickson does not need to see the floor this much. He bring nothing to the table that the four other bigs on the team don’t already have. You don’t need him to play small anymore and you don’t need him to go big. Denver doesn’t need him.
Nate Robinson, PG 6 MIN | 0-3 FG | 0-0 FT | 1 REB | 2 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 0 PTS | 0Likely the biggest culprit for Lawson’s massive minutes load. Robinson has been really bad of late, so bad that the offense can’t be put in his hands for more than five minutes at a time. This is going to be a big problem if things don’t change soon, Lawson can only take so much of the point guard responsibility.
Brian Shaw
While not too many of them came back to bite him in the end, there were a lot of curious decisions in this game. Why was there so little Nurkic late? Why stick with Faried on Motiejunas and Hickson/Arthur on Howard for so long? Why trot out a lineup of Lawson, Gallo, Arthur, Hickson, Faried at all, in any context, for any period of time? What the hell was that last play of regulation supposed to be? Because any play that involves Faried doing anything but diving at the rim after a shot attempt is a poor one. Still, staying small at the end of the game did have its benefits as Faried and Arthur proved a decent enough combo to slow Houston up late in the fourth. But his love of Hickson and refusal to play Nurkic more than 20 minutes a game likely did not help matters either.
One Thing We Saw
1. It was brief, but I really liked what I saw out of the Lawson-Chandler-Gallo-Faried-Nurkic lineup. Chandler and Gallinari where just curling around Faried and Nurkic screens possession after possession hunting for threes, and they ended up giving Houston’s defense a lot of problems. I’d like to see more of this in the future.
Next up: Thursday, Dec. 18, 7 p.m. (MST) vs. Los Angeles. Going to the game? Save money and get cheap Denver Nuggets tickets here.
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Rumors: Nuggets interested in Lance Stephenson, could field offers for Chandler Tue, 16 Dec 2014 04:32:58 +0000 The Denver Nuggets continue to be mentioned in trade rumors, this time in connection with the mercurial Lance Stephenson. After Denver’s small forward Wilson Chandler was mentioned in connection with the Oklahoma City Thunder earlier this week, Sam Amico of Fox Sports Ohio named the Nuggets in a roundup of Lance Stephenson trade rumors Monday.
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Rapid Reaction: San Antonio Spurs 99, Denver Nuggets 91 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000 An exhausted Nuggets team fought about as much as they could in the second half, but the double whammy of a rested and superior team in the Spurs proved too much.
San Antonio Spurs 99 Final
Recap | Box Score
91 Denver Nuggets
Wilson Chandler, SF 36 MIN | 6-10 FG | 0-0 FT | 3 REB | 3 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 14 PTS | -9Chandler was probably the biggest reason Denver stayed in the game. A couple transition threes here a few steals there and Chandler had the Nuggets back in it. His stint guarding Kawhi didn’t go great, but other than that this was the kind of game Denver needs from Chandler.
J.J. Hickson, C 16 MIN | 1-2 FG | 2-2 FT | 6 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 1 BLK | 1 TO | 4 PTS | -9Hickson had a solid game. He ran the floor on both offense and defense (a rarity) and his defense inside was better than usual.
Timofey Mozgov, C 24 MIN | 4-12 FG | 3-4 FT | 13 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 2 BLK | 0 TO | 11 PTS | 0Mozgov’s jumper is just good enough that he’ll take it when he’s wide open but just bad enough that defenses will never mind not closing out on him. Which generally means it’s not worth taking the shot. Still, the widely inconsistent jumper is probably better than his ability shooting around the rim. His defense remains solid and his rebounding very good, but Nurkic is coming for that job.
Ty Lawson, PG 39 MIN | 2-10 FG | 2-4 FT | 2 REB | 10 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 4 TO | 6 PTS | -6At this point, Ty Lawson is still fresh enough that the signs of the wear and tear of playing forty odd minutes in back to back games haven’t really surfaced yet, but everyone can see them coming. The offense was run mostly through Afflalo and Robinson late in the game because Lawson was likely too tired to dive into the teeth of the defense possession after possession, as he is wont to do. Which begs the question, given his shaky start as an off ball shooter, why is he out there at all? There’s going to be a breaking point if this continues, and, if history is anything to go by, it’ll likely come at the worst possible time.
Arron Afflalo, SG 40 MIN | 12-20 FG | 3-3 FT | 5 REB | 1 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 6 TO | 31 PTS | -3Afflalo is getting much better at running the offense as Denver’s primary offensive weapon. Denver seems comfortable enough with him now that they are content to give him the ball and let him go. That said, I’ve seen about enough possessions begin with trying to get Afflalo the ball in the post. He’s rarely going up against a smaller defender and he is not a good enough post player to beat a regular defender on a consistent basis. Throw in the Nuggets paltry amount of decent post entry-passers and this play is almost always a recipe for disaster. Have Afflalo stick to operating at the top of the key, initiating the pick and roll, or have him bouncing around screens hunting for the corners–the things he truly excels at. When the offense sticks to using Afflalo as he is meant to be used, he can have games like this one.
Darrell Arthur, PF 21 MIN | 3-7 FG | 0-0 FT | 4 REB | 1 AST | 3 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 8 PTS | 0I really like how Arthur operates the offense from the top of the key. He has the shooting and passing ability to make the defense pay in multiple ways. His defense was solid as it always is in this game, but there were a couple of times he gambled off a shooter when he shouldn’t have. Still, it’s hard to miss Faried with Arthur’s ability to defend both rangy and powerful bigs.
Alonzo Gee, SF 17 MIN | 2-6 FG | 1-2 FT | 2 REB | 1 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 3 TO | 5 PTS | -4Alonzo Gee is not good. Gee spent the beginning of the game with a green light on offense that should’ve been red, if not just off. The amount of minutes he got in this game is where Denver really misses Gallo. Putting him on Leonard was a crime, on both sides of the ball. To be fair to Gee, though, Denver threw everything they had at Leonard, Afflalo, Chandler, double teams, it didn’t matter. Kawhi is just a force of nature. And that dunk to cut the lead to five late in the fourth wasn’t too bad either. (It was just everything else he did in the game).
Jusuf Nurkic, C 18 MIN | 3-7 FG | 4-5 FT | 8 REB | 1 AST | 1 STL | 1 BLK | 3 TO | 10 PTS | -11Nurkic was good on defense in flashes, his athletic ability enables him to make plays no other big on the team really can. But he’s still a rookie and the Spurs picked on him enough to make him a liability on that end. He did have a pass early in the second quarter from the top of the key to a cutting Arthur that should make every Nuggets fan excited for his future. And going toe to toe with Duncan late in a close game is not too bad of an accomplishment either.
Gary Harris, SG 14 MIN | 0-2 FG | 0-0 FT | 0 REB | 1 AST | 3 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 0 PTS | +5Gary Harris is going to be a really good defender. His length makes passing around him hell and he has an acute sense of when to attack a ball handler or cut off a shooter before he even sees the ball. His offense though…needs work. If he can ever nail down that three point shot, he’ll be an extremely valuable asset for Denver going forward.
Brian Shaw
He did what he could with a shortened rotation and a tired team. Gee probably saw too many minutes, especially late, but having Nurkic in the game for as long and as late as he did shows progress.
Up Next: Wednesday, Dec. 17, 8:30 (MST) vs. Houston. Going to the game? Save money and get cheap Denver Nuggets tickets here.
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RuPaul's All Stars Drag Race, "Ru's Gaff-in" Responses
Talking television.
Oct. 30 2012 3:20 PM
RuPaul's All Stars Drag Race
Is Untucked better than Drag Race?
Chad Michaels reconnects with her father on Untucked.
Regarding the damage Hurricane Sandy visited upon much of the East Coast over the past 24 hours, I’ll just parrot the supremely appropriate words of Scissor Sisters’ Ana Matronic: “Ooh girl, she’s been a bitch tonight!” If the dearth of recaps of last night’s episode on the web this afternoon is any indication, I gather that many queens have had to take their kikis offline for the time being (rude, Sandy!). But like Sally Field laughing through her tears, I’ll try to make the best of a bad situation and address a couple of commenter points that have arisen over the past week.
J. Bryan Lowder J. Bryan Lowder
First, I absolutely share RMIsaac’s sentiment that last evening’s Untucked—the back-stage, bonus footage jaunt that follows Drag Race—was the better show. RMIssac found the queens discussion of their relationships with their fathers “very moving and emotional,” and observed that “it’s a shame that kind of material isn’t in the main show.” A shame, indeed. After an estrangement lasting 25 years, drag veteran Chad Michaels was treated to a video postcard from his very straight father in which dad apologized for the lost time and expressed an interest in reconnecting. Suffice to say, the queens were lucky to be wearing waterproof mascara.
The moment highlighted an issue that often goes unrecognized when we talk about the acceptance of LGBT kids by their families: how you express gender is often more of a bugaboo than who you sleep with. It is just a matter of fact that a “traditionally masculine” gay man will have it easier than a man who makes his living performing as Cher. Gender expression, it seems to me, is the true frontier in the battle for acceptance.
But deeper emotions aside, I’ve often felt that Untucked was the superior show in terms of humor (especially compared to last night’s dreary reanimation of 60s game show kitsch). Perhaps it’s a matter of taste—I much prefer the queens’ dishier moments to Drag Race’s often arbitrary competitive conceits—but, in any case, I will heartily recommend that you start watching Untucked if you aren’t already.
Now, I’d like to quickly address a point that commenter Syzygy raised on last week’s post; namely, a sense of sadness that Drag Race “has gotten so mainstream” as to merit TV Club coverage in a general interest publication like Slate. Syzygy continues: “I guess it's only a matter of time now before drag culture is mined out of everything that made it special. Bad enough that our only network is catering to straight people now, but we gays can't have even just one show to ourselves?”
To be honest, I actually share Syzygy’s trepidation about the mainstreaming of gay culture, at least in a general sense. I strongly believe in the existence and importance of such a subculture, and I worry that a certain assimilationist impulse hidden in the guise of “we’re all the same” political rhetoric threatens to render that subculture so bland as to make it meaningless, if not to kill it off entirely. A holdout in the age of Grindr, I want gay bars to survive!
But here’s the thing: RuPaul’s Drag Race, as high-profile as it may seem to be becoming, manages to maintain its bite. Ru insists on dealing in a mix of aesthetic values, slang, humor, camp sensibility, and pop cultural knowledge that, while theoretically open to all, are not accessible to the uninitiated without some effort. The show’s understanding of categories like gender, family and beauty are still uncommon and, if I can toss out an overused word, fairly subversive.
All of which is to say: I don’t think covering the show a little on Slate or elsewhere threatens to undermine the specialness of drag or gay culture. For some, the show will simply entertain on the level of funny men traipsing around in dresses, while for others, it will broadcast deeper pleasures on higher frequencies. And that’s the brilliance of the thing: everyone’s invited to the kiki. | http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/tv_club/features/2012/rupaul_s_all_stars_drag_race_reviewed/week_2/_rupaul_s_all_stars_drag_race_episode_2_responses.html | dclm-gs1-271030000 |
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May-June 1995
For Want of Fertile Land
by David Batstone | May-June 1995
Chiapas unrest is international in scope.
Sunday once marked a sleepy end of the week in San Cristóbal de las Casas, a historic town situated high in the mountains of Chiapas in Southern Mexico. It was God's day, the day of rest.
Not any more. Everyone is in "unrest" in Chiapas at present, seven days a week. Even God is said to be on the move.
On Sunday, February 19, 1995, more than 500 ranchers and business leaders marched on the cathedral of San Cristóbal and attacked a sizable crowd of churchgoers, mostly of Maya descent. The angry demonstrators pelted them with rocks and eggs. According to eye witnesses, six elderly indigenous women saying rosary in front of the church door were among the first hit. Blood ran down the back of 90-year-old Joaquina Pineda, struck in the back of the head by a hurling object.
Most of the indigenous were there to protect their bishop. Word had spread during the morning Mass that Chiapas' powerful landowners were planning a march on the cathedral to pressure (or capture, some say) Bishop Samuel Ruiz, who resides and works on the site. So when demonstrators arrived carrying banners demanding Ruiz's resignation, they met the bishop's supporters, standing silently, preventing them from entering the cathedral.
The Catholic Church and Bishop Samuel Ruiz have been a lightning rod of controversy ever since rebels took over four towns in Chiapas on New Year's Day 1994, the beginning of Mexico's first armed insurgency in nearly two decades.
Local ranchers commonly refer to Ruiz as "el obispo rojo" ("the red bishop"), charging that he has fanned the flames of discontentment among poor peasants by preaching class struggle. The Mexican government, too, while agreeing to allow him to serve as chief mediator in its conflict with the Zapatistas, implicate him in being a primary force behind the rebellion.
Bishop Ruiz, long used to being underestimated by Mexico's power brokers, ironically is now a victim of their exaggeration. He attributes his current high profile as one more case of racism: "They are God's people, every one of them-just as much as a white person is. But 1,000 Indians do not matter when one white person speaks out."
RUIZ WAS NAMED BISHOP of San Cristóbal de las Casas, with oversight for surrounding rural areas, in 1960. Early in his tenure, he made it clear that it was a Christian responsibility to put the church's resources at the service of the indigenous people. Throughout the 1960s he trained pastoral workers (priests, religious men and women, lay catechism teachers) to organize peasant cooperatives, taught that Indian culture and traditions were beautiful and should be preserved, and announced that radical egalitarianism was the only solution to the social sin that beset Chiapas.
Ruiz and his pastoral team concentrated much of their efforts in Las Cañadas, a number of settlements lying in the Lacandón rain forest near the border with Guatemala. They translated the biblical book of Exodus into the Tzeltal language and taught a messianic message of deliverance.
Initially, it seemed like the kingdom of God indeed had arrived in the Lacandón jungle. Since the settlements were so isolated, corrupt governmental institutions left them alone, the land was fertile, and there was plenty of space for everyone.
But paradise was short-lived. Landless peasants from throughout Chiapas continued to stream into the region, as did Maya refugees from Guatemala who fled their army's genocidal effort to eradicate Guatemalan guerrillas. To make matters worse, the jungle land was practically unsuitable for corn farming, the staple of Maya life, and within a few years the soil began to lose its fertility.
The severe tensions in Chiapas caused by the maldistribution of arable land were not unique in Mexico during the 1960s and 1970s. The intensity of church work among peasants in an isolated community was. In addition to religious organizing, a number of politically radical groups helped form a "union of unions" among the settlements. The mix of Maya wisdom that no one person should be above any other, the church's goal of empowering all members of a community, and the political organizers' belief in social mobilization translated into a dynamic revolutionary force. But it was by no means a guerrilla army.
Subcommandante Marcos, by his own account, arrived in Chiapas in 1983 with several other companions, all of whom were convinced that change in Mexican society would never be won through the ballot box. They called themselves the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), named after Emiliano Zapata, the peasant leader of Mexico's 1917 revolution.
In the early 1980s, the majority of peasants in Las Cañadas still believed that community building, compassionate practices, and political action could solve their social crises. Even up until 1985 the EZLN had only 12 members.
Within a few years, however, at least three major political events deflated the optimism of Chiapas' peasantry: (1) the central government's passivity after the international collapse of coffee prices in 1989; (2) an amendment to Mexico's Constitution in 1992 that made peasant control of land vulnerable; and (3) discussions of a trade agreement with the United States (NAFTA) that would dramatically increase the flow of cheap food imports against which they could not compete.
Beginning in 1989 a majority of the settlements in Las Cañadas voted to invite the armed outsiders to start training them in the use of arms, and the EZLN began to swell by the end of 1992. "We, the dead of hunger, the ones with no name, the ones with no face" is how the Zapatista rebels began referring to themselves. They felt desperate, angry, and neglected. Four years later they went to war.
FOR SIX MONTHS LEADING up to the New Year's Day rebellion, Ruiz had been aware that the Zapatistas, the ranks of which were now filled with members of the religious base communities, were on the brink of declaring war. He worked arduously to convince them that violence would only turn on itself.
Ruiz is convinced that a "spiral of violence," once unleashed, creates deep social rifts that are not easily resolved even once the weapons stop firing. Several of the Maya leaders told Ruiz that the social conditions did not allow any other path. Surely they had no chance against the Mexican army, they agreed, but at least armed resistance might open up a space for a different kind of negotiation. Ruiz was torn by his beliefs in self-determination, for people to choose their own way, and nonviolence.
Immediately after the initial offensive of the Zapatista front, Bishop Ruiz reiterated his support for Chiapas' indigenous population despite the fact many of them had rejected his nonviolent path. "I have heard people in the plaza say, 'Those damned Indians, I hate them now more than ever,'" he told a crowd gathered for Sunday Mass. "But our brothers and sisters living under oppression have given up hope....They have made a call, a scream, about their condition."
At the same time, Ruiz made an urgent plea for negotiations toward a prolonged cease-fire that would also treat the subject of land distribution. By February, government representatives and Zapatista leaders met in the San Cristóbal cathedral, with Ruiz as mediator. Little was resolved in the way of land distribution, but an armed truce was reached that lasted for nearly a year.
By the end of the year relations began to fray. In December, the Mexican army began building up troops, and the Zapatistas responded by blocking roads, claiming several towns under their control, and declaring that war was imminent.
Desperate to stop renewed hostilities that he feared would lead to the massacre of innocent indigenous villages, the 70-year-old Ruiz began a hunger strike. Ruiz had fasted for only two weeks when both sides agreed to return to the negotiating table. Many political observers compared Ruiz's act to the role Gandhi once played in India.
But other pressures were being placed as well on the new Mexican president, Ernesto Zedillo, to resolve the crisis militarily. The international finance community, whose security in Mexico was the fundamental purpose of the NAFTA agreement, was getting impatient. Nearly a week after Ruiz ended his fast, an internal memo circulated at Chase Manhattan Bank, which has billions of dollars at risk in Mexico via its "Emerging Markets Group," advising, "The government will have to eliminate the Zapatistas to demonstrate their effective control of the national territory and security policy."
In a dramatic move to break the stalemate in Chiapas, Zedillo ordered troops and federal police agents into rebel territory in early February 1995, ostensibly to arrest rebel commanders. Ruiz rather saw it as an effort to gain effective military control over areas supportive of the Zapatista movement. "This [offensive] is opting for a solution of war," he said.
MEXICAN SOLDIERS, who on the night of the invasion were ordered to hassle groups critical of the army's presence in the region, got a surprise when they showed up at a human rights office in San Cristóbal at midnight. Not only did they find as expected human rights workers from the local community, but also a handful of gringos, notebooks and pens in hand. The soldiers made a quick search for weapons and left.
The North Americans were members of Servicio Internacional para la Paz (SIPAZ), a team of nonviolent guardians who had traveled to Chiapas for this very purpose. Ruiz, wise to the international elements of the conflict, had called on a number of religious and humanitarian organizations for help.
The first SIPAZ team had been in the country only a few days when the February invasion of Chiapas began. It was baptism by fire. After the military arrived at both of San Cristóbal's human rights offices on the night of the invasion, the local Chiapas staff asked the SIPAZ team if they could spend the night in their quarters in another part of town for reasons of safety. The military returned an hour later, ransacking the office and taking files. "It was like the McCarthy era but people were coming after you with guns," reported SIPAZ co-coordinator David Hartsough.
SIPAZ wants to play an active role in promoting conditions that would make a dialogue in the region possible. The broader conflict in Chiapas is over land. Indian communities carried out more than 2,000 occupations of idle land last year alone. The private ranchers who own the property rarely hesitate to evict them with violence, often with their own paramilitary forces. SIPAZ plans to explore ways that "common ground" might be found in these disputes.
Ruiz is now convinced that, due to the pressures of foreign investors, it will take an international effort to convince the Mexican government to return to the road of negotiation. "They are more concerned here about image and coverup than the actual problems in the area. Instead of saying, 'Why did this happen?' they say, 'This will make us look bad.'"
The late-20th century has served as a stage for the globalization of production, distribution, and exchange. In that historical context, many peace activists have come to the conclusion that the cliché "Think globally, act locally" now may need adjusting. Transnational conflicts demand transnational responses. n
DAVID BATSTONE is professor of religion and culture at the University of San Francisco, and the author, most recently, of New Visions for the Americas (Fortress Press, 1993).
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Thoran Rodrigues explains how the shift to cloud services gives power back to consumers by eliminating a lot of the disadvantages of vendor lock-in.
For a long time, the power in the IT industry has been in the hands of the providers. This is due to three industry characteristics that, while still present, are beginning to change. The first is the pricing and investment model. In a traditional hardware/software model, the deployment of any IT system has potentially large initial investment costs: the cost of purchasing necessary hardware and software licenses, project development costs, and so on. This large initial investment contributes to vendor lock-in, since customers are usually unwilling to make these expenses a second time in order to change providers. The lack of interoperability between systems is the second. The harder it is to move your stuff from one system to another, the less likely it is that you will even be willing to try the new system. Even worse, this resistance to change tends to increase over time, since people will have more and more data stored, and will be used to the way the current systems work. This does not mean that new systems are necessarily better, but if users are unwilling to try them out, they'll never know. Finally, the lack of transparency regarding pricing models and structure is the third source of power. It allowed providers to come up with complex pricing structures that make any sort of price comparison nearly impossible. In order to compare prices, customers are forced to get in touch with salespeople and request proposals, going through a lengthy process. And the high initial investment makes any "try it out first" movement much harder.
A consumer-friendly cloud
Fortunately for IT consumers, the shift to services, and especially cloud-based services, has been steadily shifting this power back into the hands of consumers. First, cloud computing has a great potential to democratize IT solutions by eliminating the entry barriers into this market. It can eliminate entry barriers for consumers by removing the need for upfront investment. It is much easier for a small start-up to have dozens or even hundreds of server instances running at a given time, without the need to buy these servers, build a data center, or anything else.
The cloud also reduces barriers for providers. Being on the web allows any new provider to easily reach a much broader audience without the need for large marketing investments. It also simplifies distribution, since cloud-based software usually runs on the browser, with no need for installation procedures. This, in turn, simplifies support, since the problem of variability in client machine configuration is reduced.
Having more providers means having more competition, and this also means more power to consumers. The more competition there is, the more pressure is made towards lower prices, improved and diversified offerings, and better service. We are already seeing benefits of competition in the cloud space: the only reason Rackspace dropped its inbound data-transfer fees was because all its competitors were doing it - and advertising that Rackspace didn't. This is another important point in cloud-based services. Providers of all sorts, from infrastructure to software, are adopting simpler pricing models to better engage customers. Unlike what we saw before, providers are fully advertising their prices, making it easier for consumers to compare different offerings. This price and feature transparency is second nature to cloud companies, because it is part of what we have come to expect from the web. I should be able to compare prices of cloud services in the same way that I can compare the price of physical products across several web retailers. Finally, we are seeing much improved interoperability between services. This is especially true for cloud-based software offerings. While lack of interoperability was interesting for in-house software vendors because it created vendor lock-in, users already come to the cloud with the expectation of being able to easily export the data. The very nature of the way that software is sold in the cloud, on a pay-as-you-go model, strengthens the idea that if the user may cancel his contract at any time, he should be able to export his data from my service at any given time. Yes, there are still limitations and format inconsistencies, but many competing cloud-based software providers already offer automated import/export of data from their competitors.
The same thing, to a certain extent, happens with infrastructure providers. In theory, if my application is properly designed to run on cloud instances, it should make no great difference to me if it is running on an Amazon, Rackspace, or anyone else's cloud server. In fact, I should be able to run on whichever instance is the cheapest one at that time.
The cloud model, then, is much more consumer-friendly than any in-house model, either for software or for servers. The logic is similar to what happens in any other service: if I need to go to a dentist when I'm a child, I don't have to purchase a dentist's chair and instruments, and my dental records are not kept in a format that only that dentist will understand. If I want to change dentists in the future, all I have to do is take my records with me and visit another one. The same goes for the cloud: there is no upfront investment, and the information is more accessible, so any future migration is much easier.
I would see cloud can lessen vendor lock-in but at the same time cuts freedom of choices.
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Try moving from Hotmail to Gmail or Google Apps. You can move your email and your contacts fairly easily for a single user. Now do it for an enterprise. Regardless of how easy it is to move the contents of your account, how hard is it to move your email address. Unlike cell phones, I don't believe you can move your email address from one provider to another. How about moving from SalesForce.com to QuickBase CRM or Really Simple Systems CRM. Again, you can move over a single person company fairly easily. Not so with an enterprise. How about moving from an Azure-based system to an Amazon AWS-based system? Hmmm.... not so easy. I seriously doubt that a cloud-based system gives you any less vendor lock in than an on-premise system. I'd argue that cloud based system are even harder to migrate away from because you often have no access to the underlying data store. I can move from PeopleSoft to SAP (ok, not easily, but I can do it) because I have direct access to the data and the APIs in an on-premise installation. Using hosted alternatives there is generally no access to the underlying data and customers are completely dependent on whatever APIs (usually web services or REST services) the vendor chooses to make available.
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NTAPRO TS Enthusiast Posts: 811 +91
Thanks Al Gore :D
2. 25 and still based on antiquated and inefficient HTML protocols. 2 browsers cannot display the same page equally.
And the only REAL advances, named Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight, have been "banned" by a company named "Apple".
Happy 25th birthday Web. You're still an infant.
3. I remember the first time I saw Mosaic in early 1994. Even then when there weren't a ton of places to go, and most were all text -- it was clearly awesome and seemed likely to only get better, which obviously it did.
4. Puiu
Puiu TS Evangelist Posts: 1,104 +112
40% of the world goes online ... this means we still have a lot of work ahead of us.
5. Puiu
Puiu TS Evangelist Posts: 1,104 +112
trust me flash sucks :D whenever I make a website it's flash that breaks things
6. As someone who was helping run and into the BBS and MUD scene I saw this coming a long way off though could certainly not imagine how it would completely transform the world.
7. Wait, who is Tim Berners-Lee? I thought Al Gore was the Father of the Web.
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8. JC713
JC713 TS Evangelist Posts: 7,082 +920
I love the timeline! Awesome work.
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9. Where is ICQ?
10. learninmypc
learninmypc TS Evangelist Posts: 5,480 +245
I'm not going to complain one bit. I'm very grateful to have a computer & able to be online. Not to mention I'm very grateful to the knowledgeable guys & gals here at TS that have helped me considerably. Long live the internet
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11. DKRON
DKRON TS Enthusiast Posts: 567 +13
Where is myspace? just me?
12. learninmypc
learninmypc TS Evangelist Posts: 5,480 +245
It all depends on how one reads the other comments. :)
13. Cobalt006
Cobalt006 TS Maniac Posts: 1,864 +187
It is listed in the time line. March of 1995.
14. learninmypc
learninmypc TS Evangelist Posts: 5,480 +245
15. KarenInChicago
KarenInChicago TS Rookie
The web wasn't really available to everyone and user-friendly until a browser was employed, enabling just about anyone to search for info. That was in April I'd say the web as we know it is barely 21. Almost old enough to drink!
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16. wastedkill
wastedkill TS Maniac Posts: 1,193 +246
You missed out the timeline where the government created the internet.
17. Nothing about p2p and nothing about internet speed, also what's the big deal with facebook?
18. Phr3d
Phr3d TS Rookie Posts: 26
Facebook and CGA icons aka T I L E S
alta vista was the search-engine of '93, great fun, endless links.
I reached alta vista et al with America Online and my 1200 baud racal vadic analog modem (I.e., speeds ignored).
usenet barely mentioned
Diablo I and multi-geographic multi-player gaming on battlenet
and nothing worth noting happened for four years.. hm..
19. Railman
Railman TS Enthusiast Posts: 671 +96
Internet speed is down to infrastructure. As such it does not represent a WWW milestage any more than the introduction of 4 core CPUs. Also p2p is something that uses the Internet and is not part of the WWW.
Frankly I understand your feelings towards Facebook but it is a service that utilises the WWW and is popular with people.
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I can't read this fast anymore, any references to 1979, BBS, pre-internet arrival?
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Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres says paratroopers will be dispatched to western border where protesters have clashed
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The Venezuelan military plans to send additional troops to a border region where unrest has been particularly fierce, officials said, as the government faced growing criticism for its heavy-handed attempt to subdue a protest movement with nighttime sweeps that have turned many parts of the country into dangerous free-fire zones.
The interior minister, Miguel Rodriguez Torres, said a battalion of paratroopers would be dispatched to the state of Tachira, on the western border with Colombia, where protesters have clashed with police and national guard units, bringing the state capital, San Cristobal, to a halt.
"These units will enable the city to function, so food can get in, so people can go about their normal lives," Rodriguez said. "It's simply meant to restore order."
Members of the opposition have accused the government of President Nicolás Maduro of leaning too heavily on the military as well as police and civilian militias to squash opposition to his socialist government.
San Cristobal's vice-mayor, Sergio Vergara, a member of the opposition, said the government had already cut off vital services including public transportation and the internet, to crack down on what had been peaceful protests.
The presence of 3,000 troops in a city of 600,000, Vergara said, was "effectively part of an effort at repression being played out by the government across the country".
Violence has been escalating across Venezuela since an opposition rally on 12 February that turned violent and left three people dead. Since then, there have been at least three more deaths as well as dozens of injuries and arrests.
Police, national guard troops and members of private militias have swarmed through streets in the capital and elsewhere firing volleys, at times indiscriminately, in repeated spasms of nighttime violence in recent days.
Henrique Capriles, the two-time presidential candidate of an opposition coalition, said the government had engaged in "brutal repression" as it went after students and other protesters, in some cases breaking into apartment buildings to arrest those it accused of taking part in an attempted coup.
"What does the government want, a civil war?" Capriles asked at a news conference.
David Smolansky, an opposition mayor of a district in Caracas, said the country was passing through the harshest wave of political persecution in decades with the response to the protests and the jailing of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez. "If this isn't a totalitarian system then I don't know what can explain what is happening in this country," Smolansky said. | http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/21/venezuela-troops-border-protests-police | dclm-gs1-271230000 |
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What if they held a presidential election and neither guy won? Or a dead man from Missouri defeated an incumbent Republican senator? Or two gazillionaire Democrats picked up crucial Senate seats for the party of the working class? Or the two major parties spent $3 billion to accomplish this muddled outcome? In the end, Election 2000 generated an adrenaline high from just such bizarre results. It also provided a dispiriting snapshot of the stalemated political system that governs the nation. Neither George W. Bush nor Al Gore was able to close the sale with American voters. One of them is bound to be our next President, regardless.
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The long-count election is not yet decided as this is written, and it would be imprudent--even stupid--to speculate on the final outcome. It is interesting, however, to consider how Gore might proceed with regard to the contested Florida vote. He can strike a statesmanlike pose and accept the recount result without protest, if it shows Bush as the winner; he can use surrogates to talk about voting irregularities; or he can go on the attack, personally suggesting he fears the election has been stolen and that he has a duty to fight. If Gore backs the third option, it will be a declaration of war on the Republicans. As we go to press, complaints of irregularities in the Florida voting are mounting, raising the prospect that the recount will devolve into endless legal challenges.
If Bush is elected, he will be forever known as the President who came in second with voters, then was rescued by the Electoral College. That lame status should inhibit--if not immobilize--any ability to make radical changes, but Bush could also be facing a 50/50 party split in the Senate, where, as a practical matter, sixty votes are needed to legislate the big-ticket measures.
Ironically, if Gore should win, the Democrats would lose a Senate seat because Joe Lieberman got greedy and insisted on running for two offices at once. It will take awhile for the political community to absorb these and other oddities, but a few strong messages are already confirmed. Leave aside the personal weaknesses of the two candidates or other forms of second-guessing. The principal message is that neither major party is convincing to most Americans. Neither has a hold on a governing majority.
Yet we find a lot of hopeful evidence in this election that the Democratic Party now has a progressive opening to the future--if Democrats find the wit and will to pursue it aggressively. The hard-right issues, from racial antagonism to cultural intolerance, flamed out in this election, so much so that their candidate dared not invoke them. Bush instead borrowed pages from Bill Clinton's playbook and sprinkled his campaign blueprint with feel-good symbolic measures. (Which is not to say that this reflected how he would govern; Newt-style harshness is out of vogue, but it may be that it has been replaced by a stealth conservatism--a veil of ersatz compassion that conceals a hard-core agenda.)
The re-energized ranks of organized labor, meanwhile, demonstrated their capacity to mobilize voters in state after state--an important marker for which way Democrats must turn if they hope to regain Congressional majorities two years from now. Albert Gore was frequently inept--actually tone-deaf--as a presidential candidate, but his balloon lifted when he framed the choice as "the people against the powerful" and sagged when he blurred his differences with Bush. Ralph Nader, though he failed to get 5 percent and public funding for the Green Party, raised left-liberal progressive ideas the Democratic Party has shunned during the Clinton era. From campaign finance reform to universal healthcare, restless public opinion is ready to be led in new directions.
It requires only a look at who voted for Gore to see the truth of this desire for more progressive goals and a roadmap of how to get there: Union families were more than one-fourth of the popular vote and voted nearly 2 to 1 for Gore; African-Americans came out in large numbers and voted 10 to 1 for Gore; pro-choice women helped give Gore an 11-point lead among female voters. These numbers make it hard to take Nader's suggestion that it was his presence in the race--and the 2 or 3 percent the Greens captured--that will make Democrats take progressives in their own party more seriously.
The opportunities are also the principal dilemma for Democrats. Breaking out of the stalemate would require them to take a deep breath and choose between their financial patrons in business and finance or the ranks of alienated citizens who might actually restore the party to majority status. To do the latter, Democrats would not only have to relearn an authentic politics beyond focus groups and soundbites but also break up the big media's mindless monopoly on political communications. The choice is especially threatening to the "New Democrat" syllogism promoted by the Democratic Leadership Council and the conservative corporate interests that finance it. Gore, after all, was the DLC candidate and, along with Lieberman, sincerely committed to its business-first mantra. But the strength of the base vote now makes it harder for the DLC to persuade nervous Democrats that rebuilding the party requires further moves to the right.
When the understandable recriminations are exhausted, forward-looking politicians should come to recognize that the Democratic Party cannot win without its progressive wing and its reform values. If Democrats want to grow as a share of the electorate and avoid the risk of Green challenges, they could do so by incorporating some elements of Nader's agenda into their own. Given the deep skepticism that surrounds big politics, they will have to do so convincingly, that is, by mobilizing public support on controversial issues, not on cheap slogans. Those Democrats committed to the DLC version may, of course, persist in that direction, but they could find themselves facing Green opponents down the road, candidates who can't win but can draw off a decisive sliver of votes. In that event, the Democratic Party would become still weaker while it searches for its soul.
Another inescapable message of Election 2000--one of Nader's main themes but also the banner held aloft by Republican maverick John McCain--is the public's utter disgust with the money-drenched political system. Their rhetoric notwithstanding, Democrats have become deeply complicit in the scandalous relationships of money politics, during the Clinton years and before. These habits are hard to break, of course, especially when most Republicans have no desire to change anything. But the only way for Democrats to liberate themselves and reconnect with citizens at large is to lead the fight for serious reform, including public financing for challengers, regardless of who sits in the White House. Getting serious again about such fundamental issues would revive the party's spirits, but it also requires a little courage--political risk-taking in behalf of larger values. In the muddled circumstances of national political stalemate, the future may belong to those who find the nerve to forget the polling and instead rehabilitate connections with real people.
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On this week's installment of Hawaii Five-0, we were treated to the news that Joe White is moving to the island, while the team investigated the death of a Navy SEAL.
What can viewers look forward to next Monday night? An episode titled "Mea Makamae," for starters, which translates to "treasure." And why is this relevant? Because the key death of the episode will be a deep-sea diver known for his valuable shipwreck discovers.
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Nu-Anh Tran"History of the Southern Resistance or History of the Communist Resistance?: Vietnam’s Official Interpretation of the Resistance War (1945-1954) in the South," review of Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến (History of the Southern Resistance), edited by Hội Đồng Chỉ Đạo Biên Soạn Lịch Sử Nam Bộ Kháng Chiến, Cold War International History ProjectOctober 2014.
Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến (History of the Southern Resistance; herafter HSR) examines four decades of communist-led resistance against foreign domination and invasion in southern Vietnam. Written under the aegis of the Vietnamese state, the project was headed by a steering committee composed of high-ranking cadres and government officials, and a team of historians and party leaders, especially those with backgrounds in propaganda and education (tuyên giáo, tuyên huấn), carried out the research. The book attempts to capture the totality of the southern resistance within a single narrative and currently includes two hefty volumes totaling over 2,600 pages (the project appears to include plans for additional volumes). But the authors are also highly selective in their approach and have produced a history of the communist party during the resistance rather than a history the resistance as such. Readers unfamiliar with Vietnamese state-sponsored research will be surprised to find that the authors often do not appear adhere to familiar scholarly objectives. Indeed, the volumes are more concerned with demonstrating axiomatic truths about Vietnamese history than explaining the past. This review attempts to evaluate HSR on its own terms by examining these truths and how they shape the interpretation of the resistance war (1945-1954).
Foremost among the historical axioms are the following claims: southern Vietnamese people possess an inherent Vietnamese essence as well as a unique regional character, and Vietnamese communists are the legitimate leaders of the resistance. In the foreword (“Lời nói đầu”), former prime minister and chair of the steering committee Võ Văn Kiệt asserts that southerners have always maintained their Vietnamese identity despite their distance from the historical heartland of Vietnamese civilization in the north: “Though far from their native place, all southerners always hear, echoing from the bottom of their hearts, their Vietnamese roots, their origins as ‘the children of Lạc, the grandchildren of Hồng’ and as the descendants of the Hùng kings.’”[1] Võ Văn Kiệt links Vietnamese identity with myths associated with premodern northern Vietnam, including the Hùng kings, Lạc lords, and the Hồng Bàng dynasty, but offers no empirical evidence for southern self-perception or the prevalence of the myths in the south. The former prime minister also avers that the southern character had “taken shape” (định hình) by the late nineteenth century, but only communist leadership enabled southerners to “perfect” (hoàn thiện) their character: “[T]he character of the southerner continued to develop towards perfection, uplifted by the appearance of the Vietnamese working class, beginning in Saigon, and, along with the current of the times, by the spread of Nguyễn Ái Quốc’s patriotism and consciousness of resistance among ordinary southerners, and by the Vietnamese Communist Party’s leadership of the revolution.”[2] Nguyễn Ái Quốc was a pseudonym of Hồ Chí Minh. The southern character reached even greater heights with the August Revolution, the anti-French resistance, and the anti-American resistance, he continues. In short, communist-led resistance allowed southerners to fully develop their Vietnamese-ness.
The assumption that communist nationalism represented the culmination of southerners’ innate identity translates into a communist-centric narrative that is wide-ranging in time and space. The authors dedicate three entire chapters to survey the role of the south in Vietnamese history prior to the resistance in order to explore the emergence of the southern character. The volume defines “resistance” (kháng chiến) broadly to include not only the resistance war against France (1945-1954) but also the Vietnam War against the anti-communist Republic of Vietnam (RVN) and the US (1954-1975) and the early years of the Cambodian-Vietnamese War (also known as the Third Indochina War). The third episode includes the years from 1975 to 1978 but seems to have been relegated to a third volume that has yet to be published. “Resistance” is an odd term to apply to the Vietnam War, which was in large part a war against other Vietnamese. It is even more inappropriate when used for the border clashes with the Khmer Rouge because this latter “resistance” was quickly followed by the Vietnamese invasion and occupation of Cambodia. The authors do not explain why they subsume such different conflicts under the heading of “resistance,” but what links them appears to be the efforts of Vietnamese communists to expel foreigners and consolidate power domestically.
One fortunate consequence of this definition is the volume’s impressive breadth. Most accounts of the anti-French resistance tend to focus on the north, while histories of the Vietnam War concentrate on the US. HSR is refreshing in its attempt to provide a comprehensive history of southern Vietnam covering the 1940s to the 1970s. The authors offer basic surveys of many topics that have received limited attention in English-language scholarship, including Việt Minh preparation for the August Revolution in the south, communist attempts to incorporate the sects during the resistance war, opposition politics within the RVN, and communist agitation against Ngô Đình Diệm during the immediate post-Geneva period. The authors are also careful to incorporate developments from throughout the southern provinces. For example, their coverage of Ngô Đình Diệm’s anti-communist denunciation campaigns recounts specific events that took place in the provinces of Bạc Liêu, Rạch Giá, and Sóc Trăng.[3]
Yet the authors’ quest for a comprehensive history is at odds with their belief in the communists’ exclusive legitimacy. The uneven coverage of the resistance war illustrates the contradiction. The south had a unique experience of the resistance compared with the rest of country. It was the only region in Vietnam where non-communists led armed resistance against the French for an extended period of time and successfully competed against the Việt Minh, the communist front organization that came to power in the August Revolution.[4] The most important non-communists were the so-called sects: the Cao Đài religion, the Hòa Hảo Buddhist sect, and a crime syndicate known as the Bình Xuyên, which had no religious affiliation. The sects commanded private armies, and the two religious groups enjoyed a large mass following. Less powerful were the Trotskyists, a small but influential movement including some of Saigon’s leading intellectuals, labor organizers, and workers. The Việt Minh quickly defeated non-communist rivals in the north and central region but was only able to eliminate the unarmed Trotskyists in the south. The communists formed an alliance with the sects, though relations were often violent. The alliance finally broke down in 1947-1948. Substantial factions within each of the sects abandoned the Việt Minh and eventually sided with the French, though splinter groups within the Cao Đài and Hòa Hảo would return to the resistance independently of the communists.[5] This complicated history of non-communist anti-colonialism was integral to the southern resistance and belongs in any full account of the struggle. More broadly, a serious examination of the the “southern character,” as Võ Văn Kiệt describes it, would necessitate research into the conditions and indigeneous traditions that gave rise to the political and politico-religious groups that were unique to the region.
HSR acknowledges that multiple Vietnamese groups competed for power,[6] but the narrative follows the Việt Minh at the expense of non-communists. The authors recount developments within the communist regional leadership in minute detail, including the rivalry between Vanguard Regional Committee (Xứ Ủy Tiền Phong) and Liberation Regional Committee (Xứ Ủy Giải Phóng), the eventual union of the two factions within the Việt Minh Southern Committee (Ủy Ban Việt Minh Nam Bộ), and the changing composition of the Southern People’s Committee (Ủy Ban Nhân Dân Nam Bộ). The volume also examines the Việt Minh takeover on a province-by-province basis and quotes extensively from Trần Văn Giàu’s speech celebrating Vietnamese independence on 2 September 1945.[7] In contrast, the authors discuss non-communists only insofar as they impinge on the activities of the Việt Minh. The volume mentions the Trotskyists when they challenged or criticized the Việt Minh but never explores the Trotskyists’ organizational developments.[8] Similarly, the sects are significant as allies or enemies of the communists but not in their own right. The authors praise Cao Đài factions that allied with the Việt Minh, especially the Minh Chơn sect, but disapprove of Trần Quang Vinh and Phạm Công Tắc, leaders of the faction based in Tây Ninh, for rallying to the French. At times, the volume even lapses into factual errors regarding non-communists.[9]
One of the distinctive characteristics of the southern resistance was that a prolonged civil war between competing Vietnamese nationalists occured simultaneously with the anti-colonial struggle. But the authors leave out any acknowledgement of the mutual antagonism that caused alliances to shift and shatter. The sects broke with the communists in part because they resented Việt Minh intervention in their internal affairs and feared destruction at the hands of the communists.[10] Việt Minh leaders repeatedly pressured the Cao Đài army to integrate into the Việt Minh military and sent agents to infiltrate the Bình Xuyên.[11] The volume hints at these efforts when it briefly states that cadres were “assigned to work within the Bình Xuyên.”[12] Neither is there any admission that the religious sects switched sides in part because the Việt Minh arrested their leaders. The communists captured Trần Quang Vinh, head of the Cao Đài army, in October 1945, only two months after the August Revolution. He managed to escape but was arrested by the French the following spring. Under threat from both the communists and the French, Trần Quang Vinh chose to accept a truce.[13] The Tây Ninh branch of the Cao Đài subsequently signed an accord with the French in January 1947. Later that year, the Việt Minh arrested Huỳnh Phú Sổ, founder of the Hòa Hảo, and he died under their custody. The outraged Hòa Hảo declared war on the Việt Minh, and their armies later allied with the French. The authors offer more detail on the defection of Bình Xuyên leader Lê Văn Viễn. As the new leader of the gang, he found himself increasingly at odds with the Việt Minh leadership and feared communist encroachment on the group’s traditional independence. He entered into contact with French intelligence, which the communists discovered, and was forced to flee to Saigon in 1948 after narrowly escaping a Việt Minh ambush.[14] The volume euphemistically describes the ambush as a “purge” (thanh lọc).[15] The many omissions and understatements minimize the conflict between Vietnamese to depict the resistance as a communist project that non-communist leaders betrayed.
The volume’s shortcomings are puzzling because producing a more inclusive history would not have been difficult. Numerous sources on non-communists are available in the overseas Vietnamese press and western research libraries, including Trần Quang Vinh’s memoir, various Vietnamese-language accounts of Huỳnh Phú Sổ’s disappearance, recent publications on the Bình Xuyên, the writing of Trotskyist leader Ngô Văn, French intelligence reports on the sects, and western-language scholarship on the sects.[16] The authors certainly did not hesitate to include other relevant English- and French-language scholarship. But in the end, fidelity to political orthodoxy apparently prevented the authors from enlarging the source base. This deficiency is all the more disappointing because government-supported researchers in Vietnam, unlike foreign researchers, have access to documents that are necessary to adjudicate longstanding historical controversies, such as the alleged murder of Huỳnh Phú Sổ by the Việt Minh.
HSR adheres so assiduously to the conviction of communist legitimacy that it explicitly celebrates the Việt Minh’s seizure of power while vilifying other groups for attempting to do the same. The authors praise the communists for assuming political authority during the August Revolution but castigate the Hòa Hảo and Trotskyists for later trying to wrest control of provincial governments in southwestern Vietnam.[17] The volume also ridicules the Democratic Party (Đảng Dân Chủ), a small group that the communists helped create, for asking to share power. Prior to a meeting between the Democratic Party and the communists in early 1948, “a small number of cadres and members of the Democratic Party did not yet accept the leadership of the Communist Party over the revolutionary project in Vietnam; some even demanded to share ‘the power to direct’ the armed forces.”[18] The very idea that the Vietnamese communist party might not monopolize political power is simply absurd, the authors imply.
Some brief comments on the style of writing in HSR are warranted. As with other official histories, the prose is often verbose, overwrought, and dry. The authors employ an unabashedly partisan tone, refer to the communist party as “our party” (đảng ta), and sprinkle the text liberally with political pejoratives. For example, they characterize the colonial government, the Trotkyists, the Hòa Hảo, the Tây Ninh-based branch of the Cao Đài, Bình Xuyên defectors, the Great Việt Nationalist Party (Đại Việt Quốc Dân Đảng), and numerous other non-communist organizations as “reactionary” (phản động).[19] Similarly branded are the government of the RVN, Vietnamese organizations affiliated with the RVN, the Americans, and several political parties active under the RVN, including the Vietnamese Nationalist Party (Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng) and the Democratic Socialist Party (Dân Chủ Xã Hội Đảng).[20] The authors never explain what they mean by “reactionary,” but these disparate groups have little in common other than their opposition to Vietnamese communists or independence from the communist party. Thus, usage of the term is not meant to be descriptive but merely to provoke antipathy. It is almost as if the language found in party documents that the volume frequently cites has seeped into the main text.
At the heart of the HSR is a contradiction which its authors cannot reconcile: a scholarly desire for a comprehensive and accurate account of the southern resistance, on the one hand, and the political need for a history that justifies single-party rule, on the other. Ultimately, the achievements and shortcomings of HSR provide a window into understanding the possibilities and limitations of historical research in contemporary Vietnam.
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[1] “Dù xa nơi chôn nhau cắt rốn hàng ngàn dặm, người Nam Bộ nào cũng nghe vang vọng trong tâm khảm cội nguồn Việt Nam, cội nguồn ‘con Lạc, cháu Hồng,’ những hậu duệ của các vua Hùng”: Võ Văn Kiệt, foreword to Hội đồng chỉ đạo biện soạn Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến, ed., Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến (History of the Southern Resistance, Vol. 1) (Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Chính trị quốc gia, 2010), 1, 25-34, citation on 28.
[2] “tính cách con người Việt Nam ở Nam Bộ tiếp tục hoàn thiện, được nâng chất với giai cấp công nhân Việt Nam xuất hiện sớm nhất ở Sài Gòn, khi tư tưởng yêu nước và cứu nước theo dòng chảy thời đại của Nguyễn Ái Quốc thâm nhập vào đông đảo con người Nam Bộ bình thường, khi Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam giữ vai trò lãnh đạo cách mạng”: Võ Văn Kiệt, foreword to Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến, vol. 1, 29.
[3] Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến, vol. 2, 55, 67.
[4] “Non-communists” refers to individuals and groups that did not belong to and did not support the Vietnamese communist party, including Vietnamese Trotskyists.
[5] Hòa Hảo general Lê Quang Vinh returned to the resistance several times after 1947, and Cao Đài general Trình Minh Thế broke with the Cao Đài army in 1951 to fight both the French and the Việt Minh. For more on Lê Quang Vinh, see Lê Văn Dương, Quân lực Việt Nam Cộng hòa trong giai đoạn hình thành, 1946-1955 (The Army of the Republic of Vietnam during its Formative Period, 1946-1955) (Saigon: Bộ Tổng tham mưu, 1972), 433.
[6] Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến, vol. 1, 130, 336-337.
[7] Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến, vol. 1, 222-223.
[8] HSR states that the Trotskyists formed an anti-Việt Minh front after the Japanese coup of 9 March 1945, attempted to seize power in Châu Đốc province after the Việt Minh takeover, and criticized the policies of the Việt Minh government in Saigon. See Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến, vol. 1, 132, 179, 228.
[9] For example, Huỳnh Phú Sổ, the founder Hòa Hảo sect, established the Democratic Socialist Party (Dân Chủ Xã Hội Đảng, or Dân Xã), but HSR incorrectly attributes it to Hòa Hảo generals Trần Văn Soái, Lâm Thành Nguyên, Lê Quang Vinh, and Nguyễn Giác Ngộ. See Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến, vol. 1, 336; Trần Mỹ Vân, “Beneath the Japanese Umbrella: Vietnam’s Hòa Hảo During and After the Pacific War,” Crossroads 17, no.1 (2003): 60-107, reference to 99;
A.M. Savani, Notes sur la secte PGHH (Notes on the Phật Giáo Hòa Hảo sect) (Saigon: 1951), 31.
[10] The point here is not to suggest that the Việt Minh instigated the civil war, which there is insufficient research to determine. Nor is it to claim that the communists were the only group to wield weapons against its rivals. Indeed, all of the sects engaged in violence. It should also be noted that a similar but much briefer civil war broke out in northern Vietnam in the spring and summer of 1946 between the communists and non-communists.
[11] Jayne Werner, Peasant Politics and Religious Sectarianism: Peasant and Priest in the Cao Dai in Vietnam (New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asian Studies, 1981), 43, 49; A.M. Savani, Notes sur les Binh Xuyen (Notes on the Bình Xuyên) (Saigon: 1954), 17, 111; Alfred McCoy with Cathleen Read and Leonard Adams, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), 115; Liêm Anh, Bảy Viễn: Một đời ngang dọc (Bảy Viễn: A Fearless Life) (West Germany: Nguồn Việt, [1986?]), 377, 381, 412.
[12] “được cử vào công tác trong lực lượng Bình Xuyên”: Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến, vol. 1, 332.
[13] For an account of Trần Quang Vinh’s decision, see Đại Đạo Tam Kỳ Phổ Độ Tòa Thánh Tây Ninh, Hồi ký Trần Quang Vinh và lịch sử quân đội Cao Đài (The Memoir of Trần Quang Vinh and the History of the Cao Đài Armed Forces) (Washington, DC: Thánh thất vùng Hoa Thịnh Đốn, 1996), 42-50, 273-275; Sergei Blagov, Honest Mistakes: The Life and Death of Trình Minh Thế, 1922-1955, South Vietnam’s Alternative Leader (Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2001), 18; Trần Mỹ Vân, “Japan and Vietnam’s Caodaists: A Wartime Relationship, 1939-45,” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 27, no. 1 (Mar 1996): 179-193, reference to 192.
[14] For more on the troubled relationship between the Bình Xuyên and the Việt Minh, see A.M. Savani, Visage et images du Sud Viet-Nam (The Face and Images of South Vietnam) (Saigon: Imprimerie Francaise d'Outre-mer, 1955), 101-102; Savani, Notes sur les Binh Xuyen, 34-36, 70, 82, 91-92, 102; Lê Văn Dương, Quân lực Việt Nam Cộng hòa, 410; Liêm Anh, Bảy Viễn, 359-362. For more on Lê Văn Viễn’s contact with the French and his break with the Việt Minh, see Savani, Visage et images, 102; Savani, Notes sur les Binh-Xuyen, 111; McCoy, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, 115; Lucien Bodard, The Quicksand War: Prelude to Vietnam, trans. Patrick O’Brian (Boston: Little, Brown, 1967); Christopher Goscha, “A ‘Popular’ Side of the Vietnamese Army: General Nguyễn Bình and War in the South,” in Naissance d'un État-Parti: Le Viêt Nam depuis 1945 (The Birth of a Party-State: Vietnam since 1945), ed. Christopher Goscha and Benoit de Tréglodé (Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2004), 325-353, reference to 335. There are even accusations that the Việt Minh were responsible for the death of Dương Văn Dương, the first leader of the Bình Xuyên. See Trần Kim Trúc, Tôi giết Nguyễn Bình: hồi ký Tham mưu trưởng Trung đoàn 25 Bình Xuyên (I killed Nguyễn Bình: The Memoir of the Chief of Staff of Bình Xuyên Regiment 25) (Saigon: Đồng Nai, 1972), 106.
[15] Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến, vol. 1, 331-334.
[16] For more on the Trotskyists, see Ngô Văn, Au pays de la cloche fêlée: tribulations d’un Cochinchinois à l’époque coloniale (In the Land of the Cracked Bell: Tribulations of a Cochinchinese during the Colonial Period) (Montreuil: Insomiaque, 2000). For primary sources on the sects from mid-century, see Đại Đạo Tam Kỳ Phổ Độ Tòa Thánh Tây Ninh, Hồi ký Trần Quang Vinh; A.M. Savani, Notes sur le Caodaisme (Notes on Caodaism) (Saigon: 1954); Dật Sĩ and Nguyễn Văn Hầu, Thất sơn mầu nhiệm (The Miraculous Seven Mountains) (Saigon: Liên Chính, 1955), 276-292; Savani, Notes sur la secte PGHH; Savani, Notes sur les Binh Xuyen; Trần Kim Trúc, Tôi giết Nguyễn Bình; Savani, Visage et images, 71-108. For recent Vietnamese-language publications on the sects, see Nhị Lang, Phong trào kháng chiến Trình Minh Thế (The Revolutionary movement of Trình Minh Thế) (Boulder, CO: Lion Press, 1985); Nguyễn Long Thành Nam, Phật giáo Hòa Hảo trong dòng lịch sử dân tộc (Hòa Hảo Buddhism in the Current of National History) (Santa Fe Springs, CA: Đuốc Từ bi, 1991); Liêm Anh, Bảy Viễn; Hồ Sơn Đài, Đỗ Tầm Chương, and Hồ Khang, Bộ đội Bình Xuyên (Bình Xuyên Soldiers) (Ho Chi Minh City: NXB Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, 1991). For western-language scholarship on the Cao Đài, see Victor Oliver, Caodai Spiritism: A Study of Religion in Vietnamese Society (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1976); R.B. Smith, “An Introduction to Caodaism: Origins and Early History,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 33, no. 2 (1970): 335-349; R.B. Smith, “An Introduction to Caodaism: Beliefs and Organization,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 33, no. 3 (1970): 573-589; Werner, Peasant Politics and Religious Sectarianism; Sergei Blagov, Caodaism: Vietnamese Traditionalism and its Leap into Modernity (New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2001); Blagov, Honest Mistakes; Jérémy Jammes, “Le Saint-Siège Caodaïste de Tây Ninh et le médium Phạm Công Tắc (1890-1959): Millénarisme, prosélytisme et oracles politiques en Cochinchine” (The Cao Đài Holy See of Tây Ninh and the Medium Phạm Công Tắc (1890-1959): Millenarianism, Proselytism, and Political Oracles in Cochinchina), Outre-Mers: Revue d'Histoire 93, no. 352-353 (2006): 209-248; Trần Mỹ Vân, Vietnam’s Caodaism, Independence, and Peace: The Life and Work of Pham Cong Tac, 1890-1959, PROSEA Research Paper 38 (Taipei: Academica Sinica, 2000); Trần Mỹ Vân, “Japan and Vietnam’s Caodaists,” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. For western-language scholarship on the Hòa Hảo, see Hue Tam Ho Tai, Millenarianism and Peasant Politics in Vietnam (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983); Frisco Short, “The Influence of Religious/Political/Military Growth on National Politics: A Case Study, the Phat Gia Hoa Hao, Republic of Vietnam” (unpublished manuscript, 1974), accessed 4 Oct 2012, http://pghh-research.tripod.com/chap3.html; Trần Mỹ Vân, “Beneath the Japanese Umbrella,” Crossroads, 60-107. For a useful overview of the Hòa Hảo and Cao Đài, see Bernard Fall, “The Political-Religious Sects of Viet-Nam,” Pacific Affairs 28, no. 3 (Sep 1955): 235-253. For western-language scholarship on the Bình Xuyên, see McCoy, Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, 109-126.
[17] Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến, vol. 1, 179, 229.
[18] “một số ít cán bộ, đảng viên Dân chủ chưa chấp nhận vai trò lãnh đạo của Đảng Cộng sản đối với sự nghiệp cách mạng ở Việt Nam, thậm chí có người đòi chia sẻ ‘quyền chỉ huy’ trong lực lượng vũ trang”: Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến, vol. 1, 331.
[19] Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến, vol. 1, 95, 99, 179, 229, 312, 312n1-2, 333.
[20] Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến, vol. 2, 150, 202, 216, 564.
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No one ever said managing a career was easy. Throw a relationship into the mix and you've got career suicide, right? Wrong. While we'd all love to forgo a day of work in exchange for a fun-filled day with our significant other, having a strong relationship doesn't mean your occupational goals have to suffer. It's quite the opposite!
Extensive research on the subject of relationships and careers shows that people in successful relationships not only make more money, they're healthier, live longer, and get more promotions than singles do. So how can you juggle your relationship and your career? Excelle: Relationship Advice for Workaholics
We've got the five tips that'll keep your work and love life harmonious—and YOU sane!
1. Prioritize
It's a fact: Sometimes life forces us to put more weight on one thing than another. Often, this priority shift means forgoing one goal in exchange for another; for example, weakening your professional aspirations in return for relationship growth. But you shouldn't have to sacrifice one aspect of your life for another. After all, what's the fun of a promotion if you don't have someone to share it with? Excelle: How Dating Rules Can Get You A Job
The good news is prioritizing doesn't mean sacrifice. It means adjustment. And by building a strong foundation for both your romantic and work life, you can prevent disruption when priorities shift.
Step one: Make sure that both your significant other and your coworkers know that they're a significant part of your life. When both understand that they are mutually valuable, staying late at the office doesn't mean that you'd rather be at work, nor does taking a personal day mean you don't care about your job.
Communicate that both are of high priority and sometimes, as need be, one might take precedence.
2. Compartmentalize
Having a successful career and a loving relationship is the best of both worlds. The best way to keep those two separate worlds happy? Just that—keep them separate! That means when you're at work, commit fully to your job, the task at hand, and the needs of your coworkers or managers. Don't let your love life be a distraction. There's plenty of time to daydream outside the office. Instead, spend your workday being productive and you'll have more time quality time to spend with your beloved later. Excelle: Don’t Embarrass Yourself At Work Happy Hour | http://www.yourtango.com/201070769/how-balance-your-love-life-and-your-career | dclm-gs1-271440000 |
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Do You Ever 'Dumb It Down' For Men?
How 'dumbing down' is actually a TURN OFF for men.
By Straight Male Friend's Marcus Osborne for
A while back I participated in a panel discussion in San Francisco called, "What Is He Thinking?" Basically, I and two other guys were panelists volleying and parrying myriad points and opinions regarding matters of the heart. It was standing room only and as is typically the case when people are passionate about their perspectives, things got pretty heated at times.
If this particular audience, which was 100% female, was in any way an accurate indication of what women supposedly know about men, my job at SMF is fairly safe. When I sit on these panels or do interviews or speak publically anywhere, certain topics and queries are addressed time and time again. But it was after this particular event where I had one of my most heated debates with a woman who basically told me I didn't know a thing about men because I vehemently disagreed with a bit of advice she had given one of her friends.
Her take on the modern professional woman maintaining her independence and how that self-sufficiency was intimidating to men wasn't exactly a fresh take. But okay, there was validity to her point. But unfortunately, she took it a step further.
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"So I told my friend she needed to stop coming off so independent. Men don't want a woman who can take care of herself. Their egos can't handle it. So you need to play that down."
I've encountered this bit of nonsensical logic before, but for some reason, it just got to me this time. You see, the only time bad advice is truly, actually bad….is when someone takes it. Example:
PERSON A: "Hey, I just rolled around in 5 gallons of gasoline….I sure could go for a cigarette. Perhaps I should wait to change clothes though.
PERSON B: "Aw man, don't worry about that. Hey, you should try my new lighter…you smoke Newports? Oh wow….dude, you just burst into flames. Cool."
So I responded to this woman by making the case that there are indeed many, many men who are intimidated or scared off by the so-called "independent woman." But there are just as many who love and adore that very same woman. Is there some granular truth to the notion that downplaying those attributes assists in drawing in guys?
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But why would you want those particular guys? It's a strategy reeking of desperation and disingenuousness. I've got two daughters and there's not a snowball's chance in the Arizona heat that I'd ever ask them to "dumb it down" for some guy.
I mean sure, you could play that game for a while. But if you're really that strong woman that aspect of your personality is going to be exposed at some point. So why waste your time? This line of thinking is cynical and insulting to all parties.
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and ellen degeneres both left last season. >>> and changing could be on the way for the end of the week. let's check in with our chief meteorologist, bill martin. >> it all changes around with rain in the forecast. not a lot of rain but it is still summer and it is something you don't usually expect. there's the fog right now. most of the fog will be around your neighborhood tonight. tomorrow we're looking at increasing clouds from the coast. clearing by the afternoon, slightly warmer tomorrow. in the extended forecast is a chance of some showers. temperatures tomorrow will be a degree or two warmer. nice day, low 80s in the warm spots. right now it looks like it's going to impact the entire bay area weekend. this is not a major storm but it is unusually strong for this time of year. it means drizzle and sprinkle for most of us. that's on friday. meantime we're looking at warmer conditions. just a little bit warmer, high pressure continues to do what it's supposed to do. that will keep us dry until, the clouds start to move in here. so if you have plans on friday, saturday and sunday -- i d
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became. the big issue, big change began in 198 1980 that goes with the election of ronald reagan ronald reagan brought with them to washington a very underrated figure in a recent american history, somehow i don't think gets his due as an important person. that's edwin meese because edwin meese at first was in flash and then attorney general. said look, there has been a liberal agenda at the supreme court. there needs to be a conservative agenda at the supreme court. what was that agenda? expand executive power and end racial preferences, speed up execution, welcome religion into the public sphere, and above all, reverse roe v. wade and allow states once again to ban abortion. a big part of the reagan revolution was the arrival of washington of a group of young and committed conservative lawyers who wanted to work in that, on behalf of that agenda, who were two of the best and the brightest of that group? john roberts and samuel alito. 1970 -- in 1985, a memo at the solicitor general's office, alito wrote what can be made of this opportunity to advance the goal of bringing about the eve
. that is what happened to ronald reagan in 1984 debate with walter mondale. it overran the persona of ronald reagan. next debate he was much more relaxed. roger ails did a great job preparing him and did much better job. same thing with governor romney. he has to know how to answer the questions but he has to be relaxed and rely on himself. one of the things i tell candidates it's very important that they have the good political judgment to make decisions and think on their feet rather than rely on script. >> give me one thing that you think we ought to look for out of mitt romney and one thing out of obama in this debate coming up on wednesday. >>> i think one of the -- apart from the economy, i do think one thing we should be looking for is to see if the president is willing to talk about his record on the economy and defend it. the american people ought to be making a judgment whether or not the president can defend that record. he ought to be looking for governor romney how well he press the case against the president. it's been his failure to lead on the economy that has led us into the
it and after it will matter. the 1980 carter debate with ronald reagan where he said there you go again, calling the sitting president a liar basically. that's when carter started collapsing. you've got a few moments to make the one-liners catch and stick. all of the substance will get lost in the minutia. romney needs one worse than the president right now. >> instead of o owe is it like trying to figure out what the zinger is going to be that will get retweeted on a hash tag? >> yes, that it is. >> it makes me so sad. >> well, yes. as you said, the stakes are higher for mitt romney. keep this mind, this is a man who has been running for president for six years. >> right. >> it's come down to this one moment, this first debate on wednesday where he's got to change the trajectory of his campaign, of the narrative with at that point, what is it 35 days in the race. >>> yeah. >> you're the political scientist here. you're the nerd here at the table. just to my mind, i do not see how practically speaking mitt romney can change the trajectory and move his campaign into a positive position w
not help when ronald reagan -- reaganomics was presumed to create a lot of wealth for the middle class? no. the median wage began to stagnate. trickle down economics is a complete fraud. >> to professor reich's point, he says he thinks that perception is getting through to the electorate. "washington post" went to ohio near where i used to live and they interviewed voters there, and the thing that kept coming up for voters is romney is for the millionaires. people are getting that message. they're understanding at a basic level what the professor is saying there. the thing that's so strange to me, we had this deal in the country, we had this idea, we'll have unrestrained capitalism, which generally leads to these sorts of concentrations of wealth that we've seen, but on the other hand we'll have bigger profits and we can better take care of the people who are falling behind. well, now that we have the unrestrained capitalism, they want to cut out that safety net. the ryan budget, 62% of the cuts from programs that benefit the poor. so you're having this huge accumulation of wealth and then
supporter of the rfk center. we will miss him. ronald reagan called williams a national treasure. he recorded 18 gold and three platinum records with hits including "can't get used to losing you," he owned and operated the moon river theater in branson and fans have taken to twitter to say good-bye to our friend. andy williams. with the spark cash card from capital one, olaf's pizza palace gets the most rewards of any small business credit card! pizza!!!!! [ garth ] olaf's small business earns 2% cash back on every purchase, every day! helium delivery. put it on my spark card! [ pop! ] [ garth ] why settle for less? great businesses deserve the most rewards! awesome!!! [ male announcer ] the spark business card from capital one. choose unlimited rewards with 2% cash back or double miles on every purchase, every day! what's in your wallet? ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing a stunning work of technology. introducing the entirely new lexus es. and the first-ever es hybrid. this is the pursuit of perfection. and the first-ever es hybrid. hey america, even though slisa rinna is wearing t
just by being on the stage with an incumbent president, but you have to be ronald reagan and do a there you go again and make something of that in the ensuing campaign and also outside events, obviously, iran, the hostage situation was fatally damaging to jimmy carter. but -- >> you can only make the case that really three presidential elections of the modern elections, the debates really played an important role. 1980 was one of those. >> 1960. >> 1960 and probably gerald ford's election where he said that the eastern europe was not -- or poland was not dominated by the soviet union, made some difference in a close election. but this is going to be a close election. in spite of what you see in some of the polls, some are close now, the fundamental dynamics of this race are quite close and so its could make a difference in this race. >> thank you so much. >>> up next, is iraq unraveling? a look at where the u.s. policy stands now, next on "andrea mitchell reports." we make a simple thing. a thing that helps you buy other things. but plenty of companies do that. so we make someth
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that the october report is a sad reminder that the economy is still at a standstill. the president hasn't spoken out yet about the report, surely he can spin the fact that unemployment is still under 8%. one expert says voters will likely shrug that number off. it does mean president obama faces voters with the highest unemployment rate of any incumbent since roosevelt. the president is campaigning in the battleground state of ohio today he has three events planned there. mitt romney starts his campaign this morning in wisconsin and then he moss on to two rallies in ohio. the romney campaign is making a new play for pennsylvania. scheduling a lot of minute appearance this sunday aides say president obama has been unperforming in pennsylvania the president's camp calls it an act of desperation. some experts say almost all voters have made up their minds but it is tight in a lot of swing states. what do you think the jobs report means? go to facebook.com/abc7news and join that conversation. katie marzullo, abc7 news. >>> 6:36. traffic and weather together, next. here's a live look outside, golden
. last night he campaigned in ohio and he was talking about the economy. >> these have been tough times for the middle class in america. income is not going up and at the same time gasoline has gone up by $2,000 a family. health insurance premiums are up, as i said, by $2,500. food costs up. these are tough times for middle income americans. and his answer is forward. it feels more like backward to a lot of american families. i'll tell you that. >> earlier in iowa in what was billed as a major economic speech, romney said president obama has made things worse and his policies will turn things around. >> this morning the national weather service said sandy is a hurricane again, hours after being downgraded to a tropical storm. res kept are being told to stock up with about enough batteries, water and food for three days. that's how long you might be without power and water out there. the super storm is expected to make landfall monday night near the nation's capitals. airlines are warning sbout delays and all are waving fees for passengers who want to reschedule flights so you have that
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by spaker boehner. who am i to say? this much i will say kicking things off tonight. there is the makings of a deal here, an agreement in the political posturing and theater that is famous in washington. each side trying to very carefully dance off the cliff withou looking like it produced the disaster. there is, in the president' remarks today and boehner's yesterday, the inkling of an overture on each side, now, how much of one? with 52 days left to go, how real? rich edson in washington reading between the lines. what do you think, rich >> well, neil, there's plenty of space. ere's not that many details discussed. neither side says they want to box the other in the corner beginning negotiations. president obama, though, made it fairly clear he wants taxes to go up on wealthier taxpayers saying after the election, he was re-elected, democrats back in the senate, and the message in the campaign is wealthier people need to pay more. therefore, that's the approach he's taken. as for what happens in the3 negotiations and next year, we're still very, very early in this, and so we continue to
coming off a smashing re-election victory or speaker of the house john boehner and his tea party cohort determined to hold the line against higher tax rates on the well-to-right now both sides seem to be digging in. president obama used a campaign-style white house appearance today to declare that while he's willing to compromise with the republicans his bisque position has not changed. >> obama: as i said before, we can't just cut our way to prosperity. if we're serious about reducing the deficit we have to combine spending cuts with revenue that means asking the wealthiest americans to pay a little more in taxes. on tuesday night we found out that the majority of americans agree with my approach. and that includes democrats independents, and a lot of republicans. >> eliot: mr. obama also said that he planned to meet with speaker of the house john boehner and other congressional leaders at the white house next year along with business and labor leaders. the president made it clear that even while talks were under way he wanted the house to move quickly to pass a middle class tax freeze
together, both sides have drawn some lines in the sand when it comes to taxes. house speaker john boehner earlier today said it's possible to get the nation's financial house in order without tax increases. >> i don't want to box myself in, and i don't want to box anybody else in. i think it's important for us to come to an agreement with the president, and by lowering rates and cleaning up the tax code we know that we're going to get more economic growth. >> here's what's at stake if they cannot come to a compromise. the congressional budget office says it would happen. the alternative minimum tax kicks in hiking taxes with more than half of married couples two children by $4,000 a year. it would ray taxes on workers and the trillion dollars in spending cuts that officials say cost jobs and slow economic growth. let me bring in our "news nation" political panel. we have zachary karabell and loy wis romano and david goodfriend. we have it covered. jonathan, i'll start with you. comparing what we heard from speaker boehner this morning and what we heard from the president
in the first block, actually there was hope today. you had house speaker john boehner who actually opened a door that many people thought was shut. >> for the purposes of forging a bipartisan agreement that begins to solve the problem, we're willing to accept new revenue under the right conditions. >> jennifer: what? so does speaker boehner mean what he says? here to answer that question and more, is host of "viewpoint," and former new york governor eliot spitzer. welcome inside "the war room." >> i like being here. >> jennifer: i was just railing about the far-right republicans -- >> i heard you from miles away. >> jennifer: but despite the denial, john boehner gave this statement today to suggest that revenue could be a part of a grand bargain. >> yes, but -- there was classic boehner and cantor. it was quintessential republican double talk. we are now at the moment where you have got to put your cards on the table if you are going to get an agreement. it's now november. >> jennifer: but put their card on the table by saying we would consider revenue -- they said it's
. >> the president has spain to speaker boehner and other leaders about plain going forward. what else do we know? >> reporter: it's significant. president obama called these leaders within the hours of his re-election sending a strong signal that he's serious about bipartisanship and working with the leaders and reaching across the aisle to get a compromise on the fiscal cliff and work through this it. the message he sent to the leaders is we need to work together to resolve this. i would point out that house speaker john boehner in his press conference yesterday echoed the president's sentiments to some extent saying he's willing to work with the president on the issue of taxes. that's the big issue here in washington. so signalling that he would be willing to work with the president. now, will this actually happen? of course, the republican conference is larger than the house, so speaker boehner is saying something in his conference going along with it are two different things. they're in a wait and see mode. we won't see the crisis of debt debate in the summer of 2011. >> i hope you're right.
. john boehner, the speaker of the house, also 25uked about the fiscal cliff and hinted for compromise. you got to listen carefully to see the compromise that could be coming. let's listen. >> it's clear, there are a lot of loopholes in the tax code, both corporate and personal. it's also clear that there are all kinds of deductions, some of which make sense, others don't. everything, everything on the revenue side and the spending side has to be looked at. >> anyway, senator chuck schumer this morning suggested that the right wing might be more willing to accept compromise now. it's been helpful. let's watch. >> boehner wants to compromise, that's why he gave that speech. boehner's not a hard right guy, he's a mainstream conservative. i think he's going to help. the hard right is chastened in a lot of ways. >> in south carolina, a republican, jeff duncan, who quoted him as follows, when i look at the results of the election, congressman duncan says, it becomes clear to me that the house is now the last line of defense for preserving freedom in this country. the people of south carolin
ahead to the fiscal cliff. john boehner has reiterated that the newly elected house republican majority is opposed to raising tax rates. they're willing to accept new revenue under certain conditions. what is your reaction to that? despite the pledge that most of them have signed? >> if we had a recovery the strength of reagan's recovery, there would be 10 million more americans at work today. but we take rate in's path of less spending and regulation, -- reagan's path of less spending and regulation, he has a million more americans at work today than obama does. i would rather have his recovery and all the revenue that flows from that. if you grew 4% a year instead of 2%. the difference between growing from 4% instead of 2% is $5 trillion in additional revenue to the federal government. nobody is talking but raising taxes $5 trillion. why not focus to reduce rates, have lower taxes, it to get more growth. you actually net more additional revenue. >> it seems like john boehner is now willing to get that revenue not just from the economic growth that is not scored by the congressional bu
house, but john boehner even said recently this is going to be long talks. is the first round of negotiations after the election but what is important to keep is mind is that john boehner has already back pedalled from where he was in 2011. he wasn't even willing to entertain the revenues he is willing to entertain in 2011. if you remember in 2011 when things looked like they were getting done the meetings were secret. >> jennifer: so in fact i want you to listen to a sound bite from house speaker john boehner this morning. >> the members of our majority understand how important it is to avert the fiscal cliff, and that's why i outlined a responsible path forward paving the way for entitlement reform as well as tax reform with lower rates. >> jennifer: so -- it's very interesting to watch the dance and knowing that boehner has a tea party wing that he has to placate, and knowing he has moved all over the map people have described him, really as being boxed in. >> he is boxed in, because he doesn't have the votes to pass a tax rate increase and the presi
it is doable. whether that means it's going to get done is another question. and speaker boehner is in a delicate position. he would like to e get something done, but he's got an unruly boisterous caucus to be managing. >> i heard from a senator that he's going to need to bring in eric cantor somehow. he's going to have to enlist him if it's going to get done. we did get the preview yesterday. what's the president's strategy going to be? does he need to set an agenda for how to move forward? >> he's going to speak in generalities. he's not going to lay out a detailed, here's what i want to do five-point plan. i think that's smart. the best approach is to work this through congress with the white house being involved as well. take it as a patient process. >> let me play a little more from chuck schumer talking about john boehner's position. >> boehner wants to compromise. that's why he gave that speech. he's not a hard right guy. he's a mainstream conservative. >> here's a suggestion in his column titled "let's not make a deal." mr. obama should hang tough declaring himself willin
now. >> obama is open to compromise and new ideas and he'll invite john boehner to the white house next week to look for common ground. boehner said higher taxes just for the wealthy are unacceptable. still, republicans and democrats agree on the need to aavoid a so-called fiscal cliff. attention is now focused on whether they can narrow their differences on higher taxes for the rich. >>> top officials from across china are mapping out where the country will go over the next five years. they're taking part in a communist party's congress. much of the process goes on behind closed doors, and that makes the job of journalism that much harder. still the political transition is one of the biggest stories going right now, so despite the reconstructiostrictions no medi wants to miss out. >> reporter: they got up early to get in line outside the great hall of the people. journalists from china and abroad, hundreds of them. they're all jockeying to get a better position for the opening of the communist party's congress. journalists from around the world have converged on beijing underlying
that majority. i was encouraged to hear that speaker boehner agree that tax revenue has to be part of this equation. so i look forward to hearing his ideas when i see him next week. and let me make one final point that every american needs to hear. right now, if congress fails to come to an agreement on an overall deficit reduction package by the end of the year, everybody's taxes will automatically go up on january 1st. >> let's bring in our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin. let's move the story a little bit. the president is going to on a trip overseas but he's got to get involved deeply in negotiation. his top aides will be meeting with the republicans on the hill. >> in the coming days the president has invited the leaders of the house and the senate, to talk about these negotiations and begin basically laying out where each side stands. right now what we know is that the major sticking point is over this tax rate for the top earners. the president as you just heard saying the tax rates for those making $250,000 and up must increase. house republicans making it c
, we have the president winning re-election. we have john boehner returning to the speakership. harry reid returning. to being the senate majority leader. and while the status quo was the big winner last tuesday, the history books will not remember the names john boehner and harry reid as long as they will remember what this re-election meant for president barack obama. >> that's exactly right. it is a ratification. it is an affirmation historically. you could argue that maybe one of the reasons he's crying is he's going to have to deal with john boehner and harry reid going forward. so there could be a very practical trigger there. but certainly, i mean, what mike and john have said is exactly right. it's an important moment. he's the third democrat, fourth democrat, to do this in a century. woodrow wilson, franklin roosevelt, bill clinton and barack obama. not bad company to be in. >> by the way, i heard you say that on wednesday morning. who was the democrat -- the last democrat before that to do it? >> well -- >> that's a test. >> -- that is a test. >> jackson? >> i guess it would
country. >> i want to follow up that question and ask neera real quick -- john boehner expressed openness to reductions in spending, reforms, but not structural changes, not ending the federal entitlement to medicare or medicaid, as the ryan budget would do. where do you think that goes after the election? >> i think the president really crossed the rubicon there by putting medicare and medicaid on the table. neera mentioned the budget -- hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts. romney tried to put it back in. i thought it was very ironic. social security? no, it has not been on the table. i think he has already done so and i suspect he will continue to. >> one of the interesting things about that -- we will go to the audience in a minute -- think of the context. medicare is one of the policies that transfers resources down the generational ladder. from the retiring baby boom that is 80% white and moving it into an uninsured younger population, it really in many ways -- the federal government has $700 per capita, something like that -- is striking that under such explicit attack, for kind
to tuesday's election results continues in washington. join us. house speaker john boehner will hold a news conference for it later this afternoon, president obama will speak to the nation. we expect him to speak about the upcoming fiscal cliff. that will be live at 1:05 eastern c-span. j kearney has a briefing schedule that is set for 2:00 p.m. eastern. >> if there is a mandate, is a mandate for us to face the challenges we face. in the weeks and months ahead, we faced a series of challenges and great opportunity. >> the american people want us to work together. they want a balanced approach to everything but especially with the huge deficit and taxes. >> the newly elected congress starts work in january. work is expected on the impending fiscal cliff including the expiration of the bush era tax cuts and possible cuts to domestic and military spending. fall all the debates with live house coverage on c-span and the senate on c-span2. there was a conference yesterday. pollsters participated in a town discussion that talked about economic efforts and how this affects lobbying in the lame- du
wants tax cuts for the wealthy to extire. house speaker john boehner drawing this line in the sand. >> raising tax rates is unacceptable. and, frankly, it couldn't even pass the house. i'm not sure it can pass the senate. >> white house correspondent brianna keilar is live from washington, d.c. for us this morning. brianna, speaker boehner seemed to be offering the president on olive branch earlier this week when he talked about the possibility of increasing revenue. but here he's taking a hard stance against tax increases. what does that say about the chances of a compromise? >> well, it may actually sound kind of like it's splitting hairs. but it's really two different things where he's talking about increasing tax rates. he says he's not okay with that. but he would be maybe okay, maybe amenable to increasing revenue. to bringing in more tax dollars, because there is a difference. and what he's saying is part of a chorus of conciliatory language that we're hearing from democrats and republicans on the hill. listen to more of what john boehner said in that interview. >> -- talk a
. president obama isad odds with speaker boehner. am they be stuck in the same preelection grid lock. joining us is senior advisor to senator harry reed reed. and spokes man for boehner. welcome and glad to center you on board. start off with the situation with the president speaking out and saying as far as he is concerned wealthy americans will pay higher taxes and that ended with his reelection and he believes that voters validated his effort to make it happen. speaker boehner said raising taxes are unacceptable. >> you are seeing the classic positions and everybody wants to make sure they speak for their constitients. and they want to make they are addressing the concerns. what we will see next week a call for the president for the leadership to go down to the white house. there is not that much time. we have a fiscal looming cliff at the end of the year. hopefully we can get both sides to come to the right. >> it is important for the president to not be intransient. the stock market took a beating. and that should send a strong signal that taking more taxes out of the economy for the ben
the president today actually calling on boehner and harry reid to say we have to come together. we could have seen more of that from the first administrations that he is doing it now. what are the odds they get together? >> everyboby hopes they are high but you want to avoid the high stakes game of chicken and during the lame duck session. that could have been. but his willingness to meet with mitt romney and boehner to resolve the situation. but if you heard voters press conference he sounds like he is the same position under no circumstances will taxes ever be raised. gerr he sad the reelection of the president is not a mandate to ise taxes. this is a huge debate. can hey come together? >> i elieve we can seize the futre together. we're not as divided as our politics suggest as cynical as the pundits believe that greater than the sum and we will remain more than a collection of red states and lose states we are the united states of america. gerri: why didn't we hear this four years ago? >> we did. and eight years ago when a bomb gave the speech to the illinois state senators. and insisting
to call both mr. boehner and the senator republican leader, mitch mcconnell but was told they were asleep. >> wake them up, for goodness sake. >> he is the president. >> wake him up. >> yesterday, yesterday, senate majority leader harry reid struck a tone of cautious optimism. >> it's better to dance than to fight. it's bettor work together. i want to work together but i want everyone to also understand, you can't push us around. >> hours later there was some reason for hope. the word revenue which speaker boehner used 15 times in a 12-minute press conference and not always in a completely negative context. >> the news via tax reform. we're willing to accept new revenue under the right conditions. republicans have signaled a willingness to accept new revenue. if it comes from growth and reform. >> has boehner opened the door to compromise and extended an actual olive branch. he alluded to the grand bargain that slipped away a year ago. >> closer to the critical mass needed legislatively to get tax reform done. the president and i talked about it extensively during the summer of 2011. it w
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. i think you heard john boehner say that. we've had votes in the senate where we've gotten rid of tax credits. i think that's a given. >> we need the republicans to do in 2012 what we did in 2010. we hear the mandate continue to cut spending, but they have to hear the than date real revenues not like dynamic scoring. >> and here's what happens if no agreement is reached before january 1st.bush tax rates expire. emergency unemployment benefits will end. the 2011 payroll tax holiday expires. and $984 billion in cuts will be triggered. joining me now, andy sullivan and sher a tupletts. what do you expect to come out of the meeting friday and will any real progress made? >> oh, no, but i think the optics will be important. there will beside by side getting their picture taken and i think this will reassure voters and most importantly investors that they are serious about the problem and they want t to get something done before the end of the year. they've pretty much gotten a free ride from the markets. everybody knew this was coming up, but interest rates have remained low and the stock
, will they come to terms of a deal? >>guest: speaker boehner struck a conciliatory note but what he meant is what mitt romney was talking about lowering tax rates and eliminating tax loopholes what erskine bowles supported in the "washington post" yesterday, a democrat. and you have senator schumer who noted the conciliatory tone of speaker boehner and he said it was a nonstarter because he will raise taxes on those that make over $250,000. >>neil: say he intends to do that and i am trying to save the nation beside read a prompter but i was trying to find a middle ground. if the middle ground is republicans getting over the issue of closing loopholes and getting rid of critics be like raising taxes and democrat could get over slowing the growth of entitlements is not like growing granny off the cliff they would be able to reach a deal to extend everything for six months or a year and get in the real work of making a simpler tax code or simpler budget process. what do you think of that? >> speaker boehner wants to do a small deal and have an extension doing what you suggest, a reform of a tax code
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, david. republicans have been so focused on susan rice on the whole benghazi incident. no one's put any emphasis on hillary clinton. is that going to help her? >> hillary clinton has been very adept at making sure she had no fingerprints on the whole benghazi fi areas ko. we have a very polarized political system where we are no longer the country where people could rally to i like ike. what you're seeing in that poll is one, a name recognition effect and two, a lot of republicans who remember the 2008 hillary clinton versus barack obama fight. barack obama won, so they liked hillary clinton. if hillary clinton had won in 2008, you would hear lots of republicans saying none of this would have happened if barack obama had won instead. if hillary clinton is the nominee in 2016, this will be an election decided by three or four percentage points. >> right. it always tightens. something happened last night. i'm curious about the other side since you're talking about 2008. marco rubio and paul ryan spoke at this dinner. these are speeches where they're trying to define who they are. how woul
back to pre-benghazi levels. 52% approve, 40% disapprove. his potential pick for secretary of state, she is taking on water. u.n. ambassador susan rice's personal rating upside down. first time we've ever tested her. a third of the voters say they don't know who she is. that's amazing that only a third of voters doesn't know who she is. among those who do know her, only 20% view her positively, 20% negatively, for now benghazi has taken a back seat to syria, where the syria military is now firing scud missiles at rebel forces in the north, almost thumbing its nose a little bit at the world community here. jim joins me now. it's as if essentially they've seen the line the world is drawing when it comes to chemical weapons and feel they can do almost anything else. >> u.s. officials said this is a clear sign the assad regime in damascus is becoming ever more desperate. this is the first time in a two-year war that the syrian military has used these scud missiles against the rebels. they fired six to eight of them into the north, presumably at rebel strongholds. at least two of them, t
are tweeting you and tweeting me, they're like what's going on with benghazi? why don't we know more about what happened to these people those are four americans dead and we're going other the fiscal cliff. there's still unresolved issues. >> what i don't get is if there are four murders in any town or city in this country, and on september 11th it was still unsolved, it would still be front page news. >> right. >> for some reason if we ask questions about it. >> you're obsessed with benghazi. >> we're obsessed or politicizing it, and the irony of it is the way to end the discussion is to give the information. all of it could be ended that way. >> where is the investigation? this is the longest-running investigation. columbo could have solved this by now. they didn't send the fbi until what was it, you were all over t. five weeks after the hit on september 11th. the fbi was still not on site. it's all just bizarre. >> that's why we need anna wintour. let's put her in charge of the investigation. maybe she'll get the answers. at least she'll be dressed well. >> tell me about your radio show. wha
in benghazi. state department officials will testify later this week. in a moment we talk to john bolton about what is in that report, martha? martha: breaking news this morning. an american journalist released after five days in captivity in syria. we've got brand new details on that. >> the last five days were very difficult. we're very happy to be out. we're very happy to be back in turkey. we love being here. we love this country. we appreciate all the help. the last five days, some days we would rather forget ♪ [ male announcer ] the way it moves. the way it cleans. everything about the oral-b power brush is simply revolutionary. oral-b power brushes oscillate, rotate and even pulsate to gently loosen and break up that sticky plaque with more brush movements than manual brushes and even up to 50% more than leading sonic technology brushes for a superior clean. oral-b power brushes. go to oralb.com for the latest offers. bill: here we go, now. the first official review of the terrorist attack in benghazi, libya, said to be complete. this comes days before the hearings began on capitol hi
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're going to hit the roof and see how much more money they're paying to the government and how much less in their wallet to spend at that store they love so much. so the real-- this is a precursor to the real nasty stuff that happens after january 1st if we don't get a deal that keeps taxes low forever. >> to susan's point, if the people stop spending and so alarmed about this, they're going to be marching on congress to get a deal done, aren't they? >>e need a deal done, i think we all agree, we need a deal done. >> brenda: okay, that's, we're not going to go there right now. we've got to talk about the fact that right now, we do have about a week more to do a deal, but consumers are pulling back, confidence is low. gary b? >> well, absolutely. and the only way the consumer is going to get out and spend, it's a double-edged sword. when i went around the fall, the only stores doing limited 2 where it was 50% off everything. limited 2 can't make money at 50% off everything. e markup is normally, a keystone markup or 100% to give away 50% they're giving away their profits, so if that's the
the federal government calculates inflation, which could stave federal government $300 billion over the next decade if implemented. the consumer price index measures how much they go up by tracking a basket of goods that americans typically buy. this is important because it's used to calculate cost of living adjustments and social security. checks pay a little more each year in line with inflation as calculated by that consumer price index. now, one potential flaw in the system, consumer price index assumes people don't change their basket, if, say, the price of meat goes up. in other words, they don't switch from meat to chicken because the price of beef has gone up. they don't switch from, say, arugula to, i don't know, iceberg lettuce. it doesn't account for how behavior changes. chain consumer price index creates a chain basket of goods to measure inflation more accurately. it's measuring how people react to price changes not simply the fact that heiss pryces have changed. chained cpi could result in a slower rate of inflation over time, saves the government money on those cost of lifg a
don't want toyite yait a government? why is that so radical? >> they're coming up with crazy ideas every day. >> please, get out of here. get out of here. >> yes. okay. >> i have this test if you're like staying in a hotel and have to share a bathroom who would it be? a tea party supporter or occupy wall streeter? >> i would say tea party. >> if i had occupy, boy need a rape prevention kit. there are tons of raid cals and idiots as i call them. >> thanks for watching tonight. i'm greg gut feld. bill will be back for the start of the factor's new season january 2. please remember, the spin stops here because we're looking out for you. captioned by closed capt services, inc. >> sean: and this is a fox news alert. earlier today in a pathetic last minute effort to avoid the nation falling off the fiscal cliff president arnold palmer took a mini break from the golf schedule to summon congressional leaders to the white house. a last minute mini deal could be struck before the end of the year that would preserve tax cuts for the middle class and preserve unemployment benefits. the preside
go into effect. those come in gradually and they could come in more gradually if the government officials thought there was going to be a deal and they better hold off. the real uncertainty i think is what the markets will do. we look like a country that isn't in control of its own destiny, because we're acting that way right now. if you're an investor, whether you're in some part of the united states or you're in some other part of the world, do you really want to buy american securities? do you want to invest in a country whose government isn't functioning? i don't think so. we could get a big market reaction, drop in the stock market. that might scare people. >> how quickly do you -- >> but it would also be a bad thing. in itself, it would contribute to the possibility of having another recession. >> how quickly do you think we'll feel tremors from the debt ceiling now that the treasury is beginning to talk about avoiding it. >> i think we're seeing uncertainty about absolutely everything. it's cumulative, it's the debt ceiling, it's the fiscal cliff, it's what taxes are goin
cut out of this government, geronimo. and carol says sandra of time mt from new york neil: easier said than done, one of the loudest vocal critics in the government community says he is frustrated. >> how are you? lou: i'm great. how were you? >> people are desperate. at the grassroots level all the way out. now, it's starting to show up in the top 500 companies of the united states. we are in very difficult straits tonight's feature when you started talking about this, you weren't yet heard that that you want that you can't think that companies can ignore the fallout for the fallout is fast and furious. how god is dead? >> i think it's getting really dangerous. because most companies right now are in survival mode. they don't know what the future's going to be like. they can't get access to capital. customers are scared to death. we are doing stupid thing like converting corn to fuel, w are sitting on great oil reserves, natural gas, doing nothing with it. we are building solar plants in the west. it is the stupidest thing i've ever heard in my life. neil: i am going to hold you down
of those outside the box ideas that the federal government should take seriously here? >> first of all, i don't know -- i would like to know, first of all how many schools there are in america. high schools, middle schools, preschools, private christian academies? the point is this is unfeasible. i'm not sure it's the right way to go to put an armed guard in every single school in america. who will pick up the taxpayer dla are on that? the counties, it is states? the locals the feds? who will do this? it's impractical. to the some mention i don't like guns in our schools. it's a nice political sound bite and they can use an old statement from bill clinton to say this, but i'm not sure it's a practical idea, frankly. >> first of all, when it comes to education, decisions really do need to be handled on a local level. that's how education decisions should be made. but at the same time i do support the idea of consideration putting an armed patrol officer. my sister in atlanta works at a receiving desk, and she's not prepared or trained for dealing with someone coming into the school. i woul
million if they don't do what the government said they have to do via the health care law. >> i was corrected. 1.3 million a day. that is the daily fine they have to pay. >> let's make an important distunction we are not buve for dinner bets. mipemine is open for the anybody who doesn't think they will get exempted. i think it is. they have been giving health care to the employees over in the charity for years. theiro ligation is not health care, but it is a religious problem and it is going to be dealt w. i hope that the corporations in the country will take a lesson and understand the importance of health care to employees instead of cutting hours. >> and emac. hobby lobe just received notice from the court this week that they are not going to get an exception and they face a 1.3 million finevery day that they don't adhere to the practices tt they abhor. >> that is it bad. this is a high cost of affordable care. the nuns may have to cut alth insurance. but the people are quickly turning in the favor factory that the tax code and. this is driving businesses over seas and no one
making between 40 and $55,000 a year will have to pay an extra 2 grand to the government. >> jamie: an american marine veteran was jailed for months in mexico and may be back on u.s. soil today, just in time for christmas. jon hammar spent four years fighting in iraq and afghanistan to be locked up for trying to bring an antique shotgun into mexico, where he was taking a couple of days off and he said he declared it at the border and he was told it was a-o.k. to go in. dominic, i'm struck by that photograph when i see it, after learning for four months he was chained to the bed. >> reporter: it is astonishing, totally inhumane conditions, what is good news, he is driven home, across the country, taken to florida by his dad and they are expected to arrive christmas eve in time for the holidays. good news for the family and 48 hours ago, things looked very different, like jon would be spending many more months in his cell as the mexican authorities were taking a strict stand against his case, and, he spent the night in texas and they released him, just across the border, where he was
, there are 47% of people who are with him. who believe that they are victims. who believe that the government has the responsibility to care for them. who believe they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. and so my job is not to worry about these people. i'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility. >> a very valuable comment. >> i am going to go with bill clinton. >> one speech? >> it was 20 years in the making, the story of the speech, for the first 15 years, republicans treated bill clinton that he was the worst thing that ever happened to american politics. the villain in chief, and after he left the white house, there was the moment in 2008, when republicans decided wait a minute, no, bill clinton is this by-gone symbol of an era, in moderation, they sang his praises for four years, set him up as the good democrat, against obama's bad democrat, and what happens, the good democrat vouches for the bad democrat and disarmed what a lot of republicans were saying about barack obama. >> you have made a reasonable argument. >> i think the e
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access to government financed health care at all. if the republicans tomorrow said to you, you know what, you can have all the tax increases you want. we'll raise taxes on people who make $250,000 or more would you then be willing to do serious entitlement reform? >> let me just say that in fact we do means test millionaires right now. there is a serious means testing. >> not by much. a millionaire who gets medicare is nothing. it costs them nothing relative to their net worth, nothing. >> you know what, if the republicans would move, and they haven't yet, you just heard it, no willingness on the part of the republicans to do anything. >> if they did, you would do what? >> we already put $600 billion on the table to get savings out of medicare/medicaid. those are entitlements. >> that's pure cuts to spending that you claim are going to come from waste, fraud, abuse, etc. or just from cutting certain programs. you've got to decrease demand in some parts of medicare and a great way to do it is for people who have the money to spend their own money instead of spending young people's money a
, the russian's government politically motivated decision will reviews adoption poblg it is for children who are now under institutional care. we are further concerned about statements that adoptions already underway may be stopped and hope that the russian government would with allow those children who have already met and bonded with their furp parent to finish the necessary legal procedures so they can join their families. so, you are hearing from the u.s. officials but not much? >> i don't know that they have gotten through with the rsh an officials figuring out how they are going to implement the law yet. it's so new still. maybe in the next week or two. >> who surfa-- who suffers here? >> even, we may have to step back and say, okay, that is -- so much for that dream. but the families who have already met the kids and held them and created bedrooms and collected toys, i don't understand how they can be put through that kind of a nightmare and our hearts go out to them. and the children raised in institutions, it's just not the same as having a mom and dad or even just a mom or a dad. n
differences between the two parties about the role of government, should it be bigger or smaller? about whether we want lower taxes or more of a social safety net. so while we have seen the principles, the president, speaker boehner, and now senator mcconnell and reid trying to get involved in stages in the last few weeks, it has always broken down because they fundamentally disagree about the big ideas over the core of this debate. they're fighting between the two parties. and this could get resolved in a matter of days or weeks. but the big difference, the issues could really take months to work out. >> can it be resolved in the matter of few enough days that they meet that january 31st deadline? >> reporter: anything is possible. i always think of congress like getting the term paper in. they like to wait until the very night before it is due. and that gives them the motivation, as you know, covering them for so long. we think oh, 24 hours to go, it is over. they think we still have 24 hours, it is a lifetime. so could they get it done? yes, but it sure seems a heavy lift at this poi
in western syria. witnesses say a government warplane dropped bombs on a bakery today where long lines of people were waiting just to get some bread. more than 100 people are dead now. i want to talk to cnn's mohammed j j jamjoon. >> reporter: it's horrific details that have emerged the past few hours since we first reported this bombing. activists tell us that around 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. local in syria today that this warplane dropped this shell on this bakery. they say that hundreds of people were lined up outside, that there had been shortages of food throughout the last week. this was the first day that that bakery that had been hit was open and that because of that, at least 100 people they say were killed. the video that we've seen posted online, we can't independently verify it, but it seems to be corroborated by what we've been told by activists. it shows an absolutely grisly scene, mangled bodies in the wreckage of the building and the rubble. you see rebel free syrian army soldiers and civilians trying to tend to the wounded, taking them to the hospital and pulling dead bodies o
. syria's government, however, today posted a statement on their syrian news agency website in which they blamed this on the actions of terrorists. that's the terminology they use for rebel fighters, opposition fighters in syria. they say that that town was targeted by terrorists and that because of that residents in that town called for the military, for the syrian military to intervene to help them to bring safety and restore security in that area. again, the residents we speak with clearly blaming the regime, and it's one day later and we hear of an attack on another bakery in the homs area. this is in the last few hours. you mentioned it a few minutes ago. we heard at least 15 killed, several children. very gruesome video. you see the corpse of a woman being pulled from the rubble there. the rage of the residents there about this happening is element indescribable. suzanne. >> is there any way of finding out? you have two very different stories. any way of finding out whether it's an international -- through an international body or people on the ground, who was responsible for b
was going on? why wasn't our government helping? >> it was bewildering. the parents tried to do it low-key. they couldn't get the case resolved. they came to me and our two wonderful u.s. senators. thanks to fox. thanks to o'reilly, sean hannity, greta, all of you were so helpful. all the press helped but you guys came to bat. that's why i don't really understand or believe that during a white house press briefing that the white house spokesperson said, oh, i don't know about the case. baloney. everybody had known about the case. gregg: they knew. >> we had been bringing that up. gregg: right. >> this is a family of strong christian faith. for them, as we celebrate the birth of christ tonight what a more meaningful present than, than the god delivering their son to them tonight. gregg: look, we want to talk to you about a couple of subjects here and that one, thankfully turned out well. let's turn now to benghazi because you are very involved in this. an independent investigation, i know you read it, produced this blisser iting report what they refer to as systemic failures in the very
on their own. >>> in egypt today, more effects of a brand-new government's growing pains. the vice president is out. he is stepping down there. this man, mahmud mechanicy announced political life does not agree with him, and he'll go back to being a judge. it's the same day the egyptian people are voting for a second straight weekend on proposed changes to the country new islamist backed constitution. egypt's new president gave himself near absolute power. >>> a former u.s. marine who spent four months in a mexican prison is free today. jon hammer was locked up in august on weapons charges. his family says he was physically abused in custody, threatened, chained to a bed and never saw a judge. u.s. lawmakers and diplomats got involved on ma'am hammer's behalf and convinced mexican authorities to release him. [ bells tolling ] >> america is pausing to remember the newtown shooting victims. church bells rang out friday exactly one week after the tragedy. flags remained at half staff. many websites even went dark. people all over the country observed a moment of silence for the 20 children and
different areas of government. there's a lot that the executive branch can do. there's a lot of leadership that president obama can provide that he's not provided on this issue. and there's a lot of hearts and minds that have to change in congress. a lot of them republican, and also some democrats. i think it's up to us as citizens if we want to see changes happen, to take off the party label and demand it of our elected officials. a lot of times politicians act because the citizens are demanding it and crying out for it. that's what has to happen on this issue. we have to lead and they will follow. >> i always say our democratic issue -- and it is, it's going to take all of us to do it. and we have to take the politics out of it. elzi, i'll give you the last word. go ahead and go on as long as you want. sorry i cut you off. >> what she described is a microcosm of what's wrong in washington. our elected officials and the president are supposed to be defenders of the second amendment. there's defenders of the constitution. not a lobbying group, but it's the lobbyists who have our government
the key problem. nasa's government spending that could impact future americans . >> what the president offered so far will not resolve the spending problems . it will hurt our economy. a failing to reach a deal by december 31st would trigger tax hikes and spending hikes . and they say they are willing to continue to work toward a deal . the question is can they get it done in a time. here's steve in washington. will president obama focus on the fiscal cliff? do we know? >> probably not: there will not be done to much -- and president arrived in honolulu. within to his rented vacation home. he left washington last night after scaling back . it is still possible . he's focusing now on a middle class tax hike and extended unemployment benefits. and this congress laws can only pass for democrats and republicans and that means no one gets 100 percent of what they want. everybody has to give a little bit in a sensible way. we move forward together or we don't move forward at all . >> they are planing to stay in honoluluand planning to return right after christmas. harris. >> what is next for
are making with so many of you on facebook and twitter. thank you. >> my friend govern another huckabee who has on by the way a fabulous tie. check it out. lous christmas tie >> tonight on huckabee, a prisonor of war. >> all i could see is iraqi men bearing down on me. he was the first american pow to be arrested since world war ii. >> i was a survivor at that point. let me correct you. you were a hero because you were there. >> jessica lynch on the challenges he faced! i deal with it the best i can. he ran up over 100,000 in a credit card bill. >> it started with a cautionary tale and how to stay out of debt this christmas . the little rockers spread christmas with you. ♪ all you want for christmas is you. ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. ♪ >> thank you. thank you very much . i think the audience is getting better. i do. we have a special christmas show prepared for you tomorrow night. i hope you are enjoying it and by it there is so much hostility for people with lawsuits filed over songs and christmas treese and nativity scenes by those who say they are offended by chri
of the deliberative process. he heads an entirely separate branch of government with an altogether different purpose. i think we need to go back to the way the government was designed to operate, and that is the deliberative function, in the legislative branch, both the house and the senate, acting independently. and then resolving their differences through conference. that process works, it works very well. this business of a couple of legislative leaders and the president going behind closed doors, coming up with some clever scheme, and then dropping it in the laps of the congress for a take it or leave it vote produces bad policy. in fact, bad process also produces bad policy, and that's what we're seeing. >> congressman, we've been seeing virtually no progress to date, but i hope folks have your optimism about not going over the cliff because of the disastrous implications. congressman mcclinton, thanks for coming on. >>> chuck hagel hasn't even been formally nominated to be the next defense secretary, and he's already taking right hooks from members of his own party, but do the attacks add up?
in the country under the thumb of the federal government. congress debated this at length. they said if you're a -- a hobbyist or collector, a hunter in virginia wants to sell the gun to another hunter, they ought to be able to do it without being under the thumb of the federal government. >> if you want to check and screen more thoroughly for the mentally ill, why not screen more thoroughly for everybody and eliminate the fact that 40% can buy a weapon without any background check? >> we don't prosecute anybody under the gun laws right now. >> that's not responsive to the question, mr. lapierre. i hear you saying you can't do anything about high capacity ammunition magazines because it simply won't work yet you're proposing things that might not work. you're into the art of the possible because your standard is anything that has a chance of working, we ought to try except when it comes to guns or ammunition. don't you see that people see that as a complete dodge? >> nra supports what works. we funded the child safety program. we have accidents down to one-tenth of what they used to have. w
said the government will blow through the borrowing limit that congress set in 2011. he warned the window to act is narrow or else a treasury could default. in washington, lisa will walk us through. first, let's explain what exactly the debt limit is and it sounds like maxing out a credit card, but not precisely so. >> that's right. it is not like maxing out your credit card. we are going to make it as interesting as possible. it is important. the debt limit is not like maxing out your credit card. this is money we spent as a nation. this is a lot more like buying a house. committing to a $200,000 house and signing the papers and imposing a rule on yourself that you can only borrow $100,000. you need $200,000 and you spent the money, but you have the cap that you imposed on yourself. that's what the debt limit is. we will look at where we are with this handy graphic. the debt limit is $16.394 trillion. where are we now? we are at 16.337. we are just under the limit. almost reached our capacity. >> getting that far, it's our own fault and putting ourselves in this predicament. o
government, not raise taxes. it's not for 500 years or two generations. it's only as long as you're in the house or the senate. if he stayed too long, that's his problem. but you don't tell the bank, oh, the mortgage, wasn't that long time ago? if you make a commitment, you keep it. >> coming up, was mitt romney done in by his own party? when we come back, the republican presidential candidates who may have inflicted mortal damage on him rather than president obama. >> i'm just going to go back to the empty chair, which was going to be todd akin, who was going to talk to me about what hide said about rape and women. since it's just the chair, my obvious question would have about why are you such an offensive idiot to women? and the second obvious question, which again has to go to the chair unfortunately, would be why haven't you resigned yet? anyway, let's leave it there, shall we? they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. [ male announcer ] glucerna hunger smart. a smart way to help manage hunger and diabetes. make a wish! i wish
at best. it's not a lot of enthusiasm on capitol hill for the idea of the federal government stepping in and endorsing the idea of all schools having armed police officers. never mind funding it. listen to a couple of senators, starting with a republican. >> we had an armed guard in columbine. we had an assault ban. none of it worked. we're talking about preventing mass murder from nontraditional criminals. people who are not traditional criminals, who are not wired right for some reason. >> since we passed the brady law, the assaults are down. we need to keep working on this, and there are lots of different solutions. >> just because the republicans may not be running to this idea that the nra put forward does not mean that they are going to support the first piece of legislation we're going to see in the new congress on this issue, which is a bill to reinstate the assault weapons ban. and most importantly, carol, it's not just the republicans who might be skittish on that. it's also a fair number of moderate democrats who are up for re-election in the next cycle, 2014, who are from
the finger on the thing that we are missing when we taub abolk this, because we act as if congress governs at a body with national interests and held accountable to national constituencies, but no, if it is game theory, each one of them is facing a different payoff structure in their own home constituen constituency. >> and it is skewed. first of all the tea party a minority, but the way that the republicans control the state governmentships and the state legislators, they can shift districts to ensure republican majority in congress which is not real in terms of who the american people are. and that is pa rt of the problem we are facing is that they can play the games, because what is back home is not back home except for the twist they want to put on it. >> and this is the critical issue of the 2010 midterms and in a certain way all elections matter, but really they do matter, because they redrew the districts in such a way that make them relatively safe. so even if they make the bad deal, they may open the case that says you are re-elected in 2014. >> that is why you see bay snor who th
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Discovered by Galileo Galilei
Discovery date January 7, 1610[1]
Alternative names Jupiter IV
Adjective Callistoan, Callistonian
Orbital characteristics
Periapsis 1869000 km[a]
Apoapsis 1897000 km[b]
Semi-major axis 1 882 700 km[2]
Eccentricity 0.0074[2]
Orbital period 16.6890184 d[2]
Average orbital speed 8.204 km/s
Inclination 0.192° (to local Laplace planes)[2]
Satellite of Jupiter
Physical characteristics
Mean radius 2410.3±1.5 km (0.378 Earths)[3]
Surface area 7.30×107 km2 (0.143 Earths)[c]
Volume 5.9×1010 km3 (0.0541 Earths)[d]
Mass (1.075938±0.000137)×1023 kg (0.018 Earths)[3]
Mean density 1.8344±0.0034 g/cm3[3]
Equatorial surface gravity 1.235 m/s2 (0.126 g)[e]
Escape velocity 2.440 km/s[f]
Rotation period synchronous[3]
Axial tilt zero[3]
Albedo 0.22 (geometric)[4]
Surface temp. min mean max
K[4] 80±5 134±11 165±5
Apparent magnitude 5.65 (opposition)[5]
Surface pressure 7.5 pbar[6]
Composition ≈ 4×108 molecules/cm3 carbon dioxide;[6]
up to 2×1010 molecules/cm3 molecular oxygen(O2)[7]
Callisto /kəˈlɪst/[8] (Jupiter IV) is a moon of the planet Jupiter. It was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. It is the third-largest moon in the Solar System and the second largest in the Jovian system, after Ganymede. Callisto has about 99% the diameter of the planet Mercury but only about a third of its mass. It is the fourth Galilean moon of Jupiter by distance, with an orbital radius of about 1,880,000 km.[2] It does not form part of the orbital resonance that affects three inner Galilean satellites—Io, Europa and Ganymede—and thus does not experience appreciable tidal heating.[9] Callisto's rotation is tidally locked to its revolution around Jupiter, so that the same hemisphere always faces inward; Jupiter appears to stand still in Callisto's sky. It is less affected by Jupiter's magnetosphere than the other inner satellites because it orbits farther away.[10]
The surface of Callisto is heavily cratered and extremely old. It does not show any signatures of subsurface processes such as plate tectonics or volcanism, and is thought to have evolved predominantly under the influence of impacts.[13] Prominent surface features include multi-ring structures, variously shaped impact craters, and chains of craters (catenae) and associated scarps, ridges and deposits.[13] At a small scale, the surface is varied and made up of small, sparkly frost deposits at the tips of high spots, surrounded by a low-lying, smooth blanket of dark material.[4] This is thought to result from the sublimation-driven degradation of small landforms, which is supported by the general deficit of small impact craters and the presence of numerous small knobs, considered to be their remnants.[14] The absolute ages of the landforms are not known.
Callisto is surrounded by an extremely thin atmosphere composed of carbon dioxide[6] and probably molecular oxygen,[7] as well as by a rather intense ionosphere.[15] Callisto is thought to have formed by slow accretion from the disk of the gas and dust that surrounded Jupiter after its formation.[16] Callisto's gradual accretion and the lack of tidal heating meant that not enough heat was available for rapid differentiation. The slow convection in the interior of Callisto, which commenced soon after formation, led to partial differentiation and possibly to the formation of a subsurface ocean at a depth of 100–150 km and a small, rocky core.[17]
The likely presence of an ocean within Callisto leaves open the possibility that it could harbor life. However, conditions are thought to be less favorable than on nearby Europa.[18] Various space probes from Pioneers 10 and 11 to Galileo and Cassini have studied Callisto. Because of its low radiation levels, Callisto has long been considered the most suitable place for a human base for future exploration of the Jovian system.[19]
Discovery and naming[edit]
Callisto was discovered by Galileo in January 1610 along with three other large Jovian moons—Ganymede, Io, and Europa.[1] Callisto is named after one of Zeus's many lovers in Greek mythology. Callisto was a nymph (or, according to some sources, the daughter of Lycaon) who was associated with the goddess of the hunt, Artemis.[20] The name was suggested by Simon Marius soon after Callisto's discovery.[21] Marius attributed the suggestion to Johannes Kepler.[20] However, the names of the Galilean satellites fell into disfavor for a considerable time, and were not revived in common use until the mid-20th century. In much of the earlier astronomical literature, Callisto is referred to by its Roman numeral designation, a system introduced by Galileo, as Jupiter IV or as "the fourth satellite of Jupiter".[22] In scientific writing, the adjectival form of the name is Callistoan,[23] pronounced /ˌkælɨˈst.ən/, or Callistan.[14]
Orbit and rotation[edit]
Callisto (bottom left), Jupiter (top right) and Europa (below and left of Jupiter's Great Red Spot) as viewed by Cassini
Callisto is the outermost of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter. It orbits at a distance of approximately 1 880 000 km (26.3 times the 71 492 km radius of Jupiter itself).[2] This is significantly larger than the orbital radius—1 070 000 km—of the next-closest Galilean satellite, Ganymede. As a result of this relatively distant orbit, Callisto does not participate in the mean-motion resonance—in which the three inner Galilean satellites are locked—and probably never has.[9]
Like most other regular planetary moons, Callisto's rotation is locked to be synchronous with its orbit.[3] The length of the Callistoan day, simultaneously its orbital period, is about 16.7 days. Its orbit is very slightly eccentric and inclined to the Jovian equator, with the eccentricity and inclination changing quasi-periodically due to solar and planetary gravitational perturbations on a timescale of centuries. The ranges of change are 0.0072–0.0076 and 0.20–0.60°, respectively.[9] These orbital variations cause the axial tilt (the angle between rotational and orbital axes) to vary between 0.4 and 1.6°.[24]
The dynamical isolation of Callisto means that it has never been appreciably tidally heated, which has had important consequences for its internal structure and evolution.[25] Its distance from Jupiter also means that the charged-particle flux from Jupiter's magnetosphere at its surface is relatively low—about 300 times lower than, for example, that at Europa. Hence, unlike the other Galilean moons, charged-particle irradiation has had a relatively minor effect on the Callistoan surface.[10] The radiation level at the surface of Callisto is equivalent to a dose of about 0.01 rem (0.1 mSv) per day.[26]
Physical characteristics[edit]
Near-IR spectra of dark cratered plains (red) and the Asgard impact structure (blue), showing the presence of more water ice (absorption bands from 1 to 2 µm)[27] and less rocky material within Asgard.
The average density of Callisto, 1.83 g/cm3,[3] suggests a composition of approximately equal parts of rocky material and water ice, with some additional volatile ices such as ammonia.[11] The mass fraction of ices is between 49–55%.[11][17] The exact composition of Callisto's rock component is not known, but is probably close to the composition of L/LL type ordinary chondrites, which are characterized by less total iron, less metallic iron and more iron oxide than H chondrites. The weight ratio of iron to silicon is 0.9—1.3 in Callisto, whereas the solar ratio is around 1:8.[11]
Callisto's surface has an albedo of about 20%.[4] Its surface composition is thought to be broadly similar to its composition as a whole. Near-infrared spectroscopy has revealed the presence of water ice absorption bands at wavelengths of 1.04, 1.25, 1.5, 2.0 and 3.0 micrometers.[4] Water ice seems to be ubiquitous on the surface of Callisto, with a mass fraction of 25–50%.[12] The analysis of high-resolution, near-infrared and UV spectra obtained by the Galileo spacecraft and from the ground has revealed various non-ice materials: magnesium- and iron-bearing hydrated silicates,[4] carbon dioxide,[28] sulfur dioxide,[29] and possibly ammonia and various organic compounds.[4][12] Spectral data indicate that Callisto's surface is extremely heterogeneous at the small scale. Small, bright patches of pure water ice are intermixed with patches of a rock–ice mixture and extended dark areas made of a non-ice material.[4][13]
The Callistoan surface is asymmetric: the leading hemisphere[g] is darker than the trailing one. This is different from other Galilean satellites, where the reverse is true.[4] The trailing hemisphere[g] of Callisto appears to be enriched in carbon dioxide, whereas the leading hemisphere has more sulfur dioxide.[30] Many fresh impact craters like Lofn also show enrichment in carbon dioxide.[30] Overall, the chemical composition of the surface, especially in the dark areas, may be close to that seen on D-type asteroids,[13] whose surfaces are made of carbonaceous material.
Internal structure[edit]
Model of Callisto's internal structure showing a surface ice layer, a possible liquid water layer, and an ice-rock interior
Callisto's battered surface lies on top of a cold, stiff, and icy lithosphere that is between 80 and 150 km thick.[11][17] A salty ocean 50–200 km deep may lie beneath the crust,[11][17] indicated by studies of the magnetic fields around Jupiter and its moons.[31][32] It was found that Callisto responds to Jupiter's varying background magnetic field like a perfectly conducting sphere; that is, the field cannot penetrate inside Callisto, suggesting a layer of highly conductive fluid within it with a thickness of at least 10 km.[32] The existence of an ocean is more likely if water contains a small amount of ammonia or other antifreeze, up to 5% by weight.[17] In this case the ocean can be as thick as 250–300 km.[11] Failing an ocean, the icy lithosphere may be somewhat thicker, up to about 300 km.
Beneath the lithosphere and putative ocean, Callisto's interior appears to be neither entirely uniform nor particularly variable. Galileo orbiter data[3] (especially the dimensionless moment of inertia[h]—0.3549 ± 0.0042—determined during close flybys) suggest that its interior is composed of compressed rocks and ices, with the amount of rock increasing with depth due to partial settling of its constituents.[11][33] In other words, Callisto is only partially differentiated. The density and moment of inertia are compatible with the existence of a small silicate core in the center of Callisto. The radius of any such core cannot exceed 600 km, and the density may lie between 3.1 and 3.6 g/cm3.[3][11] Callisto's interior is in stark contrast to that of Ganymede, which appears to be fully differentiated.[12][34]
Surface features[edit]
Galileo image of cratered plains, illustrating the pervasive local smoothing of Callisto's surface
The ancient surface of Callisto is one of the most heavily cratered in the Solar System.[35] In fact, the crater density is close to saturation: any new crater will tend to erase an older one. The large-scale geology is relatively simple; there are no large Callistoan mountains, volcanoes or other endogenic tectonic features.[36] The impact craters and multi-ring structures—together with associated fractures, scarps and deposits—are the only large features to be found on the surface.[13][36]
Callisto's surface can be divided into several geologically different parts: cratered plains, light plains, bright and dark smooth plains, and various units associated with particular multi-ring structures and impact craters.[13][36] The cratered plains constitute most of the surface area and represent the ancient lithosphere, a mixture of ice and rocky material. The light plains include bright impact craters like Burr and Lofn, as well as the effaced remnants of old large craters called palimpsests,[i] the central parts of multi-ring structures, and isolated patches in the cratered plains.[13] These light plains are thought to be icy impact deposits. The bright, smooth plains constitute a small fraction of the Callistoan surface and are found in the ridge and trough zones of the Valhalla and Asgard formations and as isolated spots in the cratered plains. They were believed to be connected with endogenic activity, but the high-resolution Galileo images showed that the bright, smooth plains correlate with heavily fractured and knobby terrain and do not show any signs of resurfacing.[13] The Galileo images also revealed small, dark, smooth areas with overall coverage less than 10,000 km2, which appear to embay[j] the surrounding terrain. They are possible cryovolcanic deposits.[13] Both the light and the various smooth plains are somewhat younger and less cratered than the background cratered plains.[13][37]
Impact crater Hár with a central dome. Chains of secondary craters from formation of the more recent crater Tindr at upper right crosscut the terrain.
Impact crater diameters seen range from 0.1 km—a limit defined by the imaging resolution—to over 100 km, not counting the multi-ring structures.[13] Small craters, with diameters less than 5 km, have simple bowl or flat-floored shapes. Those 5–40 km across usually have a central peak. Larger impact features, with diameters in the range 25–100 km, have central pits instead of peaks, such as Tindr crater.[13] The largest craters with diameters over 60 km can have central domes, which are thought to result from central tectonic uplift after an impact;[13] examples include Doh and Hár craters. A small number of very large—more 100 km in diameter—and bright impact craters show anomalous dome geometry. These are unusually shallow and may be a transitional landform to the multi-ring structures, as with the Lofn impact feature.[13] Callistoan craters are generally shallower than those on the Moon.
Voyager 1 image of Valhalla, a multi-ring impact structure 3800 km in diameter
The largest impact features on the Callistoan surface are multi-ring basins.[13][36] Two are enormous. Valhalla is the largest, with a bright central region 600 kilometers in diameter, and rings extending as far as 1,800 kilometers from the center (see figure).[38] The second largest is Asgard, measuring about 1,600 kilometers in diameter.[38] Multi-ring structures probably originated as a result of a post-impact concentric fracturing of the lithosphere lying on a layer of soft or liquid material, possibly an ocean.[23] The catenae—for example Gomul Catena—are long chains of impact craters lined up in straight lines across the surface. They were probably created by objects that were tidally disrupted as they passed close to Jupiter prior to the impact on Callisto, or by very oblique impacts.[13] A historical example of a disruption was Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
As mentioned above, small patches of pure water ice with an albedo as high as 80% are found on the surface of Callisto, surrounded by much darker material.[4] High-resolution Galileo images showed the bright patches to be predominately located on elevated surface features: crater rims, scarps, ridges and knobs.[4] They are likely to be thin water frost deposits. Dark material usually lies in the lowlands surrounding and mantling bright features and appears to be smooth. It often forms patches up to 5 km across within the crater floors and in the intercrater depressions.[4]
Two landslides 3–3.5 km long are visible on the right sides of the floors of the two large craters on the right.
On a sub-kilometer scale the surface of Callisto is more degraded than the surfaces of other icy Galilean moons.[4] Typically there is a deficit of small impact craters with diameters less than 1 km as compared with, for instance, the dark plains on Ganymede.[13] Instead of small craters, the almost ubiquitous surface features are small knobs and pits.[4] The knobs are thought to represent remnants of crater rims degraded by an as-yet uncertain process.[14] The most likely candidate process is the slow sublimation of ice, which is enabled by a temperature of up to 165 K, reached at a subsolar point.[4] Such sublimation of water or other volatiles from the dirty ice that is the bedrock causes its decomposition. The non-ice remnants form debris avalanches descending from the slopes of the crater walls.[14] Such avalanches are often observed near and inside impact craters and termed "debris aprons".[4][13][14] Sometimes crater walls are cut by sinuous valley-like incisions called "gullies", which resemble certain Martian surface features.[4] In the ice sublimation hypothesis, the low-lying dark material is interpreted as a blanket of primarily non-ice debris, which originated from the degraded rims of craters and has covered a predominantly icy bedrock.
The relative ages of the different surface units on Callisto can be determined from the density of impact craters on them. The older the surface, the denser the crater population.[39] Absolute dating has not been carried out, but based on theoretical considerations, the cratered plains are thought to be ~4.5 billion years old, dating back almost to the formation of the Solar System. The ages of multi-ring structures and impact craters depend on chosen background cratering rates and are estimated by different authors to vary between 1 and 4 billion years.[13][35]
Atmosphere and ionosphere[edit]
Induced magnetic field around Callisto
Callisto has a very tenuous atmosphere composed of carbon dioxide.[6] It was detected by the Galileo Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) from its absorption feature near the wavelength 4.2 micrometers. The surface pressure is estimated to be 7.5 × 10−12 bar (0.75 µPa) and particle density 4 × 108 cm−3. Because such a thin atmosphere would be lost in only about 4 days (see atmospheric escape), it must be constantly replenished, possibly by slow sublimation of carbon dioxide ice from Callisto's icy crust,[6] which would be compatible with the sublimation–degradation hypothesis for the formation of the surface knobs.
Callisto's ionosphere was first detected during Galileo flybys;[15] its high electron density of 7–17 × 104 cm−3 cannot be explained by the photoionization of the atmospheric carbon dioxide alone. Hence, it is suspected that the atmosphere of Callisto is actually dominated by molecular oxygen (in amounts 10–100 times greater than CO
).[7] However, oxygen has not yet been directly detected in the atmosphere of Callisto. Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) placed an upper limit on its possible concentration in the atmosphere, based on lack of detection, which is still compatible with the ionospheric measurements.[40] At the same time HST was able to detect condensed oxygen trapped on the surface of Callisto.[41]
Origin and evolution[edit]
The partial differentiation of Callisto (inferred e.g. from moment of inertia measurements) means that it has never been heated enough to melt its ice component.[17] Therefore, the most favorable model of its formation is a slow accretion in the low-density Jovian subnebula—a disk of the gas and dust that existed around Jupiter after its formation.[16] Such a prolonged accretion stage would allow cooling to largely keep up with the heat accumulation caused by impacts, radioactive decay and contraction, thereby preventing melting and fast differentiation.[16] The allowable timescale of formation of Callisto lies then in the range 0.1 million–10 million years.[16]
The further evolution of Callisto after accretion was determined by the balance of the radioactive heating, cooling through thermal conduction near the surface, and solid state or subsolidus convection in the interior.[25] Details of the subsolidus convection in the ice is the main source of uncertainty in the models of all icy moons. It is known to develop when the temperature is sufficiently close to the melting point, due to the temperature dependence of ice viscosity.[42] Subsolidus convection in icy bodies is a slow process with ice motions of the order of 1 centimeter per year, but is, in fact, a very effective cooling mechanism on long timescales.[42] It is thought to proceed in the so-called stagnant lid regime, where a stiff, cold outer layer of Callisto conducts heat without convection, whereas the ice beneath it convects in the subsolidus regime.[17][42] For Callisto, the outer conductive layer corresponds to the cold and rigid lithosphere with a thickness of about 100 km. Its presence would explain the lack of any signs of the endogenic activity on the Callistoan surface.[42][43] The convection in the interior parts of Callisto may be layered, because under the high pressures found there, water ice exists in different crystalline phases beginning from the ice I on the surface to ice VII in the center.[25] The early onset of subsolidus convection in the Callistoan interior could have prevented large-scale ice melting and any resulting differentiation that would have otherwise formed a large rocky core and icy mantle. Due to the convection process, however, very slow and partial separation and differentiation of rocks and ices inside Callisto has been proceeding on timescales of billions of years and may be continuing to this day.[43]
The current understanding of the evolution of Callisto allows for the existence of a layer or "ocean" of liquid water in its interior. This is connected with the anomalous behavior of ice I phase's melting temperature, which decreases with pressure, achieving temperatures as low as 251 K at 2,070 bar (207 MPa).[17] In all realistic models of Callisto the temperature in the layer between 100 and 200 km in depth is very close to, or exceeds slightly, this anomalous melting temperature.[25][42][43] The presence of even small amounts of ammonia—about 1–2% by weight—almost guarantees the liquid's existence because ammonia would lower the melting temperature even further.[17]
Although Callisto is very similar in bulk properties to Ganymede, it apparently had a much simpler geological history. The surface appears to have been shaped mainly by impacts and other exogenic forces.[13] Unlike neighboring Ganymede with its grooved terrain, there is little evidence of tectonic activity.[12] Explanations that have been proposed for the contrasts in internal heating and consequent differentiation and geologic activity between Callisto and Ganymede include differences in formation conditions,[44] the greater tidal heating experienced by Ganymede,[45] and the more numerous and energetic impacts that would have been suffered by Ganymede during the Late Heavy Bombardment.[46][47][48] The relatively simple geological history of Callisto provides planetary scientists with a reference point for comparison with other more active and complex worlds.[12]
Size comparison of Earth, Moon and Callisto
Possibility of life in the ocean[edit]
As with Europa and Ganymede, the idea has been raised that extraterrestrial microbial life may exist in a salty ocean under the Callistoan surface.[18] However, the conditions for life appear to be less favorable on Callisto than on Europa. The principal reasons are the lack of contact with rocky material and the lower heat flux from the interior of Callisto.[18] Scientist Torrence Johnson said the following about comparing the odds of life on Callisto with the odds on other Galilean moons:[49]
The basic ingredients for life—what we call 'pre-biotic chemistry'—are abundant in many solar system objects, such as comets, asteroids and icy moons. Biologists believe liquid water and energy are then needed to actually support life, so it's exciting to find another place where we might have liquid water. But, energy is another matter, and currently, Callisto's ocean is only being heated by radioactive elements, whereas Europa has tidal energy as well, from its greater proximity to Jupiter.
Based on the considerations mentioned above and on other scientific observations, it is thought that of all of Jupiter's Galilean moons, Europa has the greatest chance of supporting microbial life.[18][50]
The next planned mission to the Jovian system is the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE), due to launch in 2022.[52] Several close flybys of Callisto are planned during the mission.[52]
Old proposals[edit]
Formerly proposed for a launch in 2020, the Europa Jupiter System Mission (EJSM) was a joint NASA/ESA proposal for exploration of Jupiter's moons. In February 2009 it was announced that ESA/NASA had given this mission priority ahead of the Titan Saturn System Mission.[53] ESA's contribution still faced funding competition from other ESA projects.[54] EJSM consisted of the NASA-led Jupiter Europa Orbiter, the ESA-led Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter, and possibly a JAXA-led Jupiter Magnetospheric Orbiter.
Potential colonization[edit]
Artist's impression of a base on Callisto[55]
In 2003 NASA conducted a conceptual study called Human Outer Planets Exploration (HOPE) regarding the future human exploration of the outer Solar System. The target chosen to consider in detail was Callisto.[19][56]
The study proposed a possible surface base on Callisto that would produce fuel for further exploration of the Solar System.[55] Advantages of a base on Callisto include low radiation (due to its distance from Jupiter) and geological stability. Such a base could facilitate remote exploration of Europa, or be an ideal location for a Jovian system waystation servicing spacecraft heading farther into the outer Solar System, using a gravity assist from a close flyby of Jupiter after departing Callisto.[19]
A December 2003 NASA report expressed the belief that a manned mission to Callisto may be possible in the 2040s.[57]
See also[edit]
1. ^ Periapsis is derived from the semimajor axis (a) and eccentricity (e): a(1-e).
3. ^ Surface area derived from the radius (r): 4\pi r^2.
4. ^ Volume derived from the radius (r): \frac{4}{3}\pi r^3.
5. ^ Surface gravity derived from the mass (m), the gravitational constant (G) and the radius (r): \frac{Gm}{r^2}.
7. ^ a b The leading hemisphere is the hemisphere facing the direction of the orbital motion; the trailing hemisphere faces the reverse direction.
8. ^ The dimensionless moment of inertia referred to is I/(mr2), where I is the moment of inertia, m the mass, and r the maximal radius. It is 0.4 for a homogenous spherical body, but less than 0.4 if density increases with depth.
9. ^ In the case of icy satellites, palimpsests are defined as bright circular surface features, probably old impact craters; see Greeley et al. 2000.[13]
10. ^ To embay means to shut in, or shelter, as in a bay.
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The coat of arms of a territorial abbot are distinguished by a green galero with twelve tassels and a gold crozier with a veil attached.
A territorial abbey (or territorial abbacy) is a type of particular church within the Roman Catholic Church.
Normally an abbot is the superior of an abbey (a monastery), and exercises authority over a religious family of monks. His authority extends only as far as the monastery's walls, or only to the monks who have taken their vows in his monastery. A territorial abbot - also called an abbot nullius diœceseos, Latin "belonging to no diocese", or abbreviated abbot nullius - functions additionally as the ecclesiastical ordinary for the Catholics and parishes within a defined territory around the monastery, in much the same way a bishop does for a diocese.
The practice arose in part because abbeys served the spiritual needs of Catholics who lived near the monastery, especially in mission territories. The monastery's own chapel was a space of public worship for the laity who had settled nearby, and the monks could also serve as parish clergy in churches near the monastery. The abbot of the monastery, although having received only the priesthood in the sacrament of Holy Orders, was invested with the same administrative authority under canon law as a diocesan bishop for a given territory around the abbey. Thus, with the exception of conferring ordination on priests, the territorial abbot could do almost everything a diocesan bishop would for those under his care, including incardinate (that is, enroll under his jurisdiction) even non-monastic priests and deacons for service in parishes. The territorial abbot, like other abbots and archabbots, had the right to use an episcopal coat of arms and to wear the mitre, the crosier, the ring, and the pectoral cross; if the abbot had been ordained to the episcopacy (very rare), he had the power to ordain his religious who were candidates to the transitional and permanent diaconate and to the priesthood, though they usually had to attend a seminary house of formation located outside the abbot's territory.
Though territorial (like other) abbots are elected by the monks of their abbey, a territorial abbot can only receive the abbatial blessing and be installed under mandate from the pope, just as a bishop cannot be ordained and installed as ordinary of a diocese without such a mandate.
After the Second Vatican Council, more emphasis has been placed on the unique nature of the episcopacy and on the traditional organization of the church into dioceses under bishops. As such, abbeys nullius have been phased out in favor of the erection of new dioceses or the absorption of the territory into an existing diocese. A few ancient abbeys nullius still exist in Europe, and one in Korea.
List of territorial abbeys[edit]
There are 11 remaining territorial abbeys, as listed in the Annuario Pontificio of the Vatican:
In Italy the following abbeys have been united with a diocese:
In other European countries:
• Cluny (in Burgundy; now united with the Diocese of Autun) is the only one in France. Historically Cluny was the mother house of the Congregation of Cluny as a result of the Cluniac monastic reform of the 11th century, primarily in that it removed many Benedictine abbeys under its jurisdiction from local feudal allegiances (hence establishing their independence) and had new ones founded. It became extremely rich and influential within and beyond the Church.
Historically there have been more, such as
Sources and references[edit]
1. ^ Cheney, David M. (2007), "Territorial Abbey of Saint Peter-Muenster", Catholic-Hierarchy.org, retrieved 2007-08-17
2. ^ Catholic-hierarchy.org
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Buddy of mine in a football sim league posted this:
Once upon a time, mortgage brokers sold Kool Aid. Suddenly, Wall Street became extremely thirsty. They couldn't get enough Kool Aid. The price for Kool Aid went way up.
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Wall Street bought the tainted Kool Aid by the truck full. Fannie Mae bought the Kool Aid, froze it, and sold it as popsicles. Freddie Mac bought the popsicles, melted them, thickened it, and sold it as a syrup. Bear Stearns bought the syrup, carbonated it, and sold it as a soda. At each step, the price of the Kool Aid increased, as did the profits.
Then one day, the people said, "$800,000 for Kool Aid? Are you profanityfilterprofanityfilterprofanityfilterprofa nityfiltering kidding me? Isn't that shit still a nickel a packet at Walmart? And what kind of jackass came up with Kool Aid soda anyway?"
Wall Street said, "Oh. profanityfilterprofanityfilterprofanityfilterprofa nityfilter."
Then the reports of tainting began to creep in. It might be tap water with food coloring here, or adding dog piss there, but it started to add up to some really, really bad Kool Aid.
Wall Street had poured a shitload of money into its Kool Aid supplies, and they needed a buyer. Wall Street responded by pulling the strings on its puppet named White House. White House invested a lot of monetary policy into encouraging the Kool Aid market, making cheap loans available for Kool Aid distributors, as well as giving tax incentives to new Kool Aid buyers. None of it really worked. The Kool Aid market had frozen, and the last one holding it was going to have to drink it.
The blogosphere echoed with a common refrain from noted econonists and the common man alike: "The banks made the Kool Aid, make them drink it!"
Then Wall Street coaxed their fuzzy pet Congressmen into a bailout. The cuddly little critters have a talent for malaprops, and they began to refer to the "bailout" as a "rescue." These critters scurry around the nation every day, slipping into the people's paychecks, and escaping with fat wads of cash before they can get shot.
Today, the critters emerged from their nest with a massive wad of the people's cash and presented it to Wall Street to buy the Kool Aid. Each person's share of the Kool Aid is in the mail as we speak.
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חפשו מילה כלשהי, כמו sapiosexual:
Once someone has been given a mcgurk and they fall to the floor you would then stomp on their nuts causing even more humor and ending all chances of reproduction for the receiver of the mcgurk combo.
After i gave that kid a mcgurk and he fell, i decided to mcgurk combo his ass with a good stomp to prevent reproduction.
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The question has been closed for the following reason "The question is answered, right answer was accepted" by sadie Apr 10 '13 at 15:32
If you mean burka that covers the face then the problem is solved. She can remove the face veil and wear the black jilbab. But she should not put on anything on her face that will attract attention.
is permissible for her to wear any colour of clothing so long as it covers her ‘awrah, does not resemble men’s clothing, and is not so tight as to show the shape of her limbs or so thin as to show what is beneath it, and does not provoke temptation. but it is better for her to wear a jilbab.
So no matter if you wear a pants it will reveal your shape so it is deemed haram in addition women are not suppose to imitate men in dress. However, if you men skirt that is loose and that it covers the whole lower half. It permissible on the condition that upper half is covered according the shariah, such as a a very loose sweater or with a jacket that is long enough to cover the back. It should not be adorned with bright color.
So it is permitted on these conditions, but if you met the face veil then majority of scholars have said that is permisible to cover if you have no option. She should just wear the jilbab.
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lumi's picture
Awesome....more, more, more please ;-)
Could you try to explain how the mapping is working? Does it require a EPROM to save data or do you just store it in te memory?
What servos are you using? With my Chopstick Junior I got some broken after a while...yeah, that cheap 9g servos...
Botdev's picture
You don't need the write it in the eprom, it keeps a very small amount of data in realtime (does not keep a log), so the memory is enough. Although, you can use the same concept in a way where you log the data for more complex calculations.
It has a very low resolution of 10x2. Basically what it does it to create an array of distance values (from the IR sensor) as the head moves.
If you watch it as it moves forward, you will see a circular-like movement of the head, it scans 2 lines (one 90 degrees to the ground and one 45 degrees to the ground). I keep 10x samples for each line and store them in an array. After that it depends on how you process that array, for example Jeffrey uses the first line to avoid obstacles and the second line to avoid falling down of a table.
For the first line I find the lowest value to locate the location of the "obstacle" and the highest value to find the correct place to move in order to avoid it. (the position of these values on the array corresponds to real physical positions since the scanning process is linear). I do the exact opposite for table edge avoidance. Of course, there are exceptions with extra actions, but this is basically how it works.
With the same method you can create a larger resolution array for more calculations, but of course the time lapse between the samples would increase.
Those servos do break. Jeffrey broke 2 servos till now. I plan to redesign its legs with a more solid structure. The correct way to avoid breaking servos is to build mechanical legs and control them via wires connected to the servo. That way you can take some of the tension off the servos.
Just seen your chopstick junior, its awesome :D
lumi's picture
Wow, thanks for explaing that in such a detailed novel ;-) Now I can make myself an image about how it works.
Yep, Chopstick Junior was a lot of fun to build to show off and even doing a workshop in out hackerspace and let 50 insurance sellers build two of Chopstick Junior clones ;-)
legwinskij's picture
Awesome ! I am currently working on quadruped but this one is great !
ChuckCrunch's picture
so can't wate for the rest so hurry hurry hurry now now now :P LOL in the top video there is a sound like a piezo buzzer freaking out, live it sounds like some kind of bug
groove job all round
Botdev's picture
Yeah, I purposely used a piezo buzzer to create a bug like sound. Love that sound. Also, adding sound to your robot makes it psychologically more comfortable to interact for humans. :)
I guess I will add a new project every day, too busy these days.
JerZ's picture
That is what is really striking about this bot. It has so much personality. Seems to be pissed off when things get in his way and the twitchy head thing I mentioned before. Like a grumpy mad-man! Perfect. LOL
Botdev's picture
I didn't even mention the angry/fearing behavior we have intended to reach, it's great to see that you got the exact same feeling that was aimed for. :D
JerZ's picture
I love how his head spins in circles then all of a sudden he's staring right at you. AWESOME!! Great job.
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