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Comment: Subsidized hardware (Score 2, Insightful) 156
by Falkkin (#28362419) Attached to: Kindle Pricing, Business Models and Source Code
"If I'm buying a Kindle from Amazon that enables me to buy books from Amazon, I'm broadcasting a desire to buy Kindle books. I would welcome some subsidization of the hardware since I'm going to be buying content anyway. No, I really think Amazon priced the Kindle the way they did because they thought they could get away with doing so..."
Why is it only in the tech-gadget industry that people expect manufacturers to sell items for *less than cost*?
Comment: Re:Checked it? (Score 1) 544
by Falkkin (#27805139) Attached to: Options For a Laptop With a Broken Screen?
"... putting it in a separate tray for security."
No need to do that. I just leave the laptop in my bag. Usually the screeners don't notice/care; if they do notice, smile and apologetically say "whoops, sorry, I forgot." They'll then take it out and run it through separately. I've done this probably 10-15 times in the last year or two, and they've only taken it out for a separate scan once.
Exception: if some TSA guy before the x-ray belt asks me directly if I have a laptop, I take it out of my bag. There's no penalty for acting dumb for something you forgot to take out (or every high-school girl with a 6-oz bottle of shampoo would be doing time in federal prison), but I presume there's a significant penalty for lying to a TSA agent.
Comment: Re:Copyright The New York Times?!? (Score 1) 177
by Falkkin (#27786373) Attached to: Canadian Pirates Sell Spurious Songs — In 1897
This seems to be a blanket statement that NYT puts on all their online articles. It might be insane in this case, but from their standpoint I understand why they do it: they put the publishing date there, and the fact that the article was Copyrighted then, and let the user figure out whether the laws in their jurisdiction actually allow the work to be copied. They have no idea what the hell laws Congress might pass (even applying retroactively) in the future, so pass the buck to someone else on determining that a given article is, in fact, not copyrighted.
I also wouldn't be surprised if this is just laziness on the part of some programmer; I can imagine something like this happening:
for (a in articles) { addStandardCopyrightMessage(a.date()); }
(I'm not saying that any of this is *right*; I'm just saying that I can see how this happened, and I'm not at all surprised.)
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+ - reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books
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mcmillen writes "Humans solve about 60 million CAPTCHAs a day. A new project called reCAPTCHA aims to put this human computing power to good use. reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by OCR software to the Web, in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. With reCAPTCHA, a pair of distorted English words is presented to a human. One word cannot be read correctly by OCR; the other word's answer is already known. The user is asked to transcribe both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the unknown one. reCAPTCHA was developed by Luis von Ahn, one of the original CAPTCHA inventors."
+ - reCAPTCHA - preventing spam and digitizing books.
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+ - Digitizing Books with CAPTCHAs
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greatgregg writes "The guy who invented the ESP Game (now Google Image Labeler) has figured out a way to harness the time spent solving CAPTCHAs for something useful: digitizing books. Books digitization projects use OCR to transform scanned books into ASCII text, but OCR is not perfect. Now, every time you solve a reCAPTCHA you will also be helping to digitize a word that cannot be read by OCR."
+ - Okami, Oblivion Lead GDC Awards Finalists
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Comment: Re:CentOS == win 7 of linux (Score 1) 346
by rmdashrf (#45544749) Attached to: The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu
No, RPM is not bad, it's pure EVIL, have you ever gone through the RPM documentation? It's a nightmarish twisty maze of implicit dependencies and inflexible as hell
Just having Yum sitting on top of it obscuring the RPM 'dependency from hell' cycle, doesn't mean that it's ok. If .deb packages leave cruft behind, that means the pre/post install of the particular package needs some work. Nothing to do with the package manager itself.
Using RHEL at the moment, but would drop it in a second if there was a serious contender for Redhat who would do Debian enterprise support.
There is a point of light though, someone is rebuilding RPM from the ground up, which seems to address the issues that plague the current version of RPM
Comment: Re:It's not about innovation (Score 1) 219
by rmdashrf (#45487127) Attached to: Samsung Ordered To Pay Apple $290M In Patent Case
The design is OBVIOUS.
- proportions
Hey it needs to fit in your hand and you need to be able to manage it with your fingers. The proportions of the device are related to the proportions of the human hand.
- size
Even though hands come in different sizes, there's probably a size that will be both usable for people with small hands and people with bigger hands.
- contour
Comment: Re:So here we have an example of our crossroads... (Score 1) 239
by rmdashrf (#45478051) Attached to: Software Patent Reform Stalls Thanks To IBM and Microsoft Lobbying
A govenrments only real power is the threat of violence (through incarceration and other means to enforce laws). Having a government that's unable to enforce the laws it makes, would be the equivalency to having anarchy.
And if there's no government to enforce laws, then who would be making those corporations accountable? If you have a practical answer to this question, you'll have solved most of mankind's problems
What you're proposing would result in countries like Nigeria, where there's a puppet regime, strong enough to keep the threat of violence hanging over the population's head, while not strong enough to hold off corporations plundering any and all natural resources your country may possess.
The only practical solution would be to always ensure that private entities like corporations are always weaker than government. If you have a large corporation, the only option to control them is large government. Making sure that corporations are unable to grow beyond a certain size would reduce the need to large government, since it will never be required to grow large a as counterweight to the power that private entities (in this case corporations, but this also goes for other private entities) can exert.
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EXIT does not close winapp
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On the previous msg board, Jugoslav showed me why clicking the exit button on a simple dialog will not close the app main window.
The cure was a simple name chg but I cannot find that msg on the archived list.
Does anyone know what that necessary change is?
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The Power to Dominate and the Power to Love
As Christians, our continual task is to explore and mediate on Jesus' teachings, as well as to emulate his deeds. Central to this two-fold task is comprehending the type of power Jesus wielded, namely the power to love. It often sounds repetitive to state that the poor carpenter loved those who were outcast by the dominant first-century Palestine social powers. But it is certainly worth repeating, for so radical was his power to love that it led to his dehumanizing demise.
Liberation theologian Leonardo Boff states that two powers were operative in the first-century oppressive Palestinian context: 1) exousia (Greek), which is the power to unite through patience and understanding of others; and 2) potestas (Latin), meaning the power to dominate through sheer force
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DeMarcus Cousins suspended for punching Patrick Beverley, fined for yelling at ref Courtney Kirkland (Video)
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Despite a breakthrough year in which he garnered some All-Star consideration, Sacramento Kings big man DeMarcus Cousins has maintained his reputation as a malcontent and immature presence. That take has always been a little misguided and self-perpetuating, to the point where it sometimes seems like his detractors are just waiting to blow any mistake out of proportion. But Cousins also plays into it, of course, often by doing something silly and out of control on the court.
On Tuesday, Cousins engaged in his latest bit of questionable behavior. In the third quarter of the Kings' blowout loss to the Houston Rockets, he was called for a foul on a Dwight Howard dunk attempt and protested the call. That reaction escalated during a subsequent timeout, with Cousins interrupting a discussion between head coach Michael Malone and referee Courtney Kirkland by yelling at the official. He was then ejected.
But Cousins did some other stuff in the game, too. On Thursday, the NBA announced that Cousins has been suspended and fined for his actions in the Rockets game. But the suspension is not for his outburst at Kirkland. From the offical press release:
In addition, Cousins has been fined for verbally abusing a game official and failing to leave the court in a timely manner following his ejection with8:21 remaining in the third quarter of the same game.
You can watch the punch below:
While the punch was not punished during the game, you can see why it earned the attention of the league. At the same time, the act might not have deserved a suspension on its own. Although "punch" is probably the best word for the strike, Cousins doesn't exactly take a full swing at Beverley — he hits him as the Rockets guard cuts through the lane. It's not a light blow, but players have avoided ejections for less.
However, the punishment does not suggest that Cousins earned the suspension for his reputation rather than the weight of his actions. Given that the punch was not assessed a punishment in the moment and that he was eventually ejected when the game was already decided, the suspension feels like a worthy reaction to the sum of Cousins's poor decisions in the full game. The NBA explained the suspension and fine as separate punishments for separate incidents, but it's hard to take them as such when the announcements came at the same time.
So, as long as we look at the suspension and fine as two parts of the same decision, this punishment looks to fit the crime. Cousins often gets treated as a problem child even when he acts perfectly reasonably, but in this case it looks like he's being handled correctly.
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There are 2 images A and B. I extract the keypoints (a[i] and b[i]) from them.
I wonder how can I determine the matching between a[i] and b[j], efficiently?
The obvious method comes to me is to compare each point in A with each point in B. But it over time-consuming for large images databases. How can I just compare point a[i] with just b[k] where k is of small range?
I heard that kd-tree may be a good choice, isn't it? Is there any good examples about kd-tree?
Any other suggestions?
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kd-tree as such are not efficient for descriptors with such a high dimensionality as SIFT (this is known as the curse of dimensionnality). However, there exists other indexing strategies for approximate nearest neighbour search in high dimensional spaces. FLANN, included in OpenCV, is one. And there is an implementation of keypoint matching using FLANN, see the link in my answer – remi Oct 10 '12 at 9:09
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KD tree stores the trained descriptors in a way that it is really faster to find the most similar descriptor when performing the matching.
With OpenCV it is really easy to use kd-tree, I will give you an example for the flann matcher:
flann::GenericIndex< cvflann::L2<int> > *tree; // the flann searching tree
tree = new flann::GenericIndex< cvflann::L2<int> >(descriptors, cvflann::KDTreeIndexParams(4)); // a 4 k-d tree
Then, when you do the matching:
const cvflann::SearchParams params(32);
tree.knnSearch(queryDescriptors, indices, dists, 2, cvflann::SearchParams(8));
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The question is weather you actually want to determine a keypoint matching between two images, or calculate a similarity measure.
If you want to determine a matching, then I'm afraid you will have to brute-force search through all possible descriptor pairs between two images (there is some more advanced methods such as FLANN - Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search, but the speedup is not significant if you have less then or around 2000 keypoints per image -- at least in my experience). To get a more accurate matching (not faster, just better matches), I can suggest you take look at:
If, on the other hand, you want only a similarity measure over a large database, then the appropriate place to start would be:
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In OpenCV there are several strategies implemented to match sets of keypoints. Have a look at documentation about Common Interfaces of Descriptor Matchers.
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I have an question about getting the page coordinates of a text selection in javascript. I do know how to get the selected text etc. but that is not what I'm looking for... I need the coordinates (in pixels) of the beginning of the text selection.
I tried using the cursor coordinates but this didn't work quite well because the cursor coordinates and the beginning of the selection are not always the same (for example when a user drags over a text).
I hope someone has the solution!
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In recent non-IE browsers (Firefox 4+, WebKit browsers released since early 2009, Opera 11, maybe earlier), you can use the getClientRects() method of Range. In IE, you can use the boundingLeft and boundingTop properties of the TextRange that can be extracted from the selection. Here's a function that will do what you want in recent browsers.
jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/aSUSh/5/
function getSelectionCoords() {
var sel = document.selection, range;
var x = 0, y = 0;
if (sel) {
if (sel.type != "Control") {
range = sel.createRange();
x = range.boundingLeft;
y = range.boundingTop;
} else if (window.getSelection) {
sel = window.getSelection();
if (sel.rangeCount) {
range = sel.getRangeAt(0).cloneRange();
if (range.getClientRects) {
var rect = range.getClientRects()[0];
x = rect.left;
y = rect.top;
return { x: x, y: y };
I'm going to add a fuller implementation of this with fallbacks for older browsers to my Rangy library soon.
I submitted a WebKit bug as a result of the comments, and it's now been fixed.
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Works perfectly on single line selections, but when you select multiple lines (starting from somewhere half-where in the first line) it shows the coordinates for the beginning of the first selection-line not the beginning of the selection it self.... I know that is probably because of the getBounding function but is there any way to change that? – Bouke Jul 27 '11 at 18:02
@Bouke: Ah, fair point. I've updated my answer to do as you asked, by collapsing the range to a single point at the start before getting its position. – Tim Down Jul 27 '11 at 22:46
@Bouke: Updated again, and is now working on WebKit. – Tim Down Jul 28 '11 at 17:08
I have tried this code. It is returning always x: 0, y:0 even the caret position is moved in firefox 20.0.1. Please have a look at this similar question which I asked recently. I am looking for a cross-browser solution which works in IE8+, chrome and firefox. – Mr_Green May 20 '13 at 9:31
@Mr_Green: This code is specific to selections/ranges within regular HTML content rather than textareas, as is Rangy. I don't believe it is possible to create a general cross-browser solution for getting coordinates of the textarea cursor without doing lots of tedious text measuring, which is why I haven't answered your other question. – Tim Down May 20 '13 at 10:41
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Since 1981, Ratzinger has been the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Apart from the late John Paul II, he has more than anyone else shaped the Catholic Church?s response to the secular worldviews infecting the West.
In his homily prior to the start of the conclave that elected him pope, Ratzinger warned, ?We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one?s own ego and one?s own desires.? Christians are to illustrate the alternative.
The new pope?s refusal to bow before the idols of our age is enough to set some people?s teeth on edge. But he does not stop there: In his new book, Ratzinger calls on Europe to return to its Christian roots. He calls Europe?s ?passionately demanded multiculturalism? a ?renunciation? of and ?fleeing? from ?what is one?s own.?
By ?one?s own? he means Christianity, and he writes that only a re-embrace of its Christian roots can assure Europe?s survival.
With these views, it is easy to see why his election ?alarmed? the elites. In the lead paragraph of its story, the New York Times signaled its displeasure by using words like watchdog, uncompromising, and ultraconservative.
That was mild in comparison to the reaction of the British newspapers. Both prior to and after his election, their headlines made sure to point out that Ratzinger had been a member of Hitler Youth. They neglected to mention that such membership was compulsory and that Ratzinger, who came from a staunchly anti-Nazi family, deserted the Wermacht shortly after being drafted.
I was asked by an interviewer if the new pope would accommodate modern fashions. My answer was, ?I hope not.? Fashions come and go; the Church speaks eternal truth.
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Do you think it would be likely for someone to have a racquet sponsor like Wilson, but then they used another big company's overgrips like Prince?
11-25-2007, 10:38 AM
well, the most obvious example is any player that uses tourna grip. not really the same as wilson vs. prince (because they each make racquets and all), but is somewhat similar. tourna is very unique, and there aren't any other overgrips that i know of that are comparable to it. i think that if a player didn't like the grips their sponsor produced, they would probably use something they liked more (but would probably use their company's finishing tape so you couldn't tell). if it were someone like fed or nadal, the company would probably make a line of grips that were just what they wanted. maybe others have info on exactly what grips people use on what sticks. i don't really follow all of that to a T, but others could prob shed some light on it. | http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/archive/index.php/t-168390.html | dclm-gs1-281250000 |
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By Jason Bramwell
There's one person or maybe a group of people who has yet to claim the largest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million.
The ticket was purchased on May 18 from a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida. The winner has sixty days to claim the lump-sum cash option estimated to be around $376.9 million at the Florida Lottery office in Tallahassee.
• A financial planner who can model cash-flow planning.
"With that amount of money and the earnings you would have off that money, even if you took the lump sum, you're going to be in the highest tax bracket for a very long time," Keasal said. "It's a matter of deciding whether you're going to make more money with your investment advisors than what the annuity is going to pay. Investment advisors usually do better than what the assumed rate of return is on the annuity."
Scorcio added, "This is definitely an area an accountant can help you with, because you want to take into consideration what future tax rates might be. You may be better off taking it as a lump sum. What's the discount rate on the present value of annuity that took place at the time? That's an analysis process you want to go through. Your answer might end up being different from what you first thought."
3. Learn how to say no: Once the name of the Powerball winner is announced, he or she is going to be inundated with messages from long-lost family members, friends from grade school, and others asking for money.
"Having the discipline to say no to these requests will be a critical near-term skill. There will be plenty of time for careful review of quality requests," Travis said.
Scorcio added that a McGladrey client who won a large lottery several years ago is still receiving requests for money.
"Here we are eight or nine years later, and our client is still getting letters from people wanting money. It doesn't stop," she said.
4. Make sure all taxes associated with the earnings are paid: Because these aren't tax-free winnings, the Powerball winner will need the ability to pay the tax liability, said Hitchcock. The withholdings from the lottery are usually not sufficient enough to pay the tax liability.
"The withholdings don't necessarily equate to the total taxes, including state taxes," Finé said.
In the state of Florida, taxes are withheld on lottery winnings of $600 or more, according to the Florida Lottery website. For prizes of more than $5,000, US citizens and resident aliens with a Social Security number are subject to a 25 percent deduction to their prizes, which represents federal taxes. Lottery prizes are exempt from Florida state and local personal income taxes.
For example, the estimated Powerball jackpot on May 22 is $40 million. For the lump-sum option, the winner would receive $25.1 million. Federal tax of 25 percent ($6.275 million) is required to be withheld. After withholding, the winner gets a net lump-sum payment of $18.825 million. Currently, the maximum federal income tax rate is 39.6 percent, so additional federal tax up to 14.6 percent is likely to apply, as well as state taxes depending on where the taxpayer lives.
For the annuity option of $40 million, the winner would be paid in thirty annual payments in the average amount of $1,333,333.33 per year. The average federal tax liability would be $333,333.33 per year. The average net lump-sum payment after tax withholding would be $1 million per year.
5. Park your money in a safe location: Scorcio recommends that the lottery winner put his or her money in a brokerage account or invest it in short-term treasury bills until an investment plan is in place and ready to be executed. Both she and Hitchcock recommend against depositing the winnings at a bank.
"Most of the winnings would not be FDIC insured," Hitchcock said. "In the past five to six years, we've seen a number of bank failures, so you don't want to park that $200 million or $300 million at a bank because it doesn't give you enough protection. Brokerage accounts, for example, have to be segregated from the brokerage firm's assets. If the brokerage firm were to fail, creditors can't go after your securities. Whereas at a bank, your assets are commingled with the bank's assets."
Finé recommended having a limited liability company (LLC) as the named holder of the funds.
"This helps because a separate name is listed on collection less harassment from outsiders and family and the LLC protects the collectible cash," she said. "You also may want to consider placing your other assets in an LLC to protect the cash from liabilities associated with your other assets, which can include your personal residence."
6. Don't make financial decisions too quickly: The most frequent error TravisWolff advisors see with sudden-wealth recipients is they make many financial decisions too quickly.
"You don't have to make huge gifts, buy expensive houses, or commit to irrevocable legal or investment strategies in the first year or ever," Travis said. "Learn what it feels like to have a different economic status and it can take a few years then consider what steps make the most sense for you and your family. It's rare to get two chances to be rich, so careful planning, quality advice, and prudent decisions will allow you to stay rich and enjoy it."
Scorcio said her advice to anyone who has a significant financial or emotional event in his or her life is to wait up to a year before making any important financial decisions.
"You don't want to immediately go out and sell your house and move someplace else and do all those things right away," she added. "You want to have time for the whole experience to percolate. Give yourself plenty of time to figure out what you really want."
7. Start a health savings account: Now that the new lottery winner will be able to pay for just about anything, Keasal recommended that he or she buy a high-deductible health plan and invest in and fund a health savings account.
"As a family, you can put $6,450 away each year. If you don't spend all the money in your health savings account, it rolls over to the following year and earns interest. You can let it build up and use it for medical expenses far out into the future, tax-free," he said.
8. Be careful not to harm your family or charities with the size of gifts: While giving money to a family member, friend, or charitable organization is seen as an unselfish gesture, it could do more harm than good if not dealt with in a thoughtful manner.
"Wealth is ultimately a responsibility," Travis said. "How can it add meaning to your life and the lives of those around you? What impact does wealth have on your children? Your community? Without a long-term view, wealth can sometimes cause more problems than it solves."
For example, say a lottery winner wants to buy his brother a million-dollar house. Has he thought about whether his brother can maintain the house or pay the real estate taxes on the house?
"Those are the decisions you need to think about beyond 'I'm going to give this person some money.' You need to think about what effect that money will have on the person's life," Scorcio said.
The same mind-set should apply when making a charitable donation, according to Hitchcock.
"For example, if you drop a $3 million charitable gift to the local food pantry, it's just going to overwhelm them. They're not capable of handling it, whereas the American Cancer Society can handle a larger gift because it's a much larger charity," he said. "So match the gift to the charity. If you've set aside $250,000 for charities, set up an endowment fund that allows for an annual payment to that charity, but isn't a huge lump sum."
Another factor Hitchcock said to keep in mind is to decide how you want to give.
"If you want to remain anonymous, you may want to run the gift through a donor-advised fund, where you can make the contribution and then recommend to that fund how you'd like to make charitable gifts and to whom," he added. "There's a barrier between you and the charity."
Another charitable avenue a lottery winner can take is to set up 529 plans for their children or grandchildren, Keasal said.
"Those plans would earn tax-free income as long as that money is used to pay college expenses," he stated.
9. Understand how your advisors are getting paid: When developing an investment plan, Hitchcock offered three pieces of advice: keep it simple; keep it straightforward; and, maybe most importantly, know how your advisors are getting paid.
"Everybody gets paid. In the investment world, advisors can receive a commission, they can get paid on a transaction-type basis, they can get charged a wrap fee on your investments, or they can get paid on a fee-only basis," he said. "One isn't necessarily better than the others. We recommend a fee-type structure because that's how we operate, but that's up to your advisor and how they operate."
10. Splurge on yourself - but don't go overboard: What's the fun of having a lot of money if you can't spend it? Travis said the Powerball winner should develop a short-term plan for immediate "I wants."
"Almost everyone has given this a little thought, so have some fun but use your head," he added.
Hitchcock noted that the McGladrey clients who won the lottery didn't allow their newfound wealth to significantly change their lifestyle.
"They bought a new house, but it was a very modest-looking house in their neighborhood," he said. "They bought a sixteen-foot runabout-type fishing boat, and a Ford Ranger pickup truck to tow it. Nothing wild."
Hitchcock recommends setting a spending budget in the first year and sticking to it.
"Maybe make it a half a million dollars the first year," he stated. "Don't go overboard, and don't make any huge, long-term commitments."
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Say it as you will.You may be entitled to that opinion, but that doesn't make it a fact.
Eyes playing tricks on yah? I'm not sure though bud, I mean a 1080p shouldn't look anymore sharper than another 1080p.
I was not aware of any edge lit CCFL. Do you have any examples out there?
http://store.sony.ca/-cms-ca.ces.2014.tvThere's a 32" KDL32W700B with motion flow 240 but that's all I see
AYou call edge-lit a sham? What did you call CCFL?
Don't get me wrong. I'd purchase a KIA in due time, but since they haven't had the history such as Toyota, my preference is in those that have proven time and time again.Comparing televisions and automobiles is apples to oranges. There's too many deciding factors.But then again with my bias opinion with Vizio, I'd give them a chance if they even bothered to expand their markets outside US. None of these products will ever reach Canada.So that pretty much leaves me with...
We have yet to find out.
Yeah. But I guess saying, "I'd never purchase a KIA regardless of value" would be entirely different huh.
If I were to choose between a KIA or an Audi, I'd choose the Audi. Just like I'd choose Sony over Vizio any other day I like the brand recognition. I know I know... That disregards pricing. that's just me personally, don't hate!
This is amazing. I really want a 65". I can't wait to see it in person. An 85" wouldn't fit in my home theatre at all. Heh, I doubt the box would even fit my door
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"Play On" How does it work?
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Hi, I'm kind of new to all of this new-age media, but I'm getting tired of paying for Dish network! I heard of this thing called Ruku, and an 'app' called "Play On". I guess with play on, you can watch a whole bunch of different shows, and different channels. And, what play on doesn't have, apparently you can go to something similar to an 'app store', and get 3rd party apps (called "Plugins") that have specific cable type channels, and even specific shows.
So, what I'm trying to figure out, is how does this work, exactly? I know it's through the internet, and you use either the Ruku box, or a blue ray player with wifi, and basically play the internet on your TV. But, what I don't understand, is these channels you can get, and the plugins, are they all "live" (like as on Dish, or cable), or is it just certain programming? I watch many different 'cable' type channels, as well as primarily CBS for broadcast TV. I see that there is a plugin, with someone who says you can get city-specific local CBS programming on play on. Again, I don't know if it's 'live', or something from days, or weeks ago?
I want to basically use this play on like my dish service, so I can drop them. But, I would still like to be able to watch programs that are on certain channels, that come on at certain times, like the channels currently on Dish. Can I do this?
And, since we're on the subject, what about the 'play on' add on, called "Play Later". Is that just like a regular DVR? How does that work, exactly?
I realize that I'm asking quite a lot of questions, but I can NOT find ANYONE in ANY electronics store that can answer any of these questions! HH Gregg, Best Buy, Wally World, Radio Shack, etc. I've asked them all! Everyone has heard of play on, but no one can tell me specifically how it works!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
post #2 of 5
Well to answer the big question, no there is nothing like dish or cable available on a streamer. There are no "live' shows at certain times, though playon has plug ins that stream local content that my qualify. Hulu, not plus has a lot of local content available a day or so later, so that may work for you. If you have OTA available some boxes like the WD streamer will allow you to stream live TV from a USB tuner, but Roku is not one of them.
There is a vast amount of content available on the Roku boxes, but sadly none of it comes close to replicating the regular tv viewing experience.
BTW, playon is based on your computer, it must be on and Playon running to have any content available....
post #3 of 5
I purchased a lifetime license for PlayOn quite some time ago and when PlayLater offered a lifetime license I purchased it also
I must admit, I don't use them frequently, but I have definitely gotten my '$$ worth' out of them many times over
I cut the cable tv and Dish tv cords many moons ago and I don't miss them at all (especially the lack of high monthly charges... which has paid for the devices that helped to replace cable/dish tv) - the devices being, a combination of... the Roku (x2) - the Boxee Box (x3) (mostly for streaming local HD content from a multi terabyte HP MediaSmart server) - the Raspberry Pi with XBMC/OpenELEC (x2) (used infrequently) - live tv, streamed to 3 large screen TV's from a PC - the PlayOn UPnP software-media server installed on a PC and the HP server - (and the Ouya with XBMC, scheduled to ship to me next month)
I might have a few extra remote control button and/or mouse clicks to get to what I want to watch... but considering the amount of $$'s I'm saving every month, the extra clicks are not considered a problem at all
And then when you consider that you can 'share' accounts like Netflix and Amazon Prime streaming on different devices, this cuts costs also - My daughter who lives close to the west coast of the US, and me (living in the mid Atlantic/US area) both share Netflix and Prime - plus she's attending a University, so she gets the half price student discount for Amazon Prime ($39 a year) - so if the monthly charge is divided by 2 users, that's $11.24 per month for both services (but of course the 'Dad' pays the total monthly charges :-) ) - a fraction of the price that cable TV and/or Dish TV
I could probably continue further with more examples of why to 'cut the cord', but instead of boring forum members any further, I'll decline
post #4 of 5
Ive just starting looking into PlayOn myself. Basically what brought me to it was looking for a way to use Netflix (among others) inside of XBMC. Anyone know if this is the best way or suggest something else?
The Pros of PlayOn for me appear to be its large "channel" list in addition to netflix and hulu.
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I looked at playon for the hulu part.
I talked to a rep and he said your pc is used to play channels on your tv and record shows for viewing on tv or other devices.
so yes you have to have your computer on to use it, but then he said you can put the recordings on different players.
unsure exactly what that means, play them or copy your recordings to other devices.
I found out I can do hulu in wmc without playon so I kinda stopped there and just use it now.
Not sure about xbmc, hope someone chimes in.
there was a plugin called xbmcflix that put netflix into xbmc. I think its gone now.
I have wished that there was something that did it all but I guess we will never see it.
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post #91 of 1111
I reprod the same macroblocking tonight on my PMDT using Sinbad. It also repros on Bravo D1, Marantz 8400, Sony 7000, RP82, and Arcam FMJ27. (What I had lying around.) The Sinbad is a disc issue. The DVE patterns look the same on all the players too, which was a royal pain since disc navigation is not simple. :)
post #92 of 1111
So sspears.
Can we say that the macro-blocking "issue" is not a player problem, but a disk problem then?
post #93 of 1111
;) As you know, >97% of 3800's did not skip/freeze. I've never seen a 3800 layer change. I've never seen a clandestine 3800 subtitle. 3800 dark areas are smooth as silk. (Ooops ..... the 3800 did have [eliminatable] Y/C Delay, though.)
Had I brought home a $2000 5900 with the issues I'm reading about there would have been a huge "heated discussion" between the spouse and myself!
post #94 of 1111
My 5900 is doing the same job with layer changes then my 3800. No difference at all. Same performance. Seemless. I've never seen a 5900 layer change.
I didn't see any macro-blocking with my 5900. Blacks areas are smooth as silk. Even "silkier" then with my 3800. Probably that >97% of 5900 owners are not seeing any macro-blocking.
So your argumentation can be utilize exactly the other way around, has you can see.
My 3800 was freezing and skipping every 2 or 3 films. That was major. AND my wife was REALLY annoyed by those skipping when she was listening to a film (it did end-up with some "heated discussion" between the spouse and myself!). :D
post #95 of 1111
I think it would be a good idea when reporting no problems, minor problems or major problems with a player, the display being used and any other associated equipment (scaler, processor, etc) should be mentioned, along with the type of output (DVI, component, S-video, etc). These items may be key as to why some people have no complaints and others have several.
post #96 of 1111
I watched TTT again last night on my RP82 to re-investigate the strange subtitles that surprised me the first time. I believe they're a normal part of the movie. The creators used subtitles when the dialog is non-english, chaps 13, 25, 30. It's not totally obvious that the language isn't English. I think this is what you're seeing. I have the US Widescreen version.
post #97 of 1111
I wouldn't consider "Sinbad" to be poorly encoded. To me, it's just the way
MPEG-2 works with DCT's, motion estimation and 8-bit YCbCr. The lines in the
Goddess' hair require some high frequency coefficients, which upsets the DC
level of the DCT. I've attached the I-frame that is 3 frames before the
previous picture I posted. Note that all of the slightly darker areas are
adjacent to the lines in her hair.
post #98 of 1111
Then, the motion vectors in the P-frame that I posted are a bit chaotic in
the area of the Goddess' hair. This tends to spread out the darker blocks
coded in the I-frame predictor. Note: field predictions are the macroblocks
that are darker blue with an upper and lower vector. Black macroblocks
are intra coded.
post #99 of 1111
Here's that P-frame again in full-size, so that you can match the motion
vectors to the image.
post #100 of 1111
Finally, the Sinbad bitstream looks to be encoded by the usual Sony MPEG-2
encoder (the give-away that it's the Sony encoder is the field motion
vectors in a frame with progressive_frame = 1). Most folks consider the
Sony encoder to be a pretty good (like on "Matrix Reloaded"), so IMHO,
it's unlikely that any other encoder could have done a better job.
post #101 of 1111
Thread Starter
Thank you for all the inputs everyone. I am chocking up the "macroblocking" to the software as I was able to recreate the problem using several players all of different brands with the exact same effect. I have not had any subtitle problem at all. As for the layer change, I have seen it about 3 times now but the player still passes our test flawlessly. Personally I don't think a half second layer change occasionally is anything to get in a hoot about as that is faster then 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the players out there.
We can bat at this all day back and forth but I trust my research and Stacey's a bit more at this point. Also, thanks a bunch to Ron for the information on the Sinbad disc, I only wish I could do those tests here on my own.
post #102 of 1111
First off I never said that the caption appearing during LotR:TTT was any sort of major problem. I have the US version of the DVD, btw.
Tonight I played that same disk through and the caption mentioned did not pop up this time - so it appears to be inconsistent.
BTW, it has nothing to do with the actual sub-titles in the movie. I am well aware of when english is being spoken and when it's not.
The sub title that popped up on me is during the scene with the orcs outside Fanghorn forest and refers to "a flank" of one of the hobbits.
I do have high expectations for the player due to the price tag I paid. This is not a $49 DVD player. I don't expect sloppy little things like random CC text popping up when I watch DVDs for this price tag, but if that was the only negative thing about the player then I am certain I'd be a satisfied consumer.
However, the fact is that I do consider the player has having one major flaw, and that has already been discussed to death: 4:3 DVDs need to be sent out in 4:3 on the DVI port in 720p. The auto stretch is a real oversight, and if anything about this player leaves me feeling unsatisfied by the expense this is it, not the CC text.
If Denon is getting feedback I certainly hope they will upgrade the firmware to add this feature.
I tried putting the player in 480p mode, but then it showed my 16:9 DVDs with black bars on the side just like 4:3, so this was no solution for me. I found no combination of TV/DVD settings that will allow me to watch 4:3 and 16:9 content in their intended aspect ratio without having to change the DVD from 480p to 720p as appropriate.
So I eagerly read this thread and place my hope in the fact that Denon seems to be interested in hearing from their consumers, which is more than I can say for other component manufacturers. If they listen to the feedback and make changes I will be impressed and certainly remain loyal to the brand in the future.
post #103 of 1111
I tried both Lord of the rings: FOTR and TTT both in EE and I have not been able to get the subtitles to pop up. The PQ on both is just breathtaking. Last night I watched the mines of moria chapter and I was just glued to the picture. The blacks were so deep and detailed it just blew me away. I have yet to see a better player that can do so much for the price I paid, which by the way was $1400.00. My setup is a 5900 going into a 5803 and then into a Tosh 57hx81 that has been ISF'd. You gotta love this stuff.
On a side note: Can anyone here stand going to a movie theater anymore. I find that I have to walk out most of the time because the PQ is so bad. I have a feeling that this is a side effect of home theater.
post #104 of 1111
Originally posted by nighthacker
I couldn't agree with you more. Besides the crummy picture on their projector, the sound is cranked up too loud (in the wrong places) and their popcorn is too damn expensive!
post #105 of 1111
Originally posted by Kris Deering
I am currently in the midst of the benchmark tests and have had a 5900 in my possesion for a few weeks now. ... I also tried the scenes from the Sinbad DVD on the Pioneer 563 and didn't notice any of the same problems.
OT: are you going to be posting any tests of the 563, or any of the newer Pioneers?
post #106 of 1111
Why do you have to send 4x3 out over DVI as 4x3? Why not use the aspect ratio control built into the player and put bars on the side?
post #107 of 1111
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post #108 of 1111
sspears: it doesnt work with DVI output.
I want to watch my material in OAR across the board which I cannot do via DVI without changing the DVI port output from 480p (for 4:3) to 720p (16:9), this is the problem.
If I am doing something wrong and somebody knows how to do what I want I'd love to be corrected.
post #109 of 1111
Are you sure it's the DVD5900 not allowing you to do this? Is there a possibility that the display is doing the stretching?
I don't know if that's what is happening. I just thought I'd throw it out there, just in case.
post #110 of 1111
Originally posted by Kris Deering
I'm just curious, not trying to be obtuse- but, how does it pass the test "flawlessly" if you can see layer changes on some discs? I know the "excellent" standard is less than 1 second, but the 1/2 second layer change in the 5900 is not "flawlessly" is it? It is definitely better than most players, but "flawlessly"? Not to nitpick your word choice, but that is pretty strong wording.
I feel like there is some sort of Denon favorable bias going on here (not saying that's the case- just the feeling I get from all I've read). Denon makes great players, no doubt about it, but problems shouldn't be minimized just because they'll HOPEFULLY be remedied in the near future, should they? Or because people are discussing the problems with Denon to try to get things worked out? Or because Denon is receptive to feedback? For someone purchasing a player TODAY, these can be very real issues- especially for the cost of the 5900. Just because Denon has a great reputation and strives to meet higher standards than most manufacturers doesn't mean that issues should be relegated to being "non-issues" or "minor" just because they're not as "major" as they COULD possibly be. This is an expensive player, so shouldn't it be held to a higher standard than less expensive ones, or at least the same level of standard? Or is the PQ so amazing that these issues truly become non-issues?
My concern is that if some of these problems were seen in a different brand of player, the player would be dismissed and the flaws labeled as "flaws" in a factual manner, but with the Denon, they are relatively "minor" and "fixable". I think it's ok to say that DESPITE these issues, in the grand scheme of things they aren't a big deal because of the overall PQ. On the other hand, to say that random CC text popping up (which would piss me off royally- even if it only happened occasionally), visible layer changes, etc, do not affect PQ is not completely factual (I would consider interruptions in the film as compromising the PQ). I can't imagine that if CC text popped up randomly on some other player it would be dismissed this easily. I think I must be missing something here.
post #111 of 1111
The test Kris uses for the layer change is a pretty hard test. It is done at 9.n Mbps and is an RSDL change. In theory it is really is as bad as it should ever be. It is possible to author a disc where the layer change is not RSDL and would be even slower. These are pretty uncommon, but not un heard of. Perhaps the discs that Kris has seen a layer change on is such a disc.
It is also possible that there are extra op codes on those discs telling the player to perform more flushing. Not really sure. It would be interesting to back up on one of the titles and see if the time is consistent. Then try it on other players using that and the test disc Kris uses to see if they are relative.
ie 0 seconds on WHQL, 1 second on foo for player X.
ie 1 second on WHQL, 2 seconds on foo for player y.
post #112 of 1111
Thread Starter
I know that this thread can be taken as favortism for Denon but it really isn't. What I am trying to convey is people seem to be going to ridiculous lengths here for minor problems.
I rate every player the same in the benchmark as did Stacey and Don. The same tests and nothing is fared because of the manufacturer. All the issues I have seen will be reported on.
One thing that has been continually brought up here is the price of the Denon, as if that means something in our shootout. Most of the "expensive" players we have tested have done much worse then this player, so what standard are those held to.
In fact the only high priced player that I recall ever doing very well in our benchmark tests is the Camelot Roundtable back in the first shootout. What does that tell you.
I can guarentee that any issue with the Denon that we have found WILL be cited on the benchmark report. I just wanted the people that were concerned to know that Denon has taken a intense interest in our findings to try and resolve any issues we've found. Not many companies do this, but that doesn't give them more preference in the testing.
post #113 of 1111
>>>I would consider interruptions in the film as compromising the PQ<<<
Two words: laserdisc player.
On the whole, I agree with most of what you are saying (except for the Denon bias). When a major company comes out with a new "statement player" (sort of), it should at least equal previous players and should at least raise the bar in a few categories.
As Stacey points out, how the DVD5900 compares to other players when playing the test discs that Secrets uses should be the real test of handling the complicated stuff. However, this doesn't mean that there won't be other discs out there now, or in the future, that give even the best DVD players a twitch or two. How a disc is authored and what type of material is being encoded plays a large part in how the players handle the material.
That doesn't mean the DVD5900 should be given a thumbs-up if it can't pass certain tests easily or doesn't pass a test that some of the (presumed) lesser players do. Maybe when the new shootout tests/product reviews are posted these issues will be more clear as to whether the new Denon really is the one to get or one to consider.
Of course, some people have already made their decisions.
post #114 of 1111
I really appreciate you taking seriously and then addressing my concerns.
I agree that the Denon price tag shouldn't be relevant in a shootout, and I know that in past shootouts, price hasn't been at all relevant (excepting to point out that a lower priced player did much better than many higher priced ones). However, from a consumer viewpoint, cost is almost always a factor in choosing a player, that's probably why the Denon price tag is so often commented upon. A consumer expects a player that is higher priced to perform better. Consumers know that's not always (hardly ever) the case, but the consumer nonetheless has that expectation. If it costs more, the consumer expects it to perform better (logically, subconsciously, whatever) even though past shootout results have indicated that price is not necessarily an indicator of quality. But, there is such a large price difference between a $300 player and a $1200 (or more) player, that one can't help but be more critical of the more expensive player from a consumer standpoint. I do understand that from a scientific angle, price means nothing, and this is definitely how it should be. Just wanted to give you a possible explanation for all the "Denon pricetag" comments.
I feel very comforted to know that the 5900 will be reviewed with as critical an eye as any other player reviewed. I rely much on the shootout results, not so much to choose a particular player, but more to know the current dvd player "standard" that is out there- what players are capable of, who has raised the bar, who has lowered their standards, what "poison" I'm going to get in any given player, as well as what to look for in a player in general. I didn't want to think that the unbiased nature of the Shootouts was being "compromised" like everything else in this world (not due to anything sinister- but due to the hopes and expectations of finding that "perfect player" and finally getting a company that gives a whit about producing a good product). I realize these are DVD players we're talking about here, not life and death, but I've got to take my idealism where I can get it- and movies are one of the main ways I get it, and DVD players are the medium to do that. Now, how freakin' cheesy is THAT? But....true.
post #115 of 1111
Thread Starter
The shootout isn't really meant to tell you which player is the best to buy in a given price range. As I mentioned before many of the higher priced players don't score as well as some of the cheaper ones. But that doesn't mean that they aren't a "better" player.
One has to look farther then the benchmark for that. The benchmark is only about video performance, which only accounts for so much of what a player is capable of.
Take for example the 5900. Many are comparing its performance to the 2900 because it has a seamless layer change. But the 5900 doesn't have the CUE problem, has a better de-interlacing solution overall (film & video), has a much better build, adds Denon link and 1394 outputs for hi rez, sports two DSPs for audio, has BNC component outputs, and has scalable video via DVI.
So how can you compare the two? Think about what the RP-82 offered in comparison?? Or the Krell DVD Standard at $8K?!?
This is why we don't really talk about price in the shootout because this only covers one part of the player, and not the whole picture. We reserve that to our full length individual reviews.
In my opinion most of the true enthuasists on these boards should stop pointing the fingers so much at the DVD player manufacturers because of small inconvienences and start pointing the finger at the DVD studios who have passed off SO many half assed transfers only to turn around and sell you another half assed one down the line claiming to be improved. Most of the issues these players look for are due to poor DVD encoding and the ability of the player to fix it. There is the true bad guy.
post #116 of 1111
Can't wait for this review. Is it possible to confirm that the signal from the DVI out is all digital and doesn't get converted to analog in the 5900 at some point. That worry is about the only thing holding me back from upgrading at this point. Thanks.
post #117 of 1111
Originally posted by Kris Deering
No doubt. Cheap, cheap, cheap discs, then they charge you out the azz for them and then do it again. And we keep letting them do it. The same as when CDs came out and they said the price would drop to the same price as tapes and LPs, which we all know, NEVER happened. In fact, they only got MORE expensive.
If the DVD player and disc producers both did their part (and the studios made more decent movies in general) we'd be set for life.
I sometimes believe that most of these manufacturers produce sub-par products because they know we will always be around to buy the next better one and they'll make more bones. Make a perfect player, and we'll never buy another one. Paranoid and cynical? Probably. I also think we never landed on the moon and that Oswald didn't act alone ;).
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Amen Kris. I have said that many times and got riddiculed for it. Many people sit and the first thing they do is blame th eplayers when its the pos disk that the stuidos put out. How can you blame a player when the studio dosent make the disk right, You can buy one dvd and it will blow you away then you buy another and it is as good as a vhs tape. For example The Ref that is one bad looking dvd, So if they cant produce all dvds the same who can you expect the players to be perfect.
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Dave Vaughn wrote:
I will post a picture tomorrow of what it looks like.
Hi Dave,
Just wondering if you had a chance to get that picture.
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Kris, I do get what your saying, Kevinca as well, but it's things like someone having trouble with a disc and then it plays perfectly well on four other DVD players, that concerns me.
Any news if Denon plans to make a silver faceplate available as they did for the 2900?
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Asked almost 2 years ago - Washington, DC
If I have information that someone may be a pedophile, is it against the law to pretend to be a teen online and catch that person doing something illegal?
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1. Barry Franklin Poulson
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Answered . Assuming you are not a police officer, the risk here is tremendous. And, what if this person IS a police officer, and you fall into a pedophile trap? Leave police work to the police, and report what you suspect and why. The police can investigate and even set up an arrest situation.
2. Bryant Keith Martin
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Answered . It may be legal, but it is a dumb idea. You are putting yourself in danger and may be accused of a crime yourself. This is what the police are for. Report it to them and forget about it.
3. Michael Charles Doland
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Answered . Your actions are un-needed, risky and inappropriate.
If you have reasonable grounds report them to the police and let them do their job.
4. Daniel Gary Rosenthal
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Answered . It is potentially very risky, both physically, and for the outcome of the legal case against said pedophile. This is why law enforcement agencies, despite mistaken popular belief, generally DON'T like semi-vigilante organizations like the ones featured on To Catch a Predator.
Don't do it, leave it well enough alone. If you think someone is a child predator, notify the police immediately.
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Born 1972.
Cari Lekebusch (born 1972) is an electronic music producer and DJ based in Stockholm. His productions range from techno to hip hop. He owns a record label, H. Productions, founded and managed by himself. The original name of the record label was Hybrid productions, but a legal twist in 1998 with the Japanese label Avex Trax's British group Hybrid forced Lekebusch to change his record label name to its present name. His studio is called HP HQ (Hybrid production Headquarters).
In the early 1990s Lekebusch became a member of the Stockholm based remix service group SweMix that at that time had notable members as Denniz Pop and StoneBridge (which is called the grandfather of Swedish house music). After a while Lekebusch started to venture out from remixing other artists to create his own music that became not even nearly as mainstream as SweMix productions and at the same time Lekebusch really started to explore techno and electronica. Lekebusch left the remix group not long after.
Since the early-mid 1990s he has collaborated with Adam Beyer, Robert Leiner, Alexi Delano, Thomas Krome, Jesper Dahlbäck, Joel Mull, Mark Williams and many more. Cari has been in the constellation Kozmic Gurt Brodhas (aka KGB), the two other members are Abi Lönnberg and David Roiseux. Recently Lekebusch has also started to produce other artist as well with music leaning more towards hip-hop with electronic influences, two being Max Peezay and NFL Kru.
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• Watevah
Oh great, now homophobes are mentally diseased and faggots - not?
How nicely you have turned the tables there, silly goy. “Mentally sick people have no reasonable argument, therefore it is impossible to have a proper discussion with them.” - So it seems, I really can’t hold a reasonable argument with you people. You start tossing around completely unrelated things and still promote your stupid minority reasoning. And if you have already forgotten, a culture is something that holds together a country, a people. If some person does not share the views of this particular culture he may LEAVE. I’d suggest them fags get out of Russia and go to their over-the-top liberal western world, where they can be accepted and have pride parades and all that horrifying shit.
But every time I try to say these things make me think that all of you people defending LGBT are plainly retarded. You even had to write the post FOUR times, before it got its final form, and you still didn’t say anything of value. I wonder why?
• Watevah
They have all of that, yet they act as an oppressed society that has no equal ground with the rest of the people whatsoever.
The homophobes (and I know a few) all think that being gay is disgusting, but they don’t go out of their way to hunt them down or anything like that. But then, suddenly a bunch of faggots start shoving their gayness into your face and people start to exercise their right of free speech (which works both ways).
Yes, it gets violent, but isn’t that what you usually do at a demonstration to get the crowd disperse? What I’m trying to say is that Russia has its own culture, which includes a short fuse on tolerance. But it’s THEIR culture and on no reasonable grounds you can just come into a community and start propagating something absolutely foreign to them and go all “But we’re the oppressed victims here!”.
It just doesn’t work with reasonable people of Russia; they just turned out that way due to their history. They literally don’t take shit from others. Now tell me, if we have to respect gay people and give them all the rights a person should have (WHICH THEY DO HAVE, BTW), then why can’t we respect the unwritten rules of a community that is keeping it all together? As the provers goes: “Don’t preach your own gospel in a foreign chapel”. | http://www.buzzfeed.com/watevah | dclm-gs1-281570000 |
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• Amanda Bynes: Her Famous Feuds
Chrissy Teigen In May 2013, Bynes lashed out at the Sports Illustrated model and criticized her looks. She wrote on her Twitter: Ur not a pretty model compared to me. I signed to Ford models @ age 13. I don't look up to u beauty wise. I'm far prettier than u! I'm offended that you're saying I have a mental illness when I show no sign of it, but thankfully not one man that wants me wants you and you are an old ugly model compared to me! You look 45! You're not pretty so I'm not intimidated by you! I think you're jealous that you're just an ugly model whos career is uninspiring! I don't respect you! You're no beauty queen! I'm a beauty queen!
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Written on LETTER: Benghazi far from being 'nonissue':
in response to donttreadonme:
It will be kept alive! Hillary's running and she played a major part in the lie/coverup!
Written on LETTER: Benghazi far from being 'nonissue':
This horse is dead.
Written on UPDATE: Coal miners, supporters rally again in St. Louis; 12 arrested:
in response to olddoggie:
You are the liar. Candidate Obama did not say he would destroy the coal industry. He said that NEW coal fired plants that were not built to meet EPA guidelines would be bankrupt from cap and trade penalties. Of course cap and trade was never approved, so there are no cap and trade penalties. By the way cap and trade was a republican idea and back in those days many republicans actually agreed on global warming. Obama has changed too. He has advocated for clean coal projects(with government loans). The Rockport project included government loans, however it may never come to be.
Obviously, Obama's intent was to infer that it would be to the advantage of the coal industry to reduce pollutants instead of paying fines. The coal companies own congress, so it doesn't appear they are in trouble from Obama. Their biggest problem is cheap, cleaner natural gas.
You are right on the mark here. Every word you wrote is the truth. To bad you will be completely ignored even bye some coalminers. They're struggle is great, as it has always been. We owe them our respect and support. A lot of the workers rights we have today came from their struggles. Union or Non-union.
Written on 2012 a violent year for Evansville :
in response to nefsigh:
Got proof that they "need" investigating? Or do you only have your sour attitude as your guide?
I am really sick and tired of those of you who live by innuendo and have such a dissatisfying life that you MUST find the fault with others, instead of the mirror.
If our politicians have been so corrupt, why haven't you gone to them with the evidence?
I didn't think you would.
Good post, I'm sure a lot of people are tired of it.
Written on At Respect For Law Camp, kids learn cops are people, too:
This is a great project. We need a lot more of this.
Written on Government has history of secrecy, spying, leaks :
in response to Fireyourmd2day:
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And that is the rest of the story.
Written on LETTER: GOP's viewpoints got Obama elected:
in response to Alittlecommonsenseplease:
Obama got elected because instead of doing any research on him the media chose to spend their time sniffing his throne.
This comment says it all. You still blame everyone else, but the party base is still the problem, its not the republican party it used to be. There is way to much " throne sniffing " crap instead working on real issues that voters actually care about. These kind of comments are not making the people "like" you or your party. The People are the voters. Get it! I know, I know, the democrats name call to. But its not working for you.
Written on SCHRAM: Nagging scandals are blocking more important news:
in response to mykfridley#7972:
I have to argue the falling healthcare costs. Falling for whom? My premiums have nearly doubled since last year and I don't make all that much.
What company do you use? I don't know of any healthcare insurer that has doubled their premiums even over the last 3 or 4 years. Just name the company.
in response to Panopticon:
Treason cannot be committed against the State; it can only be committed against the people. Mr. Snowden, and other courageous whistleblowers like Mr. Manning, have merely exposed the treason against the people that continues to be committed by the State. For this they deserve our respect and our thanks.
Really? This high school dropout, unfit to serve in the military clown is hiding in China. Hero? I think not. We should have thought about this stuff when they passed the patriot act, if you don't like this kind of thing, tell your representative to repeal it.
Written on Howey: Repealing Obamacare remains a pipe dream :
in response to midnightrambler:
Americans getting better care? Ask the little 10yr old girl the death panel of 1 Sebilous (sp)@HHS refused to help. That is the future of healthcare in this country.
How about asking the thousands of people that the insurance company death panels turn away everyday. That's ok?
Written on NSA contractor risks steep jail time for data leak | POLL:
in response to royrogers:
A Patriot is what the man is.
Wonder what Al Gore's Al-Jazeera network take is on this issue
You mite want to let this cake bake a little longer before you eat too much.
Written on Indiana University board approves tuition increase :
$10,200 lol Yep! that's a start. you can double that,there's books, housing, meals. You mite need a loan. Hey, I know lets raise the student loan interest rates.
Written on Gas prices spike to more than $4 per gallon at some Evansville retailers:
Funny thing I just came from Knoxville TN and gas is 3.17. Indiana gas tax is 8 cents a gallon more than Tennessee.
Written on AMBROSE: Apple unfairly blasted for following the law:
in response to DefenseOfLiberty:
Government has no incentive to be tax efficient. Until they are constrained to live within a budget, there can be no serious debate on spending, taxation, or waste.
This line is what finely wore me out as an Eisenhower republican Here we sit with a defense budget 13 times the rest of the world, a good place to start cutting. Reagan, Bush and Bush again all supposed republicans never cut anything. Where are the fiscal republicans ? I'm not voting for any nuts so ill have to be a liberal, they have the least amount of crazies and they do have plenty of them, they're just not running the party.
Written on AMBROSE: Apple unfairly blasted for following the law:
You know I mite buy this " just doing what the tax laws allow " thing if these big cooperations didn't play such a big role in writing the laws. You let me write my on laws and I would have no problem following them. Get the money out of politics.
Written on COMMUNITY COMMENT: Environmental, economic concerns must be balanced:
in response to de_oppresso_liber:
Wow. A union man who refuses to drink the kool-aid. But still, I wonder if he supported the Bamster per union rules in 2012... Great letter Tim.
No one demands union members to vote for anyone. this kind of rip is what makes your post irrelevant. Its a lie! Also the only Kool-Aid is what you are making. "drink up" its yours.
in response to shurm374:
Dear Mr. Blair,
Would you be so kind as to provide a list of projects you supported in this area? I am only aware of the one you oppose including Toyota in Princeton and AK steel in Rockport. While you are putting together this list please tell me how many projects add up to the $5 billion that was lost by the Governor's nixing of the Rockport SNG and Fatima projects.
Unless you are pedaling a bicycle with a built in generator right now I assume you are using electricity even as you wrote your last comment. Would you be so kind as to tell me where you think this electricity comes from. Could you please provide me with a totally safe and clean energy source. Thank you I eagerly await your comment. Taking a hard line is easy, finding solutions is not.
Slam the door!! Good post, We are waiting for the reply. Come on John.
People need jobs to live in todays world.
Written on LETTER: Protest doesn't need to be raucous:
in response to john4757:
I hate to hurt your feelings, but the Tea Party doesn't have all of the countries patriots. I am a Vietnam Veteran, I have attended several protests from the liberals and from the right and I found the liberals to be just as patriotic as the right and none were as you try to describe them to be. As a matter of fact there were a couple of Tea Party members who showed up to one of our protests and they were the ones who were obnoxious. So your side is just as guilty as the left. If you really lived what you believed, you'd be protesting the Republican's actions too. Where was the Tea Party when Bush and Cheney lied us into Iraq, or Reagan lied about selling arms to Iran? Bush and Cheney should be in prison. You rant and rave about the bailout under Obama that was mostly paid back, but never said a word about the bailout Bush gave the banks, that he said would never have to be paid back. The Tea Party is just the ultra right wing of the Republican Party. The Constitution states that Congress appropriates spending, not the President, but the Tea Party blames the President anyway. The Constitution wasn't written as an anti-Obama document. The Republicans are just as guilty of abusing it as the Democrats, so if you are truly as patriotic as you claim and worried about the Constitution as you claim, then be a true patriot and demand the same from your party.
Same Same GI, Im with you John. You wont see any rice paddy stains on most of these people. Cheney and Bush never served anything but themselves. Thanks Brother you are spot on.
Written on MAY: White House chose not to see threats:
in response to LoganFive:
Here's another explanation for Bengazhi -- stuff happens.
Why didn't FDR see the Pearl Harbor attacks coming? Why didn't Ronald Reagan see the Beirut barracks bombings coming in 1983 (which killed 220 United States Marines)? Why didn't Clinton see the first World Trade Center bombing coming in 1993? Why didn't Bush see 9/11 coming -- even after having a Presidential daily brief with the title "Bin Laden Determined To Strike Inside U.S."?
These were four Americans assigned to dangerous duty in a dangerous part of the world. Their loss is a terrible tragedy, and I'm all for analyzing what happened and seeing what we can do in terms of physical security, personal security, budgets, intelligence collection, etc to minimize the chance of this happening again.
But the attempts to turn this into another Watergate are just crazy. My goodness, the GOP is more angry at Obama and Clinton than they are are the terrorists who actually pulled the trigger and killed these Americans.
How about supporting your Commander-in-Chief -- just like you told me to do for eight years?
Great post, Stuff will always happen and YES support your Commander-in-Chief no madder what party he is from.
Written on EDITORIAL: Immigration bill OK shows system can work :
in response to Rick1911:
The immigration bill is still months away from being passed. It just got out of committee.
Hide and watch.
Written on EDITORIAL: Immigration bill OK shows system can work :
Hey! look over here, look what they are doing at the IRS, look what they are doing to the AP. Oh" we passed the immigration bill yesterday. Did you miss it?
Written on LETTER: Canada, America should merge:
in response to Lemuel:
Canadians are smarter than Americans, they would never elected Obama once.
Totally agree, they are smarter. They have had national health care for years. I don't know about the "president" Obama thing. The people up there do a lot of thinking on their on, not much fox and msnbc.
Written on What are your plans for Memorial Day today?:
in response to gbnf3812:
I know you're being sarcastic, but sadly that premise is true for some of our citizens. They failt to even acknowledge the ultimate sacrifice paid by those who served to ensure the freedoms they take for granted.
Im not being sarcastic. Im stating a fact! 42% that's the score. Its a sorry statement for the American people, Its all about me.
Written on What are your plans for Memorial Day today?:
Kind of like Christmas, Easter, Labor Day, and Independence day. Just a day off to Barbecue.
Written on LETTER: Immigration plan will hurt U.S. workers:
People wake up! The GOP is creating smoke and mirrors with IRS and AP scandals while they sell out their base on immigration. Wake up! you know its true.
Written on Tuesday is deadline for Indiana's Do Not Call list :
in response to twowheels:
Worked fine for me, I registered 5 phone numbers.
I just added 2 more numbers to my list. Yes, you can still sign up.
Written on Phone assistance program leaves many exposed to identity theft:
in response to avontbone:
Just so there is no did not get a free CELL phone when the program started. This was originally a landline program. Now these freeloaders get calls on their landlines soliciting free cell phones! Not the same.
You are right, They did not get cell phones until 2005 under the administration.
Written on Phone assistance program leaves many exposed to identity theft:
Just so there is no misunderstanding, The free phone service was started under president Reagan in 1984, expanded by President Clinton and a Republican Congress. In 2010 legislation to control fraud.
Written on Gallows used to hang Illinois gangster Charlie Birger found in old barn | POLL:
Time to move on with the Chicago gangster thing, Al Capone was 80 years ago. Chicago is no more dirty than Evansville, just bigger, and a lot more fun I mite add. Politicians are Politicians.
Written on LETTER: Big oil profits killing American consumer:
in response to shoe:
You've never been to Europe have you?
Yes, I have and people don't drive 20 or 30 miles or more to and from work every day, That's common here. Oh and bye the way I've been to Japan also when I was in the Military, and a few more countries.
Written on LETTER: Big oil profits killing American consumer:
in response to JohnT:
Who owns the oil companies? The average American does. I've owned stocks in oil and oil exploration companies for as long as I've been investing, but they don't make nearly as much money as companies like Microsoft or Apple.
The US has some of the lowest fuel prices in the world. Most developed companies outside the Middle East pay close to $6 a gallon for gasoline.
Right* If we were in Europe or Japan we would be spending 6 dollars a week for gas instead of 60 dollars. The oil companies are making their money off of us. I think you are putting companies in place of countries. Don't get mad, just a little fun.
Written on John Boehner wants to know who's going to jail over the IRS 'scandal':
in response to independence:
This is all a distraction so they don't have to do real work, like jobs for the American People.
Bingo!! Perfect
Written on Obama slams GOP focus on Benghazi as politics:
in response to HowISeeIt:
So what can we do? Bow your head and pray to God, asking for forgiveness and spiritual awakening. Call 1-888-NEEDHIM for someone to talk to. We all have to look inside and see how ugly our soul is and ask ourselves if we would be able to stand in front of God without being ashamed for our sins. None of us can do that! Some say Christianity is foolish, but when our turn comes up and God asks why should I let you into my home, what are you going to say? I tried to be good? Now is the time you can change; not when you die, when it's too late! Privately seek God if you don't believe, give Him a chance one-on-one with you, and see where it leads you. Do you really think you're a valedictorian of life? If you see yourself in a big ole' mudpit of humanity while God is looking down, all He might see is mud-covered bumps in the pit. But someone confessing their sins, asking for forgiveness provided by Jesus' death on the cross as a substitute of His righteousness for our unholiness (the GREAT SWAP), and then asking Him to come into their heart, will make him/her blazing white and acceptable to sit at the feet of Jesus; you won't be overlooked like the rest of the unbelievers in the mudpit of life. God desires a personal relationship with you. He didn't create the universe and earth for himself. He place Adam and Eve in the garden of His creation where everything was perfect, until satan tricked them into sin. And satan is still crawling on this earth looking for victims. But God offers you salvation, a free and everlasting gift, the best present you will ever receive. You need only apply !!
Over 1000 words of sanctimonious trip and bs with no base is exactly what the problem is. Oh and yes I am a valedictorian of life, so hear this " Jesus did not give you the sermon you gave here".
Written on Obama slams GOP focus on Benghazi as politics:
What the heck ever happened to JOBS, JOBS, JOBS??? We the people get nothing. I for one am tired of hearing all this crap, Lets get on with fixing the real problems. I know you care about the 4 people that died, Well a lot of people have died in the last 10 or 12 years for this country. move on WE'RE NOT PERFECT.
Written on Senate bill lets states tax Internet purchases :
in response to RonNesler:
Here is ANOTHER bill that is working its way through the US Senate. It is sponsored by our own pro veteran US Senator Joe Donnelly.
Good ol' US Senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana is sponsoring Senate bill S - 632 in order to force the VA to provided health care for the agent Orange birth defect children of Vietnam war vets. This includes my daughter Honey Sue. You can help this legislation pass into law by using POP VOX to tell the Congress to pass S 832. Please help NOW! And, share WIDELY!
Got it done, Thanks Ron, A great bill that will help pay a debt we all owe.
Written on U.S. employers add 165,000 jobs; rate falls to 7.5 percent:
in response to Dottie17:
Posts like this may be what makes Evansville a "miserable" place in some people's eyes. Every piece of good news is a lie fed to us by the "liberal media." Good lord, would you have that reaction if there were a republican in office? Would all positive reports about jobs or life in general be lies then, too? Just curious... I will be looking forward to your posts when the next republican is in charge. **Disclaimer** No I'm not a "brainwashed" liberal/democrat. Just a simple independent voter who appreciates the positive things in life and news. Try to have a nice day, Sir.
Great post Dottie 17. Thanks, that was refreshing.
Written on New conservative lobbying push for gay marriage :
Its going to take a lot more bucks to get this done. They mite be bought, but they're not cheap. Not in Indiana.
in response to cdincluded:
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OK, the guy likes Disney World?
in response to bob_pathy:
Another thing is also abundantly clear; people like yourself cannot get over your hate and bitterness for even one minute to stand with President Obama in a time of crisis.
Written on To surprise of some, Little Sisters of Poor still operating home for aged:
We love the little sisters, please give a little,we do. If you dont have money prayers are good.
Written on March the best month for auto sales in at least six years:
in response to retsnapdel:
That really is good news. It should help the 47.8 million people on food stamps.
Half of that 47 million work for Walmart.
Written on State Senate leader wants review of Rockport deal:
in response to dll57:
This republican (job creator?) would love to build it in Ft. Wayne!
Bing!!! You got it.
Written on Son of U.S. Sen. Rand Paul arrested at North Carolina airport :
Man! This nut sure didnt fall far from the other nut. Grandpaw! get a gripp on this two.
Written on LETTER: GOP again falls for Demo tricks:
Free, On here for 12 hours and said nothing of value to anyone. Jan 5, 8:45 am to Jan 5, 8:47 pm check it out. My God get a life.
Written on Indiana sees record number of job commitments during 2012:
They could have named some of these jobs in south west Indiana. How meny are short time construction jobs? $21 to $ 22 sounds high for Indiana.
Written on Pot votes in Colorado, Washington raise specter of weed tourism :
in response to don_glover:
The apathy apparent on this site sickens me. Once a few people overdose because of this law the states will overturn it. Marijuana is illegal for a reason: If you do too much you die. Please stop spreading lies that this drug is harmless. This is how Hendrix died.
Really??? Oh my! lol
Written on Abdul Hakim-Shabazz: Coats lesson lost on Mourdock:
in response to 2CentsFromWes:
I guess I'm a #1. I've voted for Lugar at every opportunity. Lugar was one of the last GREAT leaders. I'm a independent and I could never vote for Mourdock, who in my view has done Indiana a grave disservice.
Written on Reitz withstands rally to beat Mater Dei:
in response to public:
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You need to get out more. You cant fell the energy from your " Lazy Boy"
Written on Integration of Lincoln School marked victory for those who sought social justice, equality | POLL:
in response to IndianaEnoch:
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Q: When our basement flooded, we had a contractor pull up the carpeting and install vinyl tiles. He prepared the concrete floor by scraping up the rug glue that remained, and used commercial adhesive to put down the new tiles.
A: I assume you paid the contractor for this job.
In its do-it-yourself vinyl tile installation instructions, Armstrong says it all: "Make sure the floor you're laying over is clean, dry and flat."
I've done laminate, vinyl, wood, and ceramic tile floors and the first thing I've done in each case is make sure the surface on which each is installed is level. Otherwise, you are going to have problems, and you are.
Solution: It is a do-over.
Q: Anything I put on my back deck gets mildew on it every year.
I clean it with ammonia and water, then put on a new coat of stain about every two to three years.
Just wondering if there is anything else to do.
A: You can try a sealant, but if your back deck is on the north side where the sun doesn't shine very much, regular maintenance is probably the only answer.
I've tried many things over the years, but periodic "de-greening" and sealing is usually the best answer.
Q: I have a fine dining room table with a dark stain and the standard, I assume, urethane protective finish.
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The gunmen, who oppose the main Islamic rebel group's negotiations with Manila, ambushed an army truck on the main southern island of Mindanao, regional military spokesman Colonel Dickson Hermoso said.
Two soldiers were wounded in the initial volley, but the army gave chase to the retreating gunmen and killed five of them, he said in a written report.
The pursuit also left two soldiers dead and four other soldiers wounded, Hermoso added.
Hermoso said the gunmen were members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.
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The two sides signed a preliminary deal in October outlining the broad terms for a peace treaty that would be signed by 2016.
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My disc drive failed
#1DaProphecy84Posted 2/15/2013 5:15:52 AM
It's a 300 gb second gen.
How much would GameStop take it for?
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Sony always WIN
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Depends on if they even would take it. If they test the drive to make sure it works, then you're SOL.
If by some miracle or sheer stroke of luck they don't test it, you might get 60-80 (just a wild guess)
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Call and ask. It's not hard.
I eat stickers all the time, dude.
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I just got an email yesterday saying they were offering $140 for used systems. They will take it if it's broke, they just won't give you as much .
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"Welcome to the League of Draaaven"
That's effectively what you're doing, and I applaud your efforts.
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supershadonic posted...
Ezreal isn't OP but I'm too tired of everyone picking him... back then only I used to pick him.. now he's soo much that I usally Sivir or Vayne if free just to get a new feel.
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Andreas Rossberg rossberg at ps.uni-sb.de
Tue Feb 27 10:32:31 EST 2007
<ajb at spamcop.net> wrote:
> When you type "class Foo" in Java or C++, it does three things:
> 1. It declares a new type called "Foo".
> 2. It declares a _set_ of types (i.e. a "class").
> 3. It declares that the type Foo (and all of its subtypes) is a member
> of the set of types Foo.
I would add:
4. Define a namespace, also called "Foo", for a set of values (and
probably nested classes).
> In Haskell, these three operations are distinct.
> 1. You declare a new type using "data" or "newtype".
> 2. You declare a new set of types using "class".
> 3. You declare that a type is a member of a class using "instance".
4. You define a new namespace using "module".
- Andreas
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post #1 of 30
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I am not a super private person, my dd has seen me naked and I am sure dss has seen me in my bra running for the toilet a few times (morning sickness). My ds's are very open, they really don't care who sees what in the house.. So If I tell my youngest son to get ready for his bath (hes almost 11) He will just whip his clothes off where he is standing and run in the bathroom, totally not shy and not scared about anyone seeing anything.
dh and dss however are SUPER private people. They close and lock the door to use the restroom. dh will go pee if I am in the tub and hes gotta go, but he doesn't go out of his way to be naked at anytime.. He sleeps with a shirt and pj bottoms, he would NEVER go outside in his pjs.. DSS is the same way, he is very private and I totally respect that, he is 12 and totally at the age of body awareness. Almost to a curious fault.. He has admitted to his dad that he "peeked" at me once, and I had no idea.... kinda creepy, but then again I am his stepmom and I am about 15 years younger then his mother, I never mentioned it to him and will never do so. He told dh in confidence and dh told him not to do that.
Now the inappropriate request... My dd is my first daughter, I don't have any other girls, and I grew up with all brothers pretty much.
She has been asking a lot of questions (she is special needs and 5 years old, but in reality she is probably more like a 3 year old). Anyways, she is totally preoccupied with me having another baby for us soon after I am done with my surrogacy.
She has been asking how babies eat, and I have been telling her the truth, breasts make mothers milk and mamas feed their babies with their breasts. She is strongly requesting to "see" the milk come out of the breasts. Now I do have colostrum, and I probably could just squeeze some out to show her, but dh says that would be wrong and some things kids shouldn't look at. Part of me agrees it would be awkward, but part of me is also thinking that IF I have another baby she is going to see it anyways.
I don't know if this is a normal natural question? That I should just show her and end the curiosity, or is dh right, that its an inappropriate request?
thoughts are appreciated!
post #2 of 30
I think its no big deal- breasts make milk, if your dd is curious, why is it any bigger deal to show her where your milk comes from than it would be to take her to a farm and show her a cow being milked? On the other hand, I wouldn't show dss- THAT would be weird.
Said by the homebirthing mom who let the kids be there for the birth and is now tandem nursing- so I may be desensitized on this issue.
post #3 of 30
Natural request for dd,and I would probably show.For dss I would guide him to an appropriate book or online info if he was curious. I am sure my dh never saw milk from a breast until I was feeding our first.It was not an issue for him growing up.
I have a book on babies by Sears....for kids.Will look for it later and see if it is a useful book for your dd. For the dss I would look for body change books giving info on girls and boys.
Like I told dh," Breast are for feeding our babies.Just because they excite you sexually doesn't make them sexual objects that we need to be hush-hush about!"
post #4 of 30
sounds normal to me. My kids, 6, 5 and 3 have all been very interested in the physical details of the new baby's birth and feeding.My 3 year old, not nursing for a year now, has been especially interested in what and how the baby eats.
post #5 of 30
I would definitely show her. It's not any different than seeing a cow get milked . . . why would it be inappropriate? That's how babies eat, it's what they eat, etc.
post #6 of 30
It's a natural request, but it's up to you whether or not you want to show her. Your body belongs to you, so if it makes you feel uncomfortable, don't, and if you feel comfortable with it, go ahead.
post #7 of 30
I agree it's a natural, normal request, and I don't feel that it would be inappropriate to show her because it is a very natural, healthy, and just darn impressive process! Just keep in mind that if she's anything like MY DD, she will then explain how all of this works to every random stranger in the grocery store, etc.
That said, if *you* feel uncomfortable showing her, either because of your own feelings or those of your DH, I wouldn't recommend it. Your DD will likely pick up on that tension and may feel badly for asking the question or may be confused about what's ok and what's not. I think that if it is outside of your comfort limits, you could explain just that.
post #8 of 30
I don't really see anything "inappropriate" however if you don't feel comfortable then don't do it.
post #9 of 30
I pretty much agree with the others. It seems like a normal, appropriate request from your DD. But if you're not comfortable with it, it's okay to deny the request as well.
post #10 of 30
my dd1 was 3 when I was preggo with dd2. She had the same request when she was 3. I squeezed some out and showed her. dd1 was formula fed, so it was something very different for her to know about breastfeeding.
I guess I assumed it to be a normal and natural question. I didn't see it as inappropriate.
post #11 of 30
Natural and normal.
I remember being at a party and nursing dd, and one of my colleague's kids who was about 5 came over and asked what I was doing. I explained. He was fascinated (he was adopted so didn't breastfeed) and asked to see the milk. I showed him. I don't know if it was the right thing to do, but I did want to make breastfeeding normal and natural. (Hopefully I didn't shock his folks too much.)
post #12 of 30
I think it's a normal request, kids are curious and it's not something that could be considered sexual on any level like asking to see DH's penis or anything along those lines.
My 3 year old DD is very curious about all kinds of things, we just don't make a big deal out of it and gently remind her (when needed) that it's not appropriate to talk about things with those outside of our house, and so on. You know one day out of the blue she asked me if my pubic hairs ever get tangled and if they do, do I have to go to the doctor to get them shaved?
post #13 of 30
If she is just curious about what it looks like then maybe you could squeeze some onto your finger in private and then show her. You could also get some books from the library that show babies nursing if that is more comfortable for you. I don't think you should do something you and your dh are uncomfortable about.
post #14 of 30
It sounds like YOU didn't think it was out of the normal until your dh said something. Go ahead and show her. Some day she will have breasts, too.
post #15 of 30
Why would it be out of the norm? Heck, it's down right fascinating when you think about it. Breasts producing sustenance for babies... I say show her. It's not like she's never seen a breast before right? And she will have them eventually herself.
post #16 of 30
My first thought was, a lot of lucky 3 year olds, and even a few lucky 5 year olds, still nurse. Anything to do with mama's breasts during this age range is probably really ok.
post #17 of 30
Thread Starter
Neither dh or I were breastfed, and I do think that has something to do with his comfort level with things.
For the record I would never ever show dss this lol. He has a lot of books and knows pretty much all he should know at this point and I will always answer his questions honestly. I think he "peeked" out of normal teenage curiosity.
If you ask my 2 ds about breastfeeding, they claim they remember being nursed and are not fazed at all about it. Ds1 is actually really pressing me to donate breastmilk after my surrogacy. I breastfed my boys until they were 3 1/2 about, they weaned themselves.
I see nothing wrong with showing her, but my dh made me second guess myself (silly I know). I mean dd was breastfed, I didn't feel strange about that at all, so why would I feel strange showing her? idk I guess I will not seek her out for it, but when she asks again (and she will lol) I will take her into a private room and show her.
I also think my dh has some weird attachment to my breasts lol, it might be kinda greed also about it. I know that sounds silly, but he would always say things like " I am glad you are nursing, but I really miss them being mine". I would always say, "wow yours? so these swollen cracked nipples hurt you?" lol
Anyways I think he is just thinking about breasts in a sexual manner, and I think if there is any lessons to be learned it should probably be his lesson to learn about relaxing a bit.
But ya never know, when he took baths with my dd (even as a small baby) he wore swim trunks in the tub.
post #18 of 30
Thread Starter
I wanted to add a big huge THANK YOU!!!
I was a little worried people might not reply because it is a touchy subject for some, but I am super happy you all replied.
Thanks for taking the time to help out!
post #19 of 30
Originally Posted by annethcz View Post
post #20 of 30
I don't think it's a big deal. If you don't want to, just keep ignoring the request, or don't bring it up again and see if she stops asking. If she brings it up again, and you are fine with it, then give it a shot.
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Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres (Impact Factor: 1.83). 07/2004; 34(3):307-21. DOI:10.1023/B:ORIG.0000016446.51012.bc
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ABSTRACT The conceptual gulf that separates the 'metabolism first' and 'replication first' mechanisms for the emergence of life continues to cloud the origin of life debate. In the present paper we analyze this aspect of the origin of life problem and offer arguments in favor of the 'replication first' school. Utilizing Wicken's two-tier approach to causation we argue that a causal connection between replication and metabolism can only be demonstrated if replication would have preceded metabolism. In conjunction with existing empirical evidence and theoretical reasoning, our analysis concludes that there is no substantive evidence for a 'metabolism first' mechanism for life's emergence, while a coherent case can be made for the 'replication first' group of mechanisms. The analysis reaffirms our conviction that life is an extreme expression of kinetic control, and that the emergence of metabolic pathways can be understood by considering life as a manifestation of 'replicative chemistry'.
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The Bones that was previously rolling down that rambling hill has slammed on the breaks and is slowly reversing back to its peak, I hope. Episode four or is it three, IMDB has it listed as three as the first episode was a two parter... anyway the 3/4 episode of Bones did everything I hoped for, It showed the emotional ramification of Zack's departure on Hodgins and it showed him and Angela at least acknowledge that they'd gone through a horrible split.
In a weird way (and I may have read into this wrong) it may have shown Brennan dealing with Zack also... I'm having a Sweet's moment... When Brennan stands over the Ripley's grave she says "Ripley was a good dog, He didn't want to fight but he did it to please his master. He didn't want to attack a human being but he did it to please his master." Do we know any other misguided souls who attacked human beings to please their master? I know she's talking about a Dog and that Bones is never metaphorical but...if I were Sweets I'd say she's projecting her emotions about Zack onto a dog; then again Sweets did think Hodgins was the Gormagon killer.
Ok enough psychology mumbo jumbo!.
What an amazing episode, when I watched I felt at home like things were back in the swing, it didn't harm it that Bones had its very own Clarence the angel in this episode: Michael Badalucco (Jimmy from "The Practice") played Scott Starret Brennan's oldest intern and a literal jack of all trades he gave Hodgins perspective, Knew everything about everything and restored my faith in Bones with as a gentle smile and a soothing tone. (Don't ask me how he did it, he just did.)
Another great aspect of this show was seeing how Brennan who is usually un flinching in the face of death became emotional at the sight of the mass grave for dogs, how heart broken she was when she discovered Ripley had been put down and how Booth no matter how hard she tries to deny it has rubbed off on her. He may not have made her a people person yet but the second best is obviously a man's best friend person. I'm seeing a far more layered character (Which I was seeing before but not very clearly in the past few episodes)! It was an incredibly sad and wrenching episode especially when Bones showed Booth the Collar she's had made for Ripley, This episode however was also incredibly funny in fact far funnier than the previous 3. I could barely control my laughter when I heard sweets tell Booth about Parker being carried round by Stephanie like a monkey... mainly because I'm sure I used to do that to boys (I was tall for my age) but also because Sweets face makes anything funny.
The only thing that freaked me out a bit was the dog whisperer, I'm assuming he's some dude who Americans watch talking to dogs, I don't really know how famous he is so it's hard to gauge if they are scraping the barrel and it's really too late to go online hunting and figure him out so I'm holding my judgement, all I can say is when you've had a special guest on Like Stephen Fry It's hard to see it topped by a man who whispers and makes swooshy noises at dogs...Though he seems like a lovely man.
Anyway enough of my ramblings, people all is not lost it's getting better and I think... I hope it'll be all up from here. Enjoy the episode! I mean it really enjoy it!
| 10:32 EDT, 24 Sep, 2008
ya they were getting a little repetitive. But they tried to keep it from being so repetitive by looking at the relationships in the show and Zachs being the assistant i guess to Gormogon and bringing in a new character each episode to try and fill Zachs position but naturally none of them could. I hope Angela and Hodgins get back together. Their relationship was pretty solid since it started. It's weird them not being together.
| 17:07 EDT, 18 Sep, 2008
i totally agree about parker. i love the emphasis on "like a monkey". this was definitely a great episode. they have all been getting kind of the same, and this was completely different in a way, which was really nice.
| 00:20 EDT, 18 Sep, 2008
I totally agree, that was a great episode. It displayed emotion from both Bones and Hodgins and when Sweets talked to Booth about Parker, I couldn't stop laughing either. Best episode this season 5/5 stars
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Kim Kardashian -- $100,000 Handbag Shopping Spree
Overall, the Kardashians easily surpassed the $100k mark.
What recession?!
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It's shameful to know they spend so much on purses when there are starving children and homeless people in the world. So unfair......
1277 days ago
Why are rich people so stupid, spending that much money on a purse. Honestly they never felt how it is to be poor, so money don't mean nothing to them!
1277 days ago
Anyone else notice that lately, Kris is in EVERY photo with Kim. They are up to something......Kim has become the focus of many things lately. I don't know what changed. But I'm getting tired of seeing mommy everywhere she goes.
1277 days ago
they spent 100K on bags when the US poverty level jumped to 14.3% (1.1% increase) in 2009??? Self-serving A**holes! Not like they worked hard to become fame WH*RES!
1277 days ago
What TOTAL trash, self serving whores spend on vanity when children are starving less than 6 blocks away.Should be a F....ING CRIME.
1277 days ago
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And for what? I don't understand how folks with money can just piss it away on stupid stuff when there are people living in tents, right here in the USA - how can they sleep at nite.
1277 days ago
Another thing to prove that they are stupid....
1277 days ago
It's their money, they can do what they please with it.
1277 days ago
It is a cute purse but it really must have been a slow news day if a no-talent reality star buying a purse is news-worthy.
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Sad these idiots have to be Armenian. I'm 1/2 Armenian - My father's uncle was beheaded for being a priest. I surely hope these fools don't carry any ethnic weight.
1277 days ago
This just p***es me off so bad. To advertise that is blatant disrespect for the situation our country is in. I might not have a job soon, and I have a mortgage I'm responsible for. If you're rich and gonna drop $100k on bags, do it in private. Ok, done with my rant!
1277 days ago
Wow...I'm sure all the kids who will be going to bed hungry tonight will be impressed.
1277 days ago
Kathi j
I understand that she earned all this money and it's her right to do with it as she wishes, but in these hard times can you imagine the people who could have been helped with this money? Im sure she can't comprehend the amount of children who could have gone to bed that night with a full belly. But, hey thats not important because Kim K now has 7 new purses!
1277 days ago
I appreciate a beautiful woman but she looks like she has gotten way too much cosmetic surgery and is not as pretty as she used to be.
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You've got a typo in there. It's ROWAN Atkinson.
954 days ago
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Somehow... this story doesn't really surprise me.
954 days ago
Thank you! I'm a frustrated proofreader.
954 days ago
How does TMZ get news which already passed.I leave in Europe and I saw the news on TV yesterday.
954 days ago
Now 99!
954 days ago
some guy
Wonder how fast Rowan was going. That car looks like it was sliced in 2. Where's the other half? Strewn across the road, I'll bet.
Damn... didn't think Mr. Bean would be a speed junkie.
954 days ago
joey _ I love TMZ 'til ya piss me off!
Oh no, Mr. Bean!
to Jackie - TMZ spreads it's other stories over days if there are more interesting ones they can get more feedback from first. kinda annoying at times.
954 days ago
Most people who buy a McLaren F1 end up wrecking it. It is too much car and they don't have a clue what they are doing.
954 days ago
TMZ are about 15 hours late with this story...
954 days ago
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A comedic actor who spends $1 million on a car and wrecks it? Why is that not surprising? Never found Mr. Bean's skits funny. He hurt his shoulder? Too bad. Wishing him a quick and full recovery. Glad he didn't hurt anyone else with his crappy driving. Maybe he should drive a normal car he can handle and control next time, like a Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac, Ford or Chrysler? Mr. Bean does have a funny face with egg on it.
954 days ago
It amazes me how many tards think that just because they can afford expensive sports cars they think they can automatically handle such things
954 days ago
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So how much do the other F1's go up in value now? I remember reading a story in a Maxim magazine about some guy who crashed a Ferrari that only ~100 were made. Others jumped by I don't remember how much but it wasn't pennies.
954 days ago
Maybe because I'm a black person my sense of humor is not on par with what's considered "normal", but whether this guy played Mr. Bean, Blackadder, a cop in The thin blue line or secret agent Johnny English, he didn't make me laugh.
But the same goes for Two and a half men, The king of queens, Will and Grace and other comparable programs. They're just too fabricated, too much staged.
I don't know why Atkinson lost control of his car, but hopefully he'll recover.
954 days ago
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STFU RamHead. Nobody asked you. Go away.
954 days ago
Glad he's gonna be ok !!
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0.994159 | <urn:uuid:1cb66691-7788-4356-8463-976a713722a7> | en | 0.982666 | Miranda faced something every woman dreads. She was making a list of all the men she'd slept with. At least all the ones she could remember. She started to wonder how she did all these men and did her law degree and became a successful lawyer.
Samantha: They practically chased me with torches like I was fuckenstein.
Carrie: Oh, relax, they can't evict you for having sex.
Samantha: Of course, not, they're just jealous, they're a bunch of dried up old farts who haven't had sex since Eisenhower, and I remind them of what they can't have. (Sigh) It might be time to move.
Carrie: No you can't move! You have a rent-control apartment on the Upper East Side.
Samantha: Honey, this isn't rent control, this is life control.
Carrie: Wow, it's like a Danielle Steel novel in here.
Aidan: Whoa, from a writer, I'm pretty sure that's an insult.
Steve: What's going to happen to me, does it hurt when you pee or something?
Miranda: No, men are just carriers, there aren't any symptoms at all.
Steve: Then, why do I need to know?
Miranda: Because if you don't get treated you could pass it on to other people.
Steve: But you're my only other person, and you already have it.
Miranda: Yeah, but see, if you've got it, they'll just keep passing it back and forth, plus I'd rather not sleep with you until this thing is out of my body, and I've got six more days of antibiotics, so, would you please, just go take care of it. Just go, get it over with.
If you're a thirty something woman living in Manhattan, and you refuse to settle and you're sexually active, it's inevitable that you'll rack up a certain number of partners, but how many men is too many men? Are we simple romantically challenged, or, are we sluts?
I just want to try to sleep with somebody I care about. I really think I can care about you. It's only been a week and a half, don't people date anymore?
Miranda: What about Aidan?
Samantha: Gay.
Carrie: No, he's not gay.
Miranda: Mother issues?
Carrie: No, I don't think so.
Samantha: Maybe, his dick curves to the right.
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Fucking kickass powerband from London. They are so fucking fast its amazing. They literally put the power in power metal. Nothing but pure kick your face in awesomeness. I cannot wait until they come into the states. You have to hear how fast they are. Their guitar work is unmatched in power metal and the drumming is the drumming of gods. Some may call their lyrics "cheesy" but it is better than you could ever do. Trust me you cannot match their skills in instruments. Don't believe me download "Soldiers of the Wasteland" That should change your mind.
Dragonforce literally owns power metal. No other power metal band can match up to their overall technical work and skills with the instruments. Forget Blind Guardian. This band owns power metal
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2 variations.
1. Take your boner and shove it up your ass and when you let go you get a nice "snap" effect.
2. When you have a boner you pelvis thrust an create a whiplike "snap" effect.
I snaparooed the other day and I can still feel the pain when I get a stiffy.
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the true spelling of "friend". You cant trust anyone thats why you put the "r" in parenthesis. Just incase you need to take it out its spells "fiend" basically thats what you should do in life to not get fucked over.
Dave: Hey man you wanna hang out tonight?
Bob: Does this mean we are friends?
Dave: Uh, no it means your my f(r)iend. Just hanging out.
Bob: Ok, you are right. I will most likely you stab you in the back one day just because you have something or someone or anything that is better than what I have. Being the typical piece of shit that most people are I will one day get jealous of you over such a small thing and never talk to you again. I will haunt you and not leave you out of my life until what better things you have are mine. That's the way life is. Do not trust anyone.
Dave: You do not have to remind me.
*After 4 years Dave does the stupid thing and trusts Bob, Dave gets a girlfriend and introduced him to Bob. Bob does not have a girlfriend and is constantly calling Dave's girlfriend and hitting on her. Dave does not like this so he shuts Bob out of his life feeling stupid and a tool. Bob could not accept the fact that his friend has something better than him. This is a typical human being. No matter what Dave does Bob will not go away. Bob is now a fiend. Fuck people I hate them all. In the end Dave gets hurt and never looks at people the same, he does not even trust his soon-to-be-wife. All because of Bob, Dave's life has been turned around. Everyone he meets is now just a f(r)iend.
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When something overflows and reeks with suckery. Nothing can suck as much as that. It is "the suck." You can feel the suck being emitted from "the suck" when get near it. To earn the title "the suck" it has to suckiest thing that has ever sucked in your sucky life before. Trust me you do not want to be "the suck" Bewarned, "the suck" is contagious and its suckage can be transfered through you touching it, or you sucking off the suck.
My girlfriend: You suck
Me: O yea? Well you are the suck
My girlfriend: Make love to me
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Bain, in his role as president, global revenue, is as responsible as anyone at Twitter for its rapid growth. He's helped turn a company once known for its "Fail Whale" outages and lack of a business model into what is now a cash-spewing juggernaut. Twitter, according to eMarketer estimates, will generate more than $1 billion in revenue in 2014, a benchmark that leads many Internet analysts to expect a Twitter IPO announcement early next year.
Bain, 39, arrived at Twitter in 2010 from News Corp.'s Fox interactive unit, where he had been responsible for implementing a widely praised self-serve ad sales system at then market-leading MySpace. (News Corp. had acquired the once-hot site in 2005 for $580 million, only to watch it shed audience and advertiser interest until it was sold in 2011 for a mere $35 million to the digital ad network company Specific Media.) Bain, like his former boss Ross Levinsohn, the erstwhile Yahoo CEO who now runs Guggenheim Digital Media, managed to escape News Corp. without the taint of responsibility for MySpace's failures.
With Facebook yet to announce any ad products tailored to take advantage of its new hashtags, Bain, in a recent conversation, didn't want to talk specifically about that company's plans, or a potential Facebook vs. Twitter hashtag battle. But it's clear which competitor he's referring to when he says that "Twitter is a series of 'now' moments, while there are other platforms that are about yesterday's moments," and that "marketing is all about owning the moment."
Those "now moments" are really "now on television moments." Twitter's current success with real-time ad sales is based almost entirely on capitalizing on the way TV viewers use computers and mobile devices to have second-screen conversations about what they're watching, whether that's a football game, a live episode of American Idol, or a hurricane forming off the coast of Florida.
Bain and other Twitter executives have begun referring to their platform as a "force multiplier" that can boost the impact of television advertising. "We think of it as Twitter times TV," he says. The idea is that viewers who are tweeting about what they're watching are more engaged, and therefore more likely to remember what they saw on TV — including the ads. There's also a positive feedback effect: If everyone's tweeting about a show, it can compel their followers who aren't watching to switch it on and increase the TV ratings. (Laying it on thick in its marketing efforts, the company even uses Sir Isaac Newton's Second Law — Force = Mass x Acceleration — in presentations touting its new "Amplify" product, which encourages marketers to link their TV and Twitter spending in order to better target messages to consumers.) The company has also partnered with Nielsen to create new audience metrics for advertisers, launching this fall, which they claim will capture this effect.
Hyperbole aside, Bain and Twitter may be onto something in their attempt to complement traditional media rather than supplant it. Net media companies have long bemoaned the fact that while consumers have been fleeing television and print to spend an increasing percentage of their media time on digital devices, there hasn't been a commensurate shift in ad dollars. Looking back at his pre-Twitter career, Bain says Internet companies became so obsessed with producing original content, "in a lot of cases they forgot about content consumption." Twitter, he implies, won't make the mistake of doing anything more creative on the media front than letting its users squawk about what's happening elsewhere.
"You don't need to produce content to get value out of the platform," he suggests. That billion dollars of revenue-fueled IPO may soon prove him right.
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. they are still not making much progress in the fiscal cliff. >> doug is live from washington. >> either way they stave off the fiscal cliff. spending cuts at the end of the fiscal year. it has really shocked republicans this year on capitol hill. they say it calls for, for one thing, $1.6 trillion in new tax hikes over a decade. it is also stimulus spending and the spending cuts. both sides are necessary to reduce the deficit. those the president would largely tackle later perhaps next year. >> first despite the claims that the president supports a balanced approach, the democrats have yet to get serious about real spending cuts. no substantive progress has been made in the talks between the white house and the house over the last two weeks. listen, this is not a game. jobs are on the line. the american economy is on the line and this is a moment for adult leadership. >> perhaps most su prirprising the white house proposal to get the president just about unlimited power to raise the nation's debt sealiceiling and w more and more money unless they reject. these will be tough negotiations ahe
with the fear of falling off, know what, the fiscal cliff. if washington does a deal, small businesses may feel brightner the next survey. but for now the uncertainty means owners, who are the biggest drivers in employment, are less likely to hire more workers or invest in growth. one in five said they will cut their workforce the next twelve months. that's the highest since the survey began ten years ago. one in three predict they will slash capital spending the next year too. here is how gallop summed it up. survey suggests the u.s. economy is extremely fragile and possibly susceptible to another recession. we will take a look at what exactly the fiscal cliff means to small business owners and what they can do to prevent any damage. they could be among the hardest hit if we don't get a deal. shannon, back to you. >> so many consequences. all right. thank you, brenda. we asked, you answered. up next, your time to chime in on today's twitter question. and a must-see kicker video you do not want to miss. try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the re
it off, but i'm not hearing that. megyn: okay. so then on top of that you got to fiscal cliff discussions in washington where the president wants to raise the income tax on top earners by another 3% or so in addition to this, these taxes you and i were just discussing. >> yeah. and that's a crucial point, because obama has repeatedly said he wants to go back to clinton era rates, but that ignores this new surtax at the beginning of the year. if they take the top rate from 35 to 39.6, it'll actually be 43.4 on investment income because we'll have that additional surtax on top of that. so dividends, for instance, which are 15 now could be going all the way to 43.4 which could have a very negative impact on the stock market. megyn: so right now if you make money off dividends, which a lot of folks do. you know, it's not just the super rich who get dividend income from their stock investments, right now you pay a 15% tax on that, and president obama wants to change that to you should get taxed on that income as though it's your actual, like, salary. and if that, if he gets his way on that, th
chanted and made noise in order to get their way. i think we ought to recognize this entire fiscal cliff is an artificial invention of washington, created by people in the congress and the presidency, and it can be broken down by them into a series of steps that can be taken without having to be rushed into one gigantic last-minute, little understood, with no hearings, one vote up or down, i think it's a terrible way to govern the united states. >> greta: well, the sequestration deadline is coming up the 1st of january. what people are saying on capitol hill, the president is saying, congress is saying, it may be scary stuff, but if we go over the fiscal cliff that all sorts of things will happen, that there will be another recession, we'll go deeper into our existing one, if we have an existing one, jobs lost, the market will crater, should we go over the fiscal cliff, even though it's created by the president, the house, the senate, failed to do their work a year and a half ago and pushed us against this deadline. your thoughts. >> right. my thoughts, they could pass a provision to ext
the fiscal cliff? do you think we will go over it? what does it mean? we get taxes, will be cut. no, taxes will go up. spend willing be cut. everyone wants, almost everybody wants spending to be cut. what do you think will happen? >> let's look at wall street. what might happen to the 401(k)s or the stocks. last week, boehner said nothing is happening and stocks would plummet. somebody else would say something going on behind the scenes and stocks go up. this is tremendous volatility. this time of year we get santa claus rally, the stocks will rally until the end of the year. but if the taxes go on, on capital gains and dividends, people will start to sell now to have the better, more preferential tax treatment than afterwards. we may see selling in first of the year. >> eric: long-term, think long-term. once we get past that. what will the effect be? what if taxes on dividends go up? >> this is incredible disincentive. especially on the capital gains. to take the risk of investing. when you say long-term, long-term, if you don't need the money you invest in stock market. if you need it in
for signs of progress, jon. jon: we are, indeed. mike emanuel, keeping an eye on the fiscal cliff negotiations for us there in washington. thanks, mike. jenna: from capitol hill to the white house now, and right now the president is getting ready to host governor mitt romney for lunch. the former rivals will be meeting behind closed doors in a private white house dining room. reporters were not invited. jon: oh, gee. jenna: left off that invitation list. jay carney says there's no formal agenda, and we don't know the menu as well. very curious ability what they're serving today n. his victory speech, president obama said he was looking forward to sitting down with governor romney and talking about ways they can move together to move the -- they can work together to move the country forward. he will also meet with his former running mate, congressman paul ryan. jon: vice president joe biden today calling for a middle class tax cut while getting in some christmas shopping as well. mr. biden visited the first costco store to open in washington. we won't tell you what he bought to put
-10 when i went to bed. >> i saw it. washington might be paralyzed about this ridiculous fiscal cliff, but we're happy about this. >> gretchen: the only good news for washington now is the redskins win. >> and the weather. >> gretchen: the third thing is that the white house leaks are now saying that president obama actually maybe wants to go over the fiscal cliff if the republicans do not agree to raising income tax rates even though yesterday they agreed to these deductions and loopholes and getting rid of them, which essentially many people argue, would do somewhat of the same thing. your thoughts? >> right. so there are going to be consequences for syria if they use chemical weapons and the president thinks there is going to be severe consequences for the republicans if, in fact, we go over this precipice and raise your hand if you're tired of this cliche about the fiscal cliff. he thinks look, the republicans will suffer terribly, the country will be thrown into some turmoil, he thinks and he thinks he's the winner either way. it's easy for the president and his team to go out th
is just trying to figure out what washington is going to do. we have been talking about the fiscal cliff now for months. we had a budget melt down a year and a half ago when the debt ceiling debate came. we talked about many times the uncertainty that faces manufacturers. you can't make investment decisions on long-term capital expenses for that will be paid off over years if you don't know what the government is going to be taken from you from taxes or higher energy costs. manufacturers are really trying to figure out what is next? what is on the horizon. they need certainty and they need positive certainty that whatever happens on the fiscal cliff is not going to impact them in a very negative way. >> what if it is a bad deal though? we talked about one disproportionately skewed in higher taxes. sometimes i think and i could be out to lunch on this that a bad deal would be worse than a no deal. >> see, i tend to agree with you. when you talk about certainty there is also as you just pointed out bad certainty. you don't want to have that. and when some folks in washington are talking ab
's no question in my mind that going over the fiscal cliff which is frankly not nearly as big a deal as the washington media says it is, and confronting head on that we are not going to continue this pattern of deficit spending is far better for them than to raise taxes, slow the economy, and grow government. if you give the democrats -- the president's budget proposal said give me higher taxes so i can spend even more. >> sean: as i said, the big disappointment to me today was kind of shocking to hear that speaker boehner adopted the language of the president as it relates to class warfare. yeah, we're raising money on the rich. i don't care if you say revenues or tax rates, it's still the same thing. i was a little surprised that conservative tea party members are now being pulled out of different committees as a kind of punishment because they didn't go along with the leadership. so i'm saying what are they standing for? >> i think that's a very dangerous game to play. i think that the country believes that somebody ought to stand up for smaller government, somebody ought to stand
fiscal cliff are now gone. >>shepard: are we supposed to believe all the sources who tell us that there is real progress behind-the-scenes or not? >>reporter: depends who you listen to. the republican leader in the united states senate, mcconnell said geithner's visit was a step backward. sources say he was talking about raising taxes $1.6 trillion and they say that is not reality. that is not going to pass the senate or the house >>shepard: the syrian government that is killing its people by the tens of thousands has shut down the internet across the country according to two u.s. based internet monitoring companies. activists confirm the blackout to the associated press and the syrian government claims we didn't do it, no, the terrorists shut down the intent. fighting an the main syrian airport near damascus sparked airlines to top flights into the syrian capital. activists reported the syrian civil war has led to the death of 40,000 people. conor is there in the middle east newsroom. >>reporter: many of those who is died have died because the syrian air force bombed and kil
are calling president obama's offer to get off the fiscal cliff ludicrous and absurd. they are insisting on spending cuts. president held a campaign rally, toy factory in pennsylvania. she characterizing the opposition as a handful of republicans who want to hold middle class tax cuts hostage. what happens if a deal does not get done in time? we'll look at what sequestration really means. it appears susan rice had access to the president's daily brief before she made her misleading statement about the cause of the september 11 attacks. now back to my colleagues at "the five." ♪ ♪ >> brian: this is a senior and has autism and other development issues and a t place kicker, which is extraordinary. having a rough season. but anthony led the team to upset victory. here is how it sounded. [ cheering ] >> brian: this game-winning field goal is a hit on youtube ever since. what is amazing, this kid loves rutgers. he used to sit in the stands. developmentally around 12 years old. going to high school and beloved by everybody. sitting in the stands watching rutgers play and watched rutgers win
to the upcoming fiscal cliff. the deadly storm destroyed or otherwise damaged hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses knocking out power to millions of people along the northeast coast. be careful what you say in front your television because one day soon it could be listening. a new system is in the works that could target commercials just for you. based on what you say. or how you act in the privacy of your own home. >>trace: your television could be watching you one day. the major cable provider has filed for a pat than does that, a set 207 box that you can use or pick up on your gestures while you were watching television. it could listen in on your conversations. the whole idea is to taylor commercials specifically for whoever is watching. for example, if the box hears you arguing with your spouse an advertisement for marriage counseling could pop up. we have seen proposals like this before and it raises big concerns from privacy advocates. today a company spokesman says and i quote, "vie drop has a well established track record of respecting their customers' privacy and protectin
about the fiscal cliff. >> brian: my son got a concussion and my dog sprained his paw. >> steve: we had a better weekend than you. >> brian: yeah. >> gretchen: how did your dog sprain his paw, more importantly about your son? >> brian: i had a decision to make, do i bring my son to the hospital or the dog to the emergency room? i opted for the kid. so yeah. he's going to be okay. he just has to know the difference between the two teams he's playing on because he got hit in the back of the head. but my dog walks over with a sprained paw. i'm thinking, he's going to walk it off. he's not. 120 pounds, how do you get a dog off its feet? >> steve: i got a feeling you'll be visiting the vet today. >> brian: unless you can bring him. >> steve: i'm busy. >> gretchen: okay. more on the hopeful success story of your son and the dog coming up. the white house and the lawmakers racing against the clock with 29 days to go now before the country reaches a fiscal cliff. at that rate, talks are going slow. the u.s. seems poised to go over the edge. wendell goler live at the white house. okay, does ever
to be the fiscal cliff and the white house position on it. let's talk about it with angela mcglowan, fox news political analyst. you have been in washington. >> for a very long time. jon: i'm not going to say that. you're way too young to have been there a long time but you know how these things work. >> yes. jon: is this all political posturing? is there stuff really going on behind the scenes that we don't know about or hear about? >> this is political theater at its best. anytime both sides offer a plan that's when the negotiating process starts. the optimist here. i do believe we will come to a deal, jon. i think you will see a lot more political posturing but you are having policy wonks behind the scenes crunching the numbers so they can work out a deal. jon: well the president has said there has to be higher taxes on the top 2%. >> yeah. jon: republicans essentially said we'll give you higher taxes but do it by reforming, closing loopholes and not raising rates. >> right. basically the republicans came up with what obama said in 2011. he wanted, there was discussion dealing with $1.2 tr
, the speaker of the house is speaking out now about the fiscal cliff, let's listen in. >> the bigger problem here, which is our national deficit and our national debt. this debt doesn't exist because we don't tax small businesses enough, it exists because washington continues to spend too much. and raising taxes on small businesses instead of taking a balanced approach that also cuts spending is wrong. it's only going to make it harder for our economy to grow. and if our economy doesn't grow, americans don't get new jobs. and the debt problem that we have will continue to threaten our children's future. as i said the day after the election, republicans are not seeking to impose our will on the president. we're seeking a bipartisan solution that can pass both chambers of congress and be signed into law by the president in the coming days. now, during the campaign the president pledged to the american people that he would seek a balanced approach to addressing the debt, a combination of new revenues and spending cuts. so the day after the election i said the republican majority would accept ne
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now, president obama talks about immigration reform and draws a line in the sand for congress to take quick action. >>> also, her final days on the job as secretary of state. hillary gives an exit interview to cnn. >>> a huge steroid scandal explodes, including big names like alex rodriguez. now the league is speaking out. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." a major speech on a hot button issue. president obama speaking out a while ago in las vegas about comprehensive immigration reform. his remarks come one day after a bipartisan group of senators laid out a framework for a possible bill that would be a path to citizenship to increase border security. but the president also made it clear if congress can't act quickly on that, he'll put forward his own bill. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is standing by. detail for us what is in the president's proposal? >> reporter: wolf, detail is the key word. in the past, the president has been accused of standing for policy proposals short on specifics. not today. president obama laid out a plan for comprehensive
by their parents. i commend him for making immigration reform a top priority. president obama will place to the nation his own ideas during a visit to las vegas tomorrow. with bipartisan support billing in both houses of congress and a president who is eager to solve this issue, there is no reason we should not pass comprehensive immigration reform immediately. it will be good for our economy and good for families. successful immigration reform cannot be piecemeal and it must include a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented individuals in our country. legislation must craft a comprehensive solution that among other things continues to secure our borders, punishes unscrupulous employers who deploy immigrants. they have to learn english, work, pay taxes, stay out of trouble and then get to the back of the line; but they do obtain legal status, which is so important. the framework proposed by the bipartisan group of eight senators meets this criteria and i hope we'll soon have a bill to send through the committee process and bring to the floor for a vote. i've long said when my rep
to overhaul immigration laws in the united states. president obama is on his first post inauguration trip in nevada. we will carry the remarks this afternoon. how should the laws on immigration reform be changed or enforced? here are the numbers to call. for democrats, 202-585-3880. for republicans, 202-585-3881. for independents, 202-585-3882. you can also find us online, send us a tweet by writing to twitter.com/c-spanwj, or share your comments with us on facebook by searching for c- span. you can also e mail us, [email protected]. here is the headline from "the washington post," this morning -- "senators outline immigration plan." host: let's take a listen to some of that press conference from yesterday afternoon. senator chuck schumer opened things up. here is what he had to say about the details so far. [video clip] >> americans overwhelmingly oppose illegal immigration and support legal immigration. to this end, we have four basic pillars. tough but fair passed to citizenship for illegal immigrants in the united states. second, reforming the legal immigration system to better recog
to convince the country to change course. we have to reform entitlements. and ultimately we have to revisit the health care law. clearly president obama does not want to give us that chance. he wants his last two years to look just like his first year of presidency. he wants to perpetuate progressive government for at least a generation. why? because he thinks that is the right thing to do. to do that he needs to de- legitimize the republican party and house republicans in particular. he will try to divide us with bogus deals. he will try to get us to fight with each other, to question each other's motives so we do not challenge him. if we play into his hands we will betray the voters we said -- we will betray the voters who supported us and the country we need to serve. we cannot let that happen. we have to be spared. we have to be smart. we have to show prudence. what do i mean when i say that? prudence is part in government. abraham lincoln called it one of the cardinal issues. we have to find the good in every situation and choose the best means to achieve it. we have to make decisions
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Chapter 1
Pain. A tight, sharp jolt of pain just below my left shoulder. Whatever it was, the wielder hadn't jabbed hard enough to break my skin, but just so that it hurt enough to wake up. A blade of some sort, sharp and thin. Probably a bayonet or a pike, judging by the momentum behind it.
One of the few things that could have disturbed my slumber.
I heard a man's dull words echo through my ear canal. They sounded distant, almost dreamlike. Definitely a foreign language.
But they were irrevocably harsh and tainted with authority. A military man, or maybe a cop. They know how to talk at somebody real good. Words of warning, maybe? A threat of some sort? If I was trespassing in some way, that was news to me.
I stretched out my arms from under me and rolled over, prepared to get some answers.
The sun blinded me for a brief instant, rays of yellow were a pretty good contrast to the blackness of being facedown in the sand. The sun was directly above me, midday, and was partially covered by light fluffy clouds, which did little to reduce its brightness.
The man above me came into view. At first he looked like a lost trick-or-treater, wearing a flat black mask and some kind of robe that seemed to meld with his creamy trousers. His mask had some kind of design on it, a design that seemed to mimic a human face, only with cat's eyes and no mouth or nose. Sharp, angled frills at the top-most parts finished off the bizarre look The only indication that he was speaking was his head bobbing up and down behind the ridiculous headdress.
I held my hands in front of my face in a defensive position, the glint of a blade flashed in the corner of my right eye.
Sand rained down from in between my fingers, peppering my face with crushed bits of earth. I groaned and tried to sit up, burying my fingers in the sandy ground beside me to get a good grip.
In a moment a long, curved blade was in my face. We both froze, and the blade remained stone-still, less than a centimeter from the tip of my nose.
"Whoa, buddy." I let him see my empty hands, holding them up just above my head. "I don't want any trouble, okay?"
He cocked his head suspiciously, his flat mask hiding his reaction. But that spear stayed right where it was, a quick jab away from ending my life in an instant.
He finally relented, moving the weapon slowly back to his side.
I staggered to my feet, doing an awkward dance to avoid face planting in the dirt in front of him. The muscles in my calves didn't want to cooperate, but I refused to humiliate myself in front of this guy.
My clothes were soggy and cumbersome around my battered body, twice their weight wet. I brushed some of the grains of sand off of my blue dress shirt, which was hardly worthy of such a name now: Unbuttoned and hanging loosely around my shoulders, covered in sand and wrinkled, fabric folding and unnaturally and mimicking the sea that it had just taken a ride through.
My white undershirt hadn't fared much better, but I could live with that.
I looked in the soldier's eyes, or what looked to be eyes on his mask.
He remained in front of me, taking a wide stance with the bladed pike down by his side, hovering just above the sand. He was tense, broad shoulders flexing and firm in that same instant beneath his uniform. He was ready to fight, and that made one of us.
"English? English speak?" I offered. "If you understand me, just nod or something."
He remained unmoving on the beach, waves crashing upon the shore behind him. The cool water lapped at both of our feet, but nothing happened.
I held my hands up, palms out, in front of my face and throat, and began to back away slowly.
"Look, pal," I started.
"I know you can hear me, but since you aren't saying anything and probably can't speak english, I'm just going to walk away."
He said something to me, another harsh, sharp phrase. He spoke so fast I couldn't make out the language, but that might have been the point.
Maybe he wanted to fight.
"Look, I don't understand you. Since you are over there," I pointed over his shoulder at the dense forest behind him. "-And since I'm over here, I'm just going to go that way, and I'll be out of your hair."
There. Now I could leave this enigmatic man and find out where I really was.
I turned and walked the other way, setting a brisk pace for myself in the thick sand.
He yelled something unintelligible behind me, but I kept walking.
The proud and self-centered side of me wanted to turn and fight him, but my logical side kept propelling forward, away from potential conflict. Training I had received was just as prevalent in my mind as my primal instincts most days.
He yelled again, but stood his ground. As long as he was only going to use his words and not that fancy staff, then I had no reason to make any trouble with him. A few insults never killed anybody, but what follows verbal taunting tends to. So I stayed clear and kept going my own way.
Suddenly, I head soft footsteps behind me. A steadily quickening tempo of muffled footfalls. Is this really happening right now?
Getting closer. Almost to a full run.
Aw crap, here we go.
I wheeled around and threw my hands up in front of my face in a defensive position.
The guard quit the subtle tactics as soon as I faced him. He broke into a sprint and held the spear out in front of him, on a collision course with my midsection.
I waited until the gap had almost closed, and then dived left towards the water. I flung my entire body at the sea, tucking and rolling onto my feet as soon as I fell back to earth.
He wasn't phased. He turned left and swung the spear in a wide horizontal arc, barely missing my sternum at the apex of the motion.
I sucked in and stepped backward to avoid the next swish, ankle deep in sea water now. He had the high ground, and was closing the short gap in between us, fast.
Come on pal, take a jab with that pike. I've got your number if you try it.
He hovered at the edge of the water, pausing for an eternity before making his move.
I tried so take a deep breath, steady my breathing, and slow my heart rate down. If I did I would stop shaking and the electricity flowing through me would quit making me shake in front of my opponent.
Sure enough, he adjusted his grip on the weapon, rolled his shoulders, and jabbed straight at my heart.
I quickly sidestepped and closed the distance between us, getting on the 'inside' of his stance.
He reeled and tried to pull back the long weapon, but it was too late. I was thisclose to him, so much so that I could smell the last traces of insets on his jacket from a ritual he must have performed early in the day.
I threw a flat palm into his side, just below his floating rib in the sweet spot where his kidney was sheltered. I felt a soft crunch under my palm as he doubled over in pain. I didn't hesitate, bringing my right elbow up under his jaw, just below his Adam's apple.
He made a wheezing sound before dropping onto his butt in the dirt. He couldn't breath, a sensation I doubt he had felt before. Poor guy, he was probably just doing his job, and he was going to choke on his own windpipe for it.
A hot iron had been dragged across my chest, drawing blood as his pike completed its arc. His mask, blank and expressionless, somehow conveyed a little bit of satisfaction of landing his blow from the ground.
I staggered backward, opening my shirt to look at the cut.
Huh, not too bad. No serious bleeding, but I might need a band aid or two.
I looked back up to see the man back on his feet and coming straight for me. His eyes were wild and primitive, hungry for revenge. My elbow strike must now have been that effective after all.
I ducked under his pike and smashed my palm into his mask. If I had used my fist, I might have broken my knuckles because the darn thing was made of thick, well treated wood fibers.
It had no effect, but the next two shots to his ribs did the trick. He staggered and I grabbed his left hand at the wrist and wrapped my arm around it, jerking hard to the left until it popped.
He finally dropped the pike.
He headbutted me with that reinforced mask and sent me reeling backward. I threw up my hands and beat down his right hook as he quickly advanced.
I nearly took a high kick to the ribs in the next instant. But I caught his foot with both of my hands and simply stepped backward.
He fell awkwardly in the sand, and I followed up with a kick to the side of his face, my foot connecting with his head just behind his mask.
He rolled to the side, drawing a wicked dagger as he swung himself back onto his feet to face me. One smooth motion. He was well trained indeed.
I held my hands up in front of my face and throat in a defensive posture, backing up.
He was in pain, serious pain. And his weakened stance showed it.
I took a deep breath. "Look, man. Just-"
The glint of his blade in the sunlight cut me off. He slashed upward, and I stepped back. He thrusted and I backed up and circled around him, pissing him off even more.
He took another jab with the curved blade, but this time I stepped forward.
He was surprised, but not stunned as I grabbed his knife hand at the small gap where the wrist meets the forearm. I wrapped my other arm around his, pressing the outside of my elbow against the inside of his. The figure our arms formed looked exactly like a four for a brief instant as I locked up his arm in the high noon sun.
Then I pulled him forward and pressed down on the base of his hand, my thumb bending his wrist at the fulcrum behind his thumb at a 90 degree angle.
Then I turned the blade against him and stepped forward for a final time.
The Masked Guard cautiously approached Jade on the elevated platform above the battleground, shaking while he ran. Jade didn't like to be interrupted while having words with Kitana, but this was too important.
Jade turned, her masked face beautiful and intimidating in the same instant. She clutched a short combat staff tightly in her right hand, already upset at something.
He dropped to his knees on the stony ground in front of her. "My lady, there is a matter I must speak to you about."
She sighed. "Proceed. It had better be important."
"Yes," he stammered. "There is… someone else here… on the island."
She put her hands on her hips and sighed. Kitana turned towards them with interest.
"Spit it out, we haven't got all day here."
"Yes, there is a man here on the island. Our men found him on the shore, and he was not one of Shang Tsung's fighters. A guard approached him, but he was overpowered and killed-"
"What?" Kitana demanded, officially joining the conversation. "And why, pray tell, are you not down there now?"
"I am the fastest runner, and there are six men down there. We must hurry. They will kill him if provoked."
Kitana threw up her arms in despair. "Why do we even keep you people around? All you do is stand around watching other people fight, or get killed yourselves when you try to join in."
Jade held up a hand before Kitana could speak. "I'll handle this one, my lady. I'll show him how Edinians handle unwanted guests."
Liu Kang rose from his push up position when he heard footsteps on the layer of stone covering the forest floor.
"Raidan!" he exclaimed before bowing his head to the man with blue eyes in beggar's clothes. "It is good to see you, sir."
"Rise, Liu Kang. I am afraid we do not have the luxury of time today. There is something I must tell you about this tournament."
Liu Kang nodded and rose onto his feet, feeling the familiar strain of the morning PT in his calves and thighs.
Raidan began to walk, and Liu Kang followed obediently.
"Liu Kang, there is something you must know. The coming weeks will be more important to Earthrealm than the past thousand years." He spoke powerfully, with a deep voice. Yet Liu Kang always thought that he was humble. Especially for a god.
"With all due respect, Master Raidan, I know the importance of this tournament."
"Yes, but there is something else you must know. There is an evil loose in this universe. An evil that I do not yet understand."
"Shao Kahn," Liu Kang replied. "It is hard to comprehend one who seeks to possess entire realms, only to turn them into as barren wasteland. You do not have to understand him."
"No," Raidan interrupted. "There is another."
"Who?" Liu Kang asked, stopping and turning towards the thunder god.
"Someone worse. His hate of all things has festered over the ages into something that I cannot comprehend. He has spent years in the depths of hell, planning his rise back to the land of the living. His resentment of the Elder Gods and his fiery ambition are the only things that have kept him alive in the fires of Netherrealm. He resides there, unable to cross over onto our plane."
"Then why is he a problem at all?" Liu Kang demanded. He enjoyed Raidan's company, but the man was way too cryptic sometimes.
"His name is Shinnok, and he will destroy Earthrealm unless we stop him," Raidan said frankly.
"One problem at a time. Shang Tsung and Shao Kahn are dangerous enough as is. Once this tournament is over, if we win, then we can turn our attention to this Shinnok."
Raidan held up a hand and his glowing eyes intensified.
"Liu Kang, I have seen the future, and you will die if we do not change it now. Everyone who dares to take up arms against this evil will be killed, and everything we have fought so hard for will amount to nothing. This has happened once before. I can sense the threads of time wearing thin, like somone from the future is somehow trying to tell me that things should be different... I cannot lose you, Liu Kang. Even now our enemies work against us."
Liu Kang folded his arms across his chest and shook his head impatiently. "You cannot change fate, Raidan. You of all people must know."
Raidan came close to grinning. "I already have. There are new fighters here on the island, several Earthream warriors. A Police officer, a Lin Kuei, a fugitive, and swordsman who will join our cause."
"And what if they die, Raidan? What if they are killed by Shao Kahn's fighters? What will you say then?"
Raidan didn't answer that question. He couldn't.
Finally, he spoke.
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"Hey, Scott, don't…don't push it. I'm Mr. Ray will understand. He knows you have asthma, right?" Scott shrugged, Mr. Ray probably did. That's something teachers had to know, right?,
"Boys, hurry up, or I'm telling your teacher to hold you in for recess." Stiles frowned as he jogged at an easy pace next to Scott.
Scott waved him forward. "You…go Stiles. I need to…stop." Stiles nodded slowly. He could tell Scott was reaching his limit, and maybe he could run ahead and tell Mr. Ray that Scott's asthma was getting bad.
Stiles took off, checking back once to see Scott bent over, hands on his knees, catching his breath. Stiles didn't see an inhaler, so that was a good sign, right? It was bad enough yet that Scott needed his medicine.
Scott watched Stiles leave; smiling a bit at how happy his friend seemed to be expending his near-limitless energy. Scott didn't realize how much he had held Stiles back, he shook his head and tried to work on catching his breath.
It didn't seem as bad as usual, he took one or two shaky, but deep breaths, and stood back up. "Good job Scott." He said, aloud, grinning slightly. He continued his slow jog down the track. A
Stiles let out a whoop of joy as he let loose and just ran. He was fast, faster than a lot of his classmates, even though he was far behind, for going at Scott's pace, he quickly caught up.
"Good to see you with us, Stiles. I didn't realize you could run so fast." Mr. Ray put his hand on Stiles' shoulder when they all stopped running. Stiles was out of breath, and grinning, running felt good.
Mr. Ray's follow-up question caught the boy off-guard. "What…what?" Stiles asked, his voice pitched high, even for a six-year-old.
"I said where is Scott, Stiles? You were with him, right?" Stiles nodded, and looked back behind him.
"I…I ran ahead to…" Stiles swallowed hard, and his voice got quiet. "To tell you Scott's asthma was bad."
Mr. Ray took off back down the track, looking back to tell the kids to stay put. Stiles didn't apply here, at least he didn't think so. Scott was his best friend. Best friends were exempt to rules.
Stiles ran after his teacher, his little arms pumping as hard as he could. He had to reach Scott. Had to make sure he was okay.
Scott had been doing good. He was pacing himself, and his lungs were only a little bad. But then he started coughing. And couldn't stop.
He patted his pockets for his inhaler, feeling a full on attack coming, but his pockets were empty. His inhaler wasn't there. Scott wheezed and coughed, trying not to cry. It didn't work. He just hoped Stiles and Mr. Ray found him.
"Scott? Scott can you hear me?" Scott opened his eyes, everything was blurry, he was still wheezing. When his vision cleared in a haze of black spots, he saw Mr. Ray's face. "I've called an ambulance. You're going to be okay Scott. I promise."
Scott nodded, or he thought he did, the black spots returned and swallowed his eyes. He fell asleep.
"I need to see him. Please. He's my best friend!" Stiles tried to push forward towards the ambulance, but an arm held him back.
"Buddy, you need to stay back and let them do their job, okay?"
Stiles started to cry. "He's dead isn't he? He's dead and it's all my fault cause I didn't…Cause I didn't tell Mr. Ray." He started crying harder.
Someone took his hand and led him away. Another person must have called his parents, because he was soon crying in his father's arms.
Scott was in the hospital, his breath too weak for the doctor's liking, so he had a machine doing his breathing for him.
He looked so small in his bed, surrounded by pillows and a tangle of tubes and the cards, flowers and odd assortment of plush animals that had already started rapidly accumulating.
There was no shortage of people in and out of his room, checking this, noting that, stroking his hair and whispering "My Scott…" There was a noticeable absence of Stiles, but Scott didn't notice, he was still asleep.
They told his parents that they found his inhaler a few feet away from where the attack happened, it fell out when his bent over to catch his breath, but they didn't know this, not really. It was all speculation. All they knew is that Scott very well could have died today.
"Hi Mr. McCall…is Scott—"
"No Stiles. Scott is still asleep," the man on the phone sounded exhausted. "He hasn't changed much since the last time you called…fifteen minutes ago."
Stiles opened his mouth to respond, but someone took the phone out of his hand. "Mr. McCall, I'm very sorry my son keeps bothering you. Would you do that? Maybe he'll leave us all alone then. Thank you. Bye." Stiles' dad hung the phone up and got down on Stiles' level.
"Don't bother the McCalls anymore, okay? Scott's dad agreed to call us when Scott wakes up and when it's okay for you to go visit. Do you understand? You just have to be patient. Okay?"
Stiles chewed on his lip, but nodded. Patience was hard for him. "Stiles, why don't you…I don't know, why don't you make him a card?"
Stiles nodded, excited, and grabbed a pile of papers and his makers. He sat down at the table and started coloring.
A few hours later, the phone rang. Stiles jumped up and ran to grab it, but his mother got there first. "Stilinski residence. Oh hello Melissa. How is he?" Stiles' mother nodded, smiling. "That's great to hear. I'll let him know. See you then. Thank you."
Stiles' mom knelt down and put her hand on Stiles' shoulder. "Scott is awake, and okay. They still are having him sleep at the doctor's¸ but tomorrow you can go visit him. Isn't that great honey?"
Stiles nodded ecstatically. "Mommy, can I get Scott a present?" His mother nodded. "I wanted to go get him batman and…well…I had another idea."
He leaned over and whispered in her ear. Her eyes lit up and she pulled him into a hug. "Sweetheart, that is a great idea. I'll talk to his mom, and see if we can do that."
Scott was sitting up in his bed, reading through his stack of cards. He sighed, he was bored. He couldn't leave his bed, and his mom had taken the TV remote, so he didn't rot his brain. Most of all he wanted to see Stiles.
There was a knock on the door. "Scott, there's someone here to visit you." Scott sat up straighter. He could hardly contain his excitement when Stiles walked in.
"Now boys, Scott is still recovering so…keep the craziness to a minimum, okay?" The two nodded.
Stiles walked over to Scott's bed, he was quiet, nervous almost. "Hi Stiles!" Scott exclaimed, with a grin. His voice was still a bit rough, but he was so happy to see his friend.
Stiles nodded a bit. "I have presents for you Scott. But I gotta know…do you hate me?"
Scott frowned. "Why would I hate you? Did you take my comic books while I was gone?"
Stiles smiled. "No. I…I left you behind, and you got hurt." Scott frowned and reached out his hand, Stiles grabbed it.
"It's not your fault, Stiles. I'm okay, see?" He took a deep breath, and only coughed once. "Now…presents?!"
Stiles nodded. "The first one is this…" he handed Scott a comic book-shaped package. Scott ripped it open and let out a whoop of joy.
"Batman! Thank you Stiles! Now what's the other present?" Scott couldn't see how it could get any better.
Stiles took a deep breath and reached into his pocket. "Well…this one you can't really keep…" Scott protested immediately. "Wait, wait. It's still cool!"
Stiles pulled out an inhaler. Scott made a face, "Um, Stiles I already have one of those. I like Batman more…"
Stiles stuck his tongue out. "This isn't for you. It's for me to keep. Just in case you lose yours again. This way you will always be okay. Cause I'll always be there to help you." Stiles put the inhaler back in his pocket.
Scott broke out into a huge grin. "I…You're my best friend, you know that right, Stiles?"
Stiles grinned back. "Yeah. I know. So…let's open up that Batman, I've wanted to read it all day!"
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Subject: Re: Pension Payment From a Bought Out Co. Date: 7/28/2001 6:55 PM
Author: phooley Number: 31048 of 74536
My mother-in-law recently received a letter from her former employer stating that she would receive a lump sum payment of $x from this employer's pension. The x is not something you can retire on. In fact she's stated that she really can't retire...she plans on working as long as she can. Technically, she'll retire in 5 years.
I just starting looking into this for her. From what I've read so far, the idea of moving this lump sum to an IRA sounds like the best option. I was wondering what I advise other Fools might have. Any thoughts?
Based on the information you have given, I don't think there is much question: deposting the check in an IRA would be the thing to do. I assume the former employers' pension plan would be classified as a "qualified retirement plan."
Quoting from IRS Publication 575 (Rollovers, at <>):
If you withdraw cash or other assets from a qualified retirement plan in an eligible rollover distribution, you can defer tax on the distribution by rolling it over to another qualified retirement plan or a traditional IRA. You do not include the amount rolled over in your income until you receive it in a distribution from the recipient plan or IRA without rolling over that distribution.
We don't know if there is any plan other than an IRA into which your mother-in-law would be eligible to rollover the proceeds of this former employer's pension plan.
If someone wants to suggest some sort of annuity, they should be along shortly. (Someone may even offer to take you, and/or several other people, out to dinner to discuss the idea!)
Good luck with your planning,
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The Lesser Key of Solomon, also known as the Clavicula Salomonis Regis[note 1] or Lemegeton, is an anonymous grimoire (or spell book) focused on demonology. It was compiled in the mid-seventeenth century, mostly from materials a couple of centuries older.[1][2] It is divided into five books, the Ars Goetia, the Ars Theurgia-Goetia, the Ars Paulina, the Ars Almandel, and the Ars Notoria.[1][3]
Ars Goetia[edit]
The most obvious source for the Ars Goetia is Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum in his De praestigiis daemonum. Weyer does not cite, and is unaware of, any other books in the Lemegeton, indicating that the Lemegeton was derived from his work, not the other way around.[1][4] The order of the spirits was changed between the two, four additional spirits were added to the later work, and one spirit (Pruflas) was omitted. The omission of Pruflas, a mistake that also occurs in an edition of Pseudomonarchia Daemonum cited Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft, indicates that the Ars Goetia could not have been compiled before 1570. Indeed, it appears that the Ars Goetia is more dependent upon Scot's translation of Weyer than Weyer's work in itself. Additionally, some material was used from Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy and the Heptameron by pseudo-Pietro d'Abano[note 2][1][5] and from the Magical Calender.[6]
Weyer's Officium Spirituum, which may be related to a 1583 manuscript titled "The Office of Spirits",[7] appears to have ultimately be an elaboration on a fifteenth century manuscript titled Le Livre des Esperitz (of which 30 of its 47 spirits are nearly identical to spirits in the Ars Goetia).[2][5]
In a slightly later copy made by Dr. Thomas Rudd, this portion was labelled "Liber Malorum Spirituum seu Goetia," and the seals and demons were paired with those of the seventy-two angels of the Shemhamphorasch,[3] who were intended to protect the conjurer and control the demons he summoned.[8] The angelic names and seals were derived from a manuscript by Blaise de Vigenère, whose papers were also used by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers in his works for the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.[5] Rudd may have derived his copy of Liber Malorum Spirituum from now a lost work by Johannes Trithemius,[5] who taught Agrippa, who in turn taught Weyer.
This portion of the work was later translated by S.L. MacGregor Mathers and published by Aleister Crowley under the title The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King." Crowley added some additional invocations previously unrelated to the original work, as well as essays describing the rituals as psychological exploration instead of demon summoning.[9]
The Seventy-Two Demons[edit]
1. King Bael
2. Duke Agares
3. Prince Vassago
4. Marquis Samigina
5. President Marbas
6. Duke Valefor
7. Marquis Amon
8. Duke Barbatos
9. King Paimon
10. President Buer
11. Duke Gusion
12. Prince Sitri
13. King Beleth
14. Marquis Leraje
15. Duke Eligos
16. Duke Zepar
17. Count/President Botis
18. Duke Bathin
19. Duke Sallos
20. King Purson
21. Count/President Marax
22. Count/Prince Ipos
23. Duke Aim
24. Marquis Naberius
25. Count/President Glasya-Labolas
26. Duke Buné
27. Marquis/Count Ronové
28. Duke Berith
29. Duke Astaroth
30. Marquis Forneus
31. President Foras
32. King Asmoday
33. Prince/President Gäap
34. Count Furfur
35. Marquis Marchosias
36. Prince Stolas
37. Marquis Phenex
38. Count Halphas
39. President Malphas
40. Count Räum
41. Duke Focalor
42. Duke Vepar
43. Marquis Sabnock
44. Marquis Shax
45. King/Count Viné
46. Count Bifrons
47. Duke Vual
48. President Haagenti
49. Duke Crocell
50. Knight Furcas
51. King Balam
52. Duke Alloces
53. President Caim
54. Duke/Count Murmur
55. Prince Orobas
56. Duke Gremory
57. President Ose
58. President Amy
59. Marquis Orias
60. Duke Vapula
61. King/President Zagan
62. President Valac
63. Marquis Andras
64. Duke Haures
65. Marquis Andrealphus
66. Marquis Cimeies
67. Duke Amdusias
68. King Belial
69. Marquis Decarabia
70. Prince Seere
71. Duke Dantalion
72. Count Andromalius
Ars Theurgia Goetia[edit]
The Ars Theurgia Goetia mostly derives from Trithemius's Steganographia, though the seals and order for the spirits are different due to corrupted transmission via manuscript.[10][5] Rituals not found in Steganographia were added, in some ways conflicting with similar rituals found in the Ars Goetia and Ars Paulina. Most of the spirits summoned are tied to points on a compass, four Emperors tied to the cardinal points, sixteen Dukes tied to cardinal points, inter-cardinal points, additional directions between those. There are an additional eleven Wandering Princes, totaling thirty one spirit leaders who each rule several to a few dozen spirits.[11]
Ars Paulina[edit]
Derived from book two of Trithemius's Steganographia and from portions of the Heptameron, but purportedly delivered by Paul the Apostle instead of (as claimed by Trithemius) Raziel. Elements from The Magical Calendar, astrological seals by Robert Turner's 1656 translation of Paracelsus's Archidoxes of Magic, and repeated mentions of guns and the year 1641 indicate that this portion was written in the later half of the seventeenth century.[12][13] Traditions of Paul communicating with heavenly powers are almost as old as Christianity itself, as seen in some interpretations of 2 Corinthians 12:2-4 and the apocryphal Apocalypse of Paul. The Ars Paulina is in turn divided into two books of its own, the first detailing twenty four angels aligned with the twenty four hours of the day, the second (derived more from the Heptameron) detailing the three hundred sixty spirits of the degrees of the zodiac.[14]
Ars Almandel[edit]
Mentioned by Trithemius and Weyer, the latter of whom claimed an Arabic origin for the work. A fifteenth century copy is attested to by Robert Turner, and Hebrew copies were discovered in the twentieth century. The Ars Almandel instructs the magician on how to create a wax tablet with specific designs intended to contact angels via scrying.[15][16]
Ars Notoria[edit]
Editions and Translations[edit]
• Arthur Edward Waite, The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts, (1898). Later republished as "The Secret Tradition in Goetia," includes large portions of the Lemegeton, particularly the Goetia.[9]
• Shah, Idries, The Secret Lore of Magic, (1970). Contains portions of Ars Almandel and split sections the Ars Goetia, missing large portions of the the rituals involved.[9]
• Peterson, Joseph H. The Lesser Key of Solomon: Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis (2001), ISBN 978-1-57863-220-6. Considered "the definitive version"[21] and "the standard edition."[22]
4. ^ a b The Book of Ceremonial Magic, part I, chapter III, section 2: "The Lesser Key of Solomon"; Arthur Edward Waite; London, 1913; available online at The Internet Sacred Text Archive, (direct link to section).
5. ^ a b c d e Rudd, Ed. Skinner & Rankine; p.31-43
10. ^ Peterson, p.xv.
11. ^ Rudd, ed. Skinner & Rankine; p.53-57
12. ^ Peterson, p. xv-xvi
13. ^ Rudd, ed. Skinner & Rankine; p.57-59
14. ^ Rudd, ed. Skinner & Rankine; p.57-59
15. ^ Peterson, p. xvi
16. ^ Rudd, ed. Skinner & Rankine; p.59-60
17. ^ Peterson, p. xvii
18. ^ Rudd, ed. Skinner & Rankine; p.60-63.
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Lyon dent Marseille hopes
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Lyon moved into third with a thrilling 3-2 victory over second-placed Marseille that leaves Lille four points clear at the top of Ligue 1 with four games to play.
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The hosts surged into a 2-0 lead as Lisandro Lopez won and converted a penalty, sending keeper Steve Mandanda the wrong way, and Cesar Delgado's cross-shot found the net in the 69th minute.
Marseille belatedly found a response and Lucho Gonzalez immediately hit back before Loic Remy bundled home a messy equaliser in the 78th minute.
There was a final twist in the tale, though, as Miralem Pjanic's free-kick was deflected into the path of defender Cris, who volleyed emphatically beyond a helpless Mandanda.
Rennes' hopes of securing a top-five finish in Ligue 1 were dealt a blow as they lost 2-0 to mid-table Valenciennes.
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im trying to write a google maps application. and i wanted to only highlight one city in the world ( im using the masking method explained: https://github.com/vasile/geomask) but now im bugged with the question of how to only show the boundaries of the city as displayed in google maps. can any one suggest how to extract the boundaries of the city from google maps in KML file so that i can use the same. in my project.
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You cannot extract data from Google Maps.
What you could do, is to get the data from other sources. Depending on your Area of interest, the boundary might be available from your local government agency, or even OpenStreetmap.
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Largest Religion
Main Language
Profile Source: Virender Buswala / Keith Carey
Introduction / History
Khatik word is derived from the Sanskrit language word Khat. In English Khatik means "butcher". In ancient times the main profession of Khatik Caste was to slaughter and prepare sheep and goats. Later there occupation was tanning the skin and selling the hairs of sheep in the market and export the same to western countries for using the same as wig. And also to sell the meat of goat as a butcher. Nowadays people of Khatik Caste are selling vegetables and do the bussiness as scrap dealers. Most of the people are street vendor collecting waste paper, scrap and plastic on the bicycle. There are some doctors, engineers,teachers and advocate, management and administrative staff.
Where are they Located?
In India, there are located mainly in Village - Dujana District-Jhajjar (Haryana State) near Capital of India-New Delhi. In New Delhi, Haryana (Rohtak, Gurgaon, Jhajjar, Bhiwani, Karnal, Ambala) Chandigarh, Jaipur (Rajasthan), Mumbai (Maharashtra), Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir.
What are Their Lives Like?
Found throughout India, the Khatik community began as hunters and butchers, though some claim warrior caste origin. Because they once handled carcasses, they are among the lowest in the Hindu social system. Some castes will not eat or drink with them. Today, most are in animal husbandry, agriculture, service industries, and government agencies. Clan leaders and law vary, but are always controlling factors in maintaining social cohesion and discipline. Their marriages are endogamous. Most speak Hindi, but many speak regional languages, often with Hindi as a second language. Because they value education, about 50 percent of their populace is literate. Literacy rates are higher among men than among women.
They lives in small houses, usually on the outskirts of the villages or towns. Early Khatiks were hard working and honest people.
What are Their Beliefs?
They are supersitious, devotee of Goddess Durga, Parvati, Ganesh, Hanuman, Shiv Shankar, Sai, Kabir.
Their cultural and religious history suggests they are open to change. Professional ties can cross religious, clan, and caste barriers. Although the majority are Hindus, some are Sikhs or Muslims. Some converted away from Hinduism to avoid caste discrimination. Whether Hindus, Sikhs or Muslims, their practices are often tinged with Animism. Those who decide to follow Christ can be disciplined, ostracized or excommunicated. Few are Christian of any form. For most there are no evangelistic media available.
What are Their Needs?
Their needs are land, houses, education, and daily food.
Prayer Points
* Pray for ministries that meet felt needs, for increased literacy, especially for women.
* Pray for Bible distribution and showing the Jesus Film in their communities.
* Pray for churches to adopt the Khatiks.
* Pray for a caste-wide breakthrough for the Gospel.
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Continent Asia
Region South Asia
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People Name General Khatik, Hindu
People Name in Country Khatik, Hindu
ROP3 Code 112679
Joshua Project People ID 17301
Indigenous Yes
Population in Bangladesh 330
Least-Reached Yes
Alternate Names for People Group Aray, Are Marati, Chikvi, Chikwa, Kasab, Kasai, Kasar, Katagaru, Katik, Katike, Katuga, Katuka, Khatika, Kulal, Kunjara,
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Bengali 327
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People Name General Khatik, Hindu
Ethnic Code CNN25g
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Several bills took steps in the Oklahoma legislative process Thursday.
By Randy Ellis Published: February 14, 2014
Capitol updates
Overtime tax exemption
Overtime pay would be exempt from state income tax under a bill introduced by state Rep. James Lockhart, D-Heavener.
“This is a way to provide immediate tax relief to oil-field workers in our booming oil and gas production industry; to the short-handed, overworked correctional officers at our state prisons; and to union employees,” Lockhart said of House Bill 2782. “Considering the cost of living these days, Oklahoma workers need all the disposable income they can get.”
The measure has been assigned to the House Committee on Appropriations and Budget.
OSSAA oversight
A bill designed to increase state and public oversight of the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association (OSSAA) cleared the House Government Modernizations Committee today.
House Bill 2739, by state Rep. Curtis McDaniel, would prohibit public schools and districts from becoming members of any athletic association that has not adopted a written policy requiring adherence to the Oklahoma Administrative Procedures Act.
The OSSAA is a voluntary membership organization that governs public school activities.
“As a former school administrator, it's sad that the Legislature has to engage in the rule-making process of an athletic association,” said Rep. McDaniel, D-Smithville. “However, we must keep our young athletes' best interest at the forefront, and if the organization will not do that then we will.”
The bill now heads to the House Calendar Committee for consideration.
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Given the incomplete news reports, it is impossible to say how much worse the nuclear damage will be. Unlike the Soviets at Chernobyl, the Japanese have been taking sensible precautions like evacuating people near the plants and handing out iodine pills even if they may never be needed. These precautions increase public worry, but better to take them even if they prove to be unnecessary.
We will have plenty of time to dissect events at the reactors and the safety lessons going forward. William Tucker provides some useful context nearby, and one crucial point is that the containment walls seem to have held. These walls are designed to withstand quakes and explosions, and it is good news if they have done so. The crisis seems to have been triggered by the failure of diesel generators that provided electricity to cool the reactors once they were shut down. Mr. Tucker explains that this weakness has been corrected in new nuclear plant designs.
But more than other energy sources, nuclear plants have had their costs increased by artificial political obstacles and delay. The U.S. hasn't built a new nuclear plant since 1979, after the Three Mile Island meltdown, even as older nuclear plants continue to provide 20% of the nation's electricity.
An aerial photo shows the quake-damaged Fukushima Dai-Ni nuclear power plant. JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images
The Tennessee Valley Authority is a couple of years away from completing a reactor at Watts Bar after years of effort. Proposals for 20 new reactors to be built over the next 15 to 20 years are in various stages of review in the multiyear approval process at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, with two each in Georgia and South Carolina at the front of the line. But the much-ballyhooed "nuclear renaissance" is a long way off, and it will be longer after events in Japan.
The paradox of material and technological progress is that we seem to become more risk-averse the safer it makes us. The more comfortable we become, the less eager we are to take the risks that are the only route to future progress. The irony is that one reason Japan has survived this catastrophic event as well as it has is its great material development and wealth.
Modern civilization is in the daily business of measuring and mitigating risk, but its advance requires that we continue to take risk. It would compound Japan's tragedy if the lesson America learns is that we should pursue the illusory and counterproductive goal of eliminating all risk. | http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704893604576198723013907008?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052748704893604576198723013907008.html | dclm-gs1-283800000 |
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Wellesley College BISC 220 Cellular Physiology
Home Lab Calendars/Point Distribution Assignments Resources
Enzymes Secretory Pathway Apoptosis OWW Basics
Purifying and Handling Proteins
The first step in the purification of a specific intracellular protein is extraction from the cells. Bacterial cells can be broken and their enzymes extracted or solubilized by a variety of techniques that may involve mechanical methods (grinding, etc.) or chemical lysis of the cells. The objective is to release the desired enzyme from the cells as gently as possible to retain activity of the enzyme.
Isolation and Purification: There are several methodologies that can be employed for the purification of enzymes, many of which are discussed in your text. These include:
1. differential solubility
2. ion exchange chromatography
3. affinity chromatography
4. molecular sieve techniques
5. density gradients
6. electrophoresis
7. electrofocusing
Most of these methods rely on differences in either the net charge or molecular weights of the proteins. Generally cruder, less time consuming methods are used in the initial processing of cellular extracts. This is necessary not only because of the large quantities of protein to be processed but also because of the complexity of the protein mixture.
1. pH: Enzymes have multiple charges on their surfaces, which must be preserved to maintain the native 3-D structure and hence enzymatic activity. Buffers are used to maintain the enzyme solutions at a desired pH. The buffer must be in the appropriate concentration, have the correct pKa, and must not adversely affect the protein. See your general chemistry text for a review of buffers and other inorganic chemistry terms.
3. Protection Against Sulfhydryl Oxidation: Enzymes may contain many sulfhydryl groups (SH). One or more may be required for the activity of an enzyme. If these sulfhydryl groups become oxidized, they form intra- or intermolecular disulfide bonds. If necessary, the most effective method of retarding such oxidation is the addition of a reducing agent to the buffer. Dithiothreitol (DTT) and β-mercaptoethanol (βME) are among the most common and effective reducing agents. β-galactosidase seems to be most stable in a reducing environment, so often β-mercaptoethanol is included in the solutions used to extract and assay the enzyme.
4. Protection Against Heavy Metals: In addition to oxidation, sulfhydryl groups may react with heavy metal ions such as lead, iron or copper. Principal sources of metal ions are the reagents used to make up buffers, substrates, and water itself. Deionized or distilled water is used to make up reagents and a chelating agent such as EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) can also be added.
Basic Rules for Handling Enzymes
The following information is taken from a popular primer now published by Roche Pharmaceuticals, but first published in the December 1985 issue of BMBiochemica. by Boehringer Mannheim Biochemicals.
3. Enzymes should be handled in the cold (0-4°C) at all times. Dilute for use with ice-cold buffer or distilled water. While using an enzyme solution or suspension at the bench, keep it in on ice.
5. Enzymes, especially those that have been diluted, should be periodically checked for activity to ensure that any loss in activity is taken into account when designing an experimental protocol. Expiration dates on vials only refer to enzymes stored in the original form at the correct temperature.
8. Vials containing lyophilized enzymes (as well as cofactors such as NADH and NADPH) should be warmed to room temperature before opening. This prevents condensation of moisture onto the powder, which can cause loss of activity or degradation. If the reagent is hygroscopic, mishandling may ruin the entire vial.
9. Avoid repeated freeze-thawing of dilute enzymes and lyophilizates in solution. Store in small aliquots. Thaw one portion at a time and store that portion once thawed at 4°C. The stability of individual enzymes may vary greatly and often should be determined empirically under your exact conditions.
10. Detergents and preservatives should be used with caution, since they may affect enzyme activity. Sodium azide, for example, inhibits many enzymes which contain heme groups (e.g. peroxidase). Detergents added at concentrations above their critical concentration form micelles which may entrap and/or denature the enzyme.
11. Enzymes should be handled carefully. To avoid contamination of any kind, use a fresh pipette tip for each aliquot that is removed from the parent vial. Never return unused material to the parent vial. Wear gloves to prevent contaminating the enzyme with proteases, DNAses, RNAses, and inhibitors often found on fingertips. Never pipette by mouth.
12. Adjust the pH of the enzyme buffer at the temperature at which it will be used. Many common buffers (Tris, glycylglycine, Bes, Aces, Tes, Bicine, Hepes) change rapidly as the temperature changes. For instance, Tris buffer decreases 0.3 units of pH for EVERY 10°C rise in temperature. A solution of Tris, adjusted to pH7.5 at +25°C will have a pH of 8.1 at 4°C or 7.2 at 37°C. The change in pH per 10°C temperature change for other buffers is: Aces, -0.20; Bes, -0.16 ; Bicine,-0.18; glyclyglycine, -0.28; Hepes,-0.14; Tes, -0.20 [Good, N.E., Winget, G.D., Winter, W., Connolly, T.N., Izawa, S., and Singh, R.M. (1966). Hydrogen ion buffers for biological research. Biochemistry 5, 467-77.]
13. The absorbance at 280nm is widely used to quickly determine the protein concentration of an enzyme solution. However, this absorbance is due to the presence of tyrosine and tryptophan in the protein. If an enzyme (e.g. superoxide dismutase) contains low amounts of these two amino acids it will not absorb significantly at 280nm.
Resources: Detailed information is available on many enzymes. The following are excellent resources.
Affinity Chromatography
The use of metal chelate affinity chromatography for protein purification was first reported by Porath and colleagues in 1975. This landmark report applied the knowledge that histidine and cysteine form rather stable complexes with some cations such as zinc and copper ions. We now know that the amino acid tryptophan shares this characteristic with histidine and cysteine and that some proteins have specific binding sites for these metals. Porath et al. (1975) devised a method to tightly bind metal ions to a solid matrix such as agarose beads. The matrix resides in a column through which protein solutions are passed. Some proteins in these solutions bind to the matrix but can be specifically eluted by a low pH wash solution. Later work (Porath and Olin, 1983; Kagedal, 1998) showed that it is possible to release proteins from such columns using a strong soluble chelator such as EDTA or by chemically competing with the binding. For example, histidine binding can be disrupted by including imidazole in the protein elution buffer. The chemical structure of imidazole is similar to the ring structure of histidine, therefore it competes for the binding site on the cation matrix.
In today’s lab, we are using agarose beads chelated with nickel to fractionate the 6xHis-tagged β-galactosidase. Nickel effectively binds histidine, and the combination of 6 histidine residues in a row at the amino terminus of β-galactosidase should lead to rather tight binding. After washing the nickel chelated agarose to remove any unbound or loosely bound protein, we will use a buffer containing 200 mM imidazole to release the 6xHis-tagged enzyme from the nickel-chelated agarose beads.
Affinity Column Purification Protocol
In this laboratory session you will purify β-galactosidase from the cell pellet of the genetically modified E. coli you induced last week to overexpress this enzyme.
Microsoft Word File: Purification of 6xHis-tagged β-gal
1. Defrost the frozen pellet of E.coli BL21(pET-14b) cells prepared in the previous lab session and add 10.0 mL of B-Per Protein Extraction Reagent™, a mild anionic detergent (the exact ingredients of which are proprietary), to the centrifuge bottle. Add 20μL of DNAase (to achieve a concentration of 1 unit/mL from the 5000units/ml stock) to the B-Per and cells. Resuspend the cells by vortex mixing and pipetting up and down until the pellet is off the side of the bottle and all clumps are gone. Try to avoid bubbles. This should take about 5 minutes total, of alternately mixing and letting the mixture sit in your ice bucket. Your goal is to dissolve the cell walls and membranes which will lyse the cells and allow degradation of the DNA. Ask your instructor to check your suspension before proceeding to step 2. If you have obvious clumps, the cells are less likely to be lysed sufficiently.
3. Carefully pour the entire suspension into a Corex tube fitted with a rubber adapter and centrifuge for 15 minutes at 10,500 rpm in the Sorval refrigerated centrifuge at 4°C using an SS-34 rotor. You will need to make a balance tube with water. Be sure and record in your lab notebook the speed as g force (use the chart near the centrifuges to make the conversion).
4. Pour the supernatant only into a 15 mL graduated conical tube. This solution of dissolved proteins in B-Per reagent is your cell-free or Crude Extract (CE). The pellet is bacterial cell debris that can be dumped into your waste container. The Corex tubes are NOT disposable. Please rinse them out and leave them on your bench or return them to your instructor.
5. Determine and record the total volume of the crude extract (CE) using the volume markings on the tube. Pipet 600 µL of CE into a microcentrifuge tube labeled with your team color, lab day, initials and "CE" or “Crude Extract.” Store the aliquot on ice. At the end of lab today, you will give what remains of this aliquot to your instructor to freeze for use next time.
6. Add 1000µL (1mL) of the Nickel-Chelated Agarose to the volume of CE remaining in the 15mL conical tube. It is essential that the agarose suspension be properly mixed before removing an aliquot, so mix it well by swirling or gentle vortexing just before removing it from the stock.
8. Using a Pasteur pipette, carefully remove and discard the supernatant solution into the provided waste container. Do not try to pour off the supernatant! The 6xHis-tagged proteins should now be bound to the nickel-chelated agarose beads at the bottom of the tube.
9. Add 3.0 mL of Wash Buffer #1® to the agarose beads in the conical tube, and resuspend using a pipette. Do not vortex. Gently shake the suspension at room temperature for 5 minutes on the platform shaker. Centrifuge for 3 minutes in a clinical, benchtop centrifuge. Carefully remove supernatant and discard.
12. Place the spin column in a new collection tube and add 500µL of Elution Buffer containing imidazole. Mix the agarose and the buffer in the spin column using the NOT DISPOSABLE plastic mixer provided by your instructor. Incubate the spin column at room temperature for 5 minutes. During this time, most of the 6x His-tagged protein will be eluted from the nickel-chelated agarose into the buffer. After the 5 minute incubation period, recover the protein by centrifuging for 2 minutes at top speed in a microcentrifuge. Your purified fraction will be the flow-through in the collection tube. If you have considerably less than 500µL, respin the column to collect more volume.
13. Take the spin column out of the collection tube and discard the spin column. Do not discard the material in the collection tube. Using a Pasteur pipette, transfer all of the contents containing the purified β-galactosidase to a new microfuge tube with volume markings. Record the volume in your notebook! Label the tube to indicate that this is the purified β-galactosidase fraction (e.g., "PF β-gal"), and save it in your ice bucket.
You are now ready to assay both the Crude Extract and Purified Fraction for total protein, using a modified Bradford Dye Assay (Bio-Rad assay). You will later assay both CE and PE for β-galactosidase activity (enzyme function) using a different assay.
We will now determine the total protein concentration in our CE and PF fractions in order to load each lane of our gel with equal amounts of protein. Loading lanes equally is the ONLY way we can make comparisons between lanes.
Microsoft Word File: Media:Modified Bradford Dye Assay Protocol.doc
Testing the quality of the purification:
Dilution Preparation for the Standard Curve
Tube # BSA Concentration Z Buffer in μL Stock BSA
0.1 mg/ml
0.2 mg/ml
0.4 mg/ml
0.6 mg/ml
0.8 mg/ml
1.0 mg/ml
Dilution Preparation of Unknowns:
Amount of Z-buffer required = ?
Amount of CE or PF required = ?
Total Protein Assay Protocol:
Tube # BSA Standard Diluted in Z-Buffer CE (1:5 dilution in Z-Buffer) PF (1:5 dilution in Z-Buffer) Z-Buffer Protein Assay Reagent™
1 0.1 mg/ml (100 ul) - - - 5 ml
2 0.2 mg/ml (100 ul) - - - 5 ml
3 0.4 mg/ml - - - 5 ml
4 0.6 mg/ml - - - 5 ml
5 0.8 mg/ml - - - 5 ml
6 1.0 mg/ml - - - 5 ml
7 - 100 ul - - 5 ml
8 - 100 ul - - 5 ml
9 - - 100 ul - 5 ml
10 - - 100 ul - 5 ml
11 - - - 100 ul 5 ml
Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis
3. 2% SDS Sodium dodecyl sulfate,
5. in the solvent 0.0625 M Tris buffer pH 6.7
Microsoft Word File: Media:Gel Electrophoresis Protocol GelCode.doc
Lane # Sample Name
Molecular Weight Standards
Commercial β-galactosidase
-IPTG cell extract
+IPTG cell extract
Crude Extract (CE)
Purified Fraction (PF)
Preserving the Enzymatic Activity of the CE and PF
Glycerol acts to preserve enzymatic activity while the samples are frozen. We will be using these aliquots of crude extract and purified fraction to study the enzyme kinetics of β-galactosidase in Lab 4.
1. Determine the remaining volume of the purified fraction and add an amount of 70% glycerol equal to 1/2 the volume of that fraction. Mix well by inversion. For example, if your purified fraction has a volume of 250 µl, you would add 125 µl of 70% glycerol solution it.
2. Pipette 750 ul of Crude Extract (CE) into a clean microfuge tube. Label it CE. Add 375 μL of 70% glycerol to this fraction. Mix well by inversion.
3. Give both labeled tubes to your instructor to save for next week.
2. Using the standard curve generated in the previous step, calculate the molecular weight of the band(s) that you have identified as β-galactosidase. What is the calculated molecular weight?
Background information on enzymes and lab techniques:
Kågedal, L. (1998) Immobilized Metal Ion Affinity Chromatography. In: Protein Purification (Janson, J. C. and Rydén, L., eds.), Wiley-VCH, New York, NY, pp. 311–342.
Specific References for β-galactosidase:
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I heard many people saying that when developing algorithms you should first use pen and paper, flowcharts and what not, so that you can focus on the algorithm itself, not worrying about the implementation of said algorithm (i.e., you deal with one problem at a time).
However, most of the time I find it easier to actually develop my algorithm on the fly. That is, I think a bit about the problem until I know the general direction to take, and then I start writing code and making changes until the algorithm emerges and works.
Is this a bad habit that I should try to change?
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closed as primarily opinion-based by Jim G., MichaelT, gnat, Kilian Foth, StuperUser Oct 7 '13 at 12:10
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Some algorithmic development can require a lot of trial-and-error testing and tuning, as one can find that the assumptions that would go into a strictly paper design turn out not be accurate enough when given real data and performance constraints.
Maybe iteration (think-code-test-think-code-test...), rather than just an either-or choice for the optimal "habit".
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There is also a middle way, that I usually use. Not thinking too much in advance, and not getting lost into the details of my code ...
TDD (Test driven development) lets you think a bit, then make it work ; then think a little more about what you need, then make it work, having the security net that your previous Use Case keeps working at all times... The steps are:
1. Write a test (ie a Use Case).
2. Watch it fail, make the failure understandable.
3. Write the code.
4. Refactor the code and the test.
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Who are these "many people?" And are they programming for a living? What you are doing is exactly what most programmers do, at least most that I have known. There's little use for paper when it's faster to type, and little use for pseudo-code when programming in a high-level language. Occasionally I do use pen and paper to visualize a tricky algorithm (e.g. rotating a tree), but mostly I start with high-level code and gradually fill in the blanks.
Like KLE, I think this works better following test-driven development. Assuming you are going to write tests anyway, you may as well write them first.
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This depends on your thinking habits and algorithm complexity.
Pen and paper offer "free form" thinking without a compiler shouting at each character you type.
Some of us who use pen and paper, take the time to adjust loop limits, try different values, etc.
So, I guess that writing the code directly encouraging test-first approach where as the pen and paper promotes think-first approach. It is definite that if the task is trivial, you can code it on the fly (if you are experienced enough) but complex algorithms would probably need a different development approach.
Diagrams help in some cases, but this requires that you be familiar with them and have used them before.
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That is more or less why I asked. I think that the "think-first" approach will make you a better programmer in the long term. Thanks for the answer. – daniels Aug 29 '11 at 20:49
Yes, but are you that kind of guy? Some people develop code iteratively by trial and faliure and won't learn any other way. – Emmad Kareem Aug 29 '11 at 20:51
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I think yours is the more common approach. If the algorithm is especially intricate or difficult it can be tough to both figure out the algorithm and implement at once, but in general I doubt it helps most people.
But I wouldn't, say, invent rules for a grammer and implement a parser for it without writing the rules out on paper (or maybe with some special tool I don't have) first, or implement a B-Tree without pseudo-code available.
I wouldn't say you have a bad habit unless it's doing you some harm, and I think you would notice if it were.
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Gotcha, and yeah I think that for larger/more complex projects I do tend to spend more time on paper. – daniels Aug 29 '11 at 20:48
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you can create a design while making the stub classes, methods and tests but you can get bogged down while creating the details
for the really complex stuff (compilers and such) a pen and paper design (or at least on a design tool of sorts) will help to keep you on track and the eye on the whole picture and avoid bad design choices and even let you choose certain design patterns from the start
but ultimately it depends on how well you can keep seeing the big picture
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I'd recommend sketching the general directions (the "pen & paper" phase) before jumping to implementation to save time by getting the most obvious requirements/constraints out of the way.
Then you can finetune it on the way given you can never guess everything at the start because further contraints may/will appear later in development, for various reasons.
That way you know where you're going but you can still adapt to changes.
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1. The amount of preparation needed is typically proportional to the complexity of what you are doing. It makes no sense to pen&paper 2 full days for an algorithm that is used once in a quarter, runs one hour singlethreaded on one machine only. It makes sense to pen&paper three man-weeks (if necessary) to design the new high-performance flux compensator module which will be able to process half a million requests per hour and has to run 24/7/365 without downtime.
2. You can tell if it's a bad habit within 30 seconds if you look at what solutions you are coding. You asked if it is a good or a bad habit. Well, that depends on you. If you are a slow learner at the beginning of your programming career, it is probably a good idea to pen&paper to full detail everything. If you got some years of experience, it will be enough to just think it through for 5 minutes and then just do it. Of course still with respect to 1. above.
Bottom line
Only your code tells the thruth whether you need more or less pen&paper. Don't let anyone else dictate that to you, but find it out on your own. That keeps you learning.
Disclaimer: This may not be what's called mainstream thinking and common sense. That's ok. Just set a bookmark and read it again in five years or so.
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Setup: Suppose you are teaching an introduction to Databases class, the students are CS students that have a working knowledge of tree structures, how they can speed up searches, and have probably implemented a few in their lifetime.
Question: How would you describe the way in which a database uses indexes to search a table for a set of keys? What structure is a database index most similar to?
Bonus: How does someone write a SQL query where clause to take advantage of the searching capability of the index they design on a given table?
Answers should correspond to all database products as a whole. I'm looking for general tips which allow faster searching on all databases. Plain english descriptions please, no code, Big O searching descriptions are fine. This question might be too specific for this site, I considered asking on StackExchange but since I'm requesting a plain english description of a broad concept I thought this site would be Ok.
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The bonus part would seem to rely on implementation details... right? – Izkata Apr 9 '13 at 14:34
I'm looking for something like, "Your first where clause should narrow down the possible results (i.e., cutting out half of the tree searching)" – wfoster Apr 9 '13 at 14:36
What are you missing when you look at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_index? (This is not meant as a rethorical question, it's meant literallly). – Thomas Apr 9 '13 at 14:37
And here: stackoverflow.com/questions/1108/… – Thomas Apr 9 '13 at 14:42
@Thomas that stackoverflow one is good! Maybe this question ought to get closed. – wfoster Apr 9 '13 at 14:52
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Database indexes are modeled after textbook indexes, then made more efficient:
Textbook index
The non-indented parts are the primary part you're searching on, and the indented part underneath some of them further identifies specific topics. Each indentation level is similar to another column on the index.
Taking advantage of indexes is (I think) partially implementation-specific. For example:
• If you query column food for "chicken", the index will be utilized.
• For "chick%", I would say it depends on the database/type of index, although all the ones I know of will still use it.
• Similar rules apply for querying columns food and drink for "chicken" and "water": First it limits results based on the first column in the index, then the second - just as if you used the outer index, then the indented index, in a textbook.
• Likewise for "chik%" and "wat%"
• However, "%ken" cannot be searched in an index in the databases I know of, because they index from the front of the word, not the back - same as textbook indexes. So the database will have to scan the whole table.
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Exactly what I'm looking for, thanks for the expansion of your answer. – wfoster Apr 9 '13 at 15:00
@wfoster: I find it hard to believe that there would be any value in this answer to students who really have "a working knowledge of tree structures, how they can speed up searches, and have probably implemented a few" – Michael Borgwardt Apr 9 '13 at 15:16
OTOH, textbook index does not cover all the data in the textbook, only arbitrary chosen parts. – vartec Apr 9 '13 at 15:52
Regarding your last point, you can use a k-gram index or similar. I don't know how common that sort of technique is in off-the-shelf database indexes though. – Karl Bielefeldt Apr 9 '13 at 16:41
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I mean, it's most similar to an index. Instead of rummaging through the entire book, you look it up in the index and find the page it's on.
The magic works because the index is organized in an easier-to-search way than the book, i.e. alphabetically.
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What about an index comprised of multiple columns? How does this relate to an index in a book? Would this be like an index of indexes? – wfoster Apr 9 '13 at 14:37
@wfoster I feel like at this point it's better just to explain that as a generalization. "A weakness of a dictionary is it's really hard to look up all the words starting with A that are nouns." But you can do this with multiple-column indices. – djechlin Jul 12 '13 at 20:10
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Take a book, any technical book.
Go to the end - where there is an... Index.
Why is it there? Same reason for the DB. So you don't have to search through a whole book for a specific entry.
Think about a dictionary. It is an index of words, sorted alphabetically.
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And also, every time you write a new entry into the dictionary, the index has to be updated. – nbv4 Apr 9 '13 at 15:03
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Assuming that the audience really has "a working knowledge of tree structures, how they can speed up searches" (and thus "plain English" is really not what they need):
A DB index is a B-Tree using the values of one or more columns (tuples in the case of multiple columns) as keys and references to the corresponding records as values.
A B-Tree is a search tree with a very high branching degree that is optimized for data locality and thus still performs well when it's too large to be kept in RAM (and random access becomes extremely expensive).
From this, it should be clear that an index can only help speed up a query when the WHERE clause involves the columns of the index either in an equality condition, a greater/smaller condition or by specicfying a prefix (which uses the columns in the sam order they appear in the index, for multicolumn indexes) - because those are the operations supported by a search tree.
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It doesn't have to be a b-tree, but many databases do use b-trees to implement their databases. Anything you want to know about how an index works, and what its performance characteristics are, you can find out by studying b-trees.
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From Use the Index Luke:
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@wfoster: a metaphor only goes so far, if you try to stretch it, it breaks. – Joachim Sauer Apr 9 '13 at 14:47
@wfoster: Some book indexes have indented subsections under each index. – Brian Apr 9 '13 at 15:13
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I second this post. I can't say enough good things about the ASUS Transformer. The tablet rocks especially when you consider how much cheaper and open than the iPad it is. Not many people are talking about it here, I guess its still a secret with not as much publicity as the Zoom.
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by Valdrax (#46493227) Attached to: Recent news events re: Bitcoin ...
It's hard to explain Bitcoin to Kleptomaniacs because they always take things literally.
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Most phones except for the American Company Apple uses a Micro USB.
Oh, please -- put down the flag.
As an American Apple user, I hate the fact that Apple doesn't use the same charger / data cable as everyone else and that, worse, my iPhone 5 isn't even compatible with my iPhone 3 charger. It's an overpriced, short POS that has a pointless chip in it to prevent third party cables from working properly. It's also not water-resistant (which is great in case you accidentally drop the end of it into a glass of water on your desk). All in all, Apple's new charger has significantly worsened my enjoyment of the phone.
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by Valdrax (#46487285) Attached to: EU Votes For Universal Phone Charger
Why do they think this is a matter for governments to decide?
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Not really. UV vision is pretty common among insects & birds. Additionally, it's pretty common in lizards and fish that live close to the surface. And don't get us started on the ridiculously overengineered eyes of the mantis shrimp.
Among mammals, it's common in nocturnal species like mice & bats, and we've started to notice it in reindeer and have theorized that it might be common in snow-adapted species.
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Funny how 30-40 sec into the video they've identified UV discharges from a tower that appears to have a flock of sheep browsing under it. Perhaps not so scary after all?
What makes you think sheep can see UV light?
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Sheep are diurnal animals that rely heavily on vision for defense from predators. They also, like most dichromatic animals, have roughly red & green cones with no blue cones. It's pretty unlikely they can see the flashes.
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Most music editing programs will tell you the BPM of a song, but how do they calculate it? Obviously they try to find some sort of constant pulse throughout the song, but:
• how are they separate from other sounds? How is a 'beat' found in the audio?
• How are tempo changes handled, are they averaged together or is it based on longer duration of a specific tempo?
• How would BPM calculation be different for say, an acoustic guitar solo (harder) than from a pop song (easier)?
(if we had the community wiki for questions back I'd invite people to edit in their own questions so this can serve for a more complete reference)
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If you want a question to be community wiki, you could ask a moderator to convert it to a community wiki question. But I don't feel that this question would benefit from being community wiki, as knowledge of BPM calculation is an expertise worth the reputation and only a very small amount of users know something about it. – Tom Wijsman Dec 24 '10 at 20:43
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It basically amounts to emphasizing the sudden impulses of sound in the song and then finding the fundamental period at which these impulses appear. This is done by breaking the signal into frequency bands, extracting the envelope of these frequency-banded signals, differentiating them to emphasize sudden changes in sound, and running the signals through a comb-filterbank and choosing the highest energy result as our tempo.
Beat This - Beat Detection Algorithm
The first three steps should be easy to understand, let's look at the last step:
A comb filter adds a delayed version of a signal to itself, causing constructive and destructive interference. The frequency response of a comb filter consists of a series of regularly-spaced spikes, giving the appearance of a comb.
Wikipedia - Comb filter
The last step uses such a comb filter to figure out the BPM, as you can see on this graph (145 BPM spike):
alt text
You also see a spike at 72,5 BPM, the inference pattern also creates spikes at the half and double frequencies. This is the reason that software sometimes picks the half or double BPM instead of the real BPM.
GameDev.net - Beat Detection Algorithms explains the whole thing in more depth.
How are tempo changes handled?
Most algorithms don't support tempo changes, they will either pick a part in the middle to determine the BPM or decide to calculate an average BPM as you suggested. From a DJ perspective I haven't seen an algorithm yet that supports mixing two songs with a dynamic BPM...
How would BPM calculation be different?
This doesn't depend on instrument or genre, but rather how it is played. For example, in an electro pop song the algorithm can easily be confused in a bridge part of the song or due to some kind of due to those overused digital effects. For the guitar, if you play a classic part with accurately timed notes it would be easy for the algorithm do determine the BPM you are playing.
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I've been struggling with this for some time now.
So I have a simple file called index.php encoded in UTF-8. The content of this file is:
$html =
'<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/><style> body { font-family: verdana; } </style></head><body>'.
'templating system.</p><p>Č Š Ž č š ž €</p>'.
$dompdf = new DOMPDF();
Basically I'm trying to show the letters Č Š Ž correctly in PDF. Š and Ž work fine but I can't seem to get Č to show up properly, instead I see ? in my PDF file. Any ideas?
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try a different font, you can specify fonts in dompdf – Dagon Sep 20 '12 at 3:08
I tried all the fonts that are available, I'm also 100% sure that Verdana supports Č. – Erik Kralj Sep 20 '12 at 3:09
@Erik see Fabien's response. Verdana does support the character, but if the font isn't loaded into dompdf it won't be able to use it. Without a supporting font you'll get the results you noted. – BrianS Sep 20 '12 at 14:54
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The guide to enable Unicode in DOMPDF may help you. If you are using the latest version (0.6beta or trunk), there is also a new font installer in dompdf/www/fonts.php via your web browser, at the bottom. Also, be sure to check dompdf/www/setup.php.
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Also, with 0.6.0 beta 3 you can skip loading a font and try one of the DejaVu fonts instead (e.g. try DejaVu Sans). – BrianS Sep 20 '12 at 14:55
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Can any one help me how to convert Multipage .pdf to Multipage .tiff in c# in window application using PDFSHARP?
What are some methods I can call with buttons or some tutorials to do this?
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With PDFsharp you cannot convert PDF to TIFF.
It's possible to convert TIFF to PDF (but that's off topic here).
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Hey thanxxx man!! – user2028367 Feb 26 '13 at 6:13
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Here is the link for you to convert pdf to tiff and vice versa. Hope this gives you a start!
and If you want to use ABCPdf here is the link for that
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i am not able to implement that code....Thanks but can you provide some method or code for this...like taking file from opendialogue and converting it to tiff on button click..???? – user2028367 Feb 22 '13 at 7:39
can you please combine the code for me i am not able to understand the flow of code contained in your link....and i need only open source free library – user2028367 Feb 22 '13 at 11:06
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I want to use jQuery's .get method to send an ajax call to the server.
I am using this line:
$.get("InfoRetrieve", { },addContent(data));
As you can see I want to call a function call addContent and pass it the data that is retrieved from the server.
The function addContent is below:
function addContent(data){
It doesn't seem to work, can you see why.
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I am not passing any data at the moment, I have left the {} as I will be soon. – Ankur Dec 2 '09 at 7:04
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Just change it to:
$.get("InfoRetrieve", { },addContent);
It will take care of passing data when it calls the function.
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It makes no sense that it works that way but it works! – Ankur Dec 2 '09 at 7:09
When you tried to use it like this addContent(data), you were actually triggering the function, not passing a reference to it. By omitting the (data) you passed a reference to your function that $.get could call upon success. – Doug Neiner Dec 2 '09 at 7:12
I see :) thanks – Ankur Dec 2 '09 at 7:15
@dcneiner: +1, you got it, I mis-readed the question... – CMS Dec 2 '09 at 7:19
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Try wrapping it in a new function object:
$.get("InfoRetrieve", { },function() { addContent(data) });
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Is there a command or a variable that shows me all the different warnings which get enabled when I use the warning-pragma?
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perldoc perllexwarn shows the hierarchy of categories warnings uses.
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perldoc perldiag
The output starts:
perldiag − various Perl diagnostics
(W) A warning (optional).
(D) A deprecation (optional).
(S) A severe warning (enabled by default).
(F) A fatal error (trappable).
(X) A very fatal error (nontrappable).
The majority of messages from the first three classifications above (W, D & S) can be controlled using the "warnings" pragma.
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I'm designing a contact manager/address book-like application but can't settle on the database design.
In my current setup I have a Contact, which has Addresses, Phonenumbers, Emails, and Organizations. All contact properties are currently separate tables with a fk to the Contact table. Needless to say a contact can have any number of these properties.
Now, I find myself joining all these tables together if I want to read contacts into the app. Since no filters, reverse lookups, sorts etc. are performed on the related tables, isn't it a better/simpler solution to just store the related fields as json-encoded lists on direct properties of the Contact table?
E.g., instead of a Contact with a fk to a phonenumber table with 3 entries, just encode all phonenumbers and store them into a field of the Contact table?
Any insights really appreciated! (fyi I'm using Django although that doesn't really matter)
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Can you guarantee that your app will never grow to need these other functionalities? Do you really want to paint yourself into the corner such that you can't easily support all of this later?
Generally, denormalization happens only for preformance reasons. And then, a copy of the normalized data is still kept for live work and the denormalized data is used for offline processing where having a static snapshot is fine.
Get used to writing joins. That's the way SQL works. Having to do so doesn't meant something is wrong.
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+1...I agree 100%! – John Hartsock Dec 23 '10 at 0:34
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I know I'm too late, but for anyone with the same issue.
IMO, in this case metadata modeling is the way to go. http://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/feature/Data-model-patterns-A-metadata-map
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Sounds like you propose taking data currently modelled as five SQL tables and converting it to a common multi-valued type (does your SQL product have good support for this?) The only way I can see this would constitute 'denormalization' would be if you were proposing to violate 1NF, at which point you may as well abandon SQL as a data store because your data would no longer be relational! Otherwise, your data would still be normalized but you will have lost the ability to query its attributes using SQL (unless your SQL product has extensions for querying multi-value attributes). The deciding factor seems to be: do you need to query these attributes using SQL?
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Good day to all.
I must create a table cell with a fixed height and with but with a lot of content... something using overflow: auto. The problem is that I can't use display: block on a table cell (it kind of breaks the table layout) so I tried just this:
height: 100px;
overflow: auto;
position: relative;
width: 1280px;
But... not working.
Can any1 help? Thank you.
<td colspan="3" style="width: 1280px; overflow:auto;">
{assign var="latime" value=$agenda|@count}
{assign var="latime" value=$latime*150}
<div style="width: 1280px; position: relative; overflow: auto; ">
<div style="width: {$latime}px; height: 100px; position:relative;">
{assign var="i" value=0}
{foreach from=$agenda item=ag}
{assign var="img" value=$agenda[$i][3]}
<img src="{$img}" id="imag{$i}" onclick='schimbaslidetoti({$i})' />
{assign var="i" value=$i+1}
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I'd need to see more code (or a link) to understand your question better. – werm Apr 14 '11 at 11:16
why not use overflow: scroll explicitly? auto is browser dependent AFAIK. – Felix Dombek Apr 14 '11 at 11:33
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You can nest a block-level div with the overflow:scroll property set inside the table cell. ie
<td><div style="overflow:scroll;">Content</div></td>
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Resolved... I used a div with that properties and inserted it in the table cell.
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can you show me your html by editing your question ?? – asharajay Apr 14 '11 at 11:20
So, shouldn't you mark DavW's answer as the correct one instead of your own? – pkExec Jun 19 '13 at 11:32
If you check the date mine was first. I up-ed his because was correct, but mine was faster and the same. Why should I accept an answer that might be a copy of mine? – zozo Jun 19 '13 at 11:42
2 minutes hardly matters when he came to the table with examples. – fiXedd Jul 9 '13 at 6:41
Please show your code – alias51 Dec 28 '13 at 10:30
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I am new to OpenCL programming and my input is a 3D array. I am calculating the index as:
int gidX = get_global_id(0)?1:get_global_id(0);
int gidY = get_global_id(1)?1:get_global_id(1);
int gidZ = get_global_id(2)?1:get_global_id(2);
int index = gidX + (gidY*SizeX) + (gidZ*SizeY*SizeZ);
Is this the right way to do it? How do I use the local thread ids with 3d arrays? I had used it with 2d arrays as:
int tid = get_local_id(0);
int gid = get_global_id(0);
int index = tid + gid*width;
And, is there a way I could use image3d_t type for my 3D volume?
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It depends how you have your 3D array linearized to memory.. but Rick's answer coded as an inline function would work fine. The other optimization you may want are prefetching to local memory when possible.
/* Visualize as a cube. You are looking at the front in x,y coordinates. Z is depth. You have stored it by starting at (x=0, y=0) and taking the depth z lists of elements one by one and placing them in a contiguous array.*/
//Inline this
int matrix3D_lookup(int x, int y, int z, int sizeZ, int sizeX){
return z+ sizeZ*x +(sizeZ*sizeX*y);
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What you seem to need is some basic information about the functionality and working principles of OpenCL. Please have a look to the following links:
1. http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/3_2_prod/toolkit/docs/OpenCL_Programming_Guide.pdf
2. http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_opencl_new.html
3. http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/3_0/sdk/website/OpenCL/website/samples.html
You code samples for getting gidX, gidY and gidZ do not make much sense and the calculation of the index is wrong, too. The calculation depends on the ordering of your 3D matrix. It should look something like:
int index = x + y * sizeX + z * sizeX * sizeY;
But you should check the documentation first. Especially the working principle of the local ids are not explained quickly.
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On the following two strings I'd like to create a regular expression that returns the binding property and value for the visibility binding.
In this string I would want to get back: visible:visible()
In this string I would want to get back: visible:propertyIsVisible()
In this string I would want to get back: visible:properties.visibilityProperty
"visible:properties.visibilityProperty, click:clickMe"
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visible:[^,]+ ? – darkmist Feb 29 '12 at 17:11
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What about something like this?
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you rock dude, works like a charm – KodeKreachor Feb 29 '12 at 17:32
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avi9526 8 март 2013 в 11:52сут.
Serious Sam 3 use only one CPU
I am running Serious Sam 3 on linux (Ubuntu 12.10).
The problem is that Sam3 uses only one of my 4 CPU's all the time - CPU0.
It won't switch to others CPU's. Using Sam3 process PID and command "taskset" I found that
taskset -p 7160
pid 7160's current affinity mask: 1
Seems, that CPU-affinity set to only one CPU0. Why that was done?
Я запускаю Serious Sam 3 на linux (Ubuntu 12.10).
Проблема в том, что Sam3 всё время использует только одно и то же ядро (CPU0). С помощью комманды taskset обнаружил что
taskset -p 7160
pid 7160's current affinity mask: 1
пролучается что игра привязана только к одному ядру. Вопрос: нафига?
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kwahoo 8 март 2013 в 1:27след.
avi9526 8 март 2013 в 2:59след.
Thnx for response. I know about this commands. But the problem still appear (of course less). Let me explain it more detailed to make it clear:
Normally if some program use only one CPU, its switch by OS to another CPU after some time, so every CPU used and CPU chip heated evenly.
Sam3 use one core CPU0 and don't want switch to another CPU. It's cause that core CPU0 is working all time at ~80..100% load while other CPU's (In my case CPU1..CPU3) is low-loaded at ~10..30%.
Even if I enable multicore rendering - Sam3 use one and same core CPU0. Because OS parameter called CPU-affinity set to 0x0001, while for other processes its 0x000F
mpstat 1 300 -P ALL
give CPU usage after 300 seconds of monitoring:
CPU %idle
all 50.13
0 17.59
1 55.94
2 63.19
3 64.48
As You can see, most of all CPU's in this 300 seconds works CPU0 (less idle percentage).
To make Sam3 use all cores evenly I need call command
taskset -p f $PID
where $PID - ID of Sam3 process; f - hexadecimal number 15.
After doing that (even with mutlicore rendering disabled) I get
CPU %idle
all 59.78
0 54.28
1 63.33
2 66.84
3 54.52
Now, as You can see, all CPU loaded more evenly.
Of course, seems there was some performance decrease (feel like lost ~5 FPS)
So, I interested why this was done? And is there a way to make it permanent?
kwahoo 8 март 2013 в 6:03след.
That's intended behavior introduced during Linux beta testing. It resolves performance problems when CnQ is enabled. There are threads (low fps, shuttering, etc.) in the Linux Steam section...
You have a question:
Първоначално публикувано от avi9526:
So, I interested why this was done?
And you have an answer:
Първоначално публикувано от avi9526:
Check also fps graph to see difference:
Finally - If you have an i5 or i7 CPU check (using i7z) how turbo mode works in both cases.
AlenL [разработчик] 9 март 2013 в 8:35след.
avi, can you please post your Sam3.log file?
avi9526 9 март 2013 в 10:36след.
I am using next command to change CPU-affinity mask to 'F':
taskset -p F $(ps ax | awk '/Sam3$/ {print($1)}')
There is screenshot of CPU-load graph with moment of changing affinity mask to F at middle of graph:
Next screenshots shows FPS graph when changing CPU-affinity:
switch CPU-affinity mask from 1 to F -
switch CPU-affinity mask from F to 1 -
Anyway, even assuming FPS drop, am I able to make this CPU-affinity mask permanent for my gameplay?
AlenL [разработчик] 10 март 2013 в 6:08сут.
I think that what you are seeing is not affinity mask for the entire process. The process uses several threads and automatically adapts to presence of multiple CPUs, by creating one worker thread per CPU. This approach works well on Windows and OSX, but on Linux, there are some issues when power saving on the CPU is enabled. See this line in your log:
07:51:00 WRN: CPU Power saving is enabled and performance governor is not used.
We have determined through testing that the "ondemand" governor (which is default, and which you have) seems to have some bugs and causes the erratic behavior that you see on your FPS graph. It appears as if the governor and scheduler interact in a weird way so that governor downclocks less used cores, but then the scheduler moves the main thread to that underclocked core, which the governor then clocks back, etc ad nauseam. We have contacted kernel devs, most notably developers from Intel that are working on that area, but they seem to still be looking into this.
The only workaround that we can come up from application side was to set strict affinity for each thread.
Ultimately, it is best if you switch to using the "performance" governor.
If you want to have the game not lock to threads, then set this cvar:
Note that if you do that without performance governor, you will loose a few FPS as noted above.
avi9526 10 март 2013 в 1:29след.
Thanks for support.
But seems that this doen't work
I changed that cvar and restarted a game. thr_iAffinityStrictness still equal to 0 but command
taskset -p $(ps ax | awk '/Sam3$/ {print($1)}')
pid 5119's current affinity mask: 1
AlenL [разработчик] 11 март 2013 в 6:08сут.
Well, if that is so, then it is not our doing. I don't know why that would happen.
AlenL [разработчик] 11 март 2013 в 7:02сут.
Oops, correction. We've found a bug that can cause such behavior. We'll have a fix in the next update.
Nevertheless, if you are going to be using this, then you should definitely switch to using the performance governor.
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0.117987 | <urn:uuid:c8f8624a-426f-4417-a0a0-3f6426c6ff28> | en | 0.942347 | Early Doors
TV blackout no big deal
There is growing anger that the Ukraine-England World Cup 'qualifier'
will not be shown on TV, forcing fans to fork out for a pay-per-view internet
Early Doors says 'qualifier' not qualifier because the game's significance for England is absolutely nil. Apologies
if you come from Ukraine,
for whom it means rather a lot.
Football does not struggle to get on the box - people have long complained about saturation television coverage. If broadcasters chose not to show
the game, it is because they know full well that nobody cares about it.
BBC and ITV deem Hole in the Wall and You've Been Framed more lucrative than the national
team - just about the most damning indictment possible of this dead rubber.
And let's not
forget; Setanta held the rights in the first place so nobody was going to see
it anyway.
fan-in-chief Mark Perryman's well-meaning
rant, describing the situation as "disastrous" and "a
disgrace" is about 15 years out of date.
He says: "A qualifier should be available for everybody
on free-to-air TV. FIFA and UEFA should insist."
It is a point, although not one that ED agrees with -
however much watching England can at times resemble a state funeral, the public does not have an absolute right to see the national team play a preliminary
match in some far-flung central Asian outpost.
However, Perryman's
beef is not with internet streaming, but with anything that isn't terrestrial TV. He should talk to the 1990s, 'cos the noughties ain't
Many people already use 'unofficial' streaming sites, and as broadband speeds get
faster, watching TV on the web grows ever-more prevalent.
For example, American Football fans can subscribe to a
streaming service that lets them watch every NFL game live on the internet -
with an HD-quality picture if their internet connection is fast enough.
And this is the point. If you can get as good a picture
through your PC as through your TV then really what's
the difference?
In fact, ED suggests most angry fans are just upset they can't use the game as a backdrop to eight pints of Stella
early on Saturday evening.
That's not to say
this weekend's broadcast will be a
success. Rather optimistically, the number of subscribers has been 'limited'
to one million.
Given punters will be paying either £4.99, £9.99 or £11.99
depending on how organised/desperate they are, it doesn't
take a genius to realise that would represent a significant upgrade on the £2
million rights-holders Kentaro reportedly wanted.
In short, they have no chance.
- - -
Sulaiman al-Fahim was nothing if not a trailblazer, a man
who broke down barriers.
Nobody has done more to explode the damaging stereotype that
all Arab businessmen are filthy rich. Al-Fahim proved that some are just like
the rest of us; penniless jokers.
Anyway, he has now sold 90 per cent of his stake in Portsmouth to what the
club hope is a genuine middle-eastern tycoon, Ali al-Faraj.
So that's all
sorted then.
Al-Faraj has apparently passed the Premier League's stringent Fit and Proper Person test, giving him
something in common with Al-Fahim and Thaksin Shinawatra, who is currently
exiled in Nicaragua facing money-laundering charges. Which he denies.
One day, ED plans to 'buy' a Premier League club, just to see how far it can
get before having to stump up any money. What's
more, it will do it all while wearing a gorilla suit and communicating only
through a series of grunts and clicks. ED has no doubt it would sail through
the Fit and Proper Person test.
- - -
A pertinent stat can be worth a thousand words, so well done
to whichever FA source fed The Times ProZone data proving Sir Alex Ferguson
unequivocally wrong in his claim that referee Alan Wiley was "unfit".
Wiley covered 11,039 metres during the Manchester
United-Sunderland game on Saturday - further than all but four United players.
- - -
QUOTE OF THE DAY: George Gillett
blames Rafa Benitez for Liverpool's woes: "The money we have invested means it
should be getting better. Now, if it's not getting better, it's
not Gillett and Hicks, it's the
manager, it's the scouting. You have to make sure you balance out your
analysis. There was plenty of money, so
if you have any complaints, take a look at the ins and outs."
FOREIGN VIEW: A Bulgarian third division
match was abandoned after only four minutes when quick injuries left an already
depleted team with only six players on the pitch.
Home side Gigant Belene began their
highly-anticipated clash with Chavdar Byala Slatina on Sunday with only eight players,
saying they were unable to field a fuller line-up due to a large number of
injured and suspended players.
Gigant, second in the standings before the
match, were quickly reduced to six after two players sustained injuries, leaving
referee Stoyan Denev no choice but to blow the whistle.
FOREIGN VIEW 2: Adult fans at one of Australia's most popular motor sport races, the Bathurst
1000, will be limited to one 'slab' of beer a day - or 24 375 ml cans
- as police focus on reducing alcohol-related crime.
The 24-can rule would also be placed on mixed
drinks for the V8 car race starting on Thursday which draws thousands to the
rural town of Bathurst in eastern New South Wales state, the
NSW police said.
But more restrained spectators would be able
to slake their thirst, if not their craving for alcohol, with up to 36 cans of low
or mid-strength beer.
Wine lovers must make do with no more than
four litres of cask wine per day and combinations of the options would not be allowed,
the police statement said.
- - -
It's here! We now finished typing the correct sequence of 1s and 0s into a
technical system that makes an abacus look like the hadron super-collider.
Still, the 24-hour gap between recording and publishing may
lend it a certain sepia-tinted charm. Or not.
Early Doors
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0.121134 | <urn:uuid:77f109f1-bad7-4808-83f3-ec1bdc2505d3> | en | 0.868204 | I occasionally have to build a Web site, an experience that is always humbling. My problem is that I don't do Web work often enough to build any real expertise, and the time between my Web adventures is usually long enough that I forget everything I learned on the previous project. Fortunately, HTML tags simplify Web work. And even if you forget the tags, you can use Microsoft Word or Microsoft FrontPage to handle them. But gathering information from forms for use on a Web page is a hassle.
I don't want to learn Perl or any other Common Gateway Interface (CGI) programming tool to handle forms. I maxed out at 20 programming and macro languages, and I refuse to learn any more. I usually let FrontPage's built-in form bot handle the forms. Although FrontPage is a good program, getting FrontPage's Internet Information Server (IIS) extensions to work is difficult. Even FrontPage 2000's form bot is rather fragile. Downloading and installing the FrontPage 2000 IIS extensions is a challenge. As I performed this task, I worried about disaster recovery—did I want to add a step to rebuilding my Web server? I wanted to avoid using the extensions, so I searched for a way to easily collect and store form information without using heavy-duty programming. Then I remembered Active Server Pages. ASP lets you use VBScript to build server-side Web-based applications. VBScript, a variant of Visual Basic (VB), is ideal for occasional programmers.
The Task
I needed to collect comments and stories about software bugs that readers had submitted to my Software Conspiracy Web site ( I wanted the ASP script to collect three identification fields (name, telephone number, and email address) and a comment field, surround each field with double quotes, put commas between the fields for ease of importing to programs such as Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Access, and append the new information to an ASCII file called feedback.txt.
I feared that the project might be time-consuming, but it took only about an hour and a half. For illustrative purposes, I've summarized only the program's essentials. To save space, my example doesn't include error-handling code. You might find this example useful on your next Web project that involves forms.
In the example, I display a simple form that asks for a user's name and email address. When the user submits this information, ASP shows the information to the user and stores it in feedback.txt.
In my project, I used three files: the HTML file with the form (form.html), the ASP file to collect the data and write it out (addtext.asp), and the file to write the data to (feedback.txt). The HTML file looked like the following file:
<form method="POST" action="addtext.asp"><BR>
<p>Name<input type="text" size="35" maxlength="256" name="Username"></p><BR>
<p>Email<input type="text" size="35" maxlength="256" name="UserEmail"></p><BR>
<p><input type="submit" value="Submit Info"> <input type="reset" value="Clear Form"></p><BR>
tag takes two parameters: method="POST" and action="addtext.asp". The first parameter is standard, but the second parameter is unique. The second parameter is the part of the
statement that tells the user's Web browser to ask the Web server to start the addtext.asp program. If this program isn't in the same directory as the form, you need to provide the full pathname. The
(i.e., paragraph) and tags simply display descriptive text (e.g., name) on the screen and put fields on the browser so that users can enter their responses. The last two tags tell the browser to put a Submit Info button and a Clear button on the screen. You don't need to do any programming to make these functions work; they're built into the HTML
In my example, the ASP file looked like the following file:
<%@ Language=VBScript %><BR>
option explicit<BR>
dim fso, myfile, uname, email<BR>
set fso = CreateObject _<BR>
set myfile = fso.OpenTextFile _<BR>
uname = request.form("Username")<BR>
email = request.form("UserEmail")<BR>
myfile.writeline(uname & " " & email)<BR>
set myfile = nothing<BR>
<p>Email address=<%=request.form("useremail")%>
ASP files usually contain regular HTML tags and VBScript programming commands. You place the programming commands within <% and %> brackets. ASP scripts work only on Web servers running IIS or machines running Peer Web Services (PWS) 3.0.
When a browser asks an IIS system to deliver a Web page with an HTML or HTM extension, the IIS system simply retrieves the file and transfers the file to the browser. In this case, the IIS system is nothing more than a file server.
In contrast, when a browser requests a file with an ASP extension, the IIS system checks the ASP file closely, finds the VBScript commands in the HTML code, and executes the VBScript commands. Running those commands usually modifies the HTML on the Web page; the resulting HTML is what the browser receives. IIS doesn't send the VBScript code (thus preventing people from easily figuring out how you set up your site), just the HTML that results from a combination of the original HTML and the text that added when the VBScript commands ran.
For example, consider the following one-line ASP file:
<p>The time is <%=time()%> </p>
Before transmitting this file, IIS sees the command =time(), which tells IIS to run the built-in VBScript time function (i.e., the function that returns the current time) and insert the result into the HTML. The resulting HTML that the user sees is
<p>The time is 03:16:32</p>
The ASP file for my solution has a large portion of VBScript at the beginning and a small amount of HTML at the end. The main job of the resulting Web page is to add the collected form text to feedback.txt, but the page also displays the name and email address that the user entered.
The first two statements in the ASP file tell IIS that the script is VBScript (other languages also work in ASP scripts) and that variables must be declared before they are used in the script. In general, you don't need to declare variables in VBScript. However, many people like to declare variables for organizational purposes and to decrease the probability of a mistyped variable name causing a bug. The Option Explicit statement tells IIS to enforce variable declaration.
The two Set statements let you manipulate files on the server. The first Set statement creates a file-system object, which activates the programming language's tools that allow file reads and writes. The second Set statement's parameters provide the name of the file you're working with (the default path is the \winnt\system32 directory), signal that you want to append data to the file (1 signifies read; 8 signifies append), and specify that the data must be in ASCII rather than Unicode. (For the append process to work, the file that you're appending must exist. Create an empty feedback.txt file before you try to execute the OpenTextFile method.)
The uname and email variables receive the user's name and email address. Request.form is a built-in VBScript method. To retrieve the user's information, you must pass the form's field names, "Username" and "UserEmail". You need to surround the form's field names (which must exactly match the names in the input type= statements in the HTML file) with double quotes.
The myfile.writeline method writes a string of characters to a file. In this case, the method writes the user's name and email address (separated by a space) to feedback.txt and starts a new line.
The myfile.close method closes the file. Finally, the last Set statement supports cleanup on the ASP server.
Use As You See Fit
I used this method because I've had trouble with FrontPage's server extensions and because I'm familiar with VB. However, my method might not work for you. VBScript isn't particularly fast, so you might not want to use it for a busy Web site. (My Software Conspiracy Web site has only about 10 visitors a day, so server performance wasn't a consideration.)
Although my example saves the data in a simple form, you might prefer to collect and save data in a Microsoft SQL Server database. If you're thinking about doing some ASP scripting, see Microsoft's Developer Network Web Workshop Web site ( workshop/c-frame.htm#/workshop/server/default.asp) for links to ASP information. For additional ASP information, see SQL Server Magazine.
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Here's what I'm getting at: it might be that the biggest annual changes in the number of de-tards, relative to the tards, would be due to recruitment and mortality, not changing from one group to the other.
And if that is true, then I think several other things are also true.
first, there will always be tard. competing magic vs. not-magic explanations for duh universe aren't just going to go away because all of a sudden tards give a shit about something like that. it's likea two-party system, an evolutionarily stable strategy. science and faith like host and parasite.
two the tard will never change. Even though it was better back in the goodle days (le afdave por exemplor) when they spoke portugese at the tower of bible it is still the same shitty arguments parasitizing the epistemic capital of methodological naturalism
three the tard will always change. Even though it's the same old shit from way back before the goodle days (et tu, materialist) when they had the old time epicurean democritean matter matters, science has progressed.
yet the tard parasitizes that progress, to advance arguments that were not even possible for tards to consider much less, discover,quantify, formulate and falsify.
the tard changes with science, for if there were no science to deny, tard would be simple ritual and punishment
four motives are pretty much the only fucking thing worth talking about, so get over yourselfs
Edited by Erasmus, FCD on Sep. 28 2012,23:30
You're obviously illiterate as hell. Peach, bro.-FtK
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For example, if someone here tells me that there is a small defect in the lens, but it has no noticeable effect on the image, I'm likely to believe them. And if I get the right to examine and return it if dissatisfied, then I would most likely take the chance. This is a small tight knit community, and nobody want the reputation of being a cheat..
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Matt, you're not going to tell us what the more that's to it?
Well, yes, I posted it prior to my previous post in response to Joan Denoo on Page 2.
Who says man wrote the old testament? This planet is owned by Satan, the illuminated one, gnostic, lucifer, jesus, jehovah, yahweh, etc, etc. I can not say if satan is aliens or is a inter dimensional being only that it was written by whomever owns and controls this planet now. Look up Lloyd Pie (sic) on youtube if you don't believe me. And no I do not believe in satan, i know that we were genetically engineered to be slaves and all one has to do to be a slave is to believe in certainties, such as good, bad, right, wrong or morality, which only makes one an immoral bigot. Freidrich Nietzsche can explain logical thinking to you.
Dan, I like to think that separating oneself from religious orthodoxy carries a dividend of a divorce from Satan as well. All this Satan nonsense is just early mankind trying to explain natural phenomena. We evolved from quadruped carnivores. All the emotions and sins part of that evolutionary baggage still resides deep in the hindbrain. At one time rage, anger and fear were part of our survival needs. I like to think we’ll get past juvenile superstition and continue to evolve.
Your inability to reason is shown by your certainty that I am full of shit, so who do you believe made you so incapable of reason? If you did not see us as equal nor see yourself as full of shit, you would not be so certain that i am (full of shit). How does rage and anger help anybody to survive or protect anybody from a hungry predator? Let me guess, now you are going to deny saying that i have it all wrong compared to you, right? Reread what YOU said then!
<you would not be so certain that i am (full of shit).>>>
Your words not mine. I always try to be polite.
I was referring to what Carl Sagan call the R-Complex or Reptilian Factor. What William Golding calls Jack, if you read the Lord of the Flies.
To answer your question, rage, anger and fear have an important place in the Law of the Jungle. That's what determines the pecking order.
Lol, gee, what an accomplishment, polite disrespect, I am sure your mama is proud. I asked about rage and anger, not fear, nor does pecking order have much to do with surviving. Wolves have dominant and submissive compadres except for those on the top and those on the bottom of the pecking order, so are you telling me that wolves use rage and anger to make those determinations or are you justifying primate insecurity instead of answering the question?
I think so too, Ernst.
This is my hypothesis.
Which I developed from studying books on anthropology, psychology and neurology.
The last 200,000 years (roughly) of our evolution has been very rapid, where cultural (cognitive) evolution has made massive changes to our species.
The development of complex language, that can describe and pass on abstract thinking (like religious thought) has been likely the biggest force behind our cultural evolution, which takes leaps and bounds with every new scientific or philosophical break through.
So, yes, we had to crawl a lot before we started running.
Human progress is being hampered by those wanting to cling to our previous cognitive form (religious).
The US need to eject GOP to make any advances in our new cognitive evolution.
I forgot to mention that I also studied philosophy, theology and the history of religion to help formulate my hypothesis posted earlier, b4 my connection crashed, so I didn't get to add those in.
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Wound up here instead of Poor Phil's for some reason, I had put the wrong location into the gps. It was off the Harlem exit on the Eisenhower, on a little street that didn't have much else open at night. Smirked at the valet parking sign, and parked around the corner.
From the outside it had very bright lights trained on it's big "A" sign and stripey awning. There were large open windows in the front, and a host station when you walk in. The lights were pretty bright inside too for some reason. Lots of slick polished wood and exposed brick walls. There was a rooftop deck on the 2nd floor that I failed to inspect, went over to the bar instead. It was a rounded rectangle, with an island in the middle. Everyone else was drinking martinis or Michelob Ultra. In the back there was a fairly large open dining area, sparsely decorated with macro mirrors and miller lite pennants. At the bar there were flatscreens above the bar playing basesball/espn, and they were reflected in the shiny bar surface. The place felt sterile, like a suburban bar chain.
Each tap tower had the same 8 macro/pseudo-micro taps. Fail. Leinies & Sam Adams were as crafty as you could get...Miller, Stella, Guinness, etc. filled the rest of the handles. Eh, let me see the beer list. There was a long list of 25 "domestics" some macro imports, then maybe 10 craft beers. One each from GLBC (Ed Fitz.), Founders (Reds Rye), DFH (60 min), Breckenridge (Vanilla Porter), then FFF was the feature, with 4 of their standards, GBH, Alpha King, RtB, & P&J for $4.50. A beginners sort of list, and not really beers I would actively go here to seek out. To their credit there was a display board in the back hall with the 4 FFF beers with their descriptions. For an "Ale House" though, there wasn't much of a variety.
Bartender was a friendly guy, chatting with the regulars and providing timely service. I had to ask for a glass for a Gumballhead, and got a chilled 14 oz. miller glass. Maybe the food is good here, but I wouldn't return to find out.
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While I would like to see manufacturing return to the U.S. for economic and national security reasons, we need to be realistic. China and other countries heavily subsidize their industries. The U.S chases its industries out of the country with regulations—specifically, environmental rules. We can't mine, drill for oil, or operate factories without miles of red tape.
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U.S. manufacturing will rebound only when Wall Street and the government treat it as a valued economic activity. China's CEOs don't have mega-salaries, but China gives manufacturing favorable tax and importing breaks.
Incentivize U.S. manufacturing, and it will respond. Penalize it, and watch it wither.
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Make all overseas factories that produce for the U.S. market meet OSHA and EPA requirements. Just think of all the inspector jobs it would create in the process.
Rick SheehanCollierville, Tenn.
Simply bringing manufacturing jobs back home is a step backward! What we need are more Googles (GOOG), more Microsofts (MSFT).
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Sure, companies could bring the jobs back: It's the bottom line that counts. That's why they left. The question: Would you work for—and trust—them again?
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Let's hope the sidebar accompanying your Cover Story ( "Job One for McCain or Obama: Jobs") is correct in stating that whoever wins in November, "Washington will likely try to do something to get factory jobs growing." But the proposals mentioned in the article for strengthening the competitiveness of American manufacturing require us to pay greater attention to upgrading the skills of our workforce. This is an area in which the U.S. has a growing competitive disadvantage.
The need for greater skills was recently highlighted by a report from the National Commission on Adult Literacy, an independent panel of labor and business leaders. It revealed that 85 million to 90 million American adults (about half of our workforce) do not have the skills to function well in the global economy or to earn family-sustaining wages. Such a trend may be explained by the fact that, alone among advanced industrial countries, American 25-to-35-year-olds are not as well educated as their parents.
The commission (on which I serve) recommends enacting a new Adult Education & Economic Growth Act that would increase the number of adults served by federal and state literacy programs from today's 3 million to 20 million by 2020. Congressmen Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.) and Rubén Hinojosa (D-Tex.) have announced that they will introduce this legislation.
China and India are trying to improve their workers' skills and knowledge (and thus, their incomes). Their objective is to accelerate the transition from low-wage competition to winning a larger share of the market for high-value-added products. They seem to understand, better than we do, that this is not possible without a well-trained and educated workforce.
Ray MarshallU.S. Labor Secretary, 1977-81Professor Emeritus,Economics & Public AffairsUniversity of Texas AustinOverweight Kids: Don't Accessorize—SuperviseA mother discovers her daughter's increased risk for disease and premature death and turns it into a fashion statement ("Bigger Kids Want to Dress Cool, Too," What's Next, June 30)? Rather than accessorize her overweight child, a mother should make the nutritional and exercise changes needed to safeguard her 11-year-old child's health.
MeMe RothNew YorkWhat's Next for eBayEBay (EBAY) appears to be at a critical juncture and needs to refocus on the community it created to re-energize the site ("eBay Auctions: Going,Going...," What's Next, June 30). While there are new offerings that have incredible potential (expanded store items in the search function, for instance), a lot of these have left people confused. EBay should slow the pace of the change, and it will thrive.
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Here's one way to eliminate "sniping" on eBay (waiting to place a bid until seconds before deadline): With an hour left in the auction, lock in the highest bid. Then allow everyone to submit one last private bid anytime in the last hour.
When the auction is finished, reveal the winner. That way, sniper bots don't have any advantage over real people.
Screen name: Andrew FadenCorporate Europe Eyes the U.S.While the Welches are correct that current exchange rates have generated surprisingly few large-scale deals ("While Corporate Europe Fiddles," The Welchway, June 30), this is not the case for companies of all sizes. Our consulting firm's middle-market European clients have shown strong interest in acquiring U.S. companies or enhancing their U.S. presence. We recently surveyed German companies with U.S. operations and found that 56% planned to increase their U.S. production.
Björn RöperNew YorkWhen Lenders Rate Your LifestyleWhen you use your credit card, the bank is lending you money ("Your Lifestyle May Hurt Your Credit," News, June 30). So I don't see anything wrong with a lender knowing what you're buying with their money. That knowledge, though, should be clearly stated in the card's terms and conditions.
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O.K., let me get this straight: You can take your credit card to casinos in Las Vegas, but you can't take it to a massage parlor? If you use it in a bar, will lenders penalize you for ordering Jack Daniels as opposed to a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon? Since when did we sign on to be nannied?
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Pay your bills on time and keep your balance low. Do both of those things, and you can visit any massage parlor you like.
Screen name: WiliamJacobsTips for Staying Focused on the TaskHere are two possible solutions to the problem of employee distraction ("May We Have Your Attention, Please?" What's Next, June 23). Always work with your back facing your door or cubicle opening so you aren't distracted by people passing by. And stand—or even pace, if you have room—while you're reading. Such body language sends a message of urgency to would-be interrupters.
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Written on Unrepentant shooter of South Memphis crowd gets 94 years in prison:
in response to ProgressiveMemphian:
The party that should be blamed is the NRA for spending so much money and doing so much brainwashing of the citizenry that we have so many guns on the street. Sadly, we have so many people with unfortunate upbringings that leave them vulnerable to temptation and predisposed to violence. Adding guns to the mix is like pouring gasoline on the fire of social injustice which Bush has created.
The gun situation in this country has gotten out of control. It may not stop until we go door to door and start melting them all down.
Fortunately, when President Obama wins another term, he'll be able to reform the direction of the Supreme Court and we'll finally be able to instill sense and strength into our gun control efforts.
Dude, that's not social justice. That's fascism. Just look back in history at prior governments that did exactly what you've advocated, and you don't need to think hard to predict the results.
Written on Victim killed by boyfriend as relationship was ending, jurors told:
Where is our friend PM? Shouldn't he/she/it be calling for banning and melting down all kitchen utensils?
Written on Tenn. parking lot gun bill would apply to public sector:
in response to fishnlawyr:
I'm a big 1st and 2nd amendment proponent...but I haven't seen too many people being killed by a rolled up newspaper.
Nor have I ever heard of a case of a legally owned firearm locked securely in a car spontaneously combusting, resulting in casualties.
If employers or others tried to ban employees from keeping bibles or newspapers in their cars, there would be outrage on so many fronts that these are protected 1st Amendment rights upon which employers should not infringe.
Somehow, the 2nd Amendment right of citizens to keep and bear arms is treated differently in this debate. Those who would advocate restricting some Constitutional rights should be careful of the slippery slope for other rights they embark upon.
Written on Editorial: Guns and love don't mix:
in response to Nightcrawler:
The crux of this issue is that armed criminals and unarmed law-abiders don’t mix.
The same can be said about unarmed citizens and armed governments.
I’ll guarantee the “editorship” that these two murderous incidences were miniscule compared to the number of times law-abiding people used a firearm to protect themselves, their loved ones or their property, and never fired a shot. It’s just those self defense incidents are almost never reported.
For me and countless other Americans, we’ll “choose” the U.S. Constitution, freedom and liberty over being disarmed any century of the millennium.
Furthermore, what about the convicted murderous low-life teenager that killed the unarmed elderly couple in Munford with a baseball bat? Will the CA be writing an editorial suggesting limiting and/or locking up aluminum baseball bats next week?
Or, since someone got stabbed in the medical district just this weekend, will there be a call for keeping kitchen utensils in locked drawers until meal time?
Written on Editorial: Guns and love don't mix:
I take great delight every time I see liberals exercising their First Amendment rights in their attempt to restrict my Second Amendment rights.
But that's the push in America right now: You rant, I rant, everybody rants. And it's all constitutionally protected. Just like my right to keep and bear arms.
There are literally millions of law abiding gun owners in this country who have never hurt or killed anyone, but you continue to focus on guns being the culprit, rather than the criminals. Using your logic, we should lock up all knives, baseball bats, chain saws and fists (how you could do the latter, I do not know), because we can find anecdotes of those weapons being used in domestic violence.
If you don't like our Bill of Rights, perhaps you can move to one of the socialist utopias where guns are prohibited.
Written on Man critically wounded when throat cut in medical district:
This carnage will not stop until our legislators have the courage to ban all metal kitchen utensils. President Obama needs another term so he can create a new federal agency to mandate the use of plastic sporks by all citizens.
More regulations and laws are necessary to protect the masses.
Until then, we will never be safe.
Written on Editorial: A weak case for drug tests:
My employment, like that of many people I know, is contingent on me agree to random and/or scheduled drug tests. The timing of those tests is solely at the discretion of my employer. If I refuse, or fail, then I am fired immediately.
So, my employment--and therefore my income (which is almost entirely earned)--is contingent on drug testing.
The government takes part of that money (it's called taxes) and gives it to other people in the form of entitlements. The ones in question, like unemployment and welfare, usually go to people who can't or won't work.
So what I understand is that even though my working for this money is contingent on drug testing, that when it is given to other people for NOT working that such drug testing shouldn't apply.
I don't think our forefathers ever envisioned a constitutional right to privacy for getting handouts. If someone doesn't want to take a part of my hard earned income and taxes, then no one is making them. If they don't want to get drug tested, they don't need to take my money. Just like if I object, I don't need to take my employer's money (i.e., I could stop working). But then, perversely, I could make a claim for someone else's money if I go on welfare, and not have to submit to drug testing!
Maybe in liberal utopia this makes sense, but for us folks who work for our money, I think Senator Ramsey is spot on.
Written on Letter: False argument for photo ID :
You might be right. Drinking alcohol isn't protected under the constitution.
But the right to keep and bear arms is! And states have created a pretty rigorous photo ID process to carry a gun.
Written on Boy in stable condition after struck by float at Collierville Christmas parade:
Where's our friend ProgressiveMemphian, calling for the abolishment of anything related to Christmas, since that was the ultimate cause of this, in his/her warped mind.
Prayers to this child and his family.
Written on CRIME REPORT: Burglar shot, critically wounded by homeowner Wednesday night:
So why it it everyone time some thug uses a gun in a crime, there's never any mention of him having a permit (of course he doesn't)?
But, every time an honest law abiding citizen uses a gun in self defense, the CA is running permit checks? The whole issue of a permit is moot here--he was in his house and on his property, and no permit is required. If he didn't have a permit, what would it matter?
Written on North Memphis resident shoots, kills intruder who assaulted him:
in response to BeerisHalfFull:
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And don't forget the exploding bullets. Hopefully he had at least 9 for all the mm pistols.
Written on Letter: Preferring power over progress:
in response to OldHippieChick:
I am a qualified person who would do a job well. Got a list of places I could apply?
Aren't you already making your living getting paid by the taxpayers, working in either a government bureaucracy or university? Your posts would sure lead us to believe that.
Written on 'Lucky' driver in Arlington truck crash busted for gun:
in response to kkball47:
LMAO ! He (PM), needs a shotgun that shoots cheerios ! I am still ROFLMAO about those damn magical exploding bullits !
Although if there were such a thing as magical exploding bullets, I'd love to find myself a case of them. Talk about the ultimate in self defense!
in response to ProgressiveMemphian:
If we had stricter gun control, then he wouldn't have 9 of these mm pistols in his suitcase, and he wouldn't be in all this trouble.
Once we get rid of the guns, we will solve many problems.
"9 of these mm pistols"????
You and your glock assault weapons, 38 specials with big clips, and exploding bullets. Now pistols that shoot candy that melts in your mouth, not in your hand!
Just like the 2nd amendment entitles me to keep and bear arms, the 1st amendment entitles you to your own free speech, as stupid as it may be. That said, you might want to take an intro to handgun class just to educate yourself about what you think you're already an expert about.
Written on Memphis-area income chasm vast, Census finds:
in response to ChickPea:
If people earned the incomes they deserved, then 50% of the people would share about 50% of the income.
There would be differences between people according to ability and education. They wouldn't all make the same amount, and life is never completely fair. But it would all average out in the big picture.
The fact that 50% of the income is shared by 20% says something is terribly wrong with our country.
You've been hanging around with Chris Peck and his friends too much, it seems.
Your statement that 50% of the people should share 50% of the income is based on the premise that everyone's value to society is the same. In your communist utopia, perhaps, where the 50% who work hard are considered to contribute equally to society as the 50% who sit home and watch TV all day.
The problem with your "take from the rich" approach is eventually the hard workers get taken advantage of too much stop working. When that happens, who's going to take care of the non-workers?
Written on Memphis-area income chasm vast, Census finds:
What with this "received" thing?
■ The wealthiest 5 percent of households (those making $165,411 and up) received 22.2 percent of all income
■ The richest "quintile," or 20 percent, (those with incomes of at least $92,111) received a total of 50.5 percent
These people did not RECEIVE their incomes. They earned it, and this fundamentally differentiates conservatives from the CA liberals who put their slant on this.
Income is not society's to be distributed as the liberals see fit. It is personal property, which is earned. Folks like the CA's editorial group have helped push us down the pathway to a cultural mindset that income is "received" from someone, and has taken away the drive to work.
I wonder how many people in these so call blighted areas have been job hunting recently. Why work for it, when you can RECEIVE your income from those who do.
Written on Supreme Court will hear health care case this term:
in response to Jackal369:
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Well said. If the government can make me buy health care insurance (I buy in on my own because I CHOOSE to, not because I have to), it's a very easy slippery slope to make me buy broccoli, buy solar lighting, or whatever pet project Obama wants to shove down my throat.
Written on Editorial: Link to better health:
So trails now are the "sure antidotes" to crime, poverty, and poor health? One could maybe make an argument for the latter, assuming people were to even use these. But, an antidote for crime and poverty?
The editorial board is drinking way too much of the Kumbaya Kool-Aid.
Written on Armed pizza deliveryman shoots, wounds would-be robber:
in response to ProgressiveMemphian:
Now I need to start being afraid that when I call for pizza delivery, an armed man will show up at my door. Time to start buying frozen.
Whatever happened to just giving the guy the pizzas and the money, and everyone going home unharmed?
You mean your mommy lets you use the phone and order pizza. Don't worry, she will protect you when the bogey men come, right?
Written on CRIME REPORT: One man found dead after stabbing in Memphis home:
in response to Brandon_1:
Such a tragedy that could have been prevented if society could be rid of knives. Knives have been killing people for tousands of years and noone has done anything about it. I think it's time we all wake up and call for them to be melted down...into spoons maybe. I can't even go into a steak house anymore, with those daggers of death placed on each table it's a blood bath just waiting to happen.
Don't forget about those assault glock forks as well. Someone in town was killed with one of those multi-pronged instruments of death not too long ago.
This will all get fixed once Obama appoints a spoon rights activist to the Supreme Court.
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in response to DocRambo:
Hopefully Jimmy(Lars-Obama08) Mamba and ProgressiveMemphian stick around. They are the most entertaining with their sincere answers to all the world's problems.
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Written on Man shot outside Memphis strip club, allegedly by country club operator, still carries bullet:
in response to ProgressiveMemphian:
Another gun in circulation and another violent crime. And, sadly for this man, a bullet which may remain forever lodged in his body, ready to explode at any time.
But yet the NRA lobby has bought out Republican independent thinking, having them believe that more guns make us safer. With story after story of gun related violence, nothing could be further from the truth.
These glock assault weapons have got to go.
Fortunately, when President Obama appoints his next Supreme Court Justice during his next term, the terrible Heller and McDonald decisions will be overturned, and we will finally be able to move toward becoming a safer gun-free society.
"...lodged in his body, ready to explode at any time..."
Hopefully your government friends at the TSA have put him on the watch list by now. I wouldn't want to be sitting anywhere near him when that bullet decides to explode.
Seriously, little buddy, your mommy needs to let you out of the basement sometime so we can all take you to the range and show you how our Glock assault weapons shoot these exploding bullets.
Written on Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain makes visit to Bartlett:
in response to katvonkitty:
Have any of you ever had a Godfather's pizza. It's not good.
Have you ever thought about any of Obama's proposals to "help" the country. They're even worse.
Written on Editorial: Arrest adds fuel to gun debate:
"This newspaper has documented numerous cases in which crimes, including fatal shootings, were committed by handgun carry permit holders."
Nice juxtaposition with that and the small number of the thousands of HCP holders who have PRIOR arrest records. A quick (or liberal wishful thinking) read would have one believe that there were 70 shootings involved with HCPs. Just not true.
How about getting real numbers? More importantly, how many of the thus you report about day in and day out, have HCPs? Pretty much none. But, you never report them as "illegal gun holders" do you?
Those who enjoy the 1st amendment rights of others take such delight in trying to take away the constitutionally granted rights of others. Pecka hypocrisy at work, once again.
Written on Letter: A little something for their trouble :
I guess the solution is setting up roving photo ID centers wherever our government gives out benefits. That's pretty much everywhere these days.
Written on Editorial: Office seekers should pay up:
Maybe we should take it a step further. If you don't pay your taxes, not only shouldn't you be able to run for office, you shouldn't be able to vote in the crooks who are running.
Written on Letter: The real problem with voter ID:
Marilyn, I agree with you that making people get photo IDs and register to exercise constitutional rights is problematic. The Constitution gives me the right to keep and bear arms, but my handgun carry permit cost $300 with the class and the like, and I have to keep my photo ID with me all the time. I would welcome more liberals like you joining the ranks of gun owners who want to simply exercise their constitutional rights without restriction.
Thank you for coming over to the other side and helping us with talking points on this one.
Written on Editorial: When in doubt, try $:
What's next, rewards for not committing crime?
Spending money for another project "yet to demonstrate long-term systemic change". Is that what they refer to as "shovel ready"?
Written on For 20 years, mother's faith sustains belief son may heal:
in response to REALDEAL:
Anyone can make up a lie...even you. These "policemen" beat an innocent man. Did you note that they found NO alcohol in his system at all? Did you mention that his manager said that he had just left work ten minutes prior? Chris Jones should rot in jail because he has ALWAYS been a hot head, and he should have NEVER been on the force. He was only employed there because of his father. Is it protocol to stop and allow a suspect to use the restroom?? HELL NO. They intentionally beat this kid and hog tied him for no reason, and THAT is why the city settled.
No alcohol, perhaps. Just cocaine (which by the way, speeds up metabolism and makes one more susceptible to hypoxia).
Written on Letter: Media perpetuate climate fraud :
Good letter Doc.
All those who think that global warming is something new and man made, did you ever stop to think that we don't have big glaciers covering the USA anymore? We had an ice age, and it all eventually melted. Was it man made global warming back then, too, or maybe...
Just the weather.
Written on South Memphis store clerk fatally shot during robbery:
in response to ProgressiveMemphian:
Sadly, this is what happens when we live in a society where guns are so freely available, and the political will of the NRA is such that they won't be happy until people can get guns for free anywhere, anytime, anyhow.
Did you ever think that maybe this kind of scenario is exactly the reason we DO need to make sure that citizens assert their second amendment rights?
If this good guy family man were armed, he might have been able to defend himself, and might still be alive today to go home to his wife and kids.
Written on Letter: Gun critics don't predict the future :
in response to ProgressiveMemphian:
Fortunately, and for the good of our collective citizenry, it is President Obama (and not you) appointing federal judges. Slowly and steadily (although not as fast as reason would like) progress is being made at the national level turning this wild wild west country of ours into a civilized peaceful place.
To all who think that our progressive "friend" is harmless and clueless, think again. It is this very dangerous festering progressivism which is destroying our most basic rights.
When I see a post this sinister, about what will happen if folks like PM have their way with our government, I go to the NRA ILA's website and put down another $20. I think it's time to dip into the wallet again.
The harder we push for our fundamental rights, the harder these folks will push to take them away.
Written on Editorial: No way to earn respect:
in response to ProgressiveMemphian:
Thank you for the thoughtful commentary. Our society is experiencing just this very perfect storm, and it is sadly entirely predictable.
George Bush and his capitalist puppeteers ruined our economy, creating the biggest chasm between the rich and poor ever. He sent it into a downward spiral just before heading off to his ranch to retire.
The result...lots of poor and unemployed, with pent up frustration--just the people you write about.
Add to that the NRA and its gun toting cowboy supporters. They are moving forward with their dangerous agenda to see that anyone can get a gun, anytime, and anywhere. It is only logical that more guns create more opportunities to use them for more crimes.
In the meantime, everyone is blaming the trigger pullers, no one is looking at the root cause, and willing to address the contributors to this social depravity.
Let's be brave, and let's be courageous. Stop selling new guns, and melt down all the ones out there.
President Obama and Attorney General Holder see the solution and are slowly making progress. We need to support them in their efforts. Unless they continue, we should prepare for the wild, wild west.
Hey there little buddy. Haven't heard any of your rants in a while. We were all getting worried you tried to melt down some thugs' guns and, well, you can guess the rest.
Your comments about Obama's and Holder's agendas frighten me. I just donated another $20 to the NRA. I remember a couple other people doing the same in response to one of your rants. You're going to turn into one of their biggest fundraisers.
Thanks for supporting our fundraising efforts.
Written on Letter: Gun bans leave us defenseless :
in response to OldHippieChick:
Did these women have handgun permits? If not, your letter is just so much garbage.
And so your point is that a dead rape victim is somehow morally superior to the same woman instead calling the coroner after she has eliminated the threat to her life?
Hopefully, Ma'am, you never find yourself in a situation where your life is threatened.
Written on Editorial: High risk in the home:
in response to LeftCoastMemphonite:
You're missing the point, Neon. Unless there is a demonstrated need to keep a weapon at home, accessible to any who might enter, it just doesn't make sense to put yourself or others at risk. Clearly, this tragedy was unexpected - you just can't anticipate every possibility. To be sure, if the father of this now-juvenile court defendant had known what was about to happen, steps would have been taken to preclude such an awful event. Scat happens, dude. Negligence is based on that very premise. Keep your trite military analogies out of the mix.
Regarding the "demonstrated need to keep a weapon at home"...
I'm not sure about where you live but this is the MEMPHIS paper. Home invasions seem to be the thug in vogue thing to do. Each time I read about ANOTHER home invasion in this city and its suburbs, it demonstrates time and time again the need to be prepared to defend my family.
Remember, when seconds matter, the police are only minutes away.
Written on Editorial: High risk in the home:
Hey little buddy. I thought I saw a little nerd looking lost in the ammo section last month, but I won't tell your mommy.
Not surprised by your predictable response.
Have you ever talked to someone who has had a home invasion? You have less than 30 seconds to react from the time the door gets busted in until the bad guys are in your face.
Keypad...30 seconds
Trigger lock...60 seconds (you ever try one of these?)
Loading a few in the magazine...20 seconds
Inserting magazine and racking slide...2 seconds
You can lock up your stuff however you want it. Just keep your government nannies out of my house.
Written on Seven fires strike North Memphis neighborhood within 10 hours:
Where's the outrage from our little buddy ProgressiveMemphian? No calls to ban matches and gasoline.
Does anyone know if you can even melt down a match?
Written on Another local conservative talk show host joins Memphis station WKIM-FM:
in response to ProgressiveMemphian:
The FCC needs to start enforcing the Fairness Doctrine. Conservative hate mongers have pretty much taken over all of talk radio, and it is imperative that alternative thoughtful opinions be available for all.
I think the tax dollars your big government friends are stealing from me funds that voice of the left over the airways: NPR.
So, if I understand this correctly, you want me to pay taxes to support your ideology, but if people want to use their own money to put forth balanced conservative opinions, that should be banned?
Written on Independent school district study favored in Germantown:
A municipality actually try to have say in its own children's education when their current large school district is being forced to consolidate with one that is terribly mismanaged?
I'm sure someone from the Nanny State will try his hardest (or put together an agency to set up obstacles) to ensure this will never happen.
Written on Study suggests Memphis railroad noise could be reduced without compromising safety:
in response to ProgressiveMemphian:
One public policy solution which has been proposed to limit green house gases and thus protect the environment is to implement a carbon footprint surcharge. Individuals or companies which use more carbon based fuel would have to pay more, which would serve as both a disincentive to pollute, but also as a source of funding to help improve the environment.
Since what we're really talking about here is noise pollution, perhaps a similar economic model could be employed. It would be quite easy to collect data regarding the frequency, duration, and volume of train horns from devices installed in engines, and these could be uploaded to an agency for tracking purposes. Rail lines would then be incentivized to identify alternatives to noisy rail travel, and the funding from such programs could be used to help provide noise insulation for neighboring homes.
Dude, is there anything you see or read about that you don't think government needs to meddle with?
Written on Suspect arrested in gunshot wounding of 2 in Northaven:
in response to ProgressiveMemphian:
These shootings just don't stop. Can't everyone see that the solution is not more guns nor more unrestricted access to guns?
The shootings will continue until we rid our society of these instruments of destruction and death. The NRA should be ashamed.
Lil' buddy, we're so glad to see you back. I wasn't sure whether you disappeared forever, trying to disarm some thugz in the hood, or whether Mommy just wouldn't let you use her computer for a few days.
In any event, it's nice to see you back. I'm going to make a donation to the NRA-ILA in your memory...just because I can.
Written on Memphis Police investigating death of bike rider in Midtown early today:
Anyone notice we haven't heard from ProgressiveMemphian in a while? I was waiting for his calls to melt down all two wheeled vehicles.
Written on CRIME REPORT: Two in custody, one charged, as police investigate weekend killings:
I want to get one of those "silver" handguns for my collection. The nicest metal I can find is stainless steel. These thugz must really be doing well.
Written on Editorial: Copper capers are on the rise:
in response to ProgressiveMemphian:
Sadly, it will take years to repair the damage done to the economy by George Bush and a Republican Congress. Unemployment is at an all time high, and instead of supporting people out of work due to circumstances outside of their control, the Tea Party has pushed legislators to cut benefits for food, shelter and health.
Crime is never okay, but in a situation where the unemployed can--because of shrinking benefits--no longer support their families, it becomes more tempting. We as a society need to remove that temptation, and these crimes of opportunity will diminish.
Hey little buddy. Nice to see you writing about something other than abolishing the Second Amendment. Maybe you've successfully rid our society of guns and are moving on to bigger and better things.
I think I missed that State of the Union address where GWB told thugz it was okay to start stealing copper pipes.
I think your Mommy dropped you on the head too many times when you were a baby.
Written on Rep. Steve Cohen protests closing of six Shelby County post offices:
I am thinking the Pecka is at the typewriter now, writing the editorial for tomorrow: "The Post Offices Must Remain Open" with the usual nonsense about this being George Bush's fault that government workers are being put out of work and that poor people downtown won't be able to buy stamps.
Written on Letter: The case is strong for voter ID:
in response to jet#210649:
Probably similar to the reason that people concerned about disenfranchisement can't cite a single case.
Voting ALREADY requires registration. Now it requires confirmation of identity. Nothing onerous. Not race test. No means test. Just a valid government issued ID - which will be provided for free.
Some people are so convinced of a conspiracy they see one behind the rising of the sun.
It may be that my right wing mind can't get its arms around liberal hypocrisy, but if the leftists think that government is good, big government is even better, and that government rule making is great, then this should be good. With the new photo ID requirement, we could have all these folks spending hours in line, supporting a whole new cast of bureacrats, maybe even to the extent of creating a whole new agency.
Heck, with such a captive audience, I would expect the left to be handing out campaign fliers and the like.
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Ever think it might be Jimmy/Lars?
If it's anyone, though, I'd vote for the Pecka.
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Ever think it might be Jimmy/Lars?
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The mortgage repayment programmes effectively become a tax on finding a new job or having an income that’s more than 38% of one's mortgage payments. Mr Mulligan understands why such policies are beneficial. The banks would rather get something out of a distressed homeowner than have to foreclose on him. But, Mr Mulligan believes having income determine eligibility could be a mistake.
Whether this will actually affect an unemployed worker’s decision to find a job would clearly depend on the size of his mortgage and his expected salary. Nonetheless, whether the tax is collected by a bank or by the government, most would agree that discouraging work is a bad idea. | http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2008/12/stay_unemployed_and_keep_your?sort=3 | dclm-gs1-284910000 |
0.10301 | <urn:uuid:06f3db2c-5216-4c7b-af2f-54ff5a5b8f94> | en | 0.971078 | The abandonment of basic scientific research by industry is probably another example of C. P. Snow's "Two Cultures" wending its way into the industrial complex. In 1959, Snow described the incompatibility of the culture of the scientific/technical community with that of the non-technical establishment. In the contact I have had with several corporations that enjoyed highly respectable
scientific research establishments as a technical executive, consultant and plodding researcher, I have observed how the technical and business communities were constantly at odds in their goals and the means to achieve them. The Ford Motor Company in the 1950's and 60's supported a fine scientific research laboratory populated by scientists and engineers who achieved international prestige in their scientific accomplishments while at the same time assessing how their scientific productivity can contribute to the future strategies of an automobile company. They participated in task forces assessing the future of the transportation economy and the relationship of the companies' products including the materials that it employed. But the proposals that came from this assemblage fell on the deaf ears of the business executives who ignored such proposals as hybrid vehicles and fuel cells for motive power way back in the early sixties. Far more glaring, as noted in the article, was the unwillingness of corporate management at Xerox to turn the remarkable output of Xerox PARC into company-sponsored products. Fully five years before the appearance of the first personal computer, corporate management was presented with a computer
capable of word processing as we know it today and spread sheets. A thousand beta versions of this product were deployed throughout the company and with such key potential customers as the U.S. Congress and the White House. But those in the company responsible for manufacturing and marketing the product offered all kinds of excuses to side-step innovative products that the
strategists maintained would become the future of the company. The founders of billion dollar companies such as ADOBE and 3-COM were PARC scientists who left Xerox in disgust when Xerox refused to productize their inventions. The excuses they offered for shunning these inventions were lame. One division executive, an accountant by profession, who would have been responsible for one of these products offered the explanation that the products would be too expensive. When confronted with the argument that costs of electronics were following Moore's law rigorously, he refused to acknowledge the validity of Moore's law – the guiding principle of the entire electronics industry. Indeed, C. P. Snow was correct. The technologists and the business executives speak different languages.
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China’s new leadership
Vaunting the best, fearing the worst
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Scyllaisarock in reply to ztoa789
Perhaps you should read the May 7 2012 Wall Street Journal article by 洪博培 .
In that article you will find what amounts to the common American attitude toward China.
Do not let your paranoia over the desire of a man to stretch his legs with a walk lead you to false conclusions.
EvaAngelina in reply to Michael Dunne
Michael, Assange has no business with China, but please, if you read the economist, then you thing beyond the box. You know that the Sweden request for Assange came as a political favor to the USA. The crime he is being accused for, came too late to think that it was a coincidence.
Michael Dunne in reply to wudang wushu
Except article 35 of the constitution doesn't itemize those points.
There is Article 54 though:
Article 54. It is the duty of citizens of the People's Republic of China to safeguard the security, honour and interests of the motherland; they must not commit acts detrimental to the security, honour and interests of the motherland.
ztoa789 in reply to Jean Michel
So, the worst fear of the Chinese government is and must be that its economy fails to meet the expectation of the population.
Keep the economy on the right track must be the main objective of the government.
Look at Scotland, look at Catalonia. Democracy will not save the disintegration of the UK and of Spain.
Western democracy will 100% sure disintegrate China.
If the economy is in trouble but at the same time, the economy in US is even in bigger trouble ...
That is why I said that the future of western democracy in China is in the hand of US.
ztoa789 in reply to Alex DeLarge
Your nonsense is paralyzing the government in US, the best way to enforce the power of CCP in China.
What is the most important thing in US now? Budget Cliff.
and no media talks about it, therefore no people care about it. Whose freedom of speech?
Scyllaisarock in reply to Terrantr
China wasn't important to America 30 years ago, so why would it hold interest for me?
Still, ignoring your crude attempt at insult, you haven't refuted my assertion. Looking at what is happening these days can you not see what is likely to be ahead?
Now is a time for deep reflection for the Chinese people. The tide can go either way, though considering human history it is not likely to go as planned.
Or if you like, you can follow wudang wushu's example and sing foolish songs.
TE says: 'Vaunting the best, fearing the worst'
isn't that a good advice to heed for any leadership?
whether you run a country the size of China or USA, or a country club, you need to vaunting the best and fearing for the worst always.
just look at their brochures, be it from a country or from a country club, they always tell you their best. what they don't say is what they are fearing of.
how all of a sudden TE is in the know of what Mr. xi is fearing of is beyond comprehension, and logic.
ztoa789 in reply to Michael Dunne
The failure of 100% socialism doesn't mean that 100% capitalism is better than, say, 70% socialism + 30% capitalism.
Top 6 oil companies in US earn 150 billion dollars a year, how much do American people get? 20% ?
In China, people get all of them.
That, is the price you pay for your political rights.
ztoa789 in reply to Victoria Beck
A leader can't be leader if not given power.
Read the following, guess who said that:
Obama and Romney both pointed out in their presidential debates that Chinese and the US governments want the same things for their people, but China wants to take shortcuts.
Victoria Beck
Was surprised to read (in "Breakout Nations" by Ruchir Sharma)that polls show Chinese much less likely than any other nationality to believe that China is destined to be the No. 1 economy.
And that 52% of Americans identified China as the leading economy while only 32% cited USA's.
IHO democratic vs authoritarian sysems might not matter, but more the motivation and vision of its leaders...rise of family owned and patriarchal companies like Hyundai/Samsung lend effectiveness of the autocratic system.
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Unemployment in the West
The quest for jobs
It is not impossible for politicians to reduce the West’s frighteningly high unemployment levels
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In most developed countries, unemployment and soverign debt will get worse and worse until all casino capitaists are sent to Afghanistan. That will be the end of capitalism. Capitalism will face the same fate as communism.
Veronica, have you come here in a time machine from the 1960s?
We've been producing relatively fewer superfluous physical goods and more services and intellectual property for 4 or 5 decades now. We've been growing and adding jobs all the while.
The private sector is already moving to the new world, our government and our entitlements are stuck in the 20th century when labor inefficiency didn't matter b/c our biggest economic competitors would never sully themselves with jobs stolen from a capitalist empires. The manufacturing and related sectors are put out to pasture too quickly, and our society develops a balance of trade problem.
No offense, but that 20th century fairy tale needs to be put to bed. The economy is already changing, and it will continue to change on its own.
So goes housing so goes the country. Housing has led this nation out of every recovery since WWI. Housing is now worse off than during the Great Depression and is leading the US into a fiscal disaster because Congress, and it's leaders, fail to recognize the importance of a healthy home industry to the overall economy. Sadly, they even want to make it worse instead of better by toying with the idea of eliminating the mortgage deduction. If they do, welcome to Pottersville, USA and the slums of suburbia.
Employment is consequence of our economy, i.e. “the production and distribution of goods and services.” However, the amount of money, where the money is spend on, and the value of money have a direct affect on the amount of Human Resources & Energy in circulation, i.e. employment. For your information Google “The World Monetary Order”.
Richard Michael Abraham
For Many...Stop Looking for a Job - Start Business
Overall, there are no good jobs and none coming in the near future.
These are the times when every person needs to ask, "The economy is rotted out, maybe I should start my own business."
If you're waiting to get a $100,000 job again, wait no more. Start a business and be happy with $50,000 (or half your customary job income) your first year. If you fight now, you gain control for the rest of your life.
You can do it. Don't let the World economy beat you down further. Beat it. Start a small business doing something you like and where there's some demand for your skills.
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again....it is ecomomically impossible for governments to create jobs [counting jobs destroyed or suppressed by taxation]
corporations do not pay taxes.....people pay taxes
corporations do not profit.....people profit [employees & shareholders]
One wonders:
Since 1960, labour productivity in the US, Japan and EU increased five times. This means we consume five times more since then: Bigger cars, bigger bellies, bigger houses, bigger holidays, bigger wardrobes, bigger infrastructure, etc. Now this is also happening in other parts of the world.
We saw that banks to allow this are pumping more money into the system with their solvency decreasing, governments borrowing from future to allow for this with their debt/gdp ratios increasing.
One wonders whether with labour productivity increasing, there will come a moment when the bellies, cars, etc. cant get bigger and we will need men that do not want to work.
I think, we must redesign the labour market. Nowadays we have the situation, the world has become more and more technical.
On my opinion the exponential increasing amount of information is one of the challenges. An answer could be an advanced matching technology. The only platform known to me is JANZZ. Search and offer profiles are intelligently synchronized and made available for use on the browser-based platform by means of Web 3.0 technology, also known as semantic Web. An ontology creates a network of logical relations from a series of data and also represents a multidimensional link between the data to be processed.
I suggest to develop JANZZ.
Jai Prakash Sharma
With 44 million unemployed in the OECD countries, out of whom more than 14 million in the US alone, the economic outlook of US and Europe does really appear gloomy, made more depressing by the wrongheaded policy pursuit by the western governments, causing not only economic contraction, but the spectre of double-dip recession, which wouldn't be reversed unless such serious policy course correction is effected as could combine growth and job inducing fiscal stimulus for short-term with medium to long-term fiscal reduction through well calibrated fiscal-monetary moves.
Fifth Horseman
You'd think the first thing the Coalition of Butchers would think about giving up on its downward spiral to insolvency would be its recreational wars but apparently everything else is on the table but that. Apparently some things are just sacred.
"Keynesian principles only work when a government runs a balanced budget or surplus budget during boom years."
was there an instance of this in history?
Keynesian principles never work because they are vodoo nonsense based on a a psychological motivatd mass conspiracy explanation 'animal spirits' of investors.
fact is, Labor is the ultimate scarce factor on this earth, in a free market economy, free of goverment intervention of the monetary fiscally stimulating and regulatory kind, Labor is, read my lips NEVER EVER unemployed.
Tall Will
How to create jobs?
Subsidies and infrastructure spending are false hopes. The Australian government tried both in the post-GFC panic period, and both measures were largely a failure. Its Building Education Revolution (BER) sought to do a 'quick' spend infrastructure on school buildings and wasted or misspent about $5 billion of the $15 billion total. In addition it gave $900 in cash to every adult in the country, to encourage confidence. Neither measure created many new jobs and a lot of small tradesmen went broke trying to play with the Big Boys.
Creating jobs is hard without falling prey to such chimera, or creating new distortions such as tariff barriers. Governments are not helpless though: they can immediately abolish all restrictions on the labour markets other than those that protect health & safety, e.g., closed-shops [union bargaining monopoly]; entry restrictions [licensing, such as by lawyers; dog-catchers; academics; and nearly every guild]; barriers to entry [capital restrictions; onerous laws, especially on hiring and firing, but also on business operating hours; hours worked, penalty rates, etc]. H&S also includes outlawing age; sex; and racial discrimination, as well as work-place bullying (all of which are "taxes" on efficiency and therefore on jobs).
Then, very severely restrict tort law 'hunting licences', which are in effect a tax on useful work. Then invest in skills re-training, by involving employers in deciding what skills to train for (after all, they know best what's required), including employer involvement - with government money - in educational skills training from literacy to IP to high-end blue-collar skills, and provide incentives to them to hire and hold such trainees for at least 18 months. High-end blue collar jobs are the hardest to send offshore, and have the biggest "multiplier".
Then, fix education: end the teachers' unions' monopoly on who is a teacher, and academics' monopoly on what is a university. Reform the curricula to meet the modern world. If academics think publishing more papers decides their rankings, let them, but most under-graduates just want to be equipped with some skills in how to think; and some training in how to solve problems in the real world. So if the academic wants tenure (an outdated notion anyway), he should be always required to teach under-graduates.
No, no, no. This article is all wrong.
The biggest reason for unemployment in the OECD countries is due to their education systems. All the OECD countries either have government monopolies or huge government funded interventions in their education markets.
As demand for skills has increased the OECD higher education systems have raised tuitions and fees while keeping quality the same or lowering it.
Until the OECD countries PRIVATISE AND DEREGULATE their education markets unemployment will not go down.
Gerd Dimmler
I want to be brief:
Why, Why did You endorse Obama.
I read the Economist for 40 years, since I have been a real adult.
After Obama's endorsement I cancelled a three Year extension of the subscription.
Again, to the editors of this once (for over 100 years) free market publication (very rare in this world)
Why did you endorse Obama?, Why?
Gerd (an American, formerly German)
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In Topic: Are some people not cut out for programming?
11 March 2014 - 08:05 AM
The way you become 'good' is by:
1. Coming up with a 'good design' you think will work.
2. implement the code.
3. Ship the result
4. Spend the next 6 months fixing all the terrible flaws in your 'good design'
No one is born a software engineer, it's just something you get better at with experience....
In Topic: casting an expression: what exactly casts the compiler?
24 February 2014 - 01:23 PM
it should only cast the result afaik.
I hope not! It should cast whatever is directly in front of the cast operator. So, in this case:
int a=1, b = 2;
float f = (float)a/b;
It will convert both a and b to floats prior to computing the division. The cast itself will only actually force 'a' to be converted to a float, but since 'a' is a float, 'b' will in turn be converted to a float (due to the rule that the operand on the left of the operator determining the operation used). As proof, the ASM looks like this:
cvtsi2ss xmm0, DWORD PTR _a$[ebp] // convert a to float
cvtsi2ss xmm1, DWORD PTR _b$[ebp] // convert b to float
divss<span> </span>xmm0, xmm1
movss<span> </span>DWORD PTR _c$[ebp], xmm0
In this case however, it will evaluate a/b using integers, and then cast the result.
int a=1, b = 2;
float f = (float)(a / b);
The ASM:
mov<span> </span>eax, DWORD PTR _a$[ebp]
idiv<span> </span>DWORD PTR _b$[ebp] // integer division
cvtsi2ss xmm0, eax // convert result to float
movss<span> </span>DWORD PTR _d$[ebp], xmm0
In Topic: Building a header file from libraries
17 February 2014 - 08:36 AM
Yeah, you can utilize a combination of dumpbin & dbghelp to do this (and possibly other tools such as libtool). **IF** your DLL is well formed (by that I mean, has a purely functional interface - i.e. you are not able to access member variables in your DLL classes/structs; and you have properly exported the ctors and all objects are allocated on the heap from within the DLL - no stack allocation allowed!), then it will work. Chances are though, your DLL is probably NOT well formed, and so the code that is generated is likely to be horribly broken. If you have the original headers, and you just want to clean them up, then it's best to take this as an opportunity to refactor your headers. It is the safest and easiest option.
In Topic: Is today programming a games easier or harder than in 8,16- bit era?
09 February 2014 - 12:44 PM
The development tools do make things far easier now than they did back then (where you'd be writing your own HEX->Machine code editors in BASIC).
The difficulty of game development today though, is simply because the machines are so much more capable, which means you'll be using a lot of 3D/4D mathematics because the users have come to expect flashy 3D graphics with bump mapping, DOF, ambient occlusion, etc.
That complexity simply wasn't there in the 8/16bit days, because the hardware wasn't capable of handling it.
09 February 2014 - 06:53 AM
To make a game of 'commercial' quality is much harder now.
Back in the 8bit days, you'd need to understand the machine down to the lowest level to make a game work, but then the complexity of the computers was much simpler (so it was something you could learn within a year or so). The 16bit era was a little bit more involved on the programming side, but still achievable. The only real problem was a lack of reliable information on the systems you were developing for (we are talking about a pre-internet time, so finding out information involved library searches, asking friends, buying specialist magazines/books etc).
These days getting your head around CPU registers, SIMD, & multi-threading will take a lot of time. Sure the dev tools are better, but back then we'd just worry about painting a few 32x32 sprites and a few parallax backgrounds in Deluxe-paint. These days you'll spend months doing modelling, you'll model super high res models to generate normal maps, then you'll be painting up any number of textures for your specular/diffuse passes. Whilst there are simpler languages than C++ available, you'll still need to understand how 3D mathematics work, and you'll be working with multiple languages (e.g. HLSL/GLSL).
Certainly you could pick up a game engine off the shelf that allows you to get something working fairly quickly, but you'll still need to spend time learning and understanding what is a very complex piece of engineering.
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#11darkshadowmasterPosted 12/8/2012 5:00:05 PM
Swan3624 posted...
ID15 posted...
best knifing they've ever done...all the other games had ridiculous lunge and horrible hit this game the horrible hit detection is still there but at least the lunge is gone.
I'm sorry... lol wut
If you are trying to panic knife it is gone for the most part. However, rocking either the combat knife or the ballistic knife still nets you some nice teleportation kills every now & again.
#12EntotrtePosted 12/8/2012 5:04:49 PM
1: Make a class with no guns.
2:Put on it 6 perks.
#13Turtlemayor333Posted 12/8/2012 5:07:46 PM
The knife is the embodiment of lag compensation in this game. I can be standing behind someone shooting out of a window or whatever, they don't even know I'm behind them and I still can't knife this dude in the back. It just misses over and over. I have a great connection and this never happened in any of the other games, even broken ass MW3.
#14ICantNameGudPosted 12/8/2012 5:14:46 PM
I play with tactical layout and have no problem stabbing people with B button. You aren't going to stab through bullets though, and if you run past each other you have to be facing the person exactly, no more insta-behind-the-back stabs.
It's good this way, I use it mostly for silent kills, lots of backstabber medals. The ballistic knife is pretty sweet too.
#15ID15Posted 12/9/2012 2:09:14 PM
yea I was talking about the standard knife...non of the special ones.
We ALL have An Id in us.....
#16DoubleUTeeEfffPosted 12/9/2012 2:11:59 PM
The knives are rubber. I understand the lunging and what not. But if me and an enemy come around a corner and I am using a combat knife, him an SMG and he shoots a couple times and I knife I should hit him if we are right in front of eachother.
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"Don't rent this, buy it."
Firstly, this is a review of the PAL version of NFS HP2, not NTSC. I was unsure of whether to buy this game or not but you simply won't unlock everything by just renting it. The amount of cars and tracks to unlock should keep you coming back for a long time to come, certainly longer than Gamecube's only other decent car racer, Burnout.
The key to getting the most out of this game is not giving up on it straight away. First impressions are that the game is slow and the cars handle badly, but after the third or fourth race when you unlock new cars you'll notice a difference in speed and handling.
And the speed and handling that you want is what you'll get once you unlock the first Ferrari. You should be able to do this in about and hour and after that you won't look back. The race menu is split into championship, hot pusuit, single race and quick race.
Quick race decides the car, the course and whether you'll be fighting off cops or just the opposition. Hot pursuit sees you evading the police, sometimes with competition to beat as well. Championship is where you can race against the opposition for points, which you use to unlock cars and tracks.
The most annoying thing about this game is how good it could have been. Don't get me wrong, this isn't a bad game, in fact, it's actually a rather good game. But it could have been great. It's let down by one thing, and that's the fact that it's badly ported. The frame rate can slow down when there's a lot going on and this can cause the game to get quite jittery at times, but luckily this only happens rarely. You'll notice other glitches in the scenery too, but nothing that is unforgivable.
The levels are nicely set out, pleasing to the eye and hardly ever sparse. The cars are very detailed, and crush nicely after a bad smash. Music is listenable and goes well with the game, and although the rock music is forgettable, it's not too cheesy or annoying.
The gameplay is good once you get past the bog standard cars, and when you see what cars you are able to unlock you'll be happy to spend hours, and possibly days playing so you can open up one of your favorites. The wealth of options and different playing modes means the game is customisable to suit most tastes, just remeber to switch off the rear view camera to help with frame rates.
The multiplayer seems slow and is probably best avoided, but then you wouldn't want you mates crashing your new cars anyway, would you?
So, to sum up.
Graphics 8 out of 10.
Gameplay 8 out of 10.
Music 7 out of 10.
Replayability 9 out of 10.
Go out, buy this game, play it to death and try to forget how close to perfect it would have been with a few extra weeks development to port it to Gamecube properly.
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"Who Knew Radiation Could be so Beautiful!"
Vaults, percentages, perks, you might think I'm talking about an investment firm or a bank. Well no, I'm talking about Fallout 3, one of the greatest Action RPGs ever conceived. Is that a bold statement? Yes, it is considering that the genre is massive. Is it a true statement? Well, read my review and you'll find out!
Story: Fallout 3 expands the lore created in the previous Fallout games. Essentially, tension built up around the globe, and a nuclear war erupted. In the span of two hours, the entire planet was left in ruins. Very few survived above ground, but there were a select few that were left un-scarred by the war. These were the ones that were sealed in one of the handful of underground “vaults” which were designed to preserve mankind in the event of a fallout.
The game begins roughly 200 years following the war. In the game, you, your character, starts life in one of these vaults. All is well for eighteen years, but, at the age of nineteen, your dad, your only surviving family member, suddenly flees the vault. This angers the Overseer, as the vault door is never to be opened.
Obviously, staying in the vault alone doesn't sound desirable, so you have no other option but to pursue your father. Naturally, you are met with some opposition by the Overseer and his guards while trying to open the vault door, but eventually you finally escape. And after fleeing, there you are, staring at what is left of Washington DC. Where you go in this desolate wasteland is up to you. However, you do know that finding your father is a priority. This is where the story begins.
Story: 9.2/10
Graphics: Fallout 3 has a beautiful environment, and the citizens populating the land are elegantly deigned as well. When take your first glance the Capital Wasteland, you'll genuinely feel as if though you are peering into what a futuristic nuclear war would do to our planet. The desolate rolling hills, the ravaged buildings, the polluted water, they're all top notch in design and invoke a post-apocalyptic vibe.
The NPCS in the game are well designed too, with the unique ones on the border line of realistic looking. The NPCS that use recycled bipeds (which means that another character can look like them) aren't as realistic, but that's excusable factoring in the shear amount of NPCS in the game.
What is executed poorly however is the animation of the NPCS. Talking to humans in this game is akin to talking to a statue with moving lips. The animation is really stiff. While the NPCS may have stiff animation, the numerous foes you'll encounter do behave rather fluidly, and authentically move like how you'd expect them too.
For a game that's not primarily focused on being eye candy, Fallout 3 does deliver in the graphical department. If you want to see what a nuclear war would do to a play ground, you don't have to wait until the third world war, just go get Fallout 3!
Graphics: 9/10
Sound: Fallout 3 does something unique. While it is set in the future, it incorporates themes from the mid twentieth century. So, the game contains many songs you can access through your in game radio that are from the 40s, 50s, and 60s. While this may sound awkward at first, killing mutants with Louis Armstrong in the background is surprisingly soothing!
However, the game isn't entirely composed of 50s music. If you turn off your radio at night while crossing the wastelands, you can hear a soothing tune that matches the starry sky. Also, when trying to sneak by enemies, a suspenseful tune will begin to play that invokes a sense of danger. The actual sounds are well done too. Each weapon you fire sounds like it should. Heck, even the laser riffle sounds realistic!
Sound: 9.6/10
Game play: When one mentions game play in a game that involves guns, you imagine a title that's 95% full of explosions, and 5% full of loading times. While Fallout 3 does keep the heft loading times, it doesn't focus on the explosions.
Let's get this straight right now. Fallout 3 is not a first person shooter. Fallout 3 is not a third person shooter. Fallout 3 is an action RPG. When buying this game, don't expect Gears of War 2 combat situations. Fallout 3 tends to focus more on exploring the environment, developing characters, and immersing the player into it's world. That's not to say that the combat segments of the game aren't great, they're just different than what you'd encounter in an FPS.
First off, let's discuss what the combat is like. While manually firing your weapon in the game is possible, it's not a legitimate way to play Fallout. Aiming your weapon is difficult, and chances are you'll take a beating in the mean while. Manual fire is more of a back-up function (more on that later). Instead, Fallout 3 allows you to pause time and activate V.A.T.S ( the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System). While doing this, you can freely aim at any enemy in your vicinity, and at any of their body parts. You can target a foes head for extra damage, or you can aim at their legs to cripple them and impair their movement. It's an extremely tactical and rewarding mechanic. You are restricted by Action Points while using V.A.T.S however, and when they're depleted, you won't be able to attack in V.A.T.S until they regenerate. This is when manual fire comes into play.
As you can see, the combat is unique and intriguing. But, that's not the hook of Fallout 3. The draw of the game is that you can play it practically any way you want! When talking to a character, you can select different responses, and that affects your relationship with that person. When faced with a dilemma, you can solve it with violence, or attempt to act with reason. Your actions can drastically change the out come of many events and how characters react towards you. Should you be caught killing an innocent person for their loot, expect a negative persona. Should you rescue captives from a slave camp, expect praise wherever you go. Unlike many other games that fail to make a substantial distinction between good and evil character development (**cough** Fable 2 cough**), Fallout 3 will authentically make you feel like either a hell raiser or a saint.
Game play: 9.8/10
Conclusion: Fallout 3, to put it simply, is the game of the year in 2008. It sucks you in to it's wasteland, and every action you make has a drastic impact on how the game unfolds. If you haven't bought Fallout 3 yet, I demand that you go purchase it now!
Overall: 10/10 (not an average)
NOTE: Fallout 3 is available on the PS3, PC and XBOX 360. I advise that you do NOT purchase the game for the PS3 as that version will not have expansion packs available for it. These expansion packs look stunning, and are definitely worth it. If you only own a PS3, do not be hesitant to buy it for the PS3 as the game is just as good.
If you have a PC that is capable of playing high end games, I definitely recommend Fallout 3 for the PC. The graphic textures are far more superior, and you can download other player created levels and modifications. However, if your PC isn't high end, and you have an XBOX 360, I suggest you buy it for the 360 so you don't suffer the loading times and reduced graphics of a low end PC.
So here's the list:
-If you have a high end PC, get it for the PC.
-If you have low end PC, and an XBOX 360 and PS3, get it for the 360.
-If you only have a PS3, don't be hesitant, the game is still worth it!
Reviewer's Score: 10/10 | Originally Posted: 01/26/09
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Review:Arithmancy_Wiz says:
One chapter away from being all caught up! Though it's Saturday, so by the time I've finished typing this, that will probably have changed :P
This was really an interesting chapter style-wise. Obviously it was a fair bit shorter than a lot of the previous chapters, but it also had a lot more scenes, even though the time elapsed in the chapter was relatively short. That said, it still felt very in-rhythm with the rest of the story. I don't actually have a point here... it's was just something I noticed.
I thought the opening scene was very sweet. The whole "who's packed what" discussion is such a couples problem. Who hasn't been there? And I liked the idea of the Heads helping get everyone off to the station. It reminds me of field-trip day in school. Getting everyone on the bus was always a nightmare :P
The scene with McGonagall and Dumbledore was also very sweet, though with a much more ominous undertone. I'm getting the feeling that things may not go well at the wedding for reasons that have nothing to do with Petunia being a brat. Minerva really is the ultimate Deputy Headmistress. In many ways, she's far more protective of the students than Dumbledore is. Of course, he has bigger concerns, but still...
I'm always going to be iffy on flashbacks for reasons that have nothing to do with how well you or anyone else writes them (it's like you with Snape :P), but objectively, I thought the transition here was fine. It's a style/pattern you've chosen for the story, and the most important thing is to be consistent. It would be totally weird if this flashback was the only one in 130K words, but it's not. It's just the way you've chosen to explore the Petunia and Lily relationship.
And I definitely liked the content of the memory. You've fleshed Petunia out a lot more than most authors and gave her a nicer side, which I think is much truer to life. Even nasty, mean-spirited people have their moments, and with siblings it's not uncommon to see them drift apart as the age (or sometimes just the opposite, but the point is the change, not really the direction). But we know how far this relationship falls, so at some point, the scales have to tip from Petunia just being mean and jealous on occasion to there really being a wedge between the two. Having Lily (through no fault of her own) come between Petunia and her friend is telling. It sets up one more reason for her to fear people in her life meeting her sister. On one level, she's afraid they will think Lily is a freak, but perhaps on another, Petunia is afraid they will just like Lily better. I'm not sure if that's how you view it at all, but that was at least what I took from the scene.
I really liked the ending, where Lily reflects on spending Christmas with the Potters. I know she cares for James a lot, maybe even loves him at this point, but I also think this touches on the fact that she also really needs him, even on a level she's not yet fully aware of. She has a huge hole in her life now, and though he can't fill it all, him and his family can give her something she can't get anywhere else at the moment, and really, something none of her other friends can provide either.
I saved your AoC about the chapter being too slow for last since it's more of a tough one to address. The scenes themselves and even the chapter as a whole didn't feel slow to me. When I think of something being slow in a story, I usually think more of having to wade through 500 words of description on something mundane, or characters spending an entire chapter in one conversation without actually saying anything. Your scenes are always fun and easy to read. No matter what the characters are doing, I can always just sort of jump in and go with it.
But since you mentioned the chapter being a transition into the big stuff, I'm thinking maybe you were wondering if the story itself feels slow at this point, as opposed to a particular section being too wordy...? It's hard to say on my end without knowing what will be important in the future of the story, or how long the story is going to be to know if we should be nearing the climax anytime soon. A scene where characters appear just to be doing housework might actually have major plot points cleverly tucked inside (I'm thinking of like in the HP books when Harry seems to just be going to class but is really learning about something he'll need to fight Voldemort by the end of the book). I don't know how helpful it will be to you, but when I'm unsure of my pacing, I take a look at every scene and ask, "what's the point?" The more basic the answer is, the shorter the I try and make the scene, maybe even eliminating it altogether. If it's just to show the passage of time or something, a few sentences may be more than enough. If it's more complicated, like to show something important about the character or relaying information that will be needed for the plot later on, the more likely I am to flesh out a scene. And then, if I'm really trying to build tension, that's when I go for the big moments that are depicted the closest to real time. Again, not sure if that is at all helpful (or even what you were really asking about), but that's my amateur, unsolicited opinion -- something I probably give out all too freely :P
Well, that's more than enough out of me on this chapter, I think. Just a few typos I spotted below. I can't believe I'm almost caught up!!
-- "Put the students in these two," the head girl instructed, glancing over them. (glancing over at them, or glancing them over)
-- Just as the unmistakable stands of Sirius's dark hair came into view, she felt her boots slide under the snow. (unmistakable strands... and I think her boots would slide over the snow, not under, or slide out from under her across the snow...?)
-- Of course the sisters had ended up on speaking terms again, making up only a few hours before Lily left for her fifth year to Hogwarts. (at Hogwarts)
Author's Response: I love how your first paragraph was so true, hahah. I posted chapter 21 then clicked my author page and there was a review!
I'm happy that even though it was set up a bit different, it still felt right with the rest of the stories.
That's exactly what I was thinking in this, is field trips. Make sure everyone has their sack lunches packed and permission slips... haha. I like giving the Heads things to do so they don't seem like they're just sort of pointlessly floating around with that title.
I really agree with what you said about Minerva. I think Dumbledore looks at the big picture, and she does focus more on the people that make up that big picture. I get so sad when I think about what she looses too... i can't imagine watching the children you've practically helped raise from age 11 all get picked off one by one :(
We've talked about before how family is never cut and dry. Petunia didn't just decide she hated Lily and the two never spoke again, so I really love getting to explore the different things that may have added up to tear them apart piece by piece.
That's exactly how I view it. I never thought that Petunia's feelings for Lily were as simple as her deciding Lily was a freak and cutting her off. We know that she wrote to Dumbledore, so we know some part of her really wanted to be able to be special like her sister. And watching her best friend stand up for her sister was a big deal for her. Sure, the girl was just being nice to Lily, but Petunia didn't see it like that. She saw it as her sister out doing her once again, and her best friend gravitating toward Lily the way she thinks everyone did. I remember my older sister getting so mad when her friends would talk to me, haha. I just amplified those feelings up a bit in Petunia's case :P
I always want to hug you when you pick up on these things. You have like a zillion mental hugs from me.
Your section on how the chapter is feeling made me feel a lot better. Because we are very, very close to a big thing in this story happening. It isn't the biggest thing of the story, but it's close to it. Your opinions ARE solicited! Haha! And I love them! I'm excited to see what you think in a few chapters, and to see if you feel like these last few more build up chapters were worth it. I think I've been really careful to make sure all of me scenes have a point, whether it's to make something else make sense or to work on my characterizations.. okay... I'm not sure where I'm going with this section of the response. Haha. But when you get a few chapters ahead, if you feel like compared to the amount of build up sort of chapters I've had and the events, and it falls flat - pretty please tell me ♥
I always feel like my responses are inadequate to your insanely helpful and detailed reviews, bu I hope you know how much I appreciate them ♥
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The 2014 Winter Olympics are officially underway in Sochi, Russia, with journalists from all over the world settling in for two weeks of intense competit -- holy shit, why is there a pack of stray dogs in my room? And where, exactly, am I supposed to sleep because there is no furniture? And why is my computer not work -- oh my god, I've been hacked! I've been hacked and I've only been in the country for two hours!
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Cocoa picture
Preparation Time10 MinCooking Time10 Min
Ready In20 MinDifficulty LevelEasy
Health IndexAverageServings1
Main IngredientInterest Group
Cocoa2 Teaspoon (Leveled)
Sugar2 Teaspoon (Or According To Taste)
Milk/Milk and water1⁄2 Pint (1 Cupful)
Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 196 Calories from Fat 77
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 9 g13.3%
Saturated Fat 5 g24.8%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 24 mg8%
Sodium 97.2 mg4.1%
Total Carbohydrates 26 g8.7%
Dietary Fiber 2 g8%
Sugars 22.7 g
Protein 9 g17.8%
Vitamin A 4.9% Vitamin C
Calcium 27.9% Iron 5%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet
1. In a bowl, blend cocoa and sugar to a smooth paste with a little of the cold, milk.
2. In a small saucepan, heat the remaining milk; add hot milk to the blended cocoa.
3. Transfer mixture back into saucepan. Heat gently, stirring at the same time until it boils. Let the cocoa to cook gently for 1/2-1 minute, otherwise it may taste powdery due to the starch present in cocoa.
4. Transfer into the cup, or into a serving jug.
5. Serve hot. Sugar can be put in when making, or can be added to taste when about to drink. | http://www.ifood.tv/recipe/cocoa-6 | dclm-gs1-285340000 |
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