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0.069564 | <urn:uuid:629e2ba3-cfd9-4e6c-909a-92f35d22d20d> | en | 0.901158 | [Effect of xiaochaihu decoction and different herbal formulations of its components on cytokines of carrageenan induced pleuritis in rats].
ABSTRACT To explore the anti-inflammatory effect and possible mechanism of Xiaochaihu Decoction (XCHD) and the different herbal formulations of its components.
Rat model of pleuritis was established by thoracic injecting 0.2 ml of 1% carrageenan. Rats in the treated groups were medicated with XCHD (11 g/kg) and the different herbal formulations of its components respectively as follows: thorowax root-scutellaria root (A, 3.5 g/kg), fresh ginger-pinellia tuber (B, 3 g/kg), ginseng-licorice root-jujube (C, 4.5 g/kg), A + B (6.5 g/kg), A + C (8 g/kg) and B + C (7.5 g/kg), and those in the normal group and the model group were given equal volume of instilled water, by way of gastrogavage for successive 5 days. Modeling was performed 2 hrs after the last medication. The amount of pleurorrhea, and leucocyte (WBC), marrow peroxidase (MPO), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) and interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) in pleurorrhea, and serum level of interleukin-8 (IL-8) were measured 12 hrs after modeling.
As compared with the model group, all the parameters measured were lower in all the treated group (P < 0.05) , and IL-1beta content in pleurorrhea in the XCHD group and Group A, B and C were significantly lower (P < 0.01).
XCHD and the different herbal formulations have obvious anti-inflammatory effect, showing certain preventive and therapeutic effect on pleuritis. Among the different formulations, the XCHD, A, B and C had better effects. The effects might be related to inhibiting the increase of cytokines as TNF-alpha, IL-1beta, and IL-8 to suppress the activation, infiltration and wandering of leucocytes.
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0.05849 | <urn:uuid:f734b163-9de9-4853-949f-e20427a239d1> | en | 0.962205 | County's Public Health Committee to consider LDC running Maplewood Manor
BALLSTON SPA -- County officials on the Public Health Committee are planning today to discuss the possibility of creating a local development corporation to run the county nursing home, Maplewood Manor.
Because Maplewood Manor has been losing millions of taxpayer dollars every year, county officials are looking for a way to take it off the books but maintain some control over the nursing home. Among its recommendations, the county's hired consultant, the law firm Harris Beach, said creating an LDC would provide some deficit relief and allow the county to access some of the equity in the facility.
"Under the control of an LDC, the county would still continue to have obligations to Maplewood and continue to pay for its operations," Harris Beach's recent report said.
According to the Center for Governmental Research, LDCs are private, not-for-profit corporations, usually created by local governments. However, technically, any individual older than 18 legally can create one. They typically take over governmental activities and do government work, but with a reduced amount of oversight and restrictions.
Milton Supervisor Dan Lewza, who does not serve on the Public Health Committee, briefly floated the idea of creating an LDC in Milton to build a new town complex. He said LDCs can attract buyers or businesses for economic development purposes, adding that this is different in the case of Maplewood Manor.
Typically, government officials choose who will serve on the LDC's board.
"It's made up of private individuals, but they probably will have to answer to the chair or the board, depending on how it's set up," Lewza said.
For Maplewood Manor, creating an LDC would allow the county government to engage in a public-private partnership, meaning that a private company would operate the nursing home. The LDC would be designed to oblige a public purpose -- caring for the county's elderly and disabled -- yet it would be separate from county government.
According to state law, LDCs can acquire public property without appraisal or public bidding, but they must hold a public hearing on the proposed sale or lease and give the public
10 days' notice prior to the hearing. The LDC also must use the property for the purpose stated in its incorporation certificate.
Governments have identified numerous reasons for creating LDCs because the state law that defines their purposes is broad, including "lessening the burdens of government." They have been used to manage or upgrade government assets, stimulate tourism and recreation and to address distinctive fiscal dilemmas, among other things.
The income and operations of LDCs are exempt from taxes, although their property is not. Property owned by an LDC and leased to a for-profit corporation to engage in for-profit manufacturing activities on the property is not exempt from taxation.
Unlike local governments, LDCs are not required to adhere to Open Meetings or Freedom of Information laws.
LDCs can take many forms. They can play innovative roles in local government, such as getting liabilities off the books while maintaining a degree of control over them.
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0.091562 | <urn:uuid:99c9c158-9e88-44d3-8090-d055dc0c994e> | en | 0.971586 | Installing a Dedicated AC Line
The most important change made to the system was one that held up the writing of my review of the Mark Levinson No.23.5 power amplifier for several months, such was its anticipated impact. Though my listening room is well-equipped with wall sockets, there are actually only two 15A circuits serving these outlets. Ever since I had converted what had hitherto been our house's master bedroom into my listening room, I had intended to run new circuits to it.
Somehow, there always seemed to be more urgent jobs that needed to be done around the house—new roof, new main drainage, new bathroom, new windows, new stucco, etc.—but finally in the spring of 1991, there was enough electrical work to be done that we managed to attract the interest of a local contractor. ("Choosing a contractor" is a phrase that, in my experience, is more true turned upside-down: they choose you—if you can supply references and show a willingness to both give them money on an unlimited payment schedule and allow them to become part of your extended family. Having sunk what could have been the money for our child's education into the fabric of our home, we find the omnipresent Eldon character in TV's "Murphy Brown" to be only too real.)
But I digress. For less than the cost of a budget power amplifier—a mere $373.45—the electrician ran two new 30A lines to the listening room, one with the hot on one side of neutral, the other on the other. Each had its own circuit breaker and each fed two hospital-grade wall sockets. (These orange receptacles grasp the prongs of AC plugs with a clasp akin to the Vulcan death grip.) All source components and the system preamplifier were plugged into an Inouye AC conditioner, in turn plugged into one of the new lines; power amplifiers were plugged into the other new line.
The sonic effect was nothing short of stunning. Within the context of a power amplifier's characteristic sound quality, bass fundamentals relatively dropped away to minus infinity, such was the increase in their weight, while the WATT/Puppy's "hump" in the upper bass became considerably less bothersome. Yes, the characteristic sounds of components were not changed—black was not rendered white—but the differences between those characters was heightened, the overall quality of each enhanced. The sonic contrast knob was turned up a notch, if you will, the blacks becoming a deeper black, the whites becoming more brilliant.
There is no doubt in my mind that installing these dedicated AC lines was the single most cost-effective improvement I have ever made to the sound of my system. If you can bring new AC power to your listening room without too much disturbance to your house or household—and you can find an electrical contractor who doesn't feel that he would be in danger of diminishing his social status by taking on your work—do it.
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Haswell: Cheat Sheet
Everything you need to know about the fourth generation of PC processors from Intel.
What's Haswell?
Haswell is Intel's new family of processors targeted at the PC and server market. With Haswell Intel has designed a processor suited to new PC form factors – laptops no thicker than 25mm, PC/tablet hybrids, pure tablets and all-in-one PCs.
In particular Intel has targeted the fourth generation chip at serving what it calls the 'ultrabook' market. Intel defines ultrabooks as mobile computers thinner than 25mm, with touchscreen and voice control as standard and possibly convertible into either a tablet or laptop.
What's Haswell's USP?
Better battery life. Compared to the Intel's previous PC processors based on the Sandy and Ivy Bridge microarchitecture, Haswell sucks up less power.
A Haswell U-series processor designed for ultrabooks, an Intel Core i7-4650U, can sustain 9.1 hours of HD video playback and more than seven days of standby, according to Intel. That's three hours more of video playback and 1.5 days more standby than a previous generation Intel Core i7-3677U running on the same battery.
The average application – media player, web browser or office application - running on a Y-series Haswell processor, the lowest power Haswell processor series, should consume around six watts, Intel predicts.
The lower energy consumption is particularly important for a processor designed to be squeezed into thin laptops and tablets, as pushing down power draw means cooler chips and reduces the heatsink and fan size, as well as allowing tablets to operate fanlessly.
What else is Intel promising for Haswell ultrabooks?
Haswell-based ultrabooks and tablets will be able to "wake" from sleep in under three seconds, compared to the seven seconds it took devices based on previous gen Intel processors to wake. This is thanks to "extremely low power" state, known as S0ix.
Applications running on a Haswell system will also be able to receive data while in this low-power, so an email client would be able to refresh its list of emails while in this mode.
So Haswell's all about battery life?
No, the other standout feature of the new processors is the performance of their integrated graphics cores. The highest end graphics core, the Iris Pro, is capable of running some of the latest games without a dedicated graphics card, albeit not at the highest settings, roughly matching the performance of a sub-£100 card.
Game benchmarks at 1080p released by Intel show the Iris Pro delivering an average of 131 FPS in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 at medium detail settings and 38FPS in the latest Tomb Raider game at medium settings.
The integrated graphics are a good deal more powerful than Intel's earlier offerings. The second most powerful Haswell graphics core, the Intel Iris HD5100 in a 28W i7-4558U, delivered twice the performance in 3DMark 2011 of an integrated graphics core in an Intel third generation i7-3687U.
All Intel Haswell processors include integrated graphics cores based on a new chip design. The performance of these cores vary, from the high end Intel Iris Pro and Intel Iris variants, found in select Core i7/i5/i3s, to the lowest level Intel HD Graphics. These cores support DirectX11.1, OpenCL 1.2, OpenGL 4.0, a three collage screen display and enhanced 4K by 2K resolution. The graphics chip also includes faster Intel Quick Sync Video and JPEG/MPEG decode and transcoding.
What about desktop PCs?
There will be a range of Core i7 and i5 desktop processors. The enthusiast K-series processors with an unlocked multiplier to make them easier to overclock, the low-power 35W and the 45W (quad core) T-series processors, the quad core 65W S-series and the quad core 65W R-series with an Intel Iris Pro graphics core. All the other desktop processors have the lower end Intel 4600 HD integrated graphics.
As would be expected Intel also claims improved performance for the desktop processors – a 65W Haswell Intel Core i5-4570S is some 2.2 times faster at running office apps, 9.2 times faster at editing video and has 21 times better 3D performance in games than a 65W Intel Core 2 Duo processor E8400.
Intel envisages that Haswell desktop chips will generally be used inside HD touchscreen all-in-one PCs with integrated voice control, rather than the tower PCs of old.
Does Haswell have a role in the datacentre?
The only family of Haswell processors targeted at servers launched to date is the Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3.
The Xeon E3-1200 is being billed as offering the lowest-power Intel Xeon processor to date ranging down to the 13W TDP, 1.1GHz E3-1220LV3 processor designed for use within microservers and communications infrastructure.
The processor family's integrated graphics capabilities are designed to suit serving video to different devices in a wide range of formats. The chips' integrated Intel HD 4600/4700 graphics core includes fixed function hardware accelerators for AVC (H.264) media transcoding, MVC (Blu-Ray 3D) and MPEG-2 hardware encoding and JPEG and MPEG hardware encoding. Intel claims a 65W Haswell E3-based server carried out 25 percent more transcodes than a 290W server with a nVidia GTX680 card in tests.
Processors in the E3 family range from the quad core 3.5GHz E3-1275V3 with 84W TDP down to the dual core 1.1GHz E3-1220LV3 with 13W TDP.
Intel is claiming general efficiency and performance advatages over previous generation E3 processors, with the Haswell 25W E3 CPU delivering up to 52 percent performance per watt advantage over the previous generation 45W processor. While the E3-1220LV3 will not be available until the third quarter of 2013 the rest of processors are available now.
What's changed on the technical side?
Haswell is the successor to the Sandy Bridge architecture, and will initially be built on the same 22nm process as Ivy Bridge (the die shrink of Sandy Bridge).
While the chip's architecture has similarities to Sandy Bridge Intel has made changes within the cores to scale up performance and efficiency.
These changes include increasing the depth of the cores' buffers to give flexibility to its out-of-order execution – the chip's ability to optimise the flow of data and instructions. The chips also feature improved branch prediction – where the chip predicts the correct path for data, which boosts performance by reducing the number of times a chip needs to start an incorrect branch again.
Haswell also increases the number of operations that can be executed per clock cycle to eight, up from the six using Sandy and Ivy Bridge.
Another key feature in the Haswell architecture is the addition of fused multiply-add (FMA) floating point operation units. These provide the ability to add and multiply in the same cycle, which reduces the number of clock cycles needed to perform floating point calculations and improves mathematical precision.
The bandwidth available to the fourth generation processors' L1 and L2 cache has also been doubled over Sandy and Ivy Bridge, while the size of the cache remains the same.
Haswell will use 3D Tri-Gate transistors and include Haswell New Instructions (AVX2) for enhanced vector floating-point performance, Transactional Synchronization Extensions, which adds hardware transaction memory support and shifts some of the responsibility for managing parallel processing from software to the hardware, better virtualisation performance and EPT (Extended Page Tables). Haswell will move to a 14nm process, codenamed Broadwell, in 2014.
What does Haswell mean for Intel?
The jury is out, but the question remains as to how a number of factors will affect Haswell sales: namely flagging demand for traditional desktop PCs, to what extent consumers will be won over by sleek ultrabooks with a long battery life and whether Intel can capture market share in the hybrid and tablet market with the low-power Y-series Haswell processors.
There's no guarantee that consumers still want to buy the sort of devices that Haswell will power, said Roy Illsley, principal analyst for software and IT solutions at Ovum.
"I guess the question is more will the PC market still command sufficient importance to justify Haswell. I think we are entering a world of people using many different devices, which will begin to contract as the price/performance of ultrabooks and tablets becomes more appealing," he said.
Gartner principal research analyst Sergis Mushell believes that the performance and battery life offered by Haswell processors could stimulate the market for hybrid laptop/tablet PCs.
"Haswell enables designs in which PC vendors can offer to the market place products which can offer the performance and content creation abilities of a PC and can be converted in to a tablet for consumption," he said.
But while Haswell promises thinner, flexible PC-cum-tablets with greatly improved efficiency, these advantage comes at a price. Two higher end processors aimed at ultrabooks are the Core i7-4650U (2.9GHz base, 3.3GHz turbo, 4MB cache) and the Core i5-4350U (2.6GHz base, 2.9GHz turbo, 3MB cache). These are priced at $454 and $342 respectively for OEM's buying a tray of 1,000 processors.
The equivalent previous-generation Ivy Bridge parts, the Core i7-3687U and the Core i5-3437U, are priced at $346 and $250 respectively.
That's something of a premium for price-conscious consumers in the age of good enough computing. Then again there are cheaper ultrabook processors. And Intel isn't betting the farm on Haswell, it also has its energy efficient Baytrail platform based on Silvermont, its new Atom microarchitecture, to challenge Arm in the mainstream tablet and mobile space.
If the processor are warmer and consume more power than expected, Intel are convinving us to trust their marketing is right.... HasHell...Intel inside... Why they cant just keep it simple as atom, pentium and xeon, one for each main category ? if they keep adding numbering just another 5 to 10 years, their processor number will be longer than our mobile phone number, it will be fun when you order over the phone.
Every generation of software is more bloated with more features that 90% of users will never use but because of this extra bloat, it runs more slowly so the hardware manufacturers have to come up with ever faster processors to get the performance of the bloated software to a reasonable speed. It would be far, far better to concentrate on reducing the complexity of software, improving the efficiency of compilers, and with the hardware guys (and yes, Intel, you've got it partially right with Haswell) concentrating on reducing the power consumption. If I were in charge at Microsoft (not a job I want), I'd ensure that all software development was done on 5 year old computers. That way the next version of Office, etc. would run at a sensible speed on the real world computers that most of us have and, for those lucky enough to own the latest machines, like greased lightning. On the power consumption front, the concept of a laptop having a processor so power hungry that it needs a fan to keep it cool is ridiculous - you're burning up excessive power in the processor and then having to use more power to drive a fan - no wonder batteries in laptops last only a few hours.
You neglected to let people know that the new 4770K runs even warmer than last year hot box from Intel, the 3770K, especially when the 4770K is overclocked. Intel needs to look into the temp problem, and a lot of people are also not happy with the minimum gain over the 3770K. Lets face it, it's not really worth doing an upgrade if you already own a 3770K, or to be honest a 2700K which runs cooler. Even with custom water cooling, both the 3770K and 4770K run hotter than previous chips when overclocked.
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"Everything you need to know about the fourth generation of PC processors from Intel." How do you get to 4th Is that an attempt to talk Haswell up into being a bigger step than it really is? Or did you just lose the seventy of the front of seventy fourth | http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/european-technology/haswell-cheat-sheet/ | dclm-gs1-028270000 |
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President Barack Obama is right about one thing: The American people are weary of war. They are weary of an Afghan war that began righteously, in pursuit of the evil-doers who plotted the 9/11 terrorist assault, but whose capital was frittered away with the sideshow of unnecessary war in Iraq. They're weary of a war that is itself now a sideshow to the Taliban's rise, abetted by new terrorist havens in Pakistan.
More than a decade after 9/11, the downside of waging an endless, worldwide, 24/7 "war on terror" is sinking in. Nonstop war has sapped our resources and the resilience of our armed forces.
So one can't fault the president for trying to put the best face on his latest plan: an orderly retreat from these frustrating, costly wars.
Nor is it a bad plan. ...
But Obama is wrong to oversimplify the dangers and the mess that still exist. We're bidding well to repeat the error of 1989, when America walked away and left Afghanistan to descend into chaos, with Osama bin Laden the beneficiary. Americans may be weary, but the stakes, in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the region, remain frighteningly high.
The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer
... In Columbus, the Ohio Senate passed a bill which would ban texting while driving, and focused on the most frequent users of electronic messaging, teenagers.
... The texting bill would also prohibit those under 18 from not only using cellphones, but iPads or other electronic devices while they are behind the wheel, unless there's an emergency. For teens, a violation would be a primary offense, meaning officers could pull them over if police observed them using a device. ...
Adult drivers would be barred from texting, too, but an officer could only cite them if they are first pulled over for another offense.
There would be difficulties in enforcing a texting ban. It could be hard, for example, for an officer to determine if a driver is texting or simply dialing a phone. And it's not so easy to determine if someone is 17, or 18 or 19. Still, our lawmakers are doing the right thing by pushing forward.
There are many things that can distract a driver, but using a cellphone while driving has contributed to hundreds of accidents, which have taken lives and caused serious injuries.
Sending a text while driving is already banned in 37 states, and Ohio should follow suit to regulate a driver distraction that is clearly dangerous. ...
The (Findlay) Courier
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0.034314 | <urn:uuid:ed983bad-429b-48ff-ab93-e2e2e46ca95a> | en | 0.991406 | I was posting a new piece of property that I have written permission to hunt this weekend when a guy stopped and started talking to me about the property. He said that he did not care if it was posted and that he would hunt it anyway and that they use dogs to hunt it. I also caught a different guy on my trail camera that was squirrel hunting (prior to it being posted). How should I handle the situation? Should I leave it alone until something happens or be proactive to stop an issue before it happens? I am really worried about my stands and cameras getting vandalized. I don't know what to do. Also, the guy told me his name and where he lived. | http://www.tndeer.com/tndeertalk/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showthreaded&Number=2938376&an=&page=12 | dclm-gs1-028440000 |
0.021672 | <urn:uuid:b1239735-bad7-41f5-8be7-7016481e1894> | en | 0.970941 | This collection of distinctly decorated bandages lets those with wounds and scabs take their mind off their injury by sporting outrageous patterns and technology.
The band-aid has historically been made of a standard, flesh-colored material used to protect injuries. It follows the thinking that it is easier to just cover up the pain so that the wearer will forget about it until it heals. This collection, however, shows that there is a demand for outrageous first aid wrappings. It is obvious that some would rather flaunt their battle scars and wear the band-aid as a medal of honor. Some of the skin accessories that fulfill this need include bacon-strip-identical bandages, acronym-branded aids and light-up wraps.
The injury-prone can rest easy knowing that they will be treated in a style as colorful as their personalities. | http://www.trendhunter.com/slideshow/distinctly-decorated-bandages | dclm-gs1-028460000 |
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John: I trusted you like a father and you used me. Don't you get it? I lost everything that day.
Jedikiah: You were just a boy looking for a family. That's what you'll always be.
John: You don't get to decide what I am.
Cara: He loved you like a son.
John: He had a funny way of showing it.
What do you think they would do if they knew the whole truth about you?
John: At the first sign of trouble..
Russell: We're off like a bra on prom night.
I'm like a one man "Ocean's 11."
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80. “Hand in My Pocket” by Alanis Morissette
Cute if it’s Alanis’ own hand, f*cking terrifying if you just found someone else’s hand fishing around in there. Or worse, not moving at all.
79. “Bette Davis Eyes” by Kim Carnes
Now when you says “She’s got Bette Davis Eyes” do you mean in her head? Or in her purse? Also how old is Bette in this scenario? Hopefully not this old. | http://www.vh1.com/music/tuner/2013-10-31/the-88-creepiest-song-titles-of-all-time/6/ | dclm-gs1-028670000 |
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(Look, now it’s a dick and shazam; now it’s a duck.) Do they shoot confetti out of their cannon when they come? And when the fright wigs come off and lights dim, are the stars still panting on the outside but crying on the inside?
A furtive google search confirmed that yes; there is subculture of clown porn actors and aficionados. One of the leading figures in the clown-dom category is “Ouchy”, whose "Nice to Beat You"expertise includes his evil clown act, complete with bondage, hot wax and genital straight razor shaving. He brings new meaning to slapstick.
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Woven is an occasional literary anthology zine.
It initially captivates by its physical structure: each volume is on a single piece of paper, folded and cut into an unusually shaped handheld book. Often there is no singular beginning or end; instead it unfolds from something small into something overflowing.
Woven is published in Auckland, New Zealand. The editor selects a theme and presents a half dozen high quality poems and short prose and sometimes art; each piece is signed and includes the author's email address. The editor is a woman identified in Woven #4 as "Agent M" but elsewhere as Moira Clunie. Woven is distributed globally. http://nutmeg.gen.nz/woven/
woven 4: secret
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woven 6: the city
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Parliament's second album for Casablanca, following Up for the Down Stroke (1974), Chocolate City isn't one of the group's better-known albums. Unlike its predecessor and successive albums such as Mothership Connection (1976), it lacks a signature hit; even though the title track and "Ride On" charted as singles, they're minor in comparison to definitive classics such as "Up for the Down Stroke" and "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)." Though it's not one of the better-known Parliament albums, Chocolate City is nonetheless one of their best and perhaps most underrated. There's a wealth of musical talent to be heard here — most notably Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, and Eddie Hazel — and an emphasis on horns and harmony vocals. Plus, there's no overarching narrative as there would be on successive albums, occasionally to a fault. Instead, this is a collection of stand-alone songs, none topping the six-minute mark. Regardless of its lack of signature hits, Chocolate City is a Parliament album that shouldn't be overlooked. [The 2003 reissue boasts improved sound, new liner notes, and the addition of three songs: the previously unreleased "Common Law Wife," a three-minute, funky soul stomper that sounds a bit like a lost Curtis Mayfield track, and alternate takes of "If It Don't Fit (Don't Force It)" and "I Misjudged You."]
Se formó en: 1970 en Detroit, MI
Género: R&B/Soul
Inspired by Motown's assembly line of sound, George Clinton gradually put together a collective of over 50 musicians and recorded the ensemble during the '70s both as Parliament and Funkadelic. While Funkadelic pursued band-format psychedelic rock, Parliament engaged in a funk free-for-all, blending influences from the godfathers (James Brown and Sly Stone) with freaky costumes and themes inspired by '60s acid culture and science fiction. From its 1970 inception until Clinton's dissolving of Parliament...
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0.039828 | <urn:uuid:3603b71b-2e40-4bb3-823b-a101b09fabcb> | en | 0.952105 | How to actually write a program?
Phil Frost indigo at
Fri Sep 3 23:52:54 CEST 2004
How does a composer write a song? He might know the overall sound of the
song, so he might start by playing it on a piano. Then he might work on
the strings part, and a general chord progression. Then add some
woodwinds, building the song piece by piece until all the small parts
are assembled to a greater whole.
Writing a program is no different. You must first break your song in to
parts. It's a highly creative process, and it's not something that can
be taught. Find yourself a nice, quiet room, and a time when you arn't
distracted by anything. Think of the greater problem and try to divide
it into smaller pieces. This division is the hardest part of
programming; expressing the ideas in code becomes as natural as speech
with practice. After some reflection your path should become clear.
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 09:29:36PM +0000, Nick Evans wrote:
> Hello there,
> I have been on and off learning to code (with python being the second
> language I have worked on after a bit of BASIC). What I really want to know
> is, if you are going to actually write a program or a project of some sort,
> how do you actually start.
> Picture this, you know what you want the program to do (its features), you
> have a possably rough idea of how the program will work. You have opened an
> empty text file and saved it as '' and now your sitting in
> front of an empty text file... Now then.... where do I start.
> Any ideas about this problem :-)
> Ta
> Nick
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0.027946 | <urn:uuid:0b0a5369-0d66-4f86-8bd1-b9762d896176> | en | 0.983733 | "Rough night last night?" I passed him a cup of hot tea.
"Been worse." He muttered.
"I'll take your word on that." I poured some tea for myself and sat down. "My God, Remus, you look like hell."
Indeed he did. He was quite pale, with dark purple shadows under his eyes. He looked tired, worn. On days like this, he looked so much older than mid-thirties. Not so much physically older, but spiritually older. I was sitting across from an old, tired man.
"Feel it, too. Y'know, after all these years, you'd think I'd get used to the full moon. Remembering to take my potion, settling down in my room for the monthly transformation, feeling like I've got a nasty hangover the next day…" He sighed and looked into the distance. "It just reminds me of how different I am. Less than human. Lonely."
"Maybe you should start a support group. Werewolves Anonymous." I quipped.
He just stared forlornly into his cup. Damn, and I was trying to be funny.
I tried another tactic. "I don't know what you're so worked up over. Really, you're not the only one who turns into a full-fledged monster on a lunar cycle."
His brow furrowed. "Look, I don't think I'm in the mood for any sort of 'Let's cheer up Lupin' attempt…"
I waved him off. "No, seriously, Remus. You don't have any sisters, do you?"
He shook his head.
"Steady, long-term girlfriends?"
Another shake.
"Ah, you lucky bastard. You have absolutely no idea what I am talking about. So let me educate you." Oh, this should be amusing. Men just love this little speech.
"Okay. Now I know you've been through Madam Pomfrey's absolutely embarrassing discussion on the birds and the bees. Unless you were sick that day?"
He chuckled. "No, unfortunately I was not. Certainly wished I was at the time, though."
"Didn't we all. Now, dear sweet Poppy might have informed us on the more, shall I say, technical workings of the body, but there is no way in hell to warn a woman of the more dramatic chaos she'll be dealing with for the next thirty or so years of her life."
I think I got his attention. He was looking at me with a rather curious expression. His head was tilted to one side and his eyes were no longer morose. They were… interested? I wasn't really used to this reaction from a guy. Usually they were falling all over themselves to exit the conversation. Then again, most of the guys I knew were barely out of adolescence.
I took a deep breath. "It starts with the mood swings. One minute you're ecstatic, feeling fine. The next minute you're angry, and any little thing sets you off. Or you're depressed and find yourself at the bottom of the ice cream carton. Lather, rinse, repeat. That's when the monster awakens. More tea?"
"Uh, yes, please," he said, passing me his cup. "Better yet, do we have any coffee around here? I think I could use something stronger this morning." Chuckling, I started the coffee.
"But that's not even the beginning of it," I continued as the pot percolated. "Then come the pheromones. You can literally smell men a mile away, and they smell good. You find yourself thinking of and hoping for things no civilized woman would ever admit to. That's when I know I'm in trouble—usually I lock myself away for a bit, try to sleep it off. Last thing I need to do is someone I'll really regret in the morning, know what I mean?"
That definitely got a laugh. "Not personally, thank Merlin. But I've heard a few good stories."
"I bet. There are some aspects of Sirius' life that I don't want to be privy to. Milk? Sugar?" I raised my eyebrows and rattled the sugar shaker playfully.
"After the night I've just had? Hell no, I want it black." He smiled appreciatively as I poured the coffee. "I love the smell of black, sludgy, cheap coffee in the morning." Deep inhale. "It's the smell of victory."
I laughed out loud. "Unfortunately, it's downhill from there. Bloating, achiness, cramps, blah, blah, blah." Another dismissive wave. "Almost like your body's disappointed for what you didn't do and punishing you for it." I went to pour some sugar in my coffee and dropped the damn shaker. "Oh, and I almost forgot. You lose all sense of motor control and get more clumsy."
Remus raised an eyebrow. "Is that even possible for you?"
"Ha, ha," I muttered sarcastically. "Reparo!" The shards flew back together. Handy charm, if I do say so myself. "Yeah, usually lasts a week, week and a half. Then it's another couple weeks of peace until the cycle starts again." I paused for emphasis. "And that, Remus John Lupin, are the facts of life," I said in mock seriousness. "Does that make you feel any better?"
He smiled. "Not really, but educational and amusing just the same. Thank you, Tonks."
"Oh please, call me Nymphadora."
Laughter. "No thanks, I think I like living too much to try that."
I looked down at my watch. "Bloody hell! I'm running late!" I stood up so quickly the chair I was sitting in fell over and I bumped the table, knocking everything over. "Damn!"
Remus stood up and began cleaning up my mess. "Don't worry about it," he said, standing and pushing my hands away from the spilled cups. "I'll take care of it. You just get to work."
"Oh, thank you so much." I sighed.
"Not a problem," he replied as I double checked to make sure I had everything. Wand? Check. Identification? Check. Hair? Pink and spiky. Check.
I started walking towards the door. "Oh, Tonks?" He called after me. I paused and turned around. He had a playful smirk on his face. "And what stage of the cycle are you at now?"
I grinned. "Well, let's just say that you're starting to look really good, Remus." As if to prove my point, I lifted my head and inhaled deeply, gave him a wink, and turning towards the door, laughed as I left for work.
Here I was, pulling a double. Around a quarter after nine, I found myself drumming my fingers on the desk in a fit of immense boredom. I had no idea why my boss thought I still needed to be here. He probably just wanted to get home to his family, and since Tonks is single, Tonks can stay late. Bastard. Maybe Tonks wanted to go out and party and get un-single. Did he think of that? No. There was absolutely nothing going on today. In fact, there hasn't been anything going on for a long time. After all, it's impossible to be a Dark Wizard catcher when the Ministry doesn't even want to admit that certain Dark Wizards are back in action. I desperately wanted to go visit with Kingsley, also working the evening shift, but I knew that would be too suspicious. We had to keep it on the down low that we knew each other any better than random co-workers, for the sake of the Order. I laughed every time I thought about Kingsley's job; he came in every day on the hunt for Sirius Black, and every evening he stopped by Grimmauld Place and ate dinner with the Ministry's Most Wanted. Fortunately, I had the greatest excuse in the world to bow out of that particular charade. I simply told them that I might be biased in searching for my mother's cousin. After all, I may be able to change my appearance at the drop of a hat, but sometimes I'm a horrible actress.
I leaned back in my chair and threw my feet up on my desk. Come to think of it, the Order was about the only thing going on in my life. I was one of the youngest members, only the Weasley brothers being younger, and I was still trying to get used to referring to people on a first-name basis. Especially the stern Minerva McGonnagal, who I never even considered to have any other name but "Professor." And despite the dark and dreary headquarters, hanging around ol' Number Twelve was quite fun. Afterall, the Weasleys were there, slaving away under the watchful eye of Ma Weasley, and wherever those kids go adventure is sure to follow. Then there was Sirius, the staple of my childhood. Man, I hero-worshipped him growing up. I'm sure he got quite tired of having a bratty cousin either trying to tag along or corner him into a tea party whenever he came by.
Speaking of tea parties, I wondered how Remus was feeling. Since he spends about as much time at headquarters as I do, I've run into him a lot. He's sharp as a tack and got a very quiet, yet very wicked sense of humour. Like this morning…
I felt myself falling backwards as the legs of my chair tried to give way underneath me. I must have been nodding off. Well, I might as well make good use of my lack of activity. I stood up, intent on visiting the break room for another round of coffee. And maybe a doughnut. I laughed at myself as I remembered my father telling me about Muggle policemen and their stereotypical love of doughnuts and coffee. I have now become the Wizarding equivalent to the lazy cop. I just hoped I didn't develop the gut.
I stepped out of the elevator and headed down the hall. As I passed the Improper Use of Magic office, I overheard a very important name: Harry Potter. My blood ran cold. All of us in the Order have been keeping tabs on Harry all summer so far. Although Dumbledore was confident in the protection he had established for Harry since he was an infant, he wanted extra caution now that Voldemort was back.
"That's right, improper use of a Patronus charm by an underage wizard in the presence of a Muggle. Second offence against the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery. Mafalda, please send notice to him. Inform him of his expulsion from school and that we'll be by to confiscate his wand."
Expulsion? Confiscate wand? Damn. I needed to get to Dumbledore, but how? He's not the most popular of people around here at the moment. The floo network usually isn't watched at this time of the night. Probably my best bet. I sprinted back to the lift and jammed at the buttons. Damned old piece of junk anyway. It rattled violently as it took me to the main entrance to the Ministry. I was out of the doors as soon as they opened and grabbed the floo powder at the nearest fireplace. Throwing it into the grate, I barely waited for the green flames before I threw my head inside and yelled, "Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place!" It was Arthur Weasley who noticed me first.
"Tonks? What—"
I cut him off. "It's an emergency, Arthur. I need Dumbledore here at the ministry and I need him now. It's about Harry."
Arthur's eyes widened in alarm. "I'll contact him immediately. He may already know what's going on. Dung is trailing Harry tonight."
"Well, from the way this sounds, Dung wasn't doing a good job of it." Mundungus Fletcher wasn't always known for being responsible. "If you do get him first, tell him to find me. I'll see what I can do on this end until he gets here."
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0.022278 | <urn:uuid:39653e43-e14d-440c-b167-b7ddb7b2e52c> | en | 0.991886 | I stood in front of the bathroom mirror in the two-story home I shared with my father, giving myself a pep talk. This day had been a long time coming, but for some reason I had been putting it off. It wasn't that I was afraid per say, but more that he and I had to have so much distance between each other for safety reasons that we didn't really know each other properly. Of course I knew him, but it was just the outside shell of him that I knew, not the real depths that resided within him. And today, I was going to give it a go and try and build some sort of foundation with him, starting with me making peace with him about my birthday party. To my great satisfaction and annoyance, today was the day as both Alice and Edward were gone hunting for the weekend. I was going to do this...Oh dear god what the hell was I doing?
I looked in the mirror one final time before blowing out a sigh and giving up on my hair. It was impeccably straight, due to my new super heavy duty blow drier Alice had forced upon me, but I just wasn't sure that was the look I was going for. What exactly was the look to aim for when saying to your boyfriend's brother and best friend's husband "No seriously man, it's totally fine that you tried to kill me...but don't try it again 'k?" or something like that?
I finally resigned myself to what I was going to do and walked out of the house, grabbing my keys as I went. I drove across the bridge and turned at the path that led to the house. Looking just once more into the rearview, I gave up for good. This was not about what I looked like; this was about who I was on the inside, and who Jasper was for that matter.
Grabbing my bag I got out of the car, turning to walk into the house. However I was surprised and pleased to find Jasper sitting on the porch swing outside. Hopefully this would make what I was about to do that much easier.
Walking slowly up the steps to the house I stopped just next to the swing and looked at Jasper with a pleasant smile.
"Hello Jasper" I said just a tad shyly. I may be trying to connect with him but that didn't make him any less intimidating. This was a vampire soldier who was the newest vegetarian to the Cullen clan and part of my future family. I hoped that this conversation was going to go well but I was still nervous.
"Hi Bella" Jasper said smiling, "are you ok?" He asked, sensing my inner turmoil and sending waves of calm my way, to my immense gratitude. His empathy powers really were useful.
"Actually, I was kind of hoping to talk to you" I said in explanation, "May I sit, or would you rather not do this now?"
"No no, go ahead" Scooting over to the edge of the swing, he looked at me expectantly but seemingly unsurprised.
"It's about my birthday party...." Again, his face showed no surprise. He had probably been expecting this for a while.
"Bella, I know exactly what you're going to say and you have to know I take full responsibility for my utter stupidity and my inability to control myself. You need to know how sorry I am. I-" He broke off there, tearing his gaze from its previous resting point on the floor and looking at me as he felt my shock and outrage.
"Bella, please-please. I know this is all my fault-"
"Jasper, you idiot!" I yelled. Then stopped short, realizing what I had said. I barely spoke to the man and yet here I was screaming at him. But then again, this was a side of Jasper I has never seen. He was a tough soldier man, and yet here he was, practically on his knees, begging for my forgiveness, when he was not in the wrong at all. He was blaming himself for absolutely no reason. He was not at fault here!
At my words, his face finally showed the shock that we shared but still I went on.
"Jasper! You are NOT in any way at fault here. It is nobody's fault. I gave myself a paper cut and you, being what you are responded to the smell of my blood. Jasper, you are a vampire and so is the rest of your family, stuff like this is to be expected when I orientate myself around you guys. I don't blame you in the least, you have to know that," Now it was me who was practically begging. I so desperately wanted him to understand, I didn't hold him accountable for the accident, it was just something that happened. Still, to my immense frustration, Jasper stared at the ground with an expression that positively screamed self-loathing.
"Jasper," I said firmly, almost growling in annoyance "you are an empathy for God's sake! Do you feel even an ounce of blame coming from me? Honestly, tell me right now, what emotions do you feel coming from me?" I asked him in a desperate attempt to get him to recognize my truthfulness. All I wanted at that moment was for him to look at me and honestly believe me.
"JASPER! Look at me and answer me please!" He looked up at me slowly but closed his eyes. I chose to believe that it was only so he could concentrate better but it was probably only so he could hide the shame in his eyes from me.
"What are you feeling from me now?"
"I'm feeling...pissy-ness and some...I dunno, it's like a mixture between forgiveness and sympathy and then there's some nervousness and then some, wait.... Seriously?" He looked up at me in wonder, snapping his eyes open,
"What seriously? What do you feel?" I asked anxiously. I really didn't want him to get the wrong idea about what I thought about him from some unrelated emotion.
"Brotherly love?" He asked in incredulity
"Yeah Jasper. You're going to be my brother in a few weeks, why would I not love you?"
"Well, it's just that since we haven't spent all that much time together in you know...a positive way, I didn't think you'd really feel much of anything good towards me" He said, sheepishly.
"What? Oh dear god, what is wrong with you?" I said gently, cautiously scooting over a bit to sit closer to him. "I like you a lot Jasper, we haven't spent a lot of time together and I know that's for my own safety, but I can see you are a nice guy, Jazz" Using his nickname, I smiled at him trying desperately to show him I was telling the truth. He looked up into my eyes and smiled at me and somehow I felt that with these past words, we were creating some kind of brother-sister bond.
"So," I said, slightly pissed at myself for breaking the silence, "Do you believe me now when I say I don't blame you in the least?" I asked hopefully, staring at me critically for a moment, he let his expression relax, and with a smile he simply said
"I do"
"Great!" I exclaimed, jumping up from my seat and bending over to give him a hug, only to stop short. He chuckled at me slightly before standing next to me and hugging me instead.
"You'll be one of us soon enough so I wont have to work so hard, but I'll try my hardest to be closer to you and control myself. I really like you Bella and I'm glad you're marrying my brother" He said releasing me from his hug. Holding me at arms length he looked me up and down, finally resting his eyes upon my face he smiled.
"You really are good for him you know"
"Thanks Jazz, I'm really glad we talked. I really do want to be friends with you" I said to him
"And I you, Bella"
We stood in silence, looking at each other for a moment, until-
"BELLA!!!!" I Heard a great roar and loud thumping that sounded like...running? Suddenly I saw Emmett charging for me, only to pick me up, spin me round and hold me to his chest,
"When did you get here? I really wanted to talk to you about the wedding...Actually, it's more the wedding NIGHT I wanted to speak to you about" Grinning cheekily, Emmett tightened his grip on me and proceeded into the house and leaving Jasper in his wake.
Beginning the torture he was set to inflict upon me, he opened with
"Ok, Bella now, when a man and a woman love each other very much or are really REALLY Drunk..."
Oh God almighty...Jasper was definitely going to be the favourite brother.
* Ok, this was just a random little piece I was compelled to do. I've felt the urge to do a Bella/Jasper brother/sister fluffy bit for a while now but I've just never had the energy. My muse is the most random thing ever and attacks me at all hours of the day and night. Right now, I've just finished this piece and its 2:18, which goes to show exactly how random these things are. I really felt like this needed to be written and I know other people have done it before but I felt like doing it my way, and of course if I'm going to have a fic about brotherly love, then it would be blasphemy to exclude Emmett. LOL. Anyways, reviews are lovely welcome things and if they're filled with constructive criticism then bring 'em on, however if they're filled with flames, then I shall be compelled to put them in a blender and feed them to my cat, who will eat anything!
Much Luv to all
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Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach. I just own the plot
The soft sound of a buzzing alarm clock stirred him from his peaceful slumber, and tanned hand coming to slam down atop the annoying ringing device that had disturbed him. Vibrant blue locks were fanned across his pillow as he turned onto his side; trying his best to avoid having to get up. It was a Monday, or at least that's the day he thought it was. What did Monday's mean to him...well that was simple it meant school.
"Yah, Grimmjow Jaggerjaquez gets your lazy ass out of bed," someone shouted as they threw the door open to the other male's room. No response came from the blunet who still lay in bed. The person who had busted into his room just huffed, and took one of his shoes off, throwing it at the sleeping male. After no response he sighed, "Fine don't wake up. Be late to school for all I care," the red haired boy shouted.
He let a sigh fall from his lips as his roommate continued to drone in and in about how he would be late, how his future would be ruined if he didn't get up and attend class, and lastly how be he would end up having nothing if he didn't get up. Finally he snapped, "Enough Renji," he snapped, sitting himself up, and running his fingers through his hair. The blue sheets if his bed pooling around his waist, and exposing that muscular not to mention bare torso.
The redhead grinned as he watched his friend sit up, and a small victorious smile crawled onto his lips. "Haha, I knew my ranting would wake you up!" he said, doing a little victory dance in the doorway to the jocks room. Renji grinning from ear to ear now as he watched the blunet slowly crawl off his bed, "Good now that you're up I can go. Be downstairs inn fifteen minutes mister," he ordered as he walked away from the room.
The blunet couldn't help but chuckle at his friend's antics. Grimmjow now walking around his room in his boxers, the fabric hanging low on his hips, and he scratched his chest with the tips of his fingers as he made his way to his dresser. He looked at each folded piece of clothing as he opened the drawer, so after about five minutes of just looking at the clothes he finally pulled out a pair of black jeans that were ripped in the knee, and a pair of fresh boxers from the drawer above. Lastly he walked into his closet and grabbed a plain white shirt, and then he unhooked a black and red checkered shirt from the hanger. With all of his clothes for the day picked out he walked towards the bathroom. Humming a small tune to himself as he walked.
Thirty minutes later he was just walking down the stairs, and into the kitchen. He could feel Renji glaring at him from where he sat in the kitchen. If he had to guess the blonde was happen because he took longer than ten minutes to get ready. "Don't say anything," he said, walking past the table where his friend sat. Grimmjow grabbed a muffin from the basket on the counter, and then walking out to the hall to grab his bag. "You ready to go man?" he asked.
"I've been ready to go, Grimm," he answered, walking into the entryway shortly after responding.
On the other side of the neighborhood...
"Ichigo," a boy screamed from down the hall. The shuffling of feet could be heard, and the pace of the footsteps seemed to increase as the person neared the living room. A boy with bright blond hair skidded to a halt as he rounded the corner. "We're gonna be late!" the boy shrieked loudly, causing the other male that was lying on the couch to jump, and the papers and books on his lap falling to the ground. "Ichi-kins we gotta go," he said quickly, running over to the couch, and tugging on the orange haired boy's arm as hard as he could, and trying his best to get the other up onto his feet.
The boy named Ichigo was focusing on calming himself down. Having best friend Shinji run into the room at full speed startled him. Not to mention his arm started to throb a bit due to the younger boy pulling on his arm. "Shin, stop pulling on my arm, and we're not gonna be late. We have thirty minutes to get there," the orange haired boy said, pushing his glasses back up his face. "Besides I'm already dressed and ready to go. I was just working on the extra homework I requested," he tacked on.
"But Ichigo we have to leave early," the usually giddy blonde whined, slightly loosening his grip on his best friend's arm. "I wanna meet someone before classes start," he complained, his lower lip jutting out into a cute and utterly adorable pout.
Ichigo let out a sigh as he pushed the remaining books and papers onto the couch cushion beside him. "Is this about going to see that Nnotira guy?" he asked, at this the younger blushed a bit, but none the less nodded his head in response. He let a sigh fall from his lips as he pushed himself up to his feet. "Alright, I guess we can leave right now if it will make you happy," he murmured.
Shinji squealed happily as Ichigo stood up. Shinji literally throwing himself at his childhood friend wrapping his arms and legs tightly around the other, "You're the best Ichigo," he said with a wide smile, and placing a small kiss on the other man's cheek. Ichigo merely chuckled and ruffled his hair before prying the younger off of him.
With that said and out of the way the carrot top made his way back to his room with Shinji on his heels. Leaning down he grabbed his bag off his bed, and opening the top zipper he placed all of his binders in books in it before zipping it shut. Ichigo smoothing out his black and white checkered sweater vest, taking off his glasses and giving them a quick clean before placing them back in his face, and with a few minor adjustments to his wardrobe he and Shinji were out the door ten minutes later.
If there was one thing he hated more than school. It was all of the non-popular students who always tried to catch his attention, and try to associate with him. He was a jock, the captain of the swimming and basketball teams. He was popular, he was hot, and he was above all of the losers in the school. Of course there he sat at his usual table in the cafeteria with his friends Ulquiorra, Yami, Halibel, Gin, and Shuuhei. The six friends crowded around the table as they waited for classes to start. Each of them watching the students came into the cafeteria.
Beside him he could hear a small snicker come from Yami. "You know they really should have a section, or a divider to separate the popular from the unpopular," he said, and Grimmjow couldn't help but agree with him. He didn't say anything though. He looked at the rest if the group and some of them nodded their heads in agreement, well except for Gin and Shuuhei, who were currently busy making out, and in their own little world.
They had about fifteen minutes until the morning bell rang. Taking a look through the cafeteria the "blueberry" as his friends called him, noticed all the prom banners that hung along the wall, and dangled from the ceilings. He couldn't help but glare a little at all the decorations. It was that time of year again…the time of year where all the girls would be throwing themselves at him to get the chance to ask him to prom.
He turned his head when he felt a tap in his shoulder. "Hey Grimm I came up with an idea," Yami said, grinning widely as he looked at the other blunet.
"What's your idea Yami?" he asked, somewhat curious as to what the idea was.
"Well I was thinking along the terms if making a bet with you," he said, his grin widening a fraction of an inch. The blue haired jock nodded, and waited for him to continue. "The bet is gonna go like this. Ulqui and I will scout the cafeteria. We'll find you a nerd and you have to turn said person into the next prom king or queen. Sounds like fun, right?"
He cringed a bit at the thought of having to associate with the losers of the school. "What do I get if I win this bet, and what do you get if I lose?" he asked.
Yami was still wearing that creepy grin on his face, and Ulquiorra merely nodded his head as he heard his name. "Well if you lose the bet...well to be honest you'll just have to find out when you lose. Telling you would ruin the surprise. If you when we'll clean your house, and we will sit at the losers table for the year," Yami said, a sly grin sliding onto his lips. "So what do you say Grimm, you in?"
Well he was never one to turn down a challenge. Besides with all his connections he honestly doubted that he couldn't turn some random loser into the next prom king or queen. Grimmjow holding his hand out to Yami for the other to shake, "I'm in, just be ready to lose," he said, giving them a small grin.
"Let the games begin then," Ulquiorra said. Next to him Yami chuckled, and the two boys slowly rose from their seats. "Alright Grimmjow we'll be back with the name of the lucky winner," the raven haired boy said, the two walking off into the small crowd of students.
So there he sat in the back of the cafeteria. At a table that was in the corner of the room. His books and folders scattered across the table too as he worked on the schoolwork he had requested. Looking over the rims of his glasses he saw Shinji sitting with a tall boy with long black hair a couple of tables away from him.
He had to admit that sometimes he was envious of Shinji. Seeing as he was able to socialize with people easily, and that he had that cute and bubbly personality that attracted almost everyone to him. He was envious of the fact that he had managed to land a guy like Nnotira. They were a perfect match, and he was jealous by the fact that he would never meet his perfect match. Now that didn't say he hadn't been in a relationship before. Shirosaki, had been his first relationship, and that relationship hadn't turned out to well. Mainly due to the fact that the albino was way too clingy, and wouldn't let him go anywhere unless he could tag along. Shaking his head he brought himself out if his reminiscing, and lowered his head back down, and continued to work.
Little did the carrot top know that he was being watched, and the two boys smiled a bit as they looked at the hardworking man. "Oh he'll be perfect," one of them said. Turning in their heels they made their way back to their table. "Oh Grimmy, we've found your lucky winner."
Author's Note:
Okay here is the first chapter of my new GrimmIchi fic. Finally found my muse again. This fic is actually one of my fics from another website Asianfanfics, but I won't go into too much detail on that. So yeah this chapter is similar to the one I posted on AFF, with a few minor changes to it to fit the pairing. I know the summary sucks, but that's because FF limits us to a two hundred and fifty-five word count, which sucks. So anyway, I hope you guys enjoy this fic. Also, I want to know which of my fics you would like to see updated again, and I do plan on taking down some of them, so that I can edit them, and correct my mistakes.
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0.128527 | <urn:uuid:1d5301d3-ddf8-409e-9fcf-76d1821ca795> | en | 0.990598 | Wayward Spirits - A prelude to The Dawning of Power Brian Rathbone A World of Godsland Prequel Smashwords Edition Copyright © 2011 by Brian Rathbone. White Wolf Press, LLC Rutherfordton, NC 28139 Not all journeys begin with a destination; some are launched by ideas alone. --Aerestes, Captain of the Landfinder * * * A hand reached from the darkness and pulled Benjin into a narrow alley. The other hand closed over his mouth, but it was unnecessary, as he already knew the culprit. "Hush," Wendel said, as he pulled his hand away. The annoyed look on Benjin's face did nothing to stifle his grin. "Just hold tight until the rest have gone by. I don't want any wagging tongues to spoil our fun this time." Benjin winced. Whenever Wendel referred to "our fun", it generally meant his amusement and Benjin's terror. Though they had been friends since childhood, Benjin wondered how long it would take for Wendel to get them both killed, or just locked up. Though no one could prove it had been them, their recent 'horse manure in Master Edling's chair' prank had everyone looking at them sideways. This, Benjin knew, was no time to be taking more risks. When Nat Dersinger walked by, mumbling to himself, Benjin felt a moment of compassion. The poor young man seemed to attract unhappiness, and he wore it like a very heavy cloak. Even the way he hung his head and dragged his heels while he walked gave the impression of the universe pressing down on him--having a madman for a father probably had something to do with it. Wendel, on the other hand, looked as if he were ready to explode with energy. There was a gleam in his bluish-green eyes that made the girls blush, and a swagger in his walk that had even older men stepping out of his path. Sometimes Benjin wished he could muster the same courage that seemed to come naturally and unbidden to Wendel. "They're all in there. Let's go," Wendel said. "If we don't go to class, they'll make us take it again. You heard what Edling said last time, didn't you?" "What's Edling going to do? Tell everyone we didn't complete our studies and that they shouldn't hire us? I don't care if he does. I'll be training horses and you'll be working at the mill come fall whether we go listen to Edling ramble on or not. He probably won't even notice we're not there." Benjin scoffed at that. Master Edling was probably already thinking of ways to punish the boys. Still, the thought of showing up to class late, and bearing the brunt of Edling's ire in person was no more desirable, and they were already late. "I don't suppose one more missed class will hurt anything." A familiar feeling of tense anticipation filled Benjin's gut. Wendel just grinned at him. "I've a little coin. Let's get Grumman to get us some sausage breads." From shadow to shadow, the young men moved as if their lives depended on secrecy; it was part of the game. Baker Hollis swept his front walk, like he did every morning, and the boys waited until his back was turned before dashing across the cobbled-stone avenue to the bushy hedge that ran along the alleyway behind The Watering Hole. Even this early in the day, the stables were a busy place. Benjin and Wendel had to wait until Grumman finally sat down on a bale of hay for a break. "Psst. Hey Grumman," Benjin half-whispered, half-shouted. "Can you get us some sausage-breads?" Looking like a knobby gnome, Grumman scrunched up one side of his face and pulled his loose-hanging lips into a frown. "Who's over there a hidin'?" Wendel stepped out first, as he always did, and Benjin followed. It was a familiar pattern. "Ain't you two willow rats supposed to be at the academy?" "Master Edling is hungry and asked us to come get him some sausage breads," Wendel said with an overlarge smile and an air of innocence. "Uh huh, and that's why you was hidin' in the bushes, was it?" Grumman said, one eyebrow raised and making his expressive face look lopsided. "We didn't want to get you in trouble or nothing, and you know Miss Olsa don't like us in there," Wendel said. "Well, you're right about that part at least. She says you're a right pain in the britches, and that ya ain't got no sense, and there's no room for the likes of you in her kitchen. That's what she says." Grumman crossed his arms over his chest and squinted at them. "Yeah. I know," Wendel said; his smile never faded. A pair of shiny coins appeared in his hand. Benjin was always amazed at what Wendel could accomplish with only a smile and a coin. Resting in the shadow of the hedge, and licking their fingers after devouring the sausage breads, Benjin had to admit that this was far better than sitting through another boring class. "When you find 'em, bring 'em my way," Came an angry voice from not far away. "They're not so big that I can't whoop 'em." "Dad sounds pretty mad. We'd better go." "Go where?" Benjin asked. Wendel just shrugged, "I think the fun is about to begin." Both had played at stealth before, and they must have done an admirable job of it, as they were able to escape town without attracting any further attention. Not wanting to walk along the road where Wendel's father, Marix, would certainly be traveling at some point in the afternoon, they traveled along game trails, along with a few paths known only to them. "Now we're really going to be in trouble," Benjin said. "Maybe we should just go back." "Go back? Now? No way. That would just be admitting we did something wrong. And isn't that what all this coming-of-age garbage is all about? Aren't we supposed to be taking control of our own destinies? So what if we do that a few weeks early. I say it shows initiative." Wendel did have a point. The future was coming faster every day, and Benjin wondered what life planned for him. "Do I look like I want to spend the rest of my life working with a pitch fork and smelling like horse manure? Do you know what it's like to have a girl wrinkle her nose at you and tell you that you stink?" "No, but she was right. You do stink." "Stuff a melon in it," Wendel said, taking a half-hearted swing at Benjin, who laughed and dodged it easily. * * * With the auburn rays of the afternoon sun came the realization that they would need to return home soon. The uneasy feeling was all too familiar, and also part of why Wendel seemed so ready to rebel. Every time he got into trouble, he felt an even greater need for freedom--for the right to live his own life and make his own mistakes, no matter what they may be. Benjin had always shared some of his friend's feelings, which was why he so often found himself facing discipline, but he did not have the fire that burned in Wendel's eyes. For him, a safe and uneventful existence did not seem like such a bad thing, but it was like asking Wendel to live in a cage. "We should go," Benjin said. "Yeah. I suppose we should," Wendel agreed, kicking a nearby stone in frustration. It was a quiet hike back toward the farmland where they lived, only the sound of their boots on the forest floor accompanying them. Darkness was growing deeper when they moved into a clearing; both knew the place and that they were now not far from the wagon trail. Long shadows bathed the clearing mostly in violet with highlights of orange and blue. Near the center stood a black mass that moved with the wind; the rustle of leaves and the smell of moldy soil filled the air. "What in the world is that?" Wendel asked, stepping forward, but then he took two steps backward when the dark shape moved, unfolding itself. Before them stood a towering figure in robes of darkness. Within his hood waited a face shaped by pain with sunken eyes surrounded by shadow, and hollow cheeks covered in translucent skin. The burnt orange light made him look all the more unnatural. "Do not fear. I have come only to speak with you," Matteo Dersinger said, his voice deep and resonant. Under the gaze of a madman, Wendel could find no words and responded only with silence. "I believe you know my son." Again, silence. "If he were stronger, I would not be here, but he is weak, and I am looking for someone much heartier." "I-" Benjin began to say, but Matteo just stared down at him and silenced him with nothing but a thought. "You may leave," Matteo said to Benjin. "It is your friend to whom I wish to speak." Part of Benjin was tempted to leave, to run and not look back, but that was the part he needed to leave behind, the voice he must quell if he were ever truly to become a man. In the next moment it didn't matter, since Matteo turned his gaze on Wendel, and Benjin might well have ceased to exist. "I am told that you have no fear. It would appear that I am misinformed." "I'm not afraid of you," Wendel said, puffing out his chest as he did. "You just surprised me before." "Hmm. Perhaps. What would you say if I told you that the world was in grave danger, and that a hero was needed to save us all?" "I'd say you should stop by the playhouse. I hear their casting the part of "crazy old coot", and I do believe you've nailed it. "What they say about your sharp tongue is true, I see. And what of your prowess? Would you care to bring me down?" Matteo seemed to further unfold, and only then did Benjin realize that the madman held his staff. Those who had seen it up close agreed that it was without peer. None could say how it had been made, or when, or by whom. It was but another piece of the mystery that was Matteo Dersinger. Benjin sucked in a sharp breath when Wendel flashed out into the growing darkness, grabbing onto Matteo's staff as he did, looking as if he would sweep the leg's out from underneath the taller man. But that wasn't what happened at all. A brief spark of light leaped out to meet Wendel's outstretched hand, and there was a loud pop. Something that looked like a striking snake was seared into Benjin's vision, and he looked back up to see Matteo's fist strike Wendel's chest. His friend flew backward for a short distance before crashing to the ground with a grunt. "You have proven that you are either brave or a fool. Get up and do not come at me again, or I will not go so easy on you the next time." Pulling himself slowly from the grass, Wendel stood, looking like he'd been mule-kicked. Benjin couldn't be certain, but it looked as if his clothes were smoking. "I will now ask you again. What would you say if I told you that the world was in grave danger, and that a hero was needed to save us all?" "I'd say that I am that hero," Wendel said, as he wiped his chin, looking down to see if there was blood. Benjin coughed. "Hmph." Matteo looked doubtful. Wendel stood up to the insult, looking as if he might take one more try at Matteo's defenses. Matteo chuckled, deep and low, so that it almost sounded like a growl. "Will you do what must be done then?" "Maybe if I knew what it was that needed to be done," Wendel said, raising his hand in exasperation. "You make no sense, old man. And you may have gotten in a lucky shot, but don't try me again, as your luck will run out." In that moment the world grew dark, and only a feral light cast from the staff illuminated Matteo's angry visage. He seemed to grow taller and more imposing--he blotted out the rest of the world and commanded them to listen. "The goddess Istra will come again, and the mighty will be laid low. Terror and fire will rain from the skies, and one will come to rule them all. One will come to be the death or the savior of them all!" Silence followed the echoes of his words, which surely had been heard across the valley. "And?" Wendel said with a look of annoyance. Matteo nearly growled, but then he just smiled, which Benjin found even more frightening. "You must go to the Greatland and find out everything you can about the return of Istra. The Zjhon have knowledge they are hiding from the world, and we must know what it is. That is what must be done." Snorting, Wendel bent over with laughter, "The Greatland? Really? You want me to go to the land of fairy tales and legends? Should I fly there?" "I have arranged a ship." Those words reduced Wendel's arrogance to silence. "You're serious, aren't you?" Wendel asked. No one could look more serious than the man that currently towered over them. * * * "This is ridiculous," Benjin said for what seemed the fifteenth time, the weight of the bag that Matteo had brought for them weighing on him more than just physically. How had the man known they would come? "You can't just leave. What would I tell your father? It would break your mother's heart." "Just tell them that I'll be back." Benjin snorted. "So I'm just supposed to walk all the way to the Arghast desert with you, watch you get on some strange ship, and then walk home. Alone." "Or you could come with me," Wendel said. It left a silence to hang between them. Benjin walked with his head hung, trying to find a way to make the madness stop. Never would he have guessed this day would end with his best friend leaving on a journey from which he might never return. Everyone had heard the old tales about the Greatland, but none really believed it existed. After all, no other peoples had made contact with them for thousands of years. What evidence was there that anyone else even existed? Those who had sought to find the Greatland in the past had never returned, and Benjin considered that a pretty good indicator. "We're going to need some shelter," Wendel said. Thunder rumbled through the valley, and for the first time, Benjin noticed the storm clouds closing in. Perhaps he would learn to look up once in a while. Raindrops began to pound the leaves, and the thought of sleeping out in the rain drove them both to greater speed. "Maybe there's a cave we can camp in, or even an overhang. Let's get closer to the north face." The Chinawpa Valley cradled them, and the north face stood between them and the larger Pinook Valley. Benjin had always believed that Wendel led some kind of charmed life, and this instance only supported that conclusion. "Wait here," Wendel said, and then he scrambled up a pile of rocks that reclined against the cliff face, looking almost like a sleeping giant. Benjin wanted to tell Wendel to slow down and be more careful, but then Wendel disappeared, and Benjin held his breath. A moment later, a grinning Wendel reappeared. "You're never gonna believe this!" Not waiting to hear more, Benjin climbed. It took him twice as long to reach the top, and Wendel stood waiting impatiently. In the meantime, he had cleared away debris from what looked to have been a landslide, given the mixture of rock, soil, and trees that had been snapped into smaller pieces. Benjin tried to imagine the force it had taken to snap a full sized tree, but he found he could not even imagine such a thing. "Help me get some of these smaller branches out of this pile," Wendel said. "We're going to need some light." Uncertain whether to be excited or afraid, Benjin allowed his friend to have his moment. Soon he would know what lay in the darkness. The rains intensified, and they were driven into the chamber to flee the deluge. Though much of the wood was wet and some of it still green, a bunch of dead leaves served well to get the fire going. Wendel took a few minutes to gloat about the fact that he had his tinderbox with him. "How many times have I said that if you don't carry it when you don't need it, you won't have it when you do." The words were lost on Benjin, who now had a better view of their surroundings, and it stole the air from his lips. Their fire rested in the middle of a sloping hall with squared corners and scrollwork around the edges. Not far beyond, the hall opened into a chamber of unknown size. It was so vast that the light of their fire was simply swallowed up by the dark void, like the fabled entrance to the underworld. What amazed Benjin the most, though, was the rippling reflection that faded into the distance. Water. Dark, silent water. Like a brooding specter, it waited to swallow them and none would ever know. Who would ever guess where they had gone? Cold fear clutched Benjin as he imagined their families tormented by their sudden and unexplained absence. He wanted to go home, to turn back and face any rebukes he deserved for his thoughtless actions. One look at Wendel proved that his thoughts were of a different nature. "This is amazing!" he said, and Benjin couldn't disagree. The next few hours were spent assembling a raft from the pieces of tree trunks they pulled in from the landslide. Benjin found himself lost in imagination while he wound vines into crude rope and lashed together the logs. His guilt could wait. Before him was an adventure beyond any he had ever imagined, and for once, he thought Wendel might be right; perhaps they were not meant for cleaning stalls and cutting wood, maybe life did have grand plans for them after all! Climbing onto that raft, a stripped sapling for a pole, was one of the craziest things Benjin had ever done. Wendel wasted no time and pushed them out to deeper water before pulling himself onto the raft. Benjin gave him credit. Wading in that black water was beyond his courage, and he hoped the raft would hold; it dipped below the water under Benjin's weight, but it remained afloat. Looking as if they were standing on water, they poled along the perimeter of the enormous cavern, which was almost completely enclosed within the mountain, only a sliver of sky visible through an opening high in the cavern ceiling. Pointed structures extended from the cavern ceiling toward the water, like giant teeth, as if they were in the mouth of a colossal monster. The image made Benjin's skin crawl, and then Wendel shouted out, his wordless cry echoing loudly in the vacuous space. It took only an instant for Benjin to see the doorway that emerged from the darkness. Simple yet elegant, the doorway was clearly the work of people, yet the tunnel was completely blocked by stone piled all the way to the ceiling. Wendel gave a couple rocks a good shove, with the only effect being that they were thrust away from the entranceway. Farther along the shoreline they encountered more entranceways, and every one was blocked like the first. "I don't think they wanted anyone to get in there," Benjin said. "Let's get back before this torch goes out completely." The torch soon burned out, and only the light of their dwindling campfire guided them back to shore. After pulling the raft from the black water, they lifted one end and leaned it against the cavern wall. Taking a closer look at the supplies Nat had packed for them, hoping for something tasty to eat, both were disappointed to find hard travel biscuits, which Wendel said tasted like rocks even if you boiled them. Still hungry but tired enough to sleep on bare rock, each curled up with little more than dry leaves to rest their heads on. When the sun rose and a beam of light poured in through the hall, it seemed as if they had gone to sleep only moments before. Eyes squinted and their minds thick with sleep, they washed in the chill waters of the subterranean lake. Benjin pushed back his fears from the night before but was glad to be away from the shoreline when he had finished. Wendel stood at the doorway, his bag slung over one shoulder. "You should probably head back from here." Benjin stood speechless. This was a moment he had been dreading, the moment when he would have to say goodbye to his friend. Even if he didn't always agree with Wendel, and even if they seemed to find no end of trouble together, Benjin could not picture his life without his best friend. "I need to get moving and take advantage of the daylight. I want to reach the desert by nightfall if I can." Benjin could still find no words. When Wendel turned to leave, Benjin forced his tongue to speak, "Couldn't we stay here and explore the cavern? That would be an adventure, wouldn't it? And imagine what they'll say when we come back and tell them about this place. We'll be heroes." "What good will that do if Matteo is right?" "You actually believe what he said? Did you see the look in his eyes? I'm not sure he's all there." Wendel just shrugged. "The world needs a hero, and I'm going." Benjin followed without another word. * * * Along a stretch of meandering shoreline, golden sands disappeared beneath ice-blue waves, gulls skittering along the receding water and coaxed a meal from the tide. Two sets of footprints drew a seemingly endless path after days of walking. Even the travel cakes were gone, and hunger added to the heat and lack of good sleep made it seem as if Benjin was walking in a dream. Wendel walked alongside him, uncharacteristically silent and sullen. The reality that Matteo Dersinger might just be a crazy old man and that they had walked to the coast of a hostile desert for absolutely nothing must have hit him. "I thought for sure that they were just waiting farther east, but how far do I walk before giving up?" Wendel asked. Benjin tried to mention that finding the underground lake alone was worth the trip, but it seemed to only embarrass Wendel more, and his friend retreated further, his mood darkening. By both of their counts, the ship should have been there three days before. When it didn't come on the appointed day, Benjin had suggested they go back, but Wendel had grown angry at the idea and insisted they keep moving. Now, days later, it seemed he might be ready to face reality. The calls of gulls still filled the air around them, but new noises were intertwined, and at first Benjin didn't notice them, but they grew louder until they were no longer drowned out, and he heard a voice across the waves, "Ho there!" The sound of it caused him to stumble, and with one knee in the sand he turned to see a tall-masted ship in shallow water. Tanned and tattooed men worked to lower a boat into the water, and it was soon moving toward shore, six men working the oars. Moments later one of them stood on shore, looking most uncomfortable. "I'm Kenward Trell, captain of the Slippery Eel. I suppose one of you strapping lads is seeking passage to the Greatland?" "It really exists?" Benjin asked without thinking, and Kenward cast him a sideways glance. "Would I offer to take you somewhere that doesn't exist?" "Of course you wouldn't. Many apologies," Benjin said under the weight of Kenward's stare. The man was plain looking and not physically imposing, yet there was a deadly threat in his lithe movements that made Benjin certain he wouldn't want to cross the good captain. "Please tell me you're the one looking for adventure, and not your slow friend here." "I am indeed," Wendel said. "Good. You look like you might guard the railing for a few days, but you should make it. I wouldn't give your friend a week at sea." "I can hold my stomach. I'll bet you can't get this boat back out through those waves." Wendel said, pointing to a place along the beach where waves as tall as three men rolled into deadly breakers. "I bet I can!" Kenward said with a grin, his eyes lit with that same fire Benjin recognized from Wendel. Before he could say anything else, Wendel and Kenward were headed back to the boat. Watching his friend leave, Benjin felt as if he were being torn in two, and he ran along behind them. "Wait! Don't go. Wait!" Kenward waded into the surf, and Wendel awkwardly boarded the boat. Unable to make them stop, Benjin did the only thing he could think of and climbed in behind Wendel. His friend pulled him in. "I knew you'd decide to come." Benjin wasn't certain what he believed in that moment. Rolling breakers loomed ahead, and he swallowed hard. The surf would soon bar him from his past, his home, and all that he loved. Only his friendship with Wendel kept him from swimming back, and then it seemed the breakers would toss them all into the water. Kenward and his men kept them from capsizing, but it was a close thing. When they boarded the Slippery Eel, Benjin's guts were already churning. "Is that all the faster this thing will go?" Wendel asked once they were underway. The deck fell silent, the crew waiting to see what their captain would do. Taking a step toward, Kenward barked a laugh. "Full sail! Make for speed!" Then he pointed at Benjin. "And I'd not stand downwind of that one. He's gonna blow." Benjin swallowed hard, partly from feeling sick and partly because he was certain Wendel and Kenward were competing to see who could get them killed first. Little did he know that this journey would see his world forever changed, and that everything he had ever known would be at risk. 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Monday, February 10, 2014
More than 700 people were evacuated off a PATCO train near the Ben Franklin Bridge after passengers reported smelling smoke.
Officials say it happened approximately 5:16 p.m. Monday as the six-car train headed eastbound towards the bridge.
"We got a report of smoke on the tracks and the train was in the tunnel and the train was shut down," said Battalion Chief Robert Clark.
Firefighters and police converged on the scene. However authorities say the train did not fill with smoke and there was never evidence of an actual fire.
Nearly 750 passengers were onboard and they smelled the smoke and felt the train come to a stop just as it started out of the tunnel.
"The conductor said not to panic that she was shutting the engine off and that we were most likely going to have to evacuate towards the back of the train," said Megan Kowalski.
"I was panicking a little in the beginning just because the smoke was so horrible and I just didn't know what was going on," said Michelle Butvilas.
Butvilas snapped some cell phone photos as firefighters boarded the dark train. For a long time everyone just waited.
"Everybody was very calm. Nobody was getting upset. Everybody started texting families and letting them know what was going on," said Melinda Lamb.
Then, they were escorted car by car out of the back of the train to an abandoned PATCO station beneath Franklin Square where another train was waiting to take them on their way.
"Once we got off the train, it was pretty dark but there were firefighters all along the route," said Butvilas.
Some didn't want to board another train and climbed the stairs into the open air where they had other rides waiting.
The last person escorted out was the train's operator - who was given oxygen and taken away in a waiting ambulance.
PATCO officials found that the smoke came from a short in the motor.
Two passengers were checked out at the scene but not transported to the hospital.
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Kenya: When the Dust Settled - Part Two
A large herd of buffalos had arrived gracefully at the waterhole, tired and thirsty from a long trek. They had briefly colonised the waterhole, some of them dipping themselves inside the reservoir while others just stood there to guard the resource against other animals.
But that lasted as long as the mighty elephants arrived. The buffalos were chased away and the elephants took over. To emulate the buffalos, some juvenile elephants also went inside the pool and displaced some water that flowed out of the pool, to the blessings of the smaller grazers who were standing by unable to compete with the giants of the African plains.
When the dust settled and the pecking order had been established around the waterhole, the animals retreated under an acacia tree to wait for the sun to go down before they could head back to their home ranges.
As is the normal practice with grazers resting together regardless of species, one or several of them will stand as sentries to watch out for danger.
The ruminants will be chewing cud while scanning the plains, taking turns to make sure that everyone has a chance to rest. The journey back could take several hours and they all need strength. We also relaxed at the poolside with a cold beer, marvelling at the simple yet strict organisation within the animal world.
Suddenly, an impala gave out an alarm call. There was an instant reaction within the whole group that was within the waterhole. Those who were asleep woke up immediately.
They all understood the call from the impala. Within the animal world, there are sounds, or calls that are intra-specific. That is, the calls can only be interpreted by members of the same species as the caller.
But in coping with increased predation, some grazers have learnt to interpret calls of danger even if the caller is not of the same species. In this instance, a call from an impala had been understood by zebras, Thomson gazelles, buffalos, baboons and even mongoose.
Baboons hurriedly climbed to the top-most branches of the acacia tree, while the rest just stood on the ready, all gazing in one direction.
We followed the direction where all the animals were looking. At almost a distance of three kilometres, a shadowy shape of the king of the jungle, a large male lion with blackened mane was slowly approaching the lodge waterhole.
From time to time, he would stop to take a breath of fresh air, and then he would be swallowed again into his own dust. We waited for him for almost half an hour.
He finally arrived within 50 meters from the waterhole and then stopped. Although he was a strong adult male, he looked out of place and lacked the confidence of a king. It was evident he was coming from far and he had crossed over an occupied territory to reach here. He had to be sure the resident owner was not around. At his state, he did not want to risk a fight. He was too tired and thirsty.
Having confirmed that it was safe to continue, he advanced towards the waterhole. When he was about 20 metres, I expected to see all the little grazers run for their dear lives.
They did not. They simply walked behind the elephants and the buffalos, just in case. But they showed little signs of fear. It was as though they understood his intension. To drink.
The king of the jungle had his fill while the animals watched. When he was done, he headed for the same tree shading most of the grazers.
That was when we saw the first reaction from the elephants. While the rest of the animals vacated the shade and walked towards the bushes, the elephants stood their ground!
At one point, a little juvenile walked towards the lion, lifted his head and made himself look very huge by spreading his ears, then made a mock charge making as much noise as he could.
The lion stopped midway through, looked at the herd of adult elephants under the shade, then at the approaching juvenile. Slowly, he turned and walked back to the waterhole and squeezed himself into a small shade made by a large stone.
Another hierarchical order had been established. It was as though the lion was telling the elephants, "Keep your shade, I will keep the waterhole." I just wondered; who is the king then?
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I would like to add Namecoin support to my Android phone (galaxy s) like this: http://dot-bit.org/How_To_Install_Dns_Suffix
I managed to mount the system as read-write and add a resolv.conf to my etc folder like this:
search namecoin-suffix
Now it works fine with nslookup but not with ping or any other program. Is there anything else I have to do?
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looks like Android does not use resolv.conf at all.
net.dns.search -> space separated domain search suffixes (used e.g. by VPN)
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I haven't tried this, but a quick look at Android's bionic libc sources seems to indicate that Android might use /etc/ppp/resolv.conf:
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93 * Resolver configuration file.
94 * Normally not present, but may contain the address of the
95 * initial name server(s) to query and the domain search list.
96 */
98 #ifndef _PATH_RESCONF
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101 #else
102 #define _PATH_RESCONF "/etc/resolv.conf"
103 #endif
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osborne unveiled the government's proposed tax and spending plans to members of the british house of commons. he told members 600,000 more jobs will be added this year according to forecasters. corporation tax will be cut to 20%, the lowest tax rate than any other economy in the world. in his one-hour speech, chancellor osborne announced measures aimed at assisting small business owners, first- time homebuyers, and british veterans. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. mr. deputy speaker, this is a budget for people who aspire to work hard and get on. it's a budget for people who realise there are no easy answers to problems built up over many years. just the painstaking work of putting right what went so badly wrong. and together with the british people we are, slowly but surely, fixing our country's economic problems. we've now cut the deficit not by a quarter, but by a third. we've helped business create not a million new jobs, but one and a quarter million new jobs. we've kept interest rates at record lows. but mr. deputy speaker, despite the progress we've made, th
a blue-collar conservative project which has taxes are people who work hard, do the right thing and want to get on? stop spending billions of pounds we don't have on overseas aid where we saw -- helping with their cost of living -- [inaudible] >> first of all, can i thank the honorable frien thing for givine the opportunity to remind people that even before this budget in two weeks time there will be a tax cut for 24 million people in our country? [shouting] as we raise the amount of money you can earn before you pay tax come we will take an over too many people out the tax altogether. we have frozen the council tax. we have canceled fuel duty increase after fuel duty increase, and we are legislating -- and i can also tell him where not going to carry on with a proposal made by the previous energy secretary which was about 179 pounds on everybody's bill. we decided to scrap that. >> ed miliband. [shouting] >> trento want to ask the primers about the situation in cyprus. can the prime minister update the house what is being done to protect the british nationals including our armed forces
the sequester and in committee, democrats proposed to close those special interest tax loopholes that riddle our tax code, republicans said no. democrats proposed to offset unwise republican cuts to medical research like alzheimer's, cancer, diabetes research at n.i.h., republicans said no. democrats tried to cut the special interest spending in the tax code to offset republican cuts to students who rely on pell grants but republicans said no. mr. van hollen: i yield the gentleman another minute and a half. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. ms. castor: the democrats in the budget committee proposed to strengthen medicare and replace the republican plan to turn medicare into a voucher program. all it does is simply shift the cost tour families and older neighbors. mr. speaker, this republican budget is not consistent with american values. it is not fiscally responsible. it is a charade, it is a capitulation to the tea party. it does not serve us well in economic recovery and the ways we want to grow america. it's a plan for economic weakness. it's a receding vision of american greatness. in
their proposals on taxes. under their budget, the top rate is to be reduced from 39.6% to 25%. the a.m.t. will be repealed. the corporate tax rate will be cut from 35% to 25%. but you don't find one sill bell in the republican budget on how these tax cuts will be paid for. . they don't identify a single tax policy that will end. the republican budget would mean a huge tax cut for the very wealthy, several $100,000 a year and leave a nearly $6 trillion hole in the deficit that would lead to tax increases for middle-income families. that isn't balance. that is total imbalance. at the same time, republicans propose cutting $3.3 trillion from programs for people with low and moderate incomes, including hundreds of billions of dollars for food nutrition and medicaid programs. so i want to end by asking the republicans when they come and talk about their tax proposals to name a specific that they would address. it's not in the republican budget. name one, name two, name three. otherwise, it's worse than empty. the chair: the time of the gentleman has expired. the gentleman from wisconsin.
it to the rich. let's raise taxes trillions of dollars. let's go and stick it to special interests like people who he provide gasoline at the pump. to raise taxes on oil companies. ladies and gentlemen, every time you raise taxes, you raise prices. and every time you race -- raise prices the consumer has to pay more for it. these are the ideas that make america less able to be prepared for its future and cost more money. that's why when you look at this slide you see where the laws already enacted by the democrats are leading america to where we will be functionally bankrupt. we are following theure peaian model exactly what -- the european model exactly what they have done over there for a number of years and now we are seeing firsthand, iceland, greece, cyprus just yesterday. this is the pathway that if our friends, the democrats, get their say, this is where they'll lead us. so republicans through paul ryan spoke about we want to make sure that medicare, social security, that the free enterprise system is alive and well by making these plans and the process therein ready for the employers a
wanted to commend it administration for its aggressiveness in getting this person. a tax that may be planned by al qaeda -- attacks that may be planned by al qaeda. all of us should agree that the work that you have done and what the fbi has done since 9/11, really protecting the country against any massive domestic terrorist attacks, and all of your activities internationally, it has really been remarkable. not itscy, it was primary focus on 9/11, but as much of the country, we've had to focus more intently on this issue. i do want to bring you back home. my final question is about the budget and appropriations and the department of justice. we imprison more people than any other nation in the world through our state and federal prison systems. 24% of the doj budget -- you are at about 29%. it will continue to rise. at some point, we need to think differently about what we're doing with people. i have constituents, family, children, we all want to be protected from dangerous people. a society ought to be protected. people involved in wrongdoing should be punished. at some point a
now that they are working on does nothing more than raise taxes. they want more of your money, more money out of your paycheck. ask yourself does washington really need more of your money? we are $16 trillion in debt. we have deficits we can't even wrap our arms around, and they want more of your money. if you were a financial advisor that put you $1 million in debt and ripped through your college savings for your children and all of your checking account and said, just give me more money and we'll solve the problem, would you do it? absolutely not. more than jobs, though, we are also working to save medicare and social security, the commitments that we have made to the american people. so let's take a look here at the big picture. here's a budget breakdown of where we are at right now. look, your eyes are glazed over and we start talking about the trillions of dollars that we spend, but let's take a look at what you pay versus what you expect. this big blue part right here? that's on auto pilot. no adults have come to the table to talk about where we are at today and how to actuall
a tax. andxes when you earn money the government takes away some of your money. all this is a basic issue of fairness. there is not a spare room subsidy for people in private rental accommodations in receipt of housing benefits. so we should ask why is there a ?pare room subsidy this government is putting it right. the youth led digital increasing cutting machine. tomorrow, nestlÉ opened the brand-new's date of the mark -- state-of-the-art plant. does my right honorable friend agree with me that these significant investments show that this government is making written well-equipped to win the global race. >> i think my honorable friend is absolutely right. i do see investment taking place by large multinational companies like nestlÉ who recognize now we have one of those come additive tax systems anywhere else in the world. kpmg recently reported that come in just two years, we have gone from having one of the least competitive corporate taxes in the world to having one of the most competitive. what has changed is the arrival of this chancellor and this government that has put rig
taxes taken out of the pockets of hardworking american families, more government spending which adds to the trillions of dollars in debt that will be handed down to the next generation. our friends on the other side of the aisle talk about a balanced approach, but they refuse to even balance their own budget. our vision calls for a stop to washington's failed policies and reckless spending. it says american families and small businesses understand you can't spend more than you take in. you need to balance your budget, and it's time for washington to do the same. this vision seeks to protect the things that we value most, to keep the promises we made to our seniors, to our veterans. i'm the son of a u.s. marine. while at the same time allowing us to leave a better future for our kids and our grandkids, that's the vision i want to work toward and that's why i'm proud to support the house budget committee's proposal which we'll be voting on later this week. this isn't about passing a budget for one year, just one time. this is about creating lasting solutions that help grow our economy
the americans people and addresses things that are important to american families. you know, fixing the tax code, lowering the rates means more jobs and higher wages for the american people. voting for this budget means voting for the keystone pipeline. american-made energy means more jobs and lowering energy prices for the marn people. supporting patient-centered reforms means more jobs and lower health care costs for the american people. and protecting and strengthening medicare meeds a secure retirement for older americans. cutting waste means more airness and accountability for hardworking taxpayers. doing this means preserving the american dream, which is what we were sent here to do. we've balanced the budget before. 1997, republican congress working with a democrat president, bill clinton, came together to put the plan that would in fact balance the budget and we did. for four years ran a budget surplus. the president has an opportunity during this critical debate to come forward and to help make this part of his legacy like it has become part of the clinton legacy. working together on be
realistically think it's going away any time soon? the republican fantasy budget reduces taxes dramatically without a hint of how it would be possible. without exploding the deficit or dramatically raising taxes on the middle class. this is consistent with what the romney ryan ticket said on the campaign trail last fall. the same issue where they dodged, assembled, and ignored the perfectly reasonable question how is it possible? six months later it's back in the budget but there's still -- but there still is no answer. during the last 40 years there have been only four budgets without deficits. the last three clinton budgets and the one that george bush inherited from bill clinton. in each case taxes as a percentage of the total economy were over 20%. in this republican fantasy land budgets are balanced with revenues at 19% of the economy, yet meeting the needs of 78 million more seniors and a infrastructure deficit that is growing as america is falling apart. clearly this is not remotely possible if we are going to enjoy anything like our current quality of life. there is a real world int
as democrats went on record favoring almost $1 trillion in tax increases. little talk about that a later on in the program. for the first 45 minutes of this edition of the washington journal, we are going to be talking about the affordable care act. thirdebrates its anniversary today. it is known as obamacare. we want to find out your thoughts about the affordable care act three years and. here are the numbers, if you want to give us a call -- reach out to also us by social media. you can follow us on twitter, we you canacebook, and send us an e-mail. the address is journal@c- span.org. thatis one of the items came from yesterday's express, the washington post express. the headline -- want to show you and let you listen in to what the president had to say the signing of the affordable care act three years ago, and then we will get to your calls. [video clip] >> it was your work, your commitment come a your unyielding hope that made the surgery possible. when special interests deployed an army of lobbyists, negative ads to preserve the status quo, you did not give up. you hit the phones a
. . . . >> it is a tax on new homebuyers. >> i wouldn't say it is a tax. path of continually raising it. you are talking about a piece that was put in place when the mortgage markets were in distress. we are looking at the composition of them including adverse markets and assessing what you're talking about. the overall path we are on is to continue to increase. >> let me ask you about long level price adjustments. they are three percentage point. they make fannie and freddie execution uncompetitive relative to the fha. reducing these fees would make high ltb lows more competitive. do you agree that they are distracting the market and hampering the return of capital? raise them, more we the more we will encourage private capital into this marketplace. 's with the administration intent on winding down fannie and freddie, is it your sincere and honest belief that the private market in and of itself this void? especially considering that 90% -- this is a huge void. 90% of all of the new mortgages are done by freddie and fannie. -- i am notng satisfied that we have something that
to raise the road use tax because we don't have enough to build our roads. now road use tax, that really should cause a person to think. that is a user's fee. we pay it in the gas that we buy, and we expect that when that nozzle goes into our tank and when we squeeze the nozzle to buy the gas we watch the dollars and they go up really fast when you see gas that's over four bucks a gallon, we watch those dollars go up on the pump. we also realize between the state and federal government a lot of us are paying 40-plus cents a gallon to build the road that we're wearing out with the gas we put in. that's a user's fee. when i came here and break this down and asked the question, of tax/user rth of gas fee, 18.3 cents a gallon, $1 of that, how much of that actually goes into roads and bridges? and i'll tell you it adds up like this -- then we reduce it a little bit on this number. three cents out of that dollar went for trails for bike trails, snowmobile trails and that sort of thing. 3%. there was a one time $16 million in one of our appropriation bills to do -- to clean graffiti off of the
, in terms of what they're doing with budget and taxes and everything else. host: we will talk with april -- reporter on the hill. ,et's go to fredericksburg virginia, republican, also a federal worker. caller: hi. i am with the department of defense, and we have done it numerous options on how to deal with the sequester. the department of defense has been hours with the sequester. it has certainly affected the tempo of our work. i think it is going to severely affect defense workers morale in a lot of ways. this is really ridiculous. both senatorsto from june -- virginia. unless they fix this things, i am not going to vote for them. atm looking very closely how my congressman is handling the situation. anything to doing fix it, i will try and vote him out, also. the congressmen are doing themselves a disservice. host: what is actually happening? you laid out a lot of discussions taking place at your workplace and terms of various scenarios, how things can be handled. a few, what is happening? caller: i am in education, and we have civilians students and military in the same classes. of t
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in the unlikely, deep blue state of washington. talkingt door-to-door, about taxes and other items, and they flip them to a fiscally responsible majority, is. -- and they flipped them. the torch of liberty, the constitution in our country, will they perish or last? if we stand and speak for our principles, if we show americans our vision for the future, if we fight for freedom, our country will last. [applause] glasses with a powerful elite? the face ofnk in opposition? or will you stand boldly on principle? patriots, stand with us and fight for freedom, fight for our constitution, fight with us for the rights endowed by our creator, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, fight for a better future, like ronald reagan did, like. paul, michele bachmann, scott walker. tea party patriots around this country do it every day. when you stand and fight, we will stand with you. when they fight on capitol hill, together, we will have their back. we will stand and fight for those who fight for us. fight for freedom. fight for a better future. fight. thank you so much. god bless you. god bless america.
night senators voted to eliminate the medical device tax. if you put that in the budget, if it is allowed to come up, it will go through the senate and through the house. ands counterproductive counter prudence in terms of supplying equipment to people whether it be a diabetic or a heart patient. reason why other it's good. i do not doubt that we should spend time -- there are a lot of talks that are being discussed about reaching -- reaching a grand bargaining. you've reached the president with his sleeves rolled up, working with senators of the other party and representatives and they will come to the consensus. wea note for our viewers, were talking about this on friday as the senate is taking of the democrats of budget and there is a marathon session going on. though ahead. >> senator ammann i want to talk about the way these go forward. are you saying it is important to get senators on record for a medical device tax. are there other boats were you want to get senators? is there a better way of doing this goal -- going forward. , it is novel to you because we have n
is bad for our entire economy. it reduces tax revenues, productivity, so it is very important week act to address unemployment. i think most people would agree the federal reserve has been fairly active in that regard. in terms of costs, there are a number of different costs. i mention them in my remarks. one that has been recently discussed, the governor brought it up in a speech, the issue of financial stability. financial instability, if it were allowed to be sufficiently serious, would be a threat to jobs and production. given the experience of the past few years, we want to be sure we are not encouraging excessive risk-taking or other problems in the financial markets. we do address that through a number of means, including monitoring the financial system, communication and the like, but this is something colleagues are worried about. >> why not use it as a tool to increase the power? ableain, we have not been to come to an agreement about what guidance we should give an part of the concern is that we go forward and we will have to factor in the efficacy, another issue, and there
,ave tax but neither would balance the budget in 10 years. also the congressional black caucus and the congressional progressive caucus will be introducing budget. it's possible a ryan version could be introduced in the senate. >> what is likely to happen in the senate this week? >> it will be democrats making the case for the patty murray budget. convince someto democratic senators who may not support that budget. they will have to sell it to democratic senators as well as republicans. no republicans are likely to vote for the budget. they will be calling for more spending cuts, no tax increases, balancing the budget sooner. >> republicans say this to be the first time in four years they have agreed to put forward a plan. why is this your difference? are a number of different things. there is a law that was passed that the members of congress will not get paid unless the have a budget resolution. , the debtwo years limit law basically established discretionary spending amounts, so you technically did not need a budget the last couple of years. also, democrats in the senate hav
-partisan and bipartisan. someone who is non-partisan says higher taxes no taxes, no big deal. amnesty, deportation, whatever. but i think it's not about people abandoning their principles but finding common ground with people, even if they can't agree on everything, finding some things on which to agree. >> i was just a house member. >> president clickman. >> if anybody else would like a promotionless us know. we have another half an hour. >> members of congress as congressman talks about get elected to represent a district. we could have a long conversation about redistricting and about how in most states in this country if you are elected in a seat that is overwhelmingly a democrat or republican you are never going to lose that seat unless you compromise with somebody on the other side. but two people get elected by everybody in the united states. it seems to be i know this is something you've thought about given your time in the president. a president of the united states has a unique role to reach out to both sides in congress. without getting into a current events debate, i think we can agree
an amendment the medicalveal device tax in the 2010 health care law. again, the debate is underway. we caught up with a capitol hill reporter for inside information on the budget proposals in the house and senate. among the amendments they have debated and .ost: let's talk about the cr guest: congress is saying at least for today we avoided a showdown. the senate has passed it, the house passed it yesterday, and what it does is continue what we have seen from government funding. this is the era that we live in. rds that disagree on the way spending and taxes should go -- parties that disagree on the way spending and taxes should go. it keeps the sequester in place , although it does gives -- give .ome flexibility basically, it keeps in place what we thought we already had, which is a working government, sequester, and the ongoing pay freeze for federal workers. host: is the sequester here to i am starting to think that it has to be. twos harder to see how the sides reach an agreement when the democrats say let's replace half of it with taxes and republicans do not want that. i do not think de
. that means more debt, fewer jobs, and much higher taxes from the american people. we hope the president will change his mind and submit a plan that balances the budget. let's be clear, democrats in this town who reject the goal of balancing the budget are out of step. the american people know you cannot continue to spend money you do not have. i did not come here for a federal tight -- fancy title. i want to hand my kids and grandkids the same shot at the american dream that i had, not some mountain of debt. that is why republicans are working to balance the federal budget. been talk about the budget here. thatu think budgets -- they are essentially political weapons -- [indiscernible] have they just become weapons, because at the end of the day they are not binding? ofa budget is a statement each party's vision and terms of how they would cover and what they think the appropriate role of the federal government is. the house has done its part today. hopefully the senate will finish their budgets in. i would hope we can have a conversation between the chambers to see if we cannot come to
versus losing everything including the committee's tax base. while it does not factor in the worst possible scenarios but could still be damages across the gulf coast and northeast or the standards have been applied. ice storms showed that the elevation requirement reserves housing in homes for people to return to after the storm. there are not built to that level. that applies to the building codes. what about the insurance market's? >> is provided by the flood insurance program. if you are not elevated beyond the national flood insurance program, go into this will be a very expensive proposition to people. they will get a discounted rate .howing the reduce risks this will price many people to these decisions. >> do you have any estimates so far of how much the cost of the disaster is going to be borne by private insurance versus state governments versus that no government? they have not chosen for homeowners. it is preposterous of the cost. it was borne by the tax payer. would be the numbers that would be done by the private sector. >> one of the critical things craig has said is
they are raising a lot of money. in their own cases, it is their own money and it is not tax deductible. sylvester both mcmonkey mcbean and the star- part of aeetches are privileged class. the analogy in the case of mass incarceration, the privileged class of folks who are not as worried at about being incarcerated. middle toe iddle to -- upper class, wealthy, white, you're not as worried about being stopped, frist, incarcerated but there are groups that benefit even more among the privileged class. i think about the corporate contract that provides prisons with all the have. everybody from victoria's secret to dell computers have had private contract in prison that benefit from the prison complex. there is a certain group within the privileged class that benefit financially. in many00 cases to keep one person incarcerated. we all live in a state of fear so we opted that cost -- so we all pay that cost well as small percentage of the privilege to reap the profits financially. forave you done the show kids? communicateway to this to children? >> yes, last week. we had high-school students at a thea
and bipartisan. someone says lower taxes, no big deal. amnesty, whatever. i think that is a critically important one. it is not about people abanding their principles but finding a way to work together on a common ground. >> i was just a house member. it is fine if you want to put me there. >> if anybody would like a promotion let us know we have nother half an hour. congressman, members of congress get elected to represent a district. should anyone want to about redistricting and about show many states that if you're elected that are overwhelming republican or democrat that you're never going to lose that seat. unless you compromise on the other side of the aisle but remarkably get elected by the entire country. so the president of the united states republican or democrat, it seems to be and i know you have thought a lot about give your time in the tab cabinet. the president of the united states has a unique role to reach out to both sides. without getting into a current evens debate, i think we can agree the president in which this library was named, president reagan, and the last stop of this
that builds the power structure. in a state like the united states, the population pays taxes and the government is accountable and that system is not there in iraq. whoever oversees oil seizes power. that is a major factor in conditioning the mentality of the group that rules. they put their hand on that and they will not let that go. coming back to the sunnis, i remember growing up in a country where the sectarian divisions were not really relevant. we did not who was sunni or shia. a sectarian policies of saddam's regime and the oppression he imposed on the shia, this sense of being persecuted was strong -- shia.he snia. the opportunity came, there was a segment, the islamists, who were thinking now, we have got it, we will never let it go. it will be a shia government. that put the sunnis a difficult position, and in the early days they brokered the political cottedf the polit aical process. that did not work. they then joined in it. that is not working. now they are caught in a difficult position. they do not want to go to the extreme where al qaeda is because they get th
. it may play out over the decades in a tax on traditional religious believers. qualify for can you a grant or a scholarship? can you get a government job if you hold this position that is suddenly declared bigotry? it would be very contentious and divisive process. i agree that it might well play out in a very different way in the role it has played out. >> audience, next chance for questions. >> wow. >> let me get this out there. whalen, get the sense from seeing the amount of young people in the room that he may be in the minority, just guessing. i am glad you here. young people do not see what is the issue. that said some people may even say what is the big deal about getting married but that is another radical thing i will i get into. >> we'll have 10 minutes. >> you talked a lot about tradition and a radical notion. how does this relate to the loving versus virginia? my question is for paul smith. what is the primary purpose of the petrol government incentivizing marriage in the first place for anyone? if same-sex couples can show they're able to fulfil the purpose, what a special or
which we were able to put a stop to, and enterprise utilizing networked to undertake a tax -- networks to undertake a tax. -- attacks. we have done a number of things in conjunction with the secret service, nsa, because many cyber attacks originate from overseas. those have been successful. the one point i would make is that we tend to think and discuss in the beltway about protecting our networks from attacks, forgetting that behind every keyboard is an individual. aserrents is more -- is important as everything else. yes, you have to protect your databases, but those persons that are trying to get in have to go to jail. people have to understand that there is a price to be paid for breaking the law when it comes to cyber intrusions. that is something we are focused on, identifying the persons behind those keyboards, and making certain that if they undertake a tax, they will not undertake another in the future. >> i will yield back. >> would it make sense to double or increase the penalty for people involved in a cyber attacks? >> i think we ought to look at the penalty structure, yes
exercise because for example last night 79 or 76 senators voted to eliminate the medical device tax. if you vote on that in the budget, when that amendment if it is ever allowed to come up it will go through the senate and it will go through the house and we'll actually change that because it is counter productive and counter prudent in terms of supplying equipment to people whether it be a diabetic or congestive heart patient or other patients. so that is the other reason why it is good. i don't doubt that we need to spend some time and there is a lot of talk going on which are being discussed at this time about reaching a grand bargain. and the way you reach a grand bargain is you reach the president with his sleeves rolled up working with senators of the other party and representatives of the other party and building a consensus and then bringing his team along. >> and i should note that we are talking on this friday as the senate is taking up the senate democrat's budget and there is a marathon voting session going on on this day. >> and senator i want to talk a ittle bit about the way
the supply of electricity, improving the tax system, strengthening the ability to enforce contracts will all lift india's ranking and spur business growth in a way that has been missing thus far. largelyia's economy is based on global supply chains, it is absolutely critical for india to enact reforms and liberalize its economy, to tap into this regional market. this is how india anchors itself in the asia-pacific region and we should do what we can to help leverage those reforms inside india. that is why i believe the administration must redouble its efforts to secure a u.s.india bilateral investment treaty. current negotiations are proceeding far too slowly. there are important issues to resolve and it's going to take a concerted effort to make progress, but once the b.i.t. is firmly in place, the u.s. should work with india on a free trade agreement that will foster more trade. we should also work with india on high-tech visas where both of our countries jointly benefit. i strongly believe that where goods and services cross borders, armies do not. if this isn't motivation enough, let's c
, but on domestic policy, the tax cuts and so on. here is a clip and a little bit 8:48:58:09pm of a roast one night at the press club. well, i am flattered to be here following jack and talking about bob novak and the two people in journalism who i learned the most from and admired the most over the years. >> i spent the last few days doing the exhausting job of reading bob novak columns, going back many, many years, it was time-consuming, not very exhilarating and i discovered that bob after reading your columns, so many of them, i have dom the conclusion that your words will be remembered long after shakespeares are forgotten. but not until then. >> what did you the 506-page plus book was ever written in washington? it may be the best book. i can think of one better. i will get to that in a moment. because, and when we get young people, interns, and young reporters at "the weekly standard", i tell them. read bob novak's book because it will tell you are more about american politics and washington over the last 50 years than >> one of the things that he did that i had never seen before was he told
of the ones that you think you are exempt from tax >> i'm not sure what the individuals or -- exempt from? individualsure what rules you're talking about. we were created as an organization that was not title 5, the normal employment rules there. we have been in discussions about other opportunities for employees. i would have to look at in detail what you are referring to. >> i will get to that list. i will also get to a letter detailing the complaints are received from my local agents as i walked through the airport now is turning into -- airport. now it is turning into e-mails and upon calls about harassment and retaliation. water was 3 years old for tsa officers. it was visibly dirty. that i think is an unacceptable treatment for people who are really working very hard and who are partners with us. i will get you a list. i do not want to take any more time. i would like a response to those negatives. recognizes thew ranking minority member, mr. thompson, for any question he may have. mr. pistole, last congress, this committee identified a security gap that would allow an individual on
wolves who aspire to undertake a tax. we have been relatively successful in utilizing the same investigative tools that we utilize for public corruption cases, white-collar criminal cases, in terms of obtaining the cooperation of people come in terms of utilizing surveillance, whether it be wiser or physical surveillance, for instance, in identifying the persons who present these projects -- threats. thwart theo attacks. the harder it becomes to identify the individuals, because they're not reaching out to anybody else, which would enable us to identify and alert them. if so it is an increasing trend. we have been relatively successful. my hope is that our traditional techniques will continue to give us some success in this arena. shifting just a little bit from that, does the recent legalization of marijuana in colorado and washington state in the trend we are seeing, how fbi'shat impact on the and the dea, indirectly? you are involved in these cases. >> we do very little. we still participate in task forces and the like. i'm really not certain what if any impact it would have
planned attacks and plans to engage in a tax is reviewable, but eminence is not reviewable. as i understand eminence as defined by this administration and set forth in the white paper is not an up-to-the-minute assessment of whether someone poses an immediate threat, but rather it is a categorical persons tot certain fit this category by definition pose an imminent threat to us. isn't that equally subject to ?udicial review the second question is, if we put aside for, and having an internal executive process, what about having a devil's advocate position? you will not always have harold ae, but you could always have defined institutional role, somebody whose job is to defend life, at least in terms of what has been leaked thus far, we are relying on harold coe. he is gone. we are hoping somebody else might be sensitive to those concerns. with that not make a more robust process? >> i have a couple of responses. experience as bit gc for the department of defense for four years, the application of what i think we would consider imminence is not necessarily what you would assume fro
is table e united states is ashley united states is able to disengage even more in terms of tax dollars and present -- presence. to help in the recovery efforts of that country because we bombed the heck out of them. we destroyed the country. until we get to that point, then we are going to have to be , in many ways, invested in iraq, but only in a very limited sense. that is our duty, i think, as americans, but i would hope we would focus more on nationbuilding at home, economic security for our veterans. i would hope we would look at how to create jobs, preserve medicare, medicaid, and social security. i think those are the critical issues we have to turn to in our own country to make sure that americans achieve the american dream. when you look at poverty rates, for example. we need a national strategy to eliminate poverty. i'm working on that with many members now in the house of representatives. there is much work to do here. host: congresswoman barbara lee , inc. for talking to our viewers. i'm delighted to be here. host: coming up, we will talk to doug collins of colorado. later,
. as a result we are more competitive. from low income to the high tax brackets, everyone is benefiting. the future's bright but only if we educate the half truths and begin telling the real story of america's natural gas revolution. the stories about technology, private sector innovation, investment, financial risk, thousands of new jobs, new competition, new growth, a growing and better standard of living for more americans, lower energy costs, new industries, a revitalized energy sector, more jobs, more growth, energy security and optimism. this is the story of america's natural gas revolution. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the entleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlelady from illinois seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady is recognized for ne minute. >> mr. speaker, the ryan budget once again places the burden of deficit reduction on working americans while failing to stop the frivolous spending of oil subsidies for
of being lawyers and finish their college education. i got a serious -- a series of tax messages from them to promote a campaign to organize that we supported, very much focused on bringing attention to special needs of women in conflict. we take this seriously globally. in a rapeso brought kits and counselors. it is important after a sexual assault to get treatment. we are working with partners to provide special counseling for the many children who are affected by this who are traumatized now. this has impact for the rest of your life to go through this. many children are being caught in the crossfire. it is brutal. want to say might something about the particular plight of women in refugee camps. with groups inng jordan and turkey to ensure that aid is provided to women -- and girls who have suffered and fled syria. we have heard very credible reports that one of the things they are fleeing from israel. we arerefugee camp, --ing fund in refunding funding. >> there was an article which appeared in the national review recently. it was entitled, the silent exodus of serious christians. it
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Well, give it what name you like, call it as I do here “The Modern Attack,” or as I think men will soon have to call it, “Anti-Christ,” or call it by the temporary borrowed term of “Bolshevism” (which is only the Russian for “whole hogger”), we know the well enough. It is the revolt of the oppressed; it is not the rising of the proletariat against capitalist injustice and cruelty; it is something from without, some evil spirit taking advantage of men’s distress and of their anger against unjust conditions.
It is not only on the Communist side that this appears, it appears also in the organizations opposed to Communism; in the races and nations where mere force is set in the place of God. These also set up idols which hideous human sacrifice is paid. By these also justice and the right order of things are denied.
Terms are used so loosely nowadays; there is such a paralysis in the power of definition, that almost any sentence using current phrases may be misinterpreted. If I were to say, “slavery under capitalism,” the word “capitalism” would mean different things to different men. It means to one group of writers (what I must confess it means to me when I use it) “the exploitation of the masses of men still free by a few owners of the means of production, transport and exchange.” When the mass of men are dispossessed own nothing they become wholly dependent upon the owners; and when those owners are in active competition to lower the cost of production the mass of men whom they exploit not only lack the power to order their own lives, but suffer from want and insecurity as well.
But to another man, the term “capitalism” may mean simply the right to private property; yet to another it means industrial capitalism working with machines, and contrasted with agricultural production. I repeat, to get any sense into the discussion, we must have our terms clearly defined.
When the reigning Pope in his Encyclical talked of men reduced “to a condition not far removed from slavery,” he meant just what has been said above. When the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more the State steps in to enforce conditions of security and sufficiency; the more it regulates wages, provides compulsory insurance, doctoring, education, and in general takes over the lives of the wage-earners, for the benefit of the companies and men employing the wage-earners, the more is this condition of semi-slavery accentuated. And if it be continued for, say, three generations, it will become so thoroughly established as a social habit and frame of mind that there may be no escape from it in the countries where State Socialism of this kind has been forged and riveted on the body politic.
In Europe, England in particular (but many other countries in a lesser degree) has bound itself to this system. Below a certain level of income a man is guaranteed a bare subsistence should he be out of employment. It is doled out to him by public officials at the expense of losing human dignity. Every circumstance of his family is examined; he is even more in the hands of these officials when out of employment than in the hands of his employer when employed. The thing is still in transition; the mass of men do not yet see to what goal they are tending; but the neglect of human dignity, the potential, if not actual, denial of the doctrine of free will, have led by a natural consequence to what are already semi-servile institutions. These will become fully servile institutions as time goes on.
Now against the evil of wage-slavery there has been long proposed and is now working hard, in actual function, a certain remedy. The briefest name for it is Communism: slavery to the State: far more advanced and thorough than the first form, slavery to the capitalist.
Of modern “wage-slavery” one can only talk by metaphor; the man working at a wage is not fully free as is the man possessed of property; he must do as his master tells him, and when his condition is that not of a minority nor even of a limited majority, but of virtually the whole population except a comparatively small capitalist class, the proportion of real freedom in his life dwindles indeed yet legally it is there. The employee has not yet fallen to the status of the slave even in the most highly industrialized communities. His legal status is still that of a citizen. In theory he is still a free man who has contracted with another man to do a certain amount of work for a certain amount of pay. The man who contracts to pay may or may not be making a profit out of it; the man who contracts to work may or may not receive in wages more than the value of what he produces. But both are technically free.
This first form of social evil produced by the modern spirit is rather a tendency to slavery than actual slavery; you may call it a half slavery, if you like, where it attaches to vast enterprises huge factories, monopolist corporations, and so on. But still it is not full slavery.
Now Communism is full slavery. It is the modern enemy working openly, undisguisedly, and at high pressure. Communism denies God, denies the dignity and therefore the freedom of the human soul, and openly enslaves men to what it calls “the State” but what is in practice a body of favoured officials.
Under full Communism there would be no unemployment, just as there is no unemployment in a prison. Under full Communism there would be no distress or poverty, save where the masters of the nation chose to starve men or give them insufficient clothing, or in any other way oppress them. Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material advantages as compared with a proletarian wage-system where millions live in semi-starvation, and many millions more in permanent dread thereof. But even if it were administered thus Communism would only produce its benefits through imposing slavery.
These are the first fruits of the Modern Attack on the social side, the first fruits appearing in the region of the social structure. We came, before the Church was founded, out of a pagan social system in which slavery was everywhere, in which the whole structure of society reposed upon the institution of slavery. With the loss of the Faith we return to that institution again.
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Math rock
Stylistic origins Experimental rock, indie rock, post-hardcore, post-punk, noise rock, minimalism, progressive rock, art rock, avant-garde jazz
Cultural origins Late 1980s United States (Chicago, Pittsburgh, San Diego and Los Angeles) and Japan
Typical instruments Vocals, guitar, bass, drums
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Chicago - San Diego - South Atlantic States - Pittsburgh - Boston - St. Louis - Japan
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Post-rock - Minimalist music - Instrumental rock
Slint performing Spiderland in its entirety at the Pitchfork Music Festival
Math rock is a rhythmically complex, often guitar-based, style of experimental rock and indie rock[1] music that emerged in the late 1980s, influenced by progressive rock bands like King Crimson and 20th century minimalist composers such as Steve Reich. It is characterized by complex, atypical rhythmic structures (including irregular stopping and starting), counterpoint, odd time signatures, angular melodies, and extended, often dissonant, chords.
Whereas most rock music uses a basic 4/4 meter (however accented or syncopated), math rock frequently uses asymmetrical time signatures such as 7/8, 11/8, or 13/8, or features constantly changing meters based on various groupings of 2 and 3. This rhythmic complexity, seen as "mathematical" in character by many listeners and critics, is what gives the genre its name.
The sound is usually dominated by guitars and drums as in traditional rock, and because of the complex rhythms, drummers of math rock groups have a tendency to stick out more often than in other groups. It is commonplace to find guitarists in math rock groups using the "tapping" method of guitar playing, and loop pedals are occasionally incorporated, as by the band Battles. Guitars are also often played in clean tones more than in other upbeat rock songs, but some groups also use distortion.
Lyrics are generally not the focus of math rock; the voice is treated as just another sound in the mix. Often, lyrics are not overdubbed, and are positioned low in the mix, as in the recording style of Steve Albini. Many of math rock's most famous groups are entirely instrumental such as Don Caballero or Hella, though both have experimented with singing to varying degrees.
The term math rock has often been passed off as a joke that has developed into what some believe is a musical style. An advocate of this is Matt Sweeney, singer with Chavez, who themselves were often linked to the math rock scene:[2]
Early influences[edit]
Some rock musicians who emerged in the 1960s and '70s experimented with unusual meters and structures. Notable examples include Frank Zappa, Henry Cow, Cream, Captain Beefheart, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Genesis, Kansas, Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant, Yes, Rush, King Crimson, Gong, The Police, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Pink Floyd. The music of these and others from this era sometimes had hard rock or metal leanings, but such groups were generally classified as "progressive rock".
The Canadian punk rock group Nomeansno (founded in 1979 and active as of 2013) have been cited by music critics[3] as a "secret influence" on math rock, predating much of the genre's development by more than a decade. Though never finding or even seeking mainstream attention, Nomeansno's music typically blends dark humor, punk energy and aggression, drastic shifts in tempo and structure and acclaimed instrumental prowess in their quest for transcendence. An even more avant-garde group of the same era, Massacre, featured the guitarist Fred Frith and the bassist Bill Laswell. With some influence from the rapid-fire energy of punk, Massacre's influential music used complex rhythmic characteristics. Black Flag's 1984 album My War also included unusual polyrhythms.[4]
In the 1990s, a heavier, rhythmically complex style grew out of the broader noise rock scenes active in Chicago and other Midwestern cities, with influential groups also coming from Japan and Southern California. These groups shared influences ranging from the music of 20th-century composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, John Cage, and Steve Reich, as well as the chaotic free-jazz approach of John Zorn's Naked City and Miles Davis´s later work, and critics soon dubbed the style "math rock".
Australian groups[edit]
Bands such as Because of Ghosts, The Sinking Citizenship, and My Disco emerged in the early 2000s in Melbourne.
European groups[edit]
The European math rock scene started in the late 90s to early 2000, including bands such as Adebisi Shank (Ireland), Kobong (Poland), The Redneck Manifesto (Ireland), It Was All A Bit Black & White (Ireland), Three Trapped Tigers and This Town Needs Guns (United Kingdom) and Uzeda (Italy).
Japanese groups[edit]
The most important Japanese groups include Ruins, Zeni Geva, Boredoms, Aburadako, and Doom. Yona-Kit is a collaboration between Japanese and U.S. musicians. Other Japanese groups which incorporate math rock in their music include Toe, Zazen Boys, and Lite. Skin Graft Records and Tzadik Records have released Japanese math rock albums in the United States.
United States[edit]
During the 1990s, the greatest concentration of math rock bands was in the urban centers of the U.S.'s Midwestern "Rust Belt", ranging from Minneapolis to Buffalo. Chicago was a central hub. The Chicago-based sound engineer Steve Albini is a key figure in the scene, and many math rock bands from around the country have enlisted him to record their albums, giving the genre's recorded catalog a certain uniformity of sound, and lumping his bands past and present—Shellac, Rapeman, and Big Black—into the pigeonhole as well. Also, many math rock records were released by Chicago-based Touch and Go Records, as well as its sister labels, Quarterstick Records and Skin Graft Records. Bands from Chicago include Sweep the Leg Johnny. Several other math rock groups of the 1990s were based in Midwestern cities: Cleveland's Craw and Keelhaul, St. Louis's Dazzling Killmen, and Minneapolis's Colossamite.
Outside the Midwest, the city of Pittsburgh is home to Don Caballero—whose drummer, Damon Che, is also involved with the international math rock band Bellini as well as Black Moth Super Rainbow, Tabula Rasa, and Knot Feeder.[5] Bands from Washington, D.C. include The Dismemberment Plan, Shudder to Think, Hoover, Faraquet, 1.6 Band, Autoclave, later Jawbox, and Circus Lupus. The Richmond, VA-based Breadwinner inspired bands such as Fulflej and Lamb of God. Polvo of Chapel Hill, North Carolina is often considered math rock, although the band has disavowed that categorization.[6] The success of Louisville, Kentucky's Slint inspired bands such as Rodan, Crain, The For Carnation, June of 44, Sonora Pine, Roadside Monument, and Shipping News.
In California, math rock groups from San Diego include Drive Like Jehu, Antioch Arrow, Tristeza, No Knife, Heavy Vegetable and Sleeping People. Northern California was the base of Game Theory and The Loud Family, both led by Scott Miller, who was said to "tinker with pop the way a born mathematician tinkers with numbers."[7] The origin of Game Theory's name is mathematical, suggesting a "nearly mathy" sound cited as "IQ rock."[8]
Contemporary math rock[edit]
By the turn of the 21st century, most of the later generation bands such as Sweep the Leg Johnny had disbanded and the genre had been roundly disavowed by most bands labeled with the "math rock" moniker. Many more bands, consisting of both those from the original wave of the genre and those of the new generation, have managed to be tagged with the moniker of "math-rock". The British band Foals exemplify the angular guitar sections and start/stop dynamics of the math rock sound particularly in their earlier demos; however they lack the mixture of time signatures or the odd time signatures needed to be thought of as a proper math rock band. The Edmund Fitzgerald is a band containing members of the band Foals, with the addition of the use of complex time signatures and time changes. Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies are another British band who use angular guitar sections, as well as some post-rock techniques and the use of different time signatures. This Town Needs Guns, an Oxford based band, predominantly use asymmetrical time signatures, typical math rock characteristics, as well as complex finger picking.
In the mid-2000s, many math rock bands enjoyed renewed popularity. Slint and Chavez embarked on reunion tours, while Shellac toured and released their first album in seven years. Don Caballero reunited with a new lineup and released an album in 2006, while several of its original members joined new projects, such as the band Knot Feeder.
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Notes and references[edit]
1. ^ "Math Rock". Allmusic. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
2. ^ "Interview: Chavez". Pitchfork Media. 2006-08-12. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
3. ^ "Live and Cuddly". Allmusic. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
4. ^ "its seven-minute Metal dirges and Fusion-style time signatures proved too much for many fans" Steven Blush, American Hardcore: A Tribal History, "Thirsty and Miserable", Los Angeles: Feral House, 2001, p. 66
5. ^ Math & Noise: Knot Feeder
6. ^ You can call Polvo math rock, but the numbers just don't add up | Atlanta|Music|Feature
7. ^ Schoemer, Karen (April 2, 1993). "Sounds Around Town: Miller Writ Loud". New York Times. Archived from the original on 2013-11-13.
8. ^ Amar, Erin (July 2011). "Music: What Happened? Scott Miller on 50 Years of Singles in 258 Pages". Rocker Magazine. Archived from the original on 2013-11-01.
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0.821414 | <urn:uuid:8e8c2515-020a-466e-b1fc-5f1eacb0f2b7> | en | 0.935261 | #86 - mcwachner (05/26/2012) [-]
**mcwachner rolled a random image posted in comment #4975822 at FJ Pony Thread ** I hate the military
#207 to #86 - 2scared2login (05/26/2012) [-]
you're ignorant, it's that simple.
User avatar #199 to #86 - keiishiyama (05/26/2012) [-]
No one's telling you to like them, but you better have some godddamn respect for the fact that they're overseas fighting to protect your right to hate them.
#186 to #86 - 2scared2login (05/26/2012) [-]
go die
#143 to #86 - 2scared2login (05/26/2012) [-]
you're an ungrateful little brat who lives in their own little bubble and has no idea what goes on in the world.
User avatar #94 to #86 - disgruntled (05/26/2012) [-]
"I hate the military"
That's cool bro. Becasue I'll still do my job no matter what.
User avatar #201 to #94 - keiishiyama (05/26/2012) [-]
Thank you for serving.
#145 to #94 - 2scared2login (05/26/2012) [-]
That's good you know your place bro, the world wouldn't revolve without janitors like you.
User avatar #119 to #94 - deathlordgusta (05/26/2012) [-]
ignore the **** those guys say.
#98 to #94 - mcwachner (05/26/2012) [-]
Sure thing bro. Why don't you just go ahead and kill someone.
#123 to #98 - 2scared2login (05/26/2012) [-]
Hate the war not the soldier. the only reason you can say that is because they are out there fighting for your rights.
#107 to #98 - icandividebyzero ONLINE (05/26/2012) [-]
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Cowards make fun of people who put their lives on the line.
#136 to #107 - 2scared2login (05/26/2012) [-]
#116 to #107 - 2scared2login (05/26/2012) [-]
It was their choice.
They should know what they were getting into when they join. Just because some one doesn't suck their dick doesn't mean they're a coward.
I don't expect anyone who doesn't live near a Naval Station or a Base to understand what I mean.
User avatar #237 to #116 - brobafett (05/27/2012) [-]
"I don't expect anyone who doesn't live near a Naval Station or a Base to understand what I mean. "
Good job your the equivalent to a girl on face book saying "don't talk to me".
User avatar #100 to #98 - fjfordawin (05/26/2012) [-]
lol ******* , not everyone in the military kills people. Ever heard of a ******* doctor?
#99 to #98 - atr (05/26/2012) [-]
Why don't you just draw up another protest sign?
User avatar #102 to #99 - mcwachner (05/26/2012) [-]
Funny thing is, I'm actually starting at Med School after this Summerbreak.
#139 to #102 - 2scared2login (05/26/2012) [-]
User avatar #111 to #102 - TopDawg (05/26/2012) [-]
Listen here, it's dumb ***** like you who make me sick. People lay their *** on the line, get shot at and kill other human beings so you can sit there on your *** , and berate them for keeping you safe, even if you're not an American, Countries all over the ******* WORLD band together and fight to keep you safe at night. Welcome to human ******* nature bitch, kill or be killed. Enjoy medical school, because I'm sure where ever it is located, over five hundred men and women gave their lives up so it could be there, and not some Communist government building, or just a pile of ******* rubble.
#127 to #111 - 2scared2login (05/26/2012) [-]
You know communism is just a different form of government right? Not some plague that will kill all Human life.
User avatar #148 to #127 - TopDawg (05/26/2012) [-]
Communism is a form of government where the government owns EVERY building and business. My point was that the location could have been just another building and not a school. And he may not have had a choice of freely following a profession, as Communism chooses your future for you.
User avatar #204 to #148 - keiishiyama (05/26/2012) [-]
That's fascism/dictatorship. Communism is where everything is public property.
User avatar #115 to #111 - mcwachner (05/26/2012) [-]
Right... That's it, that is how the world revolves. Thanks man, you enlighten my entire life.
#106 to #102 - atr (05/26/2012) [-]
Good for you. I hope you take some time in your life to go to Afghanistan to see the progress we've made there. We aren't some psychotic killers, we're young diplomats trying to make the world a better place.
User avatar #109 to #106 - mcwachner (05/26/2012) [-]
Why would i go to a country that i don't have any business to attend to?
A world a better place? By bombing the **** out of a country... Right. Are you sure it's not because of the oil?
#238 to #109 - brobafett (05/27/2012) [-]
HURR DURRR! If we stop being mean surely everyone else will to!
User avatar #183 to #109 - mjdjoy (05/26/2012) [-]
You should be grateful people volunteer to be soldiers, so you can pursue your career and not get your *** and all of your friends ***** drafted into war. Hate the war but don't hate the men.
#152 to #109 - 2scared2login (05/26/2012) [-]
There is not ******* oil in Afganistan you ********
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#118 to #109 - atr (05/26/2012) [-]
I don't know about you, but taking care of an area that hasn't been too great in the past few decades seems to be making the area better. Besides, how much oil is in Afghanistan and how many family members do you have who are in the military. I know my cousin is pretty damn proud about saving the lives of many by digging up and disposing of IEDs.
#113 to #109 - Krathalos (05/26/2012) [-]
You're an absolute moron.
The amount of ignorance throughout all of your posts can't even be summed up in one message.
Go hug a tree.
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BusinessWeek reporter Catherine Holahan dropped in on BitStrips, a Web-comics startup showing off its wares at SXSW. (Really, who goes to the SXSW trade-show booths?) In Holahan's blog post on the subject, she faithfully transcribed BitStrips founder Ba's thoughts on why he created a website that automates the production of cartoons which look like they were drawn by 5th-grade students. But oddly, she didn't hit on something far more topical: How Ba himself attacked her colleague Sarah Lacy for her keynote interview with Mark Zuckerberg in an "editor's pick." That comic strip, which I'm betting you won't see on anytime soon: | http://gawker.com/366172/the-web-comic-businessweek-wont-show-you?tag=Ba | dclm-gs1-029880000 |
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Possible to get a mechanism for inserting table information into a question?
is there any markdown to create tables
Please add support for tables in answers and questions.
Many questions especially that related with database and SQL contains sample of tabular data like this question:
Schedule1____________01/01/2011 00:00______________04/01/2011 00:00
Schedule2____________04/01/2011 00:00______________11/01/2011 14:00
Schedule3____________11/01/2011 14:00______________02/15/2012 00:00
Schedule2____________02/15/2012 00:00______________01/01/2013 00:00
I wonder if it's possible to add a table in the question to make inserting data easier and showing it clearer.
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It all comes down to this: no matter how you parse it—art, politics, spirit, planet; body, mind, heart, and soul—the realms that are reckoned separate in the official version of our current reality are in truth a unity, and recognizing that is the path to wholeness. When we violate—ignore,... | http://redroom.com/blog-keyword-tags/mona-smith | dclm-gs1-030460000 |
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Missing Lemony Snicket?
Missing Lemony Snicket?
Where is the missing girl? Who has the secret formula? Will this excerpt answer any of your questions? Why aren't you more worried?
These are all the wrong questions.
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Short Stories 365:174
Recently at a time management course I took as part of manager meetings with my company, there was much discussion of setting up rules and filters in our e-mail to make managing the inbound volume something handier to control. I diligently did so - I'd already been doing it somewhat with my home and work e-mails to some degree - and have found that it has indeed helped. Who knew smarter filters would make for a happier day?
Spam still manages to get through, of course, and no one likes spam.
Some people, though, they hate spam...
"Press Enter to Execute," by Tobias S. Buckell
First off, this story, from the Spring 2012 issue of Fireside Magazine, has more than a little bit of wish fulfillment to it, I daresay. It is told from the point of view of the assassin who is out there killing the people responsible for spam e-mails. It's silly, and I know there are villains of such higher caliber out there, but this assassin wiping out the sources of all those daily annoyances is quite enjoyable. Sure, it's just spam, but there are the people who are so insanely dumb enough that they lose their livelihood to actually replying to them (because the president of some country just needs their help, and bank account number), so there's a slice of morality here.
A thin slice.
Still, where the story begins is not the real meat of the tale. The real story begins when the job goes south, and the assassin starts to realize just who is behind the terminal anti-spam program. It's clever, and a bit dark and noir, and I definitely want to go find more stories by Buckell. | http://redroom.com/member/nathan-burgoine/blog/short-stories-365174 | dclm-gs1-030480000 |
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A Dividend Champion is defined as a company that has increased its dividend every year for 25 or more straight years. Abbott Laboratories (ABT) is a dividend champion that has raised its dividend every year for 39 consecutive years. The complete Dividend Champions list is compiled courtesy of David Fish. (Open as an excel spreadsheet and look at the tabs on the bottom to find the Dividend Champions list).
About Abbott Laboratories : from their website
Abbott Laboratories : A Dividend Champion with 39 Consecutive Years of Dividend Increases
Since dividends are paid out of earnings, a clear perspective of a company's historical earnings growth record is a vital component of a dividend investor's prudent due diligence process. The following graph plots Abbott Laboratories' earnings per share since 1993. A quick glance to the right of the graph shows that Abbott Laboratories has increased earnings at a compounded rate of 10.2% (see purple circle on graph) per annum.
Dividend Champions Gave Shareholders a Raise in Income 25 Years Straight or Longer
With interest rates hovering near all-time lows, investors seeking income are faced with very limited choices. The traditional high yield available from bonds and other fixed income vehicles are no longer available to meet the goals of retirees needing income to live off of. Moreover, it is almost a certainty that today's low yields are not adequate enough to fight inflation. Consequently, there is a growing investor interest in dividend-paying common stocks, especially those that have a long record of increasing their dividends every year.
Since dividends are paid out of earnings, and therefore, represent additional return on top of what the market capitalizes earnings at, they are depicted by the light blue shaded area and stacked on top of the earnings line. Therefore, a quick visual of these two important components is simultaneously revealed: The additional return that dividend paying stocks provide, plus the percentage of earnings paid to shareholders as dividends (payout ratio).
Performance Table: Capital Appreciation and Dividend Income Abbott Laboratories
When presented separately like this, the additional rate of return a dividend paying stock produces for shareholders becomes undeniably evident. In addition to the 7.1% capital appreciation (Closing Annualized ROR), long-term shareholders of Abbott Laboratories would have received an additional $117,820.68 in dividends that increased their total return from 7.1% to 8.7%% per annum.
(Note: Since this is a Dividend Champion, it has raised its dividend every year for at least 25 years, therefore, negative dividend growth rates shown, if any, will be attributed to special additional dividends paid in excess of the company's regularly reported dividend rate)
A further indication of valuation can be seen by examining a company's current price to sales ratio relative to its historical price to sales ratio. The current price to sales ratio for Abbott Laboratories is 2.31, which is historically low.
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2. The price or valuation you pay to buy those earnings
Therefore, it logically follows that measuring performance without simultaneously measuring valuation is a job half done. At its current price, which is attractively aligned with its True Worth™ valuation, Abbott Laboratories represents a potential opportunity to invest in a Dividend Champion at a reasonable price. The important factor is that Abbott Laboratories has real assets and cash flow underpinning its stock price. This solid economic foundation offers shareholders the potential for both a strong margin of safety and an opportunity for an increasing dividend income stream and potentially attractive future returns.
The consensus of 21 leading analysts reporting to Capital IQ forecast Abbott Laboratories long-term earnings growth at 8%. Abbott Laboratories has medium long-term debt at 33% of capital. Abbott Laboratories is currently trading at a P/E of 12, which is inside the value corridor (defined by the five orange lines) of a maximum P/E of 18. If the earnings materialize as forecast, Abbott Laboratories' True Worth valuation would be $109.18 at the end of 2017, which would be a 14.2% annual rate of return from the current price, including assumed dividends.
Earnings Yield Estimates
Since all investments potentially compete with all other investments, it is useful to compare investing in any prospective company to that of a comparable investment in low risk Treasury bonds. Comparing an investment in Abbott Laboratories to an equal investment in 10-year Treasury bonds illustrates that Abbott Laboratories' expected earnings would be 6.3 times that of the 10-Year T-Bond Interest. (See EYE chart below). This is the essence of the importance of proper valuation as a critical investing component.
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I've recently moved from a shared hosting to a VPS at vps.net but I think I might have broken it already!
I have domain.com and domain.net. I have setup DNS records for both to point to my server. However, only domain.com pings to the correct IP address. domain.net is pointing to a different IP address. Possibly the old server it was pointing to. This has now been deleted.
Is there possibly any way to correct this without having to submit a ticket to VPS.net?
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It could be that the other name change has not yet propagated to your local (ad ISP) DNS cache, and you are just lucky that the other change became available as quick. Give it a little time, for the cached entries to be refreshed, then try again.
All DNS entries have a time-to-live value (TTL) which is how many seconds a DNS server should cache them for, most registrars let you change this though some don't. Typical defaults (or fixed values if the registrar doesn't let you control it) for TTL are 24 hours and 4 hours - it used to be that 24 was most common by far but shorter values seem to be becoming more normal these days.
When your machine asks your ISP's DNS servers (or Google's, or OpenDNS's, if you use such services) for the address associated with a name it will only check for the latest value if it has no value locall stored or that value has passed its TTL time since it was last checked. So if the TTL for your entries is 24 hours then it will take up to 24 hours for your ISP to see any change, but you might be lucky and find the cached enty is due to expire soon so it takes a far shorter time.
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+1 You can perform a whois query to find out which nameservers the domain is configured to use and then query those directly to find out which ip address they're returning (something like dig domain.com @ns1.dnsprovider.com). That should give you something more to go on. – kaerast Apr 10 '10 at 16:20
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Journal: Fifteen years ago...
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I've been busy working on "Mars, Ho!" lately. There should be a new chapter posted in a week or two. So for now, here's some crap from the last century, this month fifteen years ago. It tells a tale of how to decimate a popular site: be a web gypsy.
There is mention of a weekly column I wrote for Kneel over at Katalystic called "The Weak End Hell hole", but the wayback machine has no clue it ever existed. Those columns are gone, lost in time, like tears in the rain...
Comment: Re:the phone is pure profit (Score 1) 206
by mcgrew (#46375345) Attached to: How I Cut My Time Warner Cable Bill By 33%
Why in the world would anybody need POTS in the first place? And why would anybody pay $40 per month for it?
Also, the title is misleading -- TFA says he didn't have cable, only phone and internet. No cable, no cable bill, he had a phone/internet bill.
I don't have cable, an antenna is good enough since TV went digital. I'm paying $40 for unlimited everything on my Android, $46 for DSL (unfortunately that's the cheapest internet available here, cable internet is almost twice DSL and since I live alone, DSL suffices nicely).
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Comment: Sorry... I'm in a good mood. (Score 1) 4
by mcgrew (#46353749) Attached to: God, I'm old and cranky today
Beta was just the straw that broke the camel's back, what you're talking about has been bothering me and others for quite some time. Apparently, Ars covered it but I can't find the link.
Try Soylent News. It's full of folks tired of /.'s direction. I'm staying at /. at least for a while, but S/N is refreshing. I'm posting my journals there before here, they can use it and Dice doesn't need it.
Oh, but the REAL reason I'm in such a good mood is someone owed me a shitload of money and paid me back in reefer and I'M RETIRING! Tomorrow is my last day of wage slavery!
Comment: Re:First blacks, (Score 1) 917
by mcgrew (#46347613) Attached to: Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation
First, I don't understand the religious aspect. Whose freedom of religion are they trying to protect, Islam? Because Christians are forbidden from judging others, and ordered to love everyone. Neither Jesus nor Bhudda would agree with this law.
Second, why are you bashing the US rather than Russia or Uganda, where you can go to prison for life for being gay?
Third, WTF is this doing on "news for nerds?" The fact that a tech company, Apple, joined the NFL and a lot of other anti-nerd groups in opposing this does not make it "news for nerds". News for gays, news for bigots, news for Arizonans, yeah, but not "news for nerds".
Having stories like this on slashdot is worse than Beta, they're trying to attract a "wider audience" which means bringing in even more greengrocers and other aliterates (if you think that is a misspelling, you may be an aliterate!). This attracts all those n00bs who say "Nasa is a waste of taxpayer dollars" and "global warming is a hoax" and "they spent my tax money studying THAT??"
In short, they're attracting the folks I come here to escape from. I get enough non-nerd ignorance IRL.
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by mcgrew (#46347561) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Essays and Short Stories Should Be In a Course On Futurism?
Well, that's the thing. They're honestly going to have a college class about fortune telling? What's next, tarot and tea leaves? Futurism is bunk! Nobody seriously envisioned the internet, althogh Asimov had written about "mltivac" and Murray Leinster came damned close to predicting it in 1946, although his PCs were "logics", servers were "tanks", and his internet was heavily censored (in fact, the story revolved around how horrible it would be if a bug in a program overcame the censorship).
Nobody but Roddenberry foresaw cell phones. Nobody I heard of foresaw the end of the analog era. And more telling, the only ones who even came close weren't futurists, but fiction writers. The "futurists" have been wrong every single time. Flying cars? Disney's "home of tomorrow"? The "singularity"? Fusion power? Wrong every single time.
Yet you want to teach a class on it? Amazing.
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by Torvac (#45887785) Attached to: The Internet's Network Efficiencies Are Destroying the Middle Class
Comment: Re:The War on Terror is Over. (Score 1) 376
by Torvac (#45606029) Attached to: Fearing Government Surveillance, US Journalists Are Self-Censoring
what terrorists ? wasn't that the plan of the secret US government even before 9/11 ? its just what some people predicted long time ago. oh and now its a surprise. self censored press, few more "inner security" incidents that lead to regulated/controlled press. see german history, same shit happend there.
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by Torvac (#45221065) Attached to: Germany: We Think NSA May Have Tapped Chancellor Merkel's Cell Phone
Sure suddenly she is pissed. after months of playing this down and going along with the US. And ofc the reason can't be that the EU parlaments position against the NSA spying (suspend SWIFT etc. ) was just published yesterday and she has to position herselfes with the EU now. despicable politicians and their shitty games, really fuck her.
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I found Ivor Horton's Beginning C++ from 1999 in a book shelf, and I was wondering if it's to outdated to be usefull. I allready know some C++, but I'd like to have book as reference. Should I invest in a newer book or was the language pretty similar in 1999?
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I guess it depends on what you want to learn about the language. If you want to learn C++11 I'd say it's outdated. – Default Sep 19 '12 at 12:06
It's probably good enough for the basics, maybe even some intermediate stuff. But there have been two major revisions of the C++ standard since then (the last one, C++11, was a major change) so I wouldn't recommend it beyond that. – Joachim Pileborg Sep 19 '12 at 12:08
Oh grow up you question closers. This is a proper question, that can be answered with facts. Voting to reopen. – Let_Me_Be Sep 19 '12 at 12:15
Regarding that book, in the code samples, does it say #include <iostream>? Or does it say #include <iostream.h>? If it's the former, then the book is at least (partially) up to date for its time. – Benjamin Lindley Sep 19 '12 at 13:38
Just in case you decide to get a different book, have a look at The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List. – R. Martinho Fernandes Sep 19 '12 at 16:07
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Short answer: No. Old books contain outdated programming techniques, which create bad code in the current programming environment
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@SteveWellens With c++11 this certainly changed. Move semantics, nullptr, initializer lists, shared_ptr, ... massively change the structures of code. Even simple tasks like "write a function which gives me a vector of 500 elements" look different. – johannes Sep 19 '12 at 12:17
@Let_Me_Be: As johannes said, this is especially true for C++. A book from 1999 has a 90% chance of not even covering C++98, let alone C++03 — and C++11 brought even bigger changes. Therefore, +1 for Tony's answer. – sbi Sep 19 '12 at 12:29
@Let_Me_Be - It's not about the language features, but about how we use the language - the idioms. That has changed a lot since the 1990's. – Bo Persson Sep 19 '12 at 13:03
@TheBuzzSaw: No. I don't know if you've missed this, but "the basics" of C++ have changed a lot. Between rvalue references, and the fact that many books from that era teach C with a C++ guise, I'd definitely advise a newer text. – DeadMG Sep 19 '12 at 15:55
@TheBuzzSaw: C with a C++ guise is not only harmful, it's the worst thing you could possibly teach anybody. The basics of C++ are RAII, templates, and ownership, not that disgusting pointers bullshit or inheritance. C with Classes code is terrible, and you should feel terrible for inflicting it on another helpless soul. Also, C++11 is quite mainstream now. When even MSVC supports lambdas and rvalue references, you know it's mainstream. – DeadMG Sep 19 '12 at 16:00
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The 1998 book is a giant pile of crap. Don't even think about using it. It's "C with Classes with Microsoft-specific libraries which were bad then and worse now". Even ignoring the massive language changes (many of which impact even beginners) from C++11, it would still be a giant waste of your time.
The chapter list is full of OLE automation and ActiveX controls- not one mention of the Standard library. Burn it before it infests you.
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LOL! OK, I didn't know that this is what the book contained. I am inclined to agree now. – TheBuzzSaw Sep 19 '12 at 16:15
Might be useful to learn C with classes full of Microsoft COM stuff for any legacy code he may need to maintain. – CashCow Dec 27 '12 at 11:05
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The 4th edition of the best C++ book has been just published: http://www.amazon.com/The-Programming-Language-4th-Edition/dp/0321563840 It contains all the new techniques as well as the new C++11 standard.
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I am developing an add-on installer using Installshield 2011 and project type is Basic MSI. I got a requirement where i need to update app.config file; the mentioned app.config is not part of current installer; app.config will be available by installing the base product. And on top of this my add-on installer will update the app.config file.
I am using XML File Changes feature provided by Installshield, i have configured it in the following steps:
1. Import the updated app.config file under XML File changes view.
2. Create a new element and assign key and value to it.
3. Repeated 1 and 2 and added 7 to 8 new entries as per the requirement
During testing i am seeing that the app.config file has been updated but entries are in single line instead of one below the other. I cannot enable "Format XML after changes" because one of the service which is referenced to app.config is not working and when i revoke the option services runs perfectly.
Is there any workaround/option to tell/ask installshield insert xml tag one below the other not in sinlge line using XML File Changes?
Thanks, Chetan
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If XML Changes isn't formatting the document in a way that's acceptable, you could consider using the Text File Changes which is just a simpler search and replace without understanding the schema of XML. Otherwise options are to check out Windows Installer XML ( you can use the XmlConfig elements found in the Util extension in a merge module and then use that merge module in InstallShield ) or to just write your own custom actions.
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I'm trying to write MSI installer/uninstaller for my software using WiX. The software comes with a local service and a related user-mode process that always run together, i.e. the user-mode process is closed automatically by my service when the service is stopped. (Otherwise if the user-mode process is terminated by itself the service will attempt to restart it.)
So for the uninstallation I came up with the following mark-up:
<Component Id="idCmp_MySrvc"
<File Id="idFile_srvc.exe"
KeyPath="yes" />
<File Id="idFile_usermodule.exe"
KeyPath="yes" />
<ServiceControl Id="idMySrvc"
Stop="uninstall" />
The idea was that when the service is stopped it will close my usermodule.exe process.
But there're three issues/questions that come to mind:
1: When I compile this, it gives me the following error:
error CNDL0042: The Component element has multiple key paths set. The key path may only be set to 'yes' in extension elements that support it or one of the following locations: Component/@KeyPath, File/@KeyPath, RegistryValue/@KeyPath, or ODBCDataSource/@KeyPath.
2: How to ensure that the MSI doesn't bother with usermodule.exe process during uninstallation checks?
3: Do I need to add anything specific to my service and/or user mode process to make it comply with uninstallation procedure?
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General answer: in order to install / uninstall Windows service by MSI package made with WiX, you should only leverage ServiceInstall and ServiceControl elements, as Christopher mentioned to you in this thread.
Now, answering your specific questions:
1. The error message is quite descriptive - you have more than one element marked as KeyPath='yes' in a single component. There can only be one key path. You can find more information here (see the section describing KeyPath column of the Component table).
2. I think you can safely move the usermodule.exe into a separate component. If you say that stopping the service drops that process, and we know that service operations on uninstall happen before the file removal, then it sounds safe to just let Windows Installer do its job uninstalling the components.
3. As mentioned in the previous point, I don't think so.
Hope this helps.
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I'm trying to extract specific hard coded variables from C source code. My remaining problem is that I'd like to parse array initialisation, for example:
#define SOMEVAR { {T_X, {1, 2}}, {T_Y, {3, 4}} }
It's enough to parse this example into "{T_X, {1, 2}}" and "{T_Y, {3, 4}}", since it's then possible to recurse to get the full structure. However, it needs to be sufficiently general so as to be able to parse any user defined types.
Even better would be a list of regular expressions that can be used to extra values from general C code constructs like #define, enums and global variables.
The C code is provided to me, so I have no control over it. I'd rather not write a function that parses it a character at a time. However, it'd be OK to have a sequence of regular expressions.
This is not a problem of getting files into MATLAB or basic regular expressions. I'm after a specific regular expression that preserves groupings by brackets.
EDIT: Looks like regular expressions don't do recursion or arbitrarily deep matches. According to here and here.
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EDIT: Now that the question has been updated, it appears that my previous answer missed the point. I don't know if you've already searched the other regular-expression-related questions on Stack Overflow. On the chance that you haven't, I came across two that may help give you guidance for your problem (which appears to be a problem, at least partially, of trying to match and keep track of opening and closing curly braces): this one and this one. Good luck!
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It's easy enough to write an expression that matches a specific case, but I'm after something general that preserves groupings while separating the list. Thanks anyway. – Nzbuu Feb 13 '09 at 15:36
Ah, I understand better now from your new edit of the question. The problem appears quite a bit more difficult than the example you gave. Unfortunately, no immediate solution springs to mind. – gnovice Feb 13 '09 at 15:50
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Have you looked at the following site which provides extensive tutorials and examples on regular expressions :-
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The formal language that defines brace matching is not a regular language. Therefore, you cannot use a regular expression to solve your problem.
The problem is that you need some way to count the number of opening braces you have already encountered. Some regular expression engines support extended features, such as peeking, which could be used to solve your problem, but these can be tough to deal with. You might be better off writing a simple parser for this task.
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Maybe vim's syntax file would help in this matter. I'm not sure whether it has those elements you seek (I don't do C), but it's got a whole lot of elements, so it's definitely a starting point. Download vim (www.vim.org), and in vim/syntax/c.vim look around a little.
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I don't think regexps will work on arbitrary C code. Clang allows you to build a syntax tree from C code and use it programatically.
That could be readily used for globals, but #defines are handled by the preprocessor so I'm not sure how they would work.
cristi:tmp diciu$ cat test.c
#define t 1
int m=5;
int fun(char * y)
float g;
return t;
int main()
int g=7;
return t;
cristi:tmp diciu$ ~/Downloads/checker-137/clang -ast-dump test.c
(CompoundStmt 0xc01ec0 <test.c:6:1, line:10:1>
(DeclStmt 0xc01e70 <line:7:2>
0xc01e30 "float g"
(ReturnStmt 0xc01eb0 <line:9:2, line:1:11>
(IntegerLiteral 0xc01e90 <col:11> 'int' 1)))
(CompoundStmt 0xc020a0 <test.c:13:1, line:16:1>
(DeclStmt 0xc02060 <line:14:2>
0xc02010 "int g =
(IntegerLiteral 0xc02040 <col:8> 'int' 7)"
(ReturnStmt 0xc01b50 <line:15:2, line:1:11>
(IntegerLiteral 0xc02080 <col:11> 'int' 1)))
typedef char *__builtin_va_list;
Read top-level variable decl: 'm'
int fun(char *y)
int main()
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No external tools, sorry. But I still don't see how that helps me. – Nzbuu Feb 13 '09 at 15:37
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I assume you have access to the C code in question. If so, then define two macros:
Wrap all the data you want to extract between these macros. When the C code is compiled, they expand to nothing, so they won't harm there.
Now you can use a very simple regexp to get the data.
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This regular expression:
seems reasonable, but I don't know if it's enough for you. It's littered with \s* to allow arbitrary whitespace between tokens, from C's point of view that's allowable. It will match stuff that looks more or less just your examples; some kind of identifier followed by exactly two digit strings.
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Do you mean this? \{\s*\w+\s*,\s*\{\s*\d+\s*,\s*\d+\s*\}\s*\}. That only matches this specific example. I'm looking for something more general. – Nzbuu Feb 13 '09 at 15:35
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I've bought a new monitor recently and now am able to display much higher resolutions. However, every time I reboot my machine, it's on 1280x1024, the resolution on my old monitor. I can set it to the highest resolution once logged on, but why can't Windows 7 remember the resolution I had before rebooting?
Any ideas? Thanks a lot!
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Have you tried updating your monitor drivers to see if that will keep the screen resolution?
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Yeah, it doesn't work. It's not the display drivers. Sometimes I reboot, it remembers the resolution after I log in and then... it switches back to original resolution my old monitor was in. – Dennis van der Stelt Mar 9 '11 at 20:06
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1. Check the drivers for your monitor in Device Manager. If posible use specific drivers for your hardware.
2. Upgrade your display adapter drivers if possible.
3. Do a full shut down after setting the resolution. I had an issue where a users monitors (in Win7) would clone each other (rather than extend the desktop) after each restart and wouldn't remember the extend setting until a full shutdown was performed.
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See comment on other answer by w7pro – Dennis van der Stelt Mar 9 '11 at 20:06
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Any chance Windows LiveMesh is installed?
It's known to screw up the resolution after every reboot.
Uninstall it or disable its services. (It's been discontinued anyway, so you're not losing anything)
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Here are some of the causes I've seen for this issue:
• A bad cable. Make sure you're using a digital cable, such as DVI, HDMI, or Displayport, and that the cable is of good quality. If you are using resolutions above 1920x1080 and you are using DVI, you need to make sure you have a dual-link DVI.
• Bad video card drivers. Update your NVIDIA / AMD and any integrated graphics (i.e. Intel)
• Video cards fighting. Most intel-CPU-based systems now have integrated Intel graphics in addition to the discreet GPU. Sometimes one will try to override the other or gets incorrectly set somehow. Make sure they're set properly.
• Monitor drivers - as a rule I rarely if ever install monitor drivers. Usually not needed for most monitors, but there are some which don't have their EDID programmed properly, or support enhanced color profiles etc.
• Power switch - any chance you are completely powering off your display and unplugging it? That sometimes resets the in-monitor info, which can then make the PC think it's a new display every time you reboot.
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convert -append 1.jpg 2.jpg out.jpg
This command appends 1.jpg and 2.jpg vertically. What is the command to do this horizontally?
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Instead of -append, use +append as follows:
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I have a 1TB external seagate hard drive that i use it with my dell inspiron 1525 laptop running UBuntu 9.04. I dont intend to share my hdd with anyone, so my laptop is the only comp i will plug it into. Its on NTFS right now, it auto mounts as soon as i plug it in and i can transfer data without worrying about permissions.
But, ntfs-3g takes up a lot of cpu and resources, particularly for long running data transfers of over 20G. So i want to shift to a native linux file system for my hdd (probably ext4 or ext3 ?).
1) Will there be a significant difference in data transfer rate( <= 26 MBps currently) , cpu usage and system responsiveness with a native file system as opposed to NTFS ?
2) Will auto mounting work or do i have to manually mount it every time.
3) What do i have to do to mask file system permissions or to make sure that the permissions don't get in the way like in NTFS ?
I don't intend to ever use the drive in windows.
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Do you intend to ever use the drive in Windows? Windows won't be able to read native linux paritions (at least without WAY too much effot) and FAT32 will limit your file sizes. – basszero Sep 17 '09 at 13:53
Basszero EXT2IFS will allow an EXT2 or 3 drive to function normally in windows, it is a tiny program and doesn't require a reboot. It ma be compatible with EXT4, I haven't tried. – MDMarra Sep 17 '09 at 15:21
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I run exactly this configuration with XFS file system, and I am happy with it. Numerous comparisons of different file systems for Linux can be found on the Net, but I personally like low CPU utilization during copying or deleting large number of files.
Not sure if the transfer speed with XFS will be much better than with NTFS - 25 MB/s is a typical limit for some USB controllers
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You will have problems with file permissions with ext4, except if your user has the same UID on all the machines you use, or if you manage to set all files to 777 somehow.
I've had the same problem a while ago, and the solution was to use the UDF filesystem. It works fine, even though the filesystem management tools don't seem do be updated much (the last version is from 2004).
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as i said, i don't plan to plugin my hdd to any machine other than my laptop. – letronje Sep 20 '09 at 13:40
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You forget that ext3 and ext4 are journalling filesystems so the chance of not losing data if your computer crash or similar are better.
And if the disk will never again touch a windows computer, then switch.
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Maryland plays strong doubles and were very aggressive. They won all the matches. Pretty fiery stuff from the Terps.
1: 49 Yannick Maden def Maros Horny def 6-1 6-2
This is just a bad matchup for Horny. He served big but could not make his volleys. Maden is great at passing shots and Horny played straight into his hands several times. Horny is one of the nicest guys in college tennis, wish him well the rest of the year.
2: Gerardo Meza def 152 Vlad Stefan 6-3 4-6 6-2
Stefan played awful to start the match. He missed 4 straight returns and double faulted 3 times. His body seemed to be disconnected from his shots. He was disjointed, not a very pleasing player to watch at all. Meza lost some of his edge up 6-3 3-1 and allowed Stefan back into the match. But as he has done so many times this season Meza put his head down and plowed through the 3rd set.
3: Ayrton Wibowo def Sergio Wyss 7-6(1) 2-6 6-1
Wibowo played another fantastic 3rd set. He was teeing off on the weak Wyss serve in the 3rd. His forehand was on fire and he cracked several krakatowa shots(get it? Largest volcano in history in Indonesia, Wibow is from Indonesia). Wyss was very hostile and tried to psych himself up in the 3rd by saying Wibowo was tight which was very far from the truth.
4: Dom Maden def Jesse Kiuru 6-4 6-2
Down 3-4 in the 1st D.Maden stopped missing and it was straight forward from there. Kiuru could not hurt him in any way.
5: John Collins def Hunter Harrington 7-5 6-7(4) 10-7
Collins is better than #5. He should be their #3 player. Harrington is ultra agressive and basically everything revolves around if he makes his forehand winner shots or not. Both players held serve fairly easily throughout, with only one break the entire set. Harrington led 5-3 in the super-breaker but Collins played some smart aggressive tennis to take the dead rubber.
6: Zac Rigsby def Tommy Laine 6-1 ret.
Rigsby did not play well in doubles so I was surprised to see him come out so strong in singles. Laine tanked big time, basically just didn't feel like playing after the 1st set. Since this match was indoors 5 and 6 came on later, so the match was already decided by the time this match was still ine first set. Rigsby was there to play and Laine decided he didn;t feel like it and quit.
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8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first,1 also went inside. He saw and believed. 9 (They still did not understand from Scripture2 that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)3
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10 Then the disciples went back to their homes, 11 but Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb4 12 and saw two angels in white,5 seated where Jesus' body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. 13 They asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?"6 "They have taken my Lord away," she said, "and I don't know where they have put him."7 14 At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there,8 but she did not realize that it was Jesus.9 15 "Woman," he said, "why are you crying?10 Who is it you are looking for?" Thinking he was the gardener, she said, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him." 16 Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic,11 "Rabboni!"12 (which means Teacher). 17 Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers13 and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father14 and your Father, to my God and your God.' " 18 Mary Magdalene15 went to the disciples16 with the news: "I have seen the Lord!" And she told them that he had said these things to her.
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Any President that Would Dare Oppose The Federal Reserve Gets Assassinated: History Lesson & JP Morgan Buyout of Bear Stearns
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Somewhere in the trillionaires room of Heaven three old codgers are sitting around a table smoking cigars and chuckling over the J. P Morgan Chase & Company buyout of Bear Stearns for a paltry $2.00 a share. Not so much because the price had been over $130 a share a few weeks earlier but because the Federal Reserve Board put up $30 billion of the government’s money to guarantee the sale.
Yes, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, patriarchs of three of the most powerful family fortunes in history have waited nearly two centuries to see their dreams fulfilled. Perhaps such patience is why their families have remained successful by steadfastly maintaining the rules of the game as set down by their founders.
It was 248 years ago, in 1760 that Mayer Amschel Rothschild created the House of Rothschild that was to pave the way for international banking and control of the world’s resources on a scale unparalleled and somewhat mysterious to this date. He disbursed his five sons to set up banking operations throughout Europe and the various European empires.
"Give me control of a nation's money
and I care not who makes the laws."
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
In time the House of Rothschild was able to take control of the Bank of France and Bank of England and relentlessly pursued an effort over two centuries to control a national bank in the USA. By 1850 it was said the Rothschild family was worth over $6 billion and owned one half of the world’s wealth.
From oil (Shell) to diamonds (DeBeers) to gold (from 1919 until 2004 a Rothschild was permanent Chairman of the London Gold Fixing committee which met twice a day in the Rothschild offices in London) the Rothschild’s quietly accumulated a foothold in critical industries and commodities throughout the world.
A master at building impenetrable walls around his family assets the current value of the Rothschild holdings are estimated to be between $100 and $300 trillion, yes that is trillion dollars! Now for a point of reference the current United States National Debt is $9.4 trillion.
J. P. Morgan began as the New York agent for his father’s business in London in 1860 and by 1877 was floating $260 million in US Bonds to save the government from an economic collapse. In 1890 he inherited the business and in 1895 bought $200 million in US Bonds with gold to again save the US economy.
“If you have to ask how much it costs,
you can't afford it.”
J. P. Morgan
By 1912 he controlled $22 billion and had started companies such as US Steel and General Electric while he owned several railroads. Morgan was also an American agent for the House of Rothschild in London and used the Rothschild resources to help people like John D. Rockefeller.
Rockefeller, who started Standard Oil in 1863 with the help of Morgan, grew his company into the largest oil company in the world and by 1916 Rockefeller was the first billionaire in American history. In 1909 he had set up the Rockefeller Foundation with $225 million and donated nearly a billion more dollars to various causes. The Rockefeller family fortune is estimated to be around $11 trillion today.
“The way to make money is to buy
when blood is running in the streets.”
John D. Rockefeller
So what did they have in common these extraordinary capitalists? They all were dedicated to owning a national bank in America so they could determine the fiscal policies of the nation and earn interest on the debt of the nation.
Rothschild agents in 1791 formed the First Bank of the United States but intense opposition to foreign ownership by President Jefferson and others helped kill it by 1811. A Second Bank of the United States was formed in 1816 once again by Rothschild agents and this time they secured a 20-year charter. However, President Andrew Jackson was also opposed to foreign ownership and withdrew the federal deposits in 1832 as part of his plan to kill the bank charter in 1836.
An attempt to assassinate Jackson in 1834 left him wounded but more determined than ever to stop the central bank. Thirty years later President Lincoln refused to pay international bankers extremely high interest rates during the Civil War and ordered the printing of government bonds. With the help of Russian Czar Alexander II who also blocked a similar national bank from being set up in Russia by the international bankers they were able to survive the economic squeeze.
Both Lincoln and Alexander II were assassinated. In 1881 James Garfield became president and he was dedicated to restoring the right of the federal government to issue money like Lincoln did in the Civil War and he was also assassinated.
Finally along came 1913 and the US was again suffering from a weak economy and there was a threat of another costly war, a world war this time, and business tycoons J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and E.H. Harriman were part of a group that got Woodrow Wilson to sign into law the Federal Reserve Act creating a network of 12 privately owned banks as part of a new Federal Reserve network.
One of the largest stockholders in the new Federal Reserve was the House of Rothschild through their direct and indirect holdings. A few years later it was disclosed that the Rothschilds also owned about 20% of J. P. Morgan. In time Morgan would merge with the Chase Manhattan Bank of the Rockefellers.
Years later John F. Kennedy opposed a private national bank and was assassinated in 1963 and Ronald Reagan opposed a private national bank and in 1981 an attempt was made to assassinate him. Coincidence or not the opposition to a privately owned national bank was a common characteristic to all these successful assassinations and assassination attempts.
Which brings us full circle to the present bailout of Bear Stearns by J.P. Morgan Chase & Company and we find the Rothschild, Morgan and Rockefeller families are all conveniently part of the same group benefiting from the bailout and the $30 billion guarantee by the Federal Reserve. This is the third time the J. P. Morgan Company has come to the rescue of the American banking system and economy.
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J. P. Morgan / John D. Rockefeller
"The Rothschilds provided huge loans to establish monopolies in various industries, thereby guaranteeing the borrowers' ability to repay the loans by raising prices without fear of price competition, while increasing the Rothschilds' economic and political power.
They financed Cecil Rhodes, making it possible for him to establish a monopoly over the goldfields of South Africa and DeBeers diamonds.
In America, they financed the monopolisation of railroads. The National City Bank of Cleveland, which was identified in congressional hearings as one of three Rothschild banks in the United States, provided John D. Rockefeller with the money to begin his monopolisation of the oil refinery business, resulting in the formation of Standard Oil.
Jacob Schiff, who had been born in the Rothschild Green Shield house in Frankfurt and who was then the principal Rothschild agent in the US, advised Rockefeller and developed the infamous rebate deal which Rockefeller secretly demanded from railroads shipping competitors' oil. These same railroads were already monopolised by Rothschild control through agents and allies J. P. Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb & Company (Schiff was on the Board) which, together, controlled 95 per cent of all US railroad mileage. By 1850, James Rothschild, the heir of the French branch of the family, was said to be worth 600 million French francs — 150 million more than all the other bankers in France put together. Mayer Amschel had established James in Paris in 1812, with capital of $200,000. At the time of his death in 1868, fifty-six years later, his annual income was $40,000,000. No fortune in America at that time equalled even one year of James' income."
[ http://reactor-core.org/money-changers.html#chapter6 ]
** For those who believe that a gold standard is the answer for America's current monetary problems, look what happened to America after the Currency Act of 1764 was passed. In his autobiography, Franklin wrote:
"In one year the conditions were so reversed that the era of prosperity ended and a depression set in, to such an extent that the streets of the Colonies were filled with unemployed."
Franklin claims that this was even the basic cause of the American Revolution. As Franklin put it in his autobiography:
**[by Patrick S. J. Carmack]
Their days are numbered
They can't assassinate all of us.
"The body is but a vessel for the soul,
A puppet which bends to the soul's tyranny.
And lo, the body is not eternal,
For it must feed on the flesh of others,
Lest it return to the dust whence it came.
Therefore the soul deceives and despises."
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By Laitainion on 4/26/2010 3:59:41 AM , Rating: 2
What point exactly are you trying to argue? That the US health-care is rediculously expensive by any objective standard? Or that the you think a free market is the best way to run a health service?
Either way you're wrong, the US health care system costs twice as much (per head) as most developed counrties and for that you get to be ranked as possibly the least healthy developed country too (WHO ranks the US as 72nd on overall health out of 191).
So yeah, I'll stick with my NHS thank you very much.
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By heffeque on 4/26/2010 7:34:39 AM , Rating: 2
Actually the US health care system is 5 times more expensive (per head) than the one in Spain, yet has a lower health outcome.
Here's a video that explains the differences between them and why paying more isn't always receiving a better service:
Jeff Goldsmith - Healthcare Comparison US vs Spain:
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By Steve1981 on 4/26/2010 10:48:41 AM , Rating: 2
Can't watch the video at the moment to comment (at work), but something else worth noting within the US: arguably some of the very best care you can receive here (and in the world) is at the Mayo Clinic, notably a private not-for-profit organization. It also happens to treat patients at half the cost of comparable facilities near to its locations. Just goes to show simply throwing money at problems isn't always the best option.
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Wow, I just got this off NHS's website:
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That's until they go to the US.
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By weskurtz0081 on 4/26/2010 8:59:49 AM , Rating: 2
Actually, the quality of health care received in the U.S. is quite good, among the best. The problem is that often times people opt to not receive the health care because it is too damned expensive.
If you keep everything equal but remove the costs, the U.S. health care system would all of the sudden be one of the best.
So, just using overall health of the population to evaluate how GOOD the health care is simply doesn't take enough into account, like people not seeking out health care due to the associated cost.
The system is very good, the costs are the problem. Fix those.
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Depends on what your goals and ideals are I suppose.
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By Kurz on 4/26/2010 10:15:44 AM , Rating: 2
Its rediculously expensive because of special interest groups lobbying for bill and policies that make it more profitable for them to do business in our country.
Free market was never the issue, it has always been the driver of innovation, reducing costs, and overall brings more prosperity to more people.
The WHO statistics are flawed. For one instance in America we trail a bit behind in birth rates. Thats mainly because we count every live birth regardless weither they die a minute later from complications, In the UK they don't attempt to treat newborns born eariler than 22 weeks (If I have my facts straight) even though its quite possible for them to pull through they wont treat the child. They count it differently in other countries. Its a political thing to make it look like the American system is deeply flawed.
The laws of Prices and supply and scaristy effect all of us. There is a cost associated and in one shape or another it is traded off with each other.
I am for more free market reform of the health care system.
Except its not popular since most people don't understand the basics of economics.
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By gamerk2 on 4/26/2010 10:43:39 AM , Rating: 2
Funny; Could have sworn the last time we tried a "Free Market" system, we ended up with nothing but monopolies paying around $0.10 an hour [if you were lucky]...
We haven't been a "Free Market" economy since the T. Roosevelt administartion.
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>.> inflation is a major cause.
You have to look at the difference between the costs.
In New York many people makes 6 figures.
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Itunes hater, please explain
By shompa on 6/6/2011 3:40:08 PM , Rating: -1
Itunes haters, could you please explain how you sync your devices? Do you manage your songs/photos/PDFs/books/movies/audiobooks/apps/radi oprograms on a file system basis? You sit with windows explorer and drag folders here and there?
And I guess you are windows users mostly since Itunes much worse on PC then mac.
By Shadowmaster625 on 6/6/2011 4:10:39 PM , Rating: 2
I dont see how you avoid it. If you have a 8GB device and a 16GB SD card, and you want to load them up with stuff to take with you somewhere, and you have 800GB of stuff to choose from then here is my question: HOW IS SOME STUPID DUMBED DOWN PIECE OF iCRAP SOFTWARE GOING TO EVEN BEGIN TO KNOW HOW THE HECK TO HELP YOU? The obvious answer is: it doesnt, and it wont. On the other hand, if you learn basic file management, you dont need some piece of junk software to help you sync your devices. You are able to do it yourself, quickly and easily, and do it much better.
RE: Itunes hater, please explain
By weskurtz0081 on 6/6/2011 4:21:01 PM , Rating: 2
Well, I don't bother with a lot of stuff since it's stored on the SD card, but contacts and updates have always been done in the background OTA, and those are the two most important aspects to me.
Now that Apple has FINALLY caught up on that front, and even surpassed Google if they do apps free OTA (remember, Google has been doing OTA syncing and updates since the G1) Google has some improvements they can make to leapfrog Apple again in this area.
I am a former iPhone user that lost contact data due to not regularly plugging my phone into my PC.
RE: Itunes hater, please explain
By IamTHEsnake on 6/6/2011 4:47:15 PM , Rating: 2
agreed. making mobileme-type services free is the right move. the less maintenance required, the better. especially when thinking of those that are less informed on the tech front.
RE: Itunes hater, please explain
By weskurtz0081 on 6/6/2011 5:01:18 PM , Rating: 2
Hell, and I am VERY well informed about technology, but I loathed being forced to plug my phone into my PC to protect my data, so I just didn't do it (and one day I broke my phone).
So, since that day, I swore off Apple due to the fact I didn't have that worry with Android, but now the tides are starting to shift, Apple has finally gotten on the OTA ball and fixed the antiquated notifications system!
Now, I MIGHT actually consider getting another iPhone at some point.
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By mcnabney on 6/6/2011 6:40:19 PM , Rating: 2
So you like buying from the company that is playing catch-up?
RE: Itunes hater, please explain
By Motoman on 6/6/2011 4:51:33 PM , Rating: 1
Lots of apps can automatically manage an iPlod or whatever instead of iToons. Winamp for example.
...and Winamp can actually do advanced things that iToons can't - like, say, delete a song from your iPod. Try doing that on iToons...
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By nafhan on 6/6/2011 5:29:34 PM , Rating: 2
I have all my contacts in Google contacts, I generally stream media, and read on the web. So, I rarely mess with data management. When I do, then, yes, Windows explorer. Pictures are the only thing where I do that regularly, and even then I just copy the entire picture folder off the device - same as I do with my digital camera.
My experience is that whenever I use a media management program to actually manage my stuff, I end up getting locked into using that media manager, because otherwise, due to all the "helpful" abstraction, I have no idea where anything is. I started off with a good directory/subdirectory naming scheme years ago. So, I can usually find any of my media files in two or three clicks. I will occasionally use media managers (Picassa, Media Monkey) for viewing pictures or listening to music, but that's about it.
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08-05-2001, 11:52 PM
Hi All...
Just wanted to pass on something to you all and ask for your help to fix it. My wife, me and our 2 year old daughter
went to DCA today and we discovered something I think you should all know about. There is NO WAY that park has
enough drinking fountains to go around. It was about 90 degrees today and we all started getting a little heat sick
and dehydrated. Started looking for a drinking fountain and guess what....there ain't many of them. We came up on some in
the Redwood Trail but they didn't work. Went on to the San Francisco area and couldn't find any. On to Paradise P
Pier...we found a pair of them by a bathroom but only one worked and there was a line of 34 people. (I counted)
On around to the farm area....no drinking fountains!!! Did I forget to mention that I could have paid $2.50 for a bottle of
water almost anywhere? Could it be that Disney purposefully didn't put in a whole lot of drinking fountains to up the
water and soda sales? Could it be that the broken drinking fountains were "broken" to help off-set the $33 tickets with
a free kid? Kind of the way McDonalds sells you a $ .39 hamburger but you pay $1.75 for a coke and $1.90 for a fry?
When I complained to Guest Relations about it he quickly (scripted?) explained that he could point out 4 drinking fountains
within the entry plaza including one right at guest relations. (It is located by the main gate) I told him "Yeah, you give us free water when we're on our way out and you can't soak us for $2.50 anymore...what about back in the park when your dying of thirst?"
He had no answer.
I think we should all do a little complaining about this when we go to DCA. Please stop by guest relations and complain about this.
We are being duped, my friends and it has to stop. I was told by a senior manager that DCA could never have opened if it
didn't have the legal amount of drinking fountains. They may have the "legal" amount but just barely AND they are clustered
near the entrance AND they are in pairs of two so they can have more of a "dry stretch" between them. I pointed this out to the
higher up that Disney not only needs to worry about being "legal" it also has to be willing to answer to the consumer who is
paying through the nose for $30 food and 12 rides. You know, it's not like they ain't ever built one of these before...they have
one right accross the way that has drinking fountains every three feet. They are either stupid or greedy...which do you think
it is??
Roy :-)
P.S. Sorry about the length of my post.
08-06-2001, 01:32 PM
I hate drinking fountains. I'd rather pay for water than risk the germs!!!!!!
08-06-2001, 07:53 PM
I rarely use them, but I can understand the frustration.
I assume the law specifies a certain number of WORKING fountains, and I would think Disney is complying. But a suggestion would be to check out the law yourself, and call them on it.
A suggestion would be to bring some water in with you. You would succeed in not purchasing Disney's water, and avoid the germs of the public fountain. You could always refill when you are lucky enough to come across a fountain.
Just a few suggestions...
08-08-2001, 12:41 AM
I think that this just goes to the heart of Disney's problem right now....penny-wise and pound foolish.
It seems that they want to push all sides to the maximum, spend less on the parks and charge more for everything.
This type of mentality was prevelant in the early 70's when Roy was in charge...I remember them asking me one time when I entered the park in 1973 if
I would pay $1.00 for popcorn (unheard of at the time) and if we would still have came if Disneyland was only open
4 days a week. (The hours back then were like 10-6) Then Eisner came in and said "Spend, spend and spend."
If there were two people needed at a ride he would call for three to be there. If popcorn was small, he made it
large for the same price. Money was no object. He did the "blast to the past" and the 30th anniversary- car a day
giveaway. You could win prizes just for going thru the turnstiles. It made people want to go to Disney.
AND IT WORKED! Big time. Disney was the corporate darling and poster boy. Eisner took it from just a few years away
from a takeover...(there were literally talks with a Japanese company to take over Disney in the 70's) to
a model company. What happened?? Pressler happened. He is a cheap, simpleton with very limited vision. Light magic
sucked. Toon town just barely works and DCA is a disappointment. All were Pressler's "babies." He has failed. He needs
to be replaced with a "Disney" loyalist. I think another problem is the caliber of executives that Disney is attracting. No more ride operators or ticket takers rising up thru the ranks. Nope, now it's 27 year old, snot faced yuppies who, with
BA in hand, get a $100K a year job to try their best to soak us. I know, I get to work with these "executives". If they weren't working for Disney they would just be with Mitsubushi or Ingram-Micro or something. I know someone who designed the parking garage. She is a stooge. She drives a 740i BMW, but she's a stooge. I asked "why don't the trams come up into the levels of the garage instead of making us walk 1/4 mile to get to them?" She looked at me as if I had
asked her what the meaning of life was. Not going to happen.
Anyway, I ain't gonna pay $2.50 for water. I am going to go into every restaurant and ask for a FREE cup of water WITH
ICE. I suggest we all do this AND complain about the drinking fountains. Maybe, just maybe, the all mighty dollar will win over as it did in the 70's and they'll have to think of ways to SPEND money instead of FLEECING it.
Just my two cents...
Roy :-)
08-08-2001, 11:21 AM
Although I am not the biggest fan of DCA and only because I feel that they forgot a key group (2-7 years olds) when they designed it, I have to say that my impressions were not that of a cheap park. I must admit that the feeling of Disney was is not near as strong as other parks but I got the impression it was meant to be that way.
I DO remember the car a day :) . Actually a little girl, 3 people in front of us won one!!
08-08-2001, 12:10 PM
Yeah, Kelsie...I was BEHIND a woman who won a car..and my good "ladies first" manners cost my
a Camaro! Thanks Mom!!
Roy :-)
08-10-2001, 03:49 AM
It's just one of those things you HAVE to do when you go to a park - pay the prices. Disney drinking fountains are usually warm anyway.
08-10-2001, 12:38 PM
But I don't feel $2.50 for water is "part of it." I consider water to be a basic need that, by law,
has to be provided for all guests. Think about it...they are charging you $2.50 for W A T E R!
WATER. What's next? Air meters? They gonna charge you for how many cubic litres of "their" air
that you breath?? If Pressler has his way, it's probably next! No, water MUST be provided in
abundance to all guests - end of story. AND if they wanted to really make us happy and come back,
they'd chill the water in the drinking fountains. (Like Disneyland use to have)
Come on, people!! I can't believe how there is no uproar about this. As a matter of fact, many of you are
DEFENDING Disney on this. It's sad that they have won. I guess they can just keep erroding the services
and eventually we will all forget. Not me, though. I'm going to make them remember the past!
Roy :-)
08-11-2001, 03:54 AM
It's not just Disneyland, it's every park in this country. You have to pay for bottled water everywhere, why would Disneyland be any different?
Drinking cold water isn't good for you anyway ;)
08-11-2001, 01:25 PM
DISNEYLAND has drinking fountains EVERYWHERE. Most of them are chilled. All of them
work. My beef is with the fact that Calif. Adventure has hardly any AND half were not working.
It's not like they haven't had any experience building theme parks before. They have a pretty
good example of a good one right across the entrance from DCA. As far as "all amusement
parks charge for water, why should Disney be any different?" That argument doesn't hold water for
me. (pun intended) If Disney is going to be "just like any other park" then what are we all doing here on this board?
Disney is supposed to be the flagship of the industry, not a follower. Disney is supposed to "raise the
bar" for Six Flags, Cedar Faire and Universal...not come down to their level. The "why can't Disney be like
all the other parks" mentality is why we have DCA to begin with. It's a second rate park that deserves the
"Universal Studios" moniker...not Disney. There aren't a lot of the "hard core Disney types" still working for
Disney. Most are just new college grads who took Disney's employment package. The reason we need to
complain about water is to remind them that we ARE watching and we know EXACTLY what they are trying to get
away with. It's the same reason we complain about Mr. Toad's Wild Ride closing and Great Moments with
Mr. Lincoln closing. They'll slip anything they can past us to save a buck. Only with public outcry will we
"teach" the newcomers over in the head office what Disney is all about. Disney is about free, chilled water
in abundance.
Nuff said.
Roy :-)
08-13-2001, 02:26 PM
Choosing your battles.
The water one is going to be a tough one to get anywhere on. The way people approach getting a drink of water has changed. Many people won't use drinking fountains because of the "germ factor". This was not the case 20-30 years ago. Disney is merely charging the same "amusement park" markup for water that they are charging for soda, food, souveniers and everything else. Its not a new phenomonon. Its just that when we were kids, we didn't care.
I wasn't aware of a law requiring drinking fountains, but if there is, I'm sure it makes a reference to WORKING drinking fountains. If Disney is not complying, you can go straight to the proper authorities.
Disney knows they are not going to lose many customers for inadequete drinking fountains, so I think our energy could be used better on other things like the attractions you mentioned.
Just my opinion...
08-16-2001, 04:46 AM
Because there was such a fuss about this, I investigated today when I went. IT WAS HOT today, I wasn't feeling too good myself, but I found plenty of restrooms and drinking fountains, and I kept filling up my water bottle - It worked out pretty good that way.
The only thing I had problems with was the lack of shade near the benchs and the lack of places to eat without airconditioned areas. When it was as hot as it was today, it would have been nice to cool off every now and then. I did eat at that Pilot place near the front, it had air conditioning, but there weren't enough umbrellas to go around near the benchs. Just a thought..
08-16-2001, 09:34 AM
I'm not talking about drinking fountains by the bathrooms (which when we were there either weren't all working OR had a line of 25 or more people)...I'm saying that there aren't any drinking fountains out, alone in the park. There are no free-standing drinking fountains out among the hoards. But there ARE bottled water stands, though! Surprise, surprise! Go figure...you don't think Disney might have put in the legal minimum amount of drinking fountains so they could get $2.50 a bottle for water, do you? Naw!! Never happen...Disney would never go for the fast buck over peoples health and well-being....would they? All those drinking fountains over in Disneyland that Walt put in were a waste, Right?? Of course they weren't. I'm just wondering why there are MUCH less drinking fountains in DCA as compared with Disneyland? Do humans need less water in 2001 compared with 1955? No, I think we're the same old thirsty bunch. I just wonder why DCA would have less drinking fountains than Disneyland?? OH YEAH....I figured it out!!!! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
(I'm so proud of myself!)
Roy :-)
08-16-2001, 02:24 PM
I ALWAYS bring a water bottle with me to DL and most anywhere else that has hot weather. It is simply good practice. I recommend everyone in your party carrying a small water bottle. I like the small bottles because they are lighter and on hot days you can just refill them with the chilled water from any water fountain.
08-16-2001, 08:41 PM
Then bring a cooler with some water bottles. If you hate Disney so much, then why do you still go there?? You make no sense..
08-17-2001, 11:11 AM
That was kind of a childish statement, don't you think?? "If you hate Disney so much then why do you go?"
I LOVE Disney and I want to see it flourish...not be reduced to a "six-flags" park like Knott's Berry Farm is turning into.
I have read MANY posts where you point to MANY things that you don't like about Disney (ride closures, show changes, etc.) and it never crossed my mind that you hated Disney. I inferred from your comments that you were a Disney supporter who wanted to point out things that you felt would take away from the company...not that you "hate Disney" and "why do you go?"...I guess I was wrong....I guess you hate Disney.
Why do you go?
Roy :-)
08-17-2001, 01:30 PM
Well, personally I go for the Dole Whip :D !
Everyone is entitled to their opinion but let's just keep it nice ok? :)
08-17-2001, 06:56 PM
Does Disneyland/DCA have Itsakadoozies?
I never had one until I went to WDW. Now I get them at the grocery store.
08-17-2001, 10:59 PM
Don't know if DCA or Disneyland have itsakadoodles....but I DO know what else they don't have...
Roy :-)
08-18-2001, 06:47 PM
By what you said you were acting like Disney is some "money grubbing corporation", then why have it grab your money any more by having to pay for a lousy water bottle, eh?
Yeah, I hate Disney alright. :rolleyes: Just because there was no shade doesn't mean I won't return when it's COOLER. You were about to have a heartattack on paying for water, and I gave you a few tips on what to do.
GET OVER THE FACT that you have to pay for water like every other American (and non American) citizen. That is all.
08-18-2001, 08:28 PM
what??? That made no sense.
08-18-2001, 09:44 PM
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Hmm. The YouGov opinion poll was interesting. Its 19% tally for pro-independence Scots was out of step with other recent polls showing up to 40% support (Interesting you chose to ignore those findings but hey ho). Now if you look at the langage and questions asked in YouGov poll you will find it highly pejorative. One example is that it uses "Scottish Executive" rather than Scottish Government to describe the SNP administration a clue, perhaps, to participants as to the view of the questioner.
I think the way you phrase questions in an opinion poll really matters but, interestingly, - as long as it's not exteme - wording isn't as important in a referendum.
Listen, I know the Economist is going to remain hositle to the idea of Scottish independence even while you are in favour of the trend providing its real driver - globalisation. But should you really allow your staff to post comments like the first one from the cod-nationalist "Mac Coinnich". If you allowed the use of coulour I'm sure he would have used a green font.
There are lots of people in Scotland who are quite sane, want to see independence and don't believe that England will be anything but the closest of friends to the next member of the UN.
Craig A.M.
No Mac Coinnich it’s not a matter of confidence its a matter of common sense if anything ethnic Scots suffer an over abundance of ill founded confidence. Scots long for independence? While Scots are longing for independence do you think they are seriously considering the military, economic and diplomatic consequences of destroying a political entity that has survived two world wars, the collapse of empire and thirteen long years of neo-liberal fundamentalism?
The problem with the Scots is they are very British and like everyone else in Britain the majority tend towards small minded parochialism (to the extent that they object to importing vibrant and earthy American phrases like "Bring it on") unable to see beyond there home town and thus unable to perceive the wonders of the British State.
The fact is the British state is a logical geographic and linguistic entity.
"Craig AM" not only writes patronising drivel he/she provides a very good example of the Scottish cringe.
For those interested in this phrase "the Scottish cringe" please re-read the comment below to fully understand it.
PS Do you think "Craig AM" works for the Economist?
View from the North
I would like to suggest the editorial staff of The Economist should get to work on a detailed and balanced analysis of the arguments for and against Scottish independence, for the events of this week in Edinburgh ensure that there is going to be a referendum in a couple of years.
Objective data is always welcome in such debates, and The Econmist likes to consider itself a source of this. I can suggest some possible data to present, for Scotland, for England or the rest of UK; and for comparable small European countries such as Norway, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands. Figures for the last century would usefully avoid any short-term variations:
- relative economic growth rates
- population growth and emigration statistics
- military casualty statistics
OK, I confess I am being a little disingenuous. I have seen these data already. These figures tell a surprisingly clear story, and it is cetainly not an argument for Scotland to stay in the union.
Scots chap
What a week!Seven days ago if you had asked any seasoned political observer whether Scotland would have a referendum on the issue of independence in the forceable future, the answer would have been a resolute "No'. This would have been the response irrespective of whether one desired it or not.Although the SNP had introduced a white paper in the Scottish parliament outlining it's intention, any bill presented by the minority administration on the matter was almost certainly doomed.Not any more.The referendum is now most definitely ON. Given that this is actually a reserved matter for the Westminster parliament, Alex Salmond's bill - in the unlikely event of it being passed (until this weeks event), would have had no more legal standing than a very accurate opinion poll. Again, not any more.Westminster, through it's silence this week, has essentially acquiesced their authority on this matter to the Scottish parliament.This is a tectonic shift. Until this week, the Scottish independence debate was essentially an intellectual one - with all participants knowing deep down the referendum would not happen during the lifetime of the current SNP administration. Given the additional member system of voting in Scotland it is unlikely that Alex Salmond would ever have gained the parliamentary majority necessary to pass such a bill.Unionist should be scared. Once someone has made the jump to supporting independence they are unlikely to jump back. The unionist demographic is aging and Labour. Given that the referendum is scheduled for one year after David Cameron comes to power, the prospect of another eighteen years of tory rule to many Labour voters will be to much to bear.
rab mccann
Independence for Scotland cannot come soon enough. It will be a hard task particuarly with most of the labour supporting media such as the daily record telling blatant lies on how prosperous an independent Scotland could be. Recent reports compiled for Westminister (which of course never got published) shows how successful an independent scotland would be. We would have one of the highest GDP per capita figures in Europe much higher than what it would be within the union. Also, this did not take into effect the rapidly rising oil prices (which may limit growth in Scotland to an extent) but will boost Government coffers significantly, allowing us as a country to benefit from serious investment which we have been seriously lacking for some time.
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1. jonathan.javorsky 66 months ago | reply
i would love to do this--this year for halloween.....can i have more info on it.
2. daniel.bushnell 64 months ago | reply
I don't think you used enough duct tape
3. jimbonk8e 61 months ago | reply
this is amazing can u tell me what exact parts are used
4. Skagit Dave 61 months ago | reply
I also would like more detail info and instructions on how it's done. I do have some ideas of my own, such is "to build a working electric motor without using any batteries or electic power source. I built one out of styroform and wooden products.
Skagit Dave.. and it works!!!!
5. s.kokosza 61 months ago | reply
This is pretty cool, although there are easier ways to go about doing this.. like using smaller components.
6. Monochor 61 months ago | reply
just hope that no one realizes the trick and goes to snatch the camera.
7. alexkolozvary 61 months ago | reply
This is really cool.
Anyway you can post step by step instructions for idiots like me?
I love to do something like this.
8. wansal311 61 months ago | reply
how long does the battery last?
9. somaamos [deleted] 61 months ago | reply
I saw the photo ... can you please post a video of it in action?! Too cool.
10. CraftByDsn 61 months ago | reply
it would be really interesting to see someone's face on the inside of the body since all it takes is for some kid to say "HI!!! LOOK AT ME!" :D
11. Nargopolis 61 months ago | reply
There are step by step instructions by someone who did something very similar, on this instructable: www.instructables.com/id/Death_Becomes_Her_Halloween_Cost...
12. Eli the Bearded 61 months ago | reply
Clever. And interesting tags.
13. knseeney 61 months ago | reply
Thank you for posting the costume "ingredients". (^_^)
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Rate: Nicky Romera and Krewella - Save my Life Tonight
#1Tony_Biggie_PunPosted 2/21/2014 12:52:14 AMmessage detail
Heard it for the furst time ate EDC NYC 2013 last yesr. Just now finding the song on the internet again. Its one of my favorite EDM songs of all time that I ever listened to since i started listening to the genre 2.5 years ago.
#2Tony_Biggie_Pun(Topic Creator)Posted 2/21/2014 12:54:12 AMmessage detail
My bad the song name is Legacy
#3HAZCHEM88Posted 2/21/2014 12:58:04 AMmessage detail
#4HAZCHEM88Posted 2/21/2014 1:00:56 AMmessage detail
Too poppy for my tastes. Also reading the comments hurts.
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#5Thunder_OkamiPosted 2/21/2014 9:09:47 AMmessage detail
every time i walk into a store and hear a song and i'm like "wtf is this crap"
it's always krewella
oh you're my best friend, in a world we must defend
#6GlitchwerksPosted 2/21/2014 4:45:04 PMmessage detail
No different than Katy Perry or Kesha.
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#7terramagraPosted 3/6/2014 9:23:48 PMmessage detail
Early Krewella was ok, basically anything pre-Get Wet. I still like what they release. But I've been a fan since Strobe light.
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#8firebotslashPosted 3/7/2014 10:52:25 AMmessage detail
Great song. You won't get much respect for this kind of house on this board though, sorry TC.
#9HAZCHEM88Posted 3/7/2014 3:00:36 PMmessage detail
firebotslash posted...
Oh come on.
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#1detrueslackerPosted 1/3/2012 7:06:48 AM
I have gift fragments that say to take "qty 12 to curator so that they can re-assemble into a gift". When I click on curator NPC it does not give me an option for anything besides buy/selll/repair. If I right click the fragments it tells me I can't sell it.
Any ideas?
#2detrueslacker(Topic Creator)Posted 1/3/2012 7:09:59 AM
#3DarthSephirothXPosted 1/3/2012 7:11:16 AM
The fragments are basically currency for only the curator. If you have enough fragments, you can buy companion gifts from him with them.
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#4PhantomHackPosted 1/3/2012 7:18:31 AM
How many GMs does it take to change a burntout lightbulb?
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"A ray of sunshine at the end of this long journey."
First off, it is really hard to listen to a bad review about a series you know and love. Especially when those reviews tend to be wrong, maybe I'm being a bit biased because I am a fan of the metroid series, but honestly I believe the reason it got such poor reviews is because everyone else is to. Metroid: Other M is by all standards a great game, it's honestly what I want from every game but alas people have their opinions so I'm here to help sway your minds and maybe give it another chance so that people might be more open to games in trying something different.
Plot: 8/10. Yes I give the plot an 8/10. You may be asking yourself "Why would he do this?" Well first off the whole premise behind the metroid games is you are a bounty hunter trying to destroy the metroids. Super Metroid was the first game where we find out that Samus Aran is a girl. A big shocking moment in video game history? Yes! However the whole idea of Samus being a girl was the team making the game and saying "Hey what if Samus turned out to be a girl?" And the idea stuck. So now we have this idea stuck in our head that Samus is this emotionless bounty hunter and is pretty awesome at her job. Again little of Samus is revealed and people want to make the ploy that we know who she is. Truth be told we don't.
This is the first game with an actual story, plot and some insight into the female who is Samus Aran. So we have the argument that Samus just turned into a whiny little kid. This game looks like it turned Samus into nothing more than a crybaby but if thats really how you view it than honestly you must have little humanity. This game is the perfect look into how Samus really feels after have the baby metroid save her life. And be honest if you were out to destroy an entire race and one of their eggs hatched and the baby actually saved your life don't try and say you wouldn't cry. Then we move onto Adam, and we get to find out about Samus' past and how she became a bounty hunter. First off, Adam is the potential father figure for Samus. He was the person who out of all other's took her seriously, because apparently she was the only woman in the Galatic Federation.
Anyways maybe this is all of topic, the whole premise of the story is that you get a distress message that reminds Samus of the baby metroid. To her, the baby metroid was almost like her own child, this was a baby that for all intent and purpose should have killed her. Instead it accepted her as its mother and saved her life. Anyways the story it's self is really good and well written, there are some dialogue choices that didn't make sense to me. The whole "I believe they are reasearching bio weapons" Yes we figured that out a while back thanks for reminding us. The premise of the game is very Metroid esque and I believe it deserves praise. It is everything I would want in a game. Honestly I wasn't expecting it either, and Samus' narration is really spot on. I loved that she was being more human and voicing her emotions and wasn't just a stale female who makes me want to jump off the nearest bridge. That is my plot explanation I'm not going into detail over the plot incase you haven't played it and if you haven't you really should be looking into this it is one of the best games on the Wii I have played.
Graphics: 7/10. Okay now I'm going to be fair with the graphics. I believe I gave them a modest score. Now we all know the grapical capablities of the Wii, which aren't that great. That being said and out of the way Metroid is a very beautiful game. If I was just giving a score on the cutscenes I would give it a ten out of ten. Metroid: Other M delivers the cut scenes very beautifully and they flow naturally into the game. The enemies have pretty good detail, their are some glitchy ones, but what game doesn't have that? The bosses are really well done but you can tell on some moments where the game seems to lag or cut out a little piece of the enemey or the screen.
Now the characters are some of the best well designed characters I have seen in any game. That is saying a lot for the Wii when it have to compete with the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3. The characters are smooth and crisp especially Samus who is the best looking character in the game. And any guy will admit that this Samus is beautiful and sexy. Her body is defined, her face is well defined to clearly read her emotions. All and all though the game has some graphical flaws but it is a very beautiful game especially for the Wii.
Sound and Music: 6/10. First off the sounds in this game were amazing. The team did a real good job on the sound effects. You can hear the constant clawing and screams from monsters or different animals. It gives an air of suspense. Depending on what type of flooring Samus is running on the noise is different. The monsters all make really good sounds which I would expect them to make. This part of the review isn't very good but I'm not so good with sound reviews.
Now as for the music this is why I give it a 6/10. Classic metroid music is what we all love and know about the franchise, and while they try to recreate that I don't believe they did a good job. The best part about the music is the loading screen which has the best metroid score throughout the series. I believe if they were trying to do a super metroid music they should have just used that sound track. Overall though it wasn't that bad and could have been a lot worse.
The voice acting I think is the best part. Samus' voice actor as people like to describe her make her come off as sounding emotionless. I think though that its the exact opposite. I believe Samus' voice is quite full of emotion, it deliever her experience quite well. Everyone want's to believe that Samus is a strong and held together woman who can stand on her own feet with no one's help. Which I never believed that to be true. And since Samus' emotions have never been convoyed in a game before you can't honestly say you know how she feels. And Adam is a suppose to be the potential father figure and his voice is stern and serious. Which portrays his part perfectly. The other voice actors while I find note worthy they don't have a big enough part to make to much of an impact. So overall I would say that this game has one of the best voice acting I have seen in a Wii game.
Gameplay: 7/10. Alright the gameplay is where I did find some problems but not to many. First off we know that the main premise of the Metroid games is exploration. While Metroid: Other M has more of a linear story path. Which isn't a complaint in itself however it does make me wish that I could branch off and explore. They are on a bottle ship which I realize doesn't give much room for exploration but its something I can learn to deal with. The whole thing with not using your powers until Adam gives you premission I think is a great idea. Most people complain at this point and wonder why Samus is being a well I won't say the word here and give into Adam's demands. Well maybe if you actually opened your eyes and paid attention to the cutscenes which explains their past then maybe you could get your head out of your butt. She is trying to show Adam that he is one of the only person that she respects. And not to mention that since the bottle ship is under the control of the GF she has no choice is she wants to help.
I love the 2D/3D aspect of the game. The controls are great I was quite concerend how it would work out but it was great. Holding the Wii remote sideways is the best way to play this game. The auto aiming gave me concern at first but after playing it's a great aspect. Switching to first person does has some problems but what motion game or motion control system not naming any names (kinect and the move which is basically and hd Wii but that's another argument) Giving that argument there are some problems with switching to first person. No matter how much people want to say they are perfect or that they completley suck I'm here to help you find a medium. When switching to first person you cant move, which in a way makes sense and in another way everyone has to admit sucks. Second the second you switch your aiming sensor usually makes you turn to the right or left depending on which way your coming from. I will say though that once you've played it for a while and get use to it it does become alot better. Still glitchy though that I think nintendo should work on or just give the people want they want and go back to tradional controllers.
At the end of the game you get to go back and collect all the items you miss with all your power-ups, though by that point in time it pretty much pointless. So why I don't disagree that you get your powers gradually through the game if you could have got them back a ittle bit before the game was over it would have made it more fun. And there is concentrarion. When your health gets low enough or your missles are low you can concentrate and replenish them. Which if that was just for the health it would make more sense. It would be like in a shooter when you take cover and wait for your health to return. However Samus seems to have a secret stock of infinite missles so really what's the point in her even having a limited amount at a time. If that's the case which it is they would have been better to sticking with finding missles as you progress to replenish them. You have dodging which is really good actually I figured it would be hard and clunky when I saw it but it is actually easy by pressing the arrow pads in either direction simple enough. And the camera moves with you flawlessly. Overall the gameplay is very sound but with noticeable glitches.
Replay Value: 6/10. I wouldn't necessarily say the ending is disappointing but it's not as fulfilling as you want it to be or you expect. The game does allow you to go back and collect all of the items that you missed and that you couldn't get because you didn't have all the power-ups. It's a bit of a disappointment because you get all of your powers but there is really no point in having them or getting to enjoy them. It is worth it for the second ending which is why I didn't put the replay value down so low. However if you just love the game it is still a fun game to start over and play it again.
Game Length: 9/10. The game's length is about as long as an average metroid game which is perfectly fine to me. If they would have dragged this game out it would have been disappointing. The game is on a first run though about an average 8 to 10 hours of game play. Which I don't expect a lot longer from a metroid game aside from the exploration which this game doesn't really have until after you beat it and even then you've already been everywhere.
Total Score: 43/60. I don't know if everyone can agree with that score but being a Metroid fan and with everybody's negative reaction to the game and trying not to be biased I think its a very reasonable score.
Flaws: I think the most annoying thing about the game is having to scan for things. They are usually so small and blended in with the enviornment that it takes about 10 minutes just to find what your looking for. And I will agree that the first person controls are a little cluncky but I don't think that they are the worse. If they were a little bit redfined it would be a lot better but its a Wii.
Conclusion: This probably isn't the best review you've seen or most well writen but hopefully it helped to change a few minds of people who saw this as a terrible game and that they should give it a second chance. Overall I say that Metroid: Other M is one of the best games on the Wii and I think that's saying a lot with all of the other terrible games that are on the Wii. And GI wants to say its the worst game on the Wii but of course we all know how biased they've become. Please though really give the game a chance and Samus a chance its worth it.
Reviewer's Score: 7/10 | Originally Posted: 01/18/11
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What the hell is this? Does it have anything to do with Kentucky Route Zero? Is this even a game? Is this art?
Questions, questions, questions.
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It's a sort of prologue, about an art exhibition by a character that is briefly mentioned in act 1 of the full game. It also functions as a free demo, so you can evaluate whether or not the games particular brand of storytelling is for you. It's as much of a game as text adventures like Zork were games, and it's a lot prettier that those games ever were. Who cares if its art?
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@winternet: The three people you play as are the ghosts at the table in the gas station.
One of the men on the artist's audio tapes is Joseph, the gas station attendant.
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1. where is Wisconson, and why do we care about its gun laws?
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2. Second paragraph: "There is a " a what?! We need closure!
Third paragraph: "...a police office asked Scheffler to leave the special even..." How important is the 'T' at the end of 'event?'
Fourth paragraph: Gunsthere is not a real word.
Eighth paragraph: Branstom. I thought it was Branstrom?
Eighth paragraph: "The the Appleton..." Who types with a stutter?
Didn't bother to include the formatting issues. Did a 7th grader type this from their cell phone? For the love of God, JSOnline, give your interns a copy of the AP Stylebook, sit them down at a real computer, and check their work before you publish it. This is embarrassing.
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3. Ok. These fine young men have gotten their sought after 15 minutes of fame. I'd like to see what they're doing 10 years from now. I think I'll open carry my sidearm today, stroll around some public areas, loudly recite nursery rhymes to myself, and have a friend record whatever attention I get.
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4. "The protest got plenty of local TV attention, though I haven't yet come across any video of the pro- and anti- gun folk having animated debate while each holds the a chicken and a rifle."
In other words , Bruce wasn't there , or anyone else from JSO?
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5. The problem is only citizens can have "rights". City governments are allowed to have "powers".
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6. hillbillies.
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7. I value the right to own my guns. I also value the intimate relationship I have with my wife. I don't though feel I have the need, much less the right to either at the Appleton Farmer's Market. The gun nuts are just that, nuts. Hopefully the powers to be will bring some sanity before we become the wild west. I wonder if the NRA supporters would feel the same if a group of 20 black youths open carried at the market, or maybe the Hells Angels roaring in with their rifles strapped to their bikes.
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8. I'm a 25 yr military vet. I've also voted for every Republican presidential candidate since 1968. I consider my "right" credentials (if you want to put a label on it) to be solid. The major problem as I see it, is that the extremes on both sides love to talk about their rights, but they ignore their responsibilities. That applies to these people showing up at a community event packing heat. It also applies, for example, to the Capitol "singers." You can do both of these things, but that doesn't mean that it's prudent, appropriate, beneficial, etc to do so. Any of you that vote "thumbs down " on this comment should have the courage to explain plain precisely what it is that you could possibly disagree with about this.
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9. Bruce - exactly what "gun law" are they opposing? Please cite the statute number. You can't. There is NO "gun law" with regard to open carry. It is a right.
10. The real outrage is the prohibition of carrying a live chicken in town.
Dead chickens, or more precisely their bones, are far more dangerous. Dead chickens in the hands of a really pissed off Santerian are also a possible health hazard.
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"Catfish: The TV Show"
by Jordan Armstrong / KVUE.com
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Posted on December 7, 2012 at 4:09 PM
Updated Friday, Jan 18 at 11:45 AM
Have you seen "Catfish: The TV Show"?
First let me ask you, have you seen “Catfish” the documentary? It was on Netflix, and on a rainy Sunday afternoon it changed my life.
The documentary made by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman follows Schulman’s brother Nev as he becomes online friends with an entire family he has never met. He ends up falling in love with one member of the family, though he has talked to her only through Facebook and on the phone, etc.
Of course things start to become fishy, and a few facts about her and the others don't add up.
SPOILER ALERT: She isn’t real. The family isn't real. They were all made up by a sad, lonely woman.
Nev had his heart broken but learned a valuable lesson. He's since turned to MTV and created a show where he travels the country to help poor souls meet their online loves in person.
I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure calling MTV for help meeting my online boyfriend is red flag number one.
My friends and I are OBSESSED with this show. I’m always waiting for Chris Hansen to come out, ask someone if they want some iced tea and then tell them they're under arrest.
In the episodes which have aired since the show premiered, the person of interest hasn't been completely telling the truth. In each case the “victim” is led to believe they are in love with this person they never met. But Nev always comes to the rescue.
He and his crew usually find something strange or odd about the person within the first five minutes of being there. All it takes is a Google search and a few questions. Are people really that naïve?
Maybe it’s because I’m a journalist, but everything “detective” Nev does is what I do when I meet a cute boy on any given day.
If someone says they work at the "Chelsea Handler Show", Nev calls to confirm. If someone has privacy settings which exclude “real” photos of them, he checks on them from another Facebook account. If someone says they have two kids, he calls and asks them if they have two kids. It's common sense. It's that easy.
But some of the people on this show believe every word these people are telling them. They've even been in an online relationship with them for sometimes up to 10 years - without meeting them in person.
My generation or younger should know better. Since AOL chat rooms existed, we've been told to watch who we're talking to and NEVER meet an online friend in person. We hear stories about dangerous creeps all the time.
One would think in this day and age, people would "Google" someone before proposing.
For example, a girl in one episode was told by her online "model" boyfriend that his three sisters died tragically in a car accident. A simple search conducted by Nev immediately proved his sisters were alive and well.
It makes me think - with online dating sites and social media becoming more predominant, are we really more apt to fall in love with a computer screen than an actual person?
So far this show hasn’t ceased to amaze me (but it does air on MTV, so only time will tell). Nev is charming (and super good looking!) and seems to be a genuinely nice person. He's always searching for the truth and wants to help others find love - even if it's unconventional.
Am I the only one hoping the person on the other end will be Old Man Withers from "Wayne's World" when the person expects Rob Lowe?
That may sound harsh, but if someone is willing to fall in love with pixels without doing their homework, they run the risk of being shocked on national television.
So why is it called "Catfish" you ask? Here's an explanation from MTV.com:
Cat·fish [kat-fish] verb: To pretend to be someone you're not online by posting false information, such as someone else's pictures, on social media sites, usually with the intention of getting someone to fall in love with you.
You can catch "Catfish: The TV Show" on MTV Monday nights (and other times during the week, 'cause you know MTV repeats the heck out of its shows). Full episodes are also on MTV.com.
For a full understanding, the documentary is also a must-see.
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Protesters blamed Jordan's problems on King Abdullah II, who has the final say in all civic matters. They also demanded the resignation of the prime minister, a top aide of the king.
Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour's announcement on state TV cited a need to offset $5 billion in state losses from a rising fuel bill.
The news sparked protests in the capital, Amman, and at least 12 other cities across Jordan.
The protesters—affiliated with Muslim, Arab nationalist, Marxist, Communist and youth opposition groups—also targeted Abdullah in a rare public display against the monarch. Criticizing the king in public is forbidden in Jordan and is punishable by up to three years in jail.
Ensour said a type of fuel used in public transport will rise in price by 14 percent, while kerosene oil used for household heating goes up by 28 percent.
Shortly after the prime minister's TV appearance, 100 protesters clashed with riot police a block away from Ensour's home in the northern city of Salt. Protesters pelted stones at policemen as they tried to break their lines to get to Ensour's home to demand his resignation, a police official said. The official, who insisted on anonymity because he is not allowed to make press statements, said riot police responded by firing tear gas. He said there were no immediate reports of injuries among police or protesters.
He declined to say if Ensour and his family were home.
Maan was the site of riots in 1988, which killed four people and wounded scores of others. The riots then unseated the Cabinet and forced a liberalization process that froze martial law and saw parliamentary elections for the first time in two decades.
The protests also spread to Jordan's north. In Sareeh, on the edge of the northern city of Irbid close to the Syrian border, angry protesters burned down a gas station, said witness Mohammed Amoura. | http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_21988504/jordan-raises-fuel-prices-sparking-protests | dclm-gs1-032190000 |
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1. dooziedreal
Feb 2, 2009
The movie was fantastico. I enjoyed every scene of the movie. excellent perfecto. It's motivated me to by the book. I goota get it. It captured al audiences, It wasn't just black.
2. JadeInTheATL
Jan 13, 2009
One might expect preachy, but instead just life affirming. With the exception of the Mother-In-Law the characters are realistically written. The script creaks a bit as some scenes don't flow from the narrative but drop in like they were cut and pasted. It could have benefited from a few more re-writes. Bill Duke's direction is a bit choppy at times, but mostly well paced and thankfully unobstrusive. In a way an anti-soap opera, in that characters are not above temptation but are capable of resisting it. A Spanglish-lite. Expand
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1. The film is likable. Its messages, many of them Lord-oriented, are all equally heartfelt.
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For a film shamelessly trumpeting the importance of staying together through the hard times, Broken makes a disconcertingly convincing case for divorce.
3. Director Bill Duke may believe the message but he never invests himself in the characters or their story, which becomes an illustrated lesson with reflective interludes and comic relief. | http://www.metacritic.com/movie/not-easily-broken/user-reviews?sort-by=most-clicked&num_items=100 | dclm-gs1-032270000 |
0.025225 | <urn:uuid:cd84cace-0cdc-49fd-98c8-3019a27ab670> | en | 0.7999 | MetaFilter posts tagged with JohnCage and music Posts tagged with 'JohnCage' and 'music' at MetaFilter. Sat, 31 Aug 2013 11:22:53 -0800 Sat, 31 Aug 2013 11:22:53 -0800 en-us 60 80 years of electronic music, heard in a selection of 55 tracks by Bleep A bit over a year ago, Warp Record's digital music shop, <a href="">, presented their guide to recorded* electronic music, spanning from 1930 to 2010</a> (also <a href="">as a Facebook timeline</a>, which apparently <a href="">kicked the whole thing off</a>). The overview of recorded electronic music was presented as <a href="">a selection of 55 tracks</a>, almost five and a half hours in full. Part of this presentation was a (now expired) promotional deal to purchase the collection of songs as a lot, but you can still read about each piece of music on Bleep and <a href="!/album/Bleep+A+Guide+To+Electronic+Music/8214796">hear 49 of the tracks in a playlist on Grooveshark</a>. There's more to hear and read below the fold. The selection starts with what is "[a]rgued to be first piece of <a href="">the purely electronic music written expressly for live performance on the Ondes Martenot</a>, an instrument closely related to the Theremin," then transitions through the years of sampling, soundtracks and experimental music, takes to the dance floor in the 1980s, and goes on from there. * <a href="">The <em>full</em> history of electronic instruments go all the way back to 1759 for the 'Clavecin Électrique'</a>, or the Electronic Harpsichord, and earlier still for the elusive <a href="">Denis d’or</a>. The <a href="">history of audio recordings</a> has a <a href="">separate timeline</a>. And of course, there are <a href="">many other notable moments in the history of electronic music</a> that weren't captured in the selection of a mere 55 songs. A couple additional notes, as you read and/or listen to the playlist: The Grooveshark playlist is missing the following 6 tracks, linked here from YouTube: #32 <a href="">LFO - LFO (Leeds Warehouse Mix)</a> #36 <a href="">Autechre - Flutter</a> #42 <a href="">Boards of Canada - Roygbiv</a> (fan-made vid) #43 <a href="">Aphex Twin - Windowlicker</a> (and if you haven't seen it: <a href="">the 10:35 long NSFW video</a>) #50 <a href="">Skream - Midnight Request Line</a> #52 <a href="">Burial - Archangel</a> <a href="">Here's a post about Charanjit Singh's pre-Acid House use of the TR-303 and TR-808</a>, in India in the album <a href="">Ten Ragas To a Disco Beat</a> (<a href="">YT playlist</a>). <a href="">This Divine site clearly states that Love Reaction was made in two versions, one modeled on Tainted Love</a>, unlike the Bleep description which claims it is unclear which came first. Here is <a href="!/s/Love+Reaction+Calypso+Version/3gvoC6?src=5">the "calypso" version of Love Reaction</a>, which can be found on the <a href="">Shoot your Shot</a> compilation that came out a decade after the original Love Reaction, so it's unclear if this is the other original version or a later re-make. You can hear some of the early (1975 and before) tracks played alongside contemporary (experimental) electronic music in <a href="">Bleep Podcast #055</a> with <a href="">Margot Didsbury, who is currently the head buyer for</a>. This podcast comes from <a href="">NTS (Nuts to Soup) community radio</a>, and has a great college radio vibe. The <a href="">Bleep podcasts</a>, now up to #086, come from a variety of sources and feature different hosts, so the music presented is in no way homogeneous.,2013:site.131506 Sat, 31 Aug 2013 11:22:53 -0800 24HourExperience 4hero 808State Actress Afrika AfrikaBambaataa AGuyCalledGerald AphexTwin ArthurRussell ArtOfNoise Autechre Bambaataa Barron BasicChannel BebeBarron Beltram BizzyB Bleep bleepbloopbleep bleepityblip BoardsOfCanada BrianEno BruceHaack Burial Cage CharanjitSingh ClaraRockmore Coldcut Dabrye DaphneOram DinosaurL Divine Drexciya electronic electronicmusic Fennesz FourTet FrankieKnuckles Galaxy2Galaxy GAS Haack IannisXenakis InnerCity InnerzoneOrchestra JamesBlake JDilla JeanJacquesPerrey JeanMichelJarre JoeyBeltram JohnBaker JohnCage KarlheinzStockhausen Knuckles LFO LouisBarron Messiaen Model500 MortonSubotnick music OlivierMessiaen Phuture PierreHenry PierreSchaeffer PopolVuh RobertHood Rockmore Schaeffer SelahCollins Shannon Skream Snd Stockhausen ThrobbingGristle Warp WarpRecords Wiley Xenakis filthy light thief "I have nothing to say, and I am saying it." John Cage, 9/5/1912 - 8/12/1992 In honor of the 100th birthday of iconoclastic composer John Cage (<a href="">previously</a>),<a href=""> NPR asked 33 musicians about the effect Cage has had on their art</a>. The <em>Los Angeles Times</em> has a <a href="">tour</a> of Cage's travels and experiences in his native city. MeFi's own <a href="">speicus</a> has a long and excellent <a href="">essay</a> up at about the performer-composer relationship Cage shared with pianist David Tudor (who premiered, among other Cage works, <em><a href="">4'33"</a></em>). And if you've always wanted to play <a href="">prepared piano</a> and lack an instrument you want to fill with nuts and bolts, <a href="">there's an app for that</a>.,2012:site.119647 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:04:37 -0800 4'33 composer composition davidtudor johncage losangeles music piano preparedpiano the_bone Cage Music Walk <i>To celebrate John Cage's centenary, <a href="">10 pieces of music</a> by <a href="">10 different composers</a> have been created, inspired by <a href="">10 places</a> close to the Royal Albert Hall.</i> As part of the <a href="">Proms for 2012</a> (previously: <a href="" title="An intimate evening ... with 6000 friends">2010</a>), the BBC have created a <a href="">Music Walk</a> based on the work of John Cage. Via <a href="">Max Reinhardt</a> of Radio 3's <a href="">Late Junction</a>.,2012:site.117704 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:14:47 -0800 alvincurran alwynnepritchard bbcproms claudiamolitor composers daifujikura davidsawer joecutler johncage johnwoolrich judithweir music proms rolfwallin royalalberthall soundintermedia tansydavies timhopkins smcg Cage does Cage <a href="">Nicolas Cage performs John Cage's 4'33"</a>,2012:site.116463 Wed, 30 May 2012 12:52:30 -0800 4'33 cage cages johncage music nicolascage silence elgilito "Everything we do is music." <a href="">John Cage Unbound, A Living Archive</a> is a multimedia exhibition created by the New York Public Library documenting their collection of <a href="">videos</a>, original notes and <a href="">manuscripts</a> of contemporary American composer and music theorist <a href="">John Cage</a> (1912-1992). "Cage believed that, following his detailed directions, anyone could make music from any kind of instrument" so the NYPL is asking visitors how they would bring his music to life, by submitting videos of their own interpretations of Cage’s work for possible inclusion in the archive. For more extensive collections of John Cage resources, see: <a href="">WNYC: A John Cage Web Reliquary</a> and Josh Rosen's <a href="">fan page</a>. <a href="">Wikipedia</a>'s page on him is quite extensive, and notes: <i>"A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde."</i> <a href="">John Cage Database</a> Here's a nice <a href="">playlist on Youtube for some of his works,</a> including (of course) <a href="">4'33"</a> which was highlighted <a href="">previously</a> on <a href="">MeFi</a>.,2012:site.114964 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:52:21 -0800 4'33 archive cage composer composers database greenaway johncage joshrosen kostelanetz library manuscript manuscripts music musician nypl petergreenaway recordings reliquary rosen video videos wnyc youtube zarq Trimpin: Musical Sculptor Seattle-based German artist Trimpin makes sculptural musical instruments. He was <a href="">profiled in a mini-documentary by Washington public TV station KBTC</a> a couple of years ago. Here are videos of some other works of art he's created, <a href="">Fire Organ</a>, <a href="">Liquid Percussion</a>, <a href="">Cello, Sensors and Record Players</a>, <a href="">Contraption at Seattle-Tacoma Airport</a>, <a href="">MIDI-controlled Player Piano</a> and <a href="">Sheng High</a>. Kyle Gann wrote <a href="">an essay by that placed Trimpin in the tradition of John Cage, Harry Partch and other avant-garde American musical inventors</a>. The audio of a nearly hour and a half long 1990 interview with Trimpin by Charles Amirkhanian can be <a href="">downloaded from the Internet Archive</a>. Another, <a href="">more light-hearted interview</a> in connection to his show at this year's SXSW, where a documentary about him premiered (<a href="">trailer</a>).,2009:site.81393 Mon, 04 May 2009 13:32:29 -0800 art avantgarde CharlesAmirkhanian HarryPartch JohnCage music sculpture sound soundsculpture Trimpin visualart Kattullus The Music Text Composition Generator <a href="">The P22 Music Text Composition Generator</a> allows any text to be converted into a musical composition. This composition is displayed in musical notation and simultaneously generated as a midi file. The P22 Music Composition Font was proposed in 1997 to the <a href="">John Cage Trust</a> as an accompaniment to the <a href="">John Cage text font</a> based on the handwriting of the composer. The idea was basic and simple-every letter of the alphabet was assigned to a note on a scale. This would allow for any text to be converted into musical notation.,2009:site.78718 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:52:36 -0800 composition JohnCage music notation Sailormom It's the oboes that really brought life to the performance, don't you think? John Cage's <a href="'33%22" title="Wikipedia.">4</a>'<a href="" title="Interesting article by Peter Gutmann, where, among other salient points, he offers: 'I've heard Mozart's dozen mature piano concertos dozens of times each over dozens of years, but right now I can recall only a few of their melodies. I heard the Cage piece just once (and three decades ago), but I remember it so vividly.">33</a>" has been discussed <a href="" title="The 'who-holds-the-copyright-on-silence' flap, from 2002.">previous</a><a href="" title="Not about the piece in question, but another wonderful and very whimsical Cage piece.">ly</a> on MeFi, but you might've missed the <a href="" title="MySpace video. Opens with commentary that's, well, perhaps a little better than what you'd expect for TV... Opening commentary from BBC radio link is better.">full</a> <a href="" title="BBC news article, with some background info on the event and the piece.">orchestral <a href="" title="RealPlayer audio link, from BBC radio. Included here mainly for the brief opening commentary, which is a bit more intelligent and informative than the commentary preceding the televised version.">version</a>.</a> 4'33" has shown itself to be a hugely influential work if only for the fact that so many people <i>know</i> of it. The piece is often referenced in MeFi comments, sometimes appearing in unrelated or only tangentially related threads. Here's a small sampling: <a href="">jpoulos</a>. <a href="">jfuller</a>. <a href="">mr_crash_davis</a>. <a href="">jfuller</a>. <a href="">evanizer</a>. <a href="">skwm</a>. <a href="">kozad</a>. <a href="">wheelieman</a>. <a href="">sotonohito</a>, and immediately following sotonohito's comment in that thread, <b> languagehat</b>, <b>LooseFilter</b>, <b>dydecker</b> and more, in what turns into a lively discussion of this <i>still controversial</i> piece of music.,2007:site.64945 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:03:27 -0800 composer johncage music silence surprisinglyPolarizing! flapjax at midnite Very Slowly <a href="">"To play this motif 840 times in succession, it would be advisable to prepare oneself beforehand, in the deepest silence, by serious immobilities."</a> <a href="">Erik Satie</a>'s <a href=""><i>Vexations</i></a> (<a href="">previously</a>) was more-or-less disregarded as an <a href="">unperformable thought experiment</a>, until John Cage staged an <a href="">eighteen-hour performance</a> in 1963. The event cemented Satie's importance in avant-garde music and his <a href="">influence</a> on a <a href="">generation</a> of <a href="">artists</a>. In 2006, several musicians and artists <a href="">performed their own renditions</a>.</a>,2006:site.57371 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:00:09 -0800 alvinlucier brianeno enduranceart eriksatie experimental johncage music performanceart ubuweb roll truck roll No, I'm not sure how they get it to not devolve into a wall of feedback... though that'd be pretty rad too. <a href="">A Piano In A Gallery.</a> <a href="">David Cunningham</a> (the guy behind <a href="">The Flying Lizards</a>! Wikipedia because the <a href="">main at-least-quasi-official site's down</a>, but while you wait 16 days for that, why not read <a href="">this interview with Deborah Lizard</a> for your FL Fix</font>) and his new project... <a href="">A Piano In A Gallery</a>. No, he's not actually PLAYING the piano -- the visitors are. It's a sort of similar thing to both <a href="">Brian Eno</a>'s gallery <a href="">work</a> <a href="">with ambient tape</a> <a href="">loops</a> on different time cycles, creating an ever-shifting collage of sound and <a href="">David Byrne</a>'s recent <a href="">Playing The Building</a>. The room is mic'd, and the sound is run through a piano, and amplified, both bringing background noises to the foreground AND creating feedback-style loops, as those sounds are also run into the mics and so forth. So... if you happen to be in <a href="">London....</a> <a href="">[via WFMU]</a></font>,2006:site.53026 Sat, 15 Jul 2006 09:05:19 -0800 4'33 ambient audio avant-garde cartergallery dada experimentation feedback johncage microphone music noise sound Rev. Syung Myung Me As Slow As Possible. <a href="">E and E-sharp will end tomorrow.</a> Only <a href="">631 and a half years to go</a>.,2006:site.51394 Thu, 04 May 2006 11:55:22 -0800 AsSlowAsPossible Halberstadt JohnCage music organ arse_hat Rhythmic Research Fellows <a href="">American Mavericks:</a> Fascinating radio piece about the <a href="">ultra-modernist </a> composers, narrated by Suzanne Vega. [more inside],2006:site.49673 Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:24:17 -0800 henryCowell johnCage music suicideOnAnAirplane toneClusters Squid Voltaire <a href="">John Cage</a>'s representatives try to <a href="">claim copyright on silence</a>. [Ref: <a href="">4'33"</a>]<br /> Okay.,2002:site.18137 Sat, 29 Jun 2002 14:57:12 -0800 433 copyright johncage music Su | http://www.metafilter.com/tags/JohnCage+music/rss | dclm-gs1-032280000 |
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The Drug War Down South
| Thu Jul. 9, 2009 8:05 AM GMT
The Washington Post reports on the drug war south of the border:
....Mexican officials acknowledged that abuses have occurred in the fight against traffickers but described the cases as isolated...."I know that the armed forces are not acting inappropriately, although there have been some cases," said Interior Minister Fernando Gómez Mont, who is responsible for coordinating security operations across Mexico. "The government honestly believes that. There is no incentive for abuse."
No incentive? How about money?
It does not exist.
Read the rest in "We Bring Fear," part of our cover package on the drug war in the current issue of MoJo. The Mexican army's incentives should become pretty clear.
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Positive Feedback in the Amazon
| Wed Jul. 8, 2009 10:31 PM GMT
One of the most alarming aspects of climate change is the existence of positive feedback loops. For example, as polar ice melts, less sunlight is reflected back into space, thus heating up the ocean and causing more ice to melt. Rinse and repeat. Another one: warming causes the permafrost in the Siberian tundra to melt, releasing CO2 into the atmosphere, thus warming the earth and causing yet more tundra to melt.
Here's still another, from the latest issue of the Washington Monthly. Oliver Phillips, a professor of geography at the University of Leeds, has studied a 2005 drought in the Amazon rainforest and come to a frightening conclusion:
In normal years the Amazon alone absorbs three billion tons of carbon....But during the 2005 drought, this process was reversed, and the Amazon gave off two billion tons of carbon instead, creating an additional five billion tons of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. That’s more than the total annual emissions of Europe and Japan combined.
....Significantly, Phillips [] found that the 2005 drought was not the result of El Niño, the cause of previous smaller episodes, but of a regional rise in sea temperatures — one of the expected early signs of global warming. Taken together, these findings suggest that climate change could trigger the worst kind of vicious cycle, with climbing temperatures causing the rainforests to dry out and give off massive quantities of greenhouse gases, which in turn causes the planet to warm more rapidly — a dynamic with harrowing implications.
Read the whole thing for more. The Monthly's entire special package on tropical deforestation is here.
Lying to Congress
| Wed Jul. 8, 2009 10:14 PM GMT
Congressional Quarterly reports:
CIA Director Leon Panetta told the House Intelligence Committee [on June 24] that the agency had misled and “concealed significant actions from all members of Congress” dating back to 2001 and continuing until late June, according to a letter from seven Democrats on the panel.
Continuing until late June? As in, two weeks ago? As in, right up to the time that Panetta testified before the committee?
Wow. You'd think even Republicans might be a wee bit upset about this. But no. You see, a couple of months ago Nancy Pelosi said the CIA misled her about waterboarding, and if Republicans admit the CIA has lied to Congress it might hinder their efforts to attack her:
House Intelligence Chairman Silvestre Reyes , D-Texas, this week sent to the panel’s top Republican, Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, a letter saying new information led him to conclude that the CIA has misled and at least once “affirmatively lied to” the committee. Republicans disputed its contents and have said that the Democrats were trying to protect Pelosi.
....Republicans said it was true, as Reyes wrote in his letter, that the classified subject about which the committee was notified was a subject of bipartisan concern. But they did not endorse Reyes’ conclusions that the CIA had lied....[Hoekstra] said Democrats wanted to help validate Pelosi’s prior claims by establishing other occasions in which the CIA may have misled Congress.
....Reyes expressed surprise at the Republicans’ remarks about whether the controversy was legitimate and whether Democrats were trying to protect their leader, saying simply, “They know better.”
Sure, they know better. But what's that compared to the opportunity to keep a minor partisan squabble alive?
Giant Robot Update
| Wed Jul. 8, 2009 3:37 PM GMT
Last week I went to see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I did this because the movie had gotten such mind-bogglingly bad reviews that I was curious to see if anything could really be that bad. Unfortunately, the sound system in the theater kept cutting in and out, and after about 45 minutes I finally gave up and asked for my money back. Sadly, the only thing I had learned up to that point was that I had no idea what was going on since I never saw the first Transformers movie.
No matter, though. Via the WaPo's domestic and robot affairs blog, Rob Bricken's Transformers FAQ explains it all and is probably a lot more entertaining than the movie itself. Also shorter and cheaper.
Quote of the Day
| Wed Jul. 8, 2009 2:55 PM GMT
From Fox News anchor Jon Scott, flailing around trying to describe my employer:
There's a recent article in Mother Jones magazine, not exacty a....uh....magazine that to put it?....against lightening up on marijuana laws....
Nice save, Jon! This was just before quoting an excerpt from my marijuana piece — and needless to say, they chose practically the only paragraph in the entire story that had much of anything negative to say about marijuana legalization. But I guess all PR is good PR as long they spell my name right, isn't it? And they did spell my name right....
UPDATE: Hmmm. Bad day for Fox anchors. Apparently Brian Kilmeade is upset because in America "we keep marrying other species and other ethnics."
Other species?
| Wed Jul. 8, 2009 12:04 PM GMT
But here's the tidbit that caught my eye:
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Torture For Thee, But Not For Me
| Wed Jul. 8, 2009 10:47 AM GMT
Glenn Greenwald was on NPR yesterday to talk about their policy of refusing to call torture by its proper name, and while he was waiting to go on he listened to NPR's ombudsman explaining their policy:
She also said — when the host asked about the recent example I cited of NPR's calling what was done to a reporter in Gambia "torture" (at the 20:20 mark) — that NPR will use the word "torture" to describe what other governments do because they do it merely to sadistically inflict pain on people while the U.S. did it for a noble reason: to obtain information about Terrorist attacks. That's really what she said: that when the U.S. did it (as opposed to Evil countries), it was for a good reason.
Jeez, that Glenn. Always exaggerating. For the record, here's what she actually said about NPR's piece on Gambia:
In that case, these were strictly tactics to torture him, to punish him, versus in the United States, and the way that it's used, these are tactics used to get information. The Gambian journalist was in jail for his beliefs.
Wow. She really did say that, didn't she? When other people do it for other reasons, it's torture. When we do it for our reasons, it's not.
You don't usually find people willing to say this quite so baldly. Congratulations, Alicia Shepard.
No Agreement on Climate
| Wed Jul. 8, 2009 9:36 AM GMT
Apparently the G8 meeting in Italy won't produce any agreement on climate change:
As President Obama arrived for three days of meetings with other international leaders, negotiators dropped a proposal that would have committed the world to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by midcentury and industrialized countries to slashing their emissions by 80 percent.
“They’re saying, ‘We just don’t trust you guys,’ ” said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists, an advocacy group based in the United States. “It’s the same gridlock we had last year when Bush was president.”
The basic problem isn't the 80% reduction by 2050, which is supported by both Obama and congressional Democrats. The problem is the 2020 goal. Right now, the Waxman-Markey climate bill requires a 17% cut by 2020, but that's from a baseline of 2005. Depending on how you crunch the numbers, that works out to a cut of only 0-4% from 1990 levels.
The Europeans, conversely, want to see a 20% cut from 1990 levels by 2020. Obama, presumably, sees no chance at all of getting Congress to agree to that, and the Europeans aren't willing to compromise their more stringent goals. So for now, no agreement. And Copenhagen is only five months away.
Healthcare in Extremis
| Wed Jul. 8, 2009 8:58 AM GMT
Megan McArdle argues that if healthcare reform includes a public plan, it might mean a reduction in service for a lot of people with severe problems:
Surely the point of worry is that many millions of people will be forced into the public system, because its existence will encourage their employers to dump their health care plans. Since private systems have so far found it virtually impossible to deny many treatments for long, this will mean that millions of budget constrained people will find themselves with less available treatment than before.
....This is not a crazy worry. What America is best at is delivering a lot of complicated care in extremis, and "quality of life" treatments. What European countries are best at is delivering a lot of ordinary care for the sorts of things that afflict people from 0-50, which is why most of the Europhile journalists writing about Europe genuinely have very good experiences to report. I'd rather be here to have a hip replacement, but I might rather be in the Netherlands to have a baby. Doing something moderately ordinary here is a hassle. Doing something extraordinary there is often not possible for the overwhelming majority of citizens, though that depends on what, and in what system.
Boy, I'd sure like to see some backup for that. If by "extraordinary" Megan means the most extreme 0.001% of procedures, then maybe she's right. Maybe. But nothing I've read about Western European healthcare systems makes me believe that there's any substantial difference between the way they treat severe illnesses and the way we do it. And no systematic difference in success rates for such treatment either. Nor should this come as a surprise, since most extreme medicine is practiced on older patients, who are covered by a public plan both here and in Europe.
No system is better at everything than any other system. There are always tradeoffs. But the overall evidence is crystal clear: European state healthcare systems, taken as a whole, provide better care than America's hodgepodege system at about half the price. If we adopted their approach and combined it with American funding levels, we'd have a system better than either. And rich people who wanted to pay for massive amounts of special care not covered by the state would still be free to do so.
Anyway, speaking of healthcare, the 24-hour bug I thought I had yesterday seems to be more like a 72-hour bug. Blah. Blogging will probably be a little light today again.
Speculating on Oil
| Tue Jul. 7, 2009 3:08 PM GMT
The New York Times reports that the Obama administration plans to take a more proactive position toward speculation in the oil market:
In a big departure from the hands-off approach to market regulation of the last two decades, the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Gary Gensler, said his agency would consider new limits on the volume of energy futures contracts that purely financial investors would be allowed to hold.
The agency also announced that it would pull back part of the veil on the oil and gas markets, publishing more detailed information about the aggregate activity of hedge funds and traders who arbitrage between domestic and foreign energy prices.
....Oil prices have swung wildly in the last year, hitting about $145 a barrel last summer, then plunging to $33 in December before rising to about $70.
....A growing number of critics have blamed some of the extreme volatility on the role of purely financial investors — those who are simply betting on the direction of energy prices, as opposed to those who actually use such products, like airlines....Non-commercial traders accounted for almost a fifth of the activity in several major oil and gas products for the week that ended June 30, according to data compiled by the commodities agency.
One of the interesting aspects of this is that it demonstrates the genuine difficulty in identifying asset bubbles. The housing bubble was relatively easy to spot: it took place over a long period of time and prices shot up way, way past their historical trendline. But oil? That's harder.
Take a look at the chart on the right, courtesy of Calculated Risk. It shows oil prices over the past couple of decades, and what you see is moderate stability from 1985-1999 followed by a slow rise starting around 2000 and a sharp jump between 2004-2006. Was that a bubble? Prices dropped for a few months after that, and then, over the space of 18 months, tripled from $50 to $150. Was that a bubble?
To this day, I don't think there's any consensus about this. Given growing demand and flat supply, prices should have gone up after 2000 — and the sharper rise in 2004 was no big surprise either. That's not a bubble, it's just the free market at work. But how about that second spike? Was it driven by speculation? Or was it also driven by demand fundamentals, which cratered naturally when the global economy went into recession in mid-2008? And even if it was a bubble, it only lasted 18 months. What are the odds that anybody could have identified it and targeted it fast enough to keep it under control?
Beats me. But although I continue to think that supply and demand fundamentals were behind much of the price rise, I began to wobble on this during the first half of 2008. The oil market really did start to look pretty bubbly, and in August the CFTC begain to produce some persuasive evidence that financial speculators were having a substantial effect on prices. This speculative bubble couldn't last very long (eventually speculators run out room to store their oil), but there's good reason to think that even a 12-month spike did a lot of damage to the world economy.
So what now? Oil has been on the rise recently despite the recession, causing a few analysts to suggest that speculation is once again temporarily inflating prices. And me? I don't know. As I've said before, though, one thing we can count on now that demand for oil is bumping up against fundamental supply limits is lots of price volatility. Given that, trying to keep a lid on speculators creating even greater frenzy in the oil market makes a lot of sense. The CFTC is probably doing the right thing here. | http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum?page=896&bset=0005%253F | dclm-gs1-032350000 |
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Jan 13, 2012 10:42 AM Disneyland Real-Time Land
I've not used the GCH entrance @ 10:00am before, I overheard you can't use this entrance w/o a room key. I just walked through with my headphones on as if I didn't hear the CM say this to the group before me. Is this new?
Sometimes the first 30 min of entry are for hotel guests only. If it's not busy though, they will usually let you go in if no hotel guests are waiting. - Mimmy 1440.8 #74 12:03PM
When we used that entrance at opening they have always asked for our key - PrincessDuckie 695.5 #197 1:51PM
It pretty much depends on who's working over there. If it's the old grumpy man Chappy, good luck. And no, that's not why I'm not a fan of his... - 415beachgirl 475.0 #346 2:03PM
My friend and I entered through the GCH last weekend, and we were not hotel guests. We were able to enter, but we had Chappy inspect out bags and wow was he thorough. I had to open my wallet and cosmetic bag, and remove everything from my backpack. My friend had to do the same as well. - PonyGrrl 263.5 #1047 2:06PM
At opening you need a room key. Other times like later in the day you don't need one. - ImAlwaysCrazy 670.8 #214 10:52AM
This is great info, I didn't know anyone could use it after opening. Thank you! - flukefan 270.5 #980 1:08PM
I've been told before I needed to wait an hour after the park opens to enter without a room key. It all depends on the CM working. - EpicDio 427.8 #406 12:04PM
The other day we went to that entrance around 4 pm. I saw the sign that said you needed room key, but they didn't ask for one. There was no line. - B_Ryee 5.1 #14057 1:04PM
I've used that entrance many times without issue. It has always been later in the day though - ladylikesdisney 945.0 #133 1:08PM
Thx, really no written policy 30min or 1hr. I can't think of why I would want to enter at the main gate of DCA only to walk back to GRR. - Mikey1228 20.2 #5901 1:46PM
It's really a hit and miss thing. When busy and not a hotel guest be prepared if they so no. Otherwise go for it. My policy is be polite and courteous and good things happen. - splashphotoCM 885.6 #145 1:50PM
Does anyone besides me remember the original side entrance to DCA for PP and DH guests, before they realized that everyone could make it through GC without getting lost? I loved it. Regular type gate, much easier for CM's, and it was a little out of the way, so it was never mobbed. I know they closed it partly because of staffing, and then it stayed that way because of security (post 9/11). - ThatDoleWhipKimberly 364.8 #510 2:37PM
WOW thanks! - HiddenMickeyFanatic 1006.2 #128 4:50PM
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That'll only last for this week, on my end 😜 - apesandmonkeys 265.1 #1033 11:37PM
Congratulations though! Very we'll deserved. We are all so proud of our little apesandmonkeys. All grown up and making top MWer. Awww - Philliprocks 580.4 #253 7:47PM
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Seriously, thank you so much! Being that we can only afford to go a couple times a year, this helps keep my Disneyland "craving" in balance - apesandmonkeys 265.1 #1033 3:47PM
Can't wait! - sawman911 525.3 #297 6:30PM
Sounds fun!! - HappyPrincess 21.4 #5765 10:48AM
I want to try the sticker meet up sometime but buying stickers on my phone is soooooo slow. Maybe a week that I don't feel I'll be terribly attached to the theme - dethrizu 92.5 #3391 7:02PM
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Got it! More than halfway thru it! It's a lot of fun!!!👍👍✨✨ - TinkerSchelle 960.1 #131 10:53PM
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My high score is 25 - disneyfreak9017 0.0 #115958 4:49PM
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Ready for a rematch? 😈 - Atora 1420.9 #75 5:49PM
If I say yes, I'm lying. If I say no I'm a sissy - Philliprocks 580.4 #253 7:46PM
Hahahaha! - apesandmonkeys 265.1 #1033 6:51PM
Man, I started 4 games on Saturday but no one wanted to play! - X-WingNikki 630.2 #227 5:19PM
Just sent you a game invite! - Atora 1420.9 #75 5:51PM
I will play whoever! Odds are in everyone else's favor 😜 - apesandmonkeys 265.1 #1033 6:52PM
*paintently waits for your challenge* - Philliprocks 580.4 #253 7:53PM
Never got it. So now I'm waiting for you to accept mine - Philliprocks 580.4 #253 4:33PM
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Me too! hahahaha - luxkitty 562.7 #263 8:34PM
The dolls! 👀 - missariel33 1058.8 #116 8:01PM
I spend too much $$ on Disney purses. luxkitty can you relate? Lol - apesandmonkeys 265.1 #1033 9:43PM
Yep @apesandmonkeys lol - luxkitty 562.7 #263 5:01PM
Shhh!😳😳don't tell my husband 😂 - 2BeignetOrNot2Beignet 654.6 #218 10:00PM
Hahahaha I'm on this list now? 😱 - apesandmonkeys 265.1 #1033 5:24PM
😂😂😂👍👍👍 - RadiatorSprings4Ever 439.3 #389 9:37PM
I've never made a list, not even top 10 dorks. Congrats simian girl! - Philliprocks 580.4 #253 10:27PM
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Did you get this one or the MW one? - BeatleMike 414.6 #429 8:49PM
I bought this one. It's a bit smaller than the MW one. I barely notice it in my Sgitch backpack. - X-WingNikki 630.2 #227 10:12PM
I've been looking at getting this one. I love the price for what it does. We need something more than the MW one. - BeatleMike 414.6 #429 4:48PM
What are the benefits to this one vs the MW one? I am looking to buy one asap - DisneyOnesie 306.0 #727 11:50AM
This one is smaller, but I believe packs the same punch. Also, I used the code MOUSEWAIT at checkout and received a discount. - X-WingNikki 630.2 #227 3:06PM
Works great with the S4 active - mickeylumboCM 48.6 #4189 11:09PM
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Me too! It's awesome! It's a lot bigger than I thought it would be, but it's got great charging power 😀 - 2BeignetOrNot2Beignet 654.6 #218 11:59PM
TWSS - dumbbunny 561.0 #267 4:18AM
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Bump...^^^hoping for reply to my question - mickeylumboCM 48.6 #4189 1:11AM
You can charge any phone with your USB cord - nicealex77 399.0 #456 1:23AM
My charger came with a cord to charge the unit itself, and you just whatever USB cord that comes with your phone to charge your phone. - X-WingNikki 630.2 #227 6:26PM
No one ever seems to play when I log on. This looks like it would be fun... - Thundermountaingal 10.9 #8017 2:49PM
Thanks Zendurella. I appreciate this - Thundermountaingal 10.9 #8017 10:00AM
I like to start random games. But 90% of the time, the other person quits after a couple questions. I have several unfinished games in progress. Kinda annoying. - chrismis21 26.7 #5209 10:34PM
Thanks, will do! - chrismis21 26.7 #5209 9:53AM
I love playing this!! Anyone looking for more people to play with I'm always willing to play :-) - ajay87 10.8 #8053 8:11PM
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Please tell me this response from a 4 year old isn't 'Strange'
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KatoPotato Fri 31-Jan-14 13:24:26
Another day, another crooked finger beckon from nursery...
'Today, DS got water on another boy and when I asked him why he said "because I did" It's not what he did, it's just this answer was very factual and a bit strange'
This was coupled with a mime from her putting her hand down her face...
As usual --because I'm shit at dealing with the nursery staff and never know what to say at the time, I just mumbled and said that he does tak about anything 'naughty' at nursery and why he has to be kind.
But as per, here I am sat mulling it over... should I speak to her again to ask what she meant by this?
Mumof3xx Fri 31-Jan-14 13:25:35
I don't see anything strange about it tbh
Middleagedmotheroftwo Fri 31-Jan-14 13:26:17
Don't you ever tell DS to do something "because you say so"? It's the same thing.
It's not a big deal. I'd just leave it, unless the nursery are saying behaviour is out of order.
CecyHall Fri 31-Jan-14 13:28:52
I'm not sure I understand the mime bit but I don't think your DS's response was that strange.
If you ask my nearly 3 year old why he did anything misbehaviour wise he always says 'because I need to'. God knows what they'd think of that!
I don't think its strange. I would read that as the toddler equivilent of "because it seemed like a good idea at the time".
He doesn't know why he did it because he probably acted on an impulse - there was no logical reasoning behind it. So he did it because he had an irresistable impluse to do so -IYSWIM.
KatoPotato Fri 31-Jan-14 13:31:10
Thanks guys, as far as I'm concerned he enjoys going and talks about having friends etc.
I just don't know what sort of response she was actually looking for? A sincere apology? I've lost count of the days I've picked him up and he's been soaking wet from water play but they've never noticed and let him put his jacket on over it.
WhereIsMyHat Fri 31-Jan-14 13:31:59
Not strange going by my son of a similar age. When asked when he'll be 4 his answer is 'on my birthday' which is similarly factual to your sons answer I think.
KatoPotato Fri 31-Jan-14 13:33:03
Hard to describe the mime... Imagine you were showing a 'straight face' by swiping your hand down your face?
I was totally taken aback tbh
Dd is 4 and this is her favorite phrase at the minute!
Because I did
Because I don't want to
Because I want to
Very annoying but normal I think.
Madlizzy Fri 31-Jan-14 13:36:04
Was that her trying to keep a straight face because she found his comment funny even though she had to tell him off?
MrsBungle Fri 31-Jan-14 13:39:19
Not strange in the slightest. My 4yo dd's response to doing something naughty is mostly "because I just did" or, more often, "I don't know".
I think it's weird the nursery staff think it's weird!
redgate Fri 31-Jan-14 13:43:13
I was on some training last night, about child development and how children lean to communicate. There is something called the Blank Question Scale (the woman who invented it was called blank) and it says that children are highly unlikely to really understand the concept of 'why?' until they are at least 4.5 years old. So I wouldn't be too worried. I am 34 and not always to explain why I do things grin
redgate Fri 31-Jan-14 13:44:19
Or spell properly!
KatoPotato Fri 31-Jan-14 13:45:56
No madlizzy she was definitely impersonating him! I also think it's weird that they think this is weird!!
Last week I was 'spoken to' by another teacher because he got into a scuffle with a boy who took a car off him. She said 'I told him I was removing him from the activity and he was to paint instead, but he had an almighty tantrum that I've never seen from him before!'
Again, isn't that quite normal? I asked how long it lasted - thinking it must've been pretty long or extreme - but she said no, just a few minutes and he was fine and he's done you a lovely painting...'
Later that night I asked him about it and he said 'Mrs X was shouting PAINT! PAINT!'
Of course there's three sides to every story, but I'm just getting to the end of my saintly patience with this place!
Moreisnnogedag Fri 31-Jan-14 13:45:57
Ds (3) favourite response to why he did something is to deny and accuse, "I didn't, YOU did it!"
ProfYaffle Fri 31-Jan-14 13:46:56
I'm rather hmm at a nursery worker calling a child 'strange'. I don't think I'd be too happy with that.
KatoPotato Fri 31-Jan-14 13:47:40
THANKYOU! prof this was the bit that upset me most!!
Moreisnnogedag Fri 31-Jan-14 13:47:51
It also took us ages to work out but when you'd asked him to do something or had said no, he'd stick his hand up at you, straight arm, with his fingers curled up. Eventually we realised he was coping the baddie in a Mickey Mouse clubhouse special and was shrinking us!
ISeeYouShiverWithAntici Fri 31-Jan-14 13:47:52
i think that, in his limited because he is FOUR! grin way, he was trying to explain that he did not HAVE a reason. He didn't do it after sitting down and planning it. He had what is called an 'intrusive thought' or impulsive thought and, being a small child who is still developing skills, he just acted on it.
He just did it. He didn't think about it, it wasn't in response to anything, there wasn't a reason he was able to identify, it is just that he suddenly had the urge to tip the water. And he did.
We all, even as adults, get weird urges and impulses from time to time. We just over ride them. Mostly.
KatoPotato Fri 31-Jan-14 13:51:51
moreis that's hilarious. DH was trying to talk to him about 'how to answer the teachers' and they ended up with 'I'm so so sorrreeeeee' which I think is from Father Ted! do you think they'll notice he's been 'coached'
PedlarsSpanner Fri 31-Jan-14 13:52:18
hmmm agree Prof
not v keen on being cajoled into painting; I can understand removal from the scene, distract and divert etc, but hmmm. EYFS 'n' all tha'.
Ok anyway, do you think the nursery worker was implying something by the hand gesture down her face, was she do you think trying to say he was emotionless/automaton-like? v odd even if she was. I wonder what subtext she was trying to convey? Not very good it!
KatoPotato Fri 31-Jan-14 13:55:13
pedlars I hope that wasn't her subtext, but it did cross my mind. What was I supposed to say 'right, get the CAMHs team on the phone!'
PedlarsSpanner Fri 31-Jan-14 13:58:30
I spect she's been on an 'awareness' course and is really gung-ho about being proactive in identifying possible traits < insert panting dog photo>
KatoPotato Fri 31-Jan-14 14:01:28
grin she'd be far better going on a 'tact' course or a 'actually organise a structured activity' course.
DS told me he asked her why they sing a song that goes 'songs and stories every day...' when they don't get stories every day...
Fact boy.
MymbleBaratheonBendsTheKnee Fri 31-Jan-14 14:02:48
OP just take it with a pinch of salt. As long as your DS is happy at nursery and hasn't seriously hurt anyone, it's probably nothing. In my experience nursery staff/teachers often come out and announce things expectantly to parents, as if we are going to find some sort of magic solution there and then. It is all a bit ridiculous sometimes - these are very small children we're talking about after all. I used to tie myself in knots anytime DS1 did something naughty. Now I just tend to think that they will have dealt with it during the session, and forget about it unless it's something major.
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Having a wobble - DS having food challenge tomorrow
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Ilisten2theradio Mon 04-Feb-13 16:21:38
I know I should be pleased, its just I am worried about what will happen if the allergy has not gone away after all and the skin tests were wrong.
Also DH will be taking him as I have to work( and I won't be able to see what is happening and he is so useless at explaining afterwards)
Please share your experiences of food challenges and reassure me
ukey Mon 04-Feb-13 21:32:44
what food will they be challenging?
I don't have any personal experience of food challenge, tho from what I have read its a long day, as they will introduce the food very gradually.
Pancakeflipper Mon 04-Feb-13 21:38:40
It is a worry but it is controlled and in the best environment.
My DS1 had a nut test. They started with nut oils. They did tiny drops onto his skin, they rubbed peanut butter onto his skin and finally he had to eat nuts.
It was a full day event. We had one 1 person do
Pancakeflipper Mon 04-Feb-13 21:40:42
Sorry - pressed submit....
We had 1 person doing the tests all day with us which helped my DS1 ( he was 3yrs old).
I should think there's lots of opportunities to talk /text to your DH.
LH1 Mon 04-Feb-13 21:43:27
I have done a couple with my son. How old is he? When he was very small I had to bring in food for them to mix it into. Do they supply everything? We are always there full day. harder to get them to keep eating the nut etc throughout the day. A lot will depend on the hospital and how they conduct them.
ukey Mon 04-Feb-13 21:44:33
how did ur son get on with his nut challenge pancakeflipper?
Ilisten2theradio Mon 04-Feb-13 22:55:23
Thank you for your replies. It's a challenge for sesame. I seriously doubt we will ever be in a position to try nuts eggs or fish.
Ilisten2theradio Mon 04-Feb-13 22:56:27
Oh and he is 12 and we have to supply the food.
ukey Mon 04-Feb-13 23:34:28
hope all goes well x
Ilisten2theradio Tue 05-Feb-13 17:07:47
Sadly the sesame "oil" from crushed seeds reacted on the skin around his mouth. He then rubbed his eye and the skin around this all swelled up too, so sadly the allergy is clearly still alive and well.
ukey Tue 05-Feb-13 17:18:05
well least u know it still has to be avoided, did his skin prick and rast come up negative?
Ilisten2theradio Tue 05-Feb-13 17:46:43
The skin test did. They have never done blood tests.
ukey Tue 05-Feb-13 18:14:09
we have only ever had spin prick tests too just thought id ask x
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I heard the m15x will have sli 8800GTX any confirmation on that yet?
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Sign up for coupon alerts at some of those bargain hunter sites for the Dell Outlet. Couple weeks ago there was 15% off any outlet Precision, so you could've had a similar setup for around $3k US (depending on selection of course). Do they ship to AU? Not a clue man...
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Wall of text crits you for 9001 damage. You die. I would suggest typing out the specs a bit more readably. Other than that, those are killer machines; I'd love to get one for work.
Then why is there a list of 1080p supported games and all kinds of people talking about "true" 1080p games? I follow your logic and it had occurred to me as well, though I didn't have the numbers to back my assumption.
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That's very nice, and has many uses, but isn't what I was wishing for. That's a replay of the complete flow. I want the option to goto an arbitrary line in the code of a running process. Sure, it's not obvious what that means when there are e.g. closures in effect, but I guess that's something to figure out.
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Arrogance of a Poet
Reading, reading, reading aloud,
Out to an audience or a large crowd,
A lovely poem, simple like this,
Rhyming couplets, O what a bliss,
Next a succulent simile,
Like this, like that or just like me.
Alliteration, simile all in one,
The Sun looked down, thinking well done!
Woah, personification, the touch of skill
But ofcourse, I can still
Go further and further with these thoughts,
Enjambment used, eat my shorts!
My skill unmatched, the audience applaud,
Score,10/10, definitely assured.
But still this skill was not enough,
They believed my poem was still a rough
Copy or a draft, not the final one,
A poem to impress, that could have won.
And so I wander back, like a whale
To feed my young poems a treacherous tale,
To which they will, rebel and fight
For why did that poem not set alight
The crowd with all its great talent,
But I will not, never, relent
In making you poems walk into fame,
And there goes my poetic technique again...
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• Anjali Sinha (9/26/2009 11:26:00 AM)
n making you poems walk into fame,
And there goes my poetic technique again...
surely I think your this poem will walk in high fame
Coz your poetic technique is unique like a game,
it was like making a wild lion tame
even if all are to say shame shame shame
good poem
surely a tenner from me
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• Dr Hitesh Sheth (4/8/2009 11:51:00 AM)
A good poem with rhyme.............A poem is never complete but abadoned........good`write.........
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[n] unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)
[n] the trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards
[n] a feeling of self-respect and personal worth
[n] satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements; "he takes pride in his son's success"
[n] a group of lions
[v] pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement
[v] be proud of; "He prides himself on making it into law school"
[v] be proud of; "She prides herself on her son"
congratulate - (4 syllables), congratulate - (4 syllables), plume - (1 syllables), preen - (1 syllables), pridefulness - (3 syllables), superbia - (4 syllables)
Misc. Definitions
\Pride\, n. [Cf. AS. lamprede, LL. lampreda, E. lamprey.] (Zo["o]l.) A small European lamprey ({Petromyzon branchialis}); -- called also {prid}, and {sandpiper}.
\Pride\, n. [AS. pr[=y]te; akin to Icel. pr[=y][eth]i honor, ornament, pr??a to adorn, Dan. pryde, Sw. pryda; cf. W. prydus comely. See {Proud}.]
1. The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others. Those that walk in pride he is able to abase. --Dan. iv. 3
7. Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt. --Franklin.
2. A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride. --Goldsmith. A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants. --Macaulay.
3. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain. Let not the foot of pride come against me. --Ps. xxxvi. 1
1. That hardly we escaped the pride of France. --Shak.
4. That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc. Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride. --Spenser. I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. --Zech. ix.
6. A bold peasantry, their country's pride. --Goldsmith.
5. Show; ostentation; glory. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. --Shak.
6. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life. A falcon, towering in her pride of place. --Shak.
7. Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast. [Obs.] {Pride of India}, or {Pride of China}. (Bot.) See {Margosa}. {Pride of the desert} (Zo["o]l.), the camel. Syn: Self-exaltation; conceit; hauteur; haughtiness; lordliness; loftiness. Usage: {Pride}, {Vanity}. Pride is a high or an excessive esteem of one's self for some real or imagined superiority, as rank, wealth, talents, character, etc. Vanity is the love of being admired, praised, exalted, etc., by others. Vanity is an ostentation of pride; but one may have great pride without displaying it. Vanity, which is etymologically ``emptiness,'' is applied especially to the exhibition of pride in superficialities, as beauty, dress, wealth, etc.
\Pride\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prided}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Priding}.] To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively. --Bp. Hall. Pluming and priding himself in all his services. --South.
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Steve Meacham
March 19, 2007
DID a Portuguese seafarer called Christopher de Mendonca lead a fleet of four ships into Botany Bay in 1522 - almost 250 years before Captain James Cook?
The startling claim is made in a book - published today - by the retired Canberra-based science journalist Peter Trickett. Trickett believes Mendonca left irrefutable evidence of his historic voyage: a detailed and uncannily accurate map of Australia's entire east coast.
Trickett's quest began eight years ago in a Canberra bookshop where he bought a beautiful portfolio of rarely seen maps - exquisite reproductions from the Vallard Atlas, a 16th-century document so precious and delicate it never leaves its air-conditioned vault in the Huntington Library in Los Angeles.
The original Vallard Atlas contains 15 hand-drawn maps, completed no later than 1545 in Dieppe, France, and represents the entire world as it was then known to Europeans. Scholars had long asked why part of one of the Vallard maps - featuring 120 place names in Portuguese, not French - closely resembled the coast of Queensland. But they had dismissed it as a coincidence, because the map suddenly jutted out at right angles for 1500 kilometres, bearing no relation to any known coastline.
However, Trickett came up with an intriguing theory: what if the atlas compilers in Dieppe had wrongly aligned two Portuguese charts they were copying from?
He called in a computer expert who was able to cut the map in two and rotate the bottom half 90 degrees.
"Up to that point it was just a theory," Trickett says.
"But once it was rotated … the entire east coast of Australia, and part of the south coast as far as Kangaroo Island, was revealed in incredible detail."
Trickett believes the charts were made by Mendonca, who set off from the Portuguese base at Malacca with a fleet of four ships on a secret mission ordered by King Manuel I. If Trickett is right, Mendonca sailed past Fraser Island, into Botany Bay, around Wilsons Promontory and as far as Kangaroo Island before returning to Malacca via the North Island of New Zealand.
But because the Portuguese wanted to prevent other European powers learning about their discovery, Mendonca's charts were kept secret. Instead, says Trickett, Mendonca was rewarded by being made commander of the lucrative fortress at Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, where he eventually died. "His voyage ranks with that of Columbus or Magellan," says Trickett.
"But it was secret, unfortunately."
On the southern coast, Trickett says, Mendonca clearly marked many of the outstanding features: Cap Frimosa (Wilsons Promontory), Illa Grossa (Kangaroo Island), Rio Real (Spencer Gulf) and Golfo Grande (the Great Australian Bight). But the most significant feature on the Vallard map is Baia Neve. Trickett insists this is what Cook later called Botany Bay, the birthplace of modern Australia.
Beyond Capricorn: How Portuguese adventurers secretly discovered and mapped Australia and New Zealand 250 years before Captain Cook by Peter Trickett, East Street Publications, $35.
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I am sure they could, at a charge. What I am not sure is the outcome of the pattern change; are you going to lower the balmoral line to the bottom of the peak? or are you removing the peak and moving the balmoral line up? That SC pair's balmoral line is very very shallow and the only reason it works is the downward pointing peak to balance and give some depth to the shallow horizontal line.
Style preference. William I looks better to me... Much more classic.
How would the leather or construction be indestructible during winter?
By that logic, my $10 leather gloves from Home Depot must have very high quality as they survived more water and mud than any of my shoes. p.s., JL leather is much softer wearing than EG or G&G IME, but that could be due to variations in construction. I dont think they opt to use any lower quality leather but it just happens that my black pair feels is more wrinkle prone and less lustrous than my other SC or other high-end shoes. I did not make myself clear. Aside from...
Sun bleaching will like a very long time and could potentially dry up the leather... The easiest solution is to darken the lighter color shoe to match the darker color one.Acquired patina or time induced antiquing will make shoes turn lighter in color.What you have described is faux antiquing or applied patina.
Looks interesting but the leather quality is not high IME especially for black ones. And for some reason they don't take polish well.
Its definitely not; no one gives a damn.
Gawd even your sneakers are black...
I think their next shipment from SC is early March.Delays are inevitable given their LSBH store remodeling and personnel changes.I hope SC can do decent at Wingtip SF and Mr Car can visit SF more frequently than just an annual trip to LA.
That's more than $40k retail...
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The question of who runs Leeds United has brought demands for the Football League to be more transparent about who owns its clubs
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The League should insist on clubs making public to their supporters who owns them, says the minister for sport. Photograph: Gareth Copley/PA
Gerry Sutcliffe, minister for sport
"Fans of any football club have a right to know who the owners are. We want to see greater supporter representation in the running of football clubs and far greater accountability. While I welcome the Football League's moves in securing detailed financial information from clubs and their work with HMRC to help keep clubs on a secure financial footing, more can still be done. We have offered to help the League, where we can, on the issue of transparency but it should insist on clubs making public to their supporters who owns them."
Hugh Robertson, shadow minister for sport
"As with Parliament and many other areas of public life, transparency is going to be an increasing requirement and expectation. That includes publicly identifying the owners of football clubs. Football should reform its governance to include greater supporter representation on the board of clubs."
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Phil Willis, Liberal Democrat MP for Harrogate
"At the very least, supporters of a club have a right to know who owns it. The Football League should follow the Premier League's lead and insist on this basic necessity. As an act of faith and goodwill, I hope the Leeds United board now publish the documentation they have presented to the Football League so that all sense of mystery can be removed and the supporters can know who owns their club."
Malcolm Clarke, chair of the Football Supporters Federation
"Football clubs are not like other businesses, they are part of the heart and soul of their community. Part of their responsibility is to ensure their loyal supporters, whose money is vital to keep a club going, know exactly who owns the club and to whom their money is going."
Dave Boyle, the chief executive of Supporters Direct
"Leeds fans support the club with millions of pounds each year because of a profound sense of connection with the club, and that loyalty and commitment means its fortunes and activities matter to the community in a way unlike nearly every other organisation in the city. Like all football clubs, Leeds United's character is that of a public institution wrapped in a privately-owned business and that creates a mismatch. The authorities can recognise that public nature by sending a clear message: you can remain a private anonymous citizen and you can own a football club but you cannot do both."
Richard Scudamore, the Premier League chief executive
"It's very hard to argue that clubs aren't effectively 'owned' by a much wider group than those that happen to legally own the shareholding. We should know and the public should know and the fans should know who owns their club."
Gerald Krasner, the former Leeds United chairman
"I sat in court when Mr Kenneth William Bates said he did not know who the owner of Leeds United was. So today I would say to Mr Bates: 'Now that you know, why would you not like to tell your club's fans who it is?'"
Kevin McCabe, the chairman and owner of Sheffield United
"Football clubs are peculiar, in that they represent their community, town and city but they are companies with shareholders. My own view is that you owe it to supporters to let them know who does own, control and influence their club. It is a part of being open and transparent. What is the shame in disclosing it?"
Dave Gaertner, a spokesman for Leeds United Supporters Club
"It is very important for fans to know who owns a football club. It helps to know that person has a vested interest in re-investing money in the club. When you talk about faceless overseas organisations, you have no idea where the money is going. Football clubs are really there for the fans who support it all their lives and the ownership should reflect that and be as transparent as possible."
Dan Moylan,the editor of Square Ball – Leeds United fanzine
"I understand that the owners and backers have a right to stay anonymous but it is not right for the fans, whose money is paying for the club to push on and get back to where we belong. Progress has been made on and off the field but for the money the fans are putting in, there is a lack of transparency. We'd like to know where the money is going and who ultimately owns the club."
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Anna Nicole Running Scared Over Baby
1/22/2007 7:16 PM PST BY TMZ STAFF
Anna Nicole SmithAs tomorrow's deadline looms for the DNA test to establish the paternity of Anna Nicole Smith's baby, TMZ has learned Smith's lawyers are furiously working to halt the test.
Sources tell TMZ that Smith's lawyers are now arguing that the order requiring the test was never brought before a Bahamian judge. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ordered the test, but Smith's lawyers now say it's not binding until a Bahamian judge gives it a stamp of approval.
Sources also tell TMZ that Anna Nicole's lawyers are trying to block the test on grounds that the United States DNA lab hired by Larry Birkhead, the man claiming to be the father of little Dannielynn, cannot legally administer the test because its technicians don't have work permits for the Bahamas.
Despite her public statements that she has nothing to hide, Ms. Smith is going to great lengths to block the DNA test.
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I do not think there is a law that can force this lady to prove he is or is not the biological father of the recent child she gave birth to. And she is not married to this man and it does not matter if she was married legally to him prior or not which I have never heard was the case either, stick that finger up kid!
2607 days ago
owl, who died and made you god? I hope you never make mistakes, and have someone call you on it. Geez, you act like you know these people personally, I will be sure to pass your comments by in the future. And all you other unsensitive ass holes. Now I know why I don't read this trash!
2607 days ago
Appearently you haven't been readin g much on this case The Cal. courts says Larry has the right to know if he is the Father and has ordered her to have the test done.
It takes 2 to have a child and like it or not both parents have the right to know if this is their child not just Vickie Lynn.
This child was not an emaculate conception.
2607 days ago
Anna Nicole: you obviously have a nasty secret...some hideous fact that DNA will expose...and now have found yourself "cornered." You don't need a need serious help, possibly psychiatric. Without it, the morons you surround yourself with, will eat you alive, and send you to the gutter. You'll be yesterday's garbage and those morons will take you for every penny you have. Stand tall, and alone if need be, and fight this baby/father stuff. You have people on your side...but it's up to YOU. Actions speak louder than words.
2607 days ago
I feel sorry for that poor baby. To have Anna for a mother that is like being cursed.
2607 days ago
Finally exposed - shes a wierdo
She's a stupid, drama queen. Everything she does she has to play out in the media, just like those morons Britney Spears & Paris Hilton. If she didn't have people with cameras taking her picture, she'd have nothing to hold onto. What a hollow, mindless moron...
2607 days ago
I am surprised her lawyers havent made motions to quash this in court based on ANS' right to privacy. I was thoroughly expecting to hear that they would have filed some sort of papers, or dragged in the ACLU on her behalf screaming about her RIGHTS. Because we all know that in the US, an ADULT has more rights than a CHILD (said sarcastically), so ANS' "rights to privacy" would have come before Dannielynn's right to know who her real father is (or LB's right to know if his sperm resulted in this child). Because any revelation could show what HO ANS really is.
Would the Bahamas extradite someone for contempt (in a US court) for failing to allow a paternity test? Sorry if its a dumb question, I just have no idea myself.
2607 days ago
Honey it seems if you have nothing to hide .. why go to such great lengths to not have the DNA test done... Makes you wonder.... what is the problem.. I really feel sorry for the little girl What kind of life with this poor girl have.. Look what happened to her brother.... Living with Nicole is unhealthy... Just DO IT AND GET IT OVER WITH !
2607 days ago
everyone knows Anna is actually Brittney's Mother!!
2607 days ago
The Bahamas are not part of the US. The US Virgin Islands are. Sweet can one not know this about one's own country?? That baby is pure Anglo-Saxon!! Has anyone seen the nose on that lawyer of hers?? That baby has a tiny little button nose ala Tabitha from 'Bewitched', and her real dad Larry. The poor girl, two dips for parents. Use a Trojan people!!
2607 days ago
#90: She's under court order for DNA testing...CA Superior Court...that's the "law." She can't just decide she wants to or doesn't wanna. Choice isn't hers to make.
It matters whether they were legally married. Legally married, you cannot be forced to testify against each other. "Commitment ceremony/not legally married/she promises to love, honor and obey Howie"=testify=no legal immunity.
2607 days ago
For someone who claims she has nothing to hide, she sure is going to alot of trouble to keep from having this test done. I've always thought she was a trampy bimbo, but the way she's acting now is even worse. That baby deserves to know who her real father is whether Anna wants to admit it or not. Deep down she knows who the babys father is and it seems to me that she just doesn't want the rest of the world to know. Grow up Anna. Think of your daughter and not yourself. I know it's something your not used to doing, but it's what a true mother would do.
2607 days ago
audrey howard
please please please people. who gives a sh*t really who anna nicole's baby daddy is. honestly. do you care? if you can honestly tell me you care then you need to GET A FRIGGEN LIFE. leave the woman alone, she just lost her son, apparenly none of you Stalk-a-rozzis understand what loosing a child does to you, and you need to be slapped across the face so h ard that your head spins and finally lands in a different direction that you just go with. LEAVE ANNA ALONE!
2607 days ago
Watch it turn out that her son is the baby's daddy! The death was an attempt to cover it up
2607 days ago
#12- The Bahamas are NOT a US territory. They are their own country!
2607 days ago
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Diddy Just Threaten Us?
4/24/2007 11:55 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF
One TMZ cameraman had a brush with danger last night -- getting threatened by Diddy's massive, musclebound bodyguards outside a packed New York nightclub.
While trying to shoot footage of the rapper outside Butter, one of his gargantuan lackeys stepped in front of the camera lens and warned, "Don't shoot him ... it's not going to be a good situation if you shoot him."
Threatening yes, but not nearly as clever as the alleged Diddy catch-phrase, "I'll smack flames out of your ass!"
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Oh yeah, the paparazzi are so awful ... but celebrities have no problem having their pictures taken or using the media WHEN IT'S PUTTING MONEY IN THEIR POCKETS!!! They have no problem with their celebrity status when they're accepting free gifts and gift bags worth more than some people make in a year, or when they're getting VIP treatment. I'm sick of the wah wah-ing over the paparazzi and the people who talk about how horrible it is. Yeah, I'm sure it is horrible, but I bet all that money and special priviledge makes up for it. And I bet when they get to use it to sell CDs or movies or clothing lines or perfumes or whatever else they want to gouge the public for at premium prices, that makes up for it too. No. 16, you're an imbecile. Or a celebrity.
2516 days ago
if you want to be in show bizzzz and all the money and fame that goes with it ,guess what every move you make paparazzi is there ,this what these people craved then when they get into show bizzzzzzz isn't it , who knows why tmz wanted a photo this guy anyway i don't remember what he's famous for doing
2516 days ago
patty cake
WHen is he going away?????
2516 days ago
Amy Silverman
Who is this person?
2516 days ago
# 20,
He is a nobody that thinks he is a somebody.
A loser, crook, thief, Child abuser, woman abuser, animal abuser, keeps guns, runs from the law with J-lo in the back seat loving the excitement, threatens Jurys,
the list goes on and on and on.
A true trouble maker and one of the biggest BULLY'S around.....
And his mother is no better than he is.
They are just terrible, terrible so called humans.....
Monsters if you will.
Sweet Judith
2515 days ago
He's Boring now
Hey 16
What Country are you from?
And why do you think TMZ should only publish "newsworthy" items? Go watch Katie Curic for that crap...this site is for dirt and spreading it around for those who choose to live and play in it, like Diddy. And for those who choose to read it.
I'm sick of idiots coming here crying about what they read, acting like they should be getting breaking news stories. This site is for lame brains like me who especially love it when those in the spotlight get caught being human or inhumane.
2515 days ago
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Hey #16.... GET BENT !!
Don't try to play like you come to TMZ for "newsworthy" information. You come here for the same reason we all do, "DIRT".... good ol' fashioned scandalous riveting lucious DIRT !!
People don't go to a steakhouse looking for fois gras... and they don't come to TMZ for news.
TMZ- YOU ARE THE SOURCE !!! You are like the lady down the way, who knows everybody's business, especially the gritty nasty filthy stuff, the kind of stuff that would make a person want to crawl under a rock and die !!! And we love it...LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT !!!
Don't ever stop!
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Probation Officer -- Out to Get Lindsay Lohan?
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SLOW NEWS DAY?????!!! My word everything Lindsey who CARES??????
967 days ago
Hey Red Cloud... someone's been blowing smoke up yer azzz.
The only ones on Lindsay's side are her mother, father and a few enabling friends, her attorney and her best friend Judge Suckner. The rest of the planet can't stand this beoootch.
967 days ago
Ghost Rider
Thats what it looks like.
967 days ago
Do not have this thing in court any more. You refuse to punish her and continue to let her slide. IF, IF, IF. BS. The California justice system has been telling her for a long time to get her stuff done and she won't do it.
Quit wasting the taxpayer's money and just let her go.
967 days ago
The judges in this fiasco have prevented the probation dept from doing their job properly time after time, so now they're reduced to throwing crap against the wall knowing nothing will stick anyway.
How hard can this be? Anyone as serious as Lohan always claims to be would dive into the community service, counseling and whatever and get it done asap. Instead, she treats it like some snot-nosed little twerp who has to clean her room and doesn't want to.
And the judge seems to say 'I'm only going to warn you 470 more times, and then you'll be down to your last 600 warnings'.
Your tax dollars hard at work.
967 days ago
A law enforcement official gunning for someone? Say it isn't so.
(Sorry for the long list. It'd be shorter if there was Any kind of accountability.
Kinda like the Zero accountability as demonstrated by the AOC - which continues ripping off the public.
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967 days ago
I think it is clear the probation officer is out to get her. Let Lindsay be and let her get on with her life.
967 days ago
You know, I think John's got it right. The justice system has failed her, yes 'failed' her for not incarcerating her and making her stop her behavior. So, I say cut the c**t loose. Don't prosecute her for anything. Let her get drunk and drive off a cliff. Leave her to her own demise. The taxpayers are speaking and we don't want to pay for her to continue going to court and before Judge Sucker, who Lindsay's attorney Shawn Gggolley goes to house parties with and are best buds. Lindsay is her own worst enemy, so let her sentence herself to... herself... for eternity. What a horrible fate!
967 days ago
I don't think they are gunning for Lindsay, I think they are sick of her making them look like fools.
967 days ago
Yay probation officer. Give it back to Lohan. Judge Sautner doesn't have a clue on Lohan.
967 days ago
967 days ago
Maybe they are sick and tired of her ****... anyone else would have been put in jail a long time ago.
967 days ago
TMZgossip 17 minutes ago don't worry Jay
even if Nicole explained it to you, I doubt
Yeah ok because you are just an everyday Einstein on here defending loser junkies 24/7 right?
The fact is the PO is sick of Lindsay's sh*t and guess what any member of the public with a fully functioning brain is too.
967 days ago
Probation officers deal with criminals all day long. They pretty much know when someone is sincere about changing their behavior or when someone is just giving a big FU to the legal system. This probation officer can see right through Lindsay's BS and wants her to pay for her crimes. I see nothing wrong with that.
967 days ago
john smith
Does anyone know if the probation officer who is out to get Lindsay by lying is a black woman?
967 days ago
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Gabby Douglas
16-Year-Old Recruited HARD
By Black College
8/9/2012 6:30 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF
16-year-old Gabby Douglas is officially being recruited by one of the most prestigious black universities in the country ... Spelman College ... and TMZ has learned the school president has even flown to London to get a leg up on the competition.
We've learned ... Spelman -- an all-girl college in Georgia -- wants Gabby in a bad way ... and sources at the University tell us the Team USA gymnastics superstar has become the number 1 recruit ... by far.
In fact, the President of Spelman, Beverly Daniel Tatum (not pictured below), went out to London and made sure Gabby got a Spelman gift bag ... containing a congratulatory note, school t-shirt and a CD containing a song produced by the college.
0808_gaby_spelman_subTatum also released a statement to TMZ ... in which she acknowledges the school would LOVE to get its hands on the gold medal winner:
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It's because their Gymnastics program is tops in the Nation & not for the publicity.... Am I right??
582 days ago
Gabby if you read any of the Post here, believe this. I know you are an intelligent young woman and know your History. All the racist remakes are forms of Jealousy. They want you to go around like their White female idols, Paris and Kim. Asses hanging out ans screwing any and everything. You are graceful and show great potential. Stay true to yourself and ignore the racism, that is what this Country thrives on
582 days ago
Seriously... How about you do a little research before you make such an ignorant comment? I see many people complaining about TMZ's incorrect headline which labels the Spelman a "black college". HISTORICALLY black colleges were created when African Americans were not allowed to attend mainstream Universities. Yes, they continue to exist today; however, there is no race requirement to gain admittance (in other words you dont have to be black to attend). To suggest that these institutions cease to exist in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement is suggesting that they destroy hundreds of years of history and eliminate the legacy of thousands of successful Alums whom have attended these institutions.
582 days ago
it's not a black college - it's a historically black college. white people can go there; TMZ just mis-lead you.
also: it's a *womens* college, not a girls college. girls go to elementary school and high school; women go to college.
582 days ago
Darn skippy they want her because she's black and that's the way it should be! Huh, don't hate. Becuse she's an olympian EVERYONE wants her to be an American not black. Hell, the President is a black male and you make that relevant and disrespect him and call him Barack! Disrespectful! Yeah it should be a black college where black talented women can be recognized and soar to there highest potential without Heidi and Sally getting recognition they don't deserve getting it only because they are white. Hell ya'll don't want to realize racism is here and very relevant. I tell you what if you don't believe it but on a black costume of some sort and be a black person in this country for 24 hours you will see a difference! I hope she does attend Spellman! And all you who think different rest in Hell!
582 days ago
Ain't going to appen since Spelman does not (I think) have a gymnastics program and even if they do, it's not a powerhouse like LSU, Oklahoma, etc. Gabby has at least two and maybe three more Olympics left in her but she's not going to continue to develop at a place like Spelman
582 days ago
I agree with Scott Levy and I am a "black young woman" I would not dream of going to an all women school...she is limiting her learning right there by going to an all girl black school...but I think it is not condoned that no other race can join. Anyone can go but it was started to educate "black people" because they were unfairly treated in other schools. This school needs to be more diverse. Though the past did not allow, they should also encourage her team mates to go.
582 days ago
A BLACK College? Isn't that racist? Blacks are such hypocrites. They yell racist at everyone else but it's okay if THEY are racist. They have their own Black magazines, Black Beauty Pagents, Black Colleges, etc. Why is this? Why can't whites yell that's racist? Whites have to include all races in all things or we are racists. BUT Blacks can do whatever they want, so can Latinas, they have all their own stuff like Blacks do, but again if us Whites did that we are racist. I would like the blacks to explain this double standard. Whites are just about the minority now in the States anyway, these blacks breed like rabbits then can't take care of themselves or the kids and use the welfare system. They're not minorities anymore they need to stop behaving like one.
582 days ago
Heaven forbid if I were to refer to a college as white, a beauty pageant that was white, a month that was white, etc.
582 days ago
Good for her She suould be a role model for All Women of every Color
582 days ago
As a graduate of a historically Black university (Hampton Univ.), perhaps I can give insight into the concept of a "Black" college. Blackness is not just a COLOR but it is also a CULTURE! I have seen very little criticism being levied toward Yeshivas, parochial institutions, etc. Black schools were created because of past discrimination and segregation and now that legacy is just supposed to disappear? It's also a Black business....every other ethnic Business is encouraged to thrive and survive but NOT a Black institution that does allow White patronage? Come on people, think outside the box...again, there is such a thing as a "Black culture" (with a myriad of cultures within it!!)....White is not the converse of Black and White universities historically obstructed minority student enrollment without having to refer to themselves as "White." Knock it off. Go 2 afronerd radio dot com for conservative and independent reasoning. We do not condone racism OR victimization!
582 days ago
Our college were HISTORICALLY all white but we had to let black in but now they don't. all black award show, schools, words that they can only say, it goes on and on.
582 days ago
I just don't get it, They can have their own College they can make jokes about white people or who ever and if a white person want to start a all white college or was to make jokes about black people we would be the worst people on the face of the world. the things they get away with saying is just unreal.
582 days ago
All Black College's were created when all other colleges such as Harvard,Yale and others were basically all white colleges. Blacks were not allowed to attend these schools, so they created there own.Should they just throw away the history of their school and close down now that this is 2012. Nope. Plus many white students today also attend these Historically Black Colleges. So there are not just for Black People. Please learn about the history of the US before you many stupid comments
582 days ago
That girl
People please do your research before you make silly comments... HBCUs were founded post-slavery for African Americans to receive equal education without discrimination.. To respect the tradition and history of these institutions, they are still labeled Historically Black Colleges/Universities... What most of you need to understand that because the college is a HBCU, that doesn't mean it's a black college (only for blacks).. People of all races and ethnicities attend HBCU's.. I am a senior at Spelman and my two best friends are neither black, one Hispanic and one Asian.. The valedictorian at Morehouse in 2008 was caucasian.. So before you comment, know what you're talking about..
582 days ago
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