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In Amsterdam, there is the little green man, but there is also the bicycle traffic light.
I cheat a bit with the foreigh'r subject, but I was too tempted.
I think this is funny to get the 3 colours on the same light.
and if there is ray up and down, this is because a bus passed by.
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1. Isco72 77 months ago | reply
2. semiaddict 36 months ago | reply
I did the same thing with a traffic light in Berlin!
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ben///giles, ThomChap archive, and 184 other people added this photo to their favorites.
1. jimmy.walker 45 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called B▲D ASSEMBLY, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
2. liza dedova 45 months ago | reply
weeell thank you so much
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4. beattrapkit 44 months ago | reply
cant fave enough, i faved it so hard
5. 625lineas 44 months ago | reply
Somewhere is amazing
6. daveyp. 39 months ago | reply
so beautiful
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more drugs, please, 406604, and 31 other people added this photo to their favorites.
1. Rennigeb Redlo 32 months ago | reply
whoa wah we wah
2. DivineMind.. 31 months ago | reply
was this the same wall with pear,bonks,and augor?
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1: 2: 3: The day my eight-year-old programmed a computer: Launched on a crowdfunding website, Project Kano raised $100,000 in 18 hours. Miranda Sawyer and her son Patrick went see what thousands of investors are so excited about: GET SMART More coding schemes for youngsters
January 5, 2014
Miranda Sawyer
"Can I have a go?" Patrick makes the Kano himself. He ignores the accompanying booklet and just plugs bits into the Pi, like he's building Lego - the SD card in first, then he clips the plug together. In a few minutes, he's done and we find ourselves gazing at a TV screen that fills with streams of code.
"Patrick", types Patrick.
Not that he cares (nor me). We're too busy discussing building a tower out of TNT and exploding it with lava. Then we make some synth music and have a go at Pong, changing the sizes of the paddles, making the ball big and orange. Pong is a big success with Patrick. I have to prise him away.
But there were those - and I am one of them - who found the Pi intimidating. To make it work, you had to do everything: locate a spare keyboard, plus all the right leads, work out the Wi-Fi, program the SD card. Still, the tech-literate loved the Pi, including Klein, who "hacked about with it". He showed it to his younger cousin (Micah, aged seven - he's in the Kickstarter film), but Micah found it too difficult.
Another story Klein covered was Occupy's Wall Street camp at Zuccotti Park. While sheltering from the rain in one of their tents, he asked the Occupy-ers why, if they hated big business, they all used iPhones and Samsungs.
"I said, 'Why don't you join the open source movement? Free software, protocols that allow for minimising government or institutional surveillance and maximising individual control over technology.' And they said, 'Yeah, that's fine - but these things aren't designed for us, they are designed by the Silicon Valley elite. The open source community are geeks and nerds and they created the current inequality in technology.' And when they hit me with that, I was like, 'OK, you're right.' "
Klein and Raz-Fridman, 30, an ex-intelligence officer for the Israel defence forces, thought they could use the Raspberry Pi's cheapness and open source software's flexibility to make computer coding easier. After all, if you're a non-tech person (and you can afford it), you are stuck with Apple, Sony, Nintendo, Samsung: slick, pretty, closed-off life accessories/computers that are far too expensive for you to risk prising the back off and having a look at what's inside. Klein thought about this. He had an advantage: his cousin Saul (father of Micah) is an entrepreneur who co-founded LoveFilm and was an executive at Skype. Saul knows how digital startups should run; he also understood that the Raspberry Pi wasn't quite as accessible as everyone had hoped. He was up for Klein and Raz-Fridman's idea.
There are teachers who are already coders (check out the inspirational Alan O'Donohoe, @teknoteacher on Twitter), but they are rare. They live different digital lives to their pupils. Some secondary schools send letters telling parents not to let their teenagers on to Facebook or Instagram. You might as well demand that they don't fiddle with their bits.
It's easy to be seduced by gadgets that help you live your life. But there's a whole world out there that isn't as shiny, isn't as owned by corporations. It's possible to like Beyonce and John Grant; to love your iPad and your notepad; to visit the Science Museum and go home and make a rocket out of Lego. Sometimes, my children spend hours playing computer games. Sometimes, they spend hours making homemade badges. They don't see the difference, really. If you allow kids in - to a museum, an institution, inside a closed world - they'll find a way to have fun.
Primo (right) is a physical game that aims to teach coding to four- to seven-year-olds without the need for literacy. Participants align colourful blocks to guide a robot on wheels to its destination.
A website that aims to teach its users coding, for free, to address a general lack of coding skills.
Computer Clubhouse
A network run by tech giant Intel, with 100 clubhouses in 20 countries that provide an environment where young people can explore technology.
Black Girls Code
BGC aims to increase the number of black women working in computing, technology etc by targeting African American girls aged from seven to 17 years old. Twitter is among the scheme's partners.
Young Rewired State
YRS introduces coding-literate kids to like-minded children their age. A division of the Rewired State company, the youth branch hosts numerous events, the biggest being the Festival of Code held at various venues across the country.
Thomas Rodgers
At the Kano office in east London, Miranda and Patrick examine a prototype of the DIY computer kit for children.
1 Patrick takes a look at Kano's various components, which include a distinctive orange keyboard.
2 Dispensing with the instructions, he gets down to work assembling the bits.
3 The Kano is set up, and Patrick can start computer coding.
Source: Observer (UK)
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\Spent\ (sp[e^]nt), a.
Now thou seest me Spent, overpowered, despairing of
success. --Addison.
Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground.
2. (Zo["o]l.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially
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November 22, 2001
Economic Emergency
It is a total mystery how and when Israel will get out of this economic fix.
Dismissed workers demonstrate outside of the prime minister's office in Jerusalem. Photo by Brian Hendler/JTA
The arrival of Israel's economic crisis was something like the NASDAQ crash of last year -- everybody knew it was coming, they just didn't know when. The scales began falling from Israelis' eyes last week when the economic growth figures for the third quarter of the year came in -- 2.8 percent in the red, the second straight quarter of economic contraction. Bad, bad news.
It's no mystery what's caused the recession. The NASDAQ crash hobbled Israel's high-tech sector, the turbo jet of the economy. Then the intifada came along and devastated the tourism industry, at the same time burdening the State with the cost of fighting a new, mass-scale guerrilla war. The intifada, combined with the burgeoning world economic slump, chased foreign investment away. All this comes against the background of a construction industry that's been in the doldrums now for five years. The economy was hit so hard in so many places, that the ripple effect has touched virtually everyone in the country. Then came Sept. 11, and there was nothing much left to do except wait for the bleak statistics to confirm the consensus expectations. In a country where the prime minister and the political echelon get blamed for the weather, it's no surprise that Israelis are blaming the bad economy on Sharon. A poll in Yediot Aharonot last weekend found 73 percent of the public gave the prime minister a failing grade on economic performance.
The problem is that emerging from this recession is probably out of the hands of the prime minister and the rest of the government. It wasn't government economic policy that crashed the NASDAQ, or started the intifada, or chased away tourists and foreign investors. These are objective conditions that drained the Israeli economy of billions upon billions of dollars; government policy, be it liberal or conservative, can't replace it.
And while it is no mystery how Israel got into this fix, it is a total mystery how and when Israel will get out of it. The upshot is that lean times are coming. People are going to have to learn to make do with less. But nobody -- not government, not business, not labor, and certainly not a special interest like the ultra-Orthodox community -- is ready for that. Start with the government. Cutting public services and benefits alienates voters, so for Finance Minister Silvan Shalom, who has his eye on the prime ministership, it's business as usual.
He's drawn up a budget for next year based on the notion that the government will have greatly increased tax revenues, which will come as a result of a 4 percent economic growth. Nobody believes Israel's economy will grow by anything close to that figure, but cutting back expectations would mean cutting back spending, which Shalom is loath to do. So, while government leaders may talk of an economic emergency, they're spending as if the country's on easy street.
"Industry is the engine of the economy. The country depends on the taxes that industry pays," said Oded Tyrah, head of Israel's Manufacturers Association, arguing the industrialists' demands. He seemed to forget that regular working people pay most of the taxes, and that businesspeople are not a higher order of being who deserve financial breaks when everyone else is hurting.
But probably the greatest anomaly of this military and economic state of emergency is that the sector of the Israeli population that, by and large, neither works nor serves in the army -- the ultra-Orthodox -- continues to demand more welfare. They threaten to bolt Sharon's government if they do not win passage of a bill that would sharply increase government aid to families with five or more children -- a law tailored for ultra-Orthodox needs.
The good news is that Israel is fundamentally a middle-class society; a deep recession will hurt, but will not drive the country into poverty. The restaurants and theaters remain full, one out of every five Israelis still travels abroad each year. Even while three-quarters of Israelis rated Sharon's economic management poor, two-thirds rated their own personal economic situation as good. The bottom third, however, stand to get considerably poorer in the near future. This will put a severe social strain on the country; advocates in the poor towns of the Negev and Galilee warn of an "intifada" of the unemployed. If that happens, maybe then Israeli decision-makers will understand the meaning of an economic state of emergency.
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February 1, 2014
20131206 Couple splitting
Marriage in America is disintegrating. According to the Census in 2013, only 48 percent of Americans were married -- a substantial plunge from 67.3 percent in 1960. (These figures are of all people age 15 and up who were married and living together in 1960 and 2013.)
A major reason for the decline of married couples is divorce. In 1960, only 2.8 million people were divorced. By 2013 that figure jumped nearly tenfold, to 25.3 million.
America's divorce rate is actually the highest of the civilized world -- triple that of Britain and France, for example. After five years of marriage, 23 percent of Americans are divorced vs. only 8 percent of British or French.
Why? If a British woman wants a divorce, but her husband does not, they must wait five years to divorce, six in France. Five or six years allows time to reconcile. By contrast, 27 states have a ZERO waiting period, and three states require only 30-60 days. Why are these "Hot Head States" pushing couples to divorce?
An earlier columnof mine quoted a woman named Jennifer Rivera: "After being together eleven and a half years, the Family Court of Miami-Dade County was able to legally end it in 11 days. If we had more time to wait it out, such as a legalized separation, our divorce would not have happened. It was like a drive-thru divorce. That's how it felt. They have a waiting period to get a marriage license. There should be a waiting period to get a divorce."
When the couple stood before the judge, they were holding hands and crying. That night they had dinner together and spent the night together.
This divorce should never have happened.
It would not have occurred in Illinois or Pennsylvania, which require couples to wait two years if one spouse opposes the divorce. As a result, those states have divorce rates among America's lowest. Clearly, a longer waiting period allows hot heads to cool down.
Their divorce rates are almost half those of 13 Hot Head States with No waiting -- Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alaska, Florida, Alabama, New Mexico, Mississippi, Colorado, Arizona and Oregon.
According to Frank Furstenberg and Andrew Cherlin's book "Divided Families," four out of five divorces are opposed by one spouse. Yet in America, one spouse can file for divorce and always get it. In the old days, one would have to prove a spouse was at fault -- due to adultery, abandonment or abuse. However, in 1969 California Gov. Ronald Reagan signed America's first "No Fault Divorce" law, allowing just one spouse to declare there were "irreconcilable differences."
Most states passed similar No Fault Divorce laws in the 1970s, and the number of divorces nearly doubled from 639,000 in 1969 to 1,189,000 in 1979.
In "How To Cut America's Divorce Rate in Half," I argue No Fault Divorce is unconstitutional. Both the 5th and 14th Amendments supposedly guarantee that "no person be deprived of life, liberty or property without the due process of the law." Yet how can there be "due process" if every divorce is granted?
Divorce deprives people of life. A divorced man will live 10 years less than a married man; a divorced woman, four years less; and their children, five years less. Divorced people and their children are also deprived of liberty. A typical father can see his kids only two weekends a month. Certainly, husbands and wives lose property when they move apart.
Yet there is no constitutional protection for 80 percent of spouses handed an unwanted divorce. Therefore, I helped design the Parental Divorce Reduction Act, introduced in Georgia as the Children's Hope for Family Life Act. It would increase the waiting period from 30 days to one year.
The bill would also require couples with kids to take a course on the impact of divorce on children before a divorce is filed. Hopefully, that would persuade many to repair their marriage. And during the year, the couple would be required to take classes to improve their skills of conflict resolution. No state has such educational requirements.
Greg Griffin, a pastor and counselor who got a divorce he did not
want, has led the battle for the bill, spending 17 months at the state legislature, meeting scores of state senators and state legislators, plus the governor.
He has positioned this as "a children's rights bill, asking legislators to view the bill through the eyes of a child, and give them every opportunity to grow up in an intact home." He asks that they think of it as looking out for the safety of children like flashing lights in a school zone.
I dream that the Children's Hope for Family Life Act passes and becomes a model for every state.
Michael J. McManus, a syndicated columnist whose work formerly appeared in the Ledger-Enquirer, is president of Marriage Savers,
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Dreamweaver and WordPress: Core Concepts
Customizing the sidebar
Dreamweaver and WordPress: Core Concepts
with Joseph Lowery
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1. 4m 7s
1. Welcome
2. Using the exercise files
1m 54s
3. A word about updates
1m 15s
2. 15m 28s
1. Overview
1m 51s
2. Creating the database and the initial site
3m 45s
3. Configuring WordPress
5m 54s
4. Establishing a Dreamweaver site
3m 58s
3. 20m 18s
1. Accessing dynamically related files
4m 12s
2. Filtering files
4m 20s
3. Following links
4m 15s
4. Employing Live Code
2m 54s
5. Enabling site-specific code hinting
4m 37s
4. 21m 8s
1. Adding blog posts
4m 55s
2. Editing blog posts
3m 20s
3. Adding new pages
2m 59s
4. Including images
6m 59s
5. Adding videos to posts
2m 55s
5. 18m 12s
1. Understanding WordPress structure
3m 52s
2. Activating a theme
7m 21s
3. Setting up a child theme
6m 59s
6. 1h 29m
1. Updating the page structure and the background
12m 53s
2. Working with web fonts
4m 3s
3. Styling a header
11m 48s
4. Adding header functions
7m 40s
5. Setting up content columns
10m 9s
6. Changing the main content
5m 17s
7. Managing the content code
4m 48s
8. Customizing the sidebar
10m 32s
9. Styling search
7m 8s
10. Working with search text
5m 49s
11. Integrating the footer
9m 40s
7. 27m 18s
1. Setting up media queries
6m 12s
2. Customizing for tablets
12m 19s
3. Building smartphone layouts
8m 47s
8. 23m 28s
1. Working with categories and posts
5m 31s
2. Developing category-driven pages
11m 22s
3. Changing headers by category
6m 35s
9. 36m 32s
1. Adding Spry accordion panels
17m 44s
2. Working with Spry form validation
11m 56s
3. Integrating jQuery functionality
6m 52s
10. 11m 7s
1. Understanding WordPress plugins
6m 20s
2. Styling plugin output
4m 47s
11. 25m 44s
1. Customizing the Dashboard
6m 52s
2. Working with WordPress functions
8m 7s
3. Including administration interactivity
10m 45s
12. 13m 10s
1. Setting up the data in WordPress
2m 17s
2. Adding dynamic data from WordPress to your web pages
10m 53s
13. 11m 38s
1. Modifying general settings
4m 12s
2. Setting up users
3m 11s
3. Restricting access to specific WordPress pages
4m 15s
14. 26m 38s
1. Exporting and importing WordPress files
7m 9s
2. Backing up and restoring the database
8m 10s
3. Transferring files
6m 3s
4. Testing and fine-tuning
5m 16s
15. 18s
1. Next steps
Video: Customizing the sidebar
Let's continue our conversion of the default theme by working in the sidebar areas. Almost all WordPress themes use sidebars either on the left or the right and sometimes both. In the previous lesson changing the main content, we moved the sidebar that was on the left side of the Custom Theme to the right side as called for by our comp. In this lesson we will clean up the content of the sidebar as well as its styling. First, let's tackle the content, which is comprised of a series of widgets.
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Customizing the sidebar
You can think of a widget as a canned bit of coding that outputs a targeted slice of content often a series of links in a list. So in our blog_comp, which I have on the screen now, we see four such widgets, there is Search, Hot Links, Archive, and Categories. Now when we take a look at the current state of our index.php page I've got Recent Post, Recent Comments, Archives, Categories, and something called Meta as well as a search field up top.
So there are a good number of unwanted widgets here to remove them you'll need to go to the WordPress Admin area and work in the Widget section there. So let's head on over to the dashboard, and I'll choose Appearance > Widgets. On the right-hand side under Available Widget you see a collection of standard widgets that you can bring in to any sidebar. I should mention that you can also download custom widgets. There are tons available. And we will explore little bit of that world a little on in the course.
On the right-hand side are your sidebars are widget areas. Well, the custom theme, that we've been customizing, has one sidebar area for widgets. Other themes can have multiple widget areas and the widgets that you see in the sidebar widget area correspond to those widgets we saw in our Index page. So let's remove the ones that we don't need and to remove something all you have to do is drag it out. So I don't want this Recent Post so I am just going to drag that away. Same thing with Recent Comments and Meta, which we don't need.
Now there is no saving or anything like that. Once you drag it out it's gone. Let's go back to Dreamweaver, and I'll refresh the page and our widget area has been greatly reduced. It looks good. Now let's go back to WordPress, and we can start to customize our remaining widgets. Now each of these widgets can be expanded and depending on the widget itself you'll find one or more options available. Search has an option for a Title. There currently isn't one in our index.php file, but if we take a look at the blog_comp, and I will scroll up, it has a very handy title called Search.
So back to the Dashboard, and let's add in Search, click Save, and you can click Close, or you could click a little widget. Let's continue with our modifications before we go back and double-check this in Dreamweaver. So the next widget on our comp is called hotlinks, which as I've mentioned before is a collection of pages. WordPress has a terrific feature that allows you to quickly set up a custom menu and output that menu as a list of links. So let's create a custom menu first and then we'll add it for sidebar.
So I have the widget here Custom menu, and I am going to go ahead drag it right in and place it in between Search and Archives. You will notice that when I do that it says it hasn't found any menus, and it gives us a link for creating some. That's great. Let's go ahead and click Create Some. That will take us over to the menu section, which if you need to find it again is located under Appearance. So now I can go ahead and follow the prompts here and go ahead click Create menu. So let's add in a name.
I am going to call this sidebar and choose Create menu, and let's scroll down a little bit here. Now over on the left-hand side we have the ability to add in menu items, and we can either work from custom links that you see in the first widget up here, Pages or Categories. I am going to choose to work with our existing page first just to create our first menu item. So I'll select that and then choose Add to menu.
Now let me scroll back up and here you can see the page listed under the menu. So I click Save menu, and now we are ready to go back to Widgets under Appearances. And if I expand my custom menu I can see that I have an option for a title. That's good. We want to put that title in of hotlinks, and I have my sidebar as an option here. If there were multiple menus available to me, they would appear in the list, but there's only this one. So now let's click Save.
So that's saved, and as I said we can use the little gadget to close it up. Let's head on over to Dreamweaver again. I will go to my index.php page and click Refresh, and now we have a title for search. It needs to be styled and here's our Hot Links title with the menu item Conference Schedule At-A-Glance. So everything looks as expected. We can add more pages our hot links custom navigation as we build up the side. Now we are ready to start the styling. Let's take care of the headings first.
Again, let's head over to the blog_comp. So I have a big old Search and Hot Links. They are tremendously styled here. Let's find out how they are styled by using our inspect mode, and I will just go to this one area, and as I see, I don't have to go any further just hover over my search title, and I can see the rule for sectioninfo.h2. It's got a background image and white text and special font family et cetera, So let's go ahead and click once to turn off Inspect mode. Then I will right-click on the rule, Go to Code, and let's grab this particular, all these particular rules here.
I am going to copy just the properties, because I know that it goes into a slightly different selector over my index.php page. So let's use our Inspect mode to find out what that is. I will just go to the Hot Links one here. There's no rule set up for this, but if I look down at the tag selector at the bottom of the page, I can see this is not h2 tag, but an h3 tag, and that's very common in setting up WordPress widgets. They tend to use h3 tags for titles. That is located within a div of a Widget area.
So I am going to create a selector that targets the h3 tags in Widget areas and paste in those properties. Let's narrow down the files that we have here so we are just working with Custom Filter. Again, we are going to choose style.css. Now we don't need to put in sidebar.php, because there's nothing structural we have to do to work with that. So let's just go ahead and click OK. There is our two stylesheets, and we want to work with the one that's in the new Roux theme folder.
So I'll select that. And let's go down to the bottom. There's my Widget area, perfect. We are ready to put in our widget-area h3 selector, our curly braces, and let's paste our properties right there. Now again we have to adjust the path here to get rid of the going up a level. Now we will refresh the page and go to Design view, and now things are looking pretty good for our titles.
Let's skip over search for the moment and take care of the bulk of the widgets, which output unordered list. Again, we will get the rules from the blog_comp and bring them over to Roux theme style.css file. So from the blog_comp I want to take a look at using Inspect mode. Let's start with the list items and crawl up the DOM using the left arrow key. So I will click once to go up to the ul li tag, and it looks like I've got a blogPage aside ul li rule that looks pertinent. Let's go up again.
There is the same type selector targeting the ul tag. So that's definitely what we want. So I am going to go ahead and click once to turn off Inspect mode and right-click on that rule to go to code. Now let's see what we got here. I am going to go ahead and expand Code view so we can just concentrate on that and then I will press my Arrow keys so I can get back to where I was. So it looks like we've got blogPage aside ul, and that's the start of it. So let's go ahead and grab these rules.
I am going to grab the a tags as well as the links and visited and then there is a hover state. So all of that seems pertinent. I am going to go ahead and copy all those rules bring that over to our stylesheet. Again, let's just go to Code view to expand everything, and now I am going to go ahead and paste all of them in and scroll back up a little bit. Now instead of blog page I want primary selector to be widget area. So I am going to copy that.
And just there is a few rules I could use a Find and Replace, but let's just do this pretty quickly. I have copied it, and I am just using my Command+V to paste in these five or six rules to correct them. Now once that's done I'll save the page. Let's head back to Design view and click Refresh and see what's happening. All right, things are looking much neater. Again now if I rollover it, I see that I have my rules working out.
Now something looks a little bit off. Let's go back and see there is the culprit. Here is a path that I didn't catch before. So let's get rid of that upgrade path there. Let's see if there is anything else. Nope, I think that's good. Again, I'll save, go to Design view and things are looking. Here is my background pattern coming up on hover. Great. So my final three widgets are in great shape, including the hover states, and now you're ready to customize the Search widget.
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What does it take to be a “Girls” tour guide? Not much: just a knowledge of the G train and a love of the HBO show.
Cafe Grumpy figures prominently in this satire, with Madison highlighting their $8 drink, “The Hannah.” Madison tells viewers that watching “Sex and the City” is like eating a cupcake because it’s rich and indulgent, and watching “Girls” is having a cup of coffee because you can do it alone … and think about your life.
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This week, the Sesame Workshop introduced a new muppet, Lily, during a national primetime special, Growing Hope Against Hunger. Lily, a red-headed seven-year-old, often depends on her local food pantry for meals. Her boldness in addressing her situation is striking: "When you don't even know if you're going to have a next meal or not, that can be pretty hard," she tells Elmo, who admits he didn't know there were many people don't have the food they need (more than 50 million Americans, says this clip from the special).
It's hard not to fall for Lily; her straightforwardness is refreshing and inspiring. We're guessing Lily's mom or dad told her about their predicament and let her know that things would be okay. She isn't pretending she's something she's not, telling Elmo her family has enough peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to last all year. She doesn't keep her hunger a secret. She's just being herself, in all her moppy, wide-eyed, hot pink-skinned glory.
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I have an LG Smart TV which includes BBC iPlayer but no other catch up clients. I have a home PC and my LG tv is connected to my wireless network so I can browse the internet form the tv and of course from my home PC. Is there any way I can be playing a catch up tv show on my PC and at the same time mirror the program on my LG tv over my wireless network? If this is possible I don't expect to be able to control the catch up program on the PC from the tv, I would just like it to be mirrored on the tv.
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Uncovering Rare Receptors
Bartfai’s group has long been interested in a class of nerve cells in the brain called “warm sensitive neurons.” These cells sense and respond to changes in body temperature, acting like a thermometer inside the brain. As body temperature increases, warm sensitive neurons become more active, telling the body to bring its temperature down. Without this regulation, body temperature could reach dangerous levels, even leading to death.
In the past 60 years, scientists had identified about a dozen receptors on warm sensitive neurons that regulate these nerve cells’ activity. But Bartfai wanted to find additional receptors to better understand how the cells function.
Sequencing Single Neurons
Bartfai and Eberwine took a unique approach to indentifying gene activity.
By matching the DNA sequences obtained to published sequences, the scientists were able to identify the corresponding genes, and thus which genes are turned “on” in the nerve cells.
The technique differs from commonly used methods for studying gene activity. Typically researchers “pool” neurons of one type and examine them as a group, rather than studying single cells. In addition, current techniques generally rely on searching for active genes using microarrays””a technique that relies on the preferential binding of sequences in the messenger RNAs /cDNAs to matching DNA sequences “spotted” on the microarray. However, these methods only detect RNAs for which “probes are present on the microarray,” in other words, those that are expected. Also, because of the lower sensitivity of this technique than sequencing, only the cDNAs cells produce in relatively large amounts are detected.
“Using single cells, rather than pooling, and sequencing, rather than microarrays, uncovers many more receptors active in neurons,” says Bartfai. “With other methods you miss receptors present in only a few copies. But that does not mean that they are not important.”
Revealing Neurons’ Complexity
Using their new method Bartfai and Eberwine identified more than 400 receptors active in warm sensitive neurons. About one-third of the receptors are so-called “orphan” receptors, meaning the chemicals they bind to are unknown. The rest were receptors whose ligands (substances they bind to) are known””among them, the authors found a few surprises.
For example, Bartfai and Eberwine discovered that the receptor responsible for binding insulin is active on warm sensitive neurons””something no one had previously suspected.
The insulin receptor is known to be involved in regulating a person’s metabolism. Follow-up studies by Bartfai’s group have now shown that insulin binds to receptors on warm sensitive neurons to decrease their activity, causing an increase in body temperature, or hyperthermia. Thus, insulin is a key regulator for both body metabolism and temperature.
“This study highlights the complexity of these cells by showing us the large number of different RNAs that are present,” said Eberwine.
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0.021401 | <urn:uuid:a30f401d-2108-4dae-942c-86ad948f16dd> | en | 0.978378 | What Started as a dream sequence in "The Muppets Take Manhattan" chronicles Kermit and his friends when they were still babies. The show centered around the children's use of imagination to turn their ordinary nursery into an exciting world of adventure. More often than not, Kermit was the de facto leader of their activities, which included all the memorable cast of the 70s series (Rowf, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Animal, Fozzie, Scooter, and even his long lost twin sister Skeeter. Whatever happened to her?), as well as the mysterious caretaker Nanny, noticed only by her green striped socks and soft voice. Even as young muppets, the group loved to sing songs about everything. Outside The US (Canada, UK, Dania, etc.) The program is handled by the Walt Disney Company. | http://www.retrojunk.com/content/child/description/page/3985/muppet-babies/ | dclm-gs1-300070000 |
0.073696 | <urn:uuid:ebc18b91-725e-4f25-b91e-18ff60bdcc14> | en | 0.947693 | Leading scientist attacks university over 'outrageous' IVF treatment patent
Decision to approve patent for embryo cell data could make IVF fertility treatments prohibitively expensive, says expert
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Fertility experts say the patent, which covers the duration of the first three cell cycles in a human embryo, encroaches on a naturally occurring phenomenon. Photograph: Alamy
Jacques Cohen, one of the world's leading embryologists, has attacked Stanford University and the biotechnology company Auxogyn over their "outrageous" request to be given a patent on cell-cycle data being used to develop IVF treatments. This has now been granted by the US patent office.
The decision could make treatments prohibitively expensive, warned Cohen, who has called for "responsible scientists" to campaign against the decision. Fertility experts are infuriated because they believe the patent covers a naturally occurring phenomenon: the duration of the first three cell cycles in a human embryo.
"Nature should not be owned by anyone," said Cohen, an embryologist based at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre in Washington. In the journal Reproductive BioMedicine Online, he states: "Claiming aspects of natural processes in embryos as property is an outrageous attempt to over-commercialise every step of an already expensive medical procedure."
But the granting of a US patent to cover the time it takes for a cell to divide threatens the new technique's availability, said Martin Johnson, professor of reproductive sciences at the University of Cambridge: "It will add yet more costs to already expensive treatments for the infertile and is likely to further prejudice the NHS against providing free IVF."
In the US, activists, including the American Civil Liberties Union, argue that it is immoral to claim ownership of humanity's shared genetic heritage. They are calling for the US supreme court to ban Myriad's patents.
Cohen was also opposed to the ease with which patents were being given to cover natural processes. "The decisions being made in corporate and law offices to own bits of the natural development of embryos may thwart exciting developments. Ultimately, this will come at the cost of clinical freedom and the choices patients make.
"There will be no end to what corporations may claim to own. A few years ago it was the gene sequence, now it is embryonic growth. Next year it may be one's heartbeat or the synapse."
Update: response from Auxogyn
The company points out that US Patent 7,963,906 B2 claims "a method for assessing the potential for developmental competence of a human embryo…". It was granted in the US, with a similar patent granted in Europe.
According to Lissa Goldstein of Auxogyn: "our Early Embryo Viability Assessment (Eeva) test is a non-invasive way to help embryologists select the embryos most likely to succeed. Given this ground-breaking advance, Eeva has the potential to minimise unsuccessful IVF treatments, and will therefore reduce patients' stress and costs."
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0.035898 | <urn:uuid:d0c05686-d2cf-4994-9dc5-7a061bcb0b35> | en | 0.984181 | The story of my rape
As a student backpacking in Italy, Mary Beard was raped by a stranger on a night train. For more than 20 years she has been retelling the incident - to herself, as much as to other people - in an attempt to make sense of it
It's a simple enough story. I was a graduate student, changing trains at Milan, and laden with luggage for a term's research in Rome. There were a couple of hours to wait for the most convenient train south, so I went to the station bar on the lookout, I suppose, for an opportunity to wheel out my still very faltering Italian. The architect was there, on the lookout too, presumably. Discovering that I had no couchette for the journey, he insisted on trying to book one for me; he took my ticket (which I meekly gave him), returned triumphant and then helped me with my cases and backpack to the train. Predictably enough, as it now seems (though I'm sure I didn't foresee it at the time), what he had actually booked was a two-berth first-class wagon-lit. He bundled me in, took off my clothes and had sex, before departing to the upper bunk. I woke a few hours later just outside Rome to find him on top of me again, humping away - taking his last chance before handing me over to the sleeping-car steward to be deposited on the platform, while he no doubt slept on to Naples.
The only face I have chosen to remember (or perhaps recreate) from the whole incident belongs to this steward, the sly and uncomfortably knowing face of a man who had recognised exactly what was going on and had seen it all before, many times. As he pressed a small plastic cup of coffee into my hand in a routine way, I could tell that it would have been useless appealing to him for help, even if I'd had the chance.
If no violence was used, it was because the man's weapon was my own tiredness (a mind set on sleep, rather than watching for the telltale signs of danger) and the luggage. With two heavy cases and a backpack, I couldn't make a dash for it. Nor could I just abandon a couple of pieces: never mind the clothes; I had spread my precious thesis and all the notes carefully through the different cases (a misplaced faith in the eggs-in-one-basket caveat, as it turned out).
That said, I can't claim to have been particularly traumatised by what happened. I suffered no subsequent aversion to late-night trains, foreign railway stations or even Neapolitan biscuits; and I would give my eyeteeth to be able to zoom around Europe in a first-class wagon-lit - something I haven't been able to afford since.
Instead, I nursed some strange and oddly misplaced grudges. One was against the funding council that was sponsoring my research; for had they not insisted, I reasoned, on my using the cheapest method of transport (at that time, a train), and allowed me to go by plane instead, none of this would have happened. Another was against the friend who had been going to travel with me - even though it was I who had changed my plans and had come on later. Another was against the biscuit-factory man himself, not so much for what he did, but for doing it twice. Even now, more than 20 years later, I can still rage at the memory of waking up to find him doing it again.
If all this suggests that I'm letting my rapist off comparatively lightly, that is partly because in the intervening years the retelling of this story (to myself as much as to other people) has generated quite other interpretations of what went on, which coexist - and compete - with the account I've just given.
The first of these is the predictable slide from "rape" to "seduction": I wasn't overpowered or coerced; whatever happened in the station bar, it amounted to "persuasion" or to an exercise of choice on my part. In fact, something like that was the first euphemistic version I chose to tell my friends on arriving in Rome: I had, I complained, been "picked up" in Milan and ended up in bed with the guy on the train; I never mentioned the word "rape".
In this version, any seduction was done - however inadvertently - by me; the triumph was my own. In pointing to this ambivalence in my responses, I'm not intending to condone the rapist, nor to weaken the case for seeing rape in general as a crime of male violence and male power over women. I'm also well aware that I got off extremely lightly, and that there are many victims of rape for whom an "ambivalent response" would be an undreamed-of luxury. (I can see, conversely, that my alternative versions of this encounter could so easily be interpreted as classic exercises of denial, or refusal to face the rape as rape.)
What I am trying to highlight is the crucial importance, both culturally and personally, of rape narratives. For rape is always a (contested) story, as well as an event; and it is through the telling of rape-as-story, in its different versions, its shifting nuances, that cultures have always debated most intensely some of the unfathomable conflicts of sexual relations and sexual identity.
The tale of the rape of Lucretia, for example, is hardly tellable - as many Roman writers themselves discovered - without raising the question of where seduction ends and rape begins; the rape of the Sabines puts a similar question mark over the distinction between rape and marriage. In fact, almost every narrative of sexual coercion (including my own) forces its teller to confront the question of sex as something women do, or something they have done to them; and of how a slightly different spin on the rape story can lead to an entirely different answer.
Narratives also take much longer in the telling than the event itself. It is now a truism of feminist sociology that the courtroom testimony of the rape victim amounts to a replay of the rape; a re-rape. But it doesn't stop there. The fact that I have taken care to recall my own relatively harmless encounter with sexual coercion more than 20 years ago is not so much to do with its unforgettable trauma, but with the psychic and ideological function that remembering the event still fulfils.
• Dr Mary Beard is a reader in classics at Newnham college, Cambridge. This is an edited version of an article that first appeared in the London Review of Books.To subscribe to the LRB call 020-7209 1141
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Law Reform Commission denies this would mean 'shoot-to-kill in the home'
Ireland is to introduce a law allowing people to kill in self-defence in certain circumstances.
The Republic's Law Reform Commission today recommended the law of self-defence which would apply to persons defending themselves, their family or their home.
The recommendation is part of wider reforms published by the Republic's justice minister, Dermot Ahern.
The most publicised case of someone acting in self-defence was that of Padraig Nally, who shot dead John Ward in October 2004.
Nally was sentenced for six years but acquitted after 11 months when it was accepted that he acted in self-defence.
Since the public outcry of the jailing of the farmer the Law Reform Commission has been reviewing the issue of self -defence and is today recommending that it be renamed to "legitimate defence". It could mean a complete defence to murder and lead to an acquittal.
The Commission is also recommending that gardaì and prison officers be allowed to use lethal force when doing their job such as when making arrests, dealing with serious public disorders or preventing prison escapes.
However, it clearly states that the use of force be only allowed as a defence when it is necessary and proportionate.
The Commission recommends that the defence of provocation be allowed in murder trials even in cases where the killing does not immediately follow the provocation.
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties denounced the proposal as a "have-a-go charter".Professor Finbar McAuley of the Law Reform Commission denied that any new law of self-defence would mean "shoot-to-kill in the home".
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Mincher served as general manager, broadcaster and owner of the Double-A Huntsville Stars, a Southern League franchise.
He retired as Southern League president last October after holding the post since 2000. The league named Mincher its president-emeritus. | http://www.times-gazette.com/ap%20sports/2012/03/05/ex-minor-league-exec-major-leaguer-mincher-dies | dclm-gs1-300310000 |
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The Handy Salt Meter has an LED scale that goes from 0.3 to two. Once you get your reading, you need to do a little math (one percent equals about one gram with regard to a 100-gram portion) to get the salt content of your food. The meter should be useful for those with health problems such as high cholesterol. It's available now and sells for $19.80 | http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/handy-salt-meter | dclm-gs1-300330000 |
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Friday, 11th October 2013 00:25 GMT By Brenna Hillier
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1. fearmonkey
Yay censureship! It always makes such a difference…not
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2. SJFrK
People will just buy it off the internet (from Austria or the UK). The only thing BPjM achieves with this is hurting local (i.e. German retail) businesses.
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3. YoungZer0
@2: Yep. They are fucking useless.
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4. MFBB
They are not useless.
They prevent media from being released in stores, making it harder to get especially for children (which is the main purpose).
We adults can easily buy it but children have a hard time getting banned media which is good.
Nobody wants kids to play slaughter games with extreme graphic violent, same for movies etc.
Same thing with America where nudity/erotic is always cut out/censored, in Germany its violence.
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5. bradk825
Don’t they know violent video games are the most fun for children?
j/k. Still though, kind of silly this game would be unavailable. Didn’t GTA V get a German release?
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0.020404 | <urn:uuid:b7f8e533-0c2c-45c0-8030-234c1ab7d235> | en | 0.966815 | Exit Interview: MoCo superintendent Jerry D. Weast on lessons learned
Deb Lindsey/For The Washington Post - Montgomery County School Superintendent Jerry D. Weast at Beall Elementary School in Rockville.
Blind in his right eye since a childhood accident, Jerry Dean Weast sees further than most education leaders. He grew up on a Kansas farm, the son of a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, and became a school superintendent in Kansas, Montana, South Dakota and North Carolina before he landed one of the most demanding posts in public education: running the high-flying Montgomery County schools. Weast will retire as superintendent in June after a 12-year run that has drawn widespread praise for narrowing academic gaps between the haves and the have-nots.
Weast, 63, spoke with The Washington Post recently in his Rockville office and in a follow-up telephone call. The following are excerpts.
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To attack achievement gaps, you split the school system into two parts. The “green zone” was better off economically and academically. The “red zone” was not. What was your goal?
I had a simple way to capture people’s imaginations when I came — by taking a map of the whole county, putting everybody’s school district lines on it for the elementary schools so they could actually go see where their house is. Then I showed the differentiation by using red and green to ensure that everybody vividly understood that we were dealing with two different worlds.
People would push back.
I said: “Let’s just assume it’s your lawn. Would you make the green grass brown? Or would you make the red grass green?”
Everybody would always come back: “Well, you make the red grass green.” They seemed to understand that concept. It’s emotional.
And then how would you do that? Everybody had an answer: “We’d adjust the water, give it the right fertilizer. Put the right seeds in. We’d nurture [it]. Because if we had a totally green lawn, we would actually be able to sell our house better.”
But aren’t people upset if their schools are labeled the red zone?
Of course. You know, the first thing that you have to do is get people to face up to a problem. If I’m going to the doctor, I might not want to look at the X-ray. But guess what? I will not cooperate and I will not face the issue until I have to see it.
Did it take a lot of extra money to help the red zone?
Just a couple thousand dollars a student. It’s a 10 to 15 percent difference. If I’ve got to pay 10 to 15 percent extra and get a similar or close-to-similar outcome, I’d keep investing.
How hard is it to persuade folks in the green to give more money to those in the red?
Easier when they understand the problem. Easier when they know you’re not lying to them, that you’re really going to stick with it. Easier when you show that you’re not just there to rob them, to transfer, to have another failed program. This isn’t just a social experiment.
When you concentrate on process, and who gets what, you get a lot of warfare. We got people to not look at the inputs but to examine the outcomes. The question is, are you and your children better off than before? And the answer is yes, overwhelmingly, no matter where you are in the county.
People understand it, by and large. They understood that we are in charge of our entire front lawn — Montgomery County — and if we chose not to do anything about it, it was going to hurt us all.
What was the payoff?
Quality has gone up when historically the demographics that would cause white flight have increased: poverty, the number of kids that don’t speak English as their first language.
We set the highest scores in the history of the district. The highest SAT scores. The highest graduation rates. The highest college attendance and college graduation rates — and we have the evidence to prove that.
In fact, we’re now 2 1/2 percent of United States children who check the box that they are African American and are able to get a 3 [out of 5] on an Advanced Placement test. And nearly 1 percent of all of the Latinos in the United States of America who scored a 3 on an AP test came from this system.
But there are still major achievement gaps. Hispanic students, for example, are much less likely to graduate on time than non-Hispanic white students. Black students trail far behind white counterparts on state math tests. Is it realistic to expect such gaps will close?
It actually is not only realistic, it’s something we’re going to have to do. What America needs to understand is how much time it’s going to take and how much effort it’s going to take. We’re going to have to have ... the discipline to stay over a long period of time.
If budgets tank, will the Weast strategy fall apart?
Why not?
Because it’s the people’s strategy. It’s the community’s strategy; and even more important, the people who work in the system now believe, and it has become their plan.
What have you learned from this quest?
The hardest lesson to learn is patience. I mean, everybody wants everything right now. It’s America. And it’s hard, hard to hold people steady for a 10-to-12-year period of time.
I’ve learned the people who work in the schools came there for the right reasons. The majority of them. Yes, we’ve had to figure out how to weed our garden, if you will. There are folks who get into our profession, and it isn’t a good fit. They’re not very effective or productive.
But, you know, our own people figured out how to weed the garden [through] professional support and peer assistance and review. They do a better weeding process than I ever could — and it’s cheaper, quicker, better, faster.
Does the focus on achievement gaps mean you pay less attention to other problems?
Now, the target in America is not high enough: It’s getting out of high school. What’s the good of getting out of high school if you haven’t learned anything? I think graduation rates are important, but I’d just as soon when they graduated and cross the stage, they actually had the skills to do something.
Many people are focusing on graduation rates.
I’m telling you, they’re chasing the wrong rabbit.
But there are a lot of kids who aren’t even graduating.
I understand. But for every one that is graduating, you better have them ready. The real issue is, we’re shooting too low.
You have strong feelings about how we track children in school. Why?
Because who gets sorted? On every occasion, they are kids of color, socioeconomic, you know, “wrong” parents. In the old days, when you came from Europe, you had to be born in the landed gentry or have some title or something like that. We came to America to get rid of that.
But don’t your schools perpetuate sorting? Kids go to your schools, and they’re assigned to a gifted-talented track or a regular track.
Well, I’m gradually moving that away. Over time, we’ve got everybody moving toward college. The problem is, you can’t go in and do this social engineering that you see happening all over the country, because it never worked, and it blew up in everybody’s face.
What you can get everybody in this country to agree on is everybody needs a certain quality of education in order to choose their options and opportunities.
You have close relations with labor.
Is there a downside to working with unions?
Suppose you find an efficient solution to a budget problem, but the union objects. Would you go forward anyway?
I’d have to know why they were objecting to it. If they were objecting to it just for power — yes, I would override. If they were objecting to it because the theory I had was wrong — mmm, not so much. You see, we’re in this together.
When I look at the good companies, they want to be the place where everyone wants to go to work. They want to be the place where people feel engaged. They want to feel a part of the leadership. Heck, they want to pull the lever and stop the assembly line if there’s a bad product. But yet, when we go over to schools, we want to work just the opposite.
Did all the No Child Left Behind tests take the joy out of schools?
No. Look, it pointed out the sorting. It also said you need metrics to see where you are going, and you need to be more transparent. Granted, they chose the wrong metrics. They left that to every state. The variability was horrible. States gamed the system.
Last year, Maryland won a federal grant called Race to the Top. It is President Obama’s signature reform program. But Montgomery refused to participate and lost millions of dollars. Why?
We’ve worked years to get where we are. We weren’t going to [switch] what we were doing to something that wasn’t built, had no curriculum, didn’t have a testing regimen and was going to offer us $3 million in a $2 billion budget. Can’t go backwards. That’s the problem with a lot of the reform agenda: It is a whole bunch of theory and not a whole lot of action.
You were a superintendent before the Department of Education was created in 1980. What is the right federal role?
To try to get us emotionally to accept that we’re going to have to change. The wrong federal role is to try to figure out how to structure that and monitor it in 15,000 localities. The right role is to be tight on standards but loose on how people go about getting there.
Montgomery students face a lot of academic pressure from home and school. Is it too much?
No. Some kids think so. Some parents think so. I have heard this for 12 years. This isn’t anything new.
What does it take for your kid to get into college? You want ’em out of the basement when they grow up. So, do you want them to go to college?
I’m not pushing your child. You’re pushing your child. Your children are pushing themselves because they want to have a life!
You fought a special education case all the way to the Supreme Court. Schaffer v. Weast tested the power of parents who challenge education plans for students with disabilities.
And we won.
But you made a lot of parents unhappy.
I’ve also made a lot of friends. There are 17,000 of these children who have special needs in the school system, and we’re not talking about 17,000 of them having problems.
Why did you fight so hard?
I don’t want special education kids sorted out of classes. I want them to be pushed like all children. I want them to have a great teacher. And I want them to be around all the children, not off in some other wing of the building or in some special school.
How big a deal is rising class size?
If you’re a teacher, it’s a huge deal. There comes a time when you put so many kids in, and you’re asking [teachers] to differentiate between the child who is already studying precalculus and the child who is trying to learn the language, [and] that teacher then starts saying, “You don’t care, I can’t trust you, and you have absolutely no clue what my job is. ”
What will be the biggest challenge for your successor?
Everybody’s got a theory. Nobody understands quite what executing those theories is like in a large system. There will be people coming in saying: “Don’t follow this curriculum. Here, try this new technique.” There will be people who come in and say: “You got along too well with the workers. Let’s take that power back.”
You’ve got to resist that temptation, and you’ve got to stay the course.
What do you plan to do next?
Hopefully, I’ll have opportunities to work with people who really want to make a difference in education and children’s lives, who understand that it’s going to take time, and want to solve teacher and student problems.
Nick Anderson is a Washington Post staff writer. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Essential iOS Road Trip apps: Gas Buddy
Part 4 in a series on Essential Road Trip apps.
My favorite Gas Buddy feature is the ability to report gas prices. I guess that it's like reporting speed traps in Trapster, there's a fun and social aspect to contributing to the Gas Buddy community. Plus, if you register on GasBuddy.com you can earn points towards prizes for reporting gas prices.
To recap, my Essential Road Trip apps are:
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• RE: Essential iOS Road Trip apps: Gas Buddy
Only shows one price, needs to show two prices as all stations now charge different prices for cash and credit. Useful, but not entirely useful with just one price. I have to assume the price shown is the cash price. The problem is, depending upon the dealer, and how much he feels he can rip you off for, the difference between cash and credit is anywhere from 5 to 20 cents/gallon.
Also, what's to prevent anyone from entering bogus prices?
• RE: Essential iOS Road Trip apps: Gas Buddy
As a GasBuddy spotter for more than 6 years, I can answer the questions you post.
GasBuddy wants the price that a person can drive into the station from off the street as the price on their site. A discounted "cash" price with a station branded card or promotion can be mentioned in the comments (posting the cash only price will only result in other spotters or the moderators deleting your post)
The exception is Sam's Club, BJ's and Costco. Since these members only clubs are "members only", their price can be posted, since they still accept any form of payment, as long as you activate the pump with your membership card.
Bogus prices are typically kept in check by multiple spotters reporting stations at different times of the day. Also, the system will "moderate" posts that seem radically off from the regional price spread, and will not post questionable prices on the regional home pages (but those prices may show up in a search result, where a spotter can then validate or remove it).
Also, to drive quality and not quantity, posters are limited to the points they receive per day, so posting good data for a few stations nets the same reward as posting junk data for a lot of stations. Likewise, there are other ways of earning points, through their regional websites. Points can be redeemed for entries in drawings, currently a $250 gas card is given away each week.
• RE: Essential iOS Road Trip apps: Gas Buddy
Not an 'iOS' app. It is and has been an Android app too. Or maybe my Nexus S is some sort of miracle device...
• RE: Essential iOS Road Trip apps: Gas Buddy
You are correct. GasBuddy does indeed have versions not only for iOS but Android and Blackberry as well.
They also have an mobile/touch ready website for most other mobile devices. (While I use the iOS app, there are a couple of functions that are not in it, and I still tend to use the website for posting)
• RE: Essential iOS Road Trip apps: Gas Buddy
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The iPad makes its first hospital rounds
Let me know if you see your doctor sporting an iPad.
Topics: Legal, CXO, Health, iPad, Mobility, IT Employment
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• It is political but it is definitely not a stunt.
Stanford University is equipping their Medical Students with iPads that will allow them to view course material and medical imaging photos .. among other things. See AppleInsider article below for more info.
• RE: The iPad makes its first hospital rounds
If it suits the work then use it. Anyway it can always connect back to the office server and runs any Windows hospital software
• My Doc was buying one
He's already using the iPhone & loves it. Planned on buying an iPad when he could and had an idea for a medical app that he was thinking of developing.
Medical apps on the iPhone would be the indicators of initial iPad apps. I use OsiriX to hold all my imaging - checked their site before the iPad hit the market and they were already working on it.
I also believe that it's an excellent device for medical references (legal referencing also) as there is a massive body of knowledge in that field. Great for med school as well as physicians in practice.
• What about security?
In everything I've heard about the ipad nothing was there about encryption. HIPAA violtions are not cheap and you have to prove innocense if accused. If security is there it could work well.
• RE: The iPad makes its first hospital rounds
@harrim47 Security should be a network function, on the whole. Beyond that the iPad seems no more insecure than any laptop.
• RE: The iPad makes its first hospital rounds
@DanaBlankenhorn and Harrim47'<br><br>Security is more than a network function, you also have to maintain physical security for HIPAA. The advice I have been given currently is basically to let someone else suffer the first audit or two and see how those pan out.<br><br>I'm not holding my breath since the iPad calls home via iTunes, but I'm not against the concept either if it is found to be compliant.<br><br>Just remember that DEFCON just proved that there is no longer a secure wireless or GSM (editted, originally I misspoke "3G") network, so any data transmitted over those had best be highly encrypted.<br><br>As for laptops - they support EFS and have the option of using an ethernet cable which is still far more secure than a wifi connection as long as one maintains the physical security also.
• iPad security
@88Fan I'm among those who feel motive is a bigger issue in health care security than anything else. Unfortunately health reform didn't do enough to reduce the motivation of employers or insurers from getting access they shouldn't, so insecurity is going to be routine.
Physical security is an example. M stands for mobile, as they say. Securing a mobile device means putting a lot of stuff in front of any data access, and can mean rendering the device unusable.
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Pennywise themselves are calling Land of the Free "a wake-up call," aimed at the slumbering masses of America — an attempt to shake people out of their lethargy, and prod them into thinking about the world. It's also a clarion call to action, made most forcibly on "F**k Authority," via its demand that "it's time we had our say." However, given the opportunity, Pennywise isn't quite sure what it is they want to say. The songs throw out concerns and reactions, opinions and questions, ideas and concepts, unleashing their own mixed emotions along the way. The quartet's frustration with the current state of affairs singes the tracks, yet solutions and causes by and large evade them. At times it's evident the group feels like they're calling to the deaf while stumbling blindly around in the dark. "Is there anyone listening?" they inquire at one point, half in plea, half in defiance. Pennywise is high enough up in the punk hierarchy to know the answer is yes. Wrapping their message in a barrage of melodies and pummeling beats insures that at every show hundreds of kids will parrot back Land's lyrics, fists punching the air. But will these fans seriously ask themselves the same questions the band are posing? The group hopes so, for the album is obviously meant as a starting point for discussion, raising issues, and consciousness, in hopes of encouraging an eventual grassroots revolution. It's the beginnings of a manifesto, delivering up discussion points for the interested to mull over, then respond with their own ideas via the band's website. From these beginnings Pennywise is determined to forge a plan of action for the future, one that everyone can make their own.
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"This is it," Cat said, eyeing the dark, stone mansion with more than a little trepidation, then glancing downwards as shards of glass crunched under her feet. She looked for the source and realized that the giant picture window above the mansion's front door was little more than a frame.
"What happened here?" Theo said, unconsciously echoing her thoughts.
"Let's find out," she suggested, and sliding her fingers into Theo's hand, proceeded to walk up the front walk towards the broken doors. Theo's grip tightened as they got closer, and Cat agreed; in the pre-dawn light, the Victorian mansion was extremely forbiding.
Spreading her heightened senses out to their extreme limit, she gently pushed one of the doors aside, wincing at the loud creaking sound it made as it's hinges protested the slight movement as Cat made a wide enough crack for them to slip through.
It was even darker inside the mansion, dark enough that Cat had to squint to look around for a lightswitch, and she sighed in frustration just as Theo's free hand found it and the quiet click was accompanied by... nothing. The lights didn't respond. "No power," Theo said matter-of-factly. "Come on."
He pulled her forward, apparently able to see where he was going, then stopped cold. By then, Cat's eyes had adjusted to the lack of light and she could see it, too: a large pile of black-clad bodies.
"SWAT?" she muttered, for the soldiers did bear a marked resemblance to the ones they'd seen not so long ago. She let go of Theo's hand and moved forward cautiously, grabbing one body by the shoulder and pulling it onto it's back, searching for dogtags. "Not SWAT," she said, finding none. "Something else."
"What do we do?" Theo asked, sounding slightly nauseated.
Cat thought for a moment, surveying the damaged foyer. "Well, the only bodies here are the attackers- at least, that's what I guess they are. Maybe this means that the Xavier guy got away."
"Will he come back, do you think?" Theo asked.
"Probably," Cat shrugged, and stood, grabbing the body by the shoulder strap on it's uniform. "Let's clean this place up a bit for him, huh?"
"Yeah," Theo said, dropping his backpack. "You want me to dig a hole?"
"No. Let's just get them out of the mansion, let Xavier decide what to do with them. Put the weapons in a separate pile, though." She found a butterfly knife in one of the guy's jacket pockets. "I'm keeping this."
"Yeah, this is mine," Theo said, waving a military-issue compass he'd found in another guy's pocket.
Clean-up went by in no time- with her powers, Cat could easily lift two or three bodies at the same time, and Theo worked with stoic determination. They eventually had close to twenty bodies, all the black-clad soldiers, lined up neatly on the front lawn, and a respectable pile of weapons in the foyer.
"Well, that was fun," Theo said, winded as he wiped blood off his arms with a paper towel he'd found in the kitchen. "Are we finished?"
She nodded, eyes on the books that lined the living room wall. "Think so."
There was a rustle of plastic as Theo dropped his paper towel in a trash can, and then less than a second's pause before he wrapped his arms around her waist from behind. She leaned gratefully against him, glad of the reminder that she wasn't alone. "You're tired," she commented, sensing it in the slight tremble in his frame.
Feeling him shrug against her back was a sensation unto itself, for Theo was a lot stronger in the flesh than he looked from afar. "It's been a long day. Night," he corrected himself, for the sun was now shining brightly through the windows.
"Yeah." Now that she thought about it, she was nearly as exhausted as he was, more from the emotional roller-coaster the night had been than from the physical exertions, and she had to slap Theo's hand, which was idly stroking her stomach, simply because she was too tired to follow up on what her instincts wanted her to do. "Do you think we can get on the couch without letting go?" she asked wistfully, eyeing the plush leather with longing.
He laughed, pulled her towards it until the side of her leg brushed against it, and then deftly fell sideways so that they did, indeed, end up horizontal on the couch. She squirmed around until she could rest her head on his chest, and that was all she could manage to do before she fell asleep.
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"Two weeks have gone by since I've first started working here, and this job isn't going any faster," Yugi complained to himself, grabbing his cleaning supplies and trudging to the kitchen area.
Mixing chemicals and making sure that he had everything he needed, Yugi got down to work starting with the cabinets. He polished the masterfully crafted wood, having to stand on the tips of his toes to reach them. Just barely reaching them, Yugi wiped them down as best he could, going around the whole area until the wood shined.
Somewhat thankful that he didn't have to stretch anymore, Yugi wiped down the counters next, making sure that not even the tiniest crumb was left. When he was done with the marble, Yugi quickly wiped down the bottom cupboards and then created a cleaning mix to mop the floor with.
Rinsing the sponge out under the sink before he set the bucket on the floor, Yugi quickly got down to work, feeling quite old fashion with how he was supposed to clean the kitchen's floor.
"It get the tough stains out if you scrub by hand," Miss Osaka had said when Yugi complained to her last week. Huffing to himself, Yugi rolled his eyes at the woman's words, but nevertheless continued his work.
Like he always did, Yugi started from the middle of the kitchen and worked his way out. About halfway through his work, Yugi became so absorbed in his work that he didn't realize that he started to scrub over a shoe.
Flinching when he realized his mistake, Yugi dropped the grimy sponge and sat back on his heels, his face heating up in embarrassment. He didn't look up at whoever it was he had gotten soapy water on, but he mumbled just loud enough, "I'm sorry."
"It's fine, these shoes are pretty old anyway," a familiar voice replied lazily, and Yugi's head shot up like a bullet. He stared at the shiny dress shoes. They looked like they just came out of the factory.
Reminding himself that he wasn't a servant in a castle but a staff member in a mansion and that those two were not the same, Yugi stood up to give Yami a worried look. "But there were some chemicals in that water that may-"
Yami waved hand, dismissing his worry. "Forget about it, it's not much of a problem to worry yourself over."
Sighing in what would seem to be a dejected way, Yugi bit his lip and looked down at the semi-wet floor as he felt Yami stare at him.
Ever since they had really gotten acquainted, Yugi had only seen Yami three times. One was when he was cleaning the other's room like always, the other was when Yami was notifying Miss Osaka on something that Yugi thought the gardener should take care of (not that it was any of his business, anyway), and the third time was a fleeting glance of Yami and who Yugi guessed was his younger sister Naomi. They were both dressed up very elegantly, and Yugi could only guess where they were going out.
Other than their first real meeting, and the one time when they were both in Yami's room, Yugi hadn't really gotten to know the other. However, he was confident to say that Yami had openly flirted with him the last time…
Pushing those thoughts away, Yugi looked at Yami, who was still silent. Rocking on his heels when he found he had nothing to say, Yugi's mind went back to work. "Um…I have to get back to c-cleaning, I guess," he said, his voice getting softer with each word.
He was still looking at him, and Yami suddenly flashed a smile, and Yugi wondered what for. "Alright, but, can I request something?"
Yugi knew he probably looked dumbfounded for Yami chuckled at him for a moment. Blinking amethyst eyes, Yugi nodded, "Sure."
"May I be your company?"
His mind had definitely wandered off to other things that Yami may have requested, and Yugi blushed, noticing the odd look the other shot him because of it. "Uh, if you want…" he said a little uncertainly, yet he knew that his spirits had risen considerably. But he wouldn't let the other know that.
Yami gave him another smile, and Yugi looked down, listening as Yami made his way through the dry spots so that he could hop onto the counter to sit and watch. Yugi awkwardly bent down to his knees, grabbing the discarded sponge.
He felt nervous with those enticing eyes boring a hole into his back while he worked, and the silence only worsened it. After about five minutes, Yugi couldn't take it. "I saw you and your little sister the other night," he said as casually as he could. "You were all dressed up."
He continued his work, waiting for Yami's response, which came quick enough.
"We attended one of my mother's friends' dinner parties," Yami replied, blinking at the memory. "Naomi was looking forward to it, at least."
Yugi lightly rolled his eyes to himself, smiling a little. "So let me guess," he started, never ceasing in his continuous scrubbing. "You're actually one of those rich kids that despite getting everything you want, you turn out to be miserable and want a normal life. That dinner party was agonizing for you, wasn't it?" Yugi guessed, looking over his shoulder, letting Yami see his smile.
His smile of knowing that he was probably guessing right turned into one that was self-conscious. The other had cocked an eyebrow, a questioning look on his face. "Ah…no," Yami said in an awkward kind of way, but nevertheless chuckled when he took in Yugi's expression.
"No, I do enjoy the wealth my family possesses; it provides me and my brother and sister so many possibilities for future success. But anyway, I do usually enjoy dinner parties - or any parties for that matter - but as much fun as I had at this one, it felt like my mother was holding something over my head," Yami explained, laughing full out when Yugi scratched the back of his head in his wrongness.
"So what made you feel, err, strange at this one?" Yugi carefully constructed his words, not wanting to jump to anymore conclusions. He moved over a little so he could still continue his work, but still let his head crane back to Yami so he could know that he was still listening.
Yami swung his legs a little, being careful not to hit the cabinets down below. "My mother's friend has a daughter, Mieko," he put it simply.
"Ah. Something about marriage I'm guessing?" Yugi said a little more confidently, turning his head back to the floor just in case he messed up again with conclusions.
"Not…exactly. I mean, I know that my parents and her parents obviously want to do that, but thankfully we've dropped that whole tradition where parents decide the whole marriage thing," Yami said, feeling an odd relief when he mentioned the whole tradition part.
"So Mieko wants what your and her parents are thinking, too?" Yugi asked quietly, moving around the floor to a different spot.
"I think so," Yami replied, his heel accidentally hitting the wooden cabinet. "But if she offered it, I'd have to say no."
Yugi looked over his shoulder with a questioning gaze. "Why's that? She not pretty enough for you?"
Pulling his shoes off and chucking them out the open door where there was a carpet floor, Yami pulled his legs up and sat with them crossed underneath him. "No," he admitted, "She's just a little too spoiled."
Yugi smiled to himself. "Is she spoiled as in, like, she's mean to everyone or something?"
"Sometimes, but it's really kind of like she gets what she wants, when she wants it, and she can be rude about it," Yami clarified. "But don't get me wrong, she can be nice when she wants to; she's not always acting like some kind of diva."
Amethyst eyes gave the other a pointed look. "You do know that you just defended her, right?"
Yami looked rather surprised, and raised his hands up in his own defense. "Hey, I don't want to say anything totally bad about a person, okay? I don't do that kind of thing."
"Sure," Yugi teased. "I can tell that you like her," he added with the tiniest of smirks.
Yugi beamed when Yami put his chin in his hand, his elbow resting on his knee. He could see that the other was obviously hiding a smile. "You did not just say that, Yugi," he nearly mumbled, and Yugi purposely turned around to re-wet his sponge and start scrubbing again.
"I think I just did," Yugi countered a little smugly, "And there's nothing you can do about it."
He kept working, biting his lip as he listened to Yami's silence, not daring to look back. Okay…maybe he shouldn't have said that, but he didn't think that he'd get fired over that…would he? The smile suddenly disappeared as Yugi wondered if he hurt Yami in some way, and just as he was about to look back to make sure he hadn't done anything wounding to the other, an arm swooped around his waist and hauled him up.
With a cry of surprise, Yugi came face to face with Yami, who had taken his smug look from earlier. Not being as strong as the other, Yugi felt two hands clutch onto his biceps and backed him up until his back hit the fridge that was on the other side of the kitchen.
Even though he was wearing a long sleeved shirt, Yugi could feel his skin burning with Yami holding him in place like that. The other got his face unpredictably close to Yugi's, and the smaller's heart sped up.
A smile played on Yami's lips, and Yugi couldn't figure out why his mind and body were acting in such as strange way. Yes, they had their odd moment a couple weeks back when their first truly met, but Yugi couldn't really believe that there was something seriously attracting him to Yami when he hardly knew the guy.
It was even stranger when he thought back to the last instance they spent time together, and he remembered how flustered he had gotten when Yami flirted with him then. But all at the same time, Yugi couldn't really suppose in love at first sight; it just didn't seem possible.
"You're wrong, Yugi," Yami said in a whispery voice, his tone low, making Yugi involuntarily shiver. "I could never like Mieko that way."
He knew that he wouldn't be able to say much when he was already acting in such an anxious way. Yugi blinked a couple times, trying to not concentrate on Yami's suddenly gorgeous, up-close face. "T-then who do you…like?" he inquired after a moment, trying to appear unaffected by the other teen's close presence.
It was such a black and white question, and to Yugi's surprise, he was concerned when Yami didn't give him an answer right away. He felt his heart sink a little, and he became alarmed at the feeling. Had he really…with only two interactions…?
"Who do I like? That's quite the question there," Yami said, his voice teasing, and Yugi was reassured to his disbelief. It wasn't possible, was it? This wasn't a dream, right?
A finger under his chin jolted Yugi out of his confused thoughts and brought back to what Yami was about to say. His heart started pounding again, and Yugi hoped to anyone that he wasn't physically showing how nervous he was.
Yami stared straight into his eyes, the redness of them tantalizing Yugi easily. That small smile was back, tugging innocently at the corners of the other's lips, and Yugi felt his heart soar when the other simply answered, "I like you."
How it was possible for him to feel such a way was unknown to Yugi, but he knew that he was extremely happy at Yami's claim. He let out a shaky breath he didn't even know he was holding, a small grin spreading on his lips too.
"I…" Yugi started, but his mind was telling him not to be mushy and voice the fact that he didn't have the slightest idea of what to say. He wasn't quite sure if he was just feeling the same for Yami because he was caught in the moment so suddenly, or if he truly did feel this way because he really did like Yami. Why did this have to be so confusing?
There were hands now at his waist again, and it was obvious Yami could care less if he said anything or not. Maybe he realized what Yugi was thinking, and wasn't expecting anything back so soon. Or maybe he was just impatient…Yugi blushed as he continued that thought.
In an instant, Yugi was pressed even more into the fridge, letting out an eep of surprise, and feeling a swirl of lust when he felt Yami's hot breath trickle along his neck, their bodies pressed closely together out of what seemed nowhere.
"Y-Yami-i," Yugi stuttered, his breath hitching when he felt a hand cup the right side of his face. Yami kept the contact close, letting his breath purposely ghost over Yugi's exposed flesh.
"Mmm…Yugi," Yami hummed, smiling into Yugi's neck, letting his fingers stroke the delicate face ever so affectionately. "You smell good."
His mind was becoming utterly muddled…Yugi didn't know what to do or think. Did Yami just say he smelt good? Those fingertips were become rhythmic and soothing; he tried to keep his breath under control.
Then abruptly, Yami pulled back, but not by far, and his other hand was cupping the other side of Yugi's face. Yugi stared into Yami's gentle face, once again being mesmerized by those gorgeous crimson eyes.
His brain must've been on autopilot at this point because Yugi could tell that he wasn't panicking as much anymore. He watched as Yami offered another kind smile before inching closer and closer to what Yugi knew would be a kiss…
"Mr. Motou! Just what in the world do you think you are doing!"
The autopilot abandoned, Yugi flinched almost violently at the shrill and cranky voice he knew all too well, accidentally pushing himself back against the fridge and really unintentionally pushing Yami away so hastily that he backed up in a stupor into the bucket full of cleaner. The soapy and toxic liquid spilled over almost aggressively, soaking the tiles and Yami's right pant leg all the way up to his knee.
And what made things worse was that Yami slipped and fell.
Yugi had covered his face with his hands at the discomfiture he knew was spreading over his face. He knew it looked like he had just sloshed a tomato on his face - he was that mortified. An awful feeling sunk in his stomach, and for a fleeting moment, he just knew that he was going to be fired.
But at least Miss Osaka had other things on her mind at that moment.
A shocked look on her face, the head cleaner quickly made her way over to the fallen teen. She swept through the wet mess of toxins and bent down to Yami, a very worried and almost frightened look on her face. "Are you alright Mr. Nakashima? You're not hurt, are you?"
Yugi watched with some terror as Yami didn't move at first. He was lying on his back flush against the floor, and he had yet to respond to anything. He hadn't even cried out when he slipped and hit the hard tile. He hadn't hit his head, did he? Yugi didn't see that much. The cleaning teen bit his lip hard.
Finally, after what seemed an eternity did Yami start to respond to Miss Osaka's anxious questions and concerns. Both cleaners sighed with relief, and Yami pulled himself up, groaning lowly to himself.
"Are you sure you're alright, dear?" the woman asked for what appeared to be the hundredth time, checking over his now drenched form. "You don't need medical assistance, do you? You didn't hit your head, did you?"
Yami flashed the woman a toothy smile in reassurance. "I'll just have a bump on my head, Miss Osaka, nothing to worry about." He lightly chuckled for the effect, but it appeared that the cleaner would not have any of it.
"At least let me escort you to your room, dear, it's the least I can do to repair my staff's mistake," Miss Osaka offered sweetly, being forward and taking his arm. "I'll have one of the daily maids bring you up some bandages and ice, and I'll take those dirtied clothes if you want."
Having been in a similar situation before, Yami knew not to argue with the head cleaning lady and nodded in surrender. "Thank you, Miss Osaka," he thanked in a tired manner, letting himself be led out of the kitchen. She led him out of the room and to the foot of the staircase before telling him to wait a moment before heading back into the kitchen.
Meanwhile, Yugi stood horrified at everything that had just taken place. He took in the mess that he had caused Yami to make, along with the aftereffects of what he and Yami were just about to do. Oh, and he thought with a worry stricken mind of what Miss Osaka was going to do with him, too.
Speaking of the devil…the elderly woman marched almost angrily in, carrying a mop in hand that she must've picked up before she came back. Her jaw was set like concrete, and Yugi wanted so badly to shrink into his shoes.
"You will clean up the mess and then finish the rest of your duties. After today, you will have the rest of the week off. You will receive a letter before Monday." She thrust the mop at him, and Yugi clutched the wooden handle with all his might, not wanting to drop it and make the woman angrier. "Now get back to work."
Nodding a little more enthusiastically than he probably should have, Yugi stood ramrod straight, watching Miss Osaka march back out before getting back to work like a frenzied bee.
"Yugi, a letter came in for you," Yugi's Grandpa called with a hoarse voice followed with a cough the moment the teen came in through the Game Shop's doorway. Yugi sluggishly closed the door behind him, walking into the store to snatch the envelope his Grandpa was holding out for him.
"Thanks, Grandpa," Yugi thanked kindly, "Do you need anything?"
His Grandpa coughed again and cleared his throat, nevertheless mustering up his strength and giving his grandson a reassuring smile. "I'll be fine, Yugi. I have a glass of water nearby."
Offering a small smile and a nod of understanding, Yugi headed upstairs to the apartment portion of the building. Kicking his shoes off when he got to his room and letting his book bag fall off his shoulders to the floor, Yugi plopped lazily down on his bed before carefully opening his mail.
Sighing through his nose when he read the return address at the top of the actual letter, Yugi read through what it said.
Dear Mr. Motou,
As I am sure you are aware of, you violated what rules were given to you, and slacked off your duties. You disobeyed what you were told and interacted with one of the Nakashimas when you were strictly told not to.
However, after Mr. Yami Nakashima kindly explained his side of the story, it has come to my attention that it was not entirely your fault, and that Mr. Nakashima has taken an innocent liking to you; as I'm guessing, he was in his room while you were cleaning said area..
Innocent? Yugi could've laughed, but he didn't. A smile spread widely across his face though.
So with this letter, I personally apologize if my behavior towards you may have been a little brash, and because of that, you may have the remainder of your week off if you wish. But as of now, you are still hired, and are expected back Monday afternoon.
Miss Osaka
Relief washed through Yugi at an alarming pace; he still had his job. Bless Yami for explaining everything when he obviously couldn't. Yugi let his smile stay put and he flopped onto his back against the soft mattress.
Would this mean that he'd be able to still see Yami? If Yami really had told Miss Osaka the truth - he was a little skeptical because he obviously said 'innocent' - would that mean that Miss Osaka would be okay with them talking to each other? Yami was above the grouchy head cleaner, so that had to give them the advantage, right? Hm…
Well, Yugi knew one good thing that came out of all of this: he could finally catch up on his homework and get some decent sleep now that he had the rest of the week off.
Yugi blushed, trying to hide it by holding his arm purposely in front of his face as he dusted the wardrobe.
"You've got to be kidding me, Yug'," Jounouchi exclaimed with a laugh, looking over his shoulder with some disbelief. "He actually talks to you, and you push him into a bucket? That's funny stuff."
"Well, it wasn't like I did it intentionally, Jou," Yugi defended himself, continuing on with his dusting and hiding his reddened face. "Miss Osaka came in and scared the crap out of me!"
Jounouchi made a peculiar noise, and Yugi cursed himself. Now he'd have to explain everything. Great. Leave it to him to keep opening his big, fat mouth.
In a very obviously sly tone, Jounouchi questioned smoothly, "So what were you two doing that set Osaka off then, hmm?" He frowned a little when Yugi remained quiet, and he prodded, "Oh, c'mon Yug, you have to tell me now. I promise I won't laugh if it's embarrassing and I won't tell anyone."
Yugi drew his arm back, bringing the duster to his side and he pursed his lips to the side in thought. Should he tell Jounouchi? He had been very trustworthy so far…and Yugi didn't suspect that he'd be disgusted or anything. Looking over his shoulder as he sought out Jounouchi, he found the other with a pleading look on his face, and Yugi smiled in amusement.
"Okay, but don't tell anyone, okay?" he insisted, hoping that he wasn't about to make a mistake or lose a cleaning buddy.
Jounouchi gave him a thumb up. Then, anxiously, he sat on the tidy bed, awaiting Yugi's answer. "So what's going on with you two?" he asked excitedly, and Yugi crossed his arms over his chest, a lopsided smile on his lips.
Shifting his feet awkwardly, Yugi replied cautiously, "Well, um…he and I were…err, about to…" he paused for a moment, looking at the eagerness in Jounouchi's honey colored eyes, "…kiss."
Yugi immediately stared down at his feet, not wanting to see Jounouchi's reaction. He didn't know what to anticipate.
However, the other was quick to get over his shock - if actually fell into it - and was swift to respond with, "Aw, Yugi, I had a feeling you liked him."
The smaller cleaner looked up flustered, a new blush spreading on his face as he took in Jou's knowing grin. "But how di-"
Jou cut him off with the answer, "It's kind of obvious. Sometimes you mumble under your breath, and well, it kind of went around that you two were up to something last week." He stood up from the bed and placed an arm around Yugi's shoulders. "But I'm happy for you, Yug. Seems like Yami's a nice guy the way you depict him."
"Yeah," Yugi muttered rather monotonously, but it was only because he didn't really know how to respond. Then he realized something and shot Jounouchi a piercing look. "Wait, you already knew?"
The blonde smiled sheepishly, retracting his arm back and stepping away slightly. "I guess so…but you told me the whole story, I only knew about half of it, minus the kissing part." He chuckled gracelessly, watching with some hilarity as Yugi's face lit up bright red for what seemed the umpteenth time they began their shift together.
"Aw, Yug," Jounouchi said after a time, trying to reassure his friend. "It's not like it was being talked about badly or anything with everyone else. Just the usual interest that the Nakashima kid likes someone is all. It'll be forgotten in a week or two." He patted the other on the shoulder, hoping to relieve some of Yugi's sudden distress.
"Its fine," Yugi managed over a whisper, his worries being alleviated considerably, "Thanks, Jounouchi." He looked up at his friend, and gave him a smile, showing that he was okay, and that he'd like to get back on track now.
Jou gave him an enthusiastic grin in return and gave him a thumbs up. He scurried over to where he previously was cleaning, and got back down to work with polishing the wood Yugi had already dusted.
The two worked in silence for a while, and Yugi became more relaxed in that time over what he had just confessed. He had just finished vacuuming when Jounouchi approached him with fresh questions again.
"So…is my theory right?" the blonde asked, being vague.
"What theory?" Yugi pressed, pulling up the cord and winding it around the contraption with ease.
Jounouchi was beginning to put away his supplies and he clarified over his shoulder from across the bed, "About the whole thing with Yami and the pills, I mean. Is it true?"
Yugi almost gawked at the question, his head snapping up to look intently at the blonde across the room. Then, just as quick as he had been seconds before, he recomposed himself before looking down and shrugging. "How should I know?"
"Mm I don't know," Jou said really fast, shrugging himself. "You see him more."
"You sound like I'm supposed to keep tabs on Yami," Yugi scoffed, however, with a playful tone underneath.
Jou let out a short laugh. "That's because you are, Yug!"
"Oh, and when was I appointed this job?" Yugi smiled right back, making his voice sound accusing. He rolled the vacuum out to the hallway so that Jounouchi could take it back and returned into the room to collect his things.
"Ever since he started hitting on you," Jounouchi teased, watching with a couple laughs as Yugi stopped dead cold in the middle of his trip to gather cleaning items.
Thankfully though, Yugi turned and gave him a hard look before sticking his tongue out at him, and then returned to the task he had set out to do. He came back a minute later, a small box in his hand. "Why, am I spying on him for you, Jou?" he teased back.
The blonde's brows rose up as well as his hands. "Whoa, Yug. Don't be accusing me of doing what you do."
Yugi rolled purple eyes. "Sure…I'll lock it," he dismissed with a wholehearted smile, gesturing for Jounouchi to go out first. He closed and locked the door behind him, lightly kicking Jou's shoe when he spun around. "I'll see you tomorrow."
"Heh heh…yeah, I'll see you tomorrow, Yug," Jou answered back, turning to go downstairs while Yugi made his own way up.
As per usual when Yugi reached Yami's door, he knocked a couple times before taking the silence as an invitation that he could go in. With an odd relief, Yugi was glad that Yami was out doing whatever, giving him the time to clean without any distractions for once.
He shined up the wood and made the bed neat and tidy, and made progress with picking up clothes from the floor, or any surface, actually - he had learned from the other that Yami in truth was a messy person, for he had to pick up clothes almost everyday - and he made quick work with sweeping.
As he worked dutifully, Yugi thought clearly this time about last Tuesday's situation. Yami had told him that he liked him, but did that me like, like? Or was it just a simple like? They did almost kiss…Yugi felt his heart flutter, and he knew damn straight what Yami meant, even thought he didn't want to believe it…but then again, did he?
He didn't know Yami well enough…yet at the same time, Yugi felt that he was comfortable enough around the other teen that he did in fact know him really well. It was a weird feeling, but Yugi just knew that somewhere, somewhere deep down that he liked Yami despite his self-confusing thoughts.
"Why can't you just accept it?" Yugi thought audibly to himself, "You like him; you were willing to let him kiss you!" He sighed through his nose at his own self-frustration and noticed that he was nearly done. He glanced at the bathroom door, suddenly wishing that he didn't have to clean it and that he could just go home and sleep.
But not wanting to be scolded at, Yugi pushed his unexpected weariness down to his toes and flicked on the bathroom light and wiped the porcelain and mirror down with a couple quick motions. He swiftly did the sweeping, and just as he was about to call it quits, the mirror caught his eye, along with a subject Jounouchi had previously brought up.
The last couple times he had seen Yami, Yugi hadn't gotten the suspicions that he was under an influence of a drug. Yeah, Yugi kind of freaked out at the other's behavior, but he had seen countless times on reality TV and in school that people who flirted always acted unlike themselves to an extent, and Yami didn't seem that exuberant.
Jounouchi probably just wanted some kind of juicy gossip to mull over with their coworkers or something. Maybe he wanted something to use against Yami because he secretly hated him. Yugi smiled to himself, oh how much more absurd could he get?
But still…the urge just to make sure Yami actually wasn't overdosing on some drug because of some odd reason ached in Yugi's gut. He knew that he shouldn't go through Yami's cabinet, but the chances he'd get caught…
It was only five forty-five. Yami probably wouldn't be back until much later if he predicted right. Biting his lip, Yugi swiftly shut the door until it was open just a crack and hastily pried the mirror/door back, shelves being revealed to him.
Not much was stored in here. Just a package of band-aids, a toothbrush, toothpaste, floss, tweezers, hair gel, and other normal things were what were lined up on the neat looking shelves. Yugi blinked momentarily, and then the bottle of pain killers in the corner of a shelf behind the band-aids was known to him.
Well, from here, the bottle looked quite untouched, and it looked like there was even a small coating of dust on it. Feeling out of place, Yugi reached for the plastic bottle and found it to be almost full. Maybe Jounouchi's interests were false…or maybe this was just a new bottle when the last obviously didn't work.
Mentally smacking himself, Yugi put the bottle back behind the small box of bandages, making sure it appeared like he had never touched it. Yami didn't have a drug problem…or any problem that would involve those pain killers! It was just like Yami had told him before; he had been under the influence of anesthesia and had accidentally taken more than he should. It was just a freak accident. Nothing was wrong now.
Hoping that there weren't secret cameras hidden in the small space, Yugi closed the mirror and wiped it down again to clean off his fingerprint smudges. He flicked off the light and closed the door softly behind him, nearly jumping out of his skin when Yami appeared from behind the door to his left.
The other didn't appear angry, but confusion showed in his crimson eyes. "What were you doing in my medicine cabinet?"
His nerves when haywire before he even knew it and Yugi found himself babbling on how he was just checking something before Yami placed a finger over his rapidly moving lips.
"I promise I won't be mad, you can tell me, Yugi," Yami assured him, offering a small smile that allowed Yugi to gather his thoughts coherently.
Part of Yugi didn't really want to get into trouble by snooping around Yami's business if Jou's thoughts were true, and he certainly didn't want to humiliate himself if he got it all wrong. But the small part of Yugi's rational brain told him to just say what was on his mind so that Yami wouldn't misunderstand and cause everything to get out of control.
He set his gaze at his feet and nervously bit his lip. "Um, do you have a-ahum, problem, Yami? Any, uh, depression, or, like something like that?"
To a tiny reprieve in the back of Yugi's mind, Yami looked utterly lost. "Uh, what do you mean?"
Yugi chuckled twice out of uneasiness, but carried on anyway. "Have you been, uh, overdosing on some, ah, pills lately?" he asked quite straight forwardly, shocking even himself.
Yami was quicker to respond this time. "You've got to be kidding me! I finally just got my parents to stop worrying over that ever since that goddamn butler told them that one night after I came home." He didn't seem in the least angry, just a little upset and stressed. "Not you too," he said with the tiniest of smiles at Yugi.
The smaller shook his head in negate, his amethyst eyes shining. "No, I was just curious! Jou had the idea the day after I found you acting all weird and then he-"
"Whoa, wait a minute," Yami interrupted him. "You mean that blonde cleaner, Jounouchi? That obnoxious guy?" Yugi nodded, and Yami sighed, rolling his eyes. "Let me guess, you've been working with him on a room or something?"
Yugi had the feeling that Yami didn't think too highly of Jounouchi, and he felt obliged to defend his funny friend. "Jounouchi isn't that bad though. He may get carried away with something, but he's a real nice guy, honest."
"Are you sure?" Yami asked with a hint of skepticism in his voice, a brow delicately raised just for that question alone. Yugi nodded again, and he continued, "Well, okay then, I believe you. But you can't always believe what he says, trust me."
"Wait, you've met Jounouchi?" Yugi queried hastily, then added for extra measure, "I know that much, it was just a thought he put into my head, but I never truly believed what he said."
"Once, but that's not the point," Yami dismissed, "Look, whatever Jounouchi had started to say that influenced you to do this was stupid, and he's to blame. And for the record, I have no problems, I love my life, and I haven't touched those pills since the day I came home from the hospital. Go tell Jounouchi that."
Yugi let out a breath he had been holding, feeling a little ashamed of himself, feeling like he had just been scolded by Yami when he really hadn't been. 'Look, it's over and done with, you guys are cool now', he assured himself.
"Okay," Yugi said in an almost whispery voice, still feeling a little bad. "I promise I won't look around your things anymore."
Yami smiled brightly then, and Yugi knew it was to reassure them both that everything was settled and that the past was gone. He sneakily wrapped an arm around Yugi's shoulders and pulled him close, effectively taking Yugi's mind off the past couple of minutes' crisis.
"Come here, I have to ask you something important," Yami said in a low voice, causing Yugi to blush all over again and look down at the hardwood floor as he was led over to the large windows that opened up to the balcony.
The taller teen unlatched the simple lock to the large wooden and glass doors that were elegantly made and pushed them open carefully. The large curtains billowed back at them as the cool breeze swept inside the room, and Yami let his arm drop to his side as he took the first step out to the balcony.
Yugi followed tentatively behind, taking in the fresh air like it was a rarity compared to the stuffy air inside the mansion. Yami was leaning against the black iron railing that was intricately designed to match the home on his forearms, and Yugi took up a spot right next to him.
The backyard was larger than Yugi had first thought. He had seen glimpses of it whenever he passed by the windows in the kitchen, but compared to what he was looking at now, he had seen nothing.
There was a large patio made of smooth looking grey stone, simple yet well-dressed designs in each square. It reached out to about twenty feet, large enough to hold at least five full outdoor tables and what Yugi guessed to be a suitable dancing area if parties were hosted. Also scattered around the area were uncomplicated statues and beautiful flowers that would put any gardener's garden to shame. Beyond the stone ground was a large expanse of neatly cut luscious green grass that was split by a simple dirt path that led to even more flowers, a gazebo and some pretty benches. Dotted around that area were many well kept trees that Yugi recognized as weeping willows.
Above the sky was quietly and slowly darkening, going from a bright blue to a shade of brilliant gold where the sun was setting, spreading out like a rainbow of reds, pinks, purples and soft blues. Not a cloud was in the sky this day, and Yugi could hear the last of the birds tenderly twittering their songs.
Yugi was so absorbed taking it all in, he nearly jumped out of his skin when he felt Yami's hand suddenly overlap his in an attempt to gain his attention. He looked at Yami with an alarmed expression, "What?" he questioned calmly, completely forgetting what the other had said before.
Yami cocked his head to the side, a grin breaking out on his face. "You are so adorable when you're confused," he joked, poking Yugi gently on the nose, receiving a small glare from the other.
"No I'm not," Yugi protested, instantly recalling that Yami had wanted to ask him a question. "So what was it that you wanted to ask?" he inquired, changing the subject.
The taller teen put on a thoughtful face, and an arm crossed his body, his hand holding his opposite arm up by the elbow while the opposite hand lightly touched his mouth in contemplation. He tapped his lips purposely, teasing Yugi. "Hm…what did I want to ask you…?"
Yugi rolled his eyes. "You wanted to ask me something essential. If you can't even remember what it is, I don't think I should waste-"
Yami suddenly disrupted his pretend threat with an 'aha!' that caused Yugi to flinch a little. "Oh yes, I remember now." His face turned from mockery to sincere, his red eyes softened significantly.
"Yugi, my parents have scheduled a party for me this Saturday night, and I'd be honored if you'd be my guest," Yami told him with a hopeful look in his eyes. "It's supposed to be a party for me to-"
"But, wait!" Yugi interjected this time his voice full of alarm, "Am I allowed to attend? I mean, as part of the cleaning staff, am I not supposed to come? I've got a bad feeling about this, as much as I am thrilled to have this invitation, I don't think that I'll be able to-"
A finger was placed on his babbling lips abruptly, and Yugi blinked, his mind going in all directions on an uncontrollable speed. Nevertheless, he remained silent and listened to whatever Yami had to say.
"Yugi, don't worry about all that stuff. I've been told I'm allowed to invite whomever I wish," the taller teen assured with confidence. "My parents may not quite approve, but they'll have no right to kick you out." He stopped for a moment, thinking something over. "Have you ever seen my parents?" he asked.
Yugi shook his head, "No."
Hands rose with palms faced up. "See? If they've never seen you, there's no way that they'll suspect you for one of the cleaners here, I promise. And before you even ask, no, they don't go through applications; only Miss Osaka does that since she's the head of cleaning workforce."
The smaller teen wrung his hands uncertainly, hesitant of the whole idea. He'd definitely have to dress up, and come here to mingle with upper class citizens for sure. He didn't know anything that would probably come up in conversations, so he'd be seen as dumb. And if he were to hang around Yami like a lost puppy…he didn't know how that'd go over with Yami's reputation.
But he liked Yami, a lot. And he knew for a fact that Yami liked him, a lot. He mentally sighed, his decision made up in his mind. Looking up at the other who stood patiently, he offered a smile, "I'll be there."
It was unexpected but welcome when Yami embraced him with tremendous enthusiasm. They held each other, neither one wanting to let go. However, both teens knew that it was getting a little awkward and they broke apart, sheepish grins on their faces.
"I knew you'd come, Yugi," Yami beamed, looking very excited about Yugi's choice.
Yugi shifted his weight, feeling a little nervous about his choice. He had made it in about thirty seconds, and that was one thing he never did when it came to deciding something. To ease his worry, he asked, "So will I have to wear a tuxedo?"
Yami nodded, and Yugi wondered just how excited the other was. It appeared that Yami would give himself a neck injury if he kept that up. "Yes, a tuxedo. Do you need one?"
He knew Yami would offer to buy him one if he didn't have one, but thankfully Yugi was able to say no. He did have one from a while back that he wore to one of his Grandpa's archeology parties, and he had only worn it once. It should still fit.
The two of them went back to leaning on the railing again, watching as the sky darkened even more. A couple of lights down on the patio lit up, and another thing came to Yugi's mind. "What time do I need to be here? Do I need to bring anything with me?"
Yami's excited state seemed to have died down reasonably, and he seemed rather peaceful looking out at the beautiful yard ahead. "It starts at seven, but you can be here at six-thirty if you want." He gave Yugi a sideway glance at the implication and continued, "Just bring yourself, don't worry about possessions."
Nodding, Yugi let his eyes droop, his tiredness suddenly coming back to him. They both remained outside on the balcony for a while longer until the sky was mostly darkened, and Yugi stood up straight, wondering what time it was. Giving Yami a saddened look, he said, "I have to go, Yami."
Yami made a pouting face, but nevertheless wrapped an arm around Yugi's waist, taking delight in the blush that was once again produced. He helped Yugi gather his things when they were back inside and showed him the door. "I'll see you tomorrow, Yugi," he said lowly, letting a sly smile trace itself on his lips, knowing that it'd be imprinted in the smaller's mind.
Yugi felt his stomach fill with butterflies when Yami said that, and with a shy smile of his own, he bid the other goodnight before heading quickly down the staircase, unable to believe what he'd just gotten himself into.
The remainder of the week couldn't have flown by any faster than it had. Yugi could feel himself floating on daydreams of possible happenings throughout his school days, and the cleaning job had gone much faster than before, even when he only saw a glimpse of Yami once in those four days.
He had also reprimanded Jou the next day, thankful that the blonde took his mild scolding in a positive way. Jounouchi had promised not to jump to conclusions so easily about people he barely knew.
So the cold wind swept through Yugi once again as he made his way home, the sky dimming with each passing minute. When the Game Shop came into view, Yugi smiled weakly, his feet aching in response.
Trudging through the door and locking it behind him, Yugi was greeted by silence as his Grandpa was out with some old archeology friends for the night. Sighing as he moved through the shop to the apartment portion of the building, Yugi quickly deposited his book bag before starting his dinner.
Through his activity of preparing food, Yugi thought of how nervous he was going to be tomorrow night. He wouldn't know anybody, and he truly wished that he wasn't as shy as he was around people he didn't know very well. Either tomorrow would turn out to be okay, or a disaster. He just had a feeling it would could go whichever way.
As the teen finished preparing his meal, Yugi contemplated what the party was for. Or, well, he knew it was Yami, the guy said that himself, but what for? Was it Yami's birthday, or some kind of religious ceremony? Yugi suddenly felt ashamed that he had interrupted when Yami was about to tell him.
"You'll find out when you get there," Yugi told himself, sitting down at the kitchen table to eat his food. He ate some, trying to figure out what the party was for. It seemed the longer he thought, the more ridiculous his ideas became. "Maybe he's joining a secret cult!" Yugi exclaimed aloud to no one in particular, for a second finding the idea rational, then after another, he realized it was absurd. "Besides, I don't think you can invite people to a cult orientation. Those things are supposed to be secret."
Shaking his head with a tiny smile, Yugi collected his dishes and cleaned them properly before heading down to make sure the doors were locked tightly. 'Hm, it's starting to drizzle,' he mused for a moment before returning to his room to finish up homework.
Yugi stood confidently in front of his full-view mirror, twisting this way and that, making sure that his tuxedo didn't present any hidden flaws that someone would no doubt be able to pick out without a blink of an eye.
His dress pants were black like his overcoat, the main shirt a crisp white, and the vest just on top of that a light yellow color. Polished shoes that he had only worn twice since he had gotten them adorned his feet. His hair was at its usual, but he had spent a little more extra time on it to make sure it wouldn't get any wilder than it already was.
Letting out a shaky breath, Yugi let his twitchy fingers adjust his bowtie for the hundredth time, setting it perfectly straight. He stood ramrod still, taking his image in, letting out an awkward smile to himself, as a reassurance of sorts.
Usually he'd give himself some kind of motivational pep talk whenever he knew he was going to encounter something uncomfortable, but this time around, Yugi found nothing that he could tell himself. He was at a blank. With other situations, if he only had a sliver of what would be going on, he'd be able to say something. But with this upcoming party, Yugi found his voice box and ideas frozen.
Swallowing, Yugi finally jostled himself, and started out of his room to tell his Grandpa goodbye and then start off. The elderly man bid him goodbye, telling him to have a good time, and Yugi found the words a little comforting.
On his way to the mansion, Yugi noted that he'd make it there by six forty-five the latest if he kept his pace up. He knew that he wanted to see Yami before guests started to arrive in crowds, and ask questions on what he'd have to expect for the night.
When the mansion came into view, Yugi picked up his pace, eager to get inside the elaborate him and seek out his friend. His heart quickened and all he could process in his mind was the fact that he had to find Yami like he was about to die or something of the odd sort.
However, when the small teen came within at least twenty feet of the gates, a car passed, and Yugi was splashed mercilessly with mud, coating him from his chin down. He stood in a stupor, his mouth ajar as he didn't know what to do. His eyes searched the sidewalk as if the cold, bland pavement held all his answers as to why such a thing had to happen so suddenly.
'It was raining last night…remember?' his mind told him, almost sounding mocking. At his thoughts, Yugi swallowed and felt his breath quicken with anxiety.
He couldn't show up at the mansion. They probably wouldn't let him in, even if he claimed to be invited by Yami.
He couldn't return home. He didn't own a second tuxedo, and he was sure that he wouldn't be able to fit into his Grandpa's.
And he certainly couldn't take the time to go to the cleaners, either.
"What am I going to do?" Yugi whispered to himself miserably, the effects of the shock still over him as he still stood in the middle of the sidewalk, covered with mud. "I can't go to Yami's party like this!"
He suddenly felt a deep, deep disappointment, a sadness spreading from the inside of his gut outwards. Yugi could feel tears prick at his eyes and his throat clench up. He could just not show up, he promised Yami he'd be there. He had to go, he just had to!
Running a hand through his hair to calm himself did little, but Yugi kept the soothing motion up for a while as he finally moved back to lean against the black metal gate. Then, suddenly, something caught the corner of his eye.
Rotating his head to the left, he could make out a figure of a larger person, someone who was bent over just slightly, with a very familiar walk. Yugi inclined his head to get a better view, and his eyes widened considerably as he recognized the person as the one and only Miss Osaka. And she was heading his way.
"Mr. Motou, what on Earth are you doing here?" the woman exclaimed, "You do realize you're coated with mud, right?"
'Of course I know,' Yugi nearly grumbled to himself. "I was just…going to a party," he answered blankly, his words saddening him.
The cleaning lady had a confused expression on her face. "Do you mean the Nakashima's party, dear?" Yugi nodded, and she unexpectedly huffed. "Well, you certainly can't go to that party looking like a miserable mess."
Yugi looked up into the elderly woman's face for the first time in surprise. "Huh…?" Was Miss Osaka offering him help? He could've sworn that she hated his guts.
The woman huffed again, reaching out to take Yugi's wrist in her hand. "Well, come on, then, let's get you cleaned up and ready for that party." She started to pull, and Yugi didn't resist.
The duo walked for a while, and Yugi felt confused. He was surprisingly able to build up his confidence, and quietly asked, "Why are you helping me?" He hoped it didn't sound too accusing or anything, and thankfully, his employer answered back.
"Well, just between you and me, Mr. Motou, I'm not as mean as I may come off as," Miss Osaka told him, surprising Yugi even further with a pleasant smile. "That's just to get you all working efficiently, because if you haven't noticed, the Nakashima's have quite the house, and if I wasn't hard on my employees, not everything would be cleaned in that place.
"Second, I've thought about what may be going on between you and Yami Nakashima," she said, causing Yugi to blush, and she smirked a little. "And if I'm correct, Yami invited you to his party, am I right?"
Yugi nodded, squeaking out a, "Yes."
"And since I'm not some cold hearted person, I know that this party must be something special for Yami if he invited you," Miss Osaka continued, "And I don't want this to be ruined just because you're coated with mud."
So Miss Osaka really did care. Yugi smiled to himself, and then at the elderly woman he was walking with, suddenly thinking of her as a secret fairy godmother, helping him like this when he had no other outlets. "Thank you," he thanked, and they continued on their way.
"Name, please?" a doorman asked uninterestingly, looking a little snooty as he gazed down his long nose at Yugi.
"Motou, Yugi," the teen replied nervously, feeling a thousand holes burning in his back as the other very late guests tried to deduce who he was and what he was doing at such a rich party.
The man in the black and white tuxedo glanced down at his clipboard of listed guests, and Yugi blinked at his shoes, waiting to be let in. "Alright, Mr. Motou, you may pass," the doorman answered after many agonizing seconds, and Yugi let out a breath and passed through the open doors.
He was immediately guided through the elaborate mansion he knew fairly well to the back patio. He passed through at least three doorways and four archways laden with ivy and thin, translucent curtains and tiny lights. He could hear loud voices engaged in conversation almost anywhere and the soft classical music from outside wafted through the whole area.
Sucking in a breath as he was left to himself when he was finally on the back patio, Yugi felt himself get really tense again as he was left standing by himself in a crowd of people he'd considered strangers.
His purple eyes anxiously scanned the large area for Yami, but to Yugi's misfortune, he could not locate the other teen. He could feel his stomach drop as he realized Yami could be anywhere, and that he could go the whole night without finding the other. So, keeping his profile low, Yugi moved over to stand against a stone wall also covered in ivy.
Although no one came up to him, Yugi could see that many people had noticed his presence, and were determined to find out who exactly he was without going through the trouble of actually coming over to him and asking. He constantly twiddled his fingers behind his back, looking up cautiously every now and then just in case Yami passed by.
'Maybe I should check his room,' Yugi thought, but he shot his own idea down when he realized that he probably wouldn't be permitted to go to such a place when he was only a guest. 'But what if he meant to meet me there?'
The mere idea of Yami waiting for him made Yugi jumpy, and he actually wanted to go see for himself. However, a tap on his shoulder brought the tiny cleaner back to reality before he could even take a step.
Before him was girl who looked about his age, though, of course, she was a bit taller. With glossy and straight black hair and dazzling brown eyes, the girl stood straight, dressed in a very expensive looking dress with many glittery jewels and colored a spring green. She wore light makeup and quite a bit of jewelry.
The girl smiled sweetly at Yugi, and Yugi instinctively held out his hand. "Hello," he said quickly, watching at the girl took it and they shook. "I'm Motou, Yugi, and you are…?"
Personally, Yugi could really care less who this girl was; he had much more important things to try to figure out. Like finding Yami so that he didn't go insane.
"Inoue, Mieko," the girl said in a confident voice, beaming Yugi a magnificent white smile. "It's a pleasure to meet you."
So this was Mieko, Yugi thought, his own smile never faltering even as he took his hand back. She was very pretty like Yami had said, and she seemed to have good manners. He let his hands slip into his pockets. "So was there something you needed me for, or…" he let his sentence trail off, not having even the tiniest idea of what she would want of him.
Mieko blushed cutely, but Yugi wasn't affected by it like some other guys might have been. She blinked a couple of times in a way that had Yugi thinking something was up before inquisitively asking, "Um, who are you exactly? Many of the other guests along with my family are curious as to who you are. The name Motou does not sound very familiar to me."
Yugi felt his mouth open, though no words came out. Looking over to the side and putting a hand to scratch the back of his head apprehensively, Yugi cursed himself for not making up a story beforehand. "Ah…"
Then Mieko laughed. "Oh, I get it; this is just a joke, right? Very funny, Mr. Motou, but I think you should just tell me what you have to say before my family gets upset."
'Oh crap,' Yugi thought frantically, trying to think of something. "Ah, well, I'm actually not from around here, if that's what you're asking."
"Well a lot of people are not from around here, obviously. I just want some details is all," Mieko clarified, her smile disappearing slowly as Yugi was taking his time with some simple questions and wasting her time.
Yugi could feel himself getting flustered all over again as he clasped his hands together and awkwardly shifted his feet. "Well, you see, I-"
"Yugi! There you are!"
Almost too quickly did Yugi shift his gaze to the right, a wave of relief washing over him as he saw Yami walking toward them, dressed very put-together in a black tuxedo, a white dress shirt and a vest that matched his amazing crimson eyes. His hair was the usual, like Yugi had styled his own.
Mieko was quick to react with words though, when Yami reached them. "Oh, Yami, it's a pleasure to see you again. I was thinking that you weren't attending your own party."
Yami sent her a graceful smile. "Of course I would attend my own party, Mieko. How horrible of you to think that." He paused for the effect for the girl to silently huff to herself - which she took without question - before adding, "Besides, I was waiting for my friend, Mr. Yugi Motou."
Again, Mieko was able to recover and react, hugging her sides as she donned on a pointed look. "Who is this, Yami? This Mr. Motou, who is he? I've never heard of him or his family."
Yami flashed her a smile that caused her to visibly swoon, and Yugi had to hold in his laughter. Then suddenly, an arm wrapped around his shoulders, and Yami was off explaining his untold story.
"Yugi was a distant friend of mine, until recently he left his rich life and came to live with his Grandfather, working a Game Shop here in Domino City, along with schooling," Yami started, making sure that he wasn't about to lie about Yugi's life too much. "We used to be good friend when we were much younger, and have play dates and such, but as we both grew up, we grew apart, and since Yugi has come to live in the area, we've decided to get back in touch."
The brown eyed girl looked a little lost. "So, wait," she said aloud, trying to put two and two together. "You don't live with your parents anymore? You're living poorly now?" she asked Yugi directly.
Taking in a breath, Yugi replied, "My parents actually passed away, and that's why I had to live with my Grandpa. I gave the inheritance money to multiple charities." He pushed the death of his parents behind him, and added with a cheery smile, "Besides, I love my Grandpa, whether he's rich or poor."
Mieko had what looked like a disgusted look on her face, as if she couldn't comprehend why anyone would want to survive on minimum wage. "What a fool you were, giving that money to charity. You could be living the good life right now," she commented rudely, causing both boys to frown.
Thankfully for Yugi, Yami responded instead of him. "Mieko, that wasn't a very nice thing to say. I hope you come to your senses and apologize to my good friend by the end of the night," he chided, giving the girl a meaningful look. "Now, if you you'll excuse us, I need to speak to Yugi about something important."
It was like the small threat had gone over her head. "May I come with you, Yami?" she asked hopefully, that sweet smile crossing her lips again.
"I need to talk to Yugi privately, Mieko," Yami repeated, that charming smile still on his lips as he turned himself and Yugi around. He led them both a little ways away before letting his arm drop to instead grasp Yugi's hand in his and whisk him off through the thick throng of guests.
Yugi half expected to be led back into the humongous house, but instead, Yami took a route through the grass, making his way through the multiple hedges and gardens until they ended up in a secluded area camouflaged by those weeping willow trees Yugi had seen the other night.
The area was a small clearing, with a soft flooring of grass and some leftover leaves, the branches of the trees cradling them into a secure haven, the green tendrils lazily swaying in the breeze, creating an ambience of peacefulness.
Yami was running a hand through his hair now, pacing back and forth, confusing Yugi. "Is something wrong, Yami?" the smaller questioned tentatively, causing Yami to shoot his head up to gaze at him.
"No, it's just…Mieko didn't do anything to you, did she?" Yami worried, and Yugi smiled.
Shaking his head, the smaller teen replied, "You were right, she is snooty." However, the other boy continued his pacing, and with the small grin still plastered to his face, Yugi lightly grabbed his shoulder to stop him.
"Something's wrong, I can tell," Yugi pointed out, making sure Yami was looking at him. "And something's telling me that it doesn't have anything to do with Mieko."
Yami's shoulders slumped underneath his hands, and the taller smiled. "What, can you read minds now?" he asked good naturedly, and Yugi could tell that Yami was dying to tell him something worth his attention.
Yugi let go of Yami, noticing how the other seemed to want the touch back. But Yugi kept his hands to his sides, waiting for Yami to speak.
"You look gorgeous, you know that right?" Yami said suddenly, and Yugi knew that that wasn't what he wanted to hear next, but he still enjoyed the compliment. He had gotten pretty lucky when Miss Osaka had helped him. He had been able to don on a new black tuxedo, with a crisper white shirt, and a stunning purple vest that matched his eyes stunningly. He knew that he owed Miss Osaka for her unexpected but gracious help, but before he could say another word, she was ushering him back to the mansion, being told to be mindful of other mud puddles along the way.
"Thanks," Yugi replied, feeling his face heat up just a tad, but he was able to gain control and give Yami a look to just say what he wanted to say. Fortunately, Yami received his silent message.
Knotting his hands, Yami started with in an awkward kind of way, "I'm not quite sure how to say this, but, this party was meant for me to pick out a spouse…or, well, a life partner of sorts. Or as my parents called it, 'betrothing myself', if that's even possible." He let out a shaky laugh at the end, scratching the back of his hand as Yugi took his words in carefully.
Yugi sort of got it, but… "Could you clarify?" he requested sweetly, looking up at Yami in the face.
His hands were taken, clasped in Yami's and Yugi could feel himself being lightly tugged toward the other.
"Yugi…" Yami whispered when they were almost touching body to body, and Yugi shivered faintly. "I'm supposed to pick someone at this party to spend the rest of my life with, and I don't know if it's just a temporary feeling or something, but I can sense it in my gut that…I want to pick…you."
Yugi blinked, looking over Yami's shoulder blankly as he took in Yami's words with some difficulty. Wait…Yami wanted to be with him? Forever? The idea was hard to comprehend, and his gaze flickered back up to Yami's hopeful face and then he glanced back down, a warming feeling overcoming him suddenly. Maybe this was what was destined for him…maybe this was…right.
He looked up again, noticing the fact that they had closed the gap between them completely, and that their hands had let go in exchange for Yami's arms wrapped around his waist, and his around the taller teen's neck. When had that happened?
But that was beside the point. Yugi could tell he knew what his answer was, and suddenly, before either one of them knew it, their lips connected in a simple kiss.
It wasn't like before, when they had met in that hazy memory. Yugi felt like he was on a cloud, that everything about this simple kiss made everything perfect. His arms wrapped much more securely around Yami, and in return, Yami's arms crushed him from the waist in an embrace. Their kiss grew deeper.
The two parted, and merely took each other's flushed features in with contentedness as they dared not to let one another go. Then Yugi let his head rest against Yami's chest, and Yami rocked them both, as if they were dancing to the slowest song ever heard.
"Are you sure?" Yugi asked after a while, softly jostling Yami out of his thoughts. "I am probably just a mere peasant to your family's eyes."
Frowning at the hidden smile in Yugi's voice, Yami held on tighter to his love. "It doesn't matter. I have you, and will never let go. Besides, my parents are usually accepting, even if they may appear not to be."
"What about Mieko?"
"She'll just have to suck it up like everyone else."
Yugi giggled, finding that their slow rhythm was letting every worry seem to fly away. "But we don't have to seriously get married, right?"
"Oh gods, no," Yami replied instantaneously. "This is just like…an informal engagement."
"Dating, you mean," Yugi corrected, and he was swung around so that he could face Yami. He suddenly burst into laughter at the pointed look Yami gave him, and soon enough, the other lightened up and joined him.
Wrapping his arms around Yami's neck again and making sure they made more contact than that, Yugi lightly pecked the other on the lips, who hungrily kissed him back before they both slipped into that contented state again.
"What now? Should we go back before someone freaks out over your whereabouts?" Yugi questioned gently.
An almost but not quite smirk crossed Yami's lips, and a hand wrapped firmly around Yugi's waist, and his right hand was taken in Yami's left. The taller twirled them around in a waltz, taking Yugi by surprise.
"We dance," Yami answered back simply, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. He whirled them around some more, leading the way with the most graceful steps that would make anyone jealous.
Evening turned into night, and the pair's waltzing transformed into a slower dance, the small orchestra back near the mansion wafting through the trees. Yugi smiled as he spotted a couple of lightning bugs floating by, his head resting against Yami's shoulder.
"I knew there was something between us, Yugi," Yami whispered to him, "Told you," he added, with a small teasing tone that had Yugi smiling silently.
Yes, something had brought them together, he was sure of it. And as mushy as it sounded to Yugi, he knew that it was true, and he was suddenly glad for filling out an application for cleaning a mansion everyday. Yami had certainly made this experience a full blown fantasy.
Lifting his head from Yami's shoulder, he gained the other's attention easily, and they both appeared to have the same idea.
"Thank you."
"I love you."
Yami had cupped his face softly, and like in any fairy tale, this story ended with a kiss.
A/N: Wow. Totally amped up the mushy lovey-dovey romance there. And ((gasp)) twenty-six pages this time. I think I may pass out. Yeah, so originally, I was going to have them go back to the party and dance, but then decided, hey, they're together, alone in a pretty sanctuary, and since it's a fairy tale, I'd like to think that everything would work out on it's own, right? Anyway, I hope this ending worked, and that everyone enjoyed it in its long entirety. Thanks for reading, and feel free to comment! | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5904955/2/Fantasy | dclm-gs1-300700000 |
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What's To Become Of Doctor Smith?
Chapter 1: Alone
Slowly the doctor's mind wandered back to vague awareness. It took a few moments before he regained his bearings. He was in his own bed and the last hazy memory he could recall was of Mrs. Robinson placing a cold, damp cloth on his feverish brow. He brought a hand to his forehead and discovered the cloth still there. Removing it, he slowly swung his legs over the side of the bed and glanced toward the half-open door and the darkness beyond.
Hesitantly he called out, "Mrs. Robinson? Your patient is awake. I believe my fever has broken."
No response came. Doctor Smith's brow furrowed as an unsettling feeling came over him. It was uncharacteristically quiet. It was then he noticed that the familiar thrumming of the engines was gone. Must have landed while I was unconscious, he thought to himself. He stood and stumbled to the door, steadying himself against the wall.
"Mrs. Robinson?" He poked his head out the door cautiously and caught something out of the corner of his eye. As he turned his head to see, a small yelp involuntarily escaped his lips. It took a moment for Smith's eyes to recognize the large, dark shadow before him as that of the Robot.
"What are you doing there, ninny! You nearly frightened me to death!"
As soon as Smith said the words, he instinctively knew there wouldn't be a response. He stepped toward the Robot and ran his hand over the dead lights and panels, along the smooth metallic side to where the power pack should be. It was there. The doctor's mind puzzled briefly, until a whiff of acrid smoke teased his nostrils. The familiar smell told him his mechanical friend would most likely not be responding to anything anytime soon.
"Oh, dear," Smith worried aloud. "What happened to you?"
He fumbled around for a few moments until he found the controls for the lights, then inspected the damage to the Robot. Smith's brows raised in alarm as he spotted the tell tale scorch marks of a laser blast.
Smith whirled around. "Will? Penny!" he called as he frantically searched the living quarters for signs of his companions. "Judy?" Finding nobody, he ran to the ladder and climbed to the upper level. "Professor? Major!" As he turned to step onto the deck, he gasped at the scorch marks etched into the floor and walls of the ship. He slowly made his way around the astrogator, his eyes darting left and right, alert for any lingering danger.
He walked toward the open hatch, stopping a few feet from the threshold. Fidgeting with his hands, he stared meekly out into the blackness as his inner coward warred with an urgent sense of concern. A cool night breeze blew in from outside and the conflicted doctor shivered. "I don't like this," he muttered. "I don't like this one bit."
It took a few moments, but concern won out and Doctor Smith took a few reluctant steps outside. Then a few more, until he could see the signs of an unwilling exodus in the dirt around the ship. He followed the tracks as far as his meager courage could take him. Out of sheer desperation, he called out the names of his missing companions several times before both his courage and strength failed him.
Smith hastily retreated to the warmth of the Jupiter 2 and locked the ship up tight. He retired to the familiar safety of the galley and made a cup of tea to calm his nerves. As his trembling hand brought the cup to his lips, he lamented, "I'm all alone."
The Doctor's Comments: As you might imagine, sitting in front of a keyboard for hours on end aggravates my delicate back. With the proper motivation, including a kind review or two, I may be inclined to sacrifice my comfort in order to tell the remainder of this tale. The occasional stroke to my enormous ego wouldn't be remiss either. | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7866149/1/What-s-To-Become-Of-Dr-Smith | dclm-gs1-300710000 |
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Video games with Willie Jefferson
Sources: Microsoft to remove DRM policies for Xbox One
Courtesy Microsoft
Courtesy Microsoft
Source: http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update
If this is true, I totally called it.
My thoughts:
What are your thoughts?
Willie Jefferson
10 Responses
1. Shatroll says:
Haha this doesn’t make the Xbox One any better xD
2. Joshua says:
This headline is extremely misleading and creating false fears. Plus Microsoft has already stated that you can turn the Kinect completely off. It only has to be connected to the system I believe.
3. C to the J says:
Sweet! Score one for the little guy!
Now either do away with the $60/year fee to play online or drop the console price by $100 and we should have some pretty even competition.
I knew they were gonna have to do something. I read hundreds of reviews for XBO, and at least 75% of them were something to the effect of “PS4 here I come!”.
Do you think the initial sting of it all will still have a negative impact on some folks? If I were going to buy one of them, I would still choose PS4. Microsoft kind of shot themselves in the foot in my mind. They greedily went for as much as they could get, and only when they got push back from the community dialed it back. Sony was like “this sounds fair, cool?” from the get-go. Plus it’s still a lot cheaper than XBO.
4. Lauren says:
Thank you Sony PS4 for opening Microsoft’s eyes!
5. A says:
“Sources: Microsoft to remove software from Xbox One that records user movements”
Might want to change that headline. There was never going to be “software” on the Xbox One that recorded user movements. Trying to get that hit counter up?
Today’s announcement concerned the always-on Internet requirement, sharing games, and used games.
6. agnerd says:
Wasn’t considering upgrading my 360 until this announcement. But I think backwards compatibility is still an issue for me. So I’ll probably stick with my 360. Not enough new stuff I’m interested in to justify the price.
7. LCBH1 says:
This was expected. The real test will be whether or not the new Kinect is made into an optional piece of equipment rather than a requirement for normal operations with non-Kinect games. Some say “cover the camera” but this thing also has six microphones and can detect your pulse. I don’t like it.
8. Xbox Gamer 12Yrs says:
this is positive news!! Not too crazy about having the Kinect always on but that’s a totally different story.
9. Johnny R. says:
M4d Ski11z, you do realize that this is a Trojan Horse right? If it was this easy to turn these features off, then it’s easy to turn them back on at a later date, even individually. They could be doing this to pump up sales to lock the customers into the product…..just to turn them on at a later date. (See Sony’s Backward compatibility policy). I don’t buy it yet… | http://blog.chron.com/houstongamer/2013/06/sources-microsoft-to-remove-drm-policies-for-xbox-one/?cmpid=ns | dclm-gs1-300960000 |
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The NFL's uniquely short season gives each game an importance that you don't find in many other sports. One game can change everything.
As a football fan, I watch every single Cowboys game. For the last couple of years, that's usually meant 16 games per season, though I dimly remember a time when the Cowboys played 19 games in a year.
I watch every single NFL game because every NFL single game is important. This is not the case in most other sports. In baseball, I find it hard to imagine that anybody could watch all 162 regular season games of their favorite team. Even the 82 games played in the NBA and the NHL are such a large number that watching every one of them seems like a tall order. And while every game is mathematically important in every league, those games simply don't carry the same weight and life-or-death quality that an NFL game does.
In the NFL, we start calculating the playoff odds just two games into a season. And in the NFL, we overreact to everything. If our team wins two games in a row, we start clearing our calenders for the playoff weekends. If our team loses two games in a row, we start scouting college prospects for the draft because the season is "definitely over".
Overreaction Monday is an actual thing in the NFL, where a win produces unbridled optimism garnered with rainbows and unicorns, and where a loss results in a state of apocalyptic panic. And these Overreaction Mondays can linger. Case in point: As Cowboys fans we are collectively still stuck in Overreaction Monday, even though we're more than a week removed from the loss to the Saints.
Outside of its religious context, Armageddon is a term used to describe a large-scale, decisive or catastrophic conflict. And that is exactly what the NFL offers: Every Sunday is Armageddon. Because with a 16-game schedule, every single game is vital.
It's why the result of every game has a life-and-death finalty to it that is vastly larger than that of any other regular season game in pro sports.
It's why the game is played with a maximum of physical violence with almost complete disregard for injuries.
It's why we talk about gladiators and warriors, about battles and blood, and why we have developed a martial vocabulary to go along with the game: When we NFL fans go shopping for groceries, we go hunting and gathering; when we talk about our wives and grilfriends, we talk about our warrior queens; when we order a three-course menu, we first devise a battle plan.
It's why, as dumb as it sounds, a win is a win and a loss is a loss: Nobody cares that the Cowboys lost against the number two-ranked offense and number five-ranked defense in New Orleans last week, just like nobody cares that the Giants got their last win against UDFA Scott Tolzien in his first NFL start.
In the NFL, one game can change everything.
For the Cowboys, that one game is on Sunday in New York. From Jason Garrett's inaugural press conference as the interim head coach of the Dallas Cowboys in 2010:
"The Giants are going to be at the Meadowlands at 4:15 on Sunday. They’re an awfully good football team in all areas – we’ve got to get ready for them."
Of course, after the game against the Giants, that one game will be the game against the Raiders on Thanksgiving.
Armageddon. 16 times in a row.
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2 [leed; German leet]
noun, plural lieder [lee-der; German lee-duhr] .
a typically 19th-century German art song characterized by the setting of a poetic text in either strophic or through-composed style and the treatment of the piano and voice in equal artistic partnership: Schubert lieder.
1850–55; < German
1 [lahy]
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. prevarication, falsification. truth.
an inaccurate or false statement; a falsehood.
verb (used without object), lied, lying.
to speak falsely or utter untruth knowingly, as with intent to deceive. prevaricate, fib.
to express what is false; convey a false impression.
verb (used with object), lied, lying.
give the lie to,
to accuse of lying; contradict.
1.See falsehood.
2 [lahy]
verb (used without object), lay, lain, lying.
(of objects) to rest in a horizontal or flat position: The book lies on the table. stand.
to be or remain in a position or state of inactivity, subjection, restraint, concealment, etc.: to lie in ambush.
to rest, press, or weigh (usually followed by on or upon ): These things lie upon my mind.
to depend (usually followed by on or upon ).
to be placed or situated: land lying along the coast.
to be stretched out or extended: the broad plain that lies before us.
to be in or have a specified direction; extend: The trail from here lies to the west.
to be found or located in a particular area or place: The fault lies here.
to consist or be grounded (usually followed by in ): The real remedy lies in education.
to be buried in a particular spot: Their ancestors lie in the family plot.
Archaic. to lodge; stay the night; sojourn.
the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. place, location, site.
the haunt or covert of an animal.
Verb phrases
lie by,
to pause for rest; stop activities, work, etc., temporarily.
to lie unused: Ever since the last member of the family died, the old house has lain by.
lie down, to assume a horizontal or prostrate position, as for the purpose of resting.
lie in,
to be confined to bed in childbirth.
Chiefly British. to stay in bed longer than usual, especially in the morning.
lie over, to be postponed for attention or action at some future time: The other business on the agenda will have to lie over until the next meeting.
lie up,
to lie at rest; stay in bed.
(of a ship) to dock or remain in dock.
lie with,
to be the duty or function of: The decision in this matter lies with him.
Archaic. to have sexual intercourse with.
lie down on the job, Informal. to do less than one could or should do; shirk one's obligations.
lie in state. state ( def 24 ).
lie low. low1 ( def 51 ).
lie to, Nautical. (of a ship) to lie comparatively stationary, usually with the head as near the wind as possible.
take lying down, to hear or yield without protest, contradiction, or resistance: I refuse to take such an insult lying down.
See lay1.
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lie1 (laɪ)
vb , lies, lying, lied
3. an untrue or deceptive statement deliberately used to mislead
4. something that is deliberately intended to deceive
5. give the lie to
a. to disprove
b. to accuse of lying
Related: mendacious
lie2 (laɪ)
3. to be buried: here lies Jane Brown
5. to stretch or extend: the city lies before us
8. (foll by with)
b. archaic to have sexual intercourse (with)
10. archaic to stay temporarily
11. lie in state See state
12. lie low
a. to keep or be concealed or quiet
b. to wait for a favourable opportunity
14. the hiding place or lair of an animal
15. golf
16. lie of the land
a. the topography of the land
Lie (liː)
lied (liːd, German liːt)
n , pl lieder
music any of various musical settings for solo voice and piano of a romantic or lyrical poem, for which composers such as Schubert, Schumann, and Wolf are famous
[from German: song]
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1852, from Ger., lit. "song," from M.H.G. liet, from O.H.G. liod, from P.Gmc. *leuthan (see laud).
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ProcedureHow to Create Messages to Be Sent to Users
After the user is logged in, system-related or application-related messages are displayed on screen. The ftpaccess file lists the events that trigger associated message statements.
1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.
2. Add the following entries to the ftpaccess file:
message message-file [when [class ...]]
Keyword that is used to specify the message file to be displayed when a user logs in or executes the command to change the working directory.
Name of the message file to be displayed.
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There are some other threads with great info as well.
Pub games were released with a glitch that some people are taking advantage of maybe they will patch that soon.
If you need to unlock your Keystone tournament items and are having trouble, what I did was to bet the minimum bet each and every time. The AI will keep placing chips all over the board, and while you won't be winning money (it's not your money anyway unless you place 5th or lower in the tournament), you won't be losing money like the AI is.
The first time I did this I placed 6th because the AI got some jackpots, the second time I was 2nd. We have to bet archstones, and I put a minimum bet on the keystones square. You don't have to do that but on mine 10 and 11 come up ALL the time, and I usually win a couple of those every game. Just keep hitting "roll dice" with your minimum down and keep doing that throughout the tournament. The sword you get from a win on the 5 star looks like it could be useful ingame.
For spinnerbox, open up that cow and corset 250 ASAP, once I got that opened the jackpots and money earned brought me right out of debt.
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To create the ear, the team used bioprinting in hydrogel, first using a computer program to break down the structure of the ear into thin slices. These slices were then printed with a 3D printer using cells from a calf, which later formed the cartilage, plastics, and silver nanoparticles to create a precise model of a human ear with the antenna already embedded. Part of the challenge was merging a soft material (tissue) with a hard one (electronics), which the cartilage helped alleviate.
The ear itself consists of the cartilage structure, with a coiled antenna embedded within. Two wires can connect to a helical cochlea, which in turn can connect to electrodes -- or possibly, a patient's aural nerve endings, much like a hearing aid, restoring or enhancing hearing. However, the technology would have to undergo extensive testing before it could be applied to a human patient.
"The design and implementation of bionic organs and devices that enhance human capabilities, known as cybernetics, has been an area of increasing scientific interest," the researchers wrote. "This field has the potential to generate customized replacement parts for the human body, or even create organs containing capabilities beyond what human biology ordinarily provides."
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MOSCOW—The most enduring memory many Russians have of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow has nothing to do with international boycotts or the fact that the Soviet Union won the most medals in Olympics history that year. Ask a Russian about Misha, and a nostalgic tear might come to his eye.
The smiling, chubby cartoon bear known as Mikhail Potapych Toptygin, or Misha, was the official mascot of the 1980 Games and lives on today as a potent cultural icon in Russia. A standard image on souvenir T-shirts and coffee mugs, it was a masterstroke of Olympics merchandising, made more remarkable because of its skillful execution by Leonid Brezhnev's Soviet government.
With the Winter Games in Sochi drawing to a close, loving memories of Misha are being stirred anew as Russians fondly recall the indelible image of a giant balloon version of the bear floating away from the 1980 closing ceremony. But for the man who created Misha, it is a sore point.
Best and Worst Olympic Mascots
Sam the Eagle was an obvious patriotic symbol to choose as mascot for the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles. Getty Images
"I hate to talk about mascots," says Viktor Chizhikov, a renowned children's artist whose design was picked in 1977 from more than 40,000 submissions. "This is like a thorn in my heel," he says.
Mr. Chizhikov's bitterness stems from his belief that the state reneged on a promise to grant him the copyright to his bear, which means he never saw a kopeck from the stuffed toys and porcelain dolls that were sold during the Games, nor from cartoon programs that were later produced. Now 78 years old, he still fumes every time he sees a Misha T-shirt.
"In the end they told me, 'The Soviet people were the creators,' " he says. "I did 90% of the propaganda for those Olympics. This was the face of the country."
But Olympics officials say that the idea that Mr. Chizhikov would have ended up with the rights to the design is doubtful at best.
"In accordance with the Olympic Charter, after Dec. 31 of the year in which the Olympic Games had been held, all the rights to the intellectual property and the symbols of the Olympics go the International Olympic Committee," says Viktor Beryozov, deputy head of the legal department of Russia's Olympic Committee.
He said he has no idea what Mr. Chizhikov was promised, as most officials who were around in 1977 have died.
"As far as I know, he probably received some kind of remuneration for his work based on the laws and the agreement he signed at the time," Mr. Beryozov says. "Besides, Mr. Chizhikov has gone to court over the Olympic Misha copyright multiple times and lost."
Mr. Chizhikov says he received just 2,000 rubles ($1,600 in 1977, or a payment that would be worth about $6,150 today) for his work. In 2008, he filed a lawsuit against a Russian television station for broadcasting a program in which an inflatable Misha flew around the country visiting Russians from all walks of life (including strippers and convicts), but lost because he couldn't prove he owned the rights.
Artist Viktor Chizhikov, who created Misha for the 1980 Games, in his Moscow studio this month. Lukas I. Alpert/The Wall Street Journal
His indignation emerged again when the organizers of the closing ceremony in Sochi approached him for help. He angrily refused.
Andrei Boltenko, the 46-year-old creative director of this year's opening ceremony, whose company helped design the mascots for the Sochi Games, says he was disappointed because he remembered how much the bear meant to him as a child.
"It was a symbol of the country, it had soul," he says, recalling sitting on his father's shoulders and crying as Misha flew away at the end of the 1980 Games. "When you look at that, you instinctively understand that it comes from the Soviet Union."
Konstantin Ernst, the 52-year-old head of Russia's state-run Channel One and director of the Sochi Games' opening and closing ceremonies, has hinted that some kind of homage to Misha is planned for the final event but is vague about what.
"In the memory of anyone who lived in the Soviet Union, this image [of the bear floating away] was imprinted forever," he says.
Mr. Chizhikov is dismissive about the three Sochi mascots—a polar bear, a leopard and a hare—saying they lack personality. He has particular scorn for the bear, which is named Mishka and—as the story goes—is Misha's grandson.
"When your idea is stolen, how can you like it?" he says. "The smile, the eyes, the nose were all stolen from my bear. They just pumped him up and made him fatter."
While Mr. Chizhikov has had enduring success as an illustrator, his drawing of Misha remains his most famous work. The walls of his central Moscow studio are lined with portraits of the bear, and he speaks wistfully of how the idea came to life. The bear's smiling face and stocky body came quickly, he said, but it took months to make it Olympic—something he ultimately accomplished by adding a weightlifter's belt, with the buckle made up of the Olympic rings.
"I started in May, but it wasn't until August that the belt came to me in a dream. I immediately jumped out of bed and drew it on him," he says.
The design was among 60 finalists. He was later told by the IOC that it had been selected without much deliberation by the late Lord Killanin, who headed the IOC from 1972 until 1980. He took one look at it and said, "yes, that's the one," and then left for a meeting.
Misha wasn't the first Olympic mascot, but his use for mass branding set a trend for Games to come.
"They used the image well. They had it in many forms and the idea for this mascot spoke to people," says Anthony Bijkerk, of the International Society of Olympic Historians.
But he says it should come as no surprise that the Soviet Union was skilled at marketing.
"They had a lot of experience through their propaganda campaigns of using imagery well to convey ideas," he says.
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I am having a strange issue occur in the office:
A client has setup a VPN connection for some of our employees to connect to their network. I am able to setup and connect to the VPN on all of the desktop PCs in the building, but not on the laptops. I receive an 800 error code saying that the connection is unreachable or something like that. The odd thing is, all computers (PCs and laptops alike) are on the same domain, same subnet, etc. and are all connected via CAT5 cabling - none of the laptops are using the wireless connection. They are all using the same OS (Windows XP Professional), and the users in question all have administrative rights. I've tried disabling Windows Firewall and no change. All the computers also have Symantec Endpoint Protection installed. The only difference here is that all the desktops are managed by an EPP management server, while the laptops are unmanaged and handle updates on their own. However, I have also tried disabling the software alltogether on the laptops, and still no luck.
The connection was setup via the "New Connection Wizard" in Windows XP. After setup, the only properties changed were the IPSec Settings. There is a pre-shared key used for authentication.
The error messages comes after trying to connect as reads as follows:
"Error 800: Unable to establish the VPN connection. The VPN server may be unreachable or security parameters may not be configured properly for this connection."
Does anyone have any other suggestions or advice on something I might be overlooking??
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Let's see some more information. Where does this error code come from and what exactly is the wording? What kind of VPN connection is it, and what is the subnet/IP configuration? – wolfgangsz May 20 '11 at 15:18
Okay, I added more information above. Hopefully that will help. – Randy Cleary May 20 '11 at 19:10
What version of SEP? Are you using Network Threat Protection on the laptops? What happens when you configure a laptop to get managed by a SEPM server (like the desktops)? – Cypher May 20 '11 at 21:33
Can you ping the vpn host from the laptops? (assuming the remote host accepts icmp echo) – Cypher May 20 '11 at 21:37
What type of VPN are you using (PPTP, L2TP, etc?) – devicenull May 22 '11 at 3:56
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Gates Tries to Explain .Net 613
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from the effing-the-ineffable dept.
AdamBa writes "Speaking to financial analysts and reporters, Bill Gates admitted that .NET hadn't caught on as quickly as he had hoped. The headline ('Gates admits .NET a "misstep"') is a bit misleading; he doesn't think all of .NET was a misstep, just the My Services part (aka Hailstorm). He also said that labelling the current generation of enterprise products as .NET might have been 'premature.' Summary: Microsoft got too excited about locking in users via Hailstorm and botched the overall .NET message." There's also a Reuters report and a NYTimes story on the same subject, which includes the interesting line: "Microsoft also warned today that the era of "open computing," the free exchange of digital information that has defined the personal computer industry, is ending." It isn't clear if Microsoft is talking about something happening beyond their control, or if they're boasting about ending it.
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• by Telastyn (206146) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:04AM (#3951228)
Wouldn't that truly be one of the travisties of humanity? Ending the Information Revolution by returning to where we were before it... Let us just hope and act in such a way that this does not come to pass.
• by ultima (3696) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:04AM (#3951232)
Free exchange of digital information (like Open Source Software) which defined personal computing (GNU did quite a bit of defining with gcc, emacs, &c) is ending?
Sounds like FUD aimed at open source software -- particularly because he uses the term "open computing" :)
On another note, my personal experience of .NET is that it seems to revolve around Visual Basic style API, buzzwords, and commercialism. I was thinking this morning that it seems like companies no longer have any interest in providing developer tools to people who develop for the sake of developing, but rather tools for rather poor coders working for large profiteering companies. It's a shame because it would have been so nice if it wasn't such garbage.
• by Zone5 (179243) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:04AM (#3951237)
"The era of open computing is ending"
You bet your ass it's ending because they're ending it. If the universal pushing of Passport, .Net, and Palladium haven't convinced you yet, you need to do a little reading.
I am genuinely afraid of what personal computing will look like in ten years if Microsoft has their way, and I have never been too concerned in the past, so I am hardly an alarmist Microsoft conspiracy nut either.
• Marketing to blame (Score:4, Insightful)
by glh (14273) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:07AM (#3951256) Homepage Journal
I think the main problem with .NET is the marketing. .NET means somethind different to just about everyone.. To me as a developer it means the new development tools (ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, Web Services). I definitely don't think that was a misstep- it is 100x better than its predecessor (COM). However, I think branding hailstorm and all the new version of the enterprise servers as .NET was a mistake. MS was trying to put everything under the .NET umbrella, but since some of those products/concepts have failed (ie hailstorm) it is now going to paint all things .NET in a negative light especially to people who aren't totally familiar with it. I hope they learn the lesson. I can remember visiting the web site several times that talks about what .NET is, and seeing it change about every month :)
• by FatRatBastard (7583) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:09AM (#3951280) Homepage
... because this quote is dopey no matter who said it:
Jim Allchin, one of the company's top vice presidents, acknowledged the shift in focus in the industry from personal computers to plumbing, and bemoaned the difficulty of getting Microsoft's traditional consumers to care about its new vision.
Well gee, Jim, you have it a bit backwards don't you. Shouldn't the company care about its customers' vision? I mean, if Porsche designed a kick ass lawmower -- I mean a innovative leap in lawnmower technology -- would you expect Porsche's traditional to care about Porsche's new vision?
• by Rahga (13479) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:12AM (#3951301) Homepage Journal
That will happen when they pry the webserver out of my dead hands.
Seriously, what is going to happen? MSN will supply all the content for the world? I doubt it.
http://www.rahga.com forever, and I suggest you do the same.
• .NET (Score:5, Insightful)
by Twister002 (537605) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:12AM (#3951302) Homepage
I think when developers talk about .NET, we're talking about the .NET framework. Which does have many wonderful features and improvements to the languages (C#, VB.NET is a big improvement over VB 6.0), the ease of making web services. It's much easier to manipulate XML than in previous versions. In the developer community (at least the ones that make money by programming on the Windows platform) it is slowly gaining popularity and many web sites have converted over to ASP.NET.
When the general public thinks about .NET, I think they are referring to the nebulous cloud of "web services" that Microsoft has alluded to, "Hailstorm", ".NET My Services", etc... Those still seem to be up in the air and not many people see the need for them.
I don't think I'd pay Microsoft for a subscription to Word.NET when I can just keep using MS Word 2000 or OpenOffice 1.0, or AbiWord. I don't want to store my credit card info in my Passport (or liberty alliance or any other online identity service) account. Heck, I want the people in the checkout lane to ASK to see my ID when I hand them a credit card, I certainly don't want to hand over all the info that a thief needs to charge things to my credit card.
• free exchange? (Score:3, Insightful)
by bigpat (158134) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:14AM (#3951317)
Well, I think we should see the writing on the wall for this one. No large monopolistic corporation can make good enough money on a free (as in Paul Revere) internet, so they are trying to divvy it up with proprietary systems and protocols to impose artificial monopolies.
Big companies may be able to undercut the competition at first, but the total cost of ownership will hurt you in the end.
• by Zone5 (179243) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:16AM (#3951332)
I didn't say anything about ending Open Source. I said they're ending open computing. Two different things.
Open source is of course, freely available source code. Open computing is the basic interoperability and data exchange upon which we all rely to make things 'just work' together. Try just for a minute to tell me that MS wouldn't foreclose on any interoperability standard they could if it would result in increased sales of their products.
Open source isn't ending, and it never will. It's currently our best hope for keeping MS as honest as possible.
• by interiot (50685) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:17AM (#3951342) Homepage
• Gates also acknowledged that confusion still reigns about .NET's very definition.
Good -- they understand one problem. People can perhaps point to the CLR and assoicated libraries, but .NET has been touted as much more than that, especially to non-techies.
• On Wednesday, he hammered home a new definition: "software to connect information, people, systems and services."
Unfortunately, this definition doesn't help at all. Pretty much all internet-based software does this.
• by sam_handelman (519767) <skh2003@co l u m bia.edu> on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:18AM (#3951351) Homepage Journal
Wherever "open computing" survives will become the dominant cultural force of the next century.
The United States is in a position to maintain cultural hegemony over the whole world - if we don't kill the free exchange of culture in order to make a quick buck.
If we do, I predict, within a couple of generations, that other parts of the world will have outpaced us. Killing open computing will destroy our best way-out of the recent doldrums in popular movies and music.
• by GreyPoopon (411036) <[email protected]> on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:22AM (#3951385)
He could be speaking of the end of open source in the business sense.
Where in the article did it mention him indicating the end of Open Source? The warning statement was about the end of "Open Computing," and I believe he was referring to Digital Rights Management and other cryptographic technologies being built into the hardware and operating system. Personally, I find this concept MORE frightening than ending Open Source, but he's doing nothing more here than repeating what all of the big corporate conglomerates (RIAA, etc) have been trying to convince us of. Sad really. As much as I don't like Mr. Gates, I would have hoped that the geek in him wouldn't have caved so quickly.
• by croanon (567416) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:28AM (#3951427)
Then why I am seeing everyone is converting to Java in the last 2 years? No one is using .NET or planning to use it around. My firm tested it, tried to call some legacy activex controls and unmanaged C++ code, they of course rejected it after a biiiiiiig performance hit.
I know lots of developers who shifted to Java from MS platforms though. :)
.NET is new. Not tested, not trustable. Java existed 7 years ago. Why should I risk it? Why should I develop in .NET, just another VM based technology, but this time lock myself to Windows? I know that there will be other implementations of .NET, such as Mono on Linux, but those will not be cross platform compatible at all. Even they say it. One reason is that .NET's most important parts are not given to ECMA, such as WinForms and ADO.NET. Do not forget that. MS is still holding the patterns.
etc. etc.
.NET my BUTT. I will never use it.
• by Jucius Maximus (229128) <zyrbmf5j4x&snkmail,com> on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:31AM (#3951468) Homepage Journal
Gates indicated that the company's software Promised Land will be a new version of its Windows operating system code-named Longhorn, which is still at least two years off.
Don't we hear this story every few years, but with a different product's name? Before that it was Windows XP, and before that it was "Chicago/Windows 4.0/Win95" and before that it was DOS 6 and before that it was ...
According to MSFT, the 'Promised Land of Computing' has always been waiting for us in their home just over the next ridge.
• by will592 (551704) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:35AM (#3951501)
Thank God someone finally has something good to say about Java. I've been developing java based solutions for the past 3 years and I honestly don't see any reason for this .Net crap. Seems like more and more people are moving their server side code over to Java and not looking back. But all you here is Java is dead. Maybe no one is using java on the client but Java seems to be surging forward on the server. Chris
• by Vicegrip (82853) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:37AM (#3951515) Journal
There are two main potential .NET targets:
1. Companies who have not yet started to deploy solutions using J2EE or Java and are trying to decide which to use: Java or .NET
2. Companies who have a need for some software that is only as a .NET application.
I won't address issues involving getting companies to deploy the .NET environment to their PCs... Microsoft is most likely going to have to force people-- which may not be popular.
a1. If you already have a substantial investment in software written in anything but a .NET language, chances are you aren't very motivated to switch paradigms.
a1. Regardless of how you view .NET the fact is java has been here for quite a while and has a good following. I have yet to meet a serious java developer who has any interest in .NET
a1. Regardless of all the claims Microsoft makes about C#/.NET maturity, nobody in their right mind is going to bet the company on a new MS platform just because the pay-for-plundits say it's sexy. .NET has to earn the industry's trust-- not an easy hill to climb these days.
a2. There is little imperative to adopt something for which there are no major none-Microsoft commercial offerings.
a2. Either way, I suspect difficult part of the sell for .NET is in convincing CEOs that they aren't further limiting their licensing choices and options in order to adopt something they just don't need-- at least not yet. The wait-and-see approach is a tried and true paradigm with respect to version 1.0 software from Microsoft.
Personally, I find it hard to get excited about something from a company whose major call to fame these days is the latest way it is reaming its customers.
• by Eric Damron (553630) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:43AM (#3951555)
It seems clear enough to me. Microsoft and the entertainment industry are in bed together. Both have something to gain from DRM.
The entertainment industry can stop music and movie pirating, take away our fair use rights and set the stage for a future market. That market being the sale of digital video and music which will be streamed directly to hardware. It is important to the entertainment industry that we are not allowed to record the digital data because once recorded we, as individuals, could illegally swap the files with others. Obviously, that would greatly reduce the incentive to pay again and again for the privilege of having the entertainment industry stream it to us. So say good-by to your fair use rights.
Microsoft has a lot to gain here also, on an entirely different front. They are fighting for their Corporate lives against a foe unlike any they have had to deal with before. Linux can not be made to go bankrupt, it cannot be sued into oblivion and it is steadily gaining popularity. How can Microsoft deal with this specter of doom? They must use any weapon available to them.
1. FUD. Yep, good ol' fear, uncertainty and doubt has always helped Microsoft in the past. It hasn't worked very well against Linux because their FUD has been too transparent. People just weren't buying it. They need a more complex strategy.
2. The Law. Make open source illegal. Hmmm... I'm sure they thought about that one... but how?
How about using FUD, a grain of truth to paint open source users as pirates, thieves and other assorted forms of lower life. Then join together with the entertainment industry to buy a senator like say.... SENATOR HOLLINGS FROM SC. And have him draft legislation that will ram DRM down our throats.
One all hardware is DRM enabled, only the entertainment industries bed partner will be allowed to receive digital data that will be streamed by this industry. Microsoft will do it's part to ensure that as few applications as possible will be allowed to run on Linux and have access to this new market. Definitely not open source. Thus they prevent competition. Typical strategy for Microsoft. Being afraid of competition they don't go head to head unless they can ensure themselves an advantage.
• by FatRatBastard (7583) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:44AM (#3951566) Homepage
Unfortunatly, this is how the IT industry works (or has worked). I guess all marketing departments do this to an extent, but IT is really the worst.
A. Promise the moon, to be delivered within two years
B. Spend 6 months talking about the Moon, but never really getting into details beyond buzzwords.
B2. If new and interesting technology comes along within those 6 months claim the Moon will contain it as well
C. Come out with alpha software (Moon v.1 Preview) that has little functionality built in but looks nice
D. Slip schedule ('We're adding new and exciting features')
E..Y Wait
Z. Deliver something that could quite possibly be useful and innovative, but deliveres about 1/10th of the orig. promise.
• by Jord (547813) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:45AM (#3951576) Homepage
I would have to disagree that Java is dead on the client. I think it suffered a major stroke with AWT and then again with the first versions of Swing.
However with the release of 1.4, there have been vast improvements made on the client side (read GUI) that makes it much more viable as an option. The company I am currently with is designing an entire GUI with Swing and so far things have been very positive.
On the server side, however, Java is king. There are very few "single" technologies that can do as much as smoothly as Java does. Yes you can do everything that Java does with other technologies, but using a single technology, Java owns this arena currently.
.NET is new. People are suspicious of it. A large number of developers out there view it as a clone and say "why do we want it". .NET does give you less in the interoperability department (basically windows only) than J2EE does plus it still has to prove itself.
Give .net a couple more years. It will either get a foothold or die. Personally, I hope it dies.
• by jav1231 (539129) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:45AM (#3951583)
I think that MS may see this as an opportunity to garner control along with RIAA via things like the DMCA. MS has practically embraced the idea of more control over content and media. Legislation like the DMCA simply reinforces their further control of "innovations" as they call them. If things like proprietary encryption and the like come down the pike, MS will be the medium. The fact that this will further alienate the Open Source community is a huge bonus for them. >
• by PanopticnetPrisoner (593699) <[email protected]> on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:50AM (#3951606)
While open source is a subset of open computing, the two are in no way synonyms. The idea Microsoft is trying to convey is that business models are finally beginning to catch up to modern technology. Open computing could be taken to cover everything from internet access (where business models are already beginning to evolve from unlimited monthly access to capped transfer/bandwidth or pay-by-MB) to P2P file sharing systems (no explanation necessary). Personally, I still believe technologically open solutions are evolving faster than traditional business models, but certainly the industry is now actively aware of this open computing -- not "problem" -- but "opportunity" to make more money. (Or, after the latest string of quarterly losses, make ANY money). I've always found it interesting how gargantuan companies can lose millions (or billions) of dollars each year, yet the CEO's of said companies still manage to turn a profit of hundreds of millions of dollars and live in houses with six hot tubs and three pools (at least one indoor) and other such ludicrously excessive luxuries.
• by Rader (40041) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:55AM (#3951650) Homepage
"If I'm building a box, am I going ot include a Palladium component"
Well, that sounds good until a couple years from now where your video card is getting really doggy, and the CPU's that are available are 4 times faster than what you've got, and no one is using CD-r's anymore, and the 27GB blue disc DVD's are looking nice and cheap.
If Palladium passes and they enforced making the sale of non-Palladium hardware illegal... then all the companies will start making Palladium compliant hard ware. Sure, you can find hardware form the pre-Palladium days, but every year, those will seem so slow, it won't be worth it.
• by croanon (567416) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @11:56AM (#3951660)
Yes, Java! Because: - Java is cross platform compatible. .NET may never be cross platform compatible %100 including Mono project etc., since MS is holding patents of very important parts of .NET, such as WinForms, ADO.NET. They did not submitted all the parts of .NET to ECMA. They kept the most important parts.
- Java was there 7 years ago! :) Think about it. Now it is matured, reliable. There are millions of Java programmers (still there will be %50 more need for in 2003 according to Gartner research), thousands of open/close, ready to use, matured programs, frameworks, libraries written in Java. .NET is a newbee, need at least 3 years to become reliable. During this time, Java will be much better.
- Java is working already. Its doing everything I need. Why should I change to .NET? :) There are many programs written in Java, basically working on many different platforms already.
- Performances of .NET and Java are not very different. Both are VM based. .NET might be faster than Java on Windows, especially in client applications, but, it is not very important, since CPUs are fast enough, and Java is getting better optimized with every release. In short, Java is fast enough.
- All the big companies other than MS, such as Sun, Oracle, Sybase, IBM, BEA, HP, Fujitsu, Nokia, Sony/Ericcson, JBoss, etc. already rolled their dice and chosen Java. They have many products based on Java. Why should they burn their investments and move to MS's .NET? Of course they won't.
- Java is not from the most unethical company in the history of mankind. Some people believe in ethics and don't use it. Such as me.
• by letxa2000 (215841) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @12:03PM (#3951715)
It's actually quite ingenious on the part of Gates. Admit that MS hasn't done as well with .NET as they would like. Everyone knows that to be true, but Gates' honesty shocks and surprises everyone.
In the next breath he mentions that not everything is going to be so open and free in the future. But since he just scored "honesty points" by admitting a less-than-great performance by his company, the general public automatically attaches a little more credibility to his comment about "open and free."
If Gates just comes out and spews FUD about open source, etc. it's just more of the same. If Gates makes an out-of-character negative critique about his company and THEN spews FUD about open source, it sounds like its part of a fit of honesty.
• by pmz (462998) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @12:16PM (#3951817) Homepage
Your taxpayer dollars are paying good money to port from one completely propietary platform (2k/ASP) to another (ORACLE/SUN). The only difference? The latter costs more.
This is a bit trollish. Oracle on Sun offers tremendous flexibility, it can be extemely reliable, and it is much simpler to administer well. Conversely, I've seen Oracle on Windows NT, and it was an embarassing travesty.
I really wish people who see only up-front costs would take off their blinders and have just a little insight into the future. UNIX, believe it or not, is still cheaper in the long-term than Windows, and going with non-Microsoft applications may actually reduce risk. Perhaps this is a good thing for the taxpayers?
Microsoft has been very successful at making people put all their eggs in one basket and at providing an operating system that requires what seems to be a one-to-one ratio between administrators and computers. Is this really what you want?
• nail on the head (Score:5, Insightful)
by mblase (200735) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @12:32PM (#3951928)
Shouldn't the company care about its customers' vision?
Some columnist recently pointed out that Apple achieved in one stroke everything MS is trying to achieve with .NET, by announcing iCal [apple.com] and iSync [apple.com] last week at MacWorld. Those two programs allow users of Mac OS X Jaguar to connect their PDAs, cell phones and desktop PIM software to a single database and publish them on the Internet, connect with the calendars of others, and resolve conflicts between the two.
In other words, while Microsoft spent two years talking about Web services and technologies, Apple quietly went about actually building them into a program its users will want to use. MS has been announcing and releasing software for other people to build these Web applications, but Apple decided to lead by example instead.
No doubt the next release of Windows will include similar features, and of course they'll be more widely used than Apple's. But just think what might be happening right now if Microsoft had spent as much time creating Web applications for Windows XP as they did promoting them.
If a person could synchronize their PocketPC to their MSN account and Outlook at the same time, then reconcile with all their coworkers' calendars and documents, without having to do anything more than press a button, Microsoft wouldn't need subscriptions to sell the next version of Office or Windows. Instead they settled for getting halfway there so that they could sell more copies of Exchange Server and keep PocketPCs as expensive as humanly possible.
• by rseuhs (322520) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @12:34PM (#3951949)
Face it:
People want open computing, otherwise we would all run Macs now.
In the last 2 weeks I've installed Linux for 2 friends and yesterday I was called by another one who is no longer able to rip DVD-movies with Windows XP after he did an online-update. (Yes, he wants to try Linux, too after this "experience".)
Pirated music, movies and software is what keeps the whole computer-thing going at home. Or do you really think that granny is going to shell out 400$ for MS Office to write 2 letter/month?
If you take that away, you immediately lock out the vast majority of home users which will accept great pain and suffering to escape (and switching over to Linux is not as hard as it used to be. But even if it was, that would not matter because a DRM-computer would be useless for most home users.)
Palladium and universal DRM are just not going to happen in a free market.
Of course semi-democracies like the US might force it by law, but just like Alcohol-prohibition, it won't last very long and nobody would care about it anyway. (Actually alcohol-prohibition reduced alcohol consumption only in the first 2 years while the market adapted. Then because of harder drinks (= easier to smuggle) and more aggressive distribution (no more youth protection) the alcohol consumption per head was much higher at the end of prohibition than at the start.)
Millions of users currently don't care about copyright, why should they care wether DRM is mandatory or not?
• by ASeed (195654) <alberto.intersaint@org> on Thursday July 25, 2002 @12:48PM (#3952048) Homepage
".NET Signals an Industry Shift"
also referenced as the article about "Moore's Triple Crisis".
The author of the article (David Bau, who made the popular "Dave's Google Quicksearch Bar") writes about a three-way Moore's law crisis: crisis in systems, apps and development.
Systems: "the exponentially rising power of PC technology has started to overshoot the needs of the ordinary customer. This means people are starting to shop for cheaper computers instead of more powerful ones."
Development: "Moore's law crisis affects development costs just as dramatically as it affects hardware costs. As computing power gets cheaper and software becomes more ephemeral, it makes sense to save software development hours by wasting CPU cycles." The Garbage collectors and Intermediate Languages of .NET and Java are according with that. Scripting languages too.
Applications: "Microsoft is facing the problem of saturation. The widely recognied issue here is that almost everybody who wants to do something with their computer software can already do it. Why would you buy a new version of Microsoft Word or Excel?" "Microsoft is facing competitors like America Online that are using a new model for software applications."
That's why Microsoft introduced his .NET services.
• by Animats (122034) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @01:08PM (#3952183) Homepage
The next big thing was supposed to be Applications Service Providers. Rent your key business apps. A hosting provider with a support staff would resell applications. Remember? Where are those guys now?
There are successes in that business, but Microsoft isn't one of them. PeopleSoft, Oracle, SAP, EDS, and Automatic Data Processing are the successful players. They're big, vertically integrated companies that build and service what they sell. They're not value-added resellers, and they don't usually work through value-added resellers.
Microsoft's model, that you download something, pay for it forever, and don't bother them much, isn't how it's done. The big service providers provide real service; they are in the business of outsourcing corporate support functions, not pushing software.
• by jpellino (202698) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @01:08PM (#3952184)
Nothing new. Bill Redux: I remember hearing of an episode from back when GEM and Windows were still battling it out - at a conference panel where Bill and Gary Kildall were members, and Gary was going on about OSs, and how there'd be plenty of ways to run your computer. Bill grabbed a microphone and interrupted, with a clarification to the effect that "No, there will be one way to operate your computers. One. (uncomforatble silence) You may continue."
• by AmateurCoder (574449) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @03:08PM (#3952943)
. . . PHP is also an excellent alternative to ASP.
I read somewhere that PHP is the fastest growing scripting language on the web, and has already surpassed the popularity of the more mature ASP.
Exellent development tools available for Java make it a good choice for some bigger web projects, but the downside is that the cost of setting up a server. Not too many people offer virtual hosting for java. You pretty much need your own server with root access to set things up.
For smaller projects you can get a domain name, virtual host with PHP, and mySQL for about $20 US per month.
Of course you can design and test both technologies on your free OS, with your free web server, with your free database.
So why is anybody switching to .NET?
• by Eric Damron (553630) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @03:33PM (#3953101)
"Re:It seems clear to me... (Score:2)
by sheldon on Thursday July 25, @02:05PM (#3952551)
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Microsoft's position on this is quite understandable. They aren't in bed together, but Microsoft feels that if they do not incorporate DRM into their applications and utilities someone else will and that application will become supplant Windows as a desired choice."
I'm not buying it. With all of the applications out there and over 90% of computers in the entire world running a Microsoft OS there is no OS poised to "supplant Windows as a desired choice."
In their recent FUD they claimed that the reason for their Palladium strategy is to protect customer's from evil hackers and "un-trusted" code. Yet it will not do a thing to prevent the majority of attacks. This initiative is mostly about hurting open source for Microsoft and about curtailing future P2P file swapping for the entertainment industry.
You bet Microsoft is in bed the entertainment industry.
One more partner that I didn't mention in my previous post was the hardware manufacturers. To pull this off they have to play along as well. All of them need to exclusively sell DRM enabled hardware because if any of them are not on board with this scheme then people will have a choice. Given the choice of hardware that the entertainment industry and Microsoft controls or uncrippled hardware, you can guess what people will choose. So we must not be allowed a choice.
And just in case some of the hardware companies are reluctant to play along Microsoft and the entertainment industry have bought and paid for SENATOR HOLLINGS FROM SC. This is one corrupt SOB that needs to be removed from the equation. If you are from SC I would suggest voting the bastard out.
As far as my opinion being FUD, I think not. It is by far more based on fact then fear, uncertainty and doubt.
• by Vicegrip (82853) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @05:41PM (#3954307) Journal
".NET has nothing to do with COM. It exists as it is even if COM never existed."
Well that's pretty rich. I guess I was imagining all those GUIDs.
"Yes, just as you can't use a PHP function in Java. I'm not sure what your point is."
Not having to reinvent the wheel for a new paradigm was the point... you know.. reusing existing code... anyways..
"We had code in Beta2 that runs flawlessly on the 1.0 CLR less one minor exception (minor syntax change)."
I'm glad to hear Microsoft didn't redesign the CLR between beta2 and version 1.0 ... that must have been a big relief.
Working for a company that has the budget to redesign and re-code everything must be nice though. I'm glad not everyone is hurting in this economy.
• by Mr. Firewall (578517) on Thursday July 25, 2002 @06:51PM (#3954804) Homepage
...what, in your view, was Gates's motivation then in grasping the security nettle so publicly the other day...?
I don't know Mr. Gates personally so I can only guess based on what I was told, by someone who does know him, in a conversation that occurred last winter.
My friend said that Gates finally "got it" about two years ago as far as realizing that security is actually important, but still did not realize that security is something that must be designed in to a technology from the very beginning. He described Mr. Gates as a visionary who likes to dream up new stuff and believed that security was something that could be added on to a technology later -- by low-level underlings. Kind of like believing that you could make the Corvair safe by simply adding air bags.
He also mentioned that BillG considered security to be more of a PR issue than a real one.
The "Trusted Computing" letter to which you refer is consistent with that view. Most of the letter is pure PR and most of the rest is consistent with a viewpoint that security can be obtained by simply having coders go back through source code looking for bugs.
I don't think Gates realized until just recently that he has literally built Windows on a very dangerous foundation (ActiveX, for one example) that CANNOT be made secure. I think that's what Palladium is about: yet another add-on by underlings (hardware designers, in this case) so that he does not have to admit that he made some very fatal errors several years ago when he designed the Win32 architecture.
Gates is a betting man -- he played a LOT of poker in his college days and usually won -- and it shows in the way he keeps "betting the farm" on his company's products and technologies. If the world ever figures out what he's done, he's going to lose it all.
So to answer your question, I THINK that he believes that he really is on the track to better security. I think he's starting to realize that it ain't really true, but I think he also believes that he can bluff his way out of this one just as he has no doubt done in countless poker games in the past.
It will be interesting to see whether that actually happens.
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Comment: Mint+Mate or CentOS (Score 1) 573
by doodleboy (#43266521) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: New To Linux; Which Distro?
By which I mean, a distro that runs Gnome2. I've been using Linux as my primary desktop OS since sometime in the late 90's and I actually work as a shell programmer. I am not interested in using some new UI that is designed to run on a tablet, or that is written by some cabal of out of touch developers for their own masturbatory purposes. I want something that is easy to install that I don't have to waste a lot of time dicking around with. I assume most other people who have lives feel the same way. My 2 cents:
CentOS: A clone of Redhat Enterprise Linux. It is quite stable but does not have quite the same selection of packages as Ubuntu and its derivatives like Mint. Also, the software tends to be lag a bit behind faster churning distros like Ubuntu. But if you don't care about living on the bleeding edge, CentOS is for you.
Mint+Mate: An Ubuntu derivitave that runs the Mate UI, which is a fork of Gnome2. I'm using it now on my home PC. It's fast enough for me and I have it set up so that it looks very similar to the way I had 10.04. So far I have had zero problems with it.
In short, if you want to be on the bleeding edge and don't mind a few bugs, get Mint+Mate. Otherwise, get CentOS.
Comment: The case for lower resolution (Score 1) 375
by doodleboy (#42906217) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Favorite Monitor For Programming?
Folks get all exited about having the highest possible resolution, but that is only part of the story. I have 2 x Samsung p2770fh 27" 1920x1080 monitors. They're discontinued now, but 2 years ago I paid $280 each at the local Costco. (I would suggest buying monitors locally so they can be returned if you get dead pixels.)
Anyway, about that resolution. I'm 48 years old and my eyeballs don't work as well as they used to. I have a smokin' work-issued laptop, a Lenovo w520. I love that I can run multiple VMs at once on the thing, but I find myself squinting at it because of the higher pixel density. But at home on the 27's everything is nice and big and easy to read, even if I'm leaned back in my chair.
Otherwise the screens are nice and bright and text is very easy to read. Video looks great. For less than $600 I am a happy camper.
Comment: Re:Atlas Shrugged (Score 1) 700
by doodleboy (#41644347) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Books Have Had a Significant Impact On Your Life?
I don't say this to be a smart ass, so please don't take it that way, but perhaps it was that simple to you because you read it when you were 16? Mind you, my youngest child is older than that and I spent half of my life overseas in the Army, so I am neither young nor naive. Give it another shot. You may be surprised.
I did read it again about 10 years ago, 20 years after the first go-round and after picking up a BA in philosophy and literature. It was a remarkably different experience from being a 16 year-old fanboy. The book is not very well constructed and Galt's speech, nearly a book in itself, was nearly impossible to get through.
If I was going to recommend any Rand book it would be The Fountainhead, because it gets the basic message across without all the interminable editorializing.
Comment: Re:Atlas Shrugged (Score 3, Interesting) 700
by doodleboy (#41639301) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Books Have Had a Significant Impact On Your Life?
Most of the people who criticize Atlas Shrugged haven't read it, even if they say they have. It's a great book. I second the recommendation!
I read Atlas Shrugged and to my knowledge all of Ayn Rand's other published works. In fact I thought she was the shiznit when I was 16. It all seemed so simple: these people over here are good, and those other people over there are evil. However, I have come to understand real life is a good deal more complex than that, and the binary distinctions favoured by ideologues like Rand in no way correspond with reality.
I have come to believe that any philosophy based on hate is fundamentally untenable.
Comment: rsync scripty goodness (Score 1) 304
by doodleboy (#39536693) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: It's World Backup Day; How Do You Back Up?
I haven't bothered with offsite backups. I don't need to because I live in Florida and it's not like we ever get hurricanes or anything like that.
I have a 3ware raid card in my 10.04 box with 4 drives in raid 5, as well as an eSATA drive. I export a TB of the RAID array and a TB from the iSCSI drive via iSCSI to two 2k8 servers running in Virtualbox VMs. In the Windows VMs, DFS mirrors the data to the two mountpoints. I export those shares to a Z: drive which maps on login. I set up the free MicrosoftSyncToys powertool to mirror the local My Documents directories to the Z: drive. When SyncToy is run, and the data is backed up in two places.
I have another esata drive which mirrors my home partition every night. This is slightly complicated because I have a couple dozen virtual machines that could be running (it's usually less than 10), so what I wanted was a way to pause any VMs that might be running, back everything up, then unpause. Here's the script I wrote to do that.
# nightly_backup: Script to pause any virtual machines that are running,
# do an rsync backup, then unpause the virtual machines. Set the SRCE
# and DEST variables below, as well as the USER variable. Script assumes
# that $DEST is a separate partition. If this is not the case for you,
# comment out the line _mount_check below.
# Sample cron entry:
# 30 04 * * * /usr/local/bin/nightly_backup &>>/var/log/nightly_backup.log
# Sample /etc/logrotate.d/nightly_backup file
# /var/log/nightly_backup.log {
# monthly
# missingok
# rotate 4
# compress
# }
# --exclude-from file syntax:
# Copy directory but not its contents:
# + Cache/
# - **/Cache/**
# Do not copy (file or directory)
# - .gvfs
# $Id: nightly_backup,v 1.1 2011/12/03 19:23:15 doodleboy Exp kevin $
ARGS="-aHS --delete --stats --exclude-from=/usr/local/bin/rsync_exclude"
# Function to pause or resume running virtual machines
_pause-resume() {
VMS=$(su - $USER -c "vboxmanage --nologo list runningvms")
if [ -n "$VMS" ]; then
printf "$VMS\n" | while read VM; do
VM=${VM%% \{*}
printf "Running $ARG on $VM...\n"
su - $USER -c "vboxmanage --nologo controlvm $VM $ARG"
printf "No VMs are running.\n"
# Abort backup if $DEST partition is not mounted
_mount_check() {
if mount | grep -w "$DEST" &>/dev/null; then
printf "$DEST is mounted. Proceeding with backup.\n"
printf "$DEST is not mounted. Aborting backup.\n"
printf "*** $(date): Aborting nightly backup ***\n\n"
exit 1
# Start banner
printf "*** $(date): Starting nightly backup ***\n"
# Make sure $DEST is mounted
# Comment out _mount_check if $DEST is not a partition
# Pause virtual machines
_pause-resume pause
# Flush pending writes
sleep 3
# Do the backup
# Resume virtual machines
_pause-resume resume
# Exit banner
printf "*** $(date): Finished nightly backup ***\n\n"
I wrote another script to email me the status of my raid array every night. Admittedly this is only useful if you have a 4-drive 3ware card, but it could be adapted to other hardware. Here it is:
RAID=$(tw_cli /c4 show)
U0=$(echo "$RAID" | awk '/^u0/ {print $3}')
P0=$(echo "$RAID" | awk '/^p0/ {print $2}')
P1=$(echo "$RAID" | awk '/^p1/ {print $2}')
P2=$(echo "$RAID" | awk '/^p2/ {print $2}')
P3=$(echo "$RAID" | awk '/^p3/ {print $2}')
BB=$(echo "$RAID" | awk '/^bb/ {print $4}')
for status in "$U0" "$P0" "$P1" "$P2" "$P3" "$BB"; do
if [ "$status" = "OK" ]; then
SUBJECT="RAID Status OK"
elif [ "$status" = "VERIFYING" ]; then
SUBJECT="ISSUES with RAID Array!!!"
catEOF | mailx -s "$SUBJECT" [email protected] &
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Comment: Re:ltsp with fat clients (Score 1) 202
Well, you can PXE boot LTSP over wifi if you have a wireless bridge. It's not exactly reliable though, at least it wasn't when I tried it last year.
Where I work we have 300 remote locations running LTSP on lucid. One server at each location, perhaps as many as a dozen thin clients using PXE boot. We built our own update mechanism, where the LTSP servers rsync a directory tree that contains the updates. Anything new, they run the update. If an update fails for whatever reason they send an email back to hq. It's been working fairly well for us.
LTSP enabled us to put a modern Linux desktop with Firefox, OO.org, etc, on the desktop of every underpowered thin clients that we own. This saved us from having to obsolete a big chunk of our infrastructure, probably a couple million in new hardware and depreciation costs.
We used a Clonezilla cluster to build the disk images. We wrote a config script that configured the base images (hostname, network, etc) for each location. It was a big effort but it went well.
Comment: Not Really Possible to go Paperless (Score 1) 311
by doodleboy (#39008863) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Go Paperless At Home?
If it's more work to save a doc in a paperless format, or if it costs more, then it isn't practical and doesn't make a lot of sense. Also, if you are all digital and a little lazy about backups, you're only a disk crash away from disaster. I like having paper copies of important stuff.
I do print most everything double-sided. This alone will save a huge amount of paper. Duplex printers aren't nearly as expensive as they used to be. I have a samsung clp-620nd, a networked color duplex laser printer. It's fantastic for the money (about $300), but I'm sure there are others out there that would work just as well.
If I do need to scan, I have a cheap HP j4550 multifunction inkjet. I never bothered buying new ink for it, but I do use the scanner. Normally I'll import into SimpleScan and output to PDF. SimpleScan works surprisingly well. I also print to PDF for receipts and the like if I want to keep a digital copy. If it's important I'll also print a copy and put it in the file cabinet.
My thought on scanning vs printing is, if it's important then do both. Don't keep anything that matters in just in one place.
Comment: Been there (Score 1) 315
by doodleboy (#38405828) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Good Metrics For a Small IT Team?
We had a new IT director show up a few years ago that came around to talk to everyone about their hopes and dreams and all the rest of it. Because he cared about us as people. Shortly after that the IT department shrunk by a third.
It's Friday. I took the night off. I will be VPNing in tomorrow to do a bunch of stuff. I have to go in on Sunday to do a bunch of other stuff I can't do remotely.
Fuck this shit.
Comment: Re:I know this isn't what you asked but... (Score 2) 320
by doodleboy (#37904030) Attached to: Which OSS Clustered Filesystem Should I Use?
I also have a 3ware card and four 1 TB drives in RAID 5 in my 10.04 desktop PC at home. Some of that space is exported via iSCSI to a couple of Windows boxes. Then I back the RAID array up with a couple of external SATA drives. My wife thinks this is excessive, but I lost a lot of data, once, nothing critical but stuff I cared about, emails and papers from college, pics of friends and family, etc. But when the drive started throwing SMART errors I thought, yup, better go pick up a new drive soon... 3 days later, it was dead.
The irony is that one of my main responsibilities at work is backups, mostly with shell scripts I wrote myself.
Many of you probably have most of your important stuff on one drive that you don't back up. At the very least, pick up an external USB drive and schedule backups for anything you care about.
Comment: Re:Tape can be unreliable (Score 1) 611
by doodleboy (#28749987) Attached to: Best Home Backup Strategy Now?
Since when is tape unreliable?
It sure can be, especially the lower end stuff like Travan. Where I work we have over 300 remote sites, which used to have TR-5 tapes and drives that failed continuously. We replaced all of them with a local rsync to a different partition with snapshots going back a week, along with a remote rsync to a bank of servers with snapshots going back a month. We had to shell out some cash for the backup servers and some dev time for the scripts, but the savings from not buying tapes paid for them fairly quickly. The local rsyncs take the place of tapes, while the remotes provide secure off-site storage. We have been able to rebuild branch office servers using data off the backup servers with no data loss and minimal downtime. Hard drives are cheap, fast and reliable. I honestly don't understand the appeal of tapes.
Comment: Re:The right tools for the job (Score 1) 421
by doodleboy (#28466867) Attached to: How Do You Sync & Manage Your Home Directories?
At work we're starting to install Ubuntu 9.04 to dualboot with XP on upper management's laptops. Ubuntu is pretty slick these days, but there is the problem of syncing files across both operating systems. We've been kicking around the idea of using a fat32 partition to keep files on, but that sucks on many levels. Reading your post, it occurs to me that unison will do exactly what we need. I knew I came here for a reason.
Comment: Re:Moving parts are the main problem (Score 5, Informative) 655
by doodleboy (#27474127) Attached to: How Do I Provide a Workstation To Last 15 Years?
My full solution would be a fanless rig, with RAID 1 for full redundancy of disks so if a hard disk fails, it doesn't take your data with it, and weekly backups to DAT tape stored off-site. Then I'd use a pair of power supplies, using a diode to prevent power from one from getting into the other, and a zener diode or 78 series linear regulators to ensure a failing supply can't overpower any one line. Then, from my little power circuit, the two power supplies would feed the one motherboard, which would be underclocked at reduced voltage. It would have the highest possible amount of RAM in it, because that would reduce the writes to the hard drives.
On the software side, I would consider hosting the DOS app on linux using an emulator such as dosemu or dosbox. The OP's dad would have an environment very similar to what he's using now. I would probably use Debian stable for both boxes, which has very long release cycles and is very stable.
With linux comes the option to replace the DAT tapes with an off-site rsync over ssh. If the main box dies, you'd be able to just swap in the backup box in a couple of minutes. If the data set isn't very large the mirror will complete in a couple of seconds. It's very easy to do:
Create a RSA public/private key pair: ssh-keygen -t rsa, press enter at the password prompts.
Copy the public key to the remote box: ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub remotebox.
Have a nightly cron job to push the files: rsync -ave ssh --delete /localfiles/ remotebox:/localfiles.
For bonux points you could even throw in snapshots.
I'm backing up hundreds of partitions this way at work, each with snapshots going back a month. Tapes are slow, unreliable and expensive. I would not use them for any purpose.
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I have a json which is return from the java code. I use toJSON to show the json but it does'nt showing anything and giving an error when i de-bugged it using firebug.Below is the response which i have to show in browser.
below is the function in jsp which i am calling:
type: 'post',
success:function(data) {
var json = $.toJSON(data);
error:function() {
alert("request failed");
1st alert shows [object] but 2nd alert is not showing anything.
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could you show the alert(data) output ? – jbduzan May 14 '12 at 8:09
what kind of ajax call type are you doing? please provide more code – Fabrizio Calderan May 14 '12 at 8:10
yes sure...it is [object Object] – Java_NewBie May 14 '12 at 8:11
I have provided the code for ajax as well – Java_NewBie May 14 '12 at 8:13
@Java_NewBie Please, don't use alert for debugging, use console.log or console.dir with chrome or firebug. – Yoshi May 14 '12 at 8:21
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There is no such thing as $.toJSON(), thats why you get an error. Use JSON.stringify() and JSON.parse().
Alternatively, if you set the correct contentType, you should be able to use it without any conversions.
edit: to be correct toJSON() is a plugin. Imo there is no need for this, the standard JSON-handling from the browsers and jQuery is sufficient for that task.
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code.google.com/p/jquery-json – Quentin May 14 '12 at 8:28
@Quentin It's a plugin and not part of the standard jQuery. And why use it, when every "normal" browser does this by default. – Christoph May 14 '12 at 8:36
I'm not saying it should be used, just that the statement There is no such thing as $.toJSON() is incorrect. – Quentin May 14 '12 at 8:43
JSON.stringify() solves the issue...thanks. – Java_NewBie May 14 '12 at 8:45
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I have built an application with unity 3d that just streams data through USB and uses it.But while quitting the application, the application hangs, same happens when i am running from unity 3d engine, when i run it , it works fine, but once i quit, the engine hangs(Not responding). This happens only for this application. Any idea why this happens? I am using multiple system threads(C#), is that a probable cause ?
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Got the problem, i was not disconnecting the USB connection.
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I have an NSMutableArray named as totalunits. It has some data. Each data has value like this. ({blah blah blah},{blah = 1}).
The second value should change to 0 instead of 1. Thats what I explained in following codes.
NSMutableDictionary *inappDict=[[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
[inappDict setObject:@"0" forKey:@"inapp"];
[[totalunits objectAtIndex:currenttag] replaceObjectAtIndex:1 withObject:newDict];
But using this, I'm getting an exception like this:
[__NSCFArray replaceObjectAtIndex:withObject:]: mutating method sent to immutable object.
Help me.
Thanks in advance
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You've initialized your NSMutableArray as NSArray, so it has no mutation methods; double check, that you need to operation NSMutableArray and not NSArray
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well, your exception description is telling another stuff =); an array that is returned by the [totalunits objectAtIndex:currenttag] is a NSArray, not a NSMutableArray - just post here a code, which adds items into the totalunits array – Denis Nov 30 '11 at 12:43
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Excel 2010 does not update hyperlink references when previous rows to the destination are added or deleted unlike excel XP. I can create a reference as text by searching for the proper cell on another sheet but hyperlinks do NOT accept text as a reference. INDIRECT does not work since hypertext then takes the value at the destination as the reference.
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Is there a question in your statement or are you just venting frustration? This issue would be a lot easier to understand if you added a few examples to illustrate. For e.g. What are "previous rows to the destination"?? – teylyn Feb 8 '13 at 5:28
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I have a dvr set up and working on local net and my ports are forwarded. I checked and all ports are open but I can't access it from remote using public IP address.
Also zviewer app for phone wont connect it doesn't say port not open but just keeps checking and from friends computer says cannot access page also.
I've used fresh IP address and still not working also tried firewall already on both computers. Is there any reason I'd be having this problem?
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Did you check ports on a port scanner if you are access over the internet? – AthomSfere Mar 27 '13 at 3:39
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The Republican Hispanic Challenge
LonfromPen Wrote: Dec 03, 2012 2:16 PM
Parker is right that Republicans could at least make a significant dent in the Hispanic vote of they could convince Hispanics that their policies would help them escape poverty, or move from lower middle class up to middle class and beyond. It is curious that she seems to miss that this is a problem. Even if one believes that Republican policies would have this effect, despite the lack of historical evidence to the contrary. The fact is that Hispanics clearly were not convinced this time around, and she does not seem to advocate any change. Apparently she things Republicans can keep doing the same thing with different results. But that is a common definition of insanity.
mulbery Wrote: Dec 03, 2012 2:24 PM
She's saying "Vote fo us, we'll make sure your wages, working conditions, schools, and possibility of having healthcare are all as dim as possible...It'll start to remind you more and more of home...except your bosses won't look like you...but yeah, vote for us.
LonfromPen Wrote: Dec 03, 2012 2:17 PM
And some Hispanics were probably turned off by the culture war stuff. After all Republicans lost Asians by a slightly larger margin than Hispanics, and statistically Asians do not suffer the above ills at the same rates as Hispanics.
Allan60 Wrote: Dec 03, 2012 2:34 PM
It's different with Asians because a large percentage of the recently arrived Hispanic population is largely unskilled. The same is not generally true of people who came through the immigration process where skill sets are desirable.
The bottom line is that constant illegal immigration drives down the wages in low skilled areas., but the Democrats have managed to convince Hispanics that anyone who is against wide open borders hates people with brown skin.
LonfromPen Wrote: Dec 03, 2012 4:23 PM
It makes sense that it is different with Asians. But the interesting, even surprising, thing is that the voting results were pretty much exactly the same. That was my point.
If Parker's analysis was correct, why didn't the Republicans win the Asian vote? Was there some other explanation that exactly balanced it out? Maybe. But that is quite a coincidence. (I'm not sure what the right answer is here).
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Rakvere Tarvas' 3-1 win over Puuma in the second tier of Estonian football was punctuated by an astonishing assault of a challenge from Puuma's Yaroslav Dimitriev.
The Russian forward, irritated to have lost the ball, crunched into his opposite number with a savage kick to the victim's gut.
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Virtual Sex: How Online Games Changed Our Culture
Games like Second Life let you to live your fantasy as a pimp, prostitute or pirate, knight, dominatrix, or any other self-created design you see fit.
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MySpace was not the only site of its kind. Before MySpace was a popular networking website called Friendster, and, after MySpace, Facebook became the most discussed site. Launched in 2004 by student Mark Zuckerburg as a college networking website, Facebook grew into an older-skewing version of MySpace. Newsweek featured Zuckerburg on the cover. On the inside the feature story told what happened when Facebook had one of its rare maintenance shutdowns. "Over the course of those four hours I probably tried to get in five or more times. I'm addicted to Facebook," one person lamented. She was a 40-year-old mother of three.
As Facebook began, Linden Labs released the program Second Life. It was a 3D virtual world where you could create an avatar (a digital representation of yourself) and buy land with real money, mortgage a virtual home, get married, get drunk, make new friends, start a money-making business -- in other words, you could begin and live a new life. That was it. Second Life was a video game with no video game in it. The virtual world remained quiet until Wired and other tech tastemakers began claiming Second Life could be "Web 2.0," the almost mythical multidimensional Internet that would take over the now dated World Wide Web. The New York Times, Time and others "discovered" the program in 2006. A woman, who's avatar name was Anshe Chung, became the first Second Life resident to become a millionaire in real life. (The value of the Second Life Linden dollar fluctuates like a real economy, but was roughly $300 Linden to every U.S. dollar in 2006.) She did it by buying up virtual real estate and flipping it for a higher price. Sony, Nike, and other companies created virtual stores with real products. Reuters opened up a Second Life branch. Several 2008 presidential hopefuls hopped on digital soapboxes to hold town meetings. By May 1st, 2007, Second Life had six million citizens (though critics argued that this figure was inflated since some people had multiple avatars).
Second Life visitors could actually modify the virtual world. Aside from a few restrictions, Linden Labs took a very hands-off approach to its universe. One of the first modifications was by visitor Kevin Alderman, known in-world as Stroker Serpentine. He created SexGen Platinum, a fourty-five dollar modification that gave an avatar realistic genitalia and the ability to have detailed virtual sex with a partner. He would later sue another Second Lifer for stealing and distributing the applet, making it the first known lawsuit over a stolen digital dick.
A popular website called SL Escorts listed and ranked avatar prostitutes based on user feedback, linking the virtual world concubines to their real life handlers for a potential Second Life meet and greet. "I love all sorts of sex play from the innocent school girl … to the sex slave (with or without torture)," read an ad for one leather clad escort. "… you can just IM [instant messenger] me and I'll be very happy to content to your deepest desires!" It was followed by this itemized listing (in Linden Lab dollars):
* L$350 with clothes
* L$500 shows tits
* L$1,500 for half and hour
* L$500 for each additional 15 minutes
* L$2,000 for 15 min SL voice
* L$3,000 for 30 min SL voice
The developing virtual world brought new sexual ethics to the forefront, and books like Regina Lynn's The Sexual Revolution 2.0, Audacia Ray's Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads and Cashing In on Internet Sexploration and Tim Guest's Second Lives: A Journey Through Virtual Worlds attempted to navigate what was fair in virtual love. "In the Bible it says something about thinking carnally about another woman is being unfaithful," Guest said at the time. "I don't think people nowadays would agree with that, and similarly, I think people who have online sex don't see it as cheating. It's morally okay, a pocket they can put those desires into where they won't threaten their real-life relationship."
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Quails spend very little time in the air or in the water but spend a lot of time on the ground. They will eat plants, seeds, low hanging fruits, flowers, and leaves. Young quail will eat an occasional insect.
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Quails eat insects and seeds.
A quail will mostly eat seeds, including acorns. Other common foods are alfalfa sprouts, cabbage, small insects, and, on occasion, small amounts of grass.It is important that a quail be fed many insects during the first few days of its life - though quail are mostly herbivorous, protein is important to their growth.
The diet of the quail varies depending upon the time of year or the individual's age or sex. Quail mostly eat seeds, but sometimes they will eat invertebrate animals. You can find more information here: http://home.flash.net/˜falline/ocrQuail.htm
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The quails like to nest in open grasslands and forest clearings leaving them open to attacks from predators. Domestic animals such as cats are more than big enough to hunt quails
Larger bird of prey, example eagle.
Quails are seed eaters but will also take insects and similar small prey.
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The pollen count is the number of grains of pollen in one cubic metre of air. High pollen count ranges from 50 to 149 grains of pollen in every cubic metre of air. The pollen count is usually given as part of the weather forecast during the spring and summer months.
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Allergic Rhinitis (commonly called hay fever) is a reaction caused by inhaling airborne particles, such as pollen. Out of the more than 67 million Americans who suffer from allergies, 24-40 million suffer from an airborne allergy, such as hay fever. These allergies are caused by pollen, pet dander, dust particles, and mold spores.
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The pollen count in the atmosphere today is very high. Pollen count is the amount of particles or grains of pollen in a given amount of air. High pollen count ...
Pollen count is the total number of grains of pollen in a cubic metre of air, sampled within a day. The final results are used to give local pollen counts, normally ...
I am willing to bet the cause of all the bad allergies in Rochester, New York on Monday, August 30th is a high pollen count. High pollen is always hard on allergies ... | http://www.ask.com/question/what-is-a-high-pollen-count | dclm-gs1-302380000 |
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D-nice's settings don't require service menu access.
You heard you can import them, without saving, into Aperture then export to the thumbdrive.
Thanks for the response CC. It just seemed a bit odd what happened. Hope your tv works out.
So what do you mean by adapter? You just push the cable into the back of the tv and then the wall, no other parts needed. This is just wrong, can you post a picture of your power cord and tv where it plugs in? You can just get the one from your PC and use it temporarily.Sorry MrItaly for continuing this in your thread.
Ahh, makes sence, hard to beat a good XP system:)
Not sure I follow this Ian. I'm thinking the 720 broadcast is scaled to 1080i in the DVR then to the tv and the tv scales it to 768P.
If you are thinking about one of these tv's run don't walk and forget about sale prices, they won't go any lower.
Common sense will tell you that but that's an issue for another thread. I guess there's some science to it, probably has to do with tendencies and averages. I entered all the posted settings and like mine better.
Yea there is:) On mine I just turned it on and set it how I liked and was good to go. Doing his procedure is not a requirement. The 100 hours of slides is to get the panel as close to his samples as you can but can get Close by normal viewing. The slides/aging process is recommended if you are hiring a pro to come in and calibrate your tv and want it done as soon as possible.
You may want to watch out for static images and to run them about 15% or less of the time. Can you plug in and use a BD/DVD player or OTA antenna to get some hours on the tv? Just try to run full screen video most of the time and maybe run the contrast low with static images displayed until you get some hours on it. Also change the Standard picture setting to cinema or custom or other setting. Change the panel to mid brightness. You can put in whatever settings you want...
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Raised partly in Los Angeles, Kim’s a curious case of a filmmaker with one foot in foreign cinema and the other planted firmly in the US indie landscape, and “For Ellen,” which was filmed in the wintry environs of upstate New York, has a distinct sense of place. But the director is asking a lot of audiences to accept Paul Dano as an egotistical hard-rock singer. The actor specializes, often wonderfully, in tremulous passive-aggressiveness, and he’s so pale and uncertain he haunts his own movies like a ghost.
“For Ellen” asks us to buy him as Joby Taylor, a tattooed train wreck who’s on the outs with his bandmates and who drives into a small town to sign divorce papers with a long-estranged wife (Margarita Levieva). From what little we learn, Joby’s band had one successful album followed by years of rancor; at best, he’s a demigod given to whining and temper tantrums. When Dano throws a fit, though, he seems like Axl Rose after a cold shower; there’s no weight to his fury. Even the obligatory goatee seems glue-sticked on.
Why should we care? Because Kim wants us to see Joby through other people: the unforgiving mask of the ex-wife, the sweet naivete of his inexperienced young lawyer (Jon Heder, finally leaving Napoleon Dynamite in the rear-view mirror), especially the clear, exacting blue eyes of Ellen (Shaylena Mandigo), the 6-year-old daughter he’ll be signing away his rights to.
Kim knows how to work with children, as anyone knows who saw the heartbreaking 2008 film “Treeless Mountain,” about two South Korean sisters abandoned by their mother. She’s able to see things from their level, without corn or condescension, and she trusts their take on the adult world. So when Ellen says to Joby, early on in the two-hour visit his ex-wife’s lawyer has allowed, “Why didn’t you come see me before?” he and we are speared by her directness. He doesn’t have much of an answer, and, in that instant, Joby understands his failure.
The two scenes the father and daughter have together are the heart of “For Ellen,” and they’re tender and observant and funny and utterly without adornment. Something about Mandigo’s gravity brings Dano’s performance down to earth; for once Joby has to respond to someone.
Elsewhere this semi-plotted film indulges in an open-endedness that yaws between the pretty and the pretentious — Reed Morano’s scuffed yet poetic cinematography is a high point — and the ending lifts the final scenes of 1970’s “Five Easy Pieces,” either because Kim wants to pay homage or because she thinks we’ve forgotten it. Nothing here, of course, conveys the conflicted life force of Jack Nicholson in that movie. But I’m not sure even Nicholson could get us to feel Joby’s raw panic and pain the way Dano does in those two short scenes. “For Ellen” tries one’s patience, but what works, works for keeps.
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Elise Brown (four aces) and Charlotte Kruse each had 10 assists and Carolyn Monette contributed three kills and two aces to lead the visiting Rangers (8-1, 5-0 Midland A). Set scores were 26-24, 25-21, 25-23. Captains Sam Murphy (15 service points, two aces), Julia Johnson (six kills) and Victoria Futphen (eight service points, two aces) sparked the Mountaineers (7-3, 2-3).
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The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) is a federation of 39 separate health insurance organizations and companies in the United States. Combined, they directly or indirectly provide health insurance to over 100 million Americans. The history of Blue Cross dates back to 1929, while the history of Blue Shield dates to 1939. The Blue Cross Association dates back to 1960, while its Blue Shield counterpart was actually created in 1948. | http://www.bright.com/employers/blue-cross-blue-shield-association-jobs-838239/ | dclm-gs1-302530000 |
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Also, despite the reforms, the Tribune found that even now the state lacks safeguards to weed out baby sitters who watch children while living in the homes of sex offenders and other felons deemed too dangerous for the program. Based on those findings, the state is vowing further reforms.
Still, the Tribune's findings are frustrating to Sen. Matt Murphy, R-Palatine, who pushed for the reforms mandating better checks to weed out illegal arrangements.
"You're talking about not only the state sanctioning, but the state creating, an economic incentive for someone with a criminal record to be in a room with a kid," Murphy said. "That's frankly not a situation that I find acceptable."
Program administrators have gotten national recognition for weeding out parents who don't qualify for the subsidies. But records show they've struggled for years to weed out disqualified baby sitters, such as Osborne.
The honor system
She was able to pick the baby sitter, and she told the Tribune she didn't worry about her brother hurting the kids. But she did worry the state would object.
"I thought he would be rejected," she said, "but they didn't. I never got a call. They never asked about it."
They should have. The program has long barred those convicted of sex crimes and the most violent felonies. But Osborne wasn't spotted because of how the form was filled out. It asked him if he had been convicted of any crimes and, if so, which ones. His response showed "drug trafficking" — a crime that at the time didn't disqualify him.
He didn't mention the prison stints for rape, robbery and kidnapping, which would have.
And there's no record anyone checked further. | http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-sex-offender-baby-sitters-20110828,0,3026277.story | dclm-gs1-302650000 |
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Demand-side vs. Supply-side
Here’s a post from Robert Reich, who was Bill Clinton’s Labor Secretary, and is a union sympathizer and all-around nice guy.
Reich’s thesis is very simple. He says that the economy is now in a depression, with the “fully loaded” unemployment rate (including people who have stopped looking for work and people working part-time) at 15.6%. The top unemployment rate in the Great Depression was 25%.
Reich’s prescription is equally simple. The government has to spend far, far more than it has been. Like Paul Krugman, he faults Obama not for being a radical, but for not being radical enough. Obama, in other words, needs to spend more.
Spend on what? All the same stuff you’ve been hearing about. Solar panels and windmills. Universal health care. Public transportation systems. Reich, refreshingly, goes the full Keynesian mile and speaks what others have merely fantasized about: he also wants to put Americans to work weatherizing other people’s homes and building more (unneeded) buses and trains with Detroit’s unused car-making capacity. In short, it’s the old “pay someone to dig a hole and then fill it up again” idea, refuted by Bastiat and embraced by Keynes.
You couldn’t get a more pure expression of demand-side dogma.
And unless the political winds take a 180-degree turn, some version of this is precisely what is going to happen in America. No one who has the attention of the administration is making the case that there might be something wrong with this picture.
Let’s go back to Economics 101 (and please forgive me for repeating things you already know). The government can effectively substitute public demand for private demand at a time (like now) when private demand has become severely diminished. But it doesn’t necessarily follow that demand creates supply.
Macroeconomic policy is measured these days in terms of the unemployment rate. Fair enough, that’s the most politically meaningful barometer of economic health, and macroeconomic management in a democracy is at root a political exercise.
But over time, it’s just as important to increase the aggregate production of goods and services in the economy. You really can’t have a sustainable government-driven economy unless it’s a highly productive one. Socialism is a luxury affordable only by rich societies, a lesson learned before our eyes by the USSR.
And that’s where the supply-side comes back into play. As I said, supply doesn’t necessarily increase just because demand does. Supply only increases when the risk-adjusted returns to capital are high enough to justify the additional investments in productive capacity. And that goes double in a time like now, when a big part of the cost of capital consists of retiring obsolescent capacity.
That’s where Obama is making his biggest mistake. He has chosen to make business, and business leaders, the bad guys in his crusade to remake American life in his own image. CEOs are today’s serpents in the garden of Eden.
How wrong he is. His vision of an American economy operating of the government, by the government, and for the government simply can’t work unless business leaders are able to make the needed investments.
How? Easy. Eliminate all taxes on business income and capital gains, eliminate export tariffs, and reduce regulation. Now that would be a radical.
Is that going to happen? Well, Mr. Obama? Just how much of a radical are you, really? | http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2009/04/04/demand-side-vs-supply-side/ | dclm-gs1-302660000 |
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Written on Pope says he won't judge gay priests:
in response to golfdad:
It's much easier to believe God created the universe and everything in it then to believe in a series of unbelievable circumstances bringing order from chaos (which goes against science) and evolution with no transitional fossils.
Agreed. Actually, application of Occam's razor to the origin of the Earth and human kind favors God instead of an incredibly unlikely chain of accidents born out of chaos. Creation is simple, chain of elegant unlikely accidents synthesizing life from chaos is complex. God wins via Occam's razor.
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in response to darkstar:
Dr. Alexander's book is evidence of nothing more than a delusional account of his oxygen-deprived, fantasy-prone, hallucinating brain, that wasn't even considered clinically dead in the first place. I have a degree in cognitive neuroscience and any first year student would recognize the difference between fact and fantasy. Grow up.
Why don't you try reading an authentic science book for a change:
LOL, and I have a degree in nuclear physics. Anyone can claim anything here on the good ole anono-net so I call BS on your BS as well as any fictitious MS or ppppbtttthD.
Once again, read the book. Dr Alexander is being trotted out for a public ridiculing by his peers because he broke the standard issue code of scientific denial of anything form of existence beyond the physical world. He knew this before publishing his story and in fact mentions it gave him pause at first. The neuro science community is steadfast in their oxygen deprived dying brain theory for all NDE's, and certainly that condition may account for many reported NDE's, but not this one. He was on a ventilator for breathing, they were going to pull the plug. That is close enough to clinically dead. His "esteemed colleagues" are likely chastising him for stepping out of line and straying from the company slogan, so to speak. Those who's only religion is science often seem to have the narrowist of minds...
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You call that debunked? Hardly. The fact remains the neural cortex was flat lined, throughout. An emergency room physician with limited experience, going up against a professor from Harvard Medical school in the area of neuro science, when neuro science is the professor's area of expertise, a professor who has numerous peer reviewed works published on neuro surgery?
I'm going to take a wild guess and say you're an unbeliever with a mind closed to anything that might suggest your unbelief is errant, thus you cling to any attempt to debunk NDE's. Dr. Alexander himself was an unbeliever, one who held fast to the same theory most other neuro surgeons say about NDE's-- that they are hallucinations of a dying or short circuiting neural cortex. He had patients during the course of his career who he had operated on who's NDE's he patently dismissed as the hallucination phenomena. He absolutely did not believe. Until it happened to him. He met a dead relative during the NDE whom he never knew, met, nor ever laid eyes upon even a photo of her during life because he was adopted as an infant and it was his biological sister whom he only discovered well after NDE. if you read his book (which you won't because it might rock your secular liberal beliefs) you would see that the one thing he realized was missing from his NDE vs. others he had listened to during the course of his unbelieving pre-coma years, was he never met a dead relative during the NDE. Then years afterwards, he discovers his biological sister who died before his NDE, see's her photo and its the woman he met during the NDE. Of course, one can always fall back on "I don't believe him, he's making it up."
Also, Dr Alexander was not "weaned" out of the coma and revived back to consciousness as that "debunk" article seems to suggest. They were actually in the process of deciding whether or not to disconnect the ventilator and let his body die but he spontaneously awoke before they unplugged him. Further, his complete physical and mental recovery from that degree and time length of E.Coli brain infection alone is a medical miracle, and that cannot be debunked.
The appendix of the book consists of Dr Alexander himself listing numerous nuero-scientific theories that could be used to explain what he experienced and he debunks them himself. Dr Alexander's credentials are far and above any of those mentioned in the esquire article that are attacking his credibility, to the point it is obvious professional jealousy on the part of the others. Dr Alexander practiced neuro surgery also at the same Boston hospital where they took most of the Boston Marathon survivors, the prestigious Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard's 2nd largest teaching affiliate. Dr Alexander's credentials smoke those of his "debunkers."
Written on Pope says he won't judge gay priests:
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Pope Francis I has stated that marriage for priests could possibily be on the table at some point:
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in response to Smith-821:
You've got to be kidding! The Catholic Church has paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to victims (young boys) abused by priests and bishops....and now the Church wants to roll out the welcome mat for gay men? What about doing something to promote family values? Like allowing priests to marry???
You are equating pedophilia to homosexuality. That is not a valid comparison, as any sex crimes investigator could tell you.
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It's only a sin to people who can't tell the difference between a primitive superstition and common sense.
Once you grow up and quit having imaginary friends, it's pretty obvious that it is none of your business what other people do in their bedrooms.
With regard to your comment about imaginary friends, apparently you are an aethiest. That's fine and your choice, but if you like to read I would encourage you to read the following New Yoork Times #1 Best Seller:
Proof of Heaven
Eben Alexander, MD
Dr Alexander's medical credentials in the area of nuerology are impeccable: He was a professor at Harvard Medical School for 15 years teaching brain surgery. Yes, he was a bonafide brain surgeon you could say, a neuro scientist well versed in the physiological workings of the human brain. He completed fellowships at prestigious teaching hospitals both in Britain and the US. Then he had a NDE (Near Death Experience) which changed his life. His Neuro-Cortex was flat lined for a week. Brain dead, comatose. No possibility whatsoever of any biological ability of the brain to form thoughts or memories during the coma. Yet he came back with a story to tell. You owe it to yourself to read the book if you truly are the objective thinker you claim to be.
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BS. They could take those same personal policies and use them to fire anyone they wish. The problem is that this office evidently works at the "Pleasure" of the Mayor.
It's a done deal now so why is the Mayor putting on the dog and pony show?
I'm sure that Cliff Weaver is qualified on paper but I question his abilty to work with everyone as well as Sherman did. The one thing that Sherman did well was to get along with everyone. That's what needed to bring the different personalities together in the Fire, Police and other safety orientated agencies.
Sherman has been forming these good relationships over the past 23 years. Cliff is much more reserved that Sherman. I knows them both and have worked with them both at times. Both are good men but they have very different demeanor's.
Sherman is much more friendly and outgoing that Cliff. But Cliff has been in the GOP politics ever since he was in High School at Central under the tutelage of former city councilman and central teacher David Kohler. So Cliff will fit right into this new city administration. I just wonder how he will get paid for both being a District Chief or whatever he is now with the EFD and the extra 50K that the EMA pays their director? What a huge chunk of change.
Perhaps we should get the state to change the laws so that they can just make the fire chief the EMA director and be done with the EMA. Just move that money over to the EFD and or EPD as they are the ones that do all the real work when we have a disaster. Do we really need an EMA office that can't even afford to drive a car with a working transmission?
When the EPD officers are driving brand new Hemi Chargers? I saw three of them at a traffic stop on the Lloyd just the other day. They sure look PURTY! And don't get me started on those new Police Jeeps that are diving by guys that live in Warrick County. Wondering what kind of gas mileage a Jeep gets? It's certainly not a Toyota Prius. It's a long way from downtown Evansville or the City High Schools to Zoar Church Road. I think that red Police Jeep is the one for Harrison HS.
Oh, and yes the Mayor was putting on the DOG and PONY show for the media on this issue.
The police cars have the base V6 engine not the Hemi V8. They are the most fuel efficient patrol cars the dept has ever fielded. The Jeeps were free, donated by a local dealership. It would have been fool hardy not to accept the dealerships's offer of the custom decaled Jeeps. What's your point?... not that you routinely have one.
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Translation: someone's uptick got stuck in their Thesaurus.
No translation necessary if one is capable of reading at or above the 12th grade level.
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Chief Bolin seems to be doing all sorts of innovative things with both equipment acquisition as well as strategy and tactics. This is not a law enforcement deficit that begets these increases in the referenced UCR crime categories, it is a societal deficit. More people are becoming criminally inclined due to a myriad of reasons which are best left to folks like Professor Melinda Roberts @ USI to explain. Crime, sociology, and economics are thoroughly intertwined and the "blame" for increases in crime usually cannot be laid at the feet of any single government entity. People desire a simple answer but the issue is far too complex for that. Law enforcement can and should be proactive but proactivity can only influence crime rates to a point. There has to be some positive social influences brought into play to go to work on the root causes of the social problems and also the human behavior that is creating the uptick in reported crime rates.
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Where is Rick Santorum? Where is Pence?
I am sure that all of the pro life folks are chipping in to help these already here children eat.
Carrying a child to term is very difficult.
Any person can carry a sign on the sidewalk.
What a crock. The single largest pro-life advocation organization in the United States is the Catholic Church, and guess who is the next largest provider of social services in the United States second only to the federal government? The Catholic Church through their outreach program known as Catholic Charities.
So yes, Einstein, plenty of pro-life folks are doing plenty to aid the poor.
And Protestant Denominations are right there hand-in-hand with Catholics doing all manner of charity work to help the poor, all in compliance with God's Word, which by the way is Pro Life. Learn it. Live it. Love it.
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"...and creation of an interagency group to find and prosecute corruption and white-collar crimes."
EPD and VCSO might benefit from a task force concept with federal agent(s) in that category of criminal activity, given that it would be adequately funded with federal dollars.
Probably one specific area that needs some task force attention is the crime of producing and distributing counterfeit money. I think many local retail merchants would agree. But again, local agencies' budgets are very tight and from what I know their case loads are high, so an influx of federal money to these local agencies to aid enforcement in these categories may help bring about exactly the sort of result Mr. Hogsett is seeking.
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Hey, my password still works!
Written on Advice for safe online shopping:
Microsoft's anti-spyware is titled "Windows Defender" and is a free download from Micrsoft's site.
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Well EVVVoter, that may be true of the merchant agreement, but what Sgt Gulledge said still makes practical sense. The unit he commands sees a high volume of crime reports where a debit or credit card is used by a thief, and in the vast majority of cases if the point-of-sale cashier or associate had simply requested or checked ID the fraud would have been prevented.
So I ask you, considering the absolutely mind boggling dollar amount of credit/debit card fraud losses absorbed by the banking system in this country annually, just how much practical sense does the quoted subsection of that purported merchant policy/agreement make? What it DOES is it affords THIEVES a measure of protection at the point of sale, because it sure does the card holder, the bank, and law enforcement no favors.
Written on USI students cold to idea of a draft:
Rangel's draft proposal was nothing but shockmanship politics, and I'm surprised, well not really, that the C&P would "take it to the streets" for comment. Rangel is just trying to garner attention. His proposal was for everyone up to age 42 to be draft eligible, no or very limited exceptions.
America is clearly best served by the volunteer system we have in place that produces the most professional and highly skilled soldiers we have ever fielded... regardless of what guys like Rangel and Kerry might have us believe.
There is a time for military draft, but now is not it.
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WWJD, since this "holiday" season is much about Him? Maybe He would remind us to tone down the Retail Frenzy and offer our hand to one another (instead of biting it like the incident 2ufrmme described).
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Outstanding to see it running on schedule, given the obstacles encountered. Big thumbs up!
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Katy, no need to paraphrase the word representative. It can be argued that regardless of party affiliation, the world of Washington politics no longer "represents" most voters anyhow. Republican or Democrat it doesn't seem to matter, the Washington political machine can have a devouring effect on any elected representative if they're not on guard for it.
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"Schiro admits he raped and murdered Luebbehusen, but he feels he's paid his price."
Speaks volumes about his twisted outlook. This man does not need to be walking among the rest of us...
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Nothing wrong with a regulated hunt-harvest of deer. Necessary to control over population. It actually benefits the deer population to cull it in this way. Deer harvest is a win-win.
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Sigecom: Here's your chance to step up to the plate and increment your customers' bandwidth free of charge, in a move to match your competitor.
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Heroes, every one of them.
Written on Hermann, backers air Levco gripes:
Reaper, the topics of politics and religion do more to divide people than unite them, would you agree with this statement? Seems to create a lot of strife among people who normally get along quite well otherwise.
Written on Hermann, backers air Levco gripes:
No Reaper, no lunch deals. I have to work for Johnnyringo, so I'd rather just leave this alone. Its gotten way out of hand, my fault.
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Sorry to disappoint or not to entertain with constant and timely replies, but I have other demands on my time higher on the list than sitting pinned to a pc all day keeping this train wreck going.
Now, having said the above I'll go ahead and admit that my comments are obviously the reason the train left the tracks. One thing always I do, is admit when I'm wrong, so I'll eat crow and say it here: I was wrong. I stirred the pot too much. I polluted an important and intelligent debate. I was wrong to come off like I did and talk in a condescending manner. I used the term elitist in a previous post. Looks like that pretty much describes my demeanor throughout this debate. I'm sorry. If my apology is not accepted, or if it draws more disparaging remarks about me, then I understand. Let me have it. I deserve it.
P.S. Johnnyringo, ironic you would choose the name of an outlaw for your handle given that this debate was about law and order. Do I really come off as a loner? Perhaps I am. Never thought of it that way, though. Maybe its because I can tend to be an arrogant ass, or maybe its because I'm also happy doing my own thing and don't really seek out group socialization. Just the way I was born.
P.S #2: 'Misty Blue' was a song first by Ella Fitzgerald, then later by a 70's artist, but interpret it as you wish.
Written on Hermann, backers air Levco gripes:
Gosh Jerry, after your 11:03pm post, I'm ready to vote for you in the Mayoral race in a couple years. I almost started hearing the theme from the movie Patton start fading up in the background as I was reading that...
Written on Hermann, backers air Levco gripes:
You keep referring to facts but you have yet to provide proof of more than 23 officers supporting Nick Hermann's campaign. 95% of 285 is 270 officers. That would include a number of supervisory officers who's rank would (to the public) carry extra weight, so I would think if they were as passionate about the campaign as you are they would be more than willing to sign on. I don't dispute that officers support Hermann, but the percentages are not as skewed as you are spinning. Closer to 50/50 I'd say.
P.S. I've seen Rainey eat, no way am I committing to buying his lunch... ;~)
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End of disclaimer.
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My, I've really worked you officers into a lather, haven't I? Well, I guess I'm stuck with everyone labeling me as being a lawyer in the prosecutor's office no matter what I say, whether its true or not. Billy, say hi to Bryan for me when he gets back from Florida. Jerry, did Tracy get the basketball coaching spot or not (?), I never heard different.
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The only one of you so far that has shown any modicum of prudence regarding the making of assumptions is reaper, and I say this because he (or she) qualified his/her stmt about my purported employment as a conditional guess. The rest of you are just assuming I work within the prosecutor's office. In absolutely no post ever have I stated that i work in the prosecutor's office. Not in this article or any others I have ever psoted comments within. Honestly, officer Bolin, it disturbs me that a police officer such as yourself is so quick to draw conclusions with no facts upon which to anchor said conclusions. You just assumed several articles ago, that I work for Stan Levco. I found your reckless assumption so entertaining that I set the hook and gave you some line. Its been fun reeling you in these past weeks, but I think you and everyone else need to step back and realize that you don't know where I work. I hope you don't assume so recklessly at work. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and make an assumption of my own, to wit: that you do not engage in such reckless conjecture on the job. I base that upon my knowledge of the level of training most local officers possess, which is usually high.
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All I have to say, is I'll see you all on here Wednesday after work while you're all washing down your bites of Humble Pie with swigs of humility.
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rooster73, once again you take an overly simplistic view of the circumstances. It is an easy cop-out to play the blame game and attach fault to the prosecutor's office for an aquittal. There are many factors. If you interacted with police officers daily as I do, you would hear their frustration with what has become known as the "CSI effect." This relates to juries. I know that the LEO's on this forum know to what I refer. More and more often juries seem to be holding law enforcement, and this includes the police as well as the prosecutor, to a standard of "beyond ALL doubt", instead of reasonable doubt. They are expecting a level of forensic detail to be achieved that they see in fictional television programs. The police and prosecution put up an excellent case recently in a rape trial that resulted in split verdict (aquittal on rape, guilty on lesser included D felony). I can assure that the police crime scene techs and the detectives did an excellent job on that case and the deputy prosecuting attorney presented it eloquently and aggressively.
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"suck up to law enforcement?" Your demeanor is beginning to erode into what seems to be becoming the standard for Herman supporters on this forum, that is, arrogance and elitism. Please try to keep it polite, as the caliber and the attitude of supporters often reflects upon the candidate they support. I spun nothing. I simply submitted observations. Your tactics appear to mimmick tactics of those with no substance behind their argument, i.e., stay on the offense, keep your opponent off balance and tied up playing defense. Classic political strategy, yet I thought I read above where this was not supposed to be about politics e.g. donkey vs. elephant?
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But reaper, have you ever thought it possible that the reason so many cases are pled is because of the strong cases built by the officers and detectives of the EPD, VCSD, ISP? Perhaps it could be that the defense side of our adversarial system of justice sees this and does not desire to go to trial? I'm just saying that the answer is not always so simple-- in this case that it is all Stan Levco when it comes to the decision to plea. There are many factors involved and one we cannot dismiss is the solid cases presented to Mr. Levco by our highly trained and professional local law enforcement officers.
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oops. 23 officers, not 29. My bad. (reaches for morning coffee...)
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I can't wait until Tuesday night! The Levco Landslide is going to be truly historic. I find it ironic that there are 285 sworn officers on EPD, around 100 on VCSD, yet Officer Bolin can only muster 29 officers and deputies willing to support Mr. Hermann? That's less than 10%. I'm not so sure that is a feather in their hat.
I personally do not have a problem with Nick Hermann. His ambition and legal knowledge are commendable, but he simply does not have enough experience yet to take on the job. I simply believe based on my experience "in the business", that Stanley Levco is the better qualified candidate. Are there other equally qualified candidates? Very likely yes. But I do not believe Mr. Hermann to be equally or better qualified-- not yet anyhow. Its actually hard not to like Mr. Hermann once you met him, he is a nice young man and he sets his sights high, but in this race experience does count.
Stan Levco for Vanderburgh County Prosecutor!
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The township assessor system we have state-wide is a throw-back to the pioneer days. Its antiquated, inefficient, and a nearly chaotic mess. But don't take my word for it, ask the Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute. They pretty much sum things up in their Property Tax Equalization Study Report dated October 2005:
Whichever candidate wins the election as county assessor, will have a job on his or her hands in the coming years if compliance to the IFPI's recommendations is mandated.
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All we're doing in Iraq, regardless of our original intentions is putting our enemy on the throne with our blood and money. The Shiite regime we are propping up will align with Iran adn solidify an alliance as soon as the last U.S. combat unit departs. Iraq is already overflowing with Iranian influence. And once the Shiite regime we put on the throne wages all out civil war (whether they want to or not, the Sunnis will force it on them upon our departure) their Iranian backing will emerge them victorious. They will then erode into a theocracy similar to Iran. And the threat to the U.S. that Iran currently is will have doubled in force.
There are no easy answers in the morass that is post-Hussein Iraq. It is true Sadddam Hussein was a brutal dictator, but it is beginning to look like that is what it takes to maintain order in that region.
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This is good news. The CO2 sequestration sounds interesting, as long as Indiana Geo Survey is in on it hopefully the science will be worked out.
It is great to see Indiana setting up to become a leader in alternative fuels production.
With Wyoming being the new Saudi Arabia of natural gas, however, one has to ponder if it would also be a good idea to start on a west-midwest pipeline so midwestern and great lakes region states can buy Wyoming gas.
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and the Last Word Award goes to... The_Reaper.
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...and I'm off to bed. I think I'll count votes for Stanley Levco dropping into the ballot box instead of the traditional sheep jumping over a fence...
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stuffedpuppylover, if I were a wagering man, I'd bet you might be Mr. Hermann himself commenting here. That was a very well reasoned and thought out response, unlike some recent others.
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The_Reaper, "law dictionary"? I craft my responses from practical experience interpretting the law on a dialy basis, sir. No "law dictionary" needed here. But if it makes you feel better that you have classified me a book worm of sorts, then so be it. My education has proven a valuable investment-- provocative remarks and keyboard flexes from provocateurs in cyber anon-land notwithstanding, I will continue to value it and reap the associated benefits.
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Bolinfamily, your previous comment smacked of being anything but "good-hearted." Provocation will not work on me, sir. As far as forecasting election results goes, anything is possible. The voters of Vanderburgh county are a fine lot, and in their judgement I trust Stanley Levco will see another term as prosecutor of Vanderburgh county. Experience counts and the voters know this.
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bolinfamily, given your apparent short fuse, I will not address your comments further, as it would only invite further provocation from you
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stuffedpuppylover, you seem to believe that the prosecution is soley responsible for sentencing. This is not the case. The judiciary's responsibiity for sentencing is both direct and weighty. While it is true that the prosecution can make recommendations as to what the state would like to see regarding executed prison time, etc., the final and binding decision rests with the presiding magistrate.
As I'm sure you are aware (or not...), the judiciary must take into account the current population density within IDOC. To expect our judges and magistrates to recklessly neglect to craft an equitable sentence is not only short sighted but bordering on being accusatory of them as well, regarding these allegations of brevity in reference to sentencing. The sentences handed down by our local judiciary are anything but slipshod, sir, of that I can assure you. There are many factors taken into account; it is a process bound by tempered jurisprudence. I hope you can appreciate this.
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Stuffedpuppylover, I can assure you that the basic concept I cited regarding our criminal justice system also anchors theories put forth in university level textbooks as well as law school publications. I know, I've studied them, and have the degree to prove it. No need to attempt to be dirisive of my level of education with references to "elentary school civics" (BTW, its elementary, not elentary, but I'll concede that your desire to belittle me perhaps got the best of you whilst attempting to type, and I'll not attack you personally or be derisive because you disagree with my viewpoint.)
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"The point of a prosecutor is to change people's behavior"
Incorrect. It is the role of the correctional system, not the prosecution, to rehabilitate. In the criminal justice system there are three components: Law enforcement, Judiciary, and Corrections. Prosecution falls under law enforcement. Law enforcement's role is not behavior modification! It is enforcement of the law. The police actually have an expanded role when community policing is factored in, but the prosecution is purely enforcement. That Mr. Hermann would misinterpret this basic concept of our criminal justice system does not reflect well on him as a candidate for the office which he seeks. To make such a blatantly incorrect statement about the role of the office sought reflects poorly on qualifications, if you ask me.
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bolinfamily, do you perhaps have signatures of these officers, or perhaps did most of them refrain from signing on?
Vanderburgh county is not a valid comparison to Warrick or Gibson in the realm of criminal prosecutions. The case load that passes through the offices of Gibson and Warrick combined is not even close to that handled by Mr. Levco's office. A young and relatively inexperienced lawyer might be fine for these low volume counties (in comparison to Vanderburgh), but here we need a seasoned attorney heading up our prosecutor's office. | http://www.courierpress.com/users/MistyBlue/comments/ | dclm-gs1-302670000 |
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Lightning Safety Awareness Week is June 23-29, 2013
"When thunder roars, go indoors!"
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Lightning is an underrated killer, responsible for an average of 54 deaths per year across the country. Of all storm-related hazards, only flooding and tornadoes claim more lives per year on average, and long term fatality averages are comparable between lightning and tornadoes. Yet, because lightning rarely causes mass destruction of property or mass casualty events, the dangers associated with it are underappreciated.
There are an estimated 25 million cloud-to-ground lightning strikes per year in the United States, each one capable of seriously injuring or killing anyone unlucky enough to be struck. Aside from the average of 54 deaths, an average of 500+ lightning injuries are reported each year, although this number is likely underreported because many people do not seek help, and doctors may not record a patient as suffering a lightning injury. Unfortunately, lightning strike survivors often suffer a variety of long-term physical and mental effects, including mood changes, memory loss, sleep disorders, pain, numbness, stiffness, dizziness, irritability, fatigue, muscle spasms, and depression.
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silverfly's avatar
Can you be summoned for jury duty if you're not registered to vote?
Asked by silverfly (4025 points ) April 30th, 2010
Is there any way to get out of jury duty?
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Ponderer983's avatar
Yup…they always find you. One has nothing to do with the other
TILA_ABs_NoMore's avatar
Yep you sure can (be summoned for jury duty if not registered that is). Im in Texas so I dont know it makes a difference, but I’ve always been able to get out of jury duty playing the single working mom card. ;-)
sleepdoc's avatar
@TILA_ABs_NoMore the judge I had in TX wouldn’t let anybody out for any reason.
TILA_ABs_NoMore's avatar
@sleepdoc Hmmm…guess I’ve gotten lucky so far then! I just tell them that I can’t afford to take any time off (which is true) and Ive been dismissed!
Dog's avatar
I thought they selected via DMV records… but I could be wrong.
sleepdoc's avatar
@TILA_ABs_NoMore… man you are lucky!
tinyfaery's avatar
In CA they use DMV records and voter rolls to select jurors. Another state might have different methods.
DrasticDreamer's avatar
It varies from state to state. Many states choose people who are registered to vote, DMV records, those who have a Department of Public Safety card, property tax rolls, etc.
Sarcasm's avatar
Depends on your state.
In CA, voter registry as well as DMV records are used. (well, I guess I’m a broken record here after @tinyfaery and @Dog)
Now, about getting out of it? (These are all from San Diego courthouse. I assume other counties/states share the same or similar things)
If the specific time of year is inconvenient, go to the courthouse and talk to whomever’s in charge of jury, and ask them to reassign you in a few months (I heard you can delay up to 12mo).
When you get the jury summons, there are a few excuses you can check off, things like extreme financial hardship, or lack of transportation.
If neither of those two works out, when you actually go to the courthouse for your jury duty, try to go on a Thursday (or whatever the last day of the week is for your courthouse). That will statistically be the slowest day.
If you’re unlucky enough to get a case on Thursday, then there are still ways to get out. The prosecutor, defense, as well as judge, will ask all of their potential jurors questions. The defense and prosecution will be asking questions to make sure you’re someone who’s likely to be on their side. The judge will ask you other questions, like “If this case were to go on for the duration of one work week, will anyone here suffer from that?” (at which case you could say “yes I have important classes to get to by next Wednesday” or whatever).
Any of the 3 can dismiss you if they don’t feel you’ll be on their side.
thriftymaid's avatar
In my state, the jury pool is drawn from registered voters. I believe it to be the same in other states but am not sure.
slick44's avatar
Yes yes and yes. they get me every year. talk about bad luck.
slick44's avatar
Good luck trying to get out of it. you better be in a coma. Or an immediate family member has to die, other then that. you’re s.o.l
Dog's avatar
Death of an immediate family member does not excuse a person. My spouse was given a 5 day delay but still had to report for jury duty after his grandmother died in February.
Read the summons carefully to see if you can apply for an exclusion.
slick44's avatar
@Dog… I got out of it when my father died. But as you said, they got back to me in a few months. So i guess no i did not get out of it.
njnyjobs's avatar
Yes, there are ways of getting out of Jury Duty, especially if by so doing it would cause economic hardship on your part (as in missing out on income) or by being too knowledgeble of the case at jury selection process by saying that you have read in the papers, saw on TV, perused the internet, listened on the radio about blah, blah, blah (the merits and demerits of the case)
But at some point in time you will have to own up to your civic duty as an American citizen, citizenship that is taken for granted by many, while remains high on the list of things a lot of people dream of becoming. . . . . especially in AZ now.
jaytkay's avatar
I think dodging jury duty is a dick move.
downtide's avatar
I would love to do jury duty but I’ve never even been picked. I believe that here (in the UK) names are taken from the electoral roll, so yes they only pick people who have registered to vote. Which I have.
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#11velvet_hammer(Topic Creator)Posted 10/9/2012 9:31:09 PM
Gen2000 posted...
Just did the Wilhelm fight and DeathTrap didn't do anything, didn't attack or even draw aggro.
Going by some of the conflicting answers here and from gearbox forums I'm hoping it's just more of DT sometimes glitching out/not understanding how DeathTrap A.I. works instead of being a permanent, intended feature.
Well I'm no liar so these are my results.. Like you said very conflicting means there seems to be some type of problem
#12Alpha218Posted 10/9/2012 9:34:15 PM
Might be the AI trying to do a specific special attack that it doesn't really know how to do against the boss. Try respecing without some of those deathtrap skills.
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#13gzus_ADPosted 10/9/2012 9:39:17 PM
i JUST fought Warden and my Deathtrap was actively attacking him.
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#14Peltar94Posted 10/9/2012 10:35:04 PM
I haven't gotten to far yet with my mechromancer, but it was very effective while fighting boom bewm and captain flynt. What spec are people using with it being ineffective. Maybe it gets confused on big bosses when it tries to use a specific gamechanger attack.
#15stuey4pointoPosted 10/9/2012 10:40:32 PM
#16Jeric735Posted 10/9/2012 10:48:09 PM
stuey4pointo posted...
HollowLegend posted...
well mate, i don't know why you are having such trouble, but my DeathTrap is putting the beatdown on Terra and The Warrior everytime i go to fight them, and with how much health he has, he can take quite a few hits, so far as i've counted he has taken 5 straight smacks from Terra before dying, and so far he has yet to die before i killed The Warrior.
i will put up my build shortly im not sure if that has anything to do with it but still :D.
Hope you get it figured out mate, Gaige is a GREAT character so far, i love her!
how do you love a video game character? your'e pretty much confirmed for a virgin
Hey hey, don't you pick on him, he's not alone. Heh.
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#17LesserAngelPosted 10/9/2012 10:54:34 PM
DeathTrap can't be more usless than Phaselock against end game bosses, I guess I'll have to see for my self.
#18ValedrelPosted 10/9/2012 11:22:06 PM
You say this like at lvl 50 we rely heavily on our action skills. Half of my points are invested into my sirens skill too, but i never use it on the bosses because none of the effects do anything but do like 10k damage. Do you see me crying and moaning that i never use my action skill on end game bosses? No. Did you just power level Gaige, just hoping her bot would wreck even terra?
#19sion4everPosted 10/10/2012 1:40:52 AM
I have tried fighting Verm on 2.5 an he did well. The damage was crap, but he ran around shooting lasers at the boss and managed to take some aggro. Also he wasn't destroyed instantly like a commando's turret.
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#20HaZZaRdbOyPosted 10/10/2012 1:50:29 AM(edited)
LesserAngel posted...
Phaselock is far from useless if you go ruin. You will do elemental damage and slag so you can then shoot it. And if you're playing co-op and get revive skill, phaselock will just revive your downed allies. Far from useless if you know what you are doing. | http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/638785-borderlands-2/64281629?page=1 | dclm-gs1-302940000 |
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I hope certain Pokemon have adverse reactions to pokeamie
#1javel34Posted 7/15/2013 5:27:45 PM
Voltorb/electrode should explode. That would be awesome.
#2Hierarchy225Posted 7/15/2013 5:28:27 PM
Voltorb bad touch = Explode.
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#3Great_ReapettePosted 7/15/2013 5:29:26 PM
Gardevoir slaps you if you touch it... there?
#4reannamatorPosted 7/18/2013 10:56:46 AM
What if Pokemon that don't like you simply react badly at first until they're used to you? That would make it interesting. Pokemon would growl at you, nip at your finger, etc. | http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/696959-pokemon-x/66740261 | dclm-gs1-302950000 |
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What level does luxio evolve??
I really need to know..
Accepted Answer
From: Bobscoresagain 4 years ago
Luxio evolve into Luxray at level 30. Nothing else required. He does unfortunately lose the rockstar-style beard though, so whilst you'll get a very powerful pokemon, his awesome rating drops significantly.
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It depnds on multiple factors. 1) how often you use the pokemon 2) If you give it special treats or not 3) Rare Candy can effect it as well 4) then i think gender was another thing
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Luxio evolves into Luxray at level 30.
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"Naughty Dog doesn't know Jak..."
Notably, Jak and Dakster was platforming in the most literal sense. There weren't many enemies, (compared to other platformers) and the challenges weren't very difficult. Even though the game was simplisticly designed, it was too hard to put down...which is exactly why Jak II is such a disappointment.
I think this game takes a lot from other games that have made the grade, but when you take incomplete parts of each, you get very shoddy gameplay. The weapon-esque features of Ratchet and Clank, the Dark Eco Jak that almost spins off from Devil May Cry, and the Car-jacking antics of GTA, are all integrated into this game, but they are done so in a manner that feels sloppy.
The story starts off with Jak and Daxter being teleported through a vortex to Haven City, where Jak is mysteriously captured and tortured with Dark Eco by a man known as the Baron. Daxter comes to the rescue, and you are off to find the Baron, and complete missions for people along the way. All platformers should have simple stories, that unravel quite naturally. Jak II is just the opposite. You'll need to complete about 6 - 7 missions, just before you actually get to your first objective. The story unravels so slowly, and Naughty Dog obviously tried to introduce too many characters, most of which play absolutely no part in the story what so ever. Well, given the story is interesting, it goes by too slowly, and is stretched out far too much.
Theres no doubt that Jak II flaunts some of the best graphics ever seen on any platformer. Its actually on the same level as Ratchet and Clank (quite possibly the definition of next generation platformers). The polys are very high, and the textures are smooth. Even though you can still see some jaggyness here and there, the overall effect of the extra polygons doesn't go by unnoticed.
What sound? The game consistently uses the same songs over and over again when riding through Haven city, and then changes to another song when being chased by the Krimzon Brigade. Thats about it, there are a few instances where different orchestrated songs are intermittently inserted into the cut-scenes, but thats about it. The sound effects aren't much to gauk at either. The same sound effects are used when hitting every single enemy, regardless of them being metallic or organic, its all the same. It may seem small, but things like this take away from the realism, and over all feel. You can tell that audio development isn't Naughty Dog's strong point.
The controls so. There isn't much to be proud of, or anything that hasn't been done before. You are given the ability to double and triple jump, which is kind of far fetched, but when dealing with Jak II, everything goes. Although, sometimes, the controls are so unresponsive. On occassion you'll need to use a double or triple jump to dodge certain enemy attacks, but the double jump is so inconsistent. Sometimes you can press it twice rapidly, and you'll do a small double jump, other times, if you push the jump button twice at the same speed, Jak does nothing, and falls to his doom. Very frusterating. The fire button is R1, which is good enough, but should have been on the face buttons. Not perfect, but it will suffice.
Here is where the game truly suffers. There are several things that are flawed with the gameplay.
1) Yes, you can steal any car you see. BUT, there aren't any secret missions, or any real purpose to using the cars. Nearly the entire game can be completed on foot, with no use of cars. There are very few, and I mean few missions where you actually need to use a vehicle. Not to mention, there are only about 5 different vehicles in the game, just different colour schemes are used. Very lazy on Naughty Dog's part. Even the though the car-jacking is fundamentally useful, it lacks function, which is what every aspect of a game should have.
2) There is a very shoddy auto-aim system. Sometimes the auto-aim works, and sometimes you're stuck running in circles to attack enemies, since you can't get a good shot off. Either way, the weapon system is far from perfect. There are ONLY 4 weapons...a very poor effort by Naughty Dog. Not to mention, that the weapons don't range in damage dealt, with the exception of the Peacekeeper.
3) How many missions do I have to complete to make any head-way in this game?! you have to complete so many arbitrary missions, you begin to think if this game is ever going to take off...which it never does. You'll become bored of this game, and so disgruntled with it before you even meet the Shadow...(no spoilers, so don't ask).
4) This is HARD HARD HARD HARD HARD. This game is unbelievably diffcult. Within the first two missions, you'll be begging for mercy since you'll be getting your ass handed to you. A good example is trying to fight off the sentry tank in the ammunitions factory. You must dodge his cannon, while at the same time jump and double jump your away across moving platforms, while dodging moving Lasers, that summon guns to auto-aim and fire at you, and at the end of it all, you have destroy two generators and get the tank to destroy all the ammunition. That's a mouthful eh? Well get used to it, there isn't a single mission afterward that gets any easier. The few races you do have to complete, are 10 times harder.
5)Whats the deal with the no checkpoints?! There's virtually no checkpoints! You can get through an entire mission and die seconds before you're going to complete it, and you must start right from the beginning. Thats's BS if you tried you buns off, just getting to where you died. Sorry, but a game without checkpoints, is certainly flawed as long as the difficulty is ramped up so incredibly high for a platformer.
6) Granted that each vehicle type has its own physics and damaging qualities, they control worse than the mini plane from GTA3...(you GTA people know what i'm talking about). It takes some major getting used to, as you'll be hitting every vehicle that flies at you, and blow up your hovercraft in the meantime. Not to mention, afterward, you'll be chased and hunted by the Krimzon guard. You can get the hang of it, but it shouldn't be so frustrating to do so.
7) Dark Jak: This is possibly one of the best qualities in the gameplay, and the only thing saving the Gameplay from completely failing. It is rather fun to play as Dark Jak, but his time is short lived, and his powers are minimal. You can aquire different abilites by collecting metalhead gems, but you won't really want to later on. Dark Jak is a very intersting addition to Jak II, but almost plays like a Devil May Cry scenario...Fight enemies, transform, kill enemies, rinse and repeat.
Even though this game seems fun to really isn't, and soon becomes a chore. You'll only find it fun if you can actually stomach all of these poor qualities in the game play.
There certainly are a number of precursor orbs this time around, and collecting them can get you some cool unlockables. There is a list in the main menu, and each requrie an increasing amount of Precursor orbs to unlock. But thats about it. Other than that, you won't want to keep exploring the city as even that becomes a challenge. I recommend once you've completed it, if you complete it all, don't play it again, and return it, or trade it for a better platformer...a la Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando. Overall, no real compelling reason to keep playing.
If there was ever a reason to buy Jak II, it just went down the drain. It was the worst 60 bucks I ever spent in platforming history. Living here in Canada, games are not cheap, and buying this game is a very big disappointment. Once I was finished with it, I returned it the next day. I could only stomach up until about 65% - 70% completed, then it just got way too crazy, and the enemies became too malicious. If anything, rent this game before you buy it...IF you buy it. This definately is not what Naughty Dog made Jak II out to be...very below average.
Reviewer's Score: 6/10 | Originally Posted: 10/17/03, Updated 01/18/05
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Publication numberUS4562639 A
Publication typeGrant
Application numberUS 06/649,629
Publication dateJan 7, 1986
Filing dateSep 12, 1984
Priority dateMar 23, 1982
Fee statusLapsed
Publication number06649629, 649629, US 4562639 A, US 4562639A, US-A-4562639, US4562639 A, US4562639A
InventorsDavid J. McElroy
Original AssigneeTexas Instruments Incorporated
Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
Process for making avalanche fuse element with isolated emitter
US 4562639 A
A programmable device is provided by a thin-oxide avalanche fuse element which is programmed at a voltage below the oxide breakdown level. This device may be used to fix the addresses of faulty rows or columns in a memory having redundant or substitute cells. Upon breakdown, the thin oxide is perforated by small holes which fill with silicon to create short circuit. The source or emitter of the transistor device may be separated from the drain and gate by thick filled oxide.
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What is claimed:
1. A method of making a semiconductor device of the programmed fuse type comprising the steps of:
applying a layer of conductive material on a face of a body of semiconductor material, and patterning the layer to form a program-element gate overlying a program-element area separated therefrom by thin insulator,
forming a heavily-doped drain region in said face adjacent said program-element area and a heavily-doped source-emitter region spaced from said gate,
applying conductive strips on said face to form connections to the heavily-doped regions and gate, and
selectively applying a voltage to said conductive strips at a level less than the dielectric breakdown of said thin insulator to create an electric short between said gate and drain of the program element.
2. A method according to claim 1 wherein the semiconductor body is P-type silicon, the heavily-doped regions are N+, and the conductive material is polycrystalline silicon.
3. A method according to claim 2 including the step of forming a thick field insulator coating separating said source and drain along said face.
4. A method according to claim 2 wherein a coating of thick thermal field oxide is formed on said face before applying said layer, except in the program-element area and what will be the heavily doped regions, but extending between the source and drain regions.
This is a divisional of application Ser. No. 361,011, filed Mar. 23, 1982, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,491,857.
Related Cases: This application contains subject matter also disclosed in any copending application Ser. No. 361,008 and 361,009. filed Mar. 23, 1982 and assigned to Texas Instruments.
This invention relates to semiconductor memory devices and more particularly to a programmable read-only memory and method of making.
Read-only memory (ROM) devices are commonly used for program storage in microcomputer systems or the like. These ROMS have been mask-programmed as in my U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,208,726 or 4,219,836, assigned to Texas Instruments, or electrically programmable (EPROMs) as in my U.S. Pat. No. 4,151,021, assigned to Texas Instruments; both such mask ROMs and EPROMs are N-channel silicon-gate MOS products. For higher speed operation bipolar programmable ROMs (PROMs) are employed; see U.S. Pat. No. 4,209,894, assigned to Texas Instruments. Electrically-erasable programmable memory devices (EEPROMs) are also available as in my U.S. Pat. No. 4,122,544, assigned to Texas Instruments.
Programmable memory devices of the ROM, EPROM or EEPROM types have been very widely used in large volume production measured in many millions of units; however, the continuing trends toward lower cost, shorter access time, higher programming speed, shorter production lead times, higher reliability and reduced operating power have presented constraints for each class of products.
Mask ROMs are low cost in high volume production of a single ROM code, but have the disadvantage of a long lead time from the specification of the code to the delivery of finished devices; this lead time can be many weeks or even months from the equipment manufacturers' standpoint. EPROMs have the advantage of being programmable by the equipment manufacturer, so lead time is virtually zero, but these devices are costly because of the quartz window needed in the package for erasing by ultraviolet light. It has not been practical to deliver EPROMs in cheaper plastic (i.e. opaque) packages because of the problem of testing when erasure is impossible, and because of materials considerations. EEPROMs avoid the use of a quartz window in the package, but require a complex manufacturing process and larger cell size, so these devices will probably have limited use until the cost can be reduced. Bipolar PROMs are excellent for higher speed requirements, but are costly due to the semiconductor processing and cell size.
Programmable cells or devices are also used in fault-tolerant memory devices; that is, memory devices have redundancy in the form of row or columns of cells which are substituted for certain rows or columns containing faulty cells. The memory array is tested after manufacture and the programmable cells used to fix the addresses of the bad rows or columns; in operation an incoming address to the memory is compared and substitution made if a match occurs. Previously, fusable polysilicon links or laser blown links have been the favored methods of implementing the programmable devices. Polysilicon links have the disadvantage of requiring removal of the protective coating on the chip over the fusable link so that a reliable open-circuit fuse blow is obtained. Laser blowing requires elaborate equipment and controls, and must be done before protective coating.
It is therefore the principal object of this invention to provide an improved programmable cell for a memory device and method of manufacture. Another object is to provide a PROM device or programmable cell of low cost and high speed. A further object is to provide a PROM device or programmable cell which can be made by a standard semiconductor manufacturing process.
FIG. 1 is a greatly enlarged plan view of a small portion of a semiconductor chip showing the physical layout of a part of a memory cell array according to the one embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 2 is an electrical schematic diagram of the part of the cell array of FIG. 1;
FIGS. 3a-3d are elevation views in section of the cells of FIG. 1, taken along the lines a--a through d--d, respectively, in FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a memory device using a cell array of FIGS. 1 and 2 according to the invention and FIG. 4A is an elevation view of said device mounted in a plastic package;
FIG. 5a-5c are elevation views in section corresponding to FIGS. 3a and 3b at various stages in manufacture;
FIG. 6 is an elevation view in section of a programmable device according to another embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 7 is an electrical schematic diagram of a circuit using the device of FIG. 6;
FIG. 8 is an electrical schematic diagram as in FIG. 7 according to another embodiment;
FIG. 9 is a timing diagram of voltage or current vs. time in programming the devices of FIGS. 1 or 6;
FIG. 10 is an elevation view in section of a programmable element as in FIGS. 6 or 3a, according to another embodiment; and
FIG. 11 is an electrical schematic diagram of a circuit using the device of FIG. 10.
Referring to FIGS. 1, 2 and 3a-3d, a programmable memory cell array according to one embodiment of the invention is formed on a silicon substrate 10 in which a large number of access transistors 11 are created beneath polysilicon row ("word") address lines 12, with each set of four transistors 11 sharing a program transistor 13. The program transistor 13 contains four separate breakdown edges 13a-13d, one for each memory cell defined by the four-transistor set of FIGS. 1 or 2. Each of the cells in a column is connected to a metal column or "bit" line 14 at a metal-to-silicon contact area 15. A polysilicon strip 16 forms the gate of all of the transistors 13 for two adjacent rows of cells. The silicon substrate or chip 10 usually would contain a large number of cells, such as 64K (2.sup.18 or 65,536) cells in an array partitioned "x8" with 128 rows and 512 columns (in 8 groups of 64 columns), for example. Thus there would be 128 row lines 12, 512 column lines 14, and sixty-four strips 16 on one chip, with 65,536 of the transistors 11.
The access transistors 11 have a gate oxide layer 17 which is thicker than the gate oxide layer 18 for the program transistor 13 as seen in the section views of FIGS. 3a-3d. This difference in thickness facilitates programming at the breakdown edges 13a-13d rather than at the gate oxide 17. For example, the oxide 17 may be 600 Å and the oxide 18 only 300 Å in one embodiment. Otherwise, the memory array is manufactured by a standard N-channel self-aligned silicon-gate MOS process such as that set forth in U.S. Pat. No. 4,055,444, assigned to Texas Instruments.
Source and drain regions for the transistors 11 and 13 are created by N+ implanted or diffused regions 19 in the P-type substrate 10, self-aligned with the polysilicon strips 12 or 16. A thick thermal oxide or "field" oxide coating 20 on the face of the chip 10 surrounds all of the transistors 11 and 13 and the diffused source/drain regions 19. A P+ channel stop region 21 is formed beneath all of the field oxide. A layer 22 of low-temperature deposited oxide on the face of the chip 10 insulates the metal level comprising bit lines 14 from the polysilicon conductor level comprising row lines 12 and strip 16. The deposited oxide 22 is about 10,000 Å, much thicker than gate oxide. Holes are etched in the oxide layer 22 for the metal-to-silicon contacts 15.
The polysilicon row lines 12 form gates 23 for all of the transistors 11, and the polysilicon strips 16 form gates 24 for the program elements 13 in the memory array. The four-transistor set of FIG. 1 is repeated in the array of mirroring the set about lines 25 so that each contact 15 is shared by two adjacent transistors 11, meaning that only 1/2 contact per cell is needed or 32.5K for a 65,768 device. No contact is needed for the ground side of a cell because the adjacent transistor provides a ground side during programming, while the strip 16 is ground return during read operation.
The programming mechanism for the memory cell array thus far described is that of breaking down the thin oxide 18 at a selected one of the edges 13a, 13b, 13c or 13d to create minute holes through the oxide at this edge to be filled with silicon from the gate 24, leaving an electrical short from the N+ region 19 to the gate 24 for a selected cell. The line 16 is grounded in normal operation, so to read the information programmed into the memory array a "1" voltage (e.g. +5 V) on a selected row line 12 will turn on a row of access transistors 11, allowing the condition of one program edge 13a-13d to be sensed by a selected column line 14. Thus, if the edge 13a corresponds to the cell at the intersection of selected row line 12 and selected column line 14, the transistor 11 for this selected cell is rendered conductive via +5 V on gage 23, and if the edge 13a is shorted a "0" will be sensed while if not shorted a "1" is sensed. That is, the line 14 can be discharged toward ground line 16 if shorted, but not if the program edge 13a is open-circuited. To program the edge 13a, the row line 12 for this cell is brought to a programming voltage Vp of about +20 V, and all other row lines 12 are held at ground; the column line 14 for this cell (left-most in FIG. 2) is also brought up to Vp, while the other line 14 for this four-transistor set (second from left in FIG. 2) is held at ground and all other column lines 14 float at high impedence to ground. Under these conditions an avalanche effect occurs at the edge 13a but not at 13b or any of the other such edges. This effect enhances electron tunneling and produces current pulsing in the circuit from line 14 through transistor 11, edge 13a, gate 24 and line 16 to ground. The line 16 is grounded through a resistance of about several Kohm for current limiting purposes. All lines 16 in the array are connected together as seen in FIG. 2. This current pulsing does not occur in any of the other program devices 13 in the array wherein the lines 12 and 14 are not at Vp; in the row with edge 13a the line 12 is high but line 14 is not (except for selected column) so there is no current through the transistors 11, while in the other cells in the same column as edge 13a the line 14 is high but the gates 23 are held low so there can be no current flow in transistors 11. The edge 13b does not program at this time because the line 14 for this cell is grounded so no current flows. The current spikes create holes in the oxide 18 at edge 13a and locally heat the polysilicon or silicon in the vicinity of the minute holes, flowing silicon into these holes to leave electrical shorts; several of these occur within about 100 microseconds, then a steady-state condition is reached in which the voltage on gate 24 rises to a level determined by the IR drop across the resistance from line 16 to ground, serving to limit the current flow through the path including gate 24, edge 13b and the other transistor 11 to the grounded line 14. It is important to note that the programming mechanism is not that of dielectric breakdown of the oxide 18; indeed the programming voltage Vp is chosen to be about 60% of the oxide breakdown strength of about +35 V. Local heating due to reverse P--N junction avalanche breakdown, and bipolar second breakdown, is responsible for the programming, rather than dielectric breakdown. The avalanche breakdown voltage is lowered by the field-plate effect of the gate-to-drain voltage. It is important that the channel length of the transistor 13 (from edge 13a to edge 13b in this example) be long enough to prevent short-channel effects, i.e., the depletion region should not extend the length of the channel at programming voltage, and further that the channel width at the narrowest part of 13 be at least as wide as that of the transistor 11. The source (region 19) for transistor 13 should not have high impedence.
Referring to FIG. 4, a memory device according to an example emobodiment of the invention is an array which contains 128 rows and 512 columns of memory cells as in FIGS. 1 and 2 for a total of 65,536 cells, partitioned to provide an 8-bit or byte-wide output as is usual for microprocessor memory devices. An X decoder 12a selects one-of-128 row lines 12, dependent upon an eight-bit X address from terminals 12b and address buffers 12c. A Y decoder 14a selects eight-of-512 column lines 14 (one-of-64 in each partition) at the output on pins 14b (or input for programming the PROM cells) based on a six-bit Y address from terminals 14c via address buffers 14d. The Y address is used also to select a line 14 for grounding adjacent the selected column line 14 in program mode, and for establising a high impedence float condition on the remaining unselected lines. Each bit of the eight-bit output from the array is connected to one of eight buffers 14e and thus to the eight data terminals 14b. The +5 V supply voltage and ground are applied by Vcc and Vss terminals; the 5 V supply is used for read operations. To program the PROM, a high voltage Vp of about +20 V is applied to a terminal Vp, along with other controls such as PGM as may be desired, depending upon the particular circuit design chosen. A chip select input CS may also be employed as in standard practice. For programming, the high voltage Vp is applied to the selected row line 12 in the PROM cell array, and the high voltage is applied to the some of the eight selected column lines 14 and while Vss is applied to the eight adjacent ground lines 14, depending upon the Y address and the 1's and 0's of the input data byte on the terminals 14b; this programs the gate edges 13a-13d of selected PROM cells.
The array formed on the silicon bar 10, containing 64K bits on a bar less than 200 mils on a side (depending upon the minimum line resolution which determines bit density) is mounted in a standard dual-in-line plastic package of the 28 pin type as seen in FIG. 4a. The cells shown in FIG. 1 or 3a-3d would be on a very minute part of this bar, perhaps only about one or two mils wide.
Turning now to FIGS. 5a-5c, a process for making the PROM according to the invention will be described. The starting material is a slice of P type monocrystalline silicon typically four inches in diameter, cut on the <100> plane, of a resistivity of about ten ohm-cm. In the Figures the portion shown of the bar 10 represents only a very small part of one bar or chip, which in turn is a very small part of the slice. One slice contains several hundred bars 10. After appropriate cleaning, the slice is oxidized by exposing to oxygen in a furnace at an elevated temperature of perhaps 1100 of a thickness of about 1000 Å. Next, a layer 32 of silicon nitride of about 1000 Å thickness is formed over the entire slice by exposing to an atmosphere of dichlorosilane and ammonia in a reactor. A coating of photoresist is applied to the entire top surface of the slice, then exposed to ultraviolet light through a mask which defines the desired pattern of the thick field oxide 20 and the P+ channel stops 21. The resist is developed, leaving areas where nitride is then removed by etching the exposed part of the nitride layer 32 but leaving in place the oxide layer 31, as seen in FIG. 5a.
Using photoresist and nitride as a mask, the slice is subjected to a boron implant step to produce the channel stop regions in unmasked regions 33 of the silicon. The regions 33 will not exist in the same form in the finished device, because silicon is consumed in the field oxidation procedure. Usually the slice is subjected to a heat treatment after implant, prior to field oxide growth, as set forth in the above-mentioned, U.S. Pat. No. 4,055,444.
The next step in the process is the formation of field oxide 20 by subjecting the slices to steam or an oxidizing atmosphere at about 1000 layer 20 to be grown as seen in FIG. 5b, extending into the silicon surface as silicon is consumed, with the remaining part of the nitride layer 32 masking oxidation. The thickness of this layer 20 is about 10,000 Å, part of which is above the original surface and part below. The boron doped P+ regions 33 formed by implant are partly consumed, but also diffuse further into the silicon ahead of the oxidation front to produced P+ field stop regions 21 which are much deeper than the original regions 33.
Next the remaining nitride layer 32 is removed by an etchant which attacks nitride but not silicon oxide, then the oxide 31 is removed by etching. The oxide layer 17 is grown by thermal oxidation, then a photoresist operation used to remove the oxide 17 in the area of the program transistors 13 so that a thinner oxide layer 18 can be grown at this point. The oxide 17 has a thickness of about 600 Å, and oxide 18 about 300 Å.
As seen in FIG 5c a layer of polycrystalline silicon is deposited over the entire slice in a reactor using standard techniques to a thickness of about 8000 Å. This polysilicon layer is patterned by applying a layer of photoresist, exposing to ultraviolet light through a mask prepared for this purpose, developing, then etching the exposed polysilicon to define the row lines 12 and strips 16. An arsenic implant or a phosphorus diffusion is now performed to create the N+ regions 19, using the polysilicon 12 and 16 and its underlying oxide 17 and 18 as a self-align mask.
A thin thermal oxide coating is usually grown over the polysilicon, then the thick layer 22 of silicon oxide is deposited over the entire slice by decomposition of silane at a low temperature, about 400 layer 22 insulates the metal layer from the layer of polycrystalline silicon and other areas of the face of the bar, and is referring to as multilevel oxide.
Referring to FIG. 3a-3d the multilevel oxide layer 22 (and underlying thin thermal oxide) is now patterned by a photoresist operation which exposes holes for what will be the metal-to-poly contacts 15 along the bit lines 14 in the cell array. The metal bit lines 14 are formed next. Meal contacts and interconnections are also used in a periphery of the chip in the input buffers, decoders, sense amplifiers, and the like, as well as for the bonding pads which provide connection to external electrodes. These metal lines 14 and peripheral metallization are made in the usual manner by depositing a thin film of aluminum over the entire top surface of the slice then patterning it by a photoresist mask and etch sequence, leaving the metal strips 14 and other metal elements. A protective overcoat (not shown) is then deposited and patterned to expose the bonding pads, and the slice is scribed and broken into individual bars which are packaged in the customary manner, FIG. 4a.
The concept of the invention when used for programmation of redundant devices, or other options on a semiconductor chip, is embodied in a simpler form as shown in FIGS. 6-8. The programmable transistor-like device 40 includes a source 41, a drain 42 and a gate 43, with thin oxide 44 (corresponding to oxide 18 of FIG. 3a) over channel 45. Connections are made to the electrodes as in FIG. 7, using techniques of FIG. 1 and 2-5c. This structure of FIG. 6 can be used as a fuse. For example, if the source 41 and gate 43 are grounded, and the drain 42 brought to avalanche voltage, the drain 42 will short to the gate 43 at the edge 46 (just as the edge 13a, etc., above). On the other hand, if the source 41 and gate 43 are floating and the drain 42 is brought to avalanche voltage, the damage at the edge 46 will not occur. Therefore, by shunting the node 47 (source 41 and gate 43) to ground by a low impedance transistor 48 as seen in FIG. 7, the appropriate fuse 40 is selected for programming, using only a single bonding pad 49 on the chip going to an external high voltage supply. It may be also advantageous to force the node 47 to a slightly positive voltage, intermediate between ground and the avalanche breakdown voltage, using transistors 50 as seen in FIG. 8; this will assure that only a selected device 40 will draw avalanche current. After programming, the devices 40 in the circuits of FIGS. 7 and 8 are used by grounding all drains 42 via line 51 and turning off all transistors 48, then sensing the condition at nodes 47 by static or dynamic means; for example, in a redundant memory, the address of a row to be substituted may be programmed into a set of the cells 40, then an incoming address compared with the programmed address detected at the nodes 47.
Referring to FIG. 9, the programming mechanism wherein the oxide 18 or 46 breaks down in the devices of FIGS. 1, 3a or 6 produces a characteristic current waveform containing oscillations or spikes 55. When the source and gate have the voltage indicated by dotted line 56 applied thereto, the current through the source-to-drain path is according to the solid line including spikes 55; after about 100 microsec, the current settles at a steady state level 57 and the device is permanently programmed.
With reference now to FIG. 10, an embodiment of the invention is shown wherein the source-to-drain path is not continuous across the face of the bar 10, but instead the field oxide 20 extends between the source 41 and drain 42 for a device 40. The gate 43 extends up onto the field oxide 20. The channel 45 or path for carriers between source and drain includes the bulk P-type material of the bar 10. That is, it is not necessary for thin oxide 44 to bridge the source-to-drain path, nor is it necessary for the gate 43 to extend all the way to the source 41. The function of the gate 43 is to establish a field-plate breakdown region 46; the reverse p-n junction breakdown voltage of the drain-to-channel N-to-P junction goes down from about 35 v. to about 20 v. due to the field plate created by gate 43 when the gate-to-drain voltage is high. The source acts only as a bipolar emitter which is forward biased when the local substrate 10 voltage goes positive as a result of avalanche hole current.
Since no path exists for traditional MOS field-effect transistor current in the device of FIG. 10 when the gate 43 is at logic 1, the addressing and programming is much simpler for this isolated emitter (i.e., source) embodiment. In FIG. 11, a circuit is shown which makes use of this feature. The fuse devices 40 have the drains 42 connected to a VP.sub.H line 60 which is connected to a bonding pad for coupling to an off-chip supply of about +26 V. The gates 43 are all connected through transistors 61 and 62 to a line 63 having a lower programming voltage VP.sub.L, about +15 v, thereon. A select transistor 64 connects each of the nodes 65 to ground if the device is to be shorted, (programmed) or leaves the node 65 high if avalanche conditions are not to be produced. For read, the line 60 is held at logic 1 (+5 V), and line 63 is at 0; the nodes 66 are sensed by amplifiers 67. If a device 40 has been shorted, the voltage on node 66 is high; if a device is still open-circuited, the node 66 is low. No select transistor 48 in series with the fuse devices 40 is needed as was true in FIG. 7 or FIG. 8.
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U.S. Classification438/281, 438/467, 257/E27.103, 438/292
International ClassificationH01L27/115, G11C17/16
Cooperative ClassificationH01L27/115, G11C17/16
European ClassificationH01L27/115, G11C17/16
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FOCUS: Japan's record trade deficit fanning economic, fiscal concern
January 27, 2014
TOKYO , Jan. 27 -- ( Kyodo ) _ Japan's goods trade deficit reached a record high in 2013, sparking fears that the country would become one with a constant current account deficit in the near future. If expectations intensify that Japan's current account balance remains in the red for an extended period, long-term interest rates would jump and the value of the yen could dive, worsening the economic and fiscal situation down the road, experts warn. Last year, Japan logged a record trade deficit of 11.47 trillion yen ( $112.07 billion ), up 65.3 percent from the previous year, the Finance Ministry said Monday in a preliminary report, underscoring that the world's third-biggest economy is no longer an export powerhouse. The trade deficit came as the depreciation of the yen and growing demand for fossil energy, including liquefied natural gas and crude oil, drove up import costs amid the suspension of nuclear power plants following the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi complex in 2011. The nation's current account balance would stay in the black as long as a surplus in income account, which reflects how much Japan earns from its foreign investments, can more than offset trade and other deficits. Recent data, however, suggested a trade deficit could exceed an income surplus in a chronic manner. In November, Japan registered a current account deficit of 592.8 billion yen , the largest among comparable data available since 1985. Fiscal and economic policy minister Akira Amari has expressed anxiety about the current account deficit, saying if the government leaves this issue unsettled, Japan "may become like the United States in depending on other countries for its financial funds." This is just what market participants are worried about, as the pace of export growth has been moderate due in part to a slowdown in emerging economies and Japan's needs for fossil energy are unlikely to wane with no resumption of nuclear plants in sight. "Investors, in particular bond traders, have become skeptical about whether Japan can continue to cover its fiscal deficit with domestic assets alone," a person familiar with the matter said on condition of anonymity. So far, around 95 percent of Japanese government bonds have been financed smoothly at home, as the Bank of Japan has pledged to buy massive government bonds in an attempt to keep long-term interest rates low to stimulate the economy. "But if Japan's current account balance deteriorates and investors start to expect the government would be compelled to sell its bonds to foreigners, they could try to let go of them with concern growing over the outlook for the sovereign bond market," he said. A selloff in government bonds would trigger a surge in Japan's long-term interest rates. This would create a vicious cycle where expansion in the government's interest payments on its bonds would hamper Japan's efforts to restore its fiscal health, prompting more investors to sell them and raising the interest rates, analysts said. Japan's fiscal health is the worst among major developed economies with public debt equivalent to more than 200 percent of gross domestic product. The central government debt topped 1,000 trillion yen for the first time ever last year. " Japan's turning into a country with a constant current account deficit would bring about a bad yen weakness, significantly hurting the economy," said Masanobu Ishikawa , general manager of spot foreign exchange at Tokyo Forex & Ueda Harlow . The yen would face downward pressure, as long as importers sell the yen against foreign currencies to purchase goods and services from abroad at a faster pace than exporters exchange foreign currencies they earn overseas for the yen, Ishikawa said. "If traders expect Japan will keep posting current account deficits for a long period and become eager to sell the yen, the Japanese currency would plunge and Japan's import costs would rise further, causing sharp inflation and dragging down the economy," he added. Some economists call on Japan to boost the number of foreign visitors to improve the current account balance. "For Japan that has been suffering from prolonged trade deficits, bolstering tourism would be an effective way to obtain foreign currencies," said Takuya Hoshino , an economist at Dai-ichi Life Research Institute . Ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the government should "work to make Japan a tourism-oriented nation," he said. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration has said it aims to double the number of annual foreign visitor arrivals in Japan to 20 million by the Olympics, after the number topped 10 million last year for the first time ever.
Source: Japan Economic Newswire
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Stay the Course on Interfaith Dialogue
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If all goes according to current reports, some time in September, the Palestinian Authority will submit a resolution declaring statehood to the Security Council of the United Nations. While the United States and possibly other Council members are widely expected to veto the resolution, the PA may take its case to the General Assembly, where the US does not have a veto. A vote in support of the resolution there, while not binding, would pave the way for member nations to recognize a Palestinian state.
This is a highly charged and controversial matter in the U.S., no more so than for two groups, American Jews and Arab-Americans. The pending resolution is already splitting the American Jewish community, with many actively engaged in efforts to secure a US veto of the Security Council resolution, and some arguing that recognition of a Palestinian state could actually advance the peace process. Many Arab-Americans, by contrast, identify with the aspirations for self-determination of the residents of the West Bank and Gaza, a sentiment further fueled by the dramatic developments of the Arab Spring.
This is likely to be a divisive time among U.S. religious and political advocacy organizations working on behalf of both sides. It carries the risk of creating a wedge in what has been a major accomplishment in a different area: the ongoing engagement of these organizations on US interfaith cooperation and religious pluralism. Such a rift would be tragic. Whatever disagreements there may be on foreign policy issues, now more than ever, it is essential that all Americans work together to defeat the forces of hate and intolerance that threaten our core value of religious pluralism and religious liberty
Just recently, the world watched in horror as an episode of sectarian violence rocked Norway. We have seen a number of similar incidents in Europe the bombing of a Danish newspaper that published cartoons deliberately insulting to the Prophet Mohammed, synagogue bombings, and now the murder of the sons and daughters of members of a political party perceived to be working for religious tolerance. We can breathe a sigh of relief that this sort of violence has not arrived on US shores, but we can in no way consider ourselves immune. Indeed, the escalating war of words here directed at disfavored religious ethnic and religious minorities carries with it the risk that loan wolves or extremist factions may escalate from agitation to action.
Groups like the Anti-Defamation League, the Arab American Institute, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, and others have a long history of countering this sort of violent extremism. Through educational and community-building projects around the country, they have fostered positive interfaith encounters, educated young people and teachers and built critical personal and organizational bridges. Now, they must be vigilant. They cannot permit themselves to be pulled by the views of members who may try to hold hostage their essential anti-bias mission to the debate on Palestinian statehood. This would be a good time for those on all sides to recognize that there are areas where we must agree to disagree. What unites us, whatever our religious or ethnic heritage, is a common commitment to protect the free exercise of religion by all Americans, and by the need to build bridges among people of many diverse backgrounds to build a strong, inclusive nation. | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/meryl-chertoff/stay-the-course-on-interf_b_941037.html | dclm-gs1-303050000 |
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Molasses Fruit Bars
Cream together first 4 ingredients with electric mixer or by hand until ingredients are well blended. Add dry ingredients and mix. It will be a moderately stiff dough. Add raisins. With floured fingers, press dough evenly into 2 - 9" x 9" x 1" greased and... - 39.1912
Molasses Bar Cookies
Cream shortening and sugar; add eggs, reserving 2 tablespoons egg. Add remaining ingredients except jelly. Place on floured board; divide into 4 parts. Roll up each part; place on greased baking sheet. Flatten each roll; spread reserved egg over top. Bake at... - 43.5409
Spiced Molasses Bars
MAKING 1. In a bowl, mix together flour and ground spices. 2. In another bowl, cream together shortening, egg, molasses and sugar, until light and fluffy. Add the flour with spices and blend well. Add in prunes and coconut and mix to a dough, chill for 30... - 45.6973
Ginger Bars
1. In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking soda, and ginger. Add milk, molasses, and egg whites; beat until smoothly blended. 2. Spread batter evenly in a lightly greased 8-inch-square (20-cm-square) nonstick or regular baking pan. Bake in a... - 23.0797
Ginger Bars
1. Cream shortening with sugar. Add egg yolk and beat well. Add molasses and milk; blend. 2. Blend flour, baking soda, salt and spices; stir into creamed mixture. Mix in raisins. Turn into a waxed-paper-lined 1 1/2-quart glass baking dish and spread evenly.... - 33.6389
Ginger Cream Bars
Place all ingredients in mixing bowl. Blend at low speed 1 minute. Spread in 12x8-in baking dish. Place dish on inverted saucer in microwave oven. Microwave at High 4 to 7 minutes, or until done, rotating 1/4 turn every 2 minutes. Frost while warm with Orange... - 37.8493
Home Made Ginger Bars
Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, and ginger. Stir until well mixed. Add molasses, coffee, egg, and butter. Beat on medium speed, 1 minute. Pour into 8-inch micro proof baking dish. Cook on HI, 3 minutes. Rotate dish one-half... - 40.7567
Frosted Gingerbread Bars
1. Sift together flour, baking powder, soda, salt and spices. 2. Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy; add egg and beat well. Stir in molasses, coffee and Raisin Bran. Add sifted dry ingredients; beat well. Spread in greased 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking... - 33.0674
Gingerbread Bars
Combine flours, sugar replacement, baking powder, ginger, salt, and cloves in a mixing bowl. Stir to mix. Add eggs, milk, and oil. Beat to blend thoroughly. Beat in molasses. Beat 1 to 2 minutes more. Pour into a greased 13 x 9 in. (33 x 23 cm) baking... - 42.8755
Gingerbread Apple Bars
Gingerbread Apple Bars has a amazing taste. Gingerbread Apple Bars gets its flavor from flour mixed with apple sauce and topped with raisins. Gingerbread Apple Bars is inspired by many bakeries around the world. - 44.1368
Hermit Bar Cookies
Hermit bar cookies are delightful square shaped cookies made with a variety of goodies. Baked with a batter of flour with eggs, molasses and a medley of spices, the hermit bar cookies also contain raisins and candied ginger. - 42.1421
Orange Spice Bars
In a medium bowl stir together oats, walnuts, orange juice concentrate, water, and raisins; set aside. In a separate bowl stir together flour, soda, ginger, cinnamon, and salt; set aside. In a mixer bowl beat margarine or butter and sugar with an electric... - 37.1977
Fabulous Date Bars
GETTING READY 1. Lightly grease a 15-inch X 10-inch baking pan with oil. 2. Preheat the oven to 325°F (165°C.) MAKING 3. In a large mixing bowl, combine first 4 ingredients and beat well until blended. 4. Stir in next 3 ingredients. 5. In a medium... - 50.2453
Chewy Dried Fruit Bars
In the large bowl of an electric mixer, beat butter, sugar, and molasses until smooth. Add egg and beat until well combined. Stir in cinnamon, soda, ginger, and cloves; then stir in all-purpose and whole-wheat flours, nuts, and dried fruit until evenly... - 35.2161
Applesauce Gingerbread Bars
GETTING READY 1) Take the baking pan and spray it with cooking spray. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F MAKING 2) Take a saucepan and put the applesauce. Cook over low heat to boil the applesauce. 3) Remove the pan from heat and add molasses and soda. Keep... - 47.913
German Honey Bars Lebkuchen
German Honey Bars Lebkuchen has a lovely taste. German Honey Bars Lebkuchen gets its taste from flour mixed with butter and flavored with cinnamon. If you are a honey lover then try out this German Honey Bars Lebkuchen recipe. - 45.6828
Gingerbread Bars
Preheat oven to 350° F. Spray a 12 1/2 x 8-inch baking pan with vegetable oil spray. In a large bowl, beat margarine at medium speed until creamy. Add brown sugar and beat at high speed until light, 1 to 2 minutes. Beat in egg whites. Add molasses and beat... - 42.2252
Whole Wheat Spice Bars
Place the dried fruits in a bowl, pour the rum over them, and allow to steep, covered, until soft - about 30 minutes. Beat the butter with the honey and molasses until smooth but not frothy or over-aerated. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Combine the flour... - 44.1331
Shoofly Bars
GETTING READY 1. Preheat oven to 375°F. MAKING 2. Combine 1 1/4 cups flour, granulated sugar and salt for making the crust. 3. Cut shortening into the size of peas and add to the flour mixture. 4. Add 1 tablespoon cold water on a portion of the mixture... - 47.3293
Ginger Cream With Cinnamon
These Ginger Creams are a desire ! Try out these spicy bakes for a snack or for dessert and let me know if you like them. Your suggestions for these Ginger Creams are welcome ! - 36.538
Hot Frosted Gingerbread
Melt shortening in hot coffee. Beat eggs well; stir in sugar and molasses. Add shortcning/coffce mixture gently. Combine flour, baking powder and ginger; add to mixture. Mix well and spread about 1/2 inch thick in' 10 greased 8 inch square pan. Bake 25... - 49.4642
Spicy Wheat Germ Squares
GETTING READY 1) Preheat the oven to 350°. MAKING 2) Cream butter and sugar till it becomes light and fluffy. 3) Beat in molasses and eggs until smooth. 4) Add water to this and mix well. 5) Mix the next 8 ingredients and add well to the molasses... - 47.8784
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1. Raven Software's deft handling of the oft-tricky notion of time travel disrupting the workings of the world is very clever. It's clever enough that, as you stand poised to make one of three ending-altering decisions at Singularity's calamitous finale, you're really not sure which choice to make. The question is, will you stick around that long? Most of you probably won't. [September 2010 p.74]
2. 87
Singularity is a solid FPS with a working gimmick and a solid narrative.
3. Singularity is a pleasant surprise. It could have been an average first person shooter game, but it has turned out to be a great game, with gameplay and visuals that deserve praise.
4. Singularity is a solid SP-Shooter with some technical issues and many good ideas that haven't been pushed to their limits. It's still worth your time if you're in search for a decent story and some nice new gameplay-elements, but definitely not something anyone HAS to own.
5. 75
Singularity is better then the average shooter and has a lot of fun to offer. Thanks to a decent singleplayer campaign and a fine multiplayer, you won't regret spending your time on this game.
7. While not exactly a title for the permanent collection, Singularity does deliver its fair share of fast-paced action and time-altering thrills. [Oct 2010, p.81]
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1. Positive: 14 out of 18
2. Negative: 2 out of 18
1. Oct 7, 2011
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I have always been a huge fan of time travel in sci-fi, and when I heard about this game I had to get it. I spent days playing this game while eating cookie dough ice cream, and I have to say it was well worth it.
For starters the graphics are outstanding, when I play the game I feel like I am inside a messed up world, and the graphics alone will drag you in.
The time travel mechanics work well here, and the game forces you to think about fighting in two different time lines, and it's a very enjoyable feature, and it keeps the game from becoming boring. For example you could be walking though an abandoned warehouse, when suddenly your transported to the 1950's warehouse full of enemy soliders. I also like the idea of what happens in the past effects the future, so when you are teleported to the 50's you can destroy something and then you can go back to the future and you'll find it open. You can also use time travel mechanics to repair things such as stairs and doors. The game also gives you a choice, and the ending is epic.
It shocked me that the player character was responsible for the entire singularity event.
Overall the game is amazing, if you liked bioshock and timespltters this game is a must.
2. Jul 16, 2011
To say this game reminds one of Bioshock is an understatement. This game is the true defenition of "Short and sweet". I went through this beauty in roughly 8-9 hours and I loved every minute of it. There was never a dull moment. In the generation of tired FPS this crawls in the door wet and needing a good scrub. If one can let their imagination take them from the blood soaked shooter in everyday "6 days in Falujah" you might actually enjoy yourself. The game handles like a dream. The visuals are saturated in "Rapturesque" decor while layer after layer of environmental sugar daddy runs through you like a drunk hillbilly on gin and juice. Let go. Feel the energy this game delivers. Follow the bullet in and out of as much head as one can fathom.
I dare you to have fun within this colorful metaphor gameland. Forget what you know, or think you know about what games are supposed to be and take it from someone that has been playing for 21 years now. Enjoy and then enjoy again. Use the powers bestowed upon you as much as you can and then up the difficulty.
3. May 26, 2013
At first I was sceptical about buying this game 'cause I'm not really into Raven Software's games, but I bought the title anyway and was surprised by how good it is! The game looks and feels like a Bioshock title that has better weapons and cool powers. It just needed more "imagination" to make it perfect. Expand
4. Sep 15, 2010
As much as I hate to admit it, this game really does imitate several great games. Bioshock is definitely the most obvious one, although Portal and a few others may have had some influence. This keeps the game from being very unique, to state the obvious.
As far as the game itself- it plays rather well. There are some neat mechanics that are implemented throughout the game, and the TMD proves to be an interesting gameplay feature. The enemies are either gross and frightening or fairly generic soldiers. But a few things really stand out-- shoot an enemy with the shotgun to see the character model actually become damaged. You can blow a hole through some enemies! Also, there a few experimental weapons that are a blast (was that pun intended or not? i'll never tell). The upgrading is pretty nice, although it's been done (better) before. The graphics are...on the upper side of average. It looks okay, and the framerate is pretty stable and smooth. As for the seems to try for a Bioshock-style story arc. Is it effective? Not for me. The story is solid and the timelines make sense, but it didn't make me gasp.
So's a pretty good game, but nothing spectacular, really. Time manipulation is used primarily as a weapon, and you've seen many of the guns and enemies etc. already. I wanted to like this game more, but I'd have to give it a 7.5. My math teacher would tell me to round it up, so...8. I recommend a rental.
5. Sep 21, 2011
Singularity is a breath of fresh of breath air for the FPS genre. It takes what sub-par FPS games like Resistance 2 and BioShock did wrong, and not only corrects them, but vastly improves them. I loved running around Katorga-12 with my TMD and Shotgun, killing soldiers and mutants alike. Singularity also nails the creepy '50s Soviet feel, and the environments and enemies are perfectly rendered. A co-op survival mode or something like that would be nice, but even so the campaign itself is really fun. Expand
6. Aug 28, 2010
While having very little new ideas it combines all the good parts of other shooters.
1 multiple endings. (Adds last-ability.)
2 The PDT. (A
grav gun. Puzzle solver. Weapon.)
3 special weapons. (All those E99 weapons were pretty good.)
4 An upgrade system.
5 A really strange yet interesting multiplayer.
With all this in mind Singularity is by no means new shooter or the best. But definitely still worth picking up.
7. Oct 16, 2011
This game has a lot of stuff, but is still basic FPS shooter. The enemies aren't interesting, weapons aren't anything special or feel neither powerful or weak. The game is also short. I recommend this game only for rent, because it has no replay value, if not counting three different endings. Expand
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This game is very addictive. Gameplay is hard enough to keep you interested, allowing you to progress a fair way before being wiped out. Like most things oriental, after an hour you could do with another.
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Unlike the high-quality C64 version which I looked at last issue, ST Shinobi is a bit of a sad attempt, featuring jerky sprites and watered-down gameplay It's not a bad buy at £7 99. but there are better titles around for the same amount of money.
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The 100th Day of school ideas. Love these! I can see this as a fantastic outdoor activity when all the children become gremlins at the end of the year!
100th Day of School Ideas 100 Acts of Kindness Would be cute to start the first day and have the helper add a sticky each day about something they saw or did that shows kindness.
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So That's What the Classics Have Ever Done for Us! AGENDA What Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Do for Us? Well, They Gave Us the Classics for a Start but What Use Are They? Tobias White Provides an Answer
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Here's a quick brain-teaser; what do the following people have in common: J K Rowling, Terry Pratchett, Oscar Wilde, Jo Brand, Enoch Powell, Alan Hansen and Paul McCartney?
Answer: All have studied classics at some point and have readily acknowledged its importance in the shaping of their diverse careers.
As a classics student, the questions I invariably receive regarding my degree subject contain mystified whats and whys. Firstly, 'what is classics?' It's the study of all aspects of the ancient Greek and Roman civilisations and their languages.
Once this has been established, 'why do such a pointless subject?' Good question, you may think.
The immediate reasoning behind my decision to study classics is easily explained; believe it or not, it's fascinating and edifying.
The beauty of classics is the vast range of topics which can be studied in a classical context - you can study the languages if linguistics and etymology appeals, history, art, philosophy, literature, and perhaps surprisingly, even law, rhetoric and medicine! But why not study these subjects outright? Why pursue them as an individual branch of classics?
Because classics arguably possesses the greatest exponents of these arts that mankind has ever known. Has there ever been a greater poet than Homer, a more insightful philosopher than Plato, a more convincing advocate than Cicero or as thorough a historian as Herodotus?
The classical exemplars are surely unassailable.
But the question still persists in this lucreobsessed world, 'how will classics help when finding a job?' The problem with classics for many is that there is no predetermined career to fall into when one's degree has been completed. Law students generally become solicitors or barristers, and medical students, doctors. But what can you do with classics unless you decide to teach it?
However, in reality, the same is true for all humanities and science subjects which don't supply one with an obvious career path; employers are on the qui vive for applicants with 'solid' degree subjects, not necessarily people who are ideally suited to positions but those who patently have the intellectual capacity to pick up and be taught new skills.
The luminaries in the above list alone demonstrate that classics is hardly a limiting subject.
In spite of my arguments, Latin and Greek, having once been 'dead' languages, are severely threatened with becoming 'dead' again.
Boris Johnson, London's Mayor and another classics aficionado, has opined that: "The best thing we could do ... is to teach everybody Latin again, to insist that every child ... has a common cultural inheritance."
The need for this 'common cultural inheritance' is even more pressing in today's society where religions provide children with distinct modi vivendi with the potential to create friction between opposing sectors and resultant marginalisation. Earlier this month we were reminded of religion's centrality to life with the promise that Britain's Vrst Buddhist faith school will be built in Birmingham. It is vital then that we retain some common ground and classics, with its heavy inTuence on western traditions and development, can surely offer this. Boris Johnson suggests that classics can have even more far-reaching and miraculous effects in steering disillusioned youths away from knife and gun crime. While the image of a violent hoodie avidly devouring Virgil's Aeneid is fanciful to say the least, it's not wholly inconceivable to see classics as both an enriching and stabilising inTuence.
Though J K Rowling's use of Latin in her Harry Potter series has helped to revive interest in the ancient languages, numbers taking the subjects at school are at a depressing all-time low. As I write, only one exam board, OCR, currently offers Latin and Greek languages up till A-level after AQA bailed out at the end of the 2006 academic year as it was losing money. … | http://www.questia.com/library/1G1-181548680/so-that-s-what-the-classics-have-ever-done-for-us | dclm-gs1-303580000 |
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Careers Speech and Language Therapy: The People We Call When Words Fail Us ; Speech Therapists Bring the Gift of Talk to Those Who Lose It, or Struggle to Find It. the Work Requires a Rare Blend of Linguistics, People Skills and Medical Knowledge, Says Nick Jackson
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To lose the joy of living speech, or never to learn it, would be to be starved of some of the consolation of intimacy. As a speech and language therapist, you reach out to people who are in that loneliness and help them to communicate with friends and family, and with the world around them.
A common perception is that speech and language therapy is all about elocution, but there's much more to it than that. Therapists are concerned with everything to do with the vocal tract, so they help people who cannot swallow to eat safely, as well as relieving the isolation of people with speech problems, from children who are slow to communicate through to stammerers and stroke victims, and older people suffering from dementia.
The curious blend of linguistics, people skills and medical know- how make speech and language therapy a perfect career change for people with an interest in language who are looking for a more meaningful vocation. Many come to the profession later in life.
Amy Jensen, 32, spent her twenties working as a teacher of English as a foreign language, travelling and learning new languages. She was drawn into speech and language therapy after sharing a cab with a therapist in Dublin. 'All the wee bits of the jigsaw just came together nicely,' she says. 'I was interested in languages and biology, and educating adults.' When she started her BSc course at City University, she knew she had made the right decision. 'I felt spoilt for choice. It was great,' she says. 'There's something for everybody, from understanding muscle movement to linguistics, from babies' development of speech to elderly neurology.'
Jensen now works as a therapist at the Homerton Hospital in Hackney, helping people discharged from hospital to live independently. Most of the people she deals with have had their lives transformed by strokes and brain injuries.
She only has a short time to help them to return to ordinary life, so has to practise the simplest therapy, giving people back their confidence by taking them out and doing the things they used to do together.
Mei Lee, 37, was more than happy to turn her back on her old job. Now a therapist, Lee did an English literature degree at Durham University and worked as an advertising copywriter for many years before doing a postgraduate diploma at City University.
Her reason for changing career will be familiar to anyone in the media. 'I wanted to do something more meaningful,' she says. 'And speech and language therapy is a great profession for a career change. It's very satisfying. For anyone who's interested in people and optimising their quality of life, I'd recommend it.'
When she was younger, Lee wanted to be a doctor, but dissecting cadavers did not appeal. Then a close family friend suffered a stroke. 'He had been an eminent politician and doctor, and his mind was still intact, but he had minimal vocalisation,' she says. 'I thought it would be marvellous to help him to communicate.'
Lee now deals with adults with speech, swallowing, voice and communication impairment across the spectrum, from teaching teachers with strained voices to project, to helping stroke victims to communicate and eat. Most of her time is spent dealing with people with voice problems, from housewives to actors.
She also works with the families of stroke patients, helping them to communicate using a combination of sounds and gestures. Key words can be used to stand in for sentences, and family members are encouraged to use eye contact and gestures as communication.
Working with a family in this way can help patients to lead a more normal life. 'It's a very meaningful job,' she says. 'In your daily work, you make such a difference. Speaking and swallowing are key to quality of life. You take them for granted " until they're gone.'
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0.022593 | <urn:uuid:bbff7ada-90fd-4e9b-a374-45383aca4799> | en | 0.942731 | User Blog: torridjoe Posts made by torridjoe on Blazers #16, #10, #6 in "clutch ranking" torridjoe Thu, 06 Mar 2014 18:18:57 -0500 <p><br><br><br>I found <a href="">this Bleacher Report figuring of "clutch" players"</a> fairly interesting, although Basketball-Reference and surely others have already done this work. It looks like BR limits itself to the last 2 minutes, while I think B-R uses 5 min.</p> <p> </p> <p>But it's still interesting, because it puts Lillard at #10 and Batum at #6, with an offhand mention that LaMarcus was #16. It appears the Grizz may actually be the most clutch team in the league, but Portland can argue and is at worst #2.</p> Oh, you silly Eastern Conference! torridjoe Thu, 14 Nov 2013 18:08:57 -0500 <h3 class="link-title"><a href="" rel="nofollow">Oh, you silly Eastern&nbsp;Conference!</a></h3> <div class="description"><p><p>Look at today's standings. The entire Eastern Conference of the Association has but three teams above .500. And one of them is 5-4. Granted the Pacers are 8-0, but most of the conference is fair to middlin.</p> <p>In contrast, the West also has three teams above .500--in EACH division. For a total of nine teams. Right now a 5-4 record is good for 3rd place in a Western Division--at best. </p> <p>So early, and things may well average out, but that was a striking snapshot to me. Er, FanShot!</p></p></div> My latest column for The Breakdown Show torridjoe Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:28:28 -0500 <h3 class="link-title"><a href="" rel="nofollow">My latest column for The Breakdown&nbsp;Show</a></h3> <div class="description"><p><p>Hey gang--I do a periodic piece on the Blazers for the national website The Breakdown Show, run out of Toronto by two Canadian hoops freaks. This is my latest, written just before that sweet Miami game. I post every couple of weeks, would love the feedback. Thanks!</p></p></div> Is Jaynes talking out his bung again? torridjoe Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:25:46 -0500 <h3 class="link-title"><a href=";blockID=661178&feedID=8351" rel="nofollow">Is Jaynes talking out his bung&nbsp;again?</a></h3> <div class="description"><p><p>Sean Meagher's roundup today directed me to Dwight Jaynes' latest, where he says some things that are obvious--but others that make me wonder if he's actually in the locker room or in interviews hearing these things, or is just making crap up? </p> <p>"-- There were a lot of players unhappy with their role on this team before last night's game but I'm guessing Nate McMillan added another one to the list in Denver. Marcus Camby went 5-for-5 from the field, had four rebounds, a steal and three blocked shots but played just 16 minutes and 7 seconds. "</p> <p>Are a lot of players unhappy with their role? Does Felton really think he didn't deserve benching at least as a trial? Is Batum still unhappy, if he ever was, now that he's getting starter minutes? Has Wes ever said he was unhappy? Are the rooks complaining? I'm not saying none of what he's saying could be true...I just hadn't ever heard it said by another reporter, and as far as Camby is concerned it sounds like bunk. The guy needs rest, and he knows it. Plus he's much too long a veteran to think he's some offensive weapon that catches fire and should be left in as the "hot hand." </p> <p>"Once more McMillan comes out after the game and scorches his players for lack of effort and for being outhustled and outworked. That seems to happen constantly."</p> <p>Really? I think it was twice, last night and the Washington game. </p> <p>"-- If there was ever a team that needed a mega-trade it's this one. Get some of the malcontents out of here and bring some winners in. Of just bag the whole thing and think about a good draft pick."</p> <p>Who are the malcontents? Does Jaynes follow any other teams? There are some serious malcontents out there. (cough--HOWARD--cough). The worst malcontent on the Blazers is Rudy Fernandez...last year.</p> <p>"The rookies aren't getting a chance at all to develop on a team that is seemingly going nowhere. Inconsistency abounds."</p> <p>This he says after EWill and Johnson get extended minutes--not to mention that if you want the rookies to play, how do you also prevent malcontents like Camby from getting upset? </p> <p>"So many players seem to want out of here and many of them appear to have checked out already. It's a mess."</p> <p>Who has checked out? Wes? Wallace? Babbitt? I really have no idea. I don't see anyone that's checked out; I see guys losing focus. That's different. </p> <p>Sigh. </p></p></div> Voluspa--A Poetic Elegy for the Mighty Oden torridjoe Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:59:38 -0500 <p>The Voluspa is an ancient Norse creationist/apocalyptic poem, which seems an appropriate reference given the situation and even the name--Oden--which of course reminds one of the Norse god Odin, father of Thor. Herewith, my Voluspa for Greg. Hope you enjoy the culture infusion, like a good cup of Greek yogurt...</p> <p>---</p> <p> </p> <p>From Naismith's sons both high and low</p> <p>relate the tales of giants old</p> <p>who gave bread in days of yore</p> <p>One title known, and spoken fond</p> <p>beneath mildew, mold and spore</p> <p> </p> <p>'Tween fiery mountains of the sea</p> <p>and mountains white with sleep</p> <p>having burned out long before</p> <p>The giants came to lay their claim</p> <p>and break down glory's door</p> <p> </p> <p>The writings speak of triumph</p> <p>of forest laurels sharing green</p> <p>with envied faces by the score</p> <p>of Woltan's back and Captain Jack</p> <p>but just one year, and nevermore</p> <p> </p> <p>Then dark the skies became</p> <p>and rain upon the land</p> <p>from heavn'ly barrels pour'd</p> <p>lesser sons prevailed amongst the gloom</p> <p>churlish, preening scurvy boors</p> <p> </p> <p>Indolence and indulgence ruled</p> <p>the souls at aerie's height</p> <p>fortune's sons as haughty lords</p> <p>The laurels trampled; deaf to reason</p> <p>were the trampling sons implored</p> <p> </p> <p>Tales in this night, they did propound</p> <p>of purple progress on the lake</p> <p>and crashing shoals as heretofore</p> <p>Despondently the elders braced</p> <p>hoping still for glory's time restored</p> <p> </p> <p>Then from the aged paths of time</p> <p>rose a savior in the East</p> <p>brimming references galore</p> <p>a wrinkled brow, a loping gait</p> <p>and mighty stance--like Woltan's Thor</p> <p> </p> <p>The one called Oden had arrived</p> <p>and spread the faith to all</p> <p>of death to darkened times abhorred</p> <p>and quaffs from victory's cup</p> <p>the newest guest through fortune's door</p> <p> </p> <p>The people cheered and wept and knelt</p> <p>offered gifts of flesh and fame</p> <p>shyly taken by the giant moor</p> <p>and music rang, hosannahs sung</p> <p>to mark the gathering rapport</p> <p> </p> <p>But those most wise at telling tales</p> <p>could not but caution into ears</p> <p>the prior tragics gone before</p> <p>Whispered "Bowie!" "MJ"</p> <p>"Not to mention, Walt Gilmore!"</p> <p> </p> <p>The people heard, but did not heed</p> <p>and showed the tellers scorn</p> <p>disregarding of their chore</p> <p>but history's pages do not rend</p> <p>as mighty Oden's knees grew sore</p> <p> </p> <p>"No, it can't! It couldn't be!"</p> <p>they moaned into their beers</p> <p>from castles to the Bull and Boar</p> <p>and holding hope but fearing worst</p> <p>awaited word from the doc-tor</p> <p> </p> <p>Of course the news, a cut unkind</p> <p>sent shockwaves through the land</p> <p>from the mountains to the shore</p> <p>broke it once, then did it twice</p> <p>and yet again as sadness's encore</p> <p> </p> <p>The mood grew ugly, some drew wrath</p> <p>and booing outsized visions of his face</p> <p>did cast fair Oden to torpor</p> <p>a castaway not passed away</p> <p>not here not ever, somewhere else it isn't sure</p> <p> </p> <p>In time the orange ball shall rise</p> <p>clearing foggy mists remained</p> <p>while hearts and minds sneak looks afore</p> <p>but clinging fondly to the days</p> <p>when mighty Oden owned the floor</p> Latest column--TJ's Complaint: What's Wrong With the Blazers? torridjoe Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:03:11 -0500 <h3 class="link-title"><a href="" rel="nofollow">Latest column--TJ's Complaint: What's Wrong With the&nbsp;Blazers?</a></h3> <div class="description"><p><p>After last week, I had to vent...column appears at The Breakdown Show, website of Canada's best NBA radio program!</p></p></div> SBN's Sharp Gives Blazers the Love torridjoe Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:57:19 -0500 <h3 class="link-title"><a href="" rel="nofollow">SBN's Sharp Gives Blazers the&nbsp;Love</a></h3> <div class="description"><p><p>Apologies if this has been posted, but I didn't see it today and I went through the list a couple times looking for an old post. </p> <p>It's glowing about Portland, and calls out the world for not focusing on how together the Blazers were, and what their potential could be actually right now, or 8 weeks from now. </p> <p>Great, great writeup. </p></p></div> All Blazer-Killer Team torridjoe Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:28:08 -0500 <p>For some reason--and maybe this isn't very unusual among fans--when it comes to other teams I'm usually more interested not in their stars, but the lesser, supporting players who nonetheless have the knack for killing my team with their play. Last night's <a href="" class="sbn-auto-link">Magic</a> (the) Gathering provided an excellent example: even without <a href="#" class="sbn-auto-link">Dwight Howard</a> in the lineup, my main source of in-game angst was going to be <a href="" class="sbn-auto-link">Jason Richardson</a>. Why? Do I have powers of divination that tipped me to J-Rich burying about a dozen threes in a row last night? Of course not--I was worried because Richardson has a history of putting up big games against the Blazers.</p> <p><br></p> <p>I looked through the BEdge archives and while there are several references to BK's in the past few years (<a href="" class="sbn-auto-link">Sam Cassell</a>, anyone?), I did not find any attempts to catalog the various death-dealers, nor even a Rogue's Gallery of the most damnable. (Can I say that here? Darnable?) </p> <p>So I propose an exercise: please submit your All-Time Blazer Killer Team, or suggest individuals for consideration. Superstars like Kobe, Garnett, LeBron, MJ et al are ineligble. If you have to ask "is this guy too much of a star to count?" then he probably is. I'm talking about guys who rarely if ever would make the pregame discussion as absolutely key to the other team's fortunes...except as one of the BKs. </p> <p>Here's mine, mostly off the top of my head. Feel free to take issue. I used actives, but anybody in NBA history is eligible.</p> <p>C <a href="" class="sbn-auto-link">Chuck Hayes</a> (really a F but seems to play C against us a lot)</p> <p>F <a href="" class="sbn-auto-link">Grant Hill</a></p> <p>F J-Rich</p> <p>G <a href="" class="sbn-auto-link">Beno Udrih</a></p> <p>G <a href="" class="sbn-auto-link">Trevor Ariza</a></p> Some playoff outlook data re: gms left and vs whom torridjoe Sat, 05 Mar 2011 05:06:25 -0500 <p><br>I was just looking at the <a href="" target="_blank">playoff picture so far in the West</a> and noticed some interesting things about the teams clustered around Portland, regarding the games left on their schedule. It turns out that while Portland's oft-repeated "toughest remaining schedule in the NBA" may be technically true, on balance if you factor above/below .500 teams and home/away (as helpfully does) you get a more nuanced picture. </p> <p> </p> <p>I was inspired to write this when I looked at Denver's remaining sked. They're a couple games ahead of Portland right now, in 5th--but they've also played 2 extra games. So in best case Portland's one game behind. And look at what Denver faces: 11 of 19 vs teams above .500. But the real kicker is that nine are <i>on the road.</i> And a quick check of their road record so far (11-19) does not bode well. </p> <p>By contrast, while Portland does in fact have the most remaining >.500 games left, they're evenly balanced at 7 home/8 road. And only 2 roadies against sub-500 teams show much peril. </p> <p>I think OKC has an interesting remainder left too: even at 11/11 for above/below .500, but like Denver, most of their tougher games are also road games (7 of 11 against +500 on road). Even their "gimmes" have four road games. </p> <p>New Orleans is the only team in that middle group who gets a home cooking advantage for their tougher games (8/6 home), although they're second to Portland in above-.500 games with 14 remaining. Speaking of New Orleans, while they're technically a half game ahead of the Blazers in 6th place, they've played THREE extra games and actually trail Portland in the loss column, 28 to 27. </p> <p>Of all the teams in that contention group, the Grizz probably have the most favorable set up: 12 against good teams, 7 against bad. The hard games are fairly well split, 5 home 7 away, and the easies are almost all at home, only one away game. Tough to ask for more than that; we'll see what they do with it.</p> <p>One consideration I did not make was conference/non-conference. A fair number of Portland's remaining "tough" games are out of conference, like Orlando, Miami, Charlotte, Atlanta coming right up, Losses won't hurt them as much, and in fact Portland is doing well in division and in conference so far, a good thing. They also hold the tiebreaker against three of the four teams behind them (that are out of the playoffs), I think. So as long as they can play to their ability, they can overcome their overall tough schedule IMO. </p> Help Patty's mates cope with flood in Oz! torridjoe Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:22:51 -0500 <p><br>Hey, maybe this is a touch short for a Fanpost, but it's pretty important: there's been terrible flooding in Queensland, Australia--home country of our own Patty Mills. He's been tweeting asks for help, and I found a fun way to promise that help...</p> <p></p>Here's the basic donation info, pulled from one of Patty's tweets: @Patty_Mills: <p>I saw someone else decide to pledge money based on player performance, and thought that a great idea. So for tonight's game, based on Patty's play vs the <a href="" class="sbn-auto-link">Knicks</a> I'll give:</p> <ul> <li>$1 per point</li> <li>$2 bonus for each trey made</li> <li>$5 for each D-rebound</li> <li>$10 for each O-rebound (motivation!)</li> </ul> <p>I'm no Warbucks, but hopefully it's at least $10, and I'll declare that a minimum even if he's a DNP for some reason tonight. But if Bala gets hot against the weak Knick D, all the better.</p> <p>Anyone with me? Put your pledge here if you like, to show your support for the extended blazers family, and needy humankind in general. Thanks.</p> Vote for Blazers chances vs PHX! My rebuttal vid is up! torridjoe Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:25:45 -0400 <h3 class="link-title"><a href="" rel="nofollow">Vote for Blazers chances vs PHX! My rebuttal vid is&nbsp;up!</a></h3> <div class="description"><p><p>Hey gang! Added a rebuttal to my vid-arg on Blazers chances without Roy vs PHX. Vote for me pls so I can advance for Rip City! The rebuttal video is better produced than the first one I did. And my "opponent's" rebuttal is even worse than her opening statement! </p> <p>Again, I am repping the Blazers to say they definitely can win without Roy. Support me with your vote, right now it's tied!</p> <p>Thanks gang...</p></p></div> Vote for Me! Video argument: Blazers DO Have a Chance w/o Roy torridjoe Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:47:30 -0400 <h3 class="link-title"><a href="" rel="nofollow">Vote for Me! Video argument: Blazers DO Have a Chance w/o Roy </a></h3> <div class="description"><p><p>I was aksed to represent the Blazers in the NBA Playoffs challenge. I am paired up of course with the Suns fan, who if I say so offers a fairly weak opening argument. </p> <p>I uploaded a 3 min video showing why of COURSE they have a chance without BRoy, and if my vid gets more votes then I "advance" in the playoffs, I suppose regardless of whether the Blazers do or not. </p> <p>So stand up for Rip City and please vote!</p></p></div> If you want to save KP, read this torridjoe Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:16:04 -0400 <p><br><br>It seems from what I've read in the big thread on Wojo's article re KP, that most Bedgers support Kevin and would not only be sad to see him canned, but would consider it a major affront to them as fans. "I'd be done with this team" is at a rather extreme end, but varying levels of anger at the Blazers would seem to be what might follow his firing. What to do?<br></p> <p>Right now is the time for venting, and I'm all for that expression. I'm concerned about the veracity of Wojo's assertions, but clearly something is not right in the front office, and there is definitely tension and at least a consideration that Pritchard would leave. If it's KP's initiative, that's one thing--even if he quits because he doesn't feel welcomed, it would still be his choice and you couldn't effectively blame the team in any concrete way.</p> <p>But the danger is that he's let go, without the team understanding the full weight of the potential reaction from the fanbase. It would be a serious shame if that were to happen--that if only the Blazers had come to realize how important fans feel KP is to the future of the team, as much as Brandon or Oden or Batum, they would not make any rash personnel decisions.</p> <p>So what can the fans do? Organize and be heard, is what. Thankfully a huge community of true Blazers fans lives right here at BEdge. I'm not a season ticket holder, and I think any effort should be spearheaded and well-populated by them for maximum effect, but if we truly believe KP must stay, we need to let the team know. A statement of support from the fan base, addressed to the team and declaring KP as a crucial component of Blazer championship aspirations, would do the trick--with publicity surrounding it (using our visibility in both local and natl media like TrueHoop) building discussion and momentum, of course.</p> <p>There are petition-building sites on the internet that would easily allow something like that, or it could be posted and signed onto from BEdge, if Dave/Ben allow it.</p> <p>Before this gets too far down the road--certainly before the season ends for the team, when decisions tend to come quickly--if we want to save KPs job we should immediately start thinking about how to save it. I think this is one way.</p> <p> </p> <p>Thoughts on the idea, how to proceed, how effective it might be?</p> BBall-reference's AMAZING box scores torridjoe Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:04:17 -0500 <h3 class="link-title"><a href="" rel="nofollow">BBall-reference's AMAZING box&nbsp;scores</a></h3> <div class="description"><p><p>Am I just really, really slow? I'm used to baseball-reference, which doesn't (or didn't last I looked) update except at the end of the year. The hoops version has full geek out stats for each game, including what seems like a deep historical dataset of box scores too. </p> <p>For instance, we can see Juwan was a Pyrz-like 43% on the defensive glass. Thanks to Dre their effective FG% was awesome. And they played exactly the same pace as the Mavs. </p> <p>Great site, if you haven't been or been lately, check it out. It's a stathead's dream. </p></p></div> Merry Christmas Portland! Love, your Blazers torridjoe Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:49:22 -0500 <h3 class="link-title"><a href="" rel="nofollow">Merry Christmas Portland! Love, your&nbsp;Blazers</a></h3> <div class="description"><p><p>A signpost piece on the recent road trip, from Loaded Orygun...</p></p></div> Sun-Set by the Bay(less): Blazers-Suns, at Loaded Orygun torridjoe Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:26:49 -0500 <h3 class="link-title"><a href="" rel="nofollow">Sun-Set by the Bay(less): Blazers-Suns, at Loaded&nbsp;Orygun</a></h3> <div class="description"><p><p>with extended discussion on how the minutes should and probably will play out, plus Margaret Carter!</p></p></div> LoadedO Update: Despite Concerns, Optimism at the Quarter Pole torridjoe Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:23:05 -0500 <h3 class="link-title"><a href="" rel="nofollow">LoadedO Update: Despite Concerns, Optimism at the Quarter&nbsp;Pole</a></h3> <div class="description"><p><p>In which I argue that The Kids are Alright, and in fact the issue causing the team's discombobulation is not the Miller Effect, but the Oden Effect...caution, stats-heavy analysis!</p></p></div> 3-guard postmortem, TWolves recap at Loaded Orygun torridjoe Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:16:58 -0500 <h3 class="link-title"><a href="" rel="nofollow">3-guard postmortem, TWolves recap at Loaded&nbsp;Orygun</a></h3> <div class="description"><p><p>A look at what the reversion to the original starting lineup means to the Blazers going forward, how the 3-guard's early success proved a Sarah Palin jokes. And tentative scheduling of the season's first LO Blazer LiveBlog tonight vs the Bulls!</p></p></div> Viva la 3-Guard! T-Wolves Recap, at Loaded Orygun torridjoe Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:12:41 -0500 <h3 class="link-title"><a href="" rel="nofollow">Viva la 3-Guard! T-Wolves Recap, at Loaded&nbsp;Orygun</a></h3> <div class="description"><p><p>moments of brilliance as the new lineup takes wing--especially when Andre's shot is falling...</p></p></div> Loaded Orygun Recap: Blowout Turns Edgy torridjoe Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:34:02 -0400 <h3 class="link-title"><a href="" rel="nofollow">Loaded Orygun Recap: Blowout Turns&nbsp;Edgy</a></h3> <div class="description"><p><p>Loaded Orygun says welcome back to the Blazers with a full game recap of the season opening win:</p> <p>The Men of the Red and the Black opened their 40th season this evening at the Rose Garden, before a typically involved crowd whose emotions and outbursts paralleled the play: expectant and unsettled at first, excited and boisterous as the Blazers made their game changing run in the 2nd, desultory as both teams floundered in the 3rd, beer-line confident to open the 4th with a 20-point lead, murmuring and a little antsy as that lead got down as low as six--and then almost audibly relieved as Brandon Roy and Greg Oden took charge to close out the game with a 9-point win over the Houston Rockets. Watch out, Blazers--your town is once again "basketball-involved." </p></p></div> PDX Tourism video uses Spanish Connection jam by Rudy! About :50 in...the rest of the video is... torridjoe Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:49:52 -0400 <object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value=";amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src=";color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="344" width="425"></embed></object> <div class="source source-img"><p><p>PDX Tourism video uses Spanish Connection jam by Rudy! About :50 in...the rest of the video is pretty slick, too.</p></p></div> Blazers v NBA Finalists torridjoe Sun, 31 May 2009 04:03:11 -0400 <p>3-3. Not bad, not bad at all! And it's really 4-2 but for the Turkoglu Miracle. 2-2 vs Denver and 0-2 vs Cleveland, but 1-1 vs Boston, who I think you have to include among the elite. 6-8 overall against the very best the league had to offer this year, 5-2 at home (almost 6-1). That's rising to the occasion!<a href=""></a></p> Thank You, Portland Trail Blazers (LO Farewell) torridjoe Sun, 03 May 2009 04:04:23 -0400 <p> </p> <p>THANK YOU Paul Allen, for having the wallet of George Steinbrenner with the benevolence of Jack Kent Cooke. THANK YOU for showing up to games even though you live a ways away, and for actively supporting the change philosophy necessary to restore the team to former glory.</p> <p>THANK YOU Larry Miller, for bringing Allen's commitment to the daily operations of the Trail Blazers as a business operation and corporate citizen, recognizing the team's unusually strong, Brooklyn Dodger-esque connection to the community and working to embrace and foster that connection. And THANK YOU for ceding most of the spotlight to the guy who really thrives on it, below.</p> <p>THANK YOU Kevin Pritchard, for being the driving force behind the team's acquistion of some nice role players for the team, guys like Brandon Roy (over people like Randy Foye), LaMarcus Aldridge, Greg Oden, Rudy Fernandez...THANK YOU for giving this group of 15 a chance to see what they could accomplish this year, without bowing to the considerable temptation for tinkering in order to win now at tomorrow's cost. </p> <p>THANK YOU Nate McMillan, for being the laconic, straightforward father figure in the mold of the Yankees' Joe Torre. THANK YOU for sticking to your guns in the face of Canzonian attacks, the clamor of blogger cranks, and the chatter of national hoopheads, and building a scheme high on fundamentals and team offense that gave the players a foundation on which to rely when youth and inexperience flared. THANK YOU for staying calm and making enough right moves for 54 wins--which doesn't happen without a lot of right moves from the coach. </p> <p>{more thank yous, below} </p> <p> </p> <p>THANK YOU Raef LaFrentz, for giving us something to talk about at the trade deadline, for being perhaps the first player to be readily recognized by an acronym (RLEC), and for keeping the Blazers from being the youngest team in the NBA. </p> <p>THANK YOU Shavlik Randolph, for being the clearest sign that a game was over by your presence on the court. THANK YOU for trying hard despite that, and giving it your best every time you got a chance. </p> <p>THANK YOU Channing Frye, for being the most Portland of any Blazer, embracing everything the city has to offer and genuinely forming a love affair with your adoptive home. And THANK YOU for accepting gracefully what must have been a difficult personal comedown, to arrive a promising role player and finish the year as an emergency option or foul fodder. </p> <p>THANK YOU Jerryd Bayless, for bringing the excitement and playing the role of the only true bonus baby (Oden technically a rookie by injury, Batum too mature in his play, Rudy only an NBA rookie). THANK YOU for the <a href="">Simba Face.</a> </p> <p>THANK YOU Michael Ruffin, for arriving midstream and just trying to fit in, like the seasoned pro you are.</p> <p>THANK YOU Sergio Rodriguez, for helping us get through those games where Blakey and Roy were out at different times. You weren't always a worldbeater, but you were always ready to take on the challenge. And THANK YOU for being half of the Spanish Armada, showing off some pretty fancy passing.</p> <p>THANK YOU Martell Webster, for working hard, perservering, and even trying to push yourself to help the team down the stretch or in the playoffs. </p> <p>THANK YOU Rudy Fernandez, for being our Rookie of the Year, setting some nice NBA rook records, and for bringing the ladies to the games. THANK YOU for being the other half of the Armada, for giving us some off the hook reverse alley oop jams, for the OK-3 hand sign as you backpedal, for Rudylucion, and for inventing the phrase "put points on your face." </p> <p>THANK YOU Travis Outlaw, just for being Travis--and for being the one player on the team you can describe that way and have everyone know what it means...the good Travis, the bad Travis, the funny Travis. THANK YOU for the best line of the year, after 21 pts and 4 assists against the Thunder: when asked where the assists came from, Outlaw's response was "I just got tired." That's Travis. </p> <p>THANK YOU Steve Blake, for taking the constant criticism and using it as a motivator, believing in yourself and that you were indeed a worthy starting PG in the NBA. THANK YOU for proving it when you were injured and we saw the difference. THANK YOU for those major buckets when you came back, that often made you the crucial "3rd guy" on offense, at a defense-stretching position. THANK YOU for dropping 14 dimesin a quarter and shoehorning yourself into the record books this year with Rudy.</p> <p>THANK YOU Nic Batum, for hands down the most jaw-dropping moments of the year, so much the sweeter for being on defense. To catch up from behind and swat the ball from a streaking fast breaker headed for an easy deuce, is henceforth known as Batuming the ball. THANK YOU for stepping up to the starting role and manning up on some of the toughest offensive forwards in the NBA, night after night after night. And THANK YOU for that 17/4/2/1/2 against the Nets (on 7-8, no less!) in 32 minutes, showing that for all the promise in so many Blazers, the most may lie inside your angular French frame. And let's not forget the 2-fingered salute to Pau Gasol. </p> <p>THANK YOU Joel Przybilla, in my view a Defensive NBA 1st teamer this year, and without question the lunchbucket soul of the team. THANK YOU for being the designated guy to not take shit from nobody, directed at him or any other Blazer. THANK YOU for being <a href="">the NBA's best rebounder</a> of 2008-09, overall and especially offensively. Way to go showing your FT% improvement last year was no fluke, too. And THANK YOU for being a total pro about the debut of the guy below--even to the point of helping him learn how to take your job faster. It takes a certain level of class to teach a guy to make you from a starter into a reserve, and it's why everyone loves you.</p> <p>THANK YOU Greg Oden, for playing with the weight of the national and local media observing your every move, reporting your slightest failure and dismissing your broad improvements. THANK YOU for working through all of that PLUS your rather freakish injuries, and actually towards the end of the season finding some of that goofy kid we loved when you got here.</p> <p>THANK YOU for the 3/4 court shot, the video of which you rightfully and successfully "demanded" be made into a commercial, and which is a prime example of that goofiness returning. And THANK YOU for showing there's a reason you were the #1 pick. Don't listen to the haters, you had a very solid rookie year all things considered--and there were flashes of latent dominance on both ends that made us tingle with the thought of regular doses. </p> <p>THANK YOU LaMarcus Aldridge, for stepping up as the 2nd Guy this year. There has already emerged a messianic player on the Blazers, and we know it's not you, it's the next guy below on this list. But seldom are championships won on the back of one player anymore, and to be totally honest, you have the tools, the committment and the youth to be every bit the uberstud Brandon Roy is. Who's to say might get the accolades when your chapters are written?</p> <p>THANK YOU for banishing the "soft" label and carrying the team into the playoffs and a homecourt seed with some signifcantly elevated play down the stretch. Inside, outside, foul line, aggressiveness--you showed us why the predictions of greatness are solid ones. And THANK YOU for being the 2nd Guy with that typical Blazer grace, embracing your role and acting as the on-court mentor for the 2nd Unit all season while Brandon got some of dat G2. </p> <p>And of course....</p> <p>THANK YOU Brandon Roy. You're 24, and you carry the hopes and fantasies (basketball ones, anyway) of a Blazer-crazy town on your shoulders. You just finished your third year, and you're starting to be mentioned in the same breath as the names on the lips of pundits and fans around the world. And why not, <a href="">you were worth more wins this year than anyone in the NBA except five players</a>--and those five are pretty good: Bryant, Howard, Paul, Wade, James. </p> <p>THANK YOU for recognizing your status in Portland, accepting it, demanding it from yourself, and carrying yourself as someone who deserves the honor--while also possessing just enough swagger mixed in with the team-first philosophy to make it cool. </p> <p>THANK YOU for all those fourth quarters. THANK YOU for 52. THANK YOU for playing with the flu, high on Pepto. THANK YOU for 42 in Game 2. THANK YOU for being the guy who would go to the hole when no one else would or could. THANK YOU for taking all those drops onto your butt when you did, only sometimes getting the call. THANK YOU for cheering on your team as they beat the World Champs without you. THANK YOU for another great All-Star performance, and for making 2nd Team all-NBA. We had lots to be thankful for, didn't we? And how could I leave you without a big THANK YOU for this:</p> <p><object height="364" width="445"><param name="movie" value=""> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="menu" value="false"> <param name="wmode" value=""> <embed src="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="364" wmode="" width="445"></embed></object> </p> <p>Also...</p> <p><strong>THANK YOU</strong> to the Blazers Assistant Coaches, all of whom did a nice job aiding Nate this year with a pretty big development task, molding so many young players at once.</p> <p><strong>THANK YOU</strong> to Mike Barrett, for being the nice mix of homer and tell-it-like-it-is, and for keeping the next guy down, in line. Also <strong>THANK YOU</strong> for your <a href="">excellent blog work. </a> It was better than the regular beat writers, at times, and certainly beneffitted from your close contact with the team. Also THANK YOU for my favorite broadcast line of the year, "If there was a stat for crazy, the Nuggets would lead the league."</p> <p>THANK YOU to Mike Rice, for the hilarity, the blatant homerism we pretend to think is shameful, and for cheerfully letting your self-deprecation and antics cover up the fact that you're a brilliant basketball analyst. THANK YOU for doing your homework, and actually knowing what the opposing players are capable of and how they play. And THANK YOU for so many lines like Barrett's above, that no single one could stand out enough to matter. </p> <p>THANK YOU Rebecca Haarlow, for taking a rather silly job seriously, and also doing your homework. Thank you for improving your courtside technique on-camera, and giving actually very strong reports from inside the huddle as the team comes from timeouts. THANK YOU for wearing your crush on LaMarcus like a cheap suit, it's adorable. And THANK YOU for respecting the kwan and never EVER wearing the wrong colors on game night. </p> <p>THANK YOU to Casey Holdahl and the rest of the Blazers office people, for a splashy website, an aggressive and fun marketing campaign, and a generally well-run and exciting fan experience.</p> <p>THANK YOU for making believers out of us again. THANK YOU for making it OK to like the hometown team again. THANK YOU for 54 big wins, and a heartbreaking but enormously hard-fought playoff series. THANK YOU for punking the L*kers twice at home, keeping Kobe frustrated in Stumptown. THANK YOU for a league-high number of comebacks, signalling your heart, your talent, your stamina, and even if it wasn't your intent, to make the games that much more exciting and keep us from ever turning one off too soon. THANK YOU for exceeding expectations, doing it with class, and truly, legitimately making it finally OK to say with pride, </p> <p>RIP CITY! </p> LO Recap of Game 5: "We Believe" torridjoe Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:54:54 -0400 <p> </p> <p>That's what Rudy Fernandez had to say after the game about the prospect of going to Houston: "We know Houston is a difficult arena, but we believe. We believe." (That's in Joe Freeman's recap at The O, but you should check out <a href="" style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: none;">the profile/news piece on Rudy that's also in today's editions.</a>) After a game like Game 5 in the Garden Tuesday night, how do you not believe?</p> <p>How can you not become vested in these games, your heart pacing with the rhythm of the ups and downs, hoping for the flash of brilliance from these new young guys who like being here and play so hard they remind us of the magic--small m--years of the Blazers? (Don't look at me for sanity; my developing mancrushes are becoming so disconcerting that I squeal like a 14 year old girl when Rudy hits a three).</p> <p>So when the Olympic half of the Spanish Armada says he believes, who's to argue? It's not so stupid a belief, despite the long struggles for Portland there--after a regular season where they never threatened the Rockets in Houston, in the playoffs they've had at least a couple chances to win each one, and in the last game actually took control late for a few moments before collapsing in a heap of mistakes. </p> <p>There are some solid reasons to favor the Blazers just a little in Game 6, not least of which is a momentum shift that places much more of the performance pressure on the Rockets than on Portland. Several recent first round exits have got the fans and local media a bit spooked, to the point where a loss in Game 6 automatically cedes the series back in Oregon. And then there's that whole how-many-minutes-can-Yao-play-before-he-turns-to-salt question, after yet another 40-minute performance.</p> <p>Blazer fans for their part take some of the same liberties in their assumptions about a Game 7 sure-win scenario, but if Portland falls it will be the end of an enormously successful season, in which every playoff game was gravy to start with. Our fantasies are just that--what-ifs that aren't unreasonable, just way too much to expect. The threat of losing shouldn't be hanging over this team, threatening to discolor the effort of the whole season. It's ALREADY a huge success.</p> <p>Houston fans, on the other hand, aren't satisfied with another first round exit, nor should they be. To begin with, the Rockets should have been 2nd seed and mauling the Hornets right now, instead of locked in this matchup that gets uglier and more unsure for them by the game. And they've got plenty of experience and defense to be showing well in the second season. In sum, Blazer fans can be loose and accept whatever outcome occurs in the end. Houston's players and coaches will not receive quite the "ah well, great try!" welcome come salarly negotiation time over the summer. </p> <p>So this Game 5 win was (natch) pretty freakin' huge. Shall we talk about it a bit? Sure, why not. Let's start below...</p> <p>{this way to the basement} </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Fans watching the game should have recognized two things pretty early: the Blazer bigs weren't getting the same off-ball fouls that plagued them from the beginning in Houston; and Brandon Roy was sick. Pasty, sluggish, haggard-sick, from non-pork flu symptoms. During the shootaround it looked as if he might not even play, and through much of the first three quarters he was clearly off, missing open foul-liners repeatedly and just not bouncing. (He got better; we'll get to that.)</p> <p>As quickly as four fouls on Joel and Greg in the first set the stage for Houston in Game 4, their absence impacted the play in Game 5. Both men were able to stand Yao up in the key, fronting him and trying to harrass him on the dribble post-pass, without getting the whistle.</p> <p>Yao played almost the entire first quarter and took exactly zero shots. After a break he came back in the second and continued to not score with deadly accuracy, putting up his first attempt with 6:18 left in the half. He did get going a little after that, taking advantage of periods when both bigs were out and LaMarcus Aldridge was left with the difficult task of guarding. But his early drought was just the ticket for the Blazers, who shrugged off Luis Scola's 17-point compensation for Yao being covered and led after the first, 29-26. </p> <p>Unlike Game 5, where things started off well with jumpers and then dissolved about five minutes later as Joel and Greg began to suffer the calls, this time the Blazers held firm and resisted a full-on Houston run that got them to within three after trailing by 10 with four minutes left in the first. Stoked with a little confidence, the Blazers maintained that 4-7 point lead through the second quarter as LaMarcus began to heat up despite a tweaked elbow, dropping nine in the 2nd to help close out the half up seven, 50-43--that last hoop coming on a sweet drive by Roy to the hole with .7 left after the bucket.</p> <p>I suppose because they were ahead at the half instead of behind, the Blazers chose the 3rd quarter to do their choking instead of the pivotal fourth. Smart move!--but watching the devolution was angrying up my blood something fierce. The generally non-stealing Rockets started swatting balls away left and right, leading to easy buckets at the other end and, near the end of the quarter, a Brooks three off an LMA turnover to tie the game at 60.</p> <p>PDX recovered to hold onto a reedlike two-point edge when the quarter ended, but after such consistently strong play for more than a half, the worries (for me at least) had returned. Do they just get too flustered to play their game when it's close and late?</p> <p>Answer: nope--at least, not when B-Roy has a bottle of Pepto nearby. Boosted by a pregame IV and fortified by a little Big Pink, in the fourth quarter Brandon was a new man. It took a few minutes; the Rockets got over the hump and actually led by four at 68-64 when Roy came back into the game. </p> <p>There was one other big difference between this game and the last; in Game 5's fourth quarter it was the Rockets' turn to start committing dumb fouls and taking poor shots. Carl Landry and Chuck Hayes both picked up calls on the same trip, leading to a classic 19-footer that Roy usually hits in his sleep, but on this night was absent until just then. </p> <p>That was enough for Adelman, he got Artest and Yao back in quickly to replace the former pair. However, things did not change. Battier fouled Roy for a pair of FT, Lowry tangled with Blake who made one, then switched over to bump into Oden, who hit both of his frees. When Greg tried to flatten Von Wafer's mohawk but slapped the ball away instead, that was it for the second unit; Luis Scola came in and the Rockets took some time to talk.</p> <p>Having set the pace by repeatedly hammering into the paint, coming out of the TO the natural thing to do would be to start launching open jumpers, right? That's in fact what happened, as Travis hit a big three after missing but catching a break on Brandon's O-reeb and passback. Roy liked that idea, and so tossed one up himself, also driving quickly to the hole to make it 79-68 and forcing yet another Houston TO. They got back within five after Artest, Scola and Brooks gave their last gasps, but by this time the Rockets were well into the penalty, and the Blazers kept attacking. </p> <p>Within that final, 15-0 burst to help salt the game away, Oden was key. He handled the tiring Yao, got strong boxout position to gain multiple key rebounds, and used his presence to open up the floor for those longer jumpshots. It was probably his best defensive stretch of the year, right when it was most needed.</p> <p>Overall in fact, I believe it was the best total team defensive effort the Blazers have played this year. Houston is so difficult to defend because their ability to draw so much attention to Yao and leave multiple shooters open means that defenders have to truly wear themselves out chasing after guys. (Watching Rudy and Brooks chase each other back and forth under the baseline was a riot!) It means the guards and forwards MUST close out quickly, and then jump right back towards the paint and scrounge rebounds. How'd it work out? LMA 7 REB; Roy 4 REB; Blake 7(!); Rudy 4 and Outlaw 5. Yeah, I'd say they got back. </p> <p>Stats aside, you could just tell--Blake was not letting Brooks cruise right by him, Rudy was able to contain Battier in the corners, and as I said Blake found another gear last night. There were very few wide open jumper looks for the Rockets, very few backdoor slams that leave defenders looking and pointing fingers at each other afeterwards. After many games where it looked like the idea was to only contest every other shot, the entire team stepped up all at once and made the difference.</p> <p>I should also say something about the early insertion of Rudy into the game, replacing a series-ineffective Nic Batum. I love Nic, and he brings superior defense and BBIQ to the court when he plays, but he's too thin and rangy to handle either Artest or Battier, and it was killing the Blazers to have him be muscled around.</p> <p>Rudy is no lockdown defender, but he certainly held his own--and more than made up for it with his scrappiness, slapping balls away as someone else's man came by, creating good movement off the dribble, and even a couple blocks. He only hit 1-4 from distance, but did so many other things that Nate would have to be a stone cold idiot to not at least extend Rudy's minutes in the same way for Game 6--or even start him. </p> <p>And I have to give special props to what I'd call the NBA Live play of the game, midway through the third as the Blazers built their second double-digit lead before falling back again. Blake pulled down a nice rebound (can't remember if it was the one where he BOXED OUT YAO--believe it!), then got it upcourt and set the halfcourt offense for the pick and roll. LaMarcus was the pick man, but before he set the screen he switched to a slip, heading right for the basket and a waiting Yao.</p> <p>Yao had to be licking his chops, but what he didn't know was that Joel had gone weakside behind him on the post. As LaMarcus received the ball and continued towards the hole, he quickly bounced it to Yao's left and into the stony hands of Joel, who grabbed it with two hands and rammed it home. You can't spell fundamentals without fun, people--and that was a fun play. The knowledgable Garden crowd went apey, Adelman got the TO, and I watched the reply about three more times. Do you know how many times I've beaten Andrew Bynum with the slip and dish in NBA Live? Reality imitates video!</p> <p>The Blazers have played relatively poorly in both Houston games this series, aided in part by unbalanced officiating and definitely by their own mistakes and jitters. By tomorrow night, I don't expect a miracle--but I expect the team to have mostly shaken off the "can-you-believe-we're-here" vibe and will give the Rockets all they have.</p> <p>Will it be enough? I want to predict yes, but the odds are not with Portland. Teams up 3-1 almost always win. On the other hand, in a lot of cases they win Game 5, breaking the other team's will and closing the losers out with force. That COULD have happened last night, to this young and inexperienced team. But this Blazers group had suffered and grown enough, taking their lumps and perservering past them. Win or lose, it won't be because Portland didn't come to play. And that's really all we can ask, as the magic continues and we get at least one more chance to exercise our mancrushes and get our squeal on. </p> <p><a href="">Crossposted at Loaded Orygun...</a><br></p> <p> </p> "Game One? I'm Afraid I Don't Recall any 'Game One', Senator" torridjoe Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:33:43 -0400 <p>Put on your best crazy prospector voice as you say with me, "Reckon we got er-selves a humdinger of a pistol shootin', rootin'-tootin' SERIES now!" If you like hoop at all and that game didn't have you up out of your seat half the time, reach over and give the heart monitor machine a whack--you might not still be alive.</p> <p>Back and forth it went, from one run to another, one momentum shift to the next. It took some superhuman play from some seemingly superhuman ballers, and a whole lot of overcome adversity, but the Blazers now have what they came to get, because honestly--when you listen to them talk, they're not thinking about championships or WCF appearances or even beating the Lakers in Round 2. They came to get playoff experience, and an understanding of what it takes to win.</p> <p>They now have that understanding, but I think it still suprises this young team just how much intensity is required to compete for and win a playoff game in the NBA. After the game Brandon Roy joked, Bush-esquely, that it was "hard work to win playoff games." All I ask the team is no "Playoffs Accomplished" banners before they leave for Houston, OK?</p> <p>Seriously, even if the Blazers lose both games in Houston and then can't stay alive in Game 5 (tickets available 10AM tomorrow, but ONLY through, this will have been an eminently valuable season for the team's future. Not only do they now grasp just how easy it is to get blown out if you're not loaded for bear from the git-go, they know it's possible to regroup, retain a high level of energy and mostly just go out and play.</p> <p>That said, I think this team now not only has the tools to win a road game in this series, but the moxie and focus of determination. Houston, while being a beast at home in the regular season (who in the West isn't?), has struggled recently in some key playoff games, which might help explain the number of first-round exits they've had. I actually think with current circumstances the chances are actually better than 50-50 that the Blazers will get that homecourt recovery accomplished. </p> <p>{Some of the keys, below} </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>The biggest thing that kept the Blazers in this game turned out to be their ability to keep level heads throughout all of the valleys in the sine wave that was Game 2. First they had to withstand the role of Yao Ming being played by Ron Artest, who buried shot after shot in the first quarter, including a staggering fadeaway over Travis that you can't really call "over," since Outlaw fell down. to make it 24-18 and give Artest a shweet 15 for the quarter. </p> <p>You had to be asking yourself at this point, "Is this going to turn out exactly the same as before, just with a different player sparking the rout?" I wouldn't say I lapsed into despair, but I was certainly wary of watching the Blazers fall into the same trap as on Saturday. But one thing was different; Artest's shots were generally further away and better contested than Yao's were.</p> <p>I suppose the other difference is that Artest can be a dangerous shooter--with danger that cuts both ways. If he gets hot, the rest of the team better begin figuring out ways to get the ball from him when the weather turns inevitably cold. That happened tonight, as by the second half Artest had gone cold but no one told his brain, as he kept launching long-range ill-advised shots to keep the Blazers in it.</p> <p>So the Blazers really could have tanked it right there and said Oh Well, Thought We Were a Playoff Team a Year Early. Three things happened shortly thereafter that scared away such defeatist thinking: </p> <ul> <li>Dikembe Motumbo's knee failed on him, which is sad for a great player and ambassador for the league, but which could turn out to be huge if it leads to Yao fatigue</li> <li>LaMarcus hit his second shot of the game after flailing for most of Game One, a patented fadeaway on Scola that seemed to break the ice for him and signal that Luis wasn't going to hose him again this game</li> <li>Rudy anticipated a Brooks pass beautifully, intercepted it at the top of the key and canned the fast break bucket to tie the score at 24-24.</li> </ul> <p>There was a looooong way to go still, but the first test had been passed. And when Brandon Roy closed the quarter off an LMA block of Brooks at the other end by draining a top-key-three with time running out to make it 28-26, for a minute there it almost looked like the Blazers might even take control of the game.</p> <p>No such luck. In the second quarter it went back and forth, forth and back. Neither team built a lead of more than four points, and there were multiple lead changes and ties throughout. But another theme was developing, one which persisted the rest of the game: call it the LaBrancus Attack.</p> <p>For the quarter, the Blazers put up 25 points. Rudy hit a jumpshot, Travis nailed one to start the period--and the rest of the scoring was from one of the studs, 21 points worth. LA hit four straight jumpers and six overall in the quarter--one of them a fader of the kind that makes you scream Nooooo!....whew. They were important shots, as much for LA's psyche as the points they brought; in Game One Aldridge lamented his abandonment of the outside game, so it was dynamite to see him stretch the court as per usual. </p> <p>The beginning of the third was another lurching, stomach-turning few minutes, as the Blazers started extremely cold despite getting solid open looks. Roy and LA clanged a couple times before Roy was able to drive the lane and bring Portland back within three at 56-59. Scola answered back with four more however, and the Rockets built their biggest lead of the game at 7.</p> <p>Roy must have sensed the slippage danger as well; as the Rockets (primarily ex-Blazer Von Wafer and Kevin Lowry) had figured out in the first half, a drive down the middle of the lane with a little contact would almost assuredly earn you two shots, so Brandon went to work.</p> <p>With a little help from Blake and Aldridge, near the end of the quarter the Blazers had taken their own 7-point lead with 1:40 left, and once again it seemed that maybe they were ready to pull away or at least maintain a lead in that neighborhood. Nope: Brooks reverse at the rim, Rudy turnover and a Brooks three, then an unfortunate pass that went too high and Artest took for the jam, and we were tied again at 72. Sigh.</p> <p>Rudy opened the fourth with a pretty and desperately needed three, and then Blake found LaMarcus for an alley-oop jam that got the crowd a little nutsy and put the Blazers ahead by five. Wafer came back with an And One and then a dunk of his own, and just like that it was once again tied at 77. Be still, my palpating heart! What an exciting, closely contested game--but it was ulcer-inducing. </p> <p>It went that way for most of the quarter, and with 4:46 left the Rockets held a slim 89-87 lead. It would be their last, but who could tell at the time? Joel Przybilla had gone out moments before with his fifth foul, bringing in Greg Oden, who also had five at the time. Without a center, the Blazers were dead, and Joel needed rest. Could Oden stay in the game?</p> <p>Well, the answer was actually no: on a ridiculous call in which Aaron Brooks set a pick by backing into Oden in the lane, the big rookie fouled out for the first time in a playoff game. (Enjoy the memory, buddy). But what he did before he left may have saved their season. On a Roy miss that bounced high but short off the left side of the rim, Oden came in from mid-lane quickly and in one motion jumped, grabbed the ball and rammed it home. The crowd went....apeshit!</p> <p>But he wasn't done. In a bold move that risked his 6th foul, he poked the ball away from Artest from behind and Blake finished with a nice layin to put the Blazers on top. Outlaw hit the same key fourth quarter jumper he's nailed about a zillion times, and then Roy dropped what looked like the dagger--a falling down, time-running-out, blown-up-offensive-set three that once again tizzified the audience. And surely when Outlaw anticipated a Brooks pass, tipped it out front and then took it home for the big jam to give the Blazers a 98-90 lead, that was it, right?</p> <p>Well, not exactly. Aaron Brooks scored 11 points in the final 27 seconds to force Portland to make a bunch of foul shots, but they did and that was the game. Not having timeouts killed the Rockets down the stretch, but they ALMOST found a way to give themselves a chance for the win.</p> <p>So the Blazers can pocket this one: that's how you win a playoff game. Stay focused, be agressive and you'll get the calls, don't despair when you get down, don't get cute when you're ahead. And for heaven's sake, be confident--you made the playoffs and got homecourt for a reason.</p> <p>The Blazers will surely lose another playoff game this season--at least three more at some point in fact--but I guarantee you it won't be because Portland was too in awe of everything to come out and really play. And that was the other goal: put Game One in a lockbox, bury it and pretend it never happened, because it was damn sure not going to happen again. </p> <p>[crossposted at <a href="">Loaded Orygun</a>...]</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> Blazers By the Numbers, Eve of the Playoffs torridjoe Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:20:43 -0400 <p>Crossposted <a href="">at Loaded Orygun.</a>..</p> <p>As the first playoff game in six years approaches, no one--not the players or coaches, broadcasters or pundits, stat geeks or tools scouts, Vegas cons or Omaha housewives--has any idea how the Rockets-Blazers series, or the fate of the Blazers in general, will turn out. I hope, anyway. I can't handle another officiating scandal, for instance. </p> <p>You've probably seen some or even most of these numbers before, recently. I thought this would be a good compendium, along with a little analysis along the way, to reflect on the regular season and celebrate over the accomplishments--but also to show that their finish and strong play were no fluke. </p> <p>Stats are good for telling you how something has already happened, and can offer insights for the future, but aren't good predicitive tools. What they're best used for here is deciding which teams that looked good to the eye were doing it on solid execution, and which were getting by on smoke and mirrors and are due for retrenchment. </p> <p>There are several sources for useful stats info; I'll be looking at, Hollinger at, and the great site. I'll look at team stats and individual, team first. </p> <p>Get a drink, a smoke, a pillow, whatever you do to make life bearable as Lou Reed once said, and we'll start below....numbers ahoy! (and yeah, that's a warning to the phobic) </p> <p>The best place to start is <a href="">with John Hollinger and his team power rankings.</a> You'll think I'm fronting his work here primarily on the basis of his results, when you see them (It's not true; I love anyone who gets past raw stats and looks for the numbers that really define something, and Hollinger is like the <a href="">Bill James</a> of basketball.) Portland ranks currently--not over the season but now, after the season--third. That's right, behind only the Cavs and the L#kers, heading up a second tier with Orlando, the Celtics, the Rockets(!), the Nuggets and the Spurs. </p> <p>Hollinger's system extra-weights the most recent portion of the season, so Portland's blazing finish over top competition with big win margins is what's pushed them so high. Just about nobody's hotter the last month, and even among the two teams ahead of them, they've spanked #2 twice in 5 weeks, and forced #1 to OT in their building, without two key starters. Whatever else happens, it's fair to say that an objective look at the season puts Portland as the 3rd best team when the regular season ended--and that's an unreal accomplishment. </p> <p>It's a bit of a shame that Houston--other than Dallas probably the only West team truly confident they can handle Portland--is the draw for the first round. Any other team, and that includes the L$kers, would have coaches high on Starbucks and donuts the last two days, hair greasy and mussed as they watch tape of the Blazers just dismantling teams everyone assumed they were ill-equipped to handle. Adelman and the Rockets are surely wary, but they know the matchups favor them.</p> <p>Back to Hollinger: look at the margin in the last 25% of the schedule--20 games, basically: +9.81. It's easily tbe best in the NBA, two full points per game better than the Cavs. That's just absurd for any extended stretch, unless you're on a major roll, dominating opponents. Hey, that sounds like the Blazers! Strong point differential, a better predictor than wins, says rather emphatically that the 54-28 record is no fluke, and neither are the possibilities that the Blazers are within their capacity to advance in this tournament if they play to that level consistently.</p> <p>If you want an even smaller sample that figures only the most recent games are telling of the immediate future, <a href=""> lets you sort for just the last 10 games</a> (why not let you search by date range, at that point people? huh?), and those numbers are as revealing as Hollinger's. Over the last 10, Portland has allowed just under 85 points per game, the fewest by over six points per game to the #2 team, Orlando (which is high since the range is only 30).</p> <p>If that weren't enough of a shock--Portland leading the NBA in points defense? This Portland team? Maine doesn't, they must mean the Blazers--check out the differential. Portland spent the last game blowing out opponents by an AVERAGE of 15.8 points per game.</p> <p>That's not a typo. For two weeks, it didn't matter the opponent, they were going down 100-85. In crunch time, fighting a raft of other teams for best possible position, Portland faltered just one time (at Houston, cough). That differential is EIGHT points higher than Cleveland's finish at #2. Sick. </p> <p>Other highlights of the recent past: #3 FG% (48.9%), #2 Def FG% (43.2%, basically tied with L*kers for #1), #1 in opponent treys (a stingy 31.4%) , #1 in assists/game (16.8), and #2 in assist differential (almost 4 more assists per game). What else can you conclude with that diverse array of rate stats, besides the fact that no one played better ball than Portland down the stretch? Forty-nine percent from the field will solve a lot of problems, boy, but it's been the defense that's really set that all up.</p> <p>Hopping back to Hollinger, he also <a href="">lays out his factors very nicely</a> in a sortable table of teams. In contrast to the power rankings, these are static stats summaries that don't weight for recent events, so it's evenly based on 82 games for everyone. Click the columns to sort, click again to reverse the sort, by the way. </p> <p>What jumps out at me is Portland's offensive efficiency number (points per possessions), #2 just behind Phoenix. It doesn't translate into the Suns' high point totals because Portland also happens to be the 2nd slowest-paced team, getting fewer than 90 possessions per game.</p> <p>But it means that they make the very most of their trips, and keep the opponents' possessions down and at a lower efficiency. It's a lot of the reason the Blazers have excelled at comebacks--in the fourth quarter, down by 15 or more, etc. They eventually catch up by making the most of their shots. </p> <p>How does Portland get so efficient? Better than average assist (15% of shots made, for 13th-best) and turnover (22% of possessions with one, for 8th) percentages, for two. Overall shooting percentage--accounting for FT and treys--is also important, Portland at just over 55% total, 8th best as well. (Does it freak you out a little to realize that one of every five possessions is a turnover--and that's good? Definitely caught me by surprise the first time.)</p> <p>But for the Blazers, efficiency is all about cleaning up the junk. By almost one and a half O-reebs per game more than the #2 offensive rebounding 76ers, Portland has dominated the NBA on the O-glass. Joel and Greg, LaMarcus and Travis have been like papal figures on the court, absolving the fail shooter and blessing the putback. That kind of absolution can prevent major damage from streaky shooting, which of course can get you into trouble hard to get out of.</p> <p>Defensively the Blazers are no slouches either, collecting a 5th best 75% of available boards--and that's enough to make them the best rebounding team in the Association for 2009, when combined with their O-bound strength. It seems like a small margin--just 3.5% more than even 50/50 odds--but just two teams have a less than 50% rebound rate, that are in the playoffs. And the only one of the top 10 not attending the dance is Oklahoma City(!) It means something.</p> <p>Before I leave the team stats a word about defensive efficiency. Portland is just barely in the top third, #10 at 104.5 points per 100 possessions. (Houston is 4th, btw--their toughest feature IMO). Still, combined with their #2 offensive rating that's a pretty solid differential...and it's a HUGE improvement over the last several weeks when they were once 18th, perhaps even lower. It's a sign that their defensive prowess recently has made opponents work harder for their points, which is excellent news and a hopeful harbinger for the playoffs.</p> <p>Who's putting together these numbers for the Blazers? <a href="">Hollinger helps out with individual player ratings as well.</a> There's a reason the franchise stud is Brandon Roy; he's listed as the #7 player in all of the NBA on a per-minute productivity basis. For reference, the average player produces about 15 "credits" per minute; Roy averages 24. (LeBron leads the league with almost 32, which tells you there's a level between star and galactic superstar). </p> <p>PER is a good tool to compare starters and those who get regular minutes; for role players, the injured and part timers, it's less interpretable. For instance, Greg Oden does very well on a PER basis; he's the #12 center overall and the #2 rookie to Kevin Love. But does he play enough minutes to make a real-world difference? Not as much. But in a field where everyone has 2000 minutes or more, it smooths everything out and compares apples to apples.</p> <p>Roy is the #3 shooting guard, behind Kobe and Wade (who is in a league of his own, doubling up the average baller at 30 PER). When people talk about Roy as the complete package at guard, believe it: he's not #1 in any category, but he's strong everywhere, and near the top among the best guards in assists, turnover ratio, offensive and total rebounds, and total shooting percentage. If he were a pocketknife he'd have scissors, a nail file, a toothpick and tweezers to go with three blades and a bottle opener. </p> <p>The team's fortunes have reached new heights as LaMarcus Aldridge has come of age and begun to dominate parts of the game like never before. It's showed up in his player ratings; he is now listed at #32 PER overall after not even breaking the charts that I can recall before recently. Among SF he is 8th; last time I checked he was somewhere between 13th and 18th I think. </p> <p>Interestingly, he doesn't show up among the leaders at his position in any raw-stat category except turnovers, at a sick-low 7%, but there he is in 8th overall. Where he really shines is in estimated wins as a result of his play. He moves up to 5th at his position and 24th overall. Roy moves up to 6th overall, stays at 3rd best shooting guard, when it comes to win shares (see what I mean about Hollinger <a href="">being like Bill James?</a>) </p> <p>Those are the only two Blazers in the top 50; only one other player shows up among the PER or win share leaders at his position. Can you guess who? That's right...Travis Outlaw. Wait, Travis Outlaw? Yes, say hello to your 20th best small forward by PER, 18th best by win shares. That's a strong testament to his clutch ability and maximized minutes, that he can move UP on win shares, which is a reflection of playing time.</p> <p>Individual stat honorable mentions, from Hollinger and <a href="">also</a></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li> Three Blazers in the top 50 for TS%: Prizz (3rd), Oden (23rd), Rudy (44th)</li> <li>Two in the top 20 for AST%: Sergio at 8th (nice job!) and Blake at 19th</li> <li>Three in the top 50 for lowest TO%: LaMarcus and Roy at 27th/28th, and Travis at 44th</li> <li>The most consistent O-rebounder in the NBA? Rookie Greg Oden, with 15.7% of all O-reebs collected while in the game. Joel finished 23rd.</li> <li>Don't worry, Joel gets his revenge on the defensive side, as the #1 D-rebounder in the NBA! Oden is 20th defensively.</li> <li>Those numbers are good enough for Joel to be crowned 2009's Rebound King, leading the league with 22.8% of all rebounds. Congrats Joel!</li> <li>LMA was #11 in total minutes with 3004, the only Blazer over 3000.</li> <li>Brandon the 8th most FG made (638); LMA 13th. </li> <li>Brandon 8th in attempts; LMA 18th.</li> <li>Rudy the rookie record for 3s (159); good enough for 13th overall. Also 11th for trey attempts, just under 400.</li> <li>It was Blake who won the 3FG% crown for the Blazers however, 13th at 42.7%</li> <li>Brandon the 14th most FT (416), 15th in attempts</li> <li>Maybe surprisingly, LMA 8th in O-reebs with 234; Prizz tied for 16th. Joel is also 13th in defensive boards, 12th overall, and 12th in boards per game at 8.7</li> <li>Joel also tied for 19th in blocks with 97. Career year!</li> <li>Not a single player in the top 20 for turnovers for fouls, an accomplishment worth mentioning for its absence</li> <li>Brandon 8th in points, 1,765 total; 10th per game at 22.6</li> </ul> Just the facts, ma'am. <p> </p> For One Night, Roy > Kobe--the LO L*ker Recap torridjoe Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:59:59 -0400 <h3 class="link-title"><a href="" rel="nofollow">For One Night, Roy > Kobe--the LO L*ker&nbsp;Recap</a></h3> <div class="description"><p><p>I hope Dave doesn't mind the extra link this week--man, it's the FAKERS game! And it was soooo sweet...</p></p></div> LO Recap of Grizz Win: Playoff Team Beats Non Playoff Team, Eventually torridjoe Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:55:36 -0400 <h3 class="link-title"><a href="" rel="nofollow">LO Recap of Grizz Win: Playoff Team Beats Non Playoff Team,&nbsp;Eventually</a></h3> <div class="description"><p><p>Where I introduce the term "athletic elevation," and apply it to the Blazers overcoming a tenacious team of Grizz.</p></p></div> LO Recap of Suns game--Woooo! torridjoe Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:09:32 -0400 <h3 class="link-title"><a href="" rel="nofollow">LO Recap of Suns&nbsp;game--Woooo!</a></h3> <div class="description"><p><p>Now THAT was a buttkicking.</p></p></div> Blazers .001 out of 3rd seed torridjoe Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:59:26 -0400 <h3 class="link-title"><a href="" rel="nofollow">Blazers .001 out of 3rd&nbsp;seed</a></h3> <div class="description"><p><p>The Spurs just beat the Rockets, the Bulls beat the Hornets, Miami beat the Jazz, the Mavs lost last night. 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This fall is a season of many anniversaries in Quebec: 15 years since the 1995 referendum, 40 years since the October crisis. But this year also is the anniversary of another event that had an even deeper and enduring impact on the province's politics and society: the Quiet Revolution. Indeed, Nov. 10 marks the 50th anniversary of the first throne speech presented by the "Équipe du tonnerre" - the Liberal government of premier Jean Lesage that wrested power from the conservative Union Nationale - which would transform both state and society in Québec.
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While all of Quebec is awash in discussions of the meaning and impact of the Quiet Revolution, it's the rest of Canada that might learn the most from this anniversary. The term that Quebeckers have made their own - la Révolution tranquille - was coined in the English-language media, first by Brian Upton in the Montreal Star and then by Peter Gzowksi in Maclean's, to reflect the powerful momentum of Mr. Lesage's reforms. It was not a sudden shift from la grande noirceur to sudden enlightenment - instead, it was characterized by the determination to harness the power of the state to effect real improvements in the socioeconomic well-being of Quebeckers.
This was reflected, as the throne speech reads, in a desire to "broaden the government's field of action" to "meet the collective needs of the people." They would include the creation of a department of natural resources, led by René Lévesque, that would end up nationalizing hydro-electricity and revving the motor of Québec's economic development; an innovative department of cultural affairs with the mandate of promoting Québec's "specific" culture, including language; the literal takeover of education from the hands of a defiant clergy; and, with considerable implications for the future of federalism, the first federal-provincial affairs bureau in a Canadian province.
The "quietness" of the revolution was ostensibly based on the expansion and modernization of the administrative machinery of government in the province instead of radical ideals. But this expansion would contribute to, and become intertwined with, much larger societal and political change. The kind of welfare state that emerged in the 1960s throughout Canada would have a distinctive format in Quebec, and would give rise to a wider consideration of the role of the state in social and economic matters. Inevitably, questions about which state - federal or provincial - was to play that role would become matters of crucial importance not only to Quebec but to all of Canada. It was not merely a question of tax points or transfers. Rather, the key question since the 1960s has been the relative autonomy of the provincial state as a marker of Quebec's special place in the federation and its ability to maintain linguistic and cultural objectives.
Today, 50 years later, everyone has an opinion of the ramifications of the Quiet Revolution - some critics decry it as the birth of "separatism," others that of the "nanny state," while more celebratory views see it as the basis for a necessary affirmation of autonomy, or the foundation of Quebec's economic success and social survival. The tension can be seen in the continuing debate over public versus private funding in key sectors of the economy, the still unresolved divisions between supporters of sovereignty and some kind of federal arrangement, and the recurrence of new political movements, such as the recent attempts to revive the political right.
But most of all, Quebec has emerged from the Quiet Revolution with an identity distinct from the rest of Canada. Quebeckers display significantly different attitudes on a number of issues, such as the environment and families, than most other Canadians. And the province has gone it alone on a number of public policy innovations, such as daycare and pharmacare, rather than waiting for federal leadership. While the demands for more autonomy on the part of political parties - Liberal or Parti Québécois alike - are still there, Quebec seems less inclined than ever to play ball - even hardball - with the rest of Canada on constitutional issues. Even more significant is that francophone Quebeckers seem to be opting out of the Canadian political mainstream, continuing to support a sovereigntist party in the House of Commons even while the sovereignty movement has trouble finding its groove in Quebec itself.
Fifty years ago today, Quebec's government officially announced its turn toward social and political modernization - a process that would change Canada for good. Now, however, we may be seeing the development of a "proxy independence" in which, for lack of anything better, Quebeckers are living in a political and social space that is practically detached from that of other Canadians. The nature of this space was broadly defined by the contents of that first throne speech by the Lesage government. As we seek to understand Quebec's present and future, we have much to gain in pausing to reflect on its message and how it inspired half a century of rapid change.
Antonia Maioni is director of McGill's Institute for the Study of Canada, an organizer of Wednesday's half-day Montreal conference "Voices from the Quiet Revolution," which is free and open to the public: http://www.mcgill.ca/quiet-revolution.
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This tweet suggests a Lumia 920 running WP8 with a 4.5 inch screen and the most-anticipated Pureview camera technology. This leak is also on a Neowin forum post
Neowin user ~Johnny commented:
Wouldn't it kind of extoll any benefits of actually having a PureView camera if the lens is that small and body isn't that thick. You're not going to get much oversampling done if the most it can do is something like 21 MP :p
Still - 720p AMOLED display and I'll probably take it.
All I can comment is that, 21MP can still be considered Pureview, and yes, a 720p screen would be great, But isnt AMOLED owned by Samsung?
Another user GP007 says:
21MP is better than 8MP, regardless. But who knows? We'll have to wait and see for sure. Most of the 808s bulk comes from the 2nd SoC that helps them get that 41MP image and not so much the lens.
I definitely have to agree with this, the more MP, The better and more detailed the picture becomes.
At the same time, This very site, The Verge, reported that it will be called the 820
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Seal: Fat People Shouldn't Act
Apparently, he's never heard of Marlon Brando.
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I cannot believe some of you people. He has scars. So what. I believe they are from Lupus. Are you going to go down to the VA hosp. and start calling soldiers ugly because they have scars, fire fighters who have scars, kids who have been burned or have a disease? For shame. You are ugly inside and have no business fouling up good air spewing your hatred. Heidi see's the beauty that he is. A loving and kind heart means more than a pretty package.
2090 days ago
Let me get this straight, a person who is otherwise minding their own business, and would like to keep it that way, is interrupted, followed, shadowed and harrassed, and it is his fault. Also, all of our esteemed writers and readers, where are your platium CD's, movie scores, etc....? I thought so. TMZ is proving themselves gutless racists. The guy doesn't want to play, what is so hard for you vultured to understand?
2090 days ago
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John Lennon LOVED Reagan ... Says Ex-Assistant
6/30/2011 9:35 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF
John's ex-assistant Fred Seaman dropped the bombshell in a new documentary called "Beatles Stories" -- claiming, Lennon was "embarrassed" by his anti-war radicalism.
Seaman claims, "[Lennon] was a very different person back in 1979 and 80 than he'd been when he wrote 'Imagine.' By 1979 he, looked back on that guy and was embarrassed by that guy's naivete."
But Seaman's credibility isn't exactly untarnished -- back in 1983, the man pled guilty to stealing Lennon's photos and diaries ... and was sentenced to five years probation.
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Totally untrue.
But what is true is that John Lennon could flap his arms and fly around central park.
990 days ago
some guy
I'm guessing your name is Ann Landers.
990 days ago
some guy
Sry Ann, but I don't have the strength to troll you right now.
990 days ago
Another word. Conservatives LOVE to rewrite history. Here we go again!
990 days ago
Very convenient. Thirty years ago. Why believe this guy? Ask Yoko--she is the only one I would trust with this answer.
990 days ago
Joe Smo
Lander you are probably one of those people that others can only stomach briefly before they are completely disgusted by your personality. You say we all are wasting our time online yet here you are. I bet your girl's name is Rosy Palm. That's all that needs to be said.
990 days ago
You have to love those who cling to their political religion. Refusing to accept what their own eyes see. Any of you ever heard the Beatles song."The TAXMAN" ??? Lennon was a brave, smart man who at heart was a Capitalist. He had no desire to work and let the STATE take all he earned either. Ever ask yourself why Lennon lived in NYC?? How about why U2 has its headquarters in the Netherlands?? TAXES my wee socialist wannna bees. TAXES. Makes sense to me Lennon would prefer a smaller Gov't kind of guy to the Huge Gov't loving Carter.
990 days ago
A simple solution: ask the remaining beattles!
990 days ago
A lot of people voted against Carter and not for Reagan...and then they regretted it for the rest of their lives? Hmm. They defintiely weren't regretting it after that first term when he carried all but one state and DC to be elected for his second term. Still not too many regretting it when he finished his second term with something like a 60% approval rating.
P.S. Typical headline for TMZ. Voting for anyone but Carter somehow turned into "Lennon LOVES Reagan".
990 days ago
Could be true. When I was younger I was very Liberal as I got older and understood politics better I became more moderate.
990 days ago
Never believe what a third party says in regards to what a dead person thought, did or wanted to do in the past.
990 days ago
some guy
Ok. Gonna work out in a bit. While I'm there, if something different happens, then I'll know that some of the stuff I've been seeing wasn't all in my head. If nothing different happens, then I'll know it was all just in my head and go back to my video games.
990 days ago
Where's his proof? Otherwise, it's just the word of a crook!
990 days ago
some guy
Sry I was still trolling. Want some more?
990 days ago
This is all a big fat lie. This story began on Drudge Report a lie and is becoming even more of a lie. First, Lennon preferred Reagan over Carter. Now he LOVES Reagan? I don't think so, people. NO F---ING WAY.
990 days ago
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Lindsay Lohan
Officially Screwed
Lindsay Lohan
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How can someone help this stupid unsense bi t ch they are kids and older people who really needs help. What a waste what a waste of money
363 days ago
Entourage?? Ummm...why? Does she bring her drug dealers with her?
363 days ago
I think the biggest point to this whole story is why did Lindsay wait to take a flight the night before???? She could have taken a flight a couple of days before to ensure there would be no mishaps. Again, Lindsay is self-creating drama. And ultimately, she has been conditioned by the court system to think that there won't be real consequences to her actions. Gotta love America's justice system.
363 days ago
What's going on now? Where's the update story?
363 days ago
Remind me to never buy any Mr. Pink.
363 days ago
Why these idiots (including Charlie Sheen) pay for her mess I hav no ideas... but theyr frekin dumb ass to think this is going to help her in any way... she needs serious help and THAT is jail!!!
363 days ago
Nothing on the main page on my phone...
363 days ago
Let's be realistic here... Nothing will happen to her. She will get another slap on the wrist and be on her merry way in a few hours.
363 days ago
I really hope this is held against her in some way. She has consistently thumbed her nose at the courts and thinks laws don't apply to her. This is just inexcusable, especially considering she was booked on not one but TWO other flights that she chose not to take. Apparently her excuse for the last one is complete BS, from what I read no other passengers got off the plane and she started acting all nutty about getting off of it, before she did so, which is a total drug addict move. Ridiculous about her attorney wasting time, too. Look how long they've had to get someone else and bring them up to speed! Again, no excuse for waiting until the last minute. What a pathetic piece of trash.
363 days ago
I love how TMZ feels the need to talk **** about Lindsay Lohan when you are a bunch of peasants. Seriously, you couldn't afford the champagne on the plane. I hate celebrities and I am a yachter from Newport, Rhode Island and while I even think celebrities are new money white trash tmz is even beneath them. You are columist. You are the s*** of the earth. Coming from a wealthy east coaster, I hope you realize how much the upper class hates tmz
363 days ago
Mr. Pink must have more money than brains to bail out this total wastoid.
363 days ago
How do i get main feed on my phone?
363 days ago
I hope that the judge takes into account that she is late for this when she has known about it for 2 weeks, which is further evidence that she is irresponsible...
363 days ago
Hope the SUV's don't hit any vehicles on their rush to court.
363 days ago
judy jetson
Lindsay shows up 50 minutes late and sprinkles gold dust on the ground. WTF!!!
363 days ago
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The "ring sizer" aims to simplify ring sizing by stealing one of her rings, placing it on the screen and waiting for the correct ring size to pop up! For the woman, the Tiffany iPhone app makes designing the perfect ring simple, all through the iPhone app. | http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/tiffany-iphone-app | dclm-gs1-304150000 |
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Lester James Brandt, was raised in the small country town of Amarillo, Texas. His German born father was an ex-marine and truck driver who was very strict with his seven children and ruled with an iron fist. His mother was Honduran born from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Central America. Lester James studied at The Film Actors Lab in Dallas, Texas with the late and great Adam Roarke before being accepted to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. His acting career started by way of numerous national commericals and stage productions in Dallas. His breakthrough came as a regular on an NBC Daytime Drama "Another World" (1964), in Brooklyn, New York. Soon after, back to back Guest Starring roles, he began building a reputation that "the boy can do anything given the chance!" He thanks GOD graciously and the never ending support of this family and also believes "what you see and believe in your mind's eye, be it negative or positive, you will subconsciously gravitate towards it." | http://www.tv.com/people/lester-james-brandt/biography/ | dclm-gs1-304170000 |
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Obama continues push for payroll tax cut extension, confirmation of consumer watchdog.
As Democrats sense that they've got an edge in the message wars over the economy, President Obama is looking to channel Theodore Roosevelt with a populist speech in Kansas on Tuesday. Speaking in Osawatomie, Kansas—where Roosevelt laid out his "New Nationalism" platform more than 100 years ago—Obama is expected to continue to push his message that the Republican Party is representing the interests of the privileged few, and that the party is standing in the way of economic progress.
[Whispers: Obama's approval rating drops below Jimmy Carter's.]
"He'll lay out the choice we face between a country in which too few do well while too many struggle to get by, and one where we're all in it together — where everyone engages in fair play, everyone does their fair share, and everyone gets a fair shot," the White House stated. The president is also expected to begin a push for the confirmation of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the newly created watchdog agency which has yet to see a permanent director. Cordray, the former attorney general of Ohio, was nominated by Obama to fill the slot in 2010, but his nomination has been delayed by Republicans in Congress and will likely fail a procedural vote later this week.
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Osawatomie is remembered as the place where Roosevelt outlined an expansive new progressive philosophy, with statements such as "the object of government is the welfare of the people." One hundred years later, Obama's message is a bit less broad, likely urging Congress to extend a payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits, as well as Cordray's nomination. But with Republicans in an usual defensive position on the payroll tax cut issue—and with many of its members openly defying the leadership—Democrats smell blood in the water and sense that they may have finally won a battle in the court of public opinion.
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Monti picks belt-tightening over pandering. It might work, even if he's not around to toast the results.
Mario Monti
[Read how much the drought is hurting U.S. crops.]
However, the country provides an extreme counterexample to U.S. gridlock, showing that when economics, free from the reins of re-election efforts, guides policymaking, policy changes can more easily be made.
"To be perfectly frank with you, we could probably do with [a technocratic regime] right now," says Rehman, pointing to the massive amounts of wealth that many Americans lost as a result of the economic crisis.
Still, the more practical lessons in the European crisis are likely simpler than installing an unelected economist in the Oval Office.
"The main message that the U.S. could hear from the experience in Europe right now is that fiscal sustainability is something that has to be on the watch constantly," says Schwerdtfeger.
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This year's theme already has people talking, including the leaders of the festival who say, this year's theme has become one of the most important parts of the Apple Blossom Festival.
Lou Ann Thompson is the President of The Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival. She says she's worked with the festival since 1974.
"It's a bonding time, it's a unifying time, it's great," says Thompson.
Thompson says the themes for the Apple Blossom Festival just keep getting better.
"I love them all, and I always think to myself, 'How is that going to be topped?' and they always do," says Thompson.
It's up to a committee of about eight people from different departments of the festival to decide what the theme will be for each year.
John Rosenberger is the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Executive Director. "We can usually tell pretty quickly that it's one or two ideas that kind of resonate and the others aren't resonating," says Rosenberger.
He says when the committee started making themes, they didn't really know where they were going with it. It took off on it's own. Now, there is a logo that goes everywhere. It turns out, the design is harder to agree on than the theme itself.
"Which pink is the right pink, and which green is the right green and which font is the right font," says Rosenberger.
For the past ten years, Erik Zimmerman has helped to create the logo for The Apple Blossom Festival.
"In this case, we picked out a lot of photographs that say, "Love To Bloom." I'll showcase it to the committee, and we will go back and forth and tweak it a little bit. It's a process of a lot of work, and photoshop, and positioning all the images together and making it as one unit," says Zimmerman.
Zimmerman says, in the end It's all about how folks "Love to Bloom."
Festival officials says it takes a few months to get everything together, but for them, it's always worth it.
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Congo deal delayed at African Union meeting
Monday - 1/28/2013, 12:58pm ET
Associated Press
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- A large-scale peace agreement to end fighting in Congo that would see more peacekeeping forces enter the region was delayed Monday over what the United Nations chief called "procedural issues."
"To cope with the threat posed by armed groups in the eastern part of the country, we plan to create a peace enforcement force in the mission," said Ban.
Ban is seeking additional resources to strengthen the U.N. peacekeeping force in Congo with "intervention" troops with a more robust mandate to protect civilians from armed groups in Congo's vast eastern region.
U.N. diplomats said Ban is expected to send a report to the council with specific recommendations for additional troops -- possibly totaling as many as 2,500 -- that would actively intervene, for example, to prevent another takeover of the key eastern city of Goma.
The Security Council wants to beef up the U.N. peacekeeping force known as MONUSCO, which has more than 17,700 U.N. peacekeepers and over 1,400 international police, following last year's takeover of many villages and towns in eastern Congo by M23 rebels who briefly held Goma before withdrawing in early December. The force -- the largest of the U.N.'s 15 far-flung peacekeeping operations -- did little to protect the tens of thousands of civilians, many of whom fled their homes.
Muhumuza reported from Kampala, Uganda. Associated Press writer Peter Spielmann contributed from the United Nations in New York.
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Let me elaborate a little bit. If the balance tilts against the euro zone, investors will shift the composition of their portfolios and deteriorate its credit channel. Whether or not this triggers deflation of euro-zone prices depends on the role of euro‐denominated assets for collateral and in facilitating commercial transactions. Typically, when EMs are faced with an episode of similar characteristics, there is a portfolio shift in favour of foreign‐exchange-denominated assets triggering maxi‐devaluations and inflation.
However, the euro area is a large currency zone where the euro is well-established as a unit of account, and a central bank which is strongly averse to inflation; therefore, the “flight to quality” may produce opposite effects, namely, strengthening of the euro and price deflation. This will be a kiss of death for the euro-zone real sector because, to the weaker competitive conditions triggered by currency appreciation, price deflation may add two lethal factors: (1) debt deflation (i.e., increase in the real value of the debt not indexed to prices, as was pointed out long ago by Irving Fisher), and (2) the expectation that prices will continue falling. Factor (1) further dries up credit flows, while factor (2) increases the real return of cash balances and, hence, lowers aggregate demand.
Consequently, the first question that calls for an answer is: who is likely to win the tug‐of‐war? This is not an easy question and I don’t have an easy answer. The EMs are not a trade or currency union. Each country is on its own. “Sudden stops” have shown to be devastating because these economies are not protected by anything resembling developed markets lender of last resort. While EM sudden stops have provoked draconian current account adjustment, satellite euro-zone economies like Italy, Portugal and Spain, for instance, took more than four years to bring their current-account deficits to near zero. However, a serious problem is that the European Central Bank (ECB) seems to be reaching the end of the rope. A major flight‐to‐quality episode would call for further relaxation of ECB credit, which is likely to meet major opposition in its board.
Moreover, EM banks have been largely free from “toxic assets” and can better fend for themselves than euro-zone banks that so far have survived partly due to the ECB help. Thus, if the ECB falters in coming to their rescue in a new flight‐to‐quality episode, their chances of surviving are bleak compared to EM banks. Moreover, despite their dysfunctionality as a trade or currency union, some key EMs (notably in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America) are resource-rich, and they still have vast expanses of unexploited resources. These areas will benefit from continued growth in China, while for the euro zone it may signify stiffer industrial competition from abroad. This leads me to conclude that the tug‐of‐war is likely to last for some time and the winner will result from some unexpected event (e.g., the rise of an influential populist leader in one of these regions, or a sudden dimming of China’s prospects). The good news is that while the outcome of the tug‐of‐war is unresolved, the impact of a rise in American interest rates is likely to be minor because euro zone‐EM is a large economic area compared to America (about twice its size measured by GDP).
The second question is: what can the euro zone do if price deflation sets in? In my opinion, there will be few policy options, and none qualifies as a silver bullet. My preferred option is further relaxation of collateral conditions for access to ECB credit lines which, as pointed out above, will be hard to implement. Failing that, open debt default may be unavoidable. This will signify a serious blow to the credibility of capitalism’s rules of the game. It may trigger a worldwide move towards autarky and major government intervention. All of this could somehow be prevented if the G20, for example, finds the energy and imagination that it mustered at the start of the subprime crisis. But it takes an inveterate optimist to believe that this will happen before things get much worse.
In sum, the euro zone’s recovery is hampered by its own structural weaknesses and by the rising role of emerging markets. A major euro-zone relapse cannot be discounted, and if it happens, the whole world will have to come to the rescue. The consequences of this are very hard to fathom. Thus, the major lesson that I draw from these considerations is that the euro zone should at least become aware that they are still sailing through treacherous waters, and that the last things they need are political/diplomatic fights that reveal severe political dysfunctionality in the euro zone. | http://www7.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/01/deflation-europe | dclm-gs1-304350000 |
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Volume 17, Number 5—May 2011
Another Dimension
The Crab Hole Mosquito Blues
Karl M. Johnson, Douglas F. Antczak, William H. Dietz, David H. Martin, and Thomas E. WaltonComments to Author
Author affiliations: Retired (K.M. Johnson, T.E. Walton); Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA (D.F. Antczak); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (W.H. Dietz); Louisiana State University Health Science Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (D.H. Martin)
Suggested citation for this article
Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE) epizoodemics were reported at 6–10-year intervals in northern South America beginning in the 1920s. In 1937, epizootic VEE virus was isolated from infected horse brain and shown as distinct from the North American equine encephalomyelitis viruses. Subsequently, epizootic and sylvatic strains were isolated in distinct ecosystems; isolates were characterized serologically as epizootic subtype I, variants A/B and C; or sylvatic (enzootic) subtype I, variants D, E, and F, and subtypes II, III, and IV. In 1969, variant I-A/B virus was transported from a major outbreak in northern South America to the borders of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. This musical poem describes the history and ecology of VEE viruses and the epidemiology of an unprecedented 1969 movement of VEE viruses from South America to equids and humans in Central America from Costa Rica to Guatemala and Belize and in Mexico and the United States that continued until 1972.
Crab Hole MosquitoA Blues
Written and performed by the MARU Health Angels BandB
Refrain: Mosquito’s in hisC crab hole, bidin’ his time,
Venezuela virus working up the line,
Boys in BeltsvilleD heard the news,
Horses in TexasE got the crab hole blues.
Down in Maracay back in ’36,
Kubes and RiosF found a virus doin’ tricks,
Horses die, this one’s gotta be,
New cause of ’cephalitis, V-E-E.G
Voice-over: Horses, mules, and donkeys are all susceptible.
The years roll by, the virus makes a score,
In Vene, Colombo, and Ecuador,H
Comes rain to the desert instead of dew,
And, VEE burns the coast of Peru.I
In Trinidad, Panama, they say “Hey, Hey,”
We got this creature like every day,
His swampy home, you can always tell,
By finding some rats and the Culex (Mel).J
Voice-over: Mosquito, that is.
Back at MARU, raggin’ the brains,
We found that the virus had different strains
Horses convulse with the southern kind,
Northern virus leaves them feelin’ fine.K
’Cause virus hits man by aerosol,
Could be used to cripple us all,
In Maryland, they grew it in vats,
Tested it out in monkeys and rats.L
The other Team outside the fence,
Lookin’ for the answer that made some sense,
Got a strain from an old donkey,
Made a vaccine, TC-83.M
The offensive team tried to make some noise,
A cloud for the Commies, but not our boys,N
Did not work, that is why,
NixonO said ‘declassify’.
Voice-over: The Pentagon papers, volume 25, page 324, 1970… the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor….
Sleepy defense gets a Latin call,
New outbreak and it ain’t small,
Took the vaccine off the wall,
It really worked to save them all.P
Down in Guatemala, year of ’69,
Horses started dying on the borderline,
Virus come down from Ecuador,
Nobody knows the reservoir.Q
Voice-over: But MackenzieR has an idea.
Virus hopped the mountains, got to the sea,S
Vaccine brought in and given out free,
Virus kept movin’, had to go,
All the way from here to Mexico.T
Cause everybody said, “Gotta stop that bug,
Gotta use the vaccine because there ain’t no drug,”
Beltsville brethren said “Gotta wait,”
Afraid that the vaccine was MF-8.U
Voice-over: That means reversion to virulence.
Results today are plain to see,
Story’s hot on the wire of Associated P,V
A million horses all over the West,
Are living proof the vaccine was best.W
Voice-over: Addresses for reprints may be mailed to Karl M. Johnson.
A) The presentation is a chronologically, scientifically, and factually correct poetic and musical history of Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE) viruses and epidemics through 1971. The music is a traditional US jug band song, a type of music—bluegrass—popular in rural areas of the eastern United States. Using a background of a guitar and everyday musical, rhythm, and percussion devices, such as whistling, blowing air across the mouth of a 1-gallon glass jug, scraping of a scrub brush on a metal washboard, humming harmonically into a kazoo, and the “hambone” (a rhythmic slapping of hands on arms, hands, and legs), the voices and lyrics convey a musical story to the audience.
The title reflects the discovery that Deinocerites pseudes, the crab hole mosquito, found along the Pacific coast of Central America was a competent vector of the epidemic and epizootic VEE virus that was causing disease and death in equids and humans at the time (1). The poetic dialogue was written and set to music in 1971 by scientists at the Middle America Research Unit (MARU), US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (now Health and Human Services), National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, US Public Health Service, and located in Ancon, Panama Canal Zone, during a major western hemispheric outbreak of VEE. MARU scientists had a >15-year history of VEE epidemiologic and virologic studies throughout Latin America to characterize the antigenic relationships between South American VEE virus strains of subtypes (I-A/B and I-C) that caused epizoodemics of equine and associated human disease and the Caribbean, Central American, Floridian, Mexican, Panamanian, and South American VEE virus strains of subtypes (I-D, I-E, I-F, II, III-A, III-B, and IV) that existed in sylvatic, enzootic cycles in the absence of equine disease but with occasional human infections and disease (2). In 1969, the transfer of equine virulent VEE virus from a raging epizoodemic in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru to the frontier area of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras precipitated a human and veterinary medical crisis in Central America, Mexico, and the United States that lasted until 1972 (3).
The Crab Hole Mosquito Blues was written as a scientific presentation for the international Workshop-Symposium on Venezuelan Encephalitis Virus sponsored by the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Pan American Health Organization, World Health Organization, in Washington, DC, September 14–17, 1971. Although the lyrics of the Crab Hole Music Blues were not published in the Proceedings, other presentations from that meeting are documented (4).
B) Douglas F. Antczak, vocals, guitar, kazoo; William H. Dietz, vocals, jug, kazoo; Karl M. Johnson, vocals, kazoo; David H. Martin, kazoo, recording engineer; and Thomas E. Walton, washboard and scrub brush, hambone, kazoo, vocals.
C) Gender-specific error. Only female mosquitoes (and females of other hematophagous insects, e.g., culicoids, phlebotomids) take a blood meal, which is needed to provide protein necessary for ovulation; only female mosquitoes are infected with and transmit VEE viruses (and other mosquito-borne arboviruses). Male mosquitoes feed on plant source liquids and water.
D) Beltsville, Maryland, USA, the headquarters at that time of the regulatory officials in the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) responsible for the decision to recommend application of preventive vaccines to the Secretary of Agriculture in the face of an epizootic. Hesitation to vaccinate was predicated on lack of evidence that reversion of virulence of the attenuated vaccine virus could not occur, international trade considerations, international practices and agreements, and authorities and responsibilities delegated only to the Secretary of Agriculture.
E) From 1969, the epizoodemic moved southeast, eventually reaching northwestern Costa Rica in August 1970, and northward, eventually reaching Texas in late June 1971 (4).
F) The Venezuelan agricultural and veterinary research laboratories are located in Maracay, Aragua State, Venezuela. Kubes and Rios first isolated, identified, and named VEE virus, then sent the isolate to the United States for confirmation that the South American virus was antigenically distinct from the North American eastern and western equine encephalomyelitis viruses (5,6).
G) The antigenically related and clinically similar eastern and western equine encephalomyelitis viruses had been isolated and identified early in the 1930s in the United States (7,8).
H) Periodic outbreaks of VEE had occurred in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela since at least the 1920s, with hundreds of thousands of equine illnesses and tens of thousands of deaths; equids are the primary virus amplifier hosts for human infections (9,10).
I) Throughout the history of VEE in northern South America, periodic epizoodemics in tropical dry and tropical thorn forests were often associated with unseasonably heavy rainfall and flooding during the normal dry seasons; during interepizootic periods, epizoodemic virus could not be isolated. The great Atacama Desert stretches along the Pacific coast from northern Chile and along coastal Peru nearly to the border with Ecuador; rare, but occasional, rainfall interrupts the barrenness of this parched, hostile environment permitting infrequent but noteworthy incursions of mosquitoes and epizoodemic VEE virus (4).
J) In contrast, in swampy or jungle areas (tropical wet forest) where a definable dry season does not occur normally in countries of Central America and eastern South America and in Panama, Mexico, the Florida Everglades, and several Caribbean islands, field studies by scientists at MARU (11), the Center for Disease Control (now Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA) (12), the Trinidad Virus Research Laboratory (Port of Spain) (13), Rockefeller Foundation Laboratory (Belem, Brazil) (14), and the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory (Panama City, Panama) (15) had demonstrated presence of antigenically related VEE virus strains; resident equids in these sylvatic foci had antibody without signs of disease, but incursions by humans into these sylvatic or endemic areas often resulted in infections and disease. Sylvatic cycles were found in swampy areas in which floating species of water lettuce, Pistia stratiotes, provided appropriate habitat for mosquito species of the subgenus Culex (Melanoconion), the vectors of sylvatic subtypes and variants of VEE virus. The epidemiologic cycle involves sylvatic virus transmission by species of terrestrial rodents and possibly birds and arboreal rodents (4).
K) Sylvatic virus subtypes were of low or no virulence to experimentally infected equids. The virulence of epizootic subtypes was high, with fatality rates to >90% of infected equids (16).
L) Historically, VEE virus has been a pathogen studied for aerosol release as a potential biologic weapon. In the United States at the Army Research and Development Command, (now the Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, MD, the former Soviet Union and perhaps, elsewhere, VEE virus was studied as a possible offensive weapon. (For more information about the history of the US biologic warfare program and Fort Detrick, go to the following websites:,, and
M) In the defensive research programs at USAMRIID, an equine-virulent isolate from a donkey was serially passed in fetal guinea pig heart cell cultures to produce an attenuated vaccine, strain TC-83, for use in at-risk laboratory and military personnel (4). Attenuated strain TC-83 was derived from the Trinidad donkey number 1 isolate from a diseased donkey in that country during a 1940s epizootic that spilled over to Trinidad and Tobago from mainland Venezuela (17).
N) “Commies” [communists] reflected Cold War–era concerns about military personnel of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and their allies. Aerosol releases of biological, chemical, and radioactive weapons are notoriously difficult to control, leading to use of vaccine, if available, and other, more cumbersome measures to protect military personnel.
O) Recognizing the difficulties in controlling and using biological weapons, unauthorized release of classified documents, and the moral outrage of US citizens and world public opinion against biological weapons, President Richard M. Nixon cancelled the offensive biological weapons development programs.
P) Beginning in 1967, a major epizoodemic of VEE occurred across northern South America (4). Requests to the US State Department and US military authorities resulted in release of attenuated VEE virus vaccine strain TC-83 for emergency use in equids to stop equine disease and interrupt human infections. Vaccine was effective, but the silent epizoodemic tongue of virus transmission repeatedly had moved ahead of the vaccination teams through populations of susceptible hosts and competent vectors.
Q) In an unprecedented biomedical event in the history of VEE, the epizoodemic VEE virus subtype was transported from northern South America to Central America (3). Empirical and circumstantial evidence, such as discovery by scientific investigators of empty vials of VEE virus vaccine labeled by a manufacturer in South America, suggested that a formalin-inactivated VEE virus vaccine was imported to vaccinate valuable horses at breeding farms in Guatemala by worried ranch owners (K.M. Johnson, unpub. data). VEE virus, like poliovirus and other viruses, is notoriously difficult to inactivate. Safety tests of such inactivated VEE virus vaccines in laboratory systems, e.g., cell cultures and laboratory animals, are exquisitely less sensitive than susceptible equids to residual active virus. Non–inactivated virus has been postulated to replicate in equids to high titers and to be infectious for the local populations of competent and capable mosquito vectors.
The reservoir of epizoodemic VEE virus during interepizootic periods is unknown, but studies during the 1990s and 2000s suggest an enhanced virulence of certain isolates of sylvatic virus subtypes and strains for equids, which occasionally are replicated to high titers under undetermined favorable conditions, with subsequent selection of an epizoodemic clone from a mixed virus population that causes clinical VEE and infects mosquitoes.
R) An internationally recognized clinical and field research expert on zoonotic diseases, Ronald B. Mackenzie was a visionary and astute medical scientist with The Rockefeller Foundation in Cali, Colombia.
S) VEE virus was transported by mosquitoes and possibly through transportation of asymptomatic but infected horses from the disease or danger zones to unaffected zones where susceptible equids were subsequently infected. Disease was documented along the Pacific and Caribbean coasts in the tropical dry and thorn forest environments that have been the traditional cattle-raising areas of Central and South America and in Mexico, where tropical wet forest and swampy environments that support sylvatic VEE viruses are irregularly located and noncontiguous or do not occur.
T) Because of the lack of understanding of the epidemiologic cycle and virus-vector incubation requirements, the epizoodemic wave of infected mosquitoes and equids incubating the virus had not been anticipated to precede vaccination teams routinely into new areas of susceptible equids by 2–3 weeks. The disease moved to the southeast along the Pacific coast to northwestern Costa Rica, where the advance finally was stopped, protecting Panama, probably because of a combination of vaccination, presence of larger sylvatic foci in which larger numbers of resident equids were already immune, and a belt of lowland and montane rain forests where there are fewer cattle and horses and that stretches along the Pacific coast of southwestern Costa Rica to northwestern Panama; antibody to sylvatic virus strains provides cross-protection against epizoodemic virus strains. The virus crossed the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico and moved up both the Caribbean and Pacific coasts, finally reaching Texas in late June 1971 (detection of VEE in Texas before July 4 was predicted months earlier by K.M. Johnson). Despite thorough vaccination and aerial application of insecticides, some disease activity persisted in Mexico until 1972. The last activity from the epizootic in the Western Hemisphere occurred in 1973.
U) MF-8 is an isolate of the epizoodemic VEE virus subtype I-A/B from Honduras isolated by Miguel Figueroa, a Honduran scientist working at MARU. Despite proven efficacy and safety of the attenuated VEE virus vaccine in South and Central America and Mexico, USDA authorities delayed application of the vaccine until the first cases were diagnosed in Texas. Official USDA emergency response policies and regulations at that time did not include the option to use vaccines to interdict threats of foreign animal diseases in the absence of documented disease within the United States (application of vaccines in the USDA Emergency Response Plan to incursions of foreign animal diseases was authorized in 2000). Because of bilateral and international agreements and policies regarding emergency disease responses, the adverse impact of applying foreign animal disease vaccines on the exportation of US livestock and agricultural products internationally and the politically charged decision to change existing policy, an authority delegated only to the US Secretary of Agriculture, vaccine was acquired and stockpiled along the Mexico–US border but could not be applied until VEE was diagnosed.
V) Associated P = the Associated Press news agency.
W) Attenuated VEE virus vaccine was safe, effective, and stable, and reversion to virulence did not occur (18,19). A potentially catastrophic disaster was marginalized and ultimately stopped in the Western Hemisphere by application of vaccine and other control techniques. Hundreds of thousands of equids and thousands of humans were saved by the emergency responses of veterinary and medical officials in every country from Colombia-Ecuador-Peru-Venezuela to Mexico and the United States; among the 13 at-risk nations, only Panama (and, in addition the Caribbean islands and other countries of South America) was spared from this crisis.
The successful application to veterinary use of a vaccine developed by the US military as a defensive tool for use in troops and at-risk laboratory personnel was an unforeseen and unanticipated benefit of the US Department of Defense research program. President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the US Army through a civilian agency to develop the US biological warfare program with offensive and defensive objectives in 1942. Laboratories and pilot plants were constructed at Camp (later Fort) Detrick, Maryland; the Special Procedures program from which the Special Immunizations Program evolved was one of the earliest operations to open. The Special Immunizations Program is responsible for the investigational vaccines, including strain TC-83, which were developed and are used under the Investigational New Drug authority and guidelines of the Food and Drug Administration. Seed stock of strain TC-83 virus was made available to the biologics industries of Western Hemisphere countries. Strain TC-83 and other next-generation iterations of the original vaccine, including an inactivated strain TC-83 product (C-84), are used or available in many countries of the Western Hemisphere.
Dr Johnson served as director of MARU during 1964–1975, established the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maximum biocontainment laboratory in Atlanta, where he worked with hemorrhagic fever viruses, and later worked with hemorrhagic fever viruses at USAMRIID at Fort Detrick. His scientific interests include arthropod-borne viruses, hemorrhagic fever viruses, biological safety, and the design of BioSafety Level 4 biocontainment laboratories for research with highly pathogenic, human-lethal zoonotic viruses.
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Suggested citation for this article: Johnson KM, Antczak DF, Dietz WH, Martin DH, Walton TE. The Crab Hole Mosquito Blues [another dimension]. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2011 May [date cited].
DOI: 10.3201/eid1705.101412
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