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0.028949	<urn:uuid:f1941728-deb2-4a6e-bf6c-ed4b77840024>	en	0.968883	For better or worse, the end is in sight, Twilighters. Summit Entertainment has announced the official release date for "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2." The final film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's best-selling series is scheduled to open in theaters on November 16, 2012. When Summit revealed that "Breaking Dawn" would be split into two films — with the first film's release date set for November 18, 2011 #&8212; there was much speculation that the final chapter would drop the following summer. This news puts the second film out almost a full year after Part 1, no doubt creating an excruciating waiting period for the film franchise's extremely dedicated fans. With no official statement accompanying the news of Part 2's release date, we, too, can only speculate as to why Summit has chosen to wait a full year between releasing the two films. One likely reason is the already-crowded summer 2012 movie calendar, which has been padded with several other highly anticipated and established franchise films. "The Avengers," "Madagascar 3" and "Men in Black 3" all open in May; June will deliver a "Star Trek" sequel; the re-booted "Spider-Man" is nestled in the July 4 slot (occupied this year by "Eclipse"), followed closely by another "Ice Age" and a third "Batman." Now that both films' release dates are set, there are a few other unresolved "Dawn" issues, namely the MPAA rating and whether director Bill Condon will choose to film the two parts in 3-D. "That decision has yet to be made," Summit distribution chief Richie Fay told MTV of the rating question last month. "It's still the source of a discussion." The 3-D conversation, on the other hand, involves both financial and creative decisions. "There's certainly a financial part of the discussion," Ray said. "And yes, there's a certain amount of technology that has to be considered and accounted for. But it really comes down to the creative folks. "In any of these roundtable conversations, [Summit CEO] Rob Friedman has always been concerned about the 'Twilight' patron," Fay added. "His concern is always the people that come in to see this movie. He doesn't want to turn them off or offend. That's why it's a creative decision. A big factor is the perception of our audience. What are their feelings going to be? If it lends itself to being a better movie because of 3-D, then that's the technology we'll use." What do you think of the "Breaking Dawn, Part 2" release date? How painful will the almost one-year wait be for you? Let us know in the comments! Check out everything we've got on "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn."	http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1644990/breaking-dawn-part-2-be-released-november-2012.jhtml	dclm-gs1-016490001
0.143482	<urn:uuid:813bc36a-f206-4323-a376-3860c1bb9071>	en	0.962607	unreasonable for the girlfriends/wives to go on the stag do? (251 Posts) SummerFin Thu 28-Mar-13 18:24:36 My partner (call him DH for now) and I am getting married next year, we have been saving for the last 3 years to be able to do this. Our wedding is booked for August. For the stag do my partner decided that he wanted to go to Amsterdam in July. Asked about 12 people, and 8 have said they wanted to go - there was never any pressure and it was made clear that if people couldn't afford or just didn't want to go it wouldn't be a problem. This was decided in October and now DH needs to get a deposit from the 8 people. 3 of them have said that their girlfriends/wives would only be ok with it if they could come too. So would it be possible for DH to add 3 extra places to the trip. The women would do their thing in the day together and then join the men in the evenings. Is this completely unreasonable? I would never feel the need to invite myself to someones stag do. DonDrapersAltrEgoBigglesDraper Fri 31-May-13 10:14:58 Dead thread walking. Noideaaboutanything Fri 31-May-13 10:10:09 If I were your Fiance Summer, I would tell them to F&k off if they had any idea of bringing their wives, a stag do should be drunken, rude and men only, I would not really want men there who were either so bad their wives cannot trust them or were so piss weak their wives had to babysit them. It could just be an excuse from the 3 blokes as they have changed their minds, always the same when you start asking for deposits. Hope you have a great hen do which is also drunken rude and women only and an even better wedding. Good luck! TiffanyAtBreakfast Fri 31-May-13 10:00:15 Definitely don't think the wives/gfs should go. They weren't invited, simple as that, and I doubt the other men will be very amused about the idea tbh. I wouldn't have jumped for joy if my DH had gone to Amsterdam on his stag, not going to lie. But that's my own irrational issue, DH has never given me reason not to trust him. Amsterdam has a bit of a stigma attached to it when large groups of men go. Bit like Prague which I've been told has 'a higher ratio of women than men', lol. Ridiculous assumptions. Maybe they just want to look at windmills. noddyholder Sun 31-Mar-13 21:52:23 Women on a stag do? Just no. How boring for all concerned HildaOgden Sun 31-Mar-13 21:26:47 I've been to Amsterdam,maleview*,and I live in Dublin. It's defintely easier for a stag party to ...ahem...amuse themselves in an inappropriate manner in Dublin smile maleview70 Sun 31-Mar-13 21:22:56 I've been to Amsterdam 3 times and believe me there are plenty of blokes who don't shit themselves when faced with prostitutes It's amazing what 10 pints does to the mind of a bloke on the piss with his mates and where prostitutes are willing them in. It's not for me but It is for plenty.... LaQueen Sun 31-Mar-13 21:15:29 Agree Hilda think that most regular guys would shit themselves in panic, if approached by a genuine, hard-eyed prostitute... But, the lovely, husky-voiced colleens in Temple Bar, who will ply them with drink...lambs to the slaughter grin HildaOgden Sun 31-Mar-13 21:12:45 I don't think it's unfair Maryz,and I'm a local but not of the trollop variety I honestly think they would be far less likely to get up to no good in Amsterdam,they would probably be terrified of the ladies of the night!! Dublin would lull them into a false sense of security,combine that with binge drinking and the twinkly eyes of the locals,and they have no chance of behaving <flicks hair seductively> LaQueen Sun 31-Mar-13 21:06:17 Yep, because Dublin is just, like, so quiet and staid, with very little going on, and hardly any wimmin, or anyfink... DH has been to Dublin on a stag-do, he says walking down through Temple Bar, is one of the few times in his adult life he's genuinely looked like this shock Maryz Sun 31-Mar-13 21:04:38 Sorry, that was a little unfair. But seriously, there may be no brothels in Dublin (legal ones that is, there are lots of questionable lap-dancing places), but there are pubs. With women in them. And lots of drink (far, far more than in Amsterdam). Maryz Sun 31-Mar-13 21:02:50 Dublin shock. Dublin ffs [hollow laughter] They have trust ishoes and they are letting them go to Dublin. HildaOgden Sun 31-Mar-13 21:02:25 There are plenty of brothels in Dublin (I live here!!) Mind you,if they go to Copperface Jacks (like most stag parties do) they will most probably get it for free wink Bogeyface Sun 31-Mar-13 20:50:39 Well I meant a legal brothel Dontmind! LaQueen Sun 31-Mar-13 20:00:07 I'm desperately trying to make something out of Coldtitz but, I'm struggling... Where's Tantrums she's good at this sort of thing hmm DontmindifIdo Sun 31-Mar-13 19:50:13 Bogeyface - I'm point blank refuse to accept there's not a brothel in Dublin!! IMO, if you can't trust your DH to go away for a weekend and not shag someone else (paid or for free), then you don't have a stag do problem, your problem is that you have accidentally married a crap bloke... PickledInAPearTree Sun 31-Mar-13 19:42:48 Staggy no shaggy island? LaQueen Sun 31-Mar-13 19:26:08 You now...this could be a niche market...I could open a specialist Stag Do Resort, on a remote Orkney island. No pubs, no booze, no women, no clubs, no jollity... It would be perfect for the wives and GFs who don't trust their DHs. It'll make a fortune. I think I'm gonna call it Stag Don't Island ...or maybe Stalag Island hmm PickledInAPearTree Sun 31-Mar-13 19:16:44 What about caldey island? There's nothing on there but a church. There are birds but not the type you'd like go get to know after a few pints. LaQueen Sun 31-Mar-13 18:41:12 Totally agree (as always) Bogey. The problem when someone has these sort of trust issues, is that no one else can actually help. Even if you try and accommodate them, and their wishes, ultimately nothing will get cured. Because, basically you cannot 100% totally control someone else 24/7 - life isn't like that. Infidelity has nothing to do with location, it is an attitude. I know someone whose DH never, ever went out without her. Never. But he still managed to have an affair...he met someone at work, and they used to nip back to her house, just over the road during their lunch hour sad diddl Sun 31-Mar-13 17:36:38 How long before they are asking to go to Dublin also?? Bogeyface Sun 31-Mar-13 17:04:12 So because there are no brothels they wont have sex with someone else? If someone can't be trusted then they can't be trusted, and they will cheat if they want to whatever the circumstances. And if they can be trusted but the partner has jealousy issues then the place wont make a difference to that either. I think your DH2B should have the stag he wants, no WAGS allowed and let his friends sort out their own marriage problems rather than expect him to change his one and only stag weekend to suit their paranoid other halves. HildaOgden Sun 31-Mar-13 15:18:55 Dublin can be worse! grin Are the wives/girlfriends planning on tagging along to Dublin too/ SummerFin Sun 31-Mar-13 15:14:35 Update if anyone actually cares - Turns out just one of the women didn't want her DH to go basically because of trust issues. She then spoke to the other two women and got them quite worried about it too. DH has spoken to his friends and they really want to go but if they went on their own it would cause lots of problems now. So unfortunately DH has decided to cancel the trip to Amsterdam and are looking at going to Dublin now. TrollFoot Fri 29-Mar-13 21:05:25 Sorry it didn't help. Re: I had a man at mine. nice catch aldiwhore Fri 29-Mar-13 20:59:19 I had a man at mine. I also had no strippers. Or wings. Or condoms. Or all that shit. It was for me and my mates to go out and have fun without WAGS, just us lot, the old school I suppose... and they included men. So no, it doesn't help at all really. Hope that helps. I also didn't have ANY ladies on my hen night, just women. My DH wanted his best mate on his 'stag' do, no problem... he didn't go to strip joints either. I'm not sure a strip joint is actually in the rules, or a must have? Join the discussion Join the discussion Register now	http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1719361-unreasonable-for-the-girlfriends-wives-to-go-on-the-stag-do?reverse=1	dclm-gs1-016500001
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0.023998	<urn:uuid:05f17a9a-996e-46a6-8427-c90e52afd236>	en	0.877768	U.S. patents available from 1976 to present. U.S. patent applications available from 2005 to present. Icon_funbox Did You Know... ...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!! Newsletter PatentStorm News Make the Most of Our Site See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents. Registered users: Manage your profile. Class 428/515 - Next to second addition polymer from unsaturated monomers Subclass of Class 428 - Stock material or miscellaneous articles Definition: Product comprising a plurality of contiguous layers, each No. of patents: 1355 Last issue date: 03/04/2014 NumberTitleIssue Date 8663810Multilayer shrink films, labels made therefrom and use thereof A multilayer heat shrink film including a core layer including one or more alpha-olefin polymer and at least one skin layer including one or more cyclic olefin copolymers (COC), process for its preparation and uses thereof. ... 8592046Surface protective film A surface protective film includes: a polyolefin base material layer; and an adhesion layer, in which the adhesion layer includes: a vinyl-polyisoprene-block-containing styrene elastomer; a polyolefin; and a tackifier, and a hardness (Martens hardness) of the adhesi... 8440319Heat resistant polypropylene film A heat resistant film that comprises at least one layer that comprises a high crystallinity propylene polymer having a melt flow rate of from 0.5 g/10 min. to 15 g/10 min. and a xylene solubles of less than 3.5%. The propylene polymer may have a melting point above ... 8431234Biaxially oriented polypropylene film with heat sealable matte layer A laminate film including a first polyolefin heat sealable matte resin layer including a blend of 15-30 wt % metallocene-catalyzed butene-propylene elastomer and 85-70 wt % of a matte resin including ethylene homopolymer and propylene homopolymer or copolymer is dis... 8431235Co-extruded, multilayered polyolefin-based backsheet for electronic device modules Multilayer structures useful as a backsheet for an electronic device, e.g., a photovoltaic cell, comprise (A) a top layer comprising a polyolefin resin, e.g., ethylene vinyl acetate, and having a top facial surface and a bottom facial surface, (B) a tie layer compri... 8399104Composite molded article and process for producing the same The present invention provides a composite molded article and a method for producing the same. The composite molded article comprises a molded article of an olefin thermoplastic elastomer (A) and a molded article of an olefin thermoplastic elastomer (B) fused to eac... 8383246Polypropylene-based shrink films In one aspect is provided a film, a shrink sleeve film in a particular embodiment, comprising at least one core layer, one skin layer, and optionally one tie layer between the two, wherein the core comprises from 0 to 30 wt % polypropylene by weight of the core laye... 8293375Heat sealable multilayer film At heat sealable multilayer film includes a cohesive failure heat seal layer (1) that includes a resin composition including 75 to 85 wt % of a propylene polymer (A) and 15 to 25 wt % of an ethylene polymer (B) (based on the total of (A) and (B) of 100 wt %), and a ... 8211549Coating agent with double cross-linking Coating agent for wooden or plastic surfaces containing 30 to 80% by weight of a polyolefin comprising at least two alkoxysilane groups, 5 to 40% by weight of at least one compound comprising (meth)acryl groups having 1 to 10 radiation-reactive groups, 0.1 to 6% by ... 8182926Protective films for textured substrates Surface protection films are disclosed that comprise an outer surface contact layer, an outer stiffening layer, and optionally a core layer, wherein the surface contact layer consists essentially of (A) a mixture of a tackified quadblock styrene block copolymer elas... 8147977Thermoplastic resin composition and composite molded product A thermoplastic resin composition that includes 100 parts by mass of a first vinyl (co)polymer (I) that is produced by (co)polymerization of at least one monomer component selected from the group consisting of aromatic vinyl compounds, vinyl cyanide compounds, and o... 8147978Composition suitable for single-sided, low-noise, stretch cling film and films made therefrom The invention is directed to a composition suitable for use in a single-sided stretch cling film, the composition having from 0.1 to 20 percent by weight of a propylene-based copolymer having substantially isotactic propylene sequences, and having from 80 to 99 perc... 8129031Films containing microlayer structures Films containing microlayer structures are provided. In a general embodiment, the present disclosure provides an autoclavable film containing a first microlayer of a heat resistant polymer and a second microlayer of a flexible polymer attached to the first microlaye... 8124243Films for use in high strength bags Thermoplastic films particularly suited for use in bags including at least a core layer comprising an ethylene copolymer, wherein the films are subjected to post-quench biaxial orientation are provided. Optionally, the films may have a first skin layer and/or a seco... 8092920High clarity, high stiffness films A multi-layer heat film having at least three layers is disclosed wherein the film has high optical properties, high stiffness and desirable shrinkage in the cross direction. The inner layer, or layers, comprises at least one stiffening polymer selected from the gro... 8080320Metallized laminated structure and method of making a plastic article A metallized laminated structure suitable for making a rigid container having a metallic appearance is provided. The laminated structure includes a metallized film and a thermoplastic sheet. At least a portion of the thermoplastic sheet is bonded to the metallized f... 8071223EVA blend compositions suitable for RF welding applications Disclosed are films obtained from blends of ethylene copolymers with organic acid salt-modified potassium ionomeric copolymers. The films of the present invention can be welded using RF energy. ... 8057911Twist-wrap film and use thereof as packaging film The invention relates to a twist-wrap film (1, 2, 3) which is produced by coextrusion of a plurality of plastic layers. The inventive film is characterized in that at least a) one or more plastic layer(s) (4, 4′) consist of one or more semicrystallin... 8053085Heat-shrinkable film A multilayer heat-shrinkable film having an uncommon but valuable combination of properties is disclosed. The film comprises a core layer of HDPE. Each skin layer comprises linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE), low density polyethylene (LDPE), or mixtures thereof... 8043712Heat-sealable multilayer polypropylene resin film and packaging material [Problem] Provision of a heat-sealable multilayer polypropylene-based resin film having heat seal strength sufficient for packaging a heavy article and tight-sealing property, and a packaging material using the film. [Solving means] A heat-sealable multilayer... 8029911Adhesive for circuit connection, circuit connection method using the same, and circuit connected structure There are provided an adhesive for connecting a circuit to be interposed between substrates having circuit electrodes thereon opposed to each other and to electrically connect the circuit electrodes on the substrates opposed to each other to the pressurizing directi... 8021759Heat shrinkable films containing single site catalyzed copolymers The present invention is directed to a heat-shrinkable, thermoplastic film or bag which contains at least one homogeneous ethylene alpha-olefin copolymer having a density of at least 0.90 g/cc. Oriented films made in accordance with the present invention exhibit imp... 7985483Digital printing of low volume applications A method of coating low density polyethylene (LDPE) and linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE), or combinations of the two, is disclosed. The method includes treating the polyethylene with a coating and then digitally printing the coated polyethylene substrate. The... 7923120Adhesive of (meth)acrylate polymer, peroxide and isocyanate laminated on optical film Provided herein is a pressure sensitive adhesive for an optical film comprising: 100 parts by weight of a (meth)acrylic-based polymer (A) including an alkyl (meth)acrylate (a1) and a (meth)acrylic-based monomer containing a hydroxyl group (a2), as a copolymerizable ... 7923121Photo-crosslinkable polyolefin compositions A photo-crosslinkable polyolefin composition comprises a polyolefin, a source of functionality receptive to crosslinking by UV radiation, a cationic photoinitiator and optionally includes a free-radical photoinitiator, a crosslinking accelerator or sensitizer, and o... 7871709Modified tie-layer compositions and improved clarity multi-layer barrier films produced therewith Tie-layer adhesive compositions which are blends of modified and unmodified polyolefins and containing a saturated bicyclic modifier compound and multi-layer barrier films having improved clarity produced therewith are provided. ... 7794849Thermoplastic film structures with a low melting point outer layer A film structure including at least a base layer containing a thermoplastic polymer and at least an outer layer containing a low melting point polymer. Methods of manufacturing the film structure, including the steps of coextruding melts corresponding to the individ... 7794848MDO multilayer polyethylene film A multilayer film and a method of making the film are disclosed. In the method a multilayer film is post-oriented uniaxially in the machine direction resulting in a film that has a water vapor transmission rate of less than 2.5 g-mil/m2-day and an oxygen ... RE41576Conformal thermal interface material for electronic components A thermally-conductive interface for conductively cooling a heat-generating electronic component having an associated thermal dissipation member such as a heat sink. The interface is formed as a self-supporting layer of a thermally-conductive material which is form-... 7763361Metallized laminated structure and method of making the same 7754341Films with superior impact resistance and improved catastrophic failure resistance under high strain rate Stretch films which exhibit good puncture and impact resistance while also exhibiting resistance to defect propagation are desired. The films of the present invention have an ultimate stretch of at least 200 percent, a dart impact strength of at least about 700 gms/... 7740951Multilayered polymeric structure and methods Multilayered structures formed from two or more polymeric layers are fabricated to obtain a single structure preferably having advantages of each of the separate layers. Polyolefin-based substrates can provide a layer with a good balance of stiffness and impact resi... 7709098Multi-layered thermally conductive sheet There is provided a multi-layered thermally conductive sheet having superior thermal conductivity and flame retardancy as well as superior handleability and adhesion even without using any of a halogen-containing flame retardant, red phosphorous, and silicone resin.... 7704608Method of preparing nano-structured surface coatings and coated articles The invention relates to new processes for the preparation of antireflective coatings and coated substrates, as well as articles produced by these processes. These coatings can include one or more layers made of materials which form nano-structured and/or nano-porou... 7695822Tie-layer for polyolefin films A laminate film including a first polyolefin layer comprising of a blend of 50-95% ethylene-propylene copolymer and 50-5% ethylene polar terpolymer with a polar polymer layer on one side of said first polyolefin resin-containing layer is disclosed. The laminate film... 7655317Stretch-cling films The invention concerns films having a cling layer of an elastomeric propylene-based polymer with a low heat of fusion derived from isotactic propylene type crystallinity, as determined by DSC of less than 40 J/g, optionally blended with a crystalline isotactic propy... 7651780Single ply thermoplastic (TPO) roofing membranes having superior heat seam peel strengths and low temperature flexibility Roofing membranes of single ply heat seamable thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO) sheets are made with a metallocene-catalyzed polyethylene (MPO) blend. The membranes exhibit superior heat seam peel strengths and low temperature flexibility. ... 7638204Tier sheet A new and improved tier sheet comprises a three-layer laminated extrusion comprising outer layers of a suitable polypropylene homopolymer, and an inner core layer comprising a suitable polypropylene copolymer blended with a suitable elastomer selected from the group... 7618716Wave plate A wavelength plate, which comprises a cyclic olefin based resin-containing material and is obtained by combining plural sheets of a retardation film that provides a specific retardation. The resulting wavelength plate (retardation plate) has the same polarizing char... Sign InRegister forgot password?	http://www.patentstorm.us/class-patents/428/515/Next_to_second_addition_polymer_from_unsaturated_monomers/1.html	dclm-gs1-016780001
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Subclass of Class 438 - Semiconductor device manufacturing: process Definition: Process including the step having an electric current come No. of patents: 213 Last issue date: 03/04/2014 NumberTitleIssue Date 8664091Method for removing metallic nanotube A method for removing a metallic nanotube, which is formed on a substrate in a first direction, includes forming a plurality of conductors in a second direction crossing the first direction, electrically contacting the plurality of conductors with metallic nanotube,... 8592288Storage of an image in an integrated circuit An integrated circuit including a substrate of a semiconductor material and first metal portions of a first metallization level or of a first via level defining pixels of an image. The pixels are distributed in first pixels, for each of which the first metal portion... 8492247Programmable FETs using Vt-shift effect and methods of manufacture Programmable field effect transistors (FETs) are provided using high-k dielectric metal gate Vt shift effect and methods of manufacturing the same. The method of controlling Vt shift in a high-k dielectric metal gate structure includes applying a current to a gate c... 8404568Systems and methods for fabricating an out-of-plane MEMS structure System and methods offset mechanism elements during fabrication of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) devices. An exemplary embodiment applies a voltage across an offset mechanism element and a bonding layer of a MEMS device to generate an electrostatic charge ... 8338272Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device A wafer is mounted on the top surface of the stage having an electrostatic chuck function, and the wafer at 50° C. or more is cooled to a temperature lower than 50° C. In this step, the voltage to be applied to the internal electrode provided in the stage is raise... 7915143Method of mediating forward voltage drift in a SiC device A method of reversing Shockley stacking fault expansion includes providing a bipolar or a unipolar SiC device exhibiting forward voltage drift caused by Shockley stacking fault nucleation and expansion. The SiC device is heated to a temperature above 150° C. A curr... 7879692Programmable resistive memory cell with self-forming gap A memory device has a first electrode, a second electrode, and memory material defining an inter-electrode current path between the first electrode and the second electrode. A gap is formed by shrinkage of the shrinkable material between the memory material and a sh... 7858500Low threshold voltage semiconductor device with dual threshold voltage control means A semiconductor structure, particularly a pFET, which includes a dielectric material that has a dielectric constant of greater than that of SiO2 and a Ge or Si content of greater than 50% and at least one other means for threshold/flatband voltage tuning ... 7759225Method for fabricating semiconductor layer and light-emitting diode A semiconductor layer containing defects only in a small density, possessing good quality and exhibiting a large ionic bonding property as to GaN, for example, is formed on a semiconductor layer, such as a silicon carbide layer, which is made of a material possessin... 7749868Process of forming a curved profile on a semiconductor substrate A semiconductor substrate shaped to have a curved surface profile by anodization. Prior to being anodized, the substrate is finished with an anode pattern on its bottom surface so as to be consolidated into a unitary structure in which the anode pattern is precisely... 7611969Generation and applications of negative dielectric constant materials A negative dielectric is induced by the application of a dc bias-electric field in aggregates of oxide nano-particles whose surfaces have been specially treated. The magnitude of the dielectric constant and the frequency where the negative dielectric constant occurs... 7563696Semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus and semiconductor device manufacturing method A semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus which uses a thermal CVD reaction to deposit a film onto a substrate has a ring with an electrode terminal that makes contact with either the substrate or the deposited film thereon, a power supply that applies a curren... 7501328Methods for electrochemically fabricating structures using adhered masks, incorporating dielectric sheets, and/or seed layers that are partially removed via planarization Embodiments of the present invention provide mesoscale or microscale three-dimensional structures (e.g. components, device, and the like). Embodiments relate to one or more of (1) the formation of such structures which incorporate sheets of dielectric material and/o... 7427802Irreversible reduction of the value of a polycrystalline silicon resistor The invention relates to a method and device for the irreversible reduction of the value of an integrated polycrystalline silicon resistor. The inventive method consists in temporarily subjecting the resistor to a stress current which is greater than a current (Im) ... 7402182High-power LGA socket A system for providing electrical contacts between a die and an electrical device includes a die and a package. The package includes a first major surface, a second major surface, a first scalloped edge, a second scalloped edge and a solid end adapted for insertion ... 7367119Method for forming a reinforced tip for a probe storage device Systems and methods in accordance with the present invention can include a tip contactable with a media. In an embodiment, the tip comprises a substantially hollow structure formed of a metal. The tip can be formed by depositing a first metal layer over silicon ther... 7365399Structure and method to form semiconductor-on-pores (SOP) for high device performance and low manufacturing cost A semiconducting material that has all the advantages of prior art SOI substrates including, for example, low parasitic capacitance and leakage, without having floating body effects is provided. More specifically, the present invention provides a Semiconductor-on-Po... 7364937Vertical elevated pore phase change memory A vertical elevated pore structure for a phase change memory may include a pore with a lower electrode beneath the pore contacting the phase change material in the pore. The lower electrode may be made up of a higher resistivity lower electrode and a lower resistivi... 7364952Systems and methods for processing thin films The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for processing a thin film samples. In an exemplary method, semiconductor thin films are loaded onto two different loading fixtures, laser beam pulses generated by a laser source system are split into first l... 7336524Atomic probes and media for high density data storage A device in accordance with embodiments of the present invention comprises a contact probe for high density data storage reading, writing, erasing, or rewriting. In one embodiment, the contact probe can include a silicon core having a conductive coating. Contact pro... 7332377Manufacturing method with self-aligned arrangement of solid body electrolyte memory cells of minimum structure size The object of providing a method for manufacturing solid body electrolyte memory cells or CB memory cells, respectively, which is suited for the simplified manufacturing of highly dense arrays with crosspoint architecture is solved by the present invention in that t... 7326951Chalcogenide random access memory A chalcogenide random access memory (CRAM) is provided. The CRAM includes a substrate, a first dielectric layer, a bottom electrode, a top electrode, a second dielectric layer, a modified chalcogenide spacer and an un-modified chalcogenide thin film. The first diele... 7323708Phase change memory devices having phase change area in porous dielectric layer A phase change memory device includes a lower electrode and a porous dielectric layer having fine pores on the lower electrode. A phase change layer is provided in the fine pores of the porous dielectric layer. An upper electrode is provided on the phase change laye... 7323218Synthesis of composite nanofibers for applications in lithium batteries Methods of fabricating one-dimensional composite nanofiber on a template membrane with porous array by chemical or physical process are disclosed. The whole procedures are established under a base concept of “secondary template”. First of all, tubular first nano... 7314781Device packages having stable wirebonds A method of making a packaged electrical device comprises the steps of (a) connecting one end of a wire to a first point (e.g., a first electrical node) in the package, and (b) connecting the other end of the wire to a second point (e.g., a second electrical node) i... 7309630Method for forming patterned media for a high density data storage device Systems in accordance with the present invention can include a tip contactable with a media, the media including a substrate and a plurality of cells disposed over the substrate, one or more of the cells being electrically isolated from the other of the cells by a m... 7307267Electric device with phase change material and parallel heater The electric device (1, 100) has a body (2, 102) having a resistor (7, 107) comprising a phase change material being changeable between a first phase and a second phase. The resistor (7, 107) has a first electrical resistance when the pha... 7301887Methods for erasing bit cells in a high density data storage device Methods in accordance with the present invention can be applied, in an embodiment, to a media comprising a phase change material to alter a resolved portion of the phase change material to have a resistance different from a resistance of the bulk material. A tip hav... 7294560Method of assembling one-dimensional nanostructures A method provides a simple yet reliable technique to assemble one-dimensional nanostructures selectively in a desired pattern for device applications. The method comprises forming a plurality of spaced apart conductive elements (12, 20) in a sequential patter... 7276172Method for preparing a nanowire crossbar structure and use of a structure prepared by this method The present invention relates to a method for preparing a nanowire crossbar structure, comprising: (a) providing a substrate; (b) depositing thereon a composite structure comprising a nucleic acid-block copolymer having equidistant nucleic acid-catalyst binding site... 7273809Method of fabricating a conductive path in a semiconductor device A method for fabricating an ultra-small electrode or plug contact for use in chalcogenide memory cells specifically, and in semiconductor devices generally, in which disposable spacers are utilized to fabricate ultra-small pores into which the electrodes are formed.... 7270012Semiconductor device embedded with pressure sensor and manufacturing method thereof The method for promoting the size reduction, the performance improvement and the reliability improvement of a semiconductor device embedded with pressure sensor is provided. In a semiconductor device embedded with pressure sensor, a part of an uppermost wiring is us... 7271440Method and apparatus for forming an integrated circuit electrode having a reduced contact area A method and an apparatus for manufacturing a memory cell having a non-volatile resistive memory element with a limited size active area. The method comprises a first step of providing a dielectric volume and forming a plug opening within the dielectric volume. A re... 7271403Isolating phase change memory devices A phase change memory may be made using an isolation diode in the form of a Schottky diode between a memory cell and a word line. The use of Schottky diode isolation devices may make the memory more scaleable in some embodiments. ... 7259040Process for manufacturing a phase change memory array in Cu-damascene technology and phase change memory array manufactured thereby A process for manufacturing a phase change memory array, includes the steps of: forming a plurality of PCM cells, arranged in rows and columns; and forming a plurality of resistive bit lines for connecting PCM cells arranged on a same column, each resistive bit line... 7256140Higher selectivity, method for passivating short circuit current paths in semiconductor devices Certain modifications and additions to the prior art short passivation technique have lead to improvements in the low light voltage of solar cells which are made using the improved passivation technique. Examples of the modifications include: ... 7250729Method of spark-processing silicon and resulting materials The subject invention pertains to a method of spark processing silicon and resulting materials. The subject invention also relates to electroluminescent devices incorporating the materials produced by the subject method. The subject method for spark-processing can e... 7247876Three dimensional programmable device and method for fabricating the same A three-dimensional memory device having polycrystalline silicon diode isolation elements for phase change memory cells and method for fabricating the same. The memory device includes a plurality of stacked memory cells to form a three-dimensional memory array. The ... 7223627Memory element and its method of formation A method for controlling silver doping of a chalcogenide glass in a resistance variable memory element is disclosed herein. The method includes forming a thin metal containing layer having a thickness of less than about 250 Angstroms over a second chalcogenide glass... 7223611Fabrication of nanowires This disclosure relates to a system and method for creating nanowires. A nanowire can be created by exposing layers of material in a superlattice and dissolving and transferring material from edges of the exposed layers onto a substrate. The nanowire can also be cre... Sign InRegister forgot password?	http://www.patentstorm.us/class-patents/438/466/DIRECT_APPLICATION_OF_ELECTRICAL_CURRENT/1.html	dclm-gs1-016790001
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Class 422/70 - Liquid chromatography Subclass of Class 422 - Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing Definition: Apparatus specifically designed or adapted for liquid chromas:graphic No. of patents: 793 Last issue date: 02/18/2014 NumberTitleIssue Date 8652420Device for the distribution of sample and carrier liquid across a micro-fabricated separation channel The present invention relates to a chromatographic separation device comprising a first substrate body carrying a micro-fabricated separation channel recessed on one of its surfaces and covered by a second substrate body, both perforated with connection-holes for th... 8647576Electrolytic eluent generator and method of use An acid or base is generated in an aqueous solution by the steps of: (a) providing a source of first ions adjacent an aqueous liquid in a first acid or base generation zone, separated by a first barrier (e.g., anion exchange membra... 8636963Chemical suppressors and method of use A non-electrolytic method and apparatus for treating an aqueous sample stream including analyte ions and matrix ions of opposite charge, for pretreatment or suppression. The apparatus includes an ion exchange membrane capable of passing only ions of opposite charge ... 8623279Ionic liquid mediated sol-gel sorbents Ionic liquid (IL)-mediated sol-gel hybrid organic-inorganic materials present enormous potential for effective use in analytical microextraction. One obstacle to materializing this prospect arises from high viscosity of ILs significantly slowing down sol-gel reactio... 8597571Electrolytic eluent recycle device, apparatus and method of use Electrolytic eluent recycle systems for ion chromatography using a multi-channel electrolytic ion exchange device which integrates suppression, eluent generation, and eluent recycle. The systems recycle the eluent into the analytical system without passing the eluen... 8562910Method and apparatus for analysis of poly (biphenyl chloride) in electrical insulating oil An object of the present invention is to provide a method and an apparatus by which PCBs in insulating oil can be analyzed with high accuracy in a convenient, inexpensive, and rapid manner. The method for analyzing polychlorobiphenyls by measuring the concentration ... 8425842Suppressor and ion chromatograph employing the same A suppressor which comprises: an ion-exchange membrane; an eluate channel which is in contact with one side of the ion-exchange membrane, serves as a channel through which an eluate discharged from a separation column flows, and has inside no obstacle to the flow; a... 8361390Liquid chromatograph The present invention relates to a liquid chromatography apparatus X, which is provided with a deaerator 4. The liquid chromatography apparatus X is further provided with a dissolved oxygen density adjusting means for maintaining a density of dissolved oxygen... 8323569Apparatus for method for polymer characterization Apparatus for GPC/TREF and TREF/GPC characterization of a polymer sample. The apparatus provides for the automated and integrated use of multiple TREF columns and a GPC system employing a multiple flow through detectors. In addition, a method for TREF/GPC characteri... 8216515Capillary ion chromatography An apparatus for capillary ion chromatography having a suppressor having flow-through ion exchange packing in a housing and capillary tubing formed of a permselective ion exchange membrane, and at least partially disposed in said ion exchange packing. Also, a recycl... 8187539Device and method for determining material properties by means of HPLC An assembly for determining material properties and/or material concentrations of components of a sample, containing: a chromatographic separating column with a liquid mobile solvent; means for controlling the temperature inside the separating column between room te... 8173070Sample injector system for liquid chromatography An injection device (10) includes a carrier inlet (40), a sample inlet (46), waste outlet (44) and a chamber outlet (64) attached to separation column (66). Valves (52, 54, 56) are used to control flow such that sampl... 8007742IRIS digester-evaporator interface A digester-evaporator for partially digesting a sample and for evaporating the solvent after partial digestion. The digester includes at least one reaction coil; a heating element arranged along a portion of the reaction coil; at least a portion of the reaction coil... 7976779Integrated LC-ESI on a chip A microfluidic system with on-chip pumping which can be used for liquid chromatography and also electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and which provides improved efficiency, better integration with sensors, improved portability, reduced power consumption, and re... 7901628Method for fractionating various components contained in a sample solution by liquid chromatograph mass spectrometer A method for fractionating a sample solution includes the steps of setting a first mass spectrometry condition and mass range information; setting a second mass spectrometry condition and mass range information; executing a mass scan by the mass spectrum acquisition... 7524457Displacement chemical regeneration method and apparatus Apparatus for chromatographically separating ionic species in an aqueous electrolyte-containing eluent to form an effluent, suppressing the effluent, detecting the suppressed effluent and passing the detected effluent to a regenerant reservoir, thereby displacing th... 7442556Microfluidic-based electrospray source for analytical devices with a rotary fluid flow channel for sample preparation This invention provides microfluidic devices and methods for using the same. Microfluidic devices of the present invention comprises a first elastic layer, a fluid flow channel within the elastic layer; and a means for providing a fluid sample from the fluid flow ch... 7425251System and method A system and method of characterizing, in particular sequencing, polymeric samples, the system comprising: a space-time map generator for generating a space-time map of points representative of the signal peaks of signals detected at a plurality of spaced positions ... 7425252System and method An analysis system for and method of enabling determination of the velocities of migrating objects, the system comprising an equiphase space-time map generator for generating an equiphase space-time map of equiphase points from each of a plurality of data sets repre... 7416698Molecular topological fractionation of macromolecules A process for characterizing a sample comprising a population of linear macromolecules of interest (104) and a population of long chain branched macromolecules of interest (103), the process including four steps. The first step is to provide a flow thr... 7405083Method and apparatus for purifying and desalting biological samples The subject invention provides a sample processing technique for purifying a biological or chemical sample. The invention is particularly well-suited to prepare a sample for mass spectrometry. The process is to be performed in an article having at least one well, in... 7402283Electrolytic eluent generator and method of use 7393691SERS method and apparatus for rapid extraction and analysis of drugs in saliva The method and apparatus rapidly separate drugs and their metabolites from saliva and, in a continuous sequence of steps, rapidly detect, identify and quantify them through surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. ... 7393692SERS method for rapid pharmacokinetic analysis of drugs in saliva 7364701Liquid homogenizing unit and high speed liquid chromatograph equipped with the same A liquid homogenizing unit comprising a feed flow channel (56), a discharge flow channel (57), a first intermediate flow channel (58) communicating with the feed flow channel (56), and a second intermediate flow channel (55) commun... 7361269Fraction collector with adjustable tray A fraction collector comprising a movable tray is provided. The movable tray may be attached to the fraction collector support system in a variety of ways and adjusted without adjusting the parts of the fraction collector support system. The moveable tray may be sta... 7361278Process for producing mass transfer device and apparatus for production thereof A process for producing a mass transfer device is provided which enables packing of a packing material uniformly in a flow channel, and transfers a specified substance by flowing a fluid containing the specified substance through a flow channel on a substrate. A mas... 7357852Bubble-free and pressure-generating electrodes for electrophoretic and electroosmotic devices Bubble-free electrodes, electrochemical cells including bubble-free electrodes, analytical devices, and methods for preparing and using them are provided. The analytical devices each include at least one bubble-free electrode. Analytical devices that include an elec... 7357864Microfluidic device The object of the present invention is to provide a production process of a microfluidic device in which a porous resin layer, which is capable of optimally fixing a large amount of enzyme, antigen or other protein or catalyst on the inner surface of a minute channe... 7351245Apparatus and method for dislodging object from throat An apparatus for sucking out an object stuck in a person's throat, comprising hollow first and second bellows elements each having an orifice with a one-way valve and an exit valve, a tube structure comprising first and second legs having free distal ends outside th... 7347936Liquid chromatograph A liquid chromatograph has switching valves as a flow passage switching mechanism and an automatic sampler as an injection section. The liquid chromatograph can switch, by switching the switching valves between a concentration flow passage for concentrating the samp... 7341652Stationary capillary electrophoresis system A system and method for capillary electrophoresis are provided for analyzing a macromolecule prepared from a complex liquid mixture. In particular applications, methods and apparatus are provided for separating and analyzing a solution containing a denatured macromo... 7332347Apparatus and method for concentrating and collecting analytes from a flowing liquid stream An apparatus for concentrating and collecting one or more analytes in a flowing liquid stream of a carrier solvent composed of one or more solvent components is provided, which includes a transfer tube which forms a bore having an inlet and an outlet, the inlet bein... 7332087Flow sensing apparatus used to monitor/provide feedback to a split flow pumping system A method and apparatus for monitoring and controlling the nano-scale flow rate of fluid in the operating flow path of a HPLC system without relying on a nano-scale sensor in the operating flow path. A main flow sensor is disposed in the main flow path between the pu... 7329353LC/MS method of analyzing high molecular weight proteins The present invention is directed to a novel method of analysis of high molecular weight proteins. More specifically, it is directed to a novel reversed-phase LC/MS method of analysis of high molecular weight proteins including antibodies. ... 7329386Column packing material and method for producing the same The first subject of this invention is a column packing material comprising: a silica gel having a silanol group; a first chemical modification group which is bound to said silanol group; a silicon... 7329346Ion chromatography system using catalytic gas elimination A liquid chromatographic system is provided including catalytically combining hydrogen and oxygen gases in the chromatography eluent stream in a catalytic gas elimination chamber, to form water and thereby reduce the gas content in the eluent stream. Also, a liquid ... 7323342Method for improving oil desalting by forming unstable water-in-oil emulsions A method for determination for a given oil the relative stability of a water-in-oil emulsion that will be formed by that oil with water comprises measuring for the given oil the weight fraction of the oil that is most strongly adsorbed on a silica gel column success... 7318900Chromatography system and method A chromatography system and method for analyzing a sample of interest. The chromatography system can include a housing, a cartridge holder coupled to the housing and formed to hold a chromatography cartridge containing a stationary phase, a collection vessel stand h... 7316769Length-dependent recoil separation of long molecules Separation of long molecules by length is obtained by forcing such molecules to traverse a boundary between a low free-energy region and a high free-energy region. In one embodiment, the high free-energy region is a dense pillar region or other structure formed on a... Sign InRegister forgot password?	http://www.patentstorm.us/class/422/70/Liquid_chromatography/1.html	dclm-gs1-016800001
0.02011	<urn:uuid:5d3f7f1b-f810-4a0f-bfb3-2ad6062c968c>	en	0.91134	U.S. patents available from 1976 to present. U.S. patent applications available from 2005 to present. Process for fabricating SiC semiconductor devices Patent 3956032 Issued on May 11, 1976. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject May 11, 1993. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent. Abstract Claims Description Full Text Patent References No. 508784 filed on 09/24/1974 US Classes: 117/101, Characterized by specified crystallography or arrangement of substrate (e.g., wafer cassette, Miller index)117/103, Using an energy beam or field, a particle beam or field, or a plasma (e.g., ionization, PECVD, CBE, MOMBE, RF induction, laser)117/89, Including change in a growth-influencing parameter (e.g., composition, temperature, concentration, flow rate) during growth (e.g., multilayer or junction or superlattice growing)117/900, APPARATUS CHARACTERIZED BY COMPOSITION OR TREATMENT THEREOF (E.G., SURFACE FINISH, SURFACE COATING)117/92, Using an energy beam or field, a particle beam or field, or a plasma (e.g., ionization, PECVD, CBE, MOMBE, RF induction, laser)117/951, Carbide containing (e.g., SiC) {C30B 29/36}252/62.3C, Binary alloy or carbide; e.g., Al, In, LiC423/345, Of carbon (i.e., silicon carbide)423/346, By reacting vapor phase silicon compound with carbon or carbon containing compound438/931SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR Primary: Rutledge, L. Dewayne Assistant: Saba, W. G. Attorney, Agent or Firm This invention relates to methods of growing crystals with the desired crystal structure and is directed more particularly to a method of epitaxially growing SiC layers on SiC substrates. SiC is a semiconductor material which has many advantages over other available semiconductor materials. For example, silicon carbide rectifiers which operated up to 600° C have been fabricated. No known commercially availablesemiconductor device is capable of operating satisfactorily to such a high temperature. Additionally, SiC has been used to fabricate luminescent diodes which emit a blue light having a wavelength near to the blue end of the visible spectrum. Suchdiodes are not commercially available at the present time. In addition to its excellent stability at high temperatures, SiC has a wide-energy bandgap and, consequently, has great commercial potential particularly in the electro-optical semiconductor industry. However, SiC devices are extremely difficultto fabricate because present processes require high temperatures and, due to growth of the crystal materail on a c-face, layers of different type crystal structures or polymorphs are grown. These polymorphs create hereto-junctions which seriouslydegrade semiconductor performance. Semiconductor devices having at least one junction of either the p-n type or the n-p type are generally made by growing a single crystal having the desired crystal structure. The single crystal is then used as a substrate and material with thesame crystal structure is grown on the substrate by various methods as described below. The material from which the crystal growth is developed may include dopant atoms of various types. In the well-known Lely process of growing SiC crystals, SiC is first sublimed and then condensed to form single crystals which may if desired be used as substrates. This process requires temperatures in the range of from 2300° to2800° C. Dopant gases may be added to the sublimed SiC to produce the desired p-n junction. In another process for fabricating a p-n junction in SiC, dopant atoms are diffused into a SiC substrate at a temperature in the range of from 2150 to 2250° C. Still another way to grown p-n junctions in SiC is to epitaxially grow doped layers on SiC substrates. This latter process requires temperatures in excess of 1515° C, the usual temperature being in the 1650° to 1750° Crange. All the above-described methods require temperatures in excess of 1500° C. The high temperatures required by all of these processes present a number of disadvantages. First the dopant atoms tend to diffuse and smear out the boundariesbetween the differently doped regions. It has been foudn that there is a significant diffusion of dopant atoms above the temperature of 1500° C, although below 1500° C there is very little diffusion. This undesirable diffusion increasesrapidly as temperature increases. Secondly, the high temperatures required make it difficult to maintain the required degree of system purity because materials used in the apparatus, such as the chamber, become involved in the process. In growing SiC crystals, the substrate used is normally a single-crystal platelet having a hexagonal crystal structure. In the past these platelets were prepared so that the SiC to be grown on the crystal would grow on the c-face, that is alongthe c-axis which is perpendicular to the c-face. Because of this previous method of preparing the substrate, many problems resulted as will now be described. SiC grows in many different crystal polymorphs, each with its own properties. Any one of these polymorphs can grow under apparently identical conditions and are formed by the stacking of silicon-carbon double layers of atoms. Each double layermay be situated in one of three positions. The sequency of stacking determines the particular polymorph structure and the stacking direction is called the crystal c-axis. There is a cubic structure called β SiC as well as many hexagonal and rhombohedral structures which are usually identified as α SiC. The structure of β SiC is unstable above 1400° C and the hexagonal polymorph known as2H SiC is unstable above 400° C. The Lely process usually produces α SiC polymorphs. A polymorph known as 6H SiC is the most commonly produced and is also the most stable of all the SiC polymorphs. The α SiC crystals produced bythe Lely process are usually hexagonal platelets with the crystal c-axis perpendicular to the platelet. In all prior epitaxial processes, the epitaxial layer was grown on the large c-face of the hexagonal platelet; that is, in the c-axis direction. Inthese processes the stacking sequence frequently changes during growth thereby yielding layers of different polymorphs. This layered structure creates heterojunctions which can seriously degrade semiconductor performance, as indicated previously. In view of the foregoing, it is an object of the invention to provide a new and novel method for epitaxially growing SiC crystals. It is another object of the invention to provide an improved method of epitaxially growing SiC crystals on a SiC substrate by a preferred preparation of the substrate. Another object of the invention is to provide a method for growing SiC crystals epitaxially on SiC substrates at relatively low temperature. Still another object of the invention is to provide a method of growing SiC semiconductor junctions having well defined boundaries between differently doped regions. Yet another object of the invention is to provide a method of epitaxially growing SiC crystals in which the possibility that the epitaxial layer will have a layered structure of different polymorphs is minimized. In summary, the inventive method specially prepares crystal substrates which are attached to a susceptor body. The susceptor is heated to establish a desired temperature profile and a gas containing the desired elements of the crystal to begrown is passed over the susceptor and the substrates. Dopant gases may be added to the gas containing the elements of the crystal whereby p-n or n-p type junctions may be produced with minimum smearing and with minimization of the possibility of thegrowing crystal containing more than one type of polymorph. FIG. 1 is a schematic drawing illustrating the manner in which a crystal platelet is sectioned to provide substrates for use with the inventive method. FIG. 2 is a schematic drawing of apparatus utilized in the process of the invention. FIG. 3 is a graph illustrating a temperature profile utilized to grow desirable crystal structures in accordance with the invention. Referring now to FIG. 1, there is shown a SiC platelet of a 6H type of polymorph having a c-face 3 which is generally perpendicular to the c-axis of the crystal platelet 1. Crystal wafers or sections 2 which will be utilized as substrates in theprocess to be described are provided by making cuts parallel to the c-axis whereby the crystal sections 2 each has an a-face 4 parallel to the c-axis. As will be described presently, a crystal layer of SiC will be grown on the a-face of each of thecrystal sections 2. Preferably, the a-faces of the crystal sections 2 should be polished before the growth of the respective crystal layers thereon is begun. The sections 2 are thin and wafer-shaped and the a-faces may be considered as the fronts whilethe opposite surfaces, which are also flat, may be referred to as the backs of the sections. Referring now to FIG. 2, apparatus for carrying out the process of the invention is identified by 10. Apparatus 10 comprises by way of example a reaction chamber 11, such as a quartz tube. SiC substrates 12 (sections 2 of FIG. 1) are attachedto a vertically oriented graphite susceptor body 13 with the a-faces being exposed by facing outwardly, as shown. The attachment of the substrates may be made mechanically or with a suitable adhesive. The most suitable adhesive has been found to be asolution of carbonized sugar. To the end that the susceptor 13 will be heated in such a manner that the temperature at its upper end is less than 1,200° C and at least 1,400° C at some point along the susceptor to produce a desired temperature profile, a radiofrequency (RF) induction coil 14 is disposed around chamber 11. The RF field produced by coil 14 heats the graphite susceptor such that the temperature at each end is less than 1,200° while the temperature in the middle of the susceptor is about1,400° C. A source of hydrogen gas 15 provides a carrier gas which is directed through a valve 16, a flowmeter 22 and a manifold 30 to a port 31 in the top of chamber 11 to purge the chamber after it has been outgassed and evacuated, as will be describedpresently. The vent 32 in the bottom of chamber 11 allows unused gases to escape as the process proceeds. A carbon containing chlorosilane liquid 9 which is preferably methyltrichlorosilane (CH3 SiCl3) is contained in the bottom portion 20 of asaturator 19. The methyltrichlorosilane is a liquid which vaporizes at normal room temperature. When the valve 17 is opened, hydrogen flows from the hydrogen source 15 through valve 17, the flowmeter 23, the saturator 19, a valve 18 and the manifold 30to the port 31 of chamber 11 carrying the vaporized methyltrichlorosilane with it into the reaction chamber 11. The upper portion 21 of saturator 19 may be cooled to a temperature of about 0°C plus or minus 10°C to condense some of the methyltrichlorosilane whereby it drips back into the lower portion 20 of saturator 19. The valves 16 and 17are adjusted to provide the desired concentration of methyltrichlorosilane gas in the hydrogen flow. Where a p-n or n-p type junction is to be formed between the substrate and the crystal layer grown thereon, an n-type or p-type, as desired, dopant gas must be added to the mixture of hydrogen and methyltrichlorosilane being directed to chamber11. To this end there are provided respective p-type and n-type dopant gas sources 24 and 25 which may direct dopant gas into manifold 30 through respective valves 26, 27 and flowmeters 28, 29. A typical example of the epitaxial growth of a SiC crystal layer on SiC crystal substrate by the inventive method will now be described. Substrates 12 having at least one a-face are provided by cutting a SiC platelet 1 into sections as shown inFIG. 1. The a-faces of the crystal sections are polished by any one of the techniques known in the art and the crystal sections are attached to an elongated graphite susceptor body which is then disposed in reaction chamber 11 shown in FIG. 2. Thepolished a-faces face outwardly. The susceptor and substrates are outgassed by evacuating the chamber to a vacuum of about 10-.sup.5 Torr for several hours. Hydrogen is then admitted to chamber 11 by opening valve 16 and the susceptor is heated by energizing the coil 14with radio frequency current. As explained previously, the temperature profile from the top to the bottom of susceptor 13 is such that the temperature at the top of the susceptor is less than 1200° C while the temperature in the region of thesubstrates is in the range of from 1320° to 1390° C. The hydrogen flow and the temperature profile are maintained until temperature stability of the apparatus, particularly the chamber 11, is attained. This normally takes about one half hour but, of course, depends upon the size of the chamber 11and the material from which it is made. The growth of the layer of crystal SiC on the substrates 12 is initiated by opening valve 18 whereby additional hydrogen mixed with methyltrichlorosilane goes through manifold 30 and port 31 into chamber 11. Preferably, the valves 16, 17 and 18are adjusted such that the concentration of methyltrichlorosilane ranges from about 0.25 to 0.40 molar percent in a total hydrogen flow of 800 to 1,800 cubic centimeters per minute. With these gas flow parameters and the temperature profile across thesusceptor, as described previously, epitaxial layers of SiC will grow at rates of from about 0.3 to 0.4 micrometer per minute. If the crystal being grown is to be doped, one of the other of valves 26 or 27 should be opened to direct a dopant gas from one of the other sources 24 or 25 into chamber 11. Commonly used p-type dopand gases include AlCl3 or B2H6. Suitable dopant gases of the n-type include N2 or PH3. As shown in FIG. 2, the a-faces of the substrates 12 are generally vertically oriented and the susceptor 13 and the chamber 11 are also vertically oriented with respect to their elongated configurations. With this arrangement, a large radialtemperature gradient exists in the direction from the center of substrate 13 to the wall of chamber 11 causing thermal convection currents in the gas mixture in reaction chamber 11. Advantageously, these convection currents cause the gaseous reactionproducts, mainly hydrogen chloride, to impinge on the substrates 12, thereby effecting an etching process which takes place continuously and simultaneously with the deposition of SiC on the substrates 12. This action increases surface mobility of theatoms being deposited and results in more uniformly structured epitaxial layers. Referring now to FIG. 3, there is shown a curve 33 which represents the temperature profile along the susceptor body 13 in the exemplary process described above. The layer of free silicon 34 forms at the upper end of susceptor 13 in the regionwhere the temperature ranges from about 1150° C as indicated by dashed line 35 and 1290° as represented by dashed line 36. The SiC crystal growth on substrates 12 occurs in the region where the temperature is between 1320° C asrepresented by dashed line 37 and 1390° C as indicated by dashed line 38. As indicated by curve 33, the temperature decreases to less than 1200° C at the lower end of susceptor 13. When the mixture of hydrogen and methyltrichlorosilane enters the chamber 11, free silicon is deposited at the upper end of susceptor 13 as a layer 34. This takes place in the region where the temperature ranges from about 1150° C toabout 1290° C. This deposition of free silicon is believed to aid in the growth of the single polymorph SiC crystal although the mechanism is not fully understood. While the chamber 11, the substrates 12 and the susceptor 13 are shown in FIG. 2 as being vertically oriented, a horizontal orientation will work satisfactorily. However, with the horizontal orientation there is less turbulence or convection ofthe reaction gases and, accordingly, to obtain ample etching of the substrate surfaces, HCl gas may be injected into the reaction chamber 11. With regard to the gas which is admitted to chamber 11 with the hydrogen carrier gas, methyltrichlorosilane is preferred. However, any of the general class of chlorosilane gas may be utilized provided it contains adequate carbon atoms. Furthermore, chlorosilane gas containing no carbon atoms may be used if a hydrocarbon gas is mixed therewith. The temperature gradient profile curve 33 shown in FIG. 3 is that which results from the apparatus shown in FIG. 2 wherein RF coils 14 are disposed around the reaction chamber 11. However, it is not essential that the temperature profileincrease from about 1,150° C at the upper end of susceptor 13 to about 1,400° and then decrease again to less than 1200° at the lower end. For example, the coils 14 of FIG. 1 might be sized and positioned so that the temperatureprofile increases from less than 1200° C at the upper end of susceptor 13 to about 1400° C at the lower end. The requirement for the inventive method is that there be a temperature range of from about 1200° to about 1300° to cause the deposition of free silicon on the susceptor and another range of about 1300° to 1400°C to provide a temperature range wherein a single polymorph of 6H SiC crystal is grown on the SiC substrate. The temperature profile, as discussed above, may be achieved by means other than RF induction coils 14. For example, lenses and reflectors, as shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,427,435, could be used to focus heat rays from an infrared source on aportion of susceptor 13. Also, arrangements of lenses and reflectors could be used to concentrate solar rays in the reaction chamber 11. Additionally, if the substrate 13 is SiC, an electric heating element could be disposed therein to provide thedesired temperature profile. While the method of the invention and the apparatus have been described with relatively great detail, it will be understood that those skilled in the art of growing crystals may make changes and modifications to the foregoing method withoutdeparting from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the claims appended hereto. Other References • Powell et al., "Crystal Growth of 2H Silicon Carbide," J. Applied Physics, Vol. 40, No. 11, Oct. 1969, pp. 4660-4662 • Campbell et al., "Epitaxial Growth of Silicon Carbide . . . . Technique," J. Electrochem. Soc., Vol. 113, No. 8, Aug. 1966, pp. 825-828 • Golightly et al., "Some Aspects of Disorder in Silicon Carbide," Mat. Res. Bull., Vol. 4, 1969, pp. 5119-5128 • Knippenberg et al., "Growth Mechanisms of Silicon Carbide . . . . Deposition," Textbook - Silicon Carbide-1973, Ed., Marshall et al., pp. 92-107 • Weiss et al., "Chemically Vapor Deposited SiC . . . . Applications," Textbook- Silicon Carbide-1973, Ed., Marshall et al., pp. 80-91 • Bartlett et al., "Epitaxial Growth of ଲ-Silicon Carbide," Mat. Res. Bull., Vol. 4, 1969, pp. 5341-5354 • Todkill et al., "Properties of Some SiC Electroluminescent Diodes," Ibid., Vol. 4, 1969, pp. 5293-5302 • Liebmann, W. K., "Orientation of Stacking Faults . . . . in ଲ-SiC," J. Electrochem. 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0.124987	<urn:uuid:7fd3f36a-2269-453f-87f2-4595a5bdcaf1>	en	0.981171	AFL versus NFL: expansion teams Posted by Jason Lisk on April 12, 2009 Let’s start with a thought experiment, in considering how long it might take for a league like the American Football League to become equivalent to the National Football League. How long would it take for a team starting from nothing today to become equal with the rest of the league? If we assume that our new team has equal access to incoming talent, I think the very simplified answer is that it would roughly take as long as necessary for two things to occur: 1) For the incoming talent (where our new team is equal to the established teams) to mature and reach peak age; and 2) For the current star talent in the league at the time of our new team’s inception (which our new team is lacking) to decline and move past peak age. How many years is this? My thought is roughly somewhere between four and six years. And that number is of course highly variable in an individual team scenario, depending on things such as how the original roster is created, the quality of the coaches and management, free agency, and primarily, luck and skill in acquiring young talent. When we are conducting such a thought experiment, we also assume equal access to new talent. If I asked you how long it would take for Louisiana-Lafayette to become equal with LSU, the answer is probably "not anytime soon." For now, we’ll set that big issue aside though. We do have concrete examples to consider in place of our fictional thought experiment: expansion teams. Since 1950, there have been thirteen different expansion teams that joined an existing league. The idea for looking at expansion teams originally came from a comment by mrh in this thread where Chase was ranking wide receivers: I’d like to suggest another way to view the AFL discount you’re applying. The AFL teams were essentially expansion teams in 1960. They were handicapped in fielding teams by players having contracts in the NFL and by the perception that they were both minor league and unlikely to last, so players didn’t want to sign with them. There is an NFL team that year that had the same expansion status but lacked the other handicaps: the Cowboys. They lost all their games. It is reasonable to assume that the AFL teams were, as a group, no better than the Cowboys and maybe a little worse. But an analysis of how the ‘60 Cowboy wrs fared against the NFL would probably produce a pretty good baseline for the AFL as a whole. Similarly, the ‘61 Vikings were an expansion team and won 3 games, while the 2nd year Cowboys won 4. That again is probably a good measure of the AFL’s quality as a whole - I’m thinking a bell curve centered on 3-4 wins, with the best team getting 6-7 and the worst zero. Again, the Viking and Cowboy WRs would be a decent baseline to establish the AFL comparison factor. I suspect the factors you’ve guestimated for ‘60-61 are too high. On the other hand, I don’t think you have the AFL reaching parity soon enough in your factors. The Cowboys reached parity with the rest of the league in ‘65, their 6th season, winning 7 games. From ‘66-69 (and beyond), they were one of the best teams in the league. The Vikings achieved parity in ‘64-65, winning 8 (plus a tie) and 7 in those seasons, dropping back to below .500 for a couple of years, making the playoffs in ‘68 and winning the NFL title in ‘69. While Dallas and Minnesota were the closest in time to the AFL, I don’t think we have to limit our examination to those two teams. After all, Dallas didn’t actually have any draft picks in 1960, while the AFL teams did sign young draft picks (Minnesota, on the other hand, did have the first overall pick in the 1961 NFL Draft). In that respect, Dallas was more different from other expansion teams than the AFL teams were. Somebody might point out that Dallas was coached by a Hall of Famer in Tom Landry, or that Minnesota drafted one of the all-time leading passers in their first season. It's always a question of relevance versus sample size. I think expansion teams in general are relevant enough to be included. So I looked at the following 13 franchises, examined their rosters, and recorded the franchise record in each of the first seven seasons. 1953 Baltimore Colts 1960 Dallas Cowboys 1961 Minnesota Vikings 1966 Atlanta Falcons 1966 Miami Dolphins 1967 New Orleans Saints 1968 Cincinnati Bengals 1976 Seattle Seahawks 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1995 Carolina Panthers 1995 Jacksonville Jaguars 1999 Cleveland Browns 2002 Houston Texans I included the 1953 Baltimore Colts, who Chase detailed here, even though they had a few more players carried over from the Dallas Texans, because they bear a strong resemblance to the average expansion team in terms of experience, and are formally considered an expansion team by the league. With the aforementioned exception of the Dallas Cowboys, all the other expansion teams were part of the league draft prior to their first season, though there were differences in which pick they were assigned originally, with some receiving the first overall pick, and others falling in line behind established teams. Mrh made reference to how quickly a team reached league average. For that, I'm going to look at the median result for these franchises. You might immediately point to Jacksonville and Carolina as outliers, having reached the conference championship game in year two. New Orleans is probably the biggest outlier, though, as it took thirteen years before they went 8-8 in 1979. Every other expansion team had recorded at least one non-losing season by year six. The median result is four seasons to record the first non-losing year. However, we are looking at the American Football League in general, not just trying to estimate the time of arrival for a specific team. Just because a team reaches average doesn't mean they stay there, as illustrated by Minnesota, or Cleveland in 2002, or Carolina's decline after 1996. So what I did next is look at the actual combined winning percentage of the expansion teams in each season. As teams played different numbers of games in a season, I averaged the winning percentages so that the more recent teams weren't given undue weight. Also, because we are trying to gauge the true quality of these teams and eliminate luck as much as possible, I also looked at the expected winning percentage each year, based on the points for and points against. Here are the results of our expansion teams for years one through seven, with both the combined actual and expected winning percentages: Season Actual Expected 1 0.198 0.219 2 0.315 0.285 3 0.429 0.429 4 0.405 0.441 5 0.472 0.483 6 0.486 0.529 7 0.499 0.492 The biggest jump came from season 2 to season 3. If you went by actual winning percentage, it would appear that these expansion teams got worse in season 4; they actually were just really unlucky and slightly better as a whole. Improvement occurred every year up until season six. By year 4, the expected winning percentage equates to 7.06 wins in a 16-game schedule, and I would consider that reasonably competitive. Equality was reached somewhere between seasons five and six. Okay, but maybe you think I shouldn't be including teams like the Carolina Panthers from 1996 or the Houston Texans from 2002, because they have little in common with what occurred in 1960. When I ran the numbers for just the expansion teams starting within 10 years of the AFL teams in 1960, the numbers are very similar. The "early" expansion teams were a little worse in year 2 (thanks to Carolina being excluded) but were over .500 by year 5 and had a higher winning percentage in years 4-7 than the above cumulative numbers. Remember, the Baltimore Colts won their first NFL Championship in season six, the Cowboys were making championship games by season six, and the Miami Dolphins reached their first Super Bowl in season six and posted the perfect season a year later. So, I'm comfortable with increasing the comparison pool to 13 teams. If anything, they may slightly overstate the early winning percentage, but understate the time to equality. Those numbers above look pretty reasonable for the improvement pattern of a team started from scratch. The American Football League in 1960 may have been like expansion teams, but they weren't really expansion teams--they were creation teams. Thus, the above numbers give us a good reference point for considering how the AFL may have progressed, but we also need to acknowledge the differences, both pro and con, that would impact how long it would take to become equal to the NFL after 1960. 1) All the expansion teams operated within the structure of the league. Since the draft was in effect for all of them, these teams got to draft early in the draft following their early bad seasons, and accumulate (in theory) above average young talent. This would be a factor in favor of the expansion teams improving faster than the AFL. 2) The expansion teams were generally stocked by some combination of draft picks and castoffs who went unprotected by other league teams. Generally, these unprotected players were either reserves who were relatively unproven, or veterans (some who had been pretty good) who were past their primes and in the final seasons of their career. In contrast, the AFL did not, for the most part, get those veterans. They did get some unproven players who had been on an NFL roster and were free agents. This one cuts both ways, and I'll discuss it in a bit when I talk about age and retention differences, and how the AFL rosters compared. 3) The expansion teams were free to sign free agents and make trades within the context of the league. The American Football League teams, on the other hand, did not get much proven star talent from the NFL as free agents. They did sign some unproven NFL free agents, Len Dawson being a good example of this in 1962. To get something in a trade, you have to give up something, so I'm not sure how big a factor this is, but the ability to sign star free agent talent would mitigate in favor of expansion teams improving faster than the AFL. 4) When an expansion team joins a league, it has a small effect on other teams and their ability to acquire new talent. For example, the addition of the Houston Texans in 2002 had minimal impact on the Philadelphia Eagles' ability to acquire new talent. At best, it was a ripple effect. This was not true for the NFL in the early 1960's. Twelve professional teams in 1959 became almost double, twenty-two, by 1961. If going from 31 to 32 teams is a ripple, then doubling the number of teams is a hurricane. The established NFL teams in 1962 would not have been getting the same quantity of new talent as five years earlier, which could cause faster decline. Thus, it is possible that this factor closed the gap faster than the expansion model, not by the AFL teams improving faster, but by a decline in established NFL teams. This cuts both ways. We often assume that the AFL would have been continually improving, but the additions of Miami and Cincinnati to 8 existing teams would have had a larger impact than the addition of New Orleans and Atlanta did on the NFL in the late 60's. Finally, I promised to talk about the differences in how the teams were constructed. When we think of the early AFL, older quarterbacks like George Blanda may come to mind. With the exception of the quarterback position, though, the American Football League was a very young league at its inception. In fact, the average starter age for the AFL in 1960 was 25.2 years. In contrast, the average age for expansion team starters was 26.5 years. Only the Cincinnati Bengals, with an average of 24.8 in their first season, were below the AFL average. The 1960 Dallas Cowboys bore little resemblance to those AFL teams, with the second oldest starting lineup for an expansion team (behind only Carolina). Expansion teams relied on young unproven players as well, but nowhere near the extent that the AFL did. 22.3% of expansion team starters were age 23 or younger in the first season. For the AFL, that number was a whopping 37.5%. We'll get into the detailed draft battles in the next post, but in 1960 the AFL signed half of the NFL's first round picks, including first overall pick Billy Cannon to the Champion Oilers, third overall pick Johnny Robinson for the Texans, and tenth overall pick and Hall of Famer Ron Mix to the runner-up Chargers. They also signed alot of late round picks and college free agents, like Abner Haynes and Jim Hunt, and guys who had not been able to stick on an NFL roster and were still relatively young, like Lionel Taylor,Don Maynard, or Paul Lowe. (Lowe, by the way, was cut by the 49ers in the preseason in 1959, and was working in the mailroom of Carte Blanche Credit Card Corporation, owned by Chargers owner Barron Hilton when he tried out for the team.) Basically, the American Football League teams threw numbers at the situation. Many of these later round selections would have a cup of coffee in the league and be working back at the farm or the office (or the mailroom) a year or two later, but some turned out to be pretty good. To illustrate this effect, lets next look at the starter retention rates of expansion teams versus the AFL. Percentage of First Year Starters who were still starting in Years 2-5 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Expansion Teams 46.2% 30.4% 21.0% 11.5% AFL Teams 58.0% 31.8% 25.6% 17.6% As we can see, by season 3, approximately 70% of the starters from both expansion teams and the AFL were no longer starting for that franchise. After that, though, we see that the starters who were still around in the AFL tended to still be around in season 5. This is primarily because of the age factor, as the veterans on the expansion rosters had aged out. The method I used probably understates, if anything, the difference. Guys like Billy Cannon and Jack Kemp had been traded by 1964, and were starting for other franchises. The net effect of this, I think, is that the AFL teams as a whole were probably worse in 1960 than your average expansion team (though maybe better than the 1960 Cowboys). With so many young players, many of whom would be out of professional football within two seasons, the quality of play was probably more uneven than expansion teams staffed by replacement level starters with some track record. But because there were a few more young players that would develop into stars (and certainly expansion teams had there's as well with guys like Tarkenton or Largent), the AFL may have had a steeper improvement curve as the wheat got separated from the chaff, and the good young talent began to hit peak age. Of course, the rate of improvement by the AFL depends on the percentage of young talent that went to the AFL versus the NFL after 1960. If the AFL was getting at least a draw in the draft battles, I find it pretty unlikely that the AFL wasn't close to the NFL before 1966. If on the other hand, the NFL was winning the draft wars, then perhaps the AFL's improvement was slower than our expansion comparison. Sometime in the next few weeks, I will attempt to put these draft battles under the microscope. This entry was posted on Sunday, April 12th, 2009 at 10:49 pm and is filed under AFL versus NFL. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.	http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=1881	dclm-gs1-016990001
0.037542	<urn:uuid:e19fd416-e5b8-4f91-b195-2548b2ccf3ca>	en	0.933329	Last updated on March 16, 2014 at 13:20 EDT The Smallest Conceivable Switch December 12, 2011 Targeted proton transfer within a molecule For a long time miniaturization has been the magic word in electronics. Dr. Willi Auwaerter and Professor Johannes Barth, together with their team of physicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), have now presented a novel molecular switch in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. Decisive for the functionality of the switch is the position of a single proton in a porphyrin ring with an inside diameter of less than half a nanometer. The physicists can set four distinct states on demand. Porphyins are ring-shaped molecules that can flexibly change their structure, making them useful for a wide array of applications. Tetraphenylporphyrin is no exception: It likes to take on a saddle shape and is not limited in its functionality when it is anchored to a metal surface. The molecule holds has a pair of hydrogen atoms that can change their positions between two configurations each. At room temperature this process takes place continuously at an extremely rapid rate. In their experiment, the scientists suppressed this spontaneous movement by cooling the sample. This allowed them to induce and observe the entire process in a single molecule using a scanning tunneling microscope. This kind of microscope is particularly well suited for the task since — in contrast to other methods — it can be used not only to determine the initial and final states, but also allows the physicists to control the hydrogen atoms directly. In a further step they removed one of the two protons from the inside of the porphyrin ring. The remaining proton could now take on any one of four positions. A tiny current that flows through the fine tip of the microscope stimulates the proton transfer, setting a specific configuration in the process. Although the respective positions of the hydrogen atoms influence neither the basic structure of the molecule nor its bond to the metallic surface, the states are not identical. This small but significant difference, taken together with the fact that the process can be arbitrarily repeated, forms the basis of a switch whose state can be changed up to 500 times per second. A single tunneled electron initiates the proton transfer. The molecular switch has a surface area of only one square nanometer, making it the smallest switch implemented to date. The physicists are thrilled by their demonstration and are also very happy about new insights into the mechanism behind the proton transfer resulting from their study. Knud Seufert played a key role with his experiments: “To operate a four-state switch by moving a single proton within a molecule is really fascinating and represents a true step forward in nano-scale technologies.” On the Net:	http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112438699/the-smallest-conceivable-switch/	dclm-gs1-017020001
0.019887	<urn:uuid:47ea4bae-b8f9-4499-bcbe-a4b978b3f2dc>	en	0.942377	Search Results for: sony rolly Sony Rolly is safe in the US “at this time” Hearing that Sony had potentially discontinued their Rolly PMP in America had a surprising effect on us. We'd never actually considered going out and buying the dancing, flashing MP3 player, but thinking of it being culled brought back the sort of feelings we hadn't experienced since watching Bambi as children. Happily it's good news for all who feel the same, as Sony claim they have no intention of axing Rolly. Sony Rolly SEP-50BT dancing PMP robot gets Bluetooth remote control Relatively pointless, underspecified in key areas like storage, and in today's economic climate a needless luxury; all criticisms that could fairly be aimed at the Sony Rolly, and yet people keep buying them. Latest update to the dancing, spinning, flashing and flapping PMP is the ability to control it via Bluetooth: the Sony Rolly SEP-50BT has just 2GB of onboard storage and a 5hr battery life, but now you can use your cellphone or Bluetooth-enabled PC to trundle it about. Video demo of the Sony Rolly SEP-50BT after the cut Sony Rolly gets slated: is AP ready for a dancing speaker? Is the tech world set to split into "those who understand the Sony Rolly" and "those that don't"? No, probably not, but AP's Rachel Metz would certainly fall into the latter category. In her review of the bizarre twitching, wiggling, flashing PMP speaker - which officially went on sale in the US earlier this month - Rachel's few good experiences with the device are pretty much overwhelmed by Rolly's inability to fit into a standard music player niche. Highlights (or should that be lowlights?) include the lack of a headphone socket, the paltry 2GB of storage and the tricky controls. Sony Rolly dancing speaker robot comes to US Sony's Rolly dancing wireless speaker robot might be a relatively pointless frippery, but now it's a pointless frippery you can officially buy in the US. The company has announced that the easter-egg-sized "Sound Entertainment Player" is now available in retail stores across the country, having been available exclusively in Japan for some time now. Not only does Rolly have stereo speakers, it can be programmed with specific dances via the included choreography software. Check out the video of Rolly in action after the cut Sony Rolly like a music playing Easter egg on wheels The full name is the Rolly SEP-10BT Sound Entertainment Player and its quit an amazing little toy. You can play music from its 1GB of internal storage or you can play it from another source via Bluetooth. Did I mention that its sort of a robot with two wheels and various dance patterns? Oh well, it is and the best part is that you can program your own dance patterns on your PC. Sony VAIO NS and CS notebooks with Blu-ray option Sony have announced two new models in their VAIO laptop range, the NS-series and CS-series. The former has a 15.4-inch display, while the latter has a 14.1-inch; both use widescreen XBRITE-ECO, panels, and both can be specified with Blu-ray drives. Power in the NS is courtesy of Intel's 2GHz T5800 Core 2 Duo CPU, while graphics are integrated X4500; in the CS it's a P8400 2.26GHz processor. 1 2	http://www.slashgear.com/search/sony+rolly/	dclm-gs1-017100001
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0.26815	<urn:uuid:f92ad367-2321-4d5b-8b53-882f36c4115f>	en	0.933106	How HP’s $170 7-inch tablet could cripple Apple Kim Dotcom wins permission to sue New Zealand spy agency Microsoft fined $733 million for 'forgetting' browser choice screen Google reveals warrantless FBI data requests Windows 8 and tablets blamed for PC decline Do Not Track bill is back on the table Patent trolls could face stiff penalties Tech firms come out in support of gay marriage Why Nvidia's new headquarters may beat Apple’s Yahoo revamps itself with site redesign Iceland mulls online porn ban Opera plans video boost with Skyfire acquisition Yes, Intel inside your TV could be cool but… A number of industry heavyweights, including Microsoft, Google, and even Apple are seeking to revolutionize the current TV watching experience. Clearly, there is a quite a lot of room for improvement. Assange makes bid for Australian senate Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is delivering on his promise to run for the Australian Senate, applying for the Victorial electoral roll. Tech giants ordered to explain high Australian prices The Australian government has summoned Apple, Microsoft and Adobe to explain why their products cost more there than in the rest of the world. Under pressure, Apple mulls big shareholder payout Apple's responded to calls from shareholders to return some of its vast pile of cash, and says it's now actively looking at the idea. Dell goes private in effort to refocus Michael Dell has announced plans to buy back his eponymous company after 25 years on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Apple spotlights indie authors Apple is rolling out a feature that organizes groups of popular self-published e-books and offers them prominent display on iBookstore. Amazon touts virtual currency for Kindle Fire lineup Amazon has introduced a new virtual currency targeted at Kindle Fire tablet owners for the purchase of apps and in-game items.	http://www.tgdaily.com/business?page=6&option=com_content&task=view&id=28595	dclm-gs1-017180001
0.146655	<urn:uuid:3f749b15-2fc8-4b13-b113-1172e0ad6bd8>	en	0.984092	Just one of fourteen historical Japanese tanks being added to World of Tanks next week. In my line of work, I interview a lot of people. It becomes obvious when I am speaking to someone who doesn't really care about their product and is just reciting PR bullet points, or to someone who has a genuine love and enthusiasm for it. Jasper Nicholas is in the latter category. It is rare to talk to someone in the upper management of a video game company who is so in love with the product he represents. Nicholas is Wargaming's general manager for the Asia-Pacific region, a part of the world that Wargaming has only recently begun to make a serious attempt to crack open. His portfolio is diverse, covering Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and yes, Australia and New Zealand. Wargaming's most famous product is the wildly popular World of Tanks, a free-to-play online tank battle game that delivers bite-sized morsels of heavy duty hardware and high explosive, with most battles running less than fifteen minutes. Recently out in some countries, but not yet in Australia, is its new sister product, World of Warplanes, and World of Warships is also on the horizon. I talked to Jasper in the middle of a test session in an internet cafe, where I had a test run of the Japanese tanks about to be introduced in the game's new major patch, due in about a week. This is the current focus for the team, raising awareness of these little-known real world tanks that are about to start blowing each other up in online battles. "About two years ago, Victor [Kislyi, CEO of Wargaming] came to Japan and he's been reading about the tank battles on the shores of Samar in the Philippines, which was one of the few deployments of the Japanese tanks. They also deployed in Guam and in other countries in the Pacific, but the most notable were in Samar," Nicholas explained. "When he started digging deep into it, he discovered that there was actually a lot of development and ingenuity that went into building the Japanese tanks," he said. "When I visited a military museum here in Tokyo, I was blown away by the Type 10, just released in 2010, and it's one of the smartest tanks that I've ever seen in real life. On paper it's just so impressive that it's scary, the amount of capability that it has. The network hub, the infrared capabilities, the satellite positioning, touch-screen controls, auto-loader... The ammunition payload that it carries is just amazing." Japan's line of tanks, which began in the decade before World War II as Japan was attempting to consolidate power in the East Asian region, are typically named after the year in which they are launched. In addition to 2010's Type 10, they also have the Type 90, the Type 74, the Type 61, and so forth. The STB-1, which was a 1968 prototype of the Type 74, will be the newest tank included in the update, and will also be the most recent in the entire game, which generally focuses on tanks from World Wars I and II. "They were developed within the mission framework that these tanks would be continuously used throughout a lengthy war," Nicholas went on. "Of course, because of how history played out, we all know that the war was abruptly stopped in 1945, but even after it ended they never really lost focus. Even in their modern tanks, the heritage is there in the diesel-powered engine platform, which Mitsubishi and Isuzu did a really good job of creating." During World War II, Germany and Russia had to design petrol-powered tanks, as both countries were often too cold for diesel fuel, which would freeze at low temperatures. With Japan being a warmer country, and operating primarily in Asia and the Pacific region, they were free to enjoy the greater torque granted by diesel, which helped when lugging 40 tons of armour across a battlefield. In all, fourteen Japanese tanks will be added to World of Tanks, including light and medium tanks and lightweight tank destroyers, across two tech trees that players will need to research. This is far from the end for new content in the game, though, and we may even see an Aussie machine in there one day. "We've already studied an Australian tank, and we're considering a multinational tank release, not just a specific country," Nicholas said. "Australia only has one notable tank, but there are other countries with a few tanks, like Taiwan. Italian tanks didn't see a lot of action, and development was a bit scarce." "We never stop developing for World of Tanks - we're one of the few developers who put an active focus on constant content development - and we're really excited about next year because you're going to see a lot more creative features and functionalities. We're really getting to the point where a balance betwen realism and fun can be realistically achieved, and I think that's one of the major selling points of World of Tanks: it's not just a game, but one that constantly evolves based on the feedback we get from players, as well as the dreams of our CEO and his team of developers." Having recently dived into World of Tanks myself and finding it extremely challenging to get started, I asked Nicholas about how Wargaming has designed the experience for beginners. The game has a tutorial now, but there is still a steep learning curve. "It was only recently that we released that forced tutorial for new people," he said, "and when you undergo that tutorial it lets you experience, with very specific directions, how to move the tank, rotate the turret, aim properly, and shoot properly." "This system isn't like anything else that you've ever seen in an online game," he explained. "The way things are laid out is completely different from any other online game that you're used to. It's simple - WASD to move, mouse to control your turret - but for guys who are used to playing GTA and all those racing games, they get disconcerted because you're facing one direction and moving in another." "When I started playing the game, it took me about thirty battles before I got to a level where I could say, okay, I'm no longer a newbie and I'm learning the dynamics of the game, but I can safely say it took me at least 500 battles before I could tell myself, okay, I know how this game plays." "Once you get into it, it's a very deep game with a lot of content and a lot of things that you need to understand - which engines to use, which guns to use, because sometimes you won't need the most upgraded version in your tank, and you can upgrade your crew in different disciplines." "The thing with this game, though, is that it's completely free to play and free to win, you just have to keep on battling," he concluded. "The more battles that you have, the more capability you get, in terms of consuming more content." But how free is it really? Wargaming has become an extremely wealthy company because many players are willing to shell out real world money to purchase in-game content. Nicholas says that paying money is nearly always about saving time. "If you're the kind of person who can't spend three hours to gain a certain number of experience points and you want to cut it in half, then you can pay for it. It doesn't really give you any other advantage." But what about the high-powered premium ammunition that can only be bought with real money? "Premium ammo isn't really that great," he replied, which may shock some players. "I never spend my own gold on premium ammo - I only ever use it for things like high octane fuel or consumables like cola, that gives your tank crew an energy boost." World of Tanks update 8.10, which will include the Japanese tanks, as well as a graphics upgrade, will be available on either 23 or 24 December (the date had not quite been nailed down at time of writing). Disclosure: The writer travelled as a guest of Wargaming. - James "DexX" Dominguez twitter Screen Play is on Twitter: @jamesjdominguez	http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/games/blogs/screenplay/world-of-tanks-a-world-that-keeps-on-expanding-20131219-2zlxp.html	dclm-gs1-017200001
0.034061	<urn:uuid:6c9b3db3-1d43-4bd7-a0d7-aec800348fa4>	en	0.969803	C.C. Sabathia to the Brewers; Post-Game Buffets Cower in Fear The Brewers look poised to get Indians south-paw C.C. Sabathia for the low, low cost of Matt LaPorta (whom the Cubs skipped over in the 2007 draft in favor of Josh Vitters), pitchers Zach Jackson and Rob Bryson and a fourth player, that could end up being third basemen Taylor Green. Only one of those players was among the top ten Brewers prospects to start the season, according to Baseball America. Adding Sabathia to the Brewers along with Prince Fielder means they're a lock to win a sumo wrestling match, the NL Central remains to be seen. Nonetheless, an impressive shot across the bow by the Brewers and one that will undoubtedly be answered by the Cubs...we hope. Return to Homepage imagine if Gallardo hadn't gotten injured. You'd possibly be looking at a Sheets/Sabathia/Gallardo/Parra rotation in a short series. As it is, the '08 Brewers remind me a lot of the '07 DBacks minus the strong bullpen. Even with the stench that is Eric Gagne and disappointment of Riske, the Brewers are still 19-8 in 1 run games(best in the ML) which of course was the '07 DBacks secret of success. And like those '07 DBacks, they have a lineup chalk full of hackers. they have a lineup chalk full of hackers That would be "chock" full of hackers. Just an FYI. (Sorry. One of my writing pet peeves.) I believe at 510 pounds of fun (player weights according to Baseball-Reference.com), Fielder (250 lbs.) and Sabathia (260) would be the heaviest National League teammates since the 1994 Phillies duo of Jeff Juden (265) and Bobby Munoz (252). I bring this up so as to distract myself from the fact that a talented division rival has just acquired the American League Cy Young winner without giving up a body on its Major League roster. Just checked Tom Haudricort's trade report at jsonline.com. It says the big lefty weighs in at 290 lbs.! In other words, Sabathia has chunks of guys in his stool bigger than Juden or Munoz. That's impressive. Boy, throw in Kruk with Juden and Munoz and you've got yourself nearly a half ton of fun. Hard to believe the Indians didn't shop Sabathia around more than this. Hard to believe Shapiro settled for so little. Hard to know what kind of "answer" the Cubs can retort with. Harden? Burnett? laporta is faaaaaaar from a minor addition. he don't have the press cuz this is really his first full settled in season in-progress (in progress in AA, btw). yeah, he's a DH/1st type, but he's still got enough youth to play OF a while if needed. his arm isnt really junky, either...not awesome...not bad. laporta does project for a 30-40+HR guy who's a pretty natural hitter. rob bryson is kinda like ceda...kinda not...but bear with me...electric stuff, but really needs to do something with his secondary. killer fastball...ordinary change and a semi-cruddy slider. he's not a guy who brings it 98mph or anything, but its a good fastball. he gets a sharper secondary pitch or refines the control of his slider/change and you got a ballplayer. he's also really f'n young. i dunno crap about zach johnson... "i dunno crap about zach johnson..." 2007 Masters champion, sang Take my out to the ball game Sep 4th at Wrigley. Good old Iowa boy... now the guy the brewers just traded, i know crap about him also... One factor might have been that CC intends to test the free agent market after the season. yeesh...was checking out #s on bryson and johnson...decided to see what brownlie was up to since he got signed by WAS (dubois was also signed preseason and cut later by them). you know...at least 1 of them was supposed to be an impact pitcher...it was predicted 2-3 of those guys could/would be in the rotation within 3-4 years. haggarty and clanton got injured almost immediately and never recovered. blasko got injured pretty badly and his return with the O's went horrible. sigh. this was the cubs "coup" draft, btw. the one where the cubs walked away looking like the homecoming king. damn you 2002. at least jones still has SOME chance...with the twins, that is. for reference...that draft also yielded rich hill, dopirak, billy petrick, HOFFPOWER, cherry, and adam "i'm a big leaguer now...ow" greenberg. Browlie and the former #22 both make Sports Illustrated cover story on Tim Lincecum. The article discussed Lincecum's strange delivery that was honed by his dad, a former pitcher. They discuss how Prior actually had poor mechanics, not the flawless mechanics everyone talked about. (They said he had his torso fully turned toward the catcher while his elbow was above his shoulder. The result is that his arm is responsible for all his velocity, unlike Lincecum, who uses the rotational forces of his delivery.) Brownlie gets a mention as a guy who's supposed to be like Lincecum. They reference Rick Peterson, who said he almost became physically ill while watching Brownlie. He said he could predict his injuries and did. wow...nice article. oddly topical, too. According to Will Carroll, he "heard" a random rumbling that the Cubs were going to answer quickly to any moves the rest of the NL Central made; by the way, add another name to the list of pitchers who can throw harder than Maddux. @Cubnut: I'm slightly concerned about the Brewers, but I still don't think they'll make the playoffs. Sabathia will pitch like 13 more games for the Brewers and unless he goes completely Rick Sutcliffe on us, it shouldn't make the difference. Hopefully they won't sign him after this year and they'll have sacrificed a big piece of their future for a failed attempt at the playoffs. I still say Bowker is Balcer. I swear I saw that somewhere. I love Pestilence's state of denial. If there is a God, the Brewers will trade for him and we'll sign him next year. The first and second times I read this, I thought you were saying the Brewers would trade for God, then we'd sign Him next year. I got pretty excited about that. no worries, the cubs have club control of fontenot for a few more years. Ha...that's how I read it too. I am just now watching the Cubs game and I don't care if I get flamed for this. But Rick Ankiel is one fucking hell of a ballplayer. Or is it Ankle? soriano to NOT play, but at aram's urging he's gonna "hang out" for the festivities. also, dumpster wants to play...wants it bad...and has a legit excuse with it being his "bullpen/throw" day. also there's mention of today's nice r.hill AZL start...good stuff vs. a bunch of scaled down 18-22 year olds. now get your ass back to AAA, do it there, then i'll consider whether i'm happy...heh. I'm not sure why the Milwaukee Journal chose to run with this online when their source can only be someone on the Milwaukee side of this deal. Cleveland is in the driver's seat, not Milwaukee. They own the rights to CC. And Cleveland GM said there was no deal Sunday night. The definitive article on the trade so far is buried on the MiLB.COM site. Where, in the wake of the Milwaukee Journal "scoop" MLB.COM reporter Adam McAlvey writes (updated at 1:32 A.M. ET).... "Brewers general manager Doug Melvin did not return a phone call on Sunday, and while Indians GM Mark Shapiro said the sides had made "some progress," he denied Sunday evening that a trade was in place. That ran contrary to numerous published reports, including a post on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Web site, citing a Brewers source, that said a deal was done, "contingent on the paperwork being done and medical records exchanged." they got confirmation of a deal in principle from a brew's official. that's enough for any editor to run that story. shapiro comments are interesting. "Milwaukee's WSSP radio reported that Triple-A Nashville left-hander Zach Jackson would go to Cleveland along with LaPorta, while the Wisconsin State Journal reported that Class A West Virginia right-hander Rob Bryson and one other player also would be included." ...also interesting. Only in the age of the internet where rumor rules. Remedial News Reporting 1 --- you must have two confirmed independent sources before you run a story. so change the end of the italicized sentence to "from two Brew's officials" and you probably have exactly what happened. yeah, horrible job by that Journal Sentinal writer in reporting an accurate story. "Remedial News Reporting 1 --- you must have two confirmed independent sources before you run a story." that's a bit idealistic. kinda like believing in the "3 branches of government" and "checks and ballances" are the only things pushing and enforcing laws in the nation. i mean, they do teach that in school and all. post-game buffet to include: fried chicken for cc, fried* onion rings for the Prince. (* in vegetable oil) Which are the real Chicago Seven? Great historical reference... How should we answer this broadside by the Brew Crew? Are any pitchers out there better than Marshall/Gallagher? I think Burnett might be, but I have heard Randy Wolf's name, and I am not sure that is an improvement. It's tough, because we really need a top of the rotation guy, and there aren't many out there. Is Neal Cotts the real deal? If he is, we may not have to acquire a LOOGY. That looked like a need a month ago, but if Cotts keeps pitching like this, we can cross that one off the list. this "neal cotts" guy ive been seeing recently...hmmm...well... when did he start throwing low-mid 90s with a slider in the mid-high 80s? he was absolutely unreal filthy yesterday. i've never seen him throw so hard so effortlessly and im impressed he can actually get good break on a high 80s slider... either he's been hitting some hot radar guns or he's got "something" new. he's been absolutely unreal filthy either way. last 8 games...(starting Jun 24, BAL series) 6.2ip 5h 0bb 12k Interesting thought on Cotts and his new I was thinking that about the Cardinals and how all the players they get off trash heaps turn around and have great years or contribute. Which is not a far stretch since LaRussa has had more pharmicists work for him than a CVS in Florida. I am not sure his name has been bantered around much but I have to wonder if Aaron Cook is available? I think that is a name I can get excited about and he would come for a far cheaper price than a high profile answer to Sabathia (Bedard, Burnett)would. As of last week Rockie GM said "Cookie" is untouchable. Brewers get CC, today begin a 4-game home series against the Rockies (who are sporting a 12-31 road record), and just completed a 3 game sweep of the Pirates at home. They have to be feeling pretty good right now. Plus, they have still played six more road games than home, and have the home/away edge vs the Cubs for their remaining series. Thank goodness for their 6-run 9th inning meltdown against the D-Backs. Until Sheets has his annual breakdown, they will be very tough. Hopefully, the Cards will fade along with the Todd Wellemeyer mirage. I also like Aaron Cook (and Sean Lowe) gotta love power sinker pitchers in Wrigley but as long as the DBacks lead the west as a sub .500 team (Rockies are now healthy and only 7 games out), I doubt anyone there (well maybe the Padres) would be sellers. Chris Young (he of the broken nose) anyone? Would DLee have a fit with that one? Don't know when he's due back though. so what kind of draft picks do the Brewers get if CC leaves as a free agent at the end of the year? (the silent added value to this trade) As if they need them. This trade didn't even dent the Brewers' AA farm team much less their system. Huntsville put 10 players on the Southern League mid-season All-Star Team. a first and a supplemental between the first and second, unless the team that signs Sabathia has a top 15 pick, then it would be a supplemental and a second round pick. Sheets is also a FA after this season. Any one think about how many bunts will be laid down between CC and Fielder? And the comedy that will ensue? If they bunted hotdogs, I guarantee CC would get to it first everytime. easy now, Rick Reuschel was graceful as a butterfly... Grounders to Fielder with Sabathia covering first will look like this: (sings)"Pink elephants on parade..." (another Disney ref) • Sign in with Twitter	http://www.thecubreporter.com/comment/11381	dclm-gs1-017230001
0.031351	<urn:uuid:1bc5220d-89a3-474a-89c4-527c6cbf652c>	en	0.972986	No Jack Reacher sequel? How else will Tom Cruise rescue this ridiculous film? It might seem like Mission: Impossible but give Tom Cruise another 15 years and he might make Paramount its money back tom cruise as jack reacher Reacher man … Tom Cruise could bring out the hero's human side. Photograph: Karen Ballard/AP It's a bad day to be a Jack Reacher fan. Admittedly every day is a bad day to be a Jack Reacher fan, filled with endless meek admissions that you're a Jack Reacher fan and half-hearted defences of Tom Cruise's peculiar casting as Jack Reacher – but today is a particularly bad day to be a Jack Reacher fan. You see, it has been reported that there may not ever be a Jack Reacher sequel. 1. Jack Reacher 2. Production year: 2012 3. Countries: Rest of the world, USA 4. Cert (UK): 12A 5. Runtime: 130 mins 6. Directors: Christopher McQuarrie 7. Cast: David Oyelowo, Jai Courtney, James Martin Kelly, Richard Jenkins, Robert Duvall, Rosamund Pike, Tom Cruise, Werner Herzog 8. More on this film This is mainly down to numbers. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Paramount bosses were expecting Jack Reacher to gross $250m globally. But because it wasn't able to hold its own in a crowded Christmas market, the film now faces the unenviable task of having to make $100m in China, Japan and Korea alone. That's unlikely to happen, so Paramount won't hit its target and that'll be the end of Jack Reacher. Now, I'm fully aware that I might be the only person in the entire universe to hold this view, but I think killing Jack Reacher is a dreadful shame. It might not be the best film ever made, but it's one of the most unintentionally silly. What's more, it was designed to be the launchpad for an entire franchise. Surely it should be judged on that criteria. The first film in a franchise is rarely the best. Tom Cruise knows this as well as anyone. Mission: Impossible, for example, wasn't very good. But you know what followed that? Mission: Impossible 2, which was also quite bad. But what followed that? Mission: Impossible 3, which was adequate. However, after that came Mission: Impossible 4, which was very good indeed. Perhaps Paramount should ignore the numbers now and play the long game. Who's to say that 15 years from now, after a succession of misfires and disasters, a 65-year-old Tom Cruise will make Jack Reacher 4 into an enjoyable film that finally manages to meet its studio's financial expectations? All it needs is a decade and a half of patience. However, for that to happen, changes clearly have to be made to the formula. In Jack Reacher, the lead character wasn't nearly well-enough defined. Yes, he was an infallible superintelligent drifter, lusted after by every woman alive and able to defeat every single one of his enemies with one hand tied behind his back – kind of part Batman, part Bourne, part Littlest Hobo, part Robin Askwith from Confessions of a Window Cleaner – but this didn't really make him very accessible to audiences. At no point in Jack Reacher did Tom Cruise do a single thing wrong. Someone had framed a man for murder, so he used his strength and intelligence to solve the case as efficiently as possible, and that was it. He didn't put a foot out of place for the duration of the entire film. He didn't even fall into the easy faux pas of asking Rosamund Pike what the hell her accent was supposed to be. Perhaps, if there's a sequel, we should see the human side to Jack Reacher. Maybe a scene of him being intimidated by the choice of coffees in Starbucks or casually trying to shake yesterday's rolled-up underpants from the leg of his trousers without anyone noticing. Anything, just to make him seem like a person. Or maybe we could go the other way, and make Reacher into the superhero he clearly wants to be. Perhaps the entire film could be about him fist-fighting a billion soldiers while simultaneously reciting pi to 50,000 places, curing cancer, deflecting bullets with the sheer force of his charisma and winking at a bus full of giggling women who are all very obviously young enough to be his daughter. That'd be just as good. But, whatever happens, there has to be a Jack Reacher sequel. Or several Jack Reacher sequels. A film as unintentionally stupid as this can't simply be orphaned. Today's best video Latest reviews	http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/jan/16/jack-reacher-sequel-tom-cruise	dclm-gs1-017280001
0.020225	<urn:uuid:9ef860a9-db8f-49f2-84c6-2c84f16d4405>	en	0.949736	1. Way to dress up for your honoring! 2. Is it racist that the black man was honored by a bus company? 3. Testing….testing…Is this thing on? 4. Why can’t celebrities who are used to speaking into microphones ever figure out that they don’t have to lean down and touch the mic with their mouths. Just stand up and talk, dumbass. 5. So he thought he had to wear the color to get on? 6. “Hey, look at me! I’m Kim Kardashian with a chinese guy!” 7. awkward turtle “So all I have to do to get my credibility back is suck on this thing like it’s a straw? Am I doing it right? You say that Ice Cube AND Ice T both did this? 8. “If no one here recognizes me, ask your grandparents. I have a show on CBS.” 9. John Leave A Comment	http://www.thesuperficial.com/photos/the-crap-we-missed-tuesday-5-14-13/the-crap-we-missed-0514-14-2	dclm-gs1-017350001
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0.130304	<urn:uuid:41b2a060-e125-4eba-b925-61af6b70da09>	en	0.968171	Our TV Shows Got a Tip? Call TMZ at (888) 847-9869 or Click Here Goldman Attorney to O.J.: So Long Sucker! 10/4/2008 3:04 PM PDT BY TMZ STAFF One attorney for the Goldman family is speaking out about O.J. Simpson's 12 guilty verdicts -- and he isn't holding back his dislike for the Juice. David J. Cook tells TMZ, "Finders keepers, losers weepers. Going to that Las Vegas hotel room was a very bad idea. Robbing those two snookes was a worse idea. But going to jail for beating Fred Goldman out of a payment for the wrongful death judgment ... priceless." Cook takes one last dig at O.J. saying, "The road to justice runs from Brentwood and ends in Las Vegas." Ouch. No Avatar The people who are siding with OJ on this thread must have been the jurors in his murder case. 1989 days ago Guilty - at last! This murderer was found not guilty 13 years ago., for many reasons, but not because he didn't do it. We all know that he did. Robert Kardashian went to his grave knowing that his ex-friend committed double homicide. Even his children know that he murdered their mother. But today he WAS found guilty for another crime, and justifiably so. 1989 days ago how is he gonna find the real killer if he is locked up? 1989 days ago OJ couldn't just retire and live his life.. Over and over again, he stayed in the spotlight. First the reality show, book, ect. He brought this on himself. He is a killer who beat the system because of a bitter, racist, hateful L.A. jury. He deserves to die in prison. NOW, can we get over this thug PLEASE!!!!! 1989 days ago He's finally getting his, and I couldn't be happier for Nicole and Ron's families!!!!!!! Karma is definitely a bitch! 1989 days ago Mr. Absolutely, Hansel and to the rest of you morons... I have had a child, family member, killed in cold blood by gang members. Just so those freaks could get jumped into a gang. They are spending the rest of their lives in prison without parole. So STFU and lick the soles of my shoes...FREAKS. 1989 days ago Mr. A The most incriminating piece of evidence found in the murder trial, was NEVER used against OJ! Amongst his items found on him, after the White Bronco chase, was a little tiny receipt for the fake mustache, adhesive and remover he had on him, along with the gun and the passport and the travelers checks in his possession. Why was this receipt so incriminating? Because the date of PURCHASE was not prior to his running away in the Bronco, but prior to even the murders, by like a week or so. Why would OJ feel the need to purchase a disguise before even the actual MURDERS?? The brilliant prosecution left it out because it was found after the Bronco chase, and the Bronco chase lent itself to feelings of sympathy for OJ as though he was running in desperation and despair instead of GUILT. Idiots! Anybody that would still think OJ innocent are idiots as well. This conviction doesn't hardly undo the unjustice of the first debacle, but I guess it's KARMA at it's finest...however LATE it came to be. 1989 days ago Hey Goldman!! You got your blood money from the book sales!! (Saw it recently in the 75~95% off book bin) And face it your kid would have failed in his business venture within 6 months HAD he lived! So get off your high horse!! Your 15 minutes of fame ENDED 13 yrs AGO!!! 1989 days ago 1989 days ago Finally - JUSTICE. Don't worry about his kids - they know in their hearts he killed their mother... they've kept silent on the matter because he cut them off from Nicole's mom and dad and aunts Tanya and Denise... Karma's a B!TCH. 1989 days ago I am glad he will be behind bars for a long itme. he should die in jail. for what he did this time and 13 yrs ago. bye bye oj you ass 1989 days ago Johnny D That racist jury 13 years ago was no different than the kangaroo courts of the deep south 50 years ago. Their ignorance was an embarrassment to the black race. Johnny Cochran got his due and now OJ gets his. It doesn't happen enough but finally what goes around comes around. I hope that bastard rots in hell. 1989 days ago tmz is the pits Greta, get back on the "little bus". Your comments are showing how stupid a person can be. I am black, and you're a prime example of how ignorant the general public is. OJ was found "not guilty" 13 years ago because of the incompetence of the D.A. and the other prosecutors. NOT because he was innocent. Anyone with half a brain knows that he did what he was accused of. HE didn't win ,his lawyers did. In his latest incident of arrogance the prosecutors did their job by proving beyond a reasonable doubt that he was guilty of the crimes he was arrested for. "BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT" 1989 days ago I didn't follow this trial but from what I know about it, he certainly looked guilty. 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0.051928	<urn:uuid:35fd9209-9baf-4a04-9e02-3e4e0b28d1eb>	en	0.938562	Our TV Shows Got a Tip? Call TMZ at (888) 847-9869 or Click Here Kanye and Kim Avoid LAX Fly San Fran to Paris 9/27/2013 4:30 PM PDT BY TMZ STAFF Kanye West and Kim Kardashian just arrived at San Francisco International Airport, en route to Paris ... and they did exactly what we said they would do ... avoid the paparazzi at LAX. Kim and Kanye took off from the Van Nuys Airport a few hours ago and landed at SFO. They're transferring to a commercial flight that will take them nonstop to Paris. As we first reported, Kanye has been advised by his reps NOT to fly out of LAX, because they don't want another confrontation with photogs while his criminal battery case is pending. Problem is ... the reps didn't bank on photogs showing up at his house early this AM ... resulting in yet another confrontation. The paparrazzi at SFO -- not ours -- also shot video of Kanye and Kim, and much like this morning ... they're clearly getting under Kanye's skin. Also, note to all paps -- if nothing else, pronounce the guy's name right. It's KAHN-YAY. No Avatar Doesn't she own a clothing store or something??? How come her coat doesn't fit her? At least should have shortened the sleeves if she bought that from off season odd sizes left over. 170 days ago Can't they afford their own plane? 170 days ago Poop Sandwich Firstly, where is their child? You know, the little human that you are supposed to be responsible for for the rest of your life and isn't an accessory that you can put away until the next time it's in fashion? Secondly, Kanye has got to be the biggest douche for not even helping the mother of his child roll her bag. Word. 170 days ago Where's the baby? You fly to Paris and your baby isn't with you? 170 days ago Hey Kanye - No matter how hard you try, you're never going to be Jay-Z and no amount of blonde hair and cosmetic surgery is going to make your baby momma Beyonce. 170 days ago Did they Fly Northwest Air, and do they now get a discount on that Airline? 170 days ago Nun ja biz I get having time together for a night out for dinner, but leaving the country without your baby....ridiculous! 170 days ago Lmao.... He's walking with one hand in his pocket and holding a phone with the other one... Meanwhile Kim schlepping her own luggage... And why is she dressed for the winter? 170 days ago I hope Kim has all of Kanyes things in that bag. Like his bottle, his blankie and his big boy pull up pants. 170 days ago They're transferring to a Commercial Flight that will take them nonstop to Paris........................SO NO PRIVATE PLANE?, I THOUGHT THEY WERE VERY RICH 170 days ago This should actually read "Konyeah and his Reps should have anticipated KIM calling the paps to have them at Konyeah "bachelor pad" at 4am so they could see her". The ENTIRE pap thing was STAGED. Kim or Kris kalled the paps so they knew where to be at 4am. Why didn't Konyeah and Kim take a KAR service to the airport? OR do like other celebs...take separate cars from separate addresses to a meeting spot. 170 days ago Diamond Goddess! KK needs to go back to black hair, IMHO. That blonde color is ridonc on her. 170 days ago HEY TMZ, you reported that Konyeah used to fly PRIVATE from Paris to LA to be with he baby momma when she had Doctor appts. Why aren't they flying private NOW? AND WHERE BE BABY NORF? I thought Konyeah kouldnt leave her? I thought Kim was enjoying time with her? YET SHE's nowhere to be seen. 170 days ago It's a tough life being super wealthy give them space so they can run around the planet and buy stuff. 170 days ago Did they forget someone? 170 days ago Around The Web	http://www.tmz.com/2013/09/27/kim-kardashian-and-kanye-west-paris-fly-san-francisco-lax-paparazzi/2/	dclm-gs1-017400001
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0.104208	<urn:uuid:6fdeacc2-8fa4-4f7a-896d-d42bcfd72812>	en	0.965396	There's some mutual love going on between President Obama and George W. Bush on the subject of immigration — at least between their social media teams. The White House showed its gratitude Thursday for Bush's embrace of rewriting immigration laws and why such an overhaul is important to the economy with a new video posted via Twitter. The Obama White House noted it was thanking the Bush Center for its motion graphic on the same subject. Bush's new media gurus responded on Twitter, proclaiming that it's good people are talking about the "connection" between immigration and economic growth.	http://www.usatoday.com/story/onpolitics/2013/07/11/obama-bush-immigration-twitter-videos/2510293/	dclm-gs1-017510001
0.021976	<urn:uuid:bc78ce49-e8ad-452c-99b2-45b8d78efeba>	en	0.932367	Bring your binoculars to Riverdale Riverdale Park is known for its spectacular views of the Hudson River and the Palisades, but it's also a haven for birds, with at least 27 species confirmed breeding there. See how many you can spot today on the Birding and Riverwalk Hike, organized by the Urban Park Rangers. A geological wonder, the 50-acre park sits on the oldest rock formation in New York, the billion-year-old Fordham metamorphic rock, which is topped by Inwood marble. Also, look for the oak trees—at least five varieties thrive here—and the southernmost parts of the park are still the same type of forest that existed pre-colonial, including 110-feet tulip trees. With the weather turning in our favor, this is a glorious opportunity for exercise and bird watching—if you have binoculars, don't forget them. Sat., March 12, 1 p.m., 2011 My Voice Nation Help	http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-03-02/voice-choices/bird-s-eye-view/	dclm-gs1-017580001
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0.023329	<urn:uuid:7864fb61-76b0-4fa9-8856-a6107b4e7a9a>	en	0.88726	Quest:Kalynna's Request 100,028pages on this wiki Revision as of 23:08, July 7, 2010 by WoWWiki-Skyfire (Talk \| contribs) Neutral 32 Kalynna's Request StartKalynna Lathred EndKalynna Lathred Level70 (Requires 70) Reputation+250 reputation with The Violet Eye Rewards7Gold 59Silver PreviousNeutral 15 [70] A Colleague's Aid NextNeutral 15 [70] Nightbane See Nightbane quest chain for a summary of this quest chain. Objectives Edit Kalynna Lathred wants you to retrieve the [Tome of Dusk] from Grand Warlock Nethekurse in the Shattered Halls of Hellfire Citadel and the [Book of Forgotten Names] from Darkweaver Syth in the Sethekk Halls in Auchindoun. This quest must be completed in Heroic difficulty. You will need: Quest Text Edit I left the Kirin Tor in pursuit of knowledge forbidden by those of my order; it is beyond ironic that I am now asked to assist them with that very same knowledge. If I'm to perform this favor for you, you will have to do something for me first. I want you to obtain two of the tomes I've been searching for. The first one is called the [Tome of Dusk] and is owned by the orc warlock known as Nethekurse. The second, known as the [Book of Forgotten Names], belongs to the arakkoa known as Darkweaver Syth. Progress Edit Have you obtained the tomes I seek, <name>? Completion Edit Excellent, <name>. I've been trying to attempt these books for a very long time. It is fortunate that we were able to be of mutual assistance. Rewards Edit Quest progression Edit This is part of the Nightbane quest chain: 1. Neutral 15 [70] Medivh's Journal 2. Neutral 15 [70] In Good Hands 3. Neutral 15 [70] Kamsis 4. Neutral 15 [70] The Shade of Aran 5. Neutral 15 [70] The Master's Terrace 6. Neutral 15 [70] Digging Up the Past 7. Neutral 15 [70] A Colleague's Aid 8. Neutral 15 [70] Kalynna's Request 9. Neutral 15 [70] Nightbane External linksEdit Advertisement \| Your ad here Around Wikia's network Random Wiki	http://www.wowwiki.com/Quest:Kalynna's_Request?oldid=2316168	dclm-gs1-017680001
0.094817	<urn:uuid:685caa8f-2ded-4de2-838b-b01f7e01aaf1>	en	0.957346	NPR News The golden arches... Multiple economists have studied the fast-food industry to answer the question. They've found very different answers. Former NBA star Yao Ming is very famous in China, and he's using his fame on behalf of conservation issues. Now a member of China's parliament, Yao is calling for a ban on the sale of ivory in China. Lawmakers in Crimea have scheduled a referendum on whether to unite with Russia. Meanwhile, Russian legislators are considering two bills to streamline the process for Crimea to become part of Russia. There are more than 83,000 people classified as Missing in Action and Prison... The agency charged with bringing home and identifying American war dead is slow, inefficient and stymied by outdated methods, according to a joint investigation by NPR and ProPublica.	http://www.wskg.org/npr/getting-gig-life-career-poet?page=33	dclm-gs1-017700001
0.256533	<urn:uuid:d3f8a307-cea9-4494-bf50-40b698fc2cbe>	en	0.95425	Do you really need antivirus software? \| ZDNet Do you really need antivirus software? Do you need antivirus software on your PC? If you're not sure of the answer to that question, then the short answer is yes. The longer answer is that security software is only one piece of what should be a simple, straightforward, and systematic approach to your PC's health. I'll outline my recommendations in this post. If you're visiting the family over the holidays, you might want to take my list along with you. But first, let me rant a bit. It's no secret that I dislike the security software industry. In one of my very first posts here, nearly four years ago, I called it a "protection racket" and said, "I can already see the beginnings of an 'arms war' among security software companies, with ads and whisper campaigns based on fear." Back in 2005, I wrote a post arguing, "The security software industry wants you to be afraid." I have deeply mixed feelings about antivirus software, especially when it's part of a big security suite that tries to protect you from every imaginable form of online threat. The companies that sell you that software have an interest in keeping you afraid, and so they publish countless studies proving how dangerous the online world is. They also have a vested interest in proving that you haven't wasted your subscription dollars on their product, so they need to occasionally (or continually) pop up messages and alerts and reminders to show you exactly which threats they've blocked. Even when those "threats" are trivial or nonexistent. So how do you protect your PC online? Page 2: My 7-point security regimen --> <-- Previous page 6. Use a modern browser. If you're still using Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6, stop it. I think IE8 is a good alternative, especially when coupled with Protected Mode (a security feature in Windows Vista and Windows 7). If you prefer to avoid IE altogether, that's fine with me. As I argued earlier this year, "[T]here are several good reasons to prefer alternative browsers such as Firefox or Google Chrome to any version of Internet Explorer. For starters, both Mozilla and Google have generally been faster at releasing updates to security issues than Microsoft." 7. Install an antivirus program and keep it up to date. There are plenty of effective programs in this category that can run with a minimum of chatter and will block the overwhelming majority of threats. I recommend the free Microsoft Security Essentials, which is available for download or as an optional update on systems where Windows does not detect an antivirus program. If you prefer an alternative program, paid or otherwise, be my guest. Just don't let its subscription lapse. And one final word: Don't be paranoid. Common sense and the good practices I outlined above will offer excellent protection for any consumer PC and leave you free to work and play in comfort. Topics: Windows, Hardware, Malware, Operating Systems, Security, Software Log in or register to join the discussion • RE: Do you really need antivirus software? Personally I consider antivirus software to be more of a safety net - IMHO using common sense is the best deterrent to getting any sort of virus. I'm good about keeping things up to date and I tend to leave the pirated stuff and porn alone and to me that is simply common sense as is having antivirus, ad blockers, and flash blockers installed. • I agree, it is a safety net AV isn't a security tool. If your AV catches anything, it means your security has FAILED, just like falling off a high wire means your training has FAILED. In both cases, it is nice to have something that might catch you. • RE: Do you really need antivirus software? @NonZealot Not necessarily. If you stumble across malware on a normally good website and AV catches you trying to download something bad, then which security measure has failed? No security measure I know of other than AV prevents you from downloading malware. "just like falling off a high wire means your training has FAILED." Umm, no. Ask anybody who's done the high wire, they're human, stuff happens. There's a safety net underneath them for a reason. • Not a security tool? @NonZealot <br><br>I'm not sure what you are defining as security, but from what I know, security occurs prior to and subsequent to a possible breach, if necessary. Security guards don't just say: "Dang. Well, the crook got in already. Nothing to do now." But they try to find the culprit even after entry.<br><br>Then they work to prevent the same and more in the future. • Way to show your ignorance. @NonZealot... Many AV program will catch a known threat before it even enters your system, as many monitor active browser sessions. On my home machines, I very rarely get a notification, of course I do have predictable browsing habits, coupled with using Chrome or FF with extensions that block flash based ads, IE fails in this regard. I am also smart enough to know that if a video prompts me to update my flash player, to go directly to adobe for the update, if it still tries to get me to update, I know the video is phony and is only there to try to get people to voluntarily hijack their computer. For my security at home, I am using Microsoft Security Essentials and Windows Firewall. Seems to do a fair enough job, and not at the expense of system resources. Windows of course is set to update itself, which includes IE, MSE, and all of Microsofts Software. Chrome does a nice job of updating everything it needs including the flash player. Adobe does a good job of notifying me on the updates it needs. • RE: Do you really need antivirus software? You can't be serious. You're trying to tell us that you have the ability - through nothing more than using "best practices" - to eliminate the threat of malicious code and other exploits? You're nuts. • RE: Do you really need antivirus software? @NonZealot , up the ante, use OPENDNS and siteadvisor, so that you cannot even browse to most dodgy sites. Suprised that this is not even one of the 7 steps, seems very worthwhile to me. • failed @Zealot ((( "If your AV catches anything, it means your security has FAILED..." ))) It also means you aren't running OS X. • RE: Do you really need antivirus software? @athynz honestly, I don't even think of it as a safety-net. I am speaking from an enterprise POV. The worst bad-ware is the newest - the stuff that none of the security firms have figured out or even heard of (not just zero-day, but new ways to exploit old weaknesses). And it basically boils down to bad habits. Bringing USB flash drives from home. Believing you'll get a free Xbox by clicking a link. Believing that your enterprise computer is unprotected from viruses. Or trying to update your Flash just because a website says you're out-of-date. People do this to themselves, and then get angry at me (us) when they have a virus. Security firms live off this fear, not off effectiveness (by and large). My company is moving to managed desktops, just to be sure that patches are implemented, and they will be locking out USB flash drives soon. But honestly, there is no way to protect most people, short of disallowing the internet OR teaching everyone in the world how to use common sense in avoiding viruses. Neither of these options is very practical. My daughter, bless her heart, has a talent for finding the newest exploits and installing them. Makes me very thankful for home servers. • The worst is... The one(s) that gets through. Presuming these will be the newest is base naivety. • The Newest Are More Likely What you're saying isn't really at odds with what WookieFan is saying. He is just pointing out that the same ones you'll be protected from by keeping up-to-date are the ones that anti-virus will catch. The newest ones won't get caught by anti-virus. It's not that old ones can't get through. It's just that the odds are better that new ones will. Of course, if you're willing to download and install malware yourself, then it won't matter much how old it is. • RE: Do you really need antivirus software? @WookieFan I understand where you are coming from - fortunately I support a very small user base as a side for my own job and really it's more like residential use as we do not have an enterprise system (very small office) so usually by the time something comes down the pike for us most AV software companies have figured how to block it... and fortunately for me the users have common sense which makes my job much easier than most... :-) • knowledge gap Its a shame Ed earns money by spouting about things he is clearly clueless about. Where he does know stuff it seems to make sense but security is not his strong suit.<br><br>While claiming to distrust antivirus companies he then re-iterates some of the popular misconceptions they try hard to perpetuate. Perhaps his experiments with using a Mac platform might open his eyes to some truths.<br><br>While Windows dominates on the desktop it cannot make any headway in Server Markets because it is inherently unsafe and unstable as keeps being proven. While it is fine to have to reboot a desktop once a day or more this is not ok for servers. Linux and other unix-based platforms are used on servers precisely because they are inherently safer and more robust than Windows systems.<br><br>If you were a virus writer do you think you would want the fame and kudos of writing something that just infected a few desktops or would bringing down massive servers and crippling the entire internet be more enticing? Yet we almost never hear about large chunks of the internet being brought down by anything, not viruses, not other malware. We sometimes hear of a couple of machines suffering under large-scale concentrated and highly skilful attacks but these are usually dealt with quite fast. Faster than getting rid of malware on a few desktop machines.<br><br>So, if all Operating Systems are equally vulnerable, then why don't we hear of servers going down, why do we only hear of desktops getting crippled? Think about it.<br>Regards from<br>Tom <img border="0" src="http://www.cnet.com/i/mb/emoticons/happy.gif" alt="happy"> • RE: Do you really need antivirus software? @Tom6: <i>"So, if all Operating Systems are equally vulnerable, then why don't we hear of servers going down, why do we only hear of desktops getting crippled? Think about it."</i> Because desktops are mostly maintained by kids and granny's and by non-tech savvy types, while servers are mostly maintained by IT professionals/admins who are at risk of losing there job if they fail securing their servers. So logically, a desktop secured by a non-tech savvy type is more vulnerable than a server being maintained by Professional IT admins. • RE: Do you really need antivirus software? Why do you have to be insulting? Ok, so here it is. Servers are not at as much at risk because: 1. They are usually behind a very restricted firewall, unless they are a webserver. Even then, every port besides 80 and 443 are locked down. Other ports that might use webservices are only allowed access to a certain range of IP addresses. 2. Installation of programs are planned, and the applications that are installed are well vetted. 3. Access to install programs on servers is very limited. What are you talking about? This shows Windows Servers at about 73.9% of server share in terms of dollars. Now the Linux guys will say, "That's because Linux is free". Noted. But you're saying that Windows hasn't gained any traction in the server market? Give me break. • RE: Do you really need antivirus software? @Tom6<br>Servers generally have more capable administrators than the home computer. Even if that were not strictly the case, for the administrators security is the job and why they get paid. For the home user being an administrator is friction and cost.<br><br>Servers are also passive. They don't decide to download a poisoned cat video because a Facebook friend linked it.<br><br>They are also isolated and have minimized the threat posed by physical access.<br><br>I guess you are bristling that Windows gets some sort of pass for security issues because of its popularity. Or that Linux and OS X are given back-handed compliments. (Yeah, no one's breaking in, but that's because no one uses them.)<br><br>Stop it. Doesn't matter. Operating systems are a lower layer to the real functionality, as manifest by the applications we use. Security is a cost and is offset manifold by the benefits of the entire stack we use. Problem appears? Patch it please, because wiping the machine and using Linux, re-training our workers, re-sourcing our applications, performing ports, etc., while doable, is not how we want to utilize our resources.<br><br>All the modern operating systems are better than their predecessors five years back. They will be better still in the future, though not as rapidly, because "security" is an asymptote.<br><br>And the real weak spots are higher up in the stack, in the software, and vulnerability will still exist via the inescapable vector of a user connecting with a strange computer somewhere out there. • Security People that are serious about running secure, robust systems (such as people running large-scale servers) use linux or other unix-based systems. Well over 60% of the top 500 supercomputers run on linux.<br><br>People that want to make a fuss and don't mind suffering a bit when it goes wrong run Windows. Less than 1% of the worlds top 500 supercomputers run WIndows. Why?<br><br>Why is it only Windows desktops that get taken down so often by security issues? Surely malware writers would be more interested in taking down vast chunks of the internet rather than just a few old desktops?<br><br>Yes, with Windows you need to take Ed's advice but with linux most of this sort of stuff is built-in. For example updating the system and then separately going through each app and driver to update them separately is insane. Linux updates everything in one go and also does that more politely. <br><br>With linux you don't have to block people from making use of the machine in order to keep them safe. Users can often install programs themselves without having to call for some SuperUser Administrator to do it for them. Since programs are NOT run as Root/SuperUser/Administrator in linux the system remains safe. It is possible (easily) to totally lock-down a system so certain users can do almost nothing but unlike Windows there are many intermediate steps which can give certain users access to certain devices and systems but not others and this can be easily set-up on a per-user basis. <br><br>There is a story about a doctor performing something fairly crucial by remote where Windows suddenly decided it's updates were more important and then forced a reboot despite being told not to. Linux doesn't automatically assume it is more important than the tasks the user is doing. It lets you know that a reboot is required to bring the updates online and then sits back allowing you to choose when YOU want to reboot. So, if you are stuck in the middle of brain surgery (it wasn't brain surgery in the recent story) you wouldn't have to wait 15mins for the machine to sort itself out.<br>Regards from<br>Tom <img border="0" src="http://www.cnet.com/i/mb/emoticons/happy.gif" alt="happy"> • As been said tens of thousands of times: Market Share. @Tom6: [i]Why is it only Windows desktops that get taken down so often by security issues?[/i] You're welcome. [i]Since programs are NOT run as Root/SuperUser/Administrator in linux the system remains safe.[/i] They are if you're running them as Root/SuperUser/Administrator. [i]There is a story about a doctor performing something fairly crucial by remote where Windows suddenly decided it's updates were more important and then forced a reboot despite being told not to.[/i] The only existence of this story is right here in your post. I was unable to find a reference otherwise. Perhaps you can provide a reference? Like it or not Linux and Windows are very similar in their security design. • Closer Than They Used to Be @ye<br>The market share myth has been disproved in a few different cases. For example, Apache grew to a much greater market share than Microsoft IIS. However, even after this happened, IIS still had many more worms running rampant across the Internet. Another example: Sendmail has taken a lot of abuse among Unix/Linux administrators for it's many security exploits. However, the last I looked, Sendmail, the security embarrassment of the Unix community, still had fewer exploits than Exchange, though it's been around longer.<br><br>Recently, in general, Windows has gotten a lot more secure than it used to be. It's much more like Unix and Linux than it was. However, there are still a couple of legacy issues that Windows has to deal with which damage its security model.<br><br>One issue is that it's still much more convenient to run Windows with administrative privileges always available than it is to run it as a regular user and switch to administrator only for certain tasks. Part of the issue here is not just with Microsoft, but with the expectations of third party software vendors when it comes to how their programs will run on Windows.<br><br>A second nagging issue with Windows is that it depends upon the file extension rather than a file property to tell whether a file is executable or not. Microsoft has put safeguards into Internet Explorer and Outlook and Exchange recently to warn users about this issue when they download an executable file (a file with a .exe, .com, or .scr extension). Basically, there is only so much that they can do about this issue because of the weight of all the legacy software out there. This is something so basic about the way the operating system works that it makes it difficult to change.<br><br>Of course Windows' improved security has led to the focus of malware authors switching a lot to phishing attacks, since they depend on breaching the user's safeguards rather than the system's safeguards. Focus has also switched somewhat to third party avenues to breach security like Java, Flash, and even PDF reader exploits.<br><br>Edit: Incidentally, I had meant to mention that phishing exploits really do scale with market share. So to some extent, as more malware becomes dependent on social engineering to be installed, the market share myth gains more credibility. Edit: Fixed typo. • RE: Do you really need antivirus software? Pretty fair critizism of Windows OS. I wish Microsoft could use file properties instead of file extensions to determine whether the file is executable. I'm not sure what the impact would be for backwards compatability.	http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/do-you-really-need-antivirus-software/2685	dclm-gs1-017750001
0.03933	<urn:uuid:fe559013-c5dc-4641-a190-05f3b6bfc80b>	en	0.962174	John Malone's Liberty Media bid for Barnes & Noble was a smart move \| ZDNet Summary: Liberty Media Corp. recently revealed its surprising bid for Barnes & Noble. Following the announcement of a new Nook on the way, it looks as though this move was the right one. Liberty's plan consists of an offer to buy up 70% of B&N at a rate of $17 per share, valuing the bookseller at $1.02 billion. It's not too hard to guess why Liberty Media would be interested picking up a bookstore company. Tablets are all the rage these days, but only one (which is technically still advertised as an e-reader) stands out among the Android-based offerings: the Nook Color. According to The Wall Street Journal, the motivation behind the proposal is that Liberty Media execs are betting on the success of B&N's e-book reader collection of devices: Liberty Media Chairman John Malone and chief executive Greg Maffei told investors Monday that the potential for the Nook platform to become the e-book application of choice for consumers on all tablet devices built on Google Inc.'s Android operating system helped motivate the company's bid for the ailing bookstore chain. Additionally, Liberty Media execs are hoping to gain popularity with publishers who might not want Amazon and its Kindle to get too big and dominating. Furthermore, maybe retail bookstores aren't such a bad idea: As for the potential of the Nook software business for selling e-books, Malone compared it to Gillette's success in selling razors, but he noted the business could be scaled across any Android device without being limited to those made by any one company. That said, he stressed his belief that the financial woes of its chief retail competitor, combined with its strong brand and store presence, will give the company's physical stores an enduring role. Although, eventually these will likely be scaled down in number as eBookstores continue to grow. If only Borders execs had thought that far ahead. But that's another story. Going back to Tuesday's introduction of a new Nook, it reinforces how far Barnes & Noble is ahead of the competition in terms of the diversity and evolution of its digital reader catalog. Although the original Nook Wi-Fi/3G will soon be obsolete once stock has depleted, it still has the 7-inch Nook Color and now a new model with a more compact form factor. Comparatively, Amazon's latest-generation Kindle Wi-Fi also retails for $139 with a 6-inch e-Ink Pearl display. The new Nook sports the same screen size with touch capabilities, but again, is smaller and runs faster. It's hard to tell whether or not this Nook will do better than the Kindle 3 or not (especially considering reps for both of these companies only affirm that sales have been satisfactory and in the "millions), but at least B&N is continuing to step up the e-reader game when a little over a year ago it seemed Amazon might have won hands down. Even though Amazon is likely going to unveil a tablet later this year, it's going to need to be competitive with pricing and specs to match the Nook Color, which has turned out to be one of the most popular e-book readers and tablets currently on the market. Nevertheless, B&N hasn't won the battle yet. Overall, the company needs a serious boost and Liberty Media could be the trick. If B&N's success with the Nook brand continues, then Liberty Media picked the right company to back. Related coverage on ZDNet: Topics: Tablets, Amazon, Android, Mobile OS Log in or register to join the discussion • RE: John Malone's Liberty Media bid for Barnes & Noble was a smart move There's an interesting bit of market evolution going on around the whole topic of "what we read/view and how we read/view it". I'll use myself as an example: With the internet providing dynamic information much more cleanly, easily and cheaply than print periodicals can, I've all but completely abandoned use of paper periodicals. I see no point in paying for a slower, messier, tree dependent way of gathering dynamic information. And since the world of magazines never learned NOT to split gorgeous images over a page crack, the potential benefit of large format magazines for image presentation is nearly entirely lost. I've been a user of ebooks and audio books for quite a few years, and I enjoy them very much ... but I have not lost my taste for paper books or stores in which I can look at said books and decide whether or not I want to buy a copy. As handy and affordable as e-books are, they do not provide the same overall experience as paper books, simply because they are a) not paper and b) can not be consumed in the wide range of physical sizes that paper books can. I can put books of many different sizes in one book shelf, but I can't sit under a shade tree with a HUGE e-book reader to enjoy my favorite large format art, photography and coffee table books. E-readers are wonderful, but they can't fulfill the full range of desired reading/viewing experiences, and so books continue to flourish. I agree with that camp which sees ebook readers as a welcome addition to the world of reading, but does not see them fully replacing print books any time soon, any more than computer art software has replaced the oldest media in the known art world ... charcoal. You can STILL buy it at the local art store, because it provides a different sensory experience than something created on and consumed by an electronic device. Humans are sensory and emotional beings as well as intellectual entities. We enjoy having different kinds of physical and emotional experiences as we consume information, and thus we enjoy some degree of variation in the means through which we experience various media. When the difference matters to us, we're willing to pay extra for that experience. When it doesn't, we aren't. As long as books provide an enjoyable additional way of experiencing some forms of text and image media, they will persist, as will stores in which we can review them before buying. I haven't jumped on the e-reader bandwagon yet because I don't want to dedicate myself to any provider or platform but im starting to feel the itch to make my next book an e-book. Problem is, it needs to be compatible with my Windows Phone 7 device and Amazon does provide an app but I still have a membership with B&N because I really like going to stores to check out books im interested in. Could be, and I am all for anything that will keep them going. We love going to B&N to browse books and relax. Considering buying a Nook, too. • Great if you live in the US All this hype about the Nook and B&N, but if you live in Australia the Nook is not available, nor has B&N the rights to sell books here. Australia may be a small market compared to the US but the Kindle has made good inroads here as there is nothing else worthwhile to compare. Plus the majority of books on Amazon are also available here. What about the UK and other English speaking parts of the world? Amazon is the only worthwhile supplier. For Liberty to really make their money work they need to add the rest of the world to their plans. There is a world outside the US.	http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/john-malones-liberty-media-bid-for-barnes-and-noble-was-a-smart-move/49237	dclm-gs1-017760001
0.023012	<urn:uuid:f52ddc29-0b53-4c3e-960b-20296cc8be87>	en	0.909098	Designer drug From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Designer drug is an informal term for psychoactive drugs that were initially discovered through the research of, or experimentation upon, or with respect to, the structure and activity of existing drugs. The development of new psychoactive drugs is a subfield of drug design. In most instances of designer drug discovery, the exploration of small modifications to known active drugs—such as their structural analogues, stereoisomers, and derivatives—yields drugs that may differ greatly in effects from their “basis” drug (e.g. showing increased potency, or decreased side effects).[1] In some instances, designer drugs have similar subjective effects to other drugs, but have completely dissimilar chemical structures. In some jurisdictions, drugs that are highly similar in structure to a prohibited drug are illegal to trade regardless of that drug's legal status. In other jurisdictions, their trade is a legal grey area, making them grey market goods. Some jurisdictions may have analogue laws which ban drugs similar in chemical structure to other prohibited drugs, while some designer drugs may be prohibited irrespective of the legal status of structurally similar drugs; in both cases, their trade may take place on the black market. United States[edit] Following the passage of the second International Opium Convention in 1925, which specifically banned morphine, the diacetyl ester of morphine, heroin, and a number of alternative esters of morphine quickly started to be manufactured and sold. The most notable of these were dibenzoylmorphine and acetylpropionylmorphine, which have virtually identical effects to heroin but were not covered by the Opium Convention. This then led the Health Committee of the League of Nations to pass several resolutions attempting to bring these new drugs under control, ultimately leading in 1930 to the first broad analogues provisions extending legal control to all esters of morphine, oxycodone, and hydromorphone.[2] Another early example of what could loosely be termed designer drug use, was during the Prohibition era in the 1930s, when diethyl ether was sold and used as an alternative to illegal alcoholic beverages in a number of countries.[3] During the 1960s and 1970s, a number of new synthetic hallucinogens were introduced, with a notable example being the sale of highly potent tablets of DOM in San Francisco in 1967.[4] There was little scope to prosecute people over drug analogues at this time, with new compounds instead being added to the controlled drug schedules one by one as they became a problem, but one significant court case from this period was in 1973, when Tim Scully and Nicholas Sand were prosecuted for making the acetyl amide of LSD, known as ALD-52. At this time ALD-52 was not a controlled drug, but they were convicted on the grounds that in order to make ALD-52, they would have had to be in possession of LSD, which was illegal. The late 1970s also saw the introduction of various analogues of phencyclidine (PCP) to the illicit market. 1980s-early 1990s[edit] The modern use of the term designer drug was coined in the 1980s to refer to various synthetic opioid drugs, based mostly on the fentanyl molecule (such as α-methylfentanyl).[5] The term gained widespread popularity when MDMA (ecstasy) experienced a popularity boom in the mid-1980s. When the term was coined in the 1980s, a wide range of narcotics were being sold as heroin on the black market. Many were based on fentanyl or meperidine. One, MPPP, was found in some cases to contain an impurity called MPTP, which caused brain damage that could result in a syndrome identical to full-blown Parkinson's disease, from only a single dose.[6] Other problems were highly potent fentanyl analogues, which were sold as China White, that caused many accidental overdoses.[7] Because the government was powerless to prosecute people for these drugs until after they had been marketed successfully, laws were passed to give the DEA power to emergency schedule chemicals for a year, with an optional 6-month extension, while gathering evidence to justify permanent scheduling, as well as the analogue laws mentioned previously. Emergency-scheduling power was used for the first time for MDMA. In this case, the DEA scheduled MDMA as a Schedule I drug and retained this classification after review, even though their own judge ruled that MDMA should be classified Schedule III on the basis of its demonstrated uses in medicine.[8] The emergency scheduling power has subsequently been used for a variety of other drugs including 2C-B, AMT, and BZP. In 2004, a piperazine drug, TFMPP, became the first drug that had been emergency-scheduled to be denied permanent scheduling and revert to legal status. The late 1980s and early 1990s also saw the re-emergence of methamphetamine in the United States as a widespread public health issue, leading to increasing controls on precursor chemicals in an attempt to cut down on domestic manufacture of the drug. This led to several alternative stimulant drugs emerging, the most notable ones being methcathinone and 4-methylaminorex, but, despite attracting enough attention from authorities to provoke legal scheduling of these compounds, their distribution was relatively limited in extent and methamphetamine continued to dominate the illicit synthetic stimulant market overall.[9] Late 1990s-2004[edit] In the late 1990s and early 2000s, there was a huge explosion in designer drugs being sold over the internet.[10][11][12] The term and concept of "research chemicals" was coined by some marketers of designer drugs (in particular, of psychedelic drugs in the tryptamine and phenethylamine family). The idea was that, by selling the chemicals as for "scientific research" rather than human consumption, the intent clause of the U.S. analogue drug laws would be avoided. Nonetheless, the DEA raided multiple suppliers, first JLF Primary Materials, and then multiple vendors (such as RAC Research) several years later in Operation Web Tryp. This process was accelerated greatly when vendors began advertising via search engines like Google by linking their sites to searches on key words such as chemical names and terms like psychedelic or hallucinogen. Widespread discussion of consumptive use and the sources for the chemicals in public forums also drew the attention of the media and authorities. In 2004, the US Drug Enforcement Administration raided and shut down several Internet-based research chemical vendors in an operation called Web Tryp. With help from the authorities in India and China, two chemical manufacturers were also closed. Many other internet-based vendors promptly stopped doing business, even though their products were still legal throughout much of the world. Most substances that were sold as "research chemicals" in this period of time are hallucinogens and bear a chemical resemblance to drugs such as psilocybin and mescaline. As with other hallucinogens, these substances are often taken for the purposes of facilitating spiritual processes, mental reflection or recreation. Some research chemicals on the market were not psychoactive, but can be used as precursors in the synthesis of other potentially psychoactive substances, for example, 2C-H, which could be used to make 2C-B and 2C-I among others. Extensive surveys of structural variations have been conducted by pharmaceutical corporations, universities and independent researchers over the last century, from which some of the presently available research chemicals derive. One particularly notable researcher is Dr. Alexander Shulgin, who presented syntheses and pharmacological explorations of hundreds of substances in the books TiHKAL and PiHKAL (co-authored with Ann Shulgin), and has served as an expert witness for the defense in several court cases against manufacturers of psychoactive drugs. The majority of chemical suppliers sold research chemicals in bulk form as powder, not as pills, as selling in pill form would invalidate the claims that they were being sold for non-consumptive research. Active dosages vary widely from substance to substance, ranging from micrograms to hundreds of milligrams, but while it is critical for the end user to weigh doses with a precision scale, instead of guessing ("eyeballing"), many users did not do this and this led to many emergency room visits and several deaths, which were a prominent factor leading to the emergency scheduling of several substances and eventually Operation Web Tryp. Some compounds such as 2C-B and 5-Meo-DiPT did eventually increase in popularity to the point that they were sold in pill form to reach a wider market, and acquired popular street names ("Nexus" and "Foxy," respectively). Once a chemical reaches this kind of popularity, it is usually just a matter of time before it is added to the list of scheduled (i.e., illegal) drugs. The late 1990s and early 2000s also saw the first widespread use of novel anabolic steroids by athletes in competition. Steroids had been banned by the International Olympic Committee since 1976, but due to the large number of different anabolic agents available for human and veterinary use, the ability of laboratories to test for all available drugs had always lagged behind the ability of athletes to find new compounds to use. The introduction of increasingly formalised testing procedures, especially with the creation of the World Anti-Doping Agency in 1999, made it much more difficult for athletes to get away with using these drugs without detection, which then led to the synthesis of novel and potent anabolic steroid drugs such as tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), which were not detectable by the standard tests.[13] While through recent history most designer drugs had been either opioids, hallucinogens, or anabolic steroids, the range of possible compounds is limited only by the scientific and patent literature, and recent years have been characterised by a broadening of the range of compounds sold as designer drugs. These have included a wide variety of designer stimulants such as geranamine, mephedrone, MDPV and desoxypipradrol, several designer sedatives such as methylmethaqualone and premazepam, and designer analogues of sildenafil (Viagra), which have been reported as active compounds in "herbal" aphrodisiac products.[14][15] Designer cannabinoids are another recent development, with two compounds JWH-018 and (C8)-CP 47,497 initially found in December 2008 as active components of "herbal smoking blends" sold as legal alternatives to marijuana,[16] and subsequently a growing range of synthetic cannabinoid agonists have continued to appear, including by 2010 novel compounds such as RCS-4, RCS-8, and AB-001, which had never been reported in the literature, and appear to have been invented by designer drug manufacturers themselves. Another novel development is the use of research ligands for cosmetic rather than strictly recreational purposes, such as grey-market internet sales of the non-approved alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone tanning drugs known as melanotan peptides.[17] “...what is new is the wide range of substances now being explored, the aggressive marketing of products that have been intentionally mislabelled, the growing use of the internet, and the speed at which the market reacts to control measures.” EMCDDA director Wolfgang Goetz (November 2009).[18][19] The safety of research chemicals is untested and little if any research has been done on the toxicology or pharmacology of most of these drugs. Few, if any, human or animal studies have been done. Many research compounds have produced unexpected side-effects and adverse incidents due to the lack of screening for off-target effects prior to marketing; both bromo-dragonfly and mephedrone seem to be capable of producing pronounced vasoconstriction under some circumstances, which has resulted in several deaths,[20] although the mechanism remains unclear. Substituted phenethylamines such as the 2C family and substituted amphetamines such as the DOx family have also caused a limited number of deaths. Due to the recent development of many designer drugs, laws banning or regulating their use have not been developed yet, and in recent cases novel drugs have appeared directly in response to legislative action, to replace a similar compound that had recently been banned.[21] Many of the chemicals fall under the various drug analogue legislations in certain countries, but most countries have no general analogue act or equivalent legislation and so novel compounds may fall outside of the law after only minor structural modifications. In the United States, the Controlled Substances Act was amended by the Controlled Substance Analogue Enforcement of 1986, which attempted to ban designer drugs pre-emptively by making it illegal to manufacture, sell, or possess chemicals that were substantially similar in chemistry and pharmacology to Schedule I or Schedule II drugs. Other countries have dealt with the issue differently. In some, the new drugs are banned as they become a concern, as in Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Sweden. In Sweden, the police and customs from April 2011 may also seize drugs that are not on the list of drugs covered by the anti-drug laws if the police suspect that the purpose of the holding is related to drug abuse. Following a decision by a prosecutor, the police may destroy the seized drugs.[22] Some countries, such as Australia, have gone the opposite direction and enacted sweeping bans based on chemical structure only, making chemicals illegal even before they are created — if a theoretical chemical fits a set of rules regarding substitutions and alterations of an already-banned drug, it too is banned. The controlled substance analogue law under both Australian Federal law and that of some individual states such as New South Wales is so broad that it would cover millions of compounds that have never been made, simply on the basis that they bear a vague resemblance to one of the drugs on the illegal list. However, it would still not cover drugs that have no structural similarity to any controlled drug, even if they produced similar effects.[23][24] Common names[edit] In the UK to avoid being controlled by the Medicines Act, designer drugs such as mephedrone have been described as "bath salts" or "plant food", despite the compounds having no history of being used for these purposes.[25][26][27] In the USA, similar descriptions have been used to describe mephedrone as well as methylone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV).[28][29] Combined with labeling that they are "not for human consumption", these descriptions are an attempt to skirt the Federal Analog Act which forbids drugs that are “substantially similar” to already classified drugs from being sold for human use.[30] Some research chemicals are structural analogues of tryptamines or phenethylamines but there are also many other completely unrelated chemicals that can be considered part of the group. Psychoactivity or other pharmaceutical properties of these compounds might not be predictable based strictly upon structural examination. Many of the substances have common effects whilst structurally different and vice versa due to SAR paradox. As a result of no real official naming for some of these compounds, as well as regional naming, this can all lead to potentially hazardous mix ups for users.[31] The following list is not exhaustive. • ALD-52, N-acetyllysergic acid diethylamide, famously believed to have been the active ingredient in the "Orange Sunshine" acid of the 1960s • ETH-LAD, which has been sold by some research chemical suppliers. • AL-LAD, which has been sold by some research chemical suppliers. • PRO-LAD, which has been sold by some research chemical suppliers. • LSB • LSZ • 4-Acetoxy-DiPT, N,N-diisopropyl-4-acetoxytryptamine • 4-Acetoxy-DMT, 4-acetoxy-dimethyltryptamine • 4-HO-MET, 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine • 4-HO-MiPT, 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-isopropyltryptamine • 5-MeO-AMT, 5-methoxy-alpha-methyltryptamine • 5-MeO-DiPT, 5-methoxy-di-isopropyltryptamine (also known as "Foxy" or "Foxy Methoxy") • 5-MeO-MiPT, 5-methoxy-methylisopropyltryptamine • DiPT, N,N-diisopropyl-tryptamine • DPT, N,N-dipropyltryptamine • 5-MeO-DALT (N-allyl-N-[2-(5-methoxy-1H-indol-3-yl)ethyl]prop-2-en-1-amine) • 2C-C, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-chlorophenethylamine • 2C-D, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methyl-phenethylamine • 2C-E, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-ethyl-phenethylamine • 2C-G, 3,4-dimethyl-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine • 2C-I, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenethylamine • 2C-T-2, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-ethylthiophenethylamine • 2C-T-4, 2,5-dimethyoxy-4-(i)-propylthiophenethylamine • 2C-T-7, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-(n)-propylthiophenethylamine • 2C-T-21, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-(2-fluoroethylthio)phenethylamine • 2CB-FLY • Bromodragonfly • DOB, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-bromoamphetamine • DOC, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-chloroamphetamine • DOI, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine • DOM, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine • TMA-2, 2,4,5-Trimethoxyamphetamine • TMA-6, 2,4,6-Trimethoxyamphetamine • NBOMe-2C-C, 25C-NBOMe, "Pandora" • NBOMe-2C-I, 25I-NBOMe, "Solaris" • NBOMe-2C-D, 25D-NBOMe, "Divination" • 3-MeO-PCP • 4-MeO-PCP [34] • Dizocilpine (MK-801; (+)-5-methyl-10,11- dihydro-5H-dibenzo[a,d]cyclohepten-5,10-imine) • Eticyclidine (PCE; CI-400; N-ethyl-1-phenylcyclohexylamine) • Methoxetamine (2-(3-methoxyphenyl)-2-(ethylamino)cyclohexanone) • PCPr (N-propyl-1-phenylcyclohexylamine) • Rolicyclidine (PCPy; 1-(1-phenylcyclohexyl)pyrrolidine) • Tenocyclidine (TCP; 1-(1-(2-Thienyl)cyclohexyl)piperidine) • 3-MeO-PCE (2-(3-methoxyphenyl)-2-(ethylamino)cyclohexane) • Ethylketamine (2-(2-chlorophenyl)-2-(ethylamino)cyclohexanone) • Methoxyketamine (2-(2-methoxyphenyl)-2-(methylamino)cyclohexanone) • BZP, 1-benzylpiperazine • mCPP, 1-(3-chlorophenyl)piperazine • MeOPP, 1-(4-methoxyphenyl)piperazine • pFPP, 1-(4-fluorophenyl)piperazine • TFMPP, 3-trifluoromethylphenylpiperazine, has the unique distinction of being the only drug in the USA to be emergency scheduled into Schedule I and then allowed to become legal because the DEA was unable to justify permanent scheduling • 4-MTA, 4-Methylthioamphetamine • 5-Me-MDA • 5-APB, 5-(2-aminopropyl)benzofuran • 6-APB, 6-(2-aminopropyl)benzofuran • AET, α-ethyltryptamine • Butylone, β-keto-N-methylbenzodioxolylpropylamine • Ethylone, 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-ethylcathinone • IAP • MBDB • MDAT (5,6,7,8-tetrahydrobenzo[f][1,3]benzodioxol-7-amine) • MDEA, 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-ethylamphetamine • Methylone, 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylcathinone • MMA, 3-Methoxy-4-methylamphetamine • PMA, a highly dangerous amphetamine derivative responsible for many accidental deaths • PMMA, similar to PMA • PMEA, also similar to PMA Nonclassical cannabinoids[edit] Anabolic steroids[edit] Erectile dysfunction[edit] See also[edit] 1. ^ Buchanan JF, Brown CR (1988). 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Retrieved 2010-07-04. 28. ^ Victoria Cumbow (2011-02-06). "Synthetic form of cocaine and methamphetamine being packaged as bath salts". The Huntsville Times. Retrieved 2011-02-10. 29. ^ "Reports: Miami 'zombie' attacker may have been using 'bath salts'". CNN. May 29, 2012. 30. ^ Abby Goodnough and Katie Zezima (2011-07-16). "An Alarming New Stimulant, Legal in Many States". New York Times. Retrieved 2012-01-15. 31. ^ Shimizu E, Watanabe H, Kojima T, Hagiwara H, Fujisaki M, Miyatake R, Hashimoto K, Iyo M. Combined intoxication with methylone and 5-MeO-MIPT. Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 2007 Jan 30;31(1):288-91. PMID 16876302 32. ^ Davis, Glenn C.; Williams, Adrian C.; Markey, Sanford P.; Ebert, Michael H.; Caine, Eric D.; Reichert, Cheryl M.; Kopin, Irwin J. (December 1979). "Chronic Parkinsonism secondary to intravenous injection of meperidine analogues". Psychiatry Research 1 (3): 249–54. doi:10.1016/0165-1781(79)90006-4. PMID 298352. 33. ^ Wallis, Claudia (2001-06-24). "Surprising Clue to Parkinson's - TIME". Time. Retrieved 2010-05-01. 34. ^ King LA. New drugs coming our way - what are they and how do we detect them? EMCDDA Conference, Lisbon, 6–8 May 2009 35. ^ Venhuis BJ, Zomer G, Hamzink M, Meiring HD, Aubin Y, de Kaste D. The identification of a nitrosated prodrug of the PDE-5 inhibitor aildenafil in a dietary supplement: a Viagra with a pop. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis. 2011 Mar 25;54(4):735-41. PMID 21145686 External links[edit]	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designer_drug	dclm-gs1-017860001
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0.046391	<urn:uuid:c9f01e1a-93c6-4b7c-96a6-e00e5f027d65>	en	0.930546	No encontramos iTunes en este ordenador. Para usar vista previa y comprar música de Nine Lives de Steve Winwood, descarga iTunes ya. Yo tengo iTunes Descarga gratis iTunes para Mac y PC Nine Lives Steve Winwood Abre iTunes para escuchar un fragmento, comprar y descargar música. Reseña de álbum Steve Winwood's Nine Lives marks a more organic return to recording. This will be good news for those who live for any resurrection of rock heroes from days of yore, and bad for those who loved his hit singles in the 1980s and '90s. Seven of these nine cuts resemble (at least partially) those found on his last album, the brilliant About Time issued in 2003. The latter was a barnstormer of a rhythm and rock album (feels like Traffic meets Santana) that never got its proper due. Winwood produced this set for his debut on Columbia. He plays loads of Hammond B-3 and guitar, but also has a small core band that includes Jose Pires de Almeida on guitar, drummer Richard Bailey, Karl Van Den Bossche on percussion, and Paul Booth on reeds and woodwinds. Those seeking an album that resembles the surprise radio hit "Dirty City" (featuring Eric Clapton as a guest) aren't quite getting that. For the most part, Nine Lives begins as an introspective and reflective album that eventually cooks its way through restrained but inventive Afro-Latin grooves, bluesy, funky B-3, and acoustic and electric rock guitars. Just as often, however, that same blend of rhythmic invention graces lithe, deeply reflective tunes that address some very adult issues: separation, loss, reunion, spiritual redemption, and epiphany. The opening cut is the stripped-to-the-bone acoustic blues "I'm Not Drowning" with Winwood playing all the instruments. It's a gentle but effective blues moaner. Its 12-bar structure, hosts a memorable acoustic guitar lick that's ready-made for sampling. It's followed by "Fly," a nearly eight-minute tome that wouldn't have been out of place on Arc of a Diver if it'd had an unplugged element. Think of Robbie Robertson's solo material, or even the Blue Nile's sparse elegance on its debut album, and you can find a place for this gorgeous midtempo ballad with a sweet soprano saxophone line that leads into the melody. Winwood's voice is so rich here, it's capable of breaking your heart with its unsullied, beaten, and broken but unbowed spirit. The lyrics are almost holy in their expression of hope (more so than optimism) — a hope that leads to a love that cannot be defeated. The album's single, "Dirty City," offers Clapton's most emotionally involved guitar playing in well over a decade; too bad he didn't play like this for the slumber-worthy Cream reunion. His sense of economy makes possible his actual feel for the guitar entering into the tune, and he basically makes it happen. But he has some real help from Van Den Bossche's djembes and congas, and a five-note, two-chord organ vamp from Winwood. When Mr. Slowhand takes his solo about six minutes in, its nasty sting is startling and raises the tension and release of the song as it eventually goes to fade about two minute later (it also makes the listener wonder where the hell he's been all these years and why his own records don't reflect this much invention and heat). The next track, the deeply spiritual "We're All Looking," is a funky, jazzed-up rocker with searching lyrics and a tremendously soulful presence in Winwood's voice; his singing is beautiful and powerful on Nine Lives — time has not had its way with the thin yet authoritative and yearning luster in the grain of it. Winwood is singing his ass off, with plenty of deep soul. Here again it's important to note that Van Den Bossche's percussion in this ensemble, and on these songs in particular, cannot be overstated. It lends a certain flight-worthy expansiveness to Winwood's organ playing, and frees Bailey's drums to explore in many of these highly nuanced, nocturnal, funky cuts (check "Hungry Man," where the doubled-up polyrhythms between the two drummers create a vibe Winwood can dig deep into and then soar with, on both the Hammond and in his vocals). Those percussion elements are what make these often lyrically introspective tunes jump to life. Van Den Bossche is also one of the reasons that About Time was such a killer. Carlos Santana might gnash his teeth over not getting to play on this recording — his influence is all over it. The flute break blended with bubbling congas, djembes, and funky guitars on "Secrets" will make it desirable to beat hunters everywhere. Think of Herbie Mann and Wes Montgomery with Mongo Santamaria playing on Traffic's Low Spark of High Heeled Boys album, and you get the picture. The final two tracks, and the other bookend, as it were, include one of the jauntiest, funkiest numbers on the set in "Sometimes We Do Forget," with a groove that is simply infectious with a bumping guitar and bassline. The closer, "Other Shore," is the only cut that recalls Winwood's early solo records, but it's sparse despite its beautiful, easy R&B lilt. Again, redemption for oneself, for others, for a love that has endured the goodbyes, and the letting go that ushers in a new "hello." This is pop music with soul, with grit and the grains of revealed truth pouring from Winwood's mouth, not as a survivor but as a man who has seen enough of life to know that the sun really does rise in the morning. Nine Lives is deeper, heartier, and braver lyrically than anything he's ever done. Musically, its only rival is About Time, but it's more reflective and gentler, without giving up any of the hunger which that album evidenced. This is not a comeback; it's instead a rediscovery from one of our most gifted singers, songwriters, and truth-tellers. Nacido(a): 12 de mayo de 1948 en Birmingham, England Género: Rock As a solo artist, Steve Winwood is primarily associated with the highly polished blue-eyed soul-pop that made him a star in the '80s. Yet his turn as a slick, upscale mainstay of adult contemporary radio was simply the latest phase of a long and varied career, one that's seen the former teenage R&B shouter move through jazz, psychedelia, blues-rock, and progressive rock. Possessed of a powerful, utterly distinctive voice, Winwood was also an excellent keyboardist who remained an in-demand session... 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0.044496	<urn:uuid:989a8151-01ee-478a-be9c-dab6c25737b3>	en	0.865934	Re: First steps in packaging Tony Maro wrote: > Why do I feel like I opened a can of worms? It is that squirmy feeling in the gut. Like just before the alien claws its way out. Attachment: pgpo1HGvVrOrN.pgp Description: PGP signature Reply to:	https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/04/msg00292.html	dclm-gs1-017900001
0.13224	<urn:uuid:b9d5c7ff-5b5f-4f67-948c-46d0a3ead4e6>	en	0.902714	Hacker Newsnew \| comments \| ask \| jobs \| submitlogin ianb 1032 days ago \| link \| parent I bet TermKit would actually work awesome over 300 baud. The two-tier approach -- a backend that executes commands and a frontend that displays stuff -- is going to be pretty efficient (if you are only running the backend remotely). Well... perhaps the chattiness of something like filename completion will be a bit of a problem, but it'll still probably work better that more directly interactive systems because it's working with a more abstracted protocol than a terminal does.	https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2561208	dclm-gs1-017920001
0.172412	<urn:uuid:d97649da-f5f8-412d-98d4-3308d20cdbce>	en	0.954316	Reviews for Broken Moonlight twilight-absorbed-superwholock chapter 28 . 1/18 Hey, I love this story so much! I've been totally into JXB lately, even though I'm hardcore team Edward (even if he is slightly stalkerish and JXB makes him seem like the bad guy). This story was just about perfect, and thank you a lot for writing it. I was just wondering if there was a sequel or if you're taking a break or something? Because this story doesn't seem finished to me, and I would love to hear more! captaincurly chapter 28 . 1/16 Please finish the story. I was really enjoying it. I didn't realize it was not complete before I started. I don't usually read stories unless they are finished but somehow this one slipped through. Please help my OCD and finish Hikada chapter 28 . 1/13 love the story please update soon DarkDreamer1982 chapter 28 . 1/10 Love this story! Always fun to watch Alice and Edward get kicked around, lol. So, plan on continuing it? Please? Pretty please? Slytherson chapter 28 . 1/6 whats going to happen next? please please continue! Caliborn96 chapter 28 . 1/6 What the hell! Update! Please! Loving the story! GaijinVamp chapter 28 . 12/22/2013 It's such a good story, I'm sorry you can't finish it. But thank you for what you've written. MidnightPixie25 chapter 28 . 11/10/2013 I love this! I know it's been a while since you updated but, do you think that you could carry on? Plz? I truly love it! Kyara17 chapter 28 . 11/2/2013 J'adore c'est vraiment bien Mise a jour bientôt ? Animefiend176 chapter 28 . 10/31/2013 Lovin' this fic, but sad that it's been without an update so long. Also, Bella's aunt Gi wouldn't happen to be Gianna, Volturi receptionist, would she? ADeliciousAmbiguity chapter 28 . 10/2/2013 Love this story! Bella and Jasper's connection is truly heartwarming. Even though it's not complete - and may never be - this one's going on my favorites list. It's worth a second read. Thanks very much for posting! DixieAnnaBelle chapter 28 . 9/23/2013 Please tell me that this is not the ending to this story! Seriously Jasper broke Alice's spine and ripped Edwards head off. What about the nomads? What about Bella's mother? What happened when Peter and Char found the nomads? What happened with the Cullen's? WHAT,WHAT,WHAT! How do they explain to Charlie why and how he was sleeping and in his bed when he was sitting at the kitchen table talking to Bella as she went to address the knock on the front door. This has been an excellent story up to this point but ended on a very disappointing note. You are a better writer than this, it almost feels as if someone else finished the story for you saying oh well good enough. silversimon chapter 21 . 8/22/2013 As much as I like your story, it's aggravating me. Why haven't Edward and Alice been told off by Jasper and Carlisle?! Why are they allowed to socialize with either "family", much less dance with Bella! Somewhat ridiculous after all the stunts they've pulled. And she's his Singer for crying out loud which they all know! EternallySilenced chapter 28 . 8/20/2013 akela9 chapter 28 . 8/16/2013 I love, love, LOVE this story. Devoured it in just a few days. Any chance of an update? I really hope there might be. 1,785 \| Page 1 2 3 4 11 .. Last Next »	https://www.fanfiction.net/r/5880454/	dclm-gs1-017980001
0.204048	<urn:uuid:8af3c68a-edfd-4cdc-a358-8b49787b2a57>	en	0.986542	Disclaimer: None of it is mine. I just like to play with them. Rating: Sexually un-stimulating. A/N: It's a bit ridiculous, but whatever. Also, next chapter will be the last :( Chapter Thirteen: The Very Public Display of Attention Like most dinners, the Great Hall was immersed in conversations from gossip to homework between friends. The distractions were numerous, but the friends of both Draco and Harry focused on the budding relationship than whoever Lavender dated that week. The familiar scrutiny made it easier for Harry to ignore Hermione's insufferable looks. Annoyance quickly flooded Harry who simply wanted to devour his food in peace. "The food isn't going anywhere, Harry. Slow down," Hermione ordered, her brow furrowed. "I'm hungry," he replied through a mouthful of food. Some of his mashed potatoes landed in Hermione's hair. While she picked the offending morsel out of her recently tamed mane, Harry continued to wolf down his meal. He even held his fork with a fist. Nearly twenty four hours had past since he ate, having spent most of the day in Draco's room. Glancing across the Hall, Harry found Draco bent over his plate, clearly as ravenous as he was. "I didn't realize that Draco was such a talker, Harry. Clearly it's left you starved." "Hermione, I don't like your tone," Ron interjected, looking mildly ill. "Drop the implication or I'll puke up this Shepherd's pie right now." "Don't. It's good," Harry commented, his mouth still full of food. "Did you two accomplish anything?" "So you've settled everything?" There was a tinge of happiness and hope in her voice that Harry felt endearing. He, however, could not resist a cheeky reply. "We've settled that Draco is a top." "Hermione, Harry, stop. I will vomit," Ron piped up. "No offense mate, but I can't bear the thought of you and…that ferret. It's unnatural and not because you're two guys or anything. I'm fine with that. Really. Have you forgotten that you're sworn enemies? Literally! Remember second year? You swore it. You can't revoke those kinds of things." "I was twelve, Ron, and still a virgin." "You still can't…you're not a virgin?" Harry didn't have to look at Ron to see the bewilderment plastered across his face. Instead, he shook his head and took another forkful of broccoli. "We agreed that whoever lost theirs first would tell the other all about it." "Well, it just happened about an hour ago. You guys haven't given me much chance to talk," Harry said quietly. Ron blanched and Hermione grinned madly as a blush tinged her cheeks. For the first time that evening, she sat quietly and ate her meal, leaving her two friends to themselves. "Wait…" Ron paused and glanced across the Great Hall, his eyes resting on the finally on Draco, who still inhaled his meal. "You lost your virginity to Malfoy?" A slight flush colored his cheeks. He took another bite to occupy himself as Ron tried to handle the information. It looked as if the process hurt his brain for his face contorted with the effort. "And let me get this straight, you bottomed for Malfoy?" "Ronald, I suggest you lower your voice so the whole castle doesn't hear you," Hermione hissed. "It is hardly anyone else's business." "Like hell it is," Ron spat back, his temper starting to flare. He turned back to Harry and continued. "The only way to make sex with Malfoy at all redeeming is if you were to fuck him." "I quite liked it," Harry murmured. "That's even worse!" Ron exclaimed. Hermione glanced around them, wondering who exactly was listening to the conversation as it unfolded. It would no doubt turn into one of Ron's regular blow-ups in which Dumbledore would have to intervene to quell the disturbance. Even though everyone enjoyed the entertainment, it was tiresome. Harry suffered enough without additional publicity. "Zip it!" she ordered tersely, giving a pointed glance in the direction of the front of the Hall. "I will not 'zip it,' Hermione! This is ridiculous! I just started to accept Harry and the ferret and now Harry hurls this at me? He may as well be shagging a Hufflepuff!" That caught the attention of a few Hufflepuffs who were the table closest to Gryffindor's. The Hufflepuffs students rarely bothered with fights. Only so much slander could be taken. Every so often, their honor had to be defended. Consequently, they shot Ron glares before starting on him. "And what's wrong with shagging a Hufflepuff?" piped up Justin Finch-Fletchley. "Great," Harry muttered. "You'd have better luck getting off with the Whomping Willow," Seamus chimed in. And that was the beginning of the greatest dinner argument at Hogwarts Witchcraft and Wizardry. The two tables traded insults with one another, becoming more and more colorful. It didn't take long before Ravenclaw joined in after several jibes were directed at them. Slytherin sat back and watched with dark fascination as the students from the other Houses quarreled with one another. The older students mainly participated, given that the first years had little clue about what it was really like to shag a Hufflepuff. The noise ascended as more students jumped in. Rolling his eyes, Harry slumped his shoulders, making himself as small as possible. He wanted no association with any of this. Hermione dreaded Dumbledore's intervention, but when she looked to the long table where the teachers sat, it appeared empty. Frowning, she glanced about the Hall, wondering where they could have gone. In the far corner of the Hall, behind the teachers' table, Hermione caught the tail end of a cloak disappearing through a door that she remembered seeing Mad-Eye Moody use in fourth year. The professors had abandoned the students and rightfully so. It was time they dealt with their problems amongst themselves. "Stop arguing. This is ridiculous," commanded Hermione, grabbing Ron by his upper arm and dragging him from the table. "I'm not finished yet!" "Look what you've started." They stood watching the Houses verbally attack one another and it was only a miracle that physical violence had not started. With the sudden inclusion of Slytherin, however, it appeared that such a threat was imminent. "We've got to stop this. The professors left us." "I'm not stopping a good argument like this." "Harry, you need to help us!" During this time, Harry had chosen to stay completely silent as he finished his meal. There was no need for him to take any part in the conversations around him since he couldn't really talk without being hypocritical. If being a bottom for Malfoy was almost worse than shagging a Hufflepuff, than Harry could not argue with that. He had achieved the worst apparently, according to Ron. "I'm not doing anything of the sort." "But Harry, look at everyone! This is getting out of hand. Even Ravenclaws are fighting with Hufflepuffs! This is threatening inter-House unity! Think of the ghastly repercussions of this!" To say that Hermione was hysterical would have likely been an understatement. There were too many conflicting emotions marring her face for Ron to count and he had indeed stopped at six because there were several he could not name. "What do you expect me to do?" "Oy!" Ron shouted. The clamor seemed to increase with Ron's shouts, which escalated further when a Slytherin shoved a Ravenclaw. His attempt at getting everyone's attention was utterly futile. "Harry, you can get everyone's attention," persuaded Hermione. "They'll listen to you." Before Harry could do anything about it, Ron and Hermione were pulling him out of his seat and pushing him to the dais where Dumbledore frequently stood. He past the length of the Gryffindor table and on his way saw Luna being attacked by Hannah Abbott, Neville hiding underneath the table with his wand out, and Colin Creevey snapping photos of the event. Harry shook his head in disbelief and walked on his own, knowing that someone had to do something. Standing on the dais, Harry witnessed the entirety of the chaos. No one was sitting, save for the first years and Neville who hid underneath the tables. Several students had attempted to flee and discovered that the doors to the Hall were sealed. No doubt Dumbledore's doing. Hermione attempted to prevent Ron from going at Justin Finch-Fletchley and would have got an eyeful of the Hufflepuff's fist had Ron not punched him in the gut. No one seemed to notice where Harry stood except for Draco who was half of the way to the Gryffindor table, searching for Harry. Upon seeing his boyfriend looking helpless at the crowd, Draco changed directions, pushing past several students, who in turn tried to fight him. Finally, Draco made it to the dais and sighed with relief. "Weasley's an idiot," Draco announced, standing with his shoulder brushing against Harry's as he surveyed the Hall. "He was only upset that I bottomed for Draco Malfoy, which is apparently almost as bad as shagging a Hufflepuff." "I don't think anything is almost worse than shagging a Hufflepuff," joked Draco. "You would know," Harry replied teasingly, though he was somewhat curious to know the answer. "Terribly boring lot, really," Draco responded vaguely, casting a side glance at his boyfriend. Harry turned to look at him with raised eyebrows and his disappointment poorly masked. "I'm only kidding, Harry. I would never fuck a Hufflepuff." Silence past between them despite the uproar of the Hall where students ceaselessly fought and squabbled about various things. More students surrounded the doors, terrified that they could not escape. The scene was all too ridiculous to imagine, but Ron had somehow managed to strike a very sensitive cord that most of the students of Hogwarts could relate to in some fashion. "So what are we going to do about this?" Harry wondered. "How about we promote that inter-House unity nonsense McGonagall was going on about a while ago?" "And how do we do that?" Draco grabbed Harry's hand – pulled him in so their bodies collided. Harry's green eyes were wild with anticipation and anxiety. Harry's eyes fluttered shut when Draco's soft, plump lips caressed his mouth open. The muscles of Harry's body relaxed against Draco, who wrapped his arm around Harry's waist to keep him standing. Cupping the side of Harry's face, Draco took the kiss deeper, exploring Harry's mouth with his tongue. The effect was almost immediate. Pockets of silence spread throughout the room as students took notice of the display at the head of the tables. Draco sensed the fear that shot through Harry and gripped him tight. They were doing this. Harry couldn't run this time.	https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5206678/13/Blackmail	dclm-gs1-018040001
0.151273	<urn:uuid:87a04e88-c1ba-4133-80ee-d2bab4ebec55>	en	0.983447	A/N: OK, you guys have all spoiled me with my "Soup and Chocolate"! Thank you so much! And, now, another piece of random crack, based on a line in tonight's episode. Probably takes place in season 4 or early season 5. Disclaimer: As usual, I don't own anything. And, as usual, MST3K applies. Who's On First? Dean flipped through the channels of motel room's TV, feeling bored. Sam had gone out to get something to eat, but he wasn't back yet. He, Sam, and Cas were pretty much holed up, nursing various wounds. Another day, another step in preventing the apocalypse. He just needed down time. Cas looked over from the table. "What are you doing?" "Trying to find something to watch. Just for noise." He found TCM. "Ah. The Naughty Nineties." "The what?" Dean shrugged. "It's an ancient movie. But, these guys are pretty funny. Wanna watch?" The angel looked confused, but he pulled his chair closer to where he could see. "What's the movie about?" "It doesn't matter. The only thing that matters in this movie is it has 'Who's on First?' You'll love it!" Cas looked over at Dean. "Who is on first?" he asked slowly. "What do you mean 'first'?" "First base." "As… in… baseball?" Dean grinned. "Yeah. As in baseball." He suspected the angel was proud that he guessed right about the first base. He turned back to the TV in time to see Abbott and Costello start the famous routine: "Who's on First, What's on Second, I Don't Know's on third." "I'm not asking you who's on second" "Who's on First!" "I don't know." "Third base!" Dean laughed at it, glancing over to see how Cas was liking it. The angel looked even more confused. "You don't find this very funny?" "So, who is on first?" Cas asked. "Yes," Dean grinned. "What is the player's name on first base?" "No. What is the guy's name on second base." Cas frowned. "Do you think this is funny?" "Yeah, a little bit." "So, who is the guy on second base?" Dean choked back a laugh. "No. Who is the guy on first base." "I don't know." "He's on third. We're not talking about him." Cas looked back at the TV, but Dean thought he could see the barest hint of a smile on the angel's face. He's having a good time! Dean thought gleefully. "OK, so what's the player's name on first base? This is what the little man asking the questions is trying to find out." "No. What's the guy's name on second base." "I don't understand. I'm not wanting to find out who the player on second base is." "No. Who is on first." "I don't know." "Third base!" Dean laughed. If Cas wasn't having fun, then he was. He figured that Sam would probably give him a bitch face at that. "So, this routine is just based on misunderstanding about these players' names?" "Why? And don't say left field." Dean looked back at the TV, a feeling of disappointment came over him. He was insane to think that Cas would find this funny. "It's… funny." "So, the person's name of 'Who' is on first, 'What' is on second. And 'I Don't Know' is on third." "Don't explain the joke," Dean muttered, settling back on his bed. He glanced over at Cas and sat up when he saw an actual smile on the angel's face. "You're joking with me." The smile disappeared, and Cas turned his big, innocent eyes on Dean. "I don't know what you're talking about." "You did find 'Who's on First' funny!" Cas looked back to the TV, but Dean could still see the smile in his eyes. He chuckled. "Cas, we're going to get that stick up your butt out soon." A/N: I don't know how to end this. So, I'm ending it here. I love 'Who's on First?' If you don't know it, why don't you? Find it now! It's awesome! Cas knowing it, and Dean's gentle and weary "Don't do that" made me laugh. But, I hope you kind of liked this.	https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6383745/1/Who-s-on-First	dclm-gs1-018080001
0.229017	<urn:uuid:776d12ef-477d-4048-8e1b-501b8eb6fe60>	en	0.91118	Auto expats: 10 bestselling U.S. cars overseas Popular Mechanics Top-Selling American Car: Buick Excelle Popularity: Number one seller GM sells more Buick Excelles in China each year—a quarter-million of them—than all Buicks combined in the U.S. The Excelle comes in several models, the most popular built by GMDAT (GM Daewoo Auto and Technology, a company GM owns in South Korea). The compact sedan powered by a 1.6-liter four-cylinder is also known as the Daewoo Lacetti and was called the Chevrolet Optra when it sold in Canada until 2008. These days an Excelle runs the equivalent of about $21,000. Top-Selling American Car: Chevrolet Celta Popularity: Number one seller Built in a state-of-the-art factory in Brazil, the Celta is also known as the Suzuki Fun and powered by a puny 1.0-liter, 77-hp engine. It has also sold online for a non-negotiable price of about $12,500. Top-Selling American Car: Ford Figo Popularity: Number three seller This two-year-old hatchback subcompact's design came from Ford of Australia. It's offered with a 1.2-liter gasoline engine or a 1.4-liter diesel. The car is less than 150 inches long and rides on a 98-inch wheelbase, though somehow it carries five passengers. Top-Selling American Car: Ford Focus Popularity: Number five seller South Africa Top-Selling American Car: Chevrolet Utility Popularity: Number seven seller Although you might be led to believe otherwise by the drab name, the hottest American car in South Africa is a car, not a truck. However, the body is a pickup style, like a mini-El Camino. It's based on an Opel Corsa passenger car and is powered by a choice of a 1.4-liter or 1.8-liter gas engine, or a 1.7-liter diesel, all four-cylinders. Common U.S. cars—like the Ford Fiesta, Figo, and Ranger pickup; the Chevy Aveo, Spark, and Captiva; and the Jeep's Grand Cherokee, Wrangler, and Compass—all sell in South Africa. But the best-selling car in South Africa is VW's Polo Vivo, a restyled version of the previous-generation Polo. Top-Selling American Car: Chevrolet TFR Popularity: Number one seller The oddly-named Chevrolet TFR four-cylinder mini pickup out-sells the number two Hyundai Accent, although the Egyptian new-car market is less than 100,000 units a year. The Hyundai Verna and Elantra grab the third- and fourth-place spots. Top-Selling American Car: Chevrolet Classic Popularity: Number one seller Saudi Arabia Top-Selling American Car: Ford Expedition Popularity: Number six seller What do Texas and Saudi Arabia have in common? Love for the big SUV. Only three Toyota sedans and two Hyundai sedans outsell the boxy Expedition in Saudi Arabia. Top-Selling American Car: Ford Fiesta Popularity: Number ten seller Top-Selling American Car: Ford Fiesta Popularity: Number 12 seller The Renault Clio, Peugeot 207m, and Citroen C3 are the sales leaders here. Ford sells a few Fiestas, but the car just can't keep up with those Euros. Nor does it match the Romanian-built Top Gear folk hero, the Dacia Sandero. View Comments	http://autos.yahoo.com/news/auto-expats--10-bestselling-u-s--cars-overseas.html?.tsrc=lgwn	dclm-gs1-018240001
0.052553	<urn:uuid:8cc9104e-2797-49a4-897b-465b0888fa1e>	en	0.931027	From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - View original article CAS number9003-35-4 Infobox references Jump to: navigation, search CAS number9003-35-4 Infobox references Dr. Baekeland had originally set out to find a replacement for shellac, made from the excretion of lac beetles. Chemists had begun to recognize that many natural resins and fibres were polymers, and Baekeland investigated the reactions of phenol and formaldehyde. He first produced a soluble phenol-formaldehyde shellac called "Novolak" that never became a market success, then turned to developing a binder for asbestos which, at that time, was molded with rubber. By controlling the pressure and temperature applied to phenol and formaldehyde, he produced a hard moldable material and patented in 1907 known as Bakelite.[2][3] It was the first synthetic thermosetting plastic ever made. It was often referred to as "the material of 1000 uses", a phrase originated by Baekeland himself.[4] He announced the invention at a meeting of the American Chemical Society on February 5, 1909.[5] The Bakelite Corporation was formed in 1922 (after patent litigation favorable to Baekeland) from a merger of three companies: the General Bakelite Company, which Baekeland founded in 1910, the Condensite Company, founded by J.W. Aylesworth, and the Redmanol Chemical Products Company, founded by L.V. Redman.[6] A factory was built near Bound Brook, New Jersey, in 1929.[7] Bakelite Limited, a merger of three British phenol formaldehyde resin suppliers (Damard Lacquer Company Limited of Birmingham, Mouldensite Limited of Darley Dale and Redmanol Chemical Products Company of London) was formed in 1926. A new factory opened in Tyseley, Birmingham, England around 1928. It was demolished in 1998. Phenolics are more rarely used in general consumer products today, due to the cost and complexity of production and their brittle nature. Nevertheless they are still used in some applications where their specific properties are required, such as small precision-shaped components, molded disc brake cylinders, saucepan handles, electrical plugs and switches and parts for electrical irons. Today, Bakelite is manufactured and produced in sheet, rod and tube form for hundreds of industrial applications in the electronics, power generation and aerospace industries, and under a variety of commercial brand names. Bakelite distributor rotor Bakelite letter opener circa 1920 Applications and usage Bakelite radio at Bakelite museum In its industrial applications, Bakelite was particularly suitable for the emerging electrical and automobile industries because of its extraordinarily high resistance - not only to electricity, but to heat and chemical action. It was soon used for all nonconducting parts of radios and other electrical devices, such as bases and sockets for light bulbs and vacuum tubes, supports for electrical components, automobile distributor caps and other insulators. Bakelite is used today for wire insulation, brake pads and related automotive components, and industrial electrical-related applications. In the early 20th Century, it was found in myriad applications including saxophone mouthpieces, whistles, cameras, solid-body electric guitars, telephone housings and handsets, early machine guns, pistol grips, and appliance casings. In the pure form it was made into such articles as pipe stems, buttons, etc. The thermosetting phenolic resin was at one point considered for the manufacture of coins, due to a shortage of traditional material; in 1943, Bakelite and other non-metal materials were tested for usage for the one cent coin in the US before the Mint settled on zinc-coated steel.[8][9] After the Second World War, factories were retrofitted to produce Bakelite using a more efficient extrusion process which increased production and enabled the uses of Bakelite to extend into other genres: jewelry boxes, desk sets, clocks, radios, game pieces like chessmen, poker chips, billiard balls and Mah Jong sets. Kitchenware such as canisters and tableware were also made of Bakelite through the 1950s. Beads, bangles and earrings were produced by the Catalin Company which introduced 15 new colors in 1927. The creation of marbled Bakelite was also attributed to the Catalin Company. Translucent Bakelite jewelry, poker chips and other gaming items such as chess sets were also introduced in the 1940s under the Prystal Corporation name; however, its basic chemical composition remained the same. Bakelite is used to make the presentation boxes of Breitling watches and sometimes as a substitute for metal firearm magazines. Bakelite is also used in the mounting of metal samples in metallography.[10] US Patent 942699 for the bakelite product. The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Baekeland a patent for a "Method of making insoluble products of phenol and formaldehyde" on December 7, 1909.[12] Producing hard, compact, insoluble and infusable condensation products of phenols and formaldehyde marked the beginning of the modern plastics industry.[13] Other similar plastics and products 1. ^ ACS National Historic Chemical Landmark, Bakelite: The World's First Synthetic Plastic (1993). 3. ^ "Leo Baekeland". Plastics. 28 June 2000. 4. ^ Cook, Patrick (1993). Bakelite: An Illustrated Guide to Collectible Bakelite Objects. London: Apple. 7. ^ 8. ^ J2051/P2073 Accessed July 28, 2006 10. ^, Metallographic Preparation Mounting 11. ^ Roads to Space: an oral history of the Soviet space program 12. ^ US patent 942699, Leo H. Baekeland, "Method of making insoluble products of phenol and formaldehyde", issued 1909-12-07 13. ^ US Patent #942,699 14. ^ Biobakelite External links	http://blekko.com/wiki/Bakelite?source=672620ff	dclm-gs1-018280001
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0.586528	<urn:uuid:07bc6cec-5a8d-40e4-8028-74806afc8a89>	en	0.956438	I'm trying to find out what exactly all the capabilities are needed for but I am unable to find any detailed overview. For example, MultimediaDD - what do I need it for? The only thing I could find is the useless "to access multimedia device drivers". Access how? Which drivers? When would that be needed? What APIs use it? I would like to get comprehensive info on all these but the only thing I see is vague marketing documentation. Is there any useful info about this at all? I have no idea what kind of a certificate I need if I can't see what they allow me to do.	http://developer.nokia.com/community/discussion/showthread.php/91295-What-does-capability-X-let-me-do?p=245445&mode=threaded	dclm-gs1-018390001
0.019872	<urn:uuid:1eeffcca-a681-4f26-9f7d-b1604c763449>	en	0.746424	Best matches, sorted by the Matches. 1-20 of 20 possibilities Old World reptile family of Sauria Agamidae , family Agamidae large reptile alligator primitive reptile-like fossil birds of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous Archaeornithes , subclass Archaeornithes reptile genus of Iguanidae Basiliscus , genus Basiliscus , genus Urosaurus , genus Uta , Urosaurus , Uta alligator-like reptile of Central America and South America having a more heavily armored belly caiman , cayman reptile of the order Chelonia chelonian , chelonian reptile reptile genus of Therapsida Chronoperates , genus Chronoperates monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance cockatrice extant archosaurian reptile crocodilian , crocodilian reptile reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye diapsid , diapsid reptile reptile genus known as flying dragons or flying lizards Draco , genus Draco heavy-bodied reptile with a dorsal sail or crest; of the late Paleozoic edaphosaurus reptile family in the order Pterosauria family Pterodactylidae , Pterodactylidae extinct reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a birdlike beak and membranous wings supported by the very long fourth digit of each forelimb flying reptile , pterosaur crocodile type reptile of India gavial , gharial reptile genus of Theropoda genus Compsognathus reptile genus of Ornithomimida genus Deinocheirus reptile genus of Pelycosauria genus Dimetrodon Search another word or see reptile on Thesaurus \| Reference Copyright © 2014, LLC. All rights reserved. • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature	http://dictionary.reference.com/reverseresults?q=reptile&db=reverse	dclm-gs1-018410001
0.083058	<urn:uuid:8e7e8d58-954d-453b-be7a-a73c3ff056ad>	en	0.910486	Base metal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Base metals) Jump to: navigation, search In chemistry, the term base metal is used informally to refer to a metal that oxidizes or corrodes relatively easily and reacts variably with diluted hydrochloric acid (HCl) to form hydrogen. Examples include iron, nickel, lead and zinc. Copper is also considered a base metal because it oxidizes relatively easily, although it does not react with HCl. Other usages[edit] Base is used in the sense of low-born, in opposition to noble or precious metal.[1] In alchemy, a base metal was a common and inexpensive metal, as opposed to precious metals, mainly gold and silver. A long-time goal of the alchemists was the transmutation of base metal into precious metal. In mining and economics, the term base metals refers to industrial non-ferrous metals excluding precious metals. These include copper, lead, nickel and zinc.[2] The U.S. Customs and Border Protection is more inclusive in its definition. It includes, in addition to the four above, iron and steel, aluminium, tin, tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum, cobalt, bismuth, cadmium, titanium, zirconium, antimony, manganese, beryllium, chromium, germanium, vanadium, gallium, hafnium, indium, niobium, rhenium and thallium.[3] In the context of plated metal products, the base metal underlies the plating metal, as copper underlies silver in Sheffield plate. Zamak is an alloy used in casting (metalworking) which is sometimes called 'base metal' or deprecated as 'muckite'.[citation needed] See also[edit] External links[edit]	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_metals	dclm-gs1-018490001
0.780035	<urn:uuid:c1789c85-f68a-498e-aa0b-1a92d4c5d189>	en	0.888162	Fraction (mathematics) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Denominator) Jump to: navigation, search A cake with one fourth (a quarter) removed. The remaining three fourths are shown. Dotted lines indicate where the cake may be cut in order to divide it into equal parts. Each fourth of the cake is denoted by the fraction ¼. A fraction (from Latin: fractus, "broken") represents a part of a whole or, more generally, any number of equal parts. When spoken in everyday English, a fraction describes how many parts of a certain size there are, for example, one-half, eight-fifths, three-quarters. A common, vulgar, or simple fraction (examples: \tfrac{1}{2} and 17/3) consists of an integer numerator, displayed above a line (or before a slash), and a non-zero integer denominator, displayed below (or after) that line. Numerators and denominators are also used in fractions that are not common, including compound fractions, complex fractions, and mixed numerals. The numerator represents a number of equal parts, and the denominator, which cannot be zero, indicates how many of those parts make up a unit or a whole. For example, in the fraction 3/4, the numerator, 3, tells us that the fraction represents 3 equal parts, and the denominator, 4, tells us that 4 parts make up a whole. The picture to the right illustrates \tfrac{3}{4} or 3/4 of a cake. Fractional numbers can also be written without using explicit numerators or denominators, by using decimals, percent signs, or negative exponents (as in 0.01, 1%, and 10−2 respectively, all of which are equivalent to 1/100). An integer such as the number 7 can be thought of as having an implied denominator of one: 7 equals 7/1. Other uses for fractions are to represent ratios and to represent division.[1] Thus the fraction 3/4 is also used to represent the ratio 3:4 (the ratio of the part to the whole) and the division 3 ÷ 4 (three divided by four). In mathematics the set of all numbers which can be expressed in the form a/b, where a and b are integers and b is not zero, is called the set of rational numbers and is represented by the symbol Q, which stands for quotient. The test for a number being a rational number is that it can be written in that form (i.e., as a common fraction). However, the word fraction is also used to describe mathematical expressions that are not rational numbers, for example algebraic fractions (quotients of algebraic expressions), and expressions that contain irrational numbers, such as √2/2 (see square root of 2) and π/4 (see proof that π is irrational). In the examples 2/5 and 7/3, the slanting line is called a solidus or forward slash. In the examples \tfrac{2}{5} and \tfrac{7}{3}, the horizontal line is called a vinculum or, informally, a "fraction bar". When reading fractions it is customary in English to pronounce the denominator using the corresponding ordinal number, in plural if the numerator is not one, as in "fifths" for fractions with a 5 in the denominator. Thus 3/5 is rendered as three fifths and 5/32 as five thirty-seconds. This generally applies to whole number denominators greater than 2, though large denominators that are not powers of ten are often rendered using the cardinal number. Thus, 5/123 might be rendered as "five one-hundred-twenty-thirds", but is often "five over one hundred twenty-three". In contrast, because one million is a power of ten, 6/1,000,000 is usually expressed as "six millionths" or "six one-millionths", rather than as "six over one million". The denominators 1, 2, and 4 are special cases. The fraction 3/1 may be spoken of as three wholes. The denominator 2 is expressed as half (plural halves); "−32" is minus three-halves or negative three-halves. The fraction 3/4 may be either "three fourths" or "three quarters". Furthermore, since most fractions in prose function as adjectives, the fractional modifier is hyphenated. This is evident in standard prose in which one might write about "every two-tenths of a mile", "the quarter-mile run", or the Three-Fifths Compromise. When the fraction's numerator is 1, then the word one may be omitted, such as "every tenth of a second" or "during the final quarter of the year". Forms of fractions[edit] Simple, common, or vulgar fractions[edit] A simple fraction (also known as a common fraction or vulgar fraction) is a rational number written as a/b or \tfrac{a}{b}, where a and b are both integers.[2] As with other fractions, the denominator (b) cannot be zero. Examples include \tfrac{1}{2}, -\tfrac{8}{5}, \tfrac{-8}{5}, \tfrac{8}{-5}, and 3/17. Simple fractions can be positive or negative, proper, or improper (see below). Compound fractions, complex fractions, mixed numerals, and decimals (see below) are not simple fractions, though, unless irrational, they can be evaluated to a simple fraction. Proper and improper fractions[edit] Common fractions can be classified as either proper or improper. When the numerator and the denominator are both positive, the fraction is called proper if the numerator is less than the denominator, and improper otherwise.[3][4] In general, a common fraction is said to be a proper fraction if the absolute value of the fraction is strictly less than one—that is, if the fraction is greater than −1 and less than 1.[5][6] It is said to be an improper fraction, or sometimes informally top-heavy fraction, if the absolute value of the fraction is greater than or equal to 1. Examples of proper fractions are 2/3, -3/4, and 4/9; examples of improper fractions are 9/4, -4/3, and 3/3. Mixed numbers[edit] This is not to be confused with the algebra rule of implied multiplication. When two algebraic expressions are written next to each other, the operation of multiplication is said to be "understood". In algebra, a \tfrac{b}{c} for example is not a mixed number. Instead, multiplication is understood where a \tfrac{b}{c} = a \times \tfrac{b}{c}. a \times \tfrac{b}{c}, a \cdot \tfrac{b}{c}, or a (\tfrac{b}{c}). A ratio is a relationship between two or more numbers that can be sometimes expressed as a fraction. Typically, a number of items are grouped and compared in a ratio, specifying numerically the relationship between each group. Ratios are expressed as "group 1 to group 2 ... to group n". For example, if a car lot had 12 vehicles, of which • 2 are white, • 6 are red, and • 4 are yellow, Reciprocals and the "invisible denominator"[edit] Complex fractions[edit] Compound fractions[edit] Decimal fractions and percentages[edit] Decimal fractions with infinitely many digits to the right of the decimal separator represent an infinite series. For example, 1/3 = 0.333... represents the infinite series 3/10 + 3/100 + 3/1000 + ... . Another kind of fraction is the percentage (Latin per centum meaning "per hundred", represented by the symbol %), in which the implied denominator is always 100. Thus, 51% means 51/100. Percentages greater than 100 or less than zero are treated in the same way, e.g. 311% equals 311/100, and −27% equals −27/100. The related concept of permille or parts per thousand has an implied denominator of 1000, while the more general parts-per notation, as in 75 parts per million, means that the proportion is 75/1,000,000. Whether common fractions or decimal fractions are used is often a matter of taste and context. Common fractions are used most often when the denominator is relatively small. By mental calculation, it is easier to multiply 16 by 3/16 than to do the same calculation using the fraction's decimal equivalent (0.1875). And it is more accurate to multiply 15 by 1/3, for example, than it is to multiply 15 by any decimal approximation of one third. Monetary values are commonly expressed as decimal fractions, for example $3.75. However, as noted above, in pre-decimal British currency, shillings and pence were often given the form (but not the meaning) of a fraction, as, for example 3/6 (read "three and six") meaning 3 shillings and 6 pence, and having no relationship to the fraction 3/6. Special cases[edit] • A unit fraction is a vulgar fraction with a numerator of 1, e.g. \tfrac{1}{7}. Unit fractions can also be expressed using negative exponents, as in 2−1 which represents 1/2, and 2−2 which represents 1/(22) or 1/4. • An Egyptian fraction is the sum of distinct positive unit fractions, for example \tfrac{1}{2}+\tfrac{1}{3}. This definition derives from the fact that the ancient Egyptians expressed all fractions except \tfrac{1}{2}, \tfrac{2}{3} and \tfrac{3}{4} in this manner. Every positive rational number can be expanded as an Egyptian fraction. For example, \tfrac{5}{7} can be written as \tfrac{1}{2} + \tfrac{1}{6} + \tfrac{1}{21}. Any positive rational number can be written as a sum of unit fractions in infinitely many ways. Two ways to write \tfrac{13}{17} are \tfrac{1}{2}+\tfrac{1}{4}+\tfrac{1}{68} and \tfrac{1}{3}+\tfrac{1}{4}+\tfrac{1}{6}+\tfrac{1}{68}. Arithmetic with fractions[edit] Like whole numbers, fractions obey the commutative, associative, and distributive laws, and the rule against division by zero. Equivalent fractions[edit] Multiplying the numerator and denominator of a fraction by the same (non-zero) number results in a fraction that is equivalent to the original fraction. This is true because for any non-zero number n, the fraction \tfrac{n}{n} = 1. Therefore, multiplying by \tfrac{n}{n} is equivalent to multiplying by one, and any number multiplied by one has the same value as the original number. By way of an example, start with the fraction \tfrac{1}{2}. When the numerator and denominator are both multiplied by 2, the result is \tfrac{2}{4}, which has the same value (0.5) as \tfrac{1}{2}. To picture this visually, imagine cutting a cake into four pieces; two of the pieces together (\tfrac{2}{4}) make up half the cake (\tfrac{1}{2}). Dividing the numerator and denominator of a fraction by the same non-zero number will also yield an equivalent fraction. This is called reducing or simplifying the fraction. A simple fraction in which the numerator and denominator are coprime (that is, the only positive integer that goes into both the numerator and denominator evenly is 1) is said to be irreducible, in lowest terms, or in simplest terms. For example, \tfrac{3}{9} is not in lowest terms because both 3 and 9 can be exactly divided by 3. In contrast, \tfrac{3}{8} is in lowest terms—the only positive integer that goes into both 3 and 8 evenly is 1. Using these rules, we can show that \tfrac{5}{10} = \tfrac{1}{2} = \tfrac{10}{20} = \tfrac{50}{100}. A common fraction can be reduced to lowest terms by dividing both the numerator and denominator by their greatest common divisor. For example, as the greatest common divisor of 63 and 462 is 21, the fraction \tfrac{63}{462} can be reduced to lowest terms by dividing the numerator and denominator by 21: \tfrac{63}{462} = \tfrac{63 \div 21}{462 \div 21}= \tfrac{3}{22} The Euclidean algorithm gives a method for finding the greatest common divisor of any two positive integers. Comparing fractions[edit] Comparing fractions with the same denominator only requires comparing the numerators. \tfrac{3}{4}>\tfrac{2}{4} because 3>2. If two positive fractions have the same numerator, then the fraction with the smaller denominator is the larger number. When a whole is divided into equal pieces, if fewer equal pieces are needed to make up the whole, then each piece must be larger. When two positive fractions have the same numerator, they represent the same number of parts, but in the fraction with the smaller denominator, the parts are larger. One way to compare fractions with different numerators and denominators is to find a common denominator. To compare \tfrac{a}{b} and \tfrac{c}{d}, these are converted to \tfrac{ad}{bd} and \tfrac{bc}{bd}. Then bd is a common denominator and the numerators ad and bc can be compared. \tfrac{2}{3} ? \tfrac{1}{2} gives \tfrac{4}{6}>\tfrac{3}{6} It is not necessary to determine the value of the common denominator to compare fractions. This short cut is known as "cross multiplying" – you can just compare ad and bc, without computing the denominator. \tfrac{5}{18} ? \tfrac{4}{17} Multiply top and bottom of each fraction by the denominator of the other fraction, to get a common denominator: \tfrac{5 \times 17}{18 \times 17} ? \tfrac{4 \times 18}{17 \times 18} The denominators are now the same, but it is not necessary to calculate their value – only the numerators need to be compared. Since 5×17 (= 85) is greater than 4×18 (= 72), \tfrac{5}{18}>\tfrac{4}{17}. Also note that every negative number, including negative fractions, is less than zero, and every positive number, including positive fractions, is greater than zero, so every negative fraction is less than any positive fraction. The first rule of addition is that only like quantities can be added; for example, various quantities of quarters. Unlike quantities, such as adding thirds to quarters, must first be converted to like quantities as described below: Imagine a pocket containing two quarters, and another pocket containing three quarters; in total, there are five quarters. Since four quarters is equivalent to one (dollar), this can be represented as follows: If \tfrac12 of a cake is to be added to \tfrac14 of a cake, the pieces need to be converted into comparable quantities, such as cake-eighths or cake-quarters. Adding unlike quantities[edit] To add fractions containing unlike quantities (e.g. quarters and thirds), it is necessary to convert all amounts to like quantities. It is easy to work out the chosen type of fraction to convert to; simply multiply together the two denominators (bottom number) of each fraction. For adding quarters to thirds, both types of fraction are converted to twelfths, thus: \tfrac14\ + \tfrac13=\tfrac{13}{43}\ + \tfrac{14}{34}=\tfrac3{12}\ + \tfrac4{12}=\tfrac7{12}. Consider adding the following two quantities: First, convert \tfrac35 into fifteenths by multiplying both the numerator and denominator by three: \tfrac35\times\tfrac33=\tfrac9{15}. Since \tfrac33 equals 1, multiplication by \tfrac33 does not change the value of the fraction. Second, convert \tfrac23 into fifteenths by multiplying both the numerator and denominator by five: \tfrac23\times\tfrac55=\tfrac{10}{15}. Now it can be seen that: is equivalent to: This method can be expressed algebraically: \tfrac{a}{b} + \tfrac {c}{d} = \tfrac{ad+cb}{bd} And for expressions consisting of the addition of three fractions: \tfrac{a}{b} + \tfrac {c}{d} + \tfrac{e}{f} = \tfrac{a(df)+c(bf)+e(bd)}{bdf} This method always works, but sometimes there is a smaller denominator that can be used (a least common denominator). For example, to add \tfrac{3}{4} and \tfrac{5}{12} the denominator 48 can be used (the product of 4 and 12), but the smaller denominator 12 may also be used, being the least common multiple of 4 and 12. The process for subtracting fractions is, in essence, the same as that of adding them: find a common denominator, and change each fraction to an equivalent fraction with the chosen common denominator. The resulting fraction will have that denominator, and its numerator will be the result of subtracting the numerators of the original fractions. For instance, Multiplying a fraction by another fraction[edit] To multiply fractions, multiply the numerators and multiply the denominators. Thus: \tfrac{2}{3} \times \tfrac{3}{4} = \tfrac{6}{12} Why does this work? First, consider one third of one quarter. Using the example of a cake, if three small slices of equal size make up a quarter, and four quarters make up a whole, twelve of these small, equal slices make up a whole. Therefore a third of a quarter is a twelfth. Now consider the numerators. The first fraction, two thirds, is twice as large as one third. Since one third of a quarter is one twelfth, two thirds of a quarter is two twelfth. The second fraction, three quarters, is three times as large as one quarter, so two thirds of three quarters is three times as large as two thirds of one quarter. Thus two thirds times three quarters is six twelfths. A short cut for multiplying fractions is called "cancellation". In effect, we reduce the answer to lowest terms during multiplication. For example: \tfrac{2}{3} \times \tfrac{3}{4} = \tfrac{\cancel{2} ^{~1}}{\cancel{3} ^{~1}} \times \tfrac{\cancel{3} ^{~1}}{\cancel{4} ^{~2}} = \tfrac{1}{1} \times \tfrac{1}{2} = \tfrac{1}{2} A two is a common factor in both the numerator of the left fraction and the denominator of the right and is divided out of both. Three is a common factor of the left denominator and right numerator and is divided out of both. Multiplying a fraction by a whole number[edit] Place the whole number over one and multiply. 6 \times \tfrac{3}{4} = \tfrac{6}{1} \times \tfrac{3}{4} = \tfrac{18}{4} This method works because the fraction 6/1 means six equal parts, each one of which is a whole. Mixed numbers[edit] When multiplying mixed numbers, it's best to convert the mixed number into an improper fraction. For example: 3 \times 2\tfrac{3}{4} = 3 \times \left (\tfrac{8}{4} + \tfrac{3}{4} \right ) = 3 \times \tfrac{11}{4} = \tfrac{33}{4} = 8\tfrac{1}{4} In other words, 2\tfrac{3}{4} is the same as \tfrac{8}{4} + \tfrac{3}{4}, making 11 quarters in total (because 2 cakes, each split into quarters makes 8 quarters total) and 33 quarters is 8\tfrac{1}{4}, since 8 cakes, each made of quarters, is 32 quarters in total. To divide a fraction by a whole number, you may either divide the numerator by the number, if it goes evenly into the numerator, or multiply the denominator by the number. For example, \tfrac{10}{3} \div 5 equals \tfrac{2}{3} and also equals \tfrac{10}{3 \cdot 5} = \tfrac{10}{15}, which reduces to \tfrac{2}{3}. To divide a number by a fraction, multiply that number by the reciprocal of that fraction. Thus, \tfrac{1}{2} \div \tfrac{3}{4} = \tfrac{1}{2} \times \tfrac{4}{3} = \tfrac{1 \cdot 4}{2 \cdot 3} = \tfrac{2}{3}. Converting between decimals and fractions[edit] To change a common fraction to a decimal, divide the denominator into the numerator. Round the answer to the desired accuracy. For example, to change 1/4 to a decimal, divide 4 into 1.00, to obtain 0.25. To change 1/3 to a decimal, divide 3 into 1.0000..., and stop when the desired accuracy is obtained. Note that 1/4 can be written exactly with two decimal digits, while 1/3 cannot be written exactly with any finite number of decimal digits. To change a decimal to a fraction, write in the denominator a 1 followed by as many zeroes as there are digits to the right of the decimal point, and write in the numerator all the digits in the original decimal, omitting the decimal point. Thus 12.3456 = 123456/10000. Converting repeating decimals to fractions[edit] Decimal numbers, while arguably more useful to work with when performing calculations, sometimes lack the precision that common fractions have. Sometimes an infinite repeating decimal is required to reach the same precision. Thus, it is often useful to convert repeating decimals into fractions. The preferred way to indicate a repeating decimal is to place a bar over the digits that repeat, for example 0.789 = 0.789789789… For repeating patterns where the repeating pattern begins immediately after the decimal point, a simple division of the pattern by the same number of nines as numbers it has will suffice. For example: 0.5 = 5/9 0.62 = 62/99 0.264 = 264/999 0.6291 = 6291/9999 In case leading zeros precede the pattern, the nines are suffixed by the same number of trailing zeros: 0.05 = 5/90 0.000392 = 392/999000 0.0012 = 12/9900 In case a non-repeating set of decimals precede the pattern (such as 0.1523987), we can write it as the sum of the non-repeating and repeating parts, respectively: 0.1523 + 0.0000987 Then, convert both parts to fractions, and add them using the methods described above: 1523/10000 + 987/9990000 = 1522464/9990000 Fractions in abstract mathematics[edit] In addition to being of great practical importance, fractions are also studied by mathematicians, who check that the rules for fractions given above are consistent and reliable. Mathematicians define a fraction as an ordered pair (a, b) of integers a and b ≠ 0, for which the operations addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are defined as follows:[9] (a,b) - (c,d) = (ad-bc,bd) \, (a,b) \div (c,d) = (ad,bc) (when c ≠ 0) In addition, an equivalence relation is specified as follows: (a, b) ~ (c, d) if and only if ad=bc. These definitions agree in every case with the definitions given above; only the notation is different. More generally, a and b may be elements of any integral domain R, in which case a fraction is an element of the field of fractions of R. For example, when a and b are polynomials in one indeterminate, the field of fractions is the field of rational fractions (also known as the field of rational functions). When a and b are integers, the field of fractions is the field of rational numbers. Algebraic fractions[edit] If the numerator and the denominator are polynomials, as in \frac{3x}{x^2+2x-3}, the algebraic fraction is called a rational fraction (or rational expression). An irrational fraction is one that contains the variable under a fractional exponent or root, as in \frac{\sqrt{x+2}}{x^2-3}. The terminology used to describe algebraic fractions is similar to that used for ordinary fractions. For example, an algebraic fraction is in lowest terms if the only factors common to the numerator and the denominator are 1 and −1. An algebraic fraction whose numerator or denominator, or both, contain a fraction, such as \frac{1 + \tfrac{1}{x}}{1 - \tfrac{1}{x}}, is called a complex fraction. Rational numbers are the quotient field of integers. Rational expressions are the quotient field of the polynomials (over some integral domain). Since a coefficient is a polynomial of degree zero, a radical expression such as √2/2 is a rational fraction. Another example (over the reals) is \textstyle{\tfrac{\pi}{2}}, the radian measure of a right angle. The term partial fraction is used when decomposing rational expressions into sums. The goal is to write the rational expression as the sum of other rational expressions with denominators of lesser degree. For example, the rational expression \textstyle{2x \over x^2-1} can be rewritten as the sum of two fractions: \textstyle{1 \over x+1} + \textstyle{1 \over x-1}. This is useful in many areas such as integral calculus and differential equations. Radical expressions[edit] A fraction may also contain radicals in the numerator and/or the denominator. If the denominator contains radicals, it can be helpful to rationalize it (compare Simplified form of a radical expression), especially if further operations, such as adding or comparing that fraction to another, are to be carried out. It is also more convenient if division is to be done manually. When the denominator is a monomial square root, it can be rationalized by multiplying both the top and the bottom of the fraction by the denominator: \frac{3}{\sqrt{7}} = \frac{3}{\sqrt{7}} \cdot \frac{\sqrt{7}}{\sqrt{7}} = \frac{3\sqrt{7}}{7} The process of rationalization of binomial denominators involves multiplying the top and the bottom of a fraction by the conjugate of the denominator so that the denominator becomes a rational number. For example: \frac{3}{3-2\sqrt{5}} = \frac{3}{3-2\sqrt{5}} \cdot \frac{3+2\sqrt{5}}{3+2\sqrt{5}} = \frac{3(3+2\sqrt{5})}{{3}^2 - (2\sqrt{5})^2} = \frac{ 3 (3 + 2\sqrt{5} ) }{ 9 - 20 } = - \frac{ 9+6 \sqrt{5} }{11} \frac{3}{3+2\sqrt{5}} = \frac{3}{3+2\sqrt{5}} \cdot \frac{3-2\sqrt{5}}{3-2\sqrt{5}} = \frac{3(3-2\sqrt{5})}{{3}^2 - (2\sqrt{5})^2} = \frac{ 3 (3 - 2\sqrt{5} ) }{ 9 - 20 } = - \frac{ 9-6 \sqrt{5} }{11} Even if this process results in the numerator being irrational, like in the examples above, the process may still facilitate subsequent manipulations by reducing the number of irrationals one has to work with in the denominator. Typographical variations[edit] In computer displays and typography, simple fractions are sometimes printed as a single character, e.g. ½ (one half). See the article on Number Forms for information on doing this in Unicode. Scientific publishing distinguishes four ways to set fractions, together with guidelines on use:[10] • special fractions: fractions that are presented as a single character with a slanted bar, with roughly the same height and width as other characters in the text. Generally used for simple fractions, such as: ½, ⅓, ⅔, ¼, and ¾. Since the numerals are smaller, legibility can be an issue, especially for small-sized fonts. These are not used in modern mathematical notation, but in other contexts. • case fractions: similar to special fractions, these are rendered as a single typographical character, but with a horizontal bar, thus making them upright. An example would be \tfrac{1}{2}, but rendered with the same height as other characters. Some sources include all rendering of fractions as case fractions if they take only one typographical space, regardless of the direction of the bar.[11] • shilling fractions: 1/2, so called because this notation was used for pre-decimal British currency (£sd), as in 2/6 for a half crown, meaning two shillings and six pence. While the notation "two shillings and six pence" did not represent a fraction, the forward slash is now used in fractions, especially for fractions inline with prose (rather than displayed), to avoid uneven lines. It is also used for fractions within fractions (complex fractions) or within exponents to increase legibility. Fractions written this way, also known as piece fractions,[12] are written all on one typographical line, but take 3 or more typographical spaces. • built-up fractions: \frac{1}{2}. This notation uses two or more lines of ordinary text, and results in a variation in spacing between lines when included within other text. While large and legible, these can be disruptive, particularly for simple fractions or within complex fractions. The earliest fractions were reciprocals of integers: ancient symbols representing one part of two, one part of three, one part of four, and so on.[13] The Egyptians used Egyptian fractions ca. 1000 BC. About 4,000 years ago Egyptians divided with fractions using slightly different methods. They used least common multiples with unit fractions. Their methods gave the same answer as modern methods.[14] The Egyptians also had a different notation for dyadic fractions in the Akhmim Wooden Tablet and several Rhind Mathematical Papyrus problems. The Greeks used unit fractions and later continued fractions and followers of the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, ca. 530 BC, discovered that the square root of two cannot be expressed as a fraction. In 150 BC Jain mathematicians in India wrote the "Sthananga Sutra", which contains work on the theory of numbers, arithmetical operations, operations with fractions. The method of putting one number below the other and computing fractions first appeared in Aryabhatta's work around AD 499.[citation needed] In Sanskrit literature, fractions, or rational numbers were always expressed by an integer followed by a fraction. When the integer is written on a line, the fraction is placed below it and is itself written on two lines, the numerator called amsa part on the first line, the denominator called cheda “divisor” on the second below. If the fraction is written without any particular additional sign, one understands that it is added to the integer above it. If it is marked by a small circle or a cross (the shape of the “plus” sign in the West) placed on its right, one understands that it is subtracted from the integer. For example (to be read vertically), Bhaskara I writes[15] ६ १ २ १ १ १ ४ ५ ९ That is, 6 1 2 1 1 1 4 5 9 to denote 6+1/4, 1+1/5, and 2–1/9. Al-Hassār, a Muslim mathematician from Fez, Morocco specializing in Islamic inheritance jurisprudence during the 12th century, first mentions the use of a fractional bar, where numerators and denominators are separated by a horizontal bar. In his discussion he writes, "... for example, if you are told to write three-fifths and a third of a fifth, write thus, \frac{3 \quad 1}{5 \quad 3}."[16] This same fractional notation appears soon after in the work of Leonardo Fibonacci in the 13th century.[17] In discussing the origins of decimal fractions, Dirk Jan Struik states:[18] "The introduction of decimal fractions as a common computational practice can be dated back to the Flemish pamphlet De Thiende, published at Leyden in 1585, together with a French translation, La Disme, by the Flemish mathematician Simon Stevin (1548–1620), then settled in the Northern Netherlands. It is true that decimal fractions were used by the Chinese many centuries before Stevin and that the Persian astronomer Al-Kāshī used both decimal and sexagesimal fractions with great ease in his Key to arithmetic (Samarkand, early fifteenth century)."[19] While the Persian mathematician Jamshīd al-Kāshī claimed to have discovered decimal fractions himself in the 15th century, J. Lennart Berggren notes that he was mistaken, as decimal fractions were first used five centuries before him by the Baghdadi mathematician Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi as early as the 10th century.[20][21] In formal education[edit] Pedagogical tools[edit] In primary schools, fractions have been demonstrated through Cuisenaire rods, Fraction Bars, fraction strips, fraction circles, paper (for folding or cutting), pattern blocks, pie-shaped pieces, plastic rectangles, grid paper, dot paper, geoboards, counters and computer software. Documents for teachers[edit] Several states in the United States have adopted learning trajectories from the Common Core State Standards Initiative's guidelines for mathematics education. Aside from sequencing the learning of fractions and operations with fractions, the document provides the following definition of a fraction: "A number expressible in the form \tfrac{a}{b} where a is a whole number and b is a positive whole number. (The word fraction in the standards always refers to a non-negative number.)"[22] The document itself also refers to negative fractions. See also[edit] 1. ^ H. Wu, The Mis-Education of Mathematics Teachers, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 58, Issue 03 (March 2011), page 374 2. ^ Weisstein, Eric W., "Common Fraction", MathWorld. 3. ^ World Wide Words: Vulgar fractions 4. ^ Weisstein, Eric W., "Improper Fraction", MathWorld. 5. ^ Math Forum – Ask Dr. Math:Can Negative Fractions Also Be Proper or Improper? 6. ^ New England Compact Math Resources 7. ^ a b Trotter, James (1853). A complete system of arithmetic. p. 65. 8. ^ a b Barlow, Peter (1814). A new mathematical and philosophical dictionary. 9. ^ "Fraction – Encyclopedia of Mathematics". 2012-04-06. Retrieved 2012-08-15. 10. ^ Galen, Leslie Blackwell (March 2004), "Putting Fractions in Their Place", American Mathematical Monthly 111 (3) 11. ^ "built fraction". glossary. Retrieved 2013-06-18. 12. ^ "piece fraction". glossary. Retrieved 2013-06-18. 13. ^ Eves, Howard ; with cultural connections by Jamie H. (1990). An introduction to the history of mathematics (6th ed. ed.). Philadelphia: Saunders College Pub. ISBN 0-03-029558-0. 14. ^ Milo Gardner (December 19, 2005). "Math History". Retrieved 2006-01-18. See for examples and an explanation. 15. ^ (Filliozat 2004, p. 152) 16. ^ Cajori, Florian (1928), A History of Mathematical Notations (Vol.1), La Salle, Illinois: The Open Court Publishing Company, p. 269 17. ^ (Cajori 1928, pg.89) 18. ^ A Source Book in Mathematics 1200–1800. New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1986. ISBN 0-691-02397-2. 19. ^ Die Rechenkunst bei Ğamšīd b. Mas'ūd al-Kāšī. Wiesbaden: Steiner. 1951. 21. ^ While there is some disagreement among history of mathematics scholars as to the primacy of al-Uqlidisi's contribution, there is no question as to his major contribution to the concept of decimal fractions. [1] "MacTutor's al-Uqlidisi biography". Retrieved 2011-11-22. 22. ^ "Common Core State Standards for Mathematics". Common Core State Standards Initiative. 2010. p. 85. 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0.043308	<urn:uuid:68eed131-4c0a-48d6-aabc-d772f33dde3d>	en	0.961158	Gilbert N. Lewis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Gilbert Newton Lewis) Jump to: navigation, search Gilbert N. Lewis Gilbert N Lewis.jpg Born (1875-10-23)October 23, 1875 Weymouth, Massachusetts Berkeley, California Nationality American Fields Physical chemist Doctoral advisor Theodore William Richards Doctoral students Michael Kasha Harold Urey Glenn T. Seaborg Known for Covalent bond Lewis dot structures Valence bond theory Electronic theory of acids and bases Chemical thermodynamics Heavy water Named photon Explained phosphorescence Influences Irving Langmuir Merle Randall Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society[1] Gilbert Newton Lewis ForMemRS[1] (October 23, 1875 – March 23, 1946)[2] was an American physical chemist known for the discovery of the covalent bond and his concept of electron pairs; his Lewis dot structures and other contributions to valence bond theory have shaped modern theories of chemical bonding. Lewis has successfully contributed to thermodynamics, photochemistry, and isotope separation, and is also known for his concept of acids and bases. G. N. Lewis was born in 1875 in Weymouth, Massachusetts. After receiving his PhD in chemistry from Harvard University and studying abroad in Germany and the Philippines, Lewis moved to California to teach chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Several years later, he became the Dean of the college of Chemistry at Berkeley, where he spent the rest of his life. As a professor, he incorporated thermodynamic principles into the chemistry curriculum and reformed chemical thermodynamics in a mathematically rigorous manner accessible to ordinary chemists. He began measuring the free energy values related to several chemical processes, both organic and inorganic. In 1916, he also proposed his theory of bonding and added information about electrons in the periodic table of the elements. In 1933, he started his research on isotope separation. Lewis worked with hydrogen and managed to purify a sample of heavy water. He then came up with his theory of acids and bases, and did work in photochemistry during the last years of his life. In 1926, Lewis coined the term "photon" for the smallest unit of radiant energy. He was a brother in Alpha Chi Sigma, the professional chemistry fraternity. Though he was nominated 35 times, G. N. Lewis never won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. On March 23, 1946, Lewis was found dead in his Berkeley laboratory where he had been working with hydrogen cyanide; many postulated that the cause of his death was suicide. After Lewis' death, his children followed their father's career in chemistry. Early life[edit] Lewis was born in 1875 and raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts, where there exists a street named for him, G.N. Lewis Way, off Summer Street. Additionally, the wing of the new Weymouth High School Chemistry department has been named in his honor. Lewis received his primary education at home from his parents, Frank Wesley Lewis, a lawyer of independent character, and Mary Burr White Lewis. He read at age three and was intellectually precocious. In 1884 his family moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, and in 1889 he received his first formal education at the university preparatory school. In 1893, after two years at the University of Nebraska, Lewis transferred to Harvard University, where he obtained his B.S. in 1896. After a year of teaching at Phillips Academy in Andover, Lewis returned to Harvard to study with the physical chemist T. W. Richards and obtained his Ph.D. in 1899 with a dissertation on electrochemical potentials. After a year of teaching at Harvard, Lewis took a traveling fellowship to Germany, the center of physical chemistry, and studied with Walther Nernst at Göttingen and with Wilhelm Ostwald at Leipzig.[3] While working in Nernst's lab, Nernst and Lewis apparently developed a lifelong enmity. A friend of Nernst's, Wilhelm Palmær, was a member of the Nobel Chemistry Committee. There is evidence that he used the Nobel nominating and reporting procedures to block a Nobel Prize for Lewis in thermodynamics by nominating Lewis for the prize three times, and then using his position as a committee member to write negative reports.[4] Harvard, Manila, and MIT[edit] After his stay in Nernst's lab, Lewis returned to Harvard in 1901 as an instructor for three more years. He was appointed instructor in thermodynamics and electrochemistry. In 1904 Lewis was granted a leave of absence and became Superintendent of Weights and Measures for the Bureau of Science in Manila, Philippines. The next year he returned to Cambridge, Massachusetts when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) appointed him to a faculty position, in which he had a chance to join a group of outstanding physical chemists under the direction of Arthur Amos Noyes. He became an assistant professor in 1907, associate professor in 1908, and full professor in 1911. He left MIT in 1912 to become a professor of physical chemistry and dean of the College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Lewis Hall at Berkeley, built in 1948, is named in his honor. Most of Lewis’ lasting interests originated during his Harvard years. The most important was thermodynamics, a subject in which Richards was very active at that time. Although most of the important thermodynamic relations were known by 1895, they were seen as isolated equations, and had not yet been rationalized as a logical system, from which, given one relation, the rest could be derived. Moreover, these relations were inexact, applying only to ideal chemical systems. These were two outstanding problems of theoretical thermodynamics. In two long and ambitious theoretical papers in 1900 and 1901, Lewis tried to provide a solution. Lewis introduced the thermodynamic concept of activity and coined the term "fugacity".[5] His new idea of fugacity, or "escaping tendency", was a function with the dimensions of pressure which expressed the tendency of a substance to pass from one chemical phase to another. Lewis believed that fugacity was the fundamental principle from which a system of real thermodynamic relations could be derived. This hope was not realized, though fugacity did find a lasting place in the description of real gases. Lewis’ early papers also reveal an unusually advanced awareness of J. W. Gibbs’s and P. Duhem’s ideas of free energy and thermodynamic potential. These ideas were well known to physicists and mathematicians, but not to most practical chemists, who regarded them as abstruse and inapplicable to chemical systems. Most chemists relied on the familiar thermodynamics of heat (enthalpy) of Berthelot, Ostwald, and Van’t Hoff, and the calorimetric school. Heat of reaction is not, of course, a measure of the tendency of chemical changes to occur, and Lewis realized that only free energy and entropy could provide an exact chemical thermodynamics. He derived free energy from fugacity; he tried, without success, to obtain an exact expression for the entropy function, which in 1901 had not been defined at low temperatures. Richards too tried and failed, and not until Nernst succeeded in 1907 was it possible to calculate entropies unambiguously. Although Lewis’ fugacity-based system did not last, his early interest in free energy and entropy proved most fruitful, and much of his career was devoted to making these useful concepts accessible to practical chemists. At Harvard, Lewis also wrote a theoretical paper on the thermodynamics of blackbody radiation in which he postulated that light has a pressure. He later revealed that he had been discouraged from pursuing this idea by his older, more conservative colleagues, who were unaware that W. Wien and others were successfully pursuing the same line of thought. Lewis’ paper remained unpublished; but his interest in radiation and quantum theory, and (later) in relativity, sprang from this early, aborted effort. From the start of his career, Lewis regarded himself as both chemist and physicist. Valence theory[edit] Lewis' cubical atoms (as drawn in 1902) A third major interest that originated during Lewis’ Harvard years was his valence theory. In 1902, while trying to explain the laws of valence to his students, Lewis conceived the idea that atoms were built up of a concentric series of cubes with electrons at each corner. This “cubic atom” explained the cycle of eight elements in the periodic table and was in accord with the widely accepted belief that chemical bonds were formed by transfer of electrons to give each atom a complete set of eight. This electrochemical theory of valence found its most elaborate expression in the work of Richard Abegg in 1904, but Lewis’ version of this theory was the only one to be embodied in a concrete atomic model. Again Lewis’ theory did not interest his Harvard mentors, who, like most American chemists of that time, had no taste for such speculation. Lewis did not publish his theory of the cubic atom, but in 1916 it became an important part of his theory of the shared electron pair bond. In 1908 he published the first of several papers on relativity, in which he derived the mass-energy relationship in a different way from Albert Einstein's derivation.[7] In 1909, he and Richard C. Tolman combined his methods with special relativity.[8] In 1912 Lewis and Edwin Bidwell Wilson presented a major work in mathematical physics that not only applied synthetic geometry to the study of spacetime, but also noted the identity of a spacetime squeeze mapping and a Lorentz transformation.[9] [10] Acids and bases[edit] In 1923, he formulated the electron-pair theory of acid-base reactions. In this theory of acids and bases, a "Lewis acid" is an electron-pair acceptor and a "Lewis base" is an electron-pair donor. This year he also published a monograph on his theories of the chemical bond[12] Heavy water[edit] Lewis was the first to produce a pure sample of deuterium oxide (heavy water) in 1933[14] and the first to study survival and growth of life forms in heavy water.[15][16] By accelerating deuterons (deuterium nuclei) in Ernest O. Lawrence's cyclotron, he was able to study many of the properties of atomic nuclei[citation needed]. During the 1930s, he was mentor to Glenn T. Seaborg, who was retained for post-doctoral work as Lewis' personal research assistant. Seaborg went on to win the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and have the element seaborgium named in his honor while he was still alive. Other achievements[edit] Later years[edit] In 1946, a graduate student found Lewis's lifeless body under a laboratory workbench at Berkeley. Lewis had been working on an experiment with liquid hydrogen cyanide, and deadly fumes from a broken line had leaked into the laboratory. The coroner ruled that the cause of death was coronary artery disease, because of a lack of any signs of cyanosis,[19] but some believe that it may have been a suicide. Berkeley Emeritus Professor William Jolly, who reported the various views on Lewis's death in his 1987 history of UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry, From Retorts to Lasers, wrote that a higher-up in the department believed that Lewis had committed suicide. Personal life[edit] See also[edit] 1. ^ a b Hildebrand, J. H. (1947). "Gilbert Newton Lewis. 1875-1946". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 5 (15): 491. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1947.0014. edit 4. ^ Coffey (2008): 195-207. 7. ^ Lewis, G. N. (1908). "s:A revision of the Fundamental Laws of Matter and Energy". Philosophical Magazine 16 (95): 705–717. doi:10.1080/14786441108636549 8. ^ Lewis, G. N. & Richard C. Tolman (1909). "s:The Principle of Relativity, and Non-Newtonian Mechanics". Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 44 (25): 709–26. doi:10.2307/20022495 11. ^ Coffey (2008): 221-22. 15. ^ Lewis, G. N. (1933). "THE BIOCHEMISTRY OF WATER CONTAINING HYDROGEN ISOTOPE". Journal of the American Chemical Society 55: 3503–3504. doi:10.1021/ja01335a509. edit 16. ^ Lewis, G. N. (1934). "THE BIOLOGY OF HEAVY WATER". Science 79 (2042): 151–153. Bibcode:1934Sci....79..151L. doi:10.1126/science.79.2042.151. PMID 17788137. edit 19. ^ a b Coffey (2008): 310-15. Further reading[edit] External links[edit]	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Newton_Lewis	dclm-gs1-018510001
0.026317	<urn:uuid:0f15ac09-13aa-4a5c-8348-1cd9d87072e4>	en	0.916811	Good Samaritan law From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Good Samaritan laws) Jump to: navigation, search An example of the obligation to help a person is the Argentina law on "abandonment of persons", Articles 106-108 of the Argentine Penal Code, which include the provision in Article 106 "a person who endangers the life or health of another, either by putting a person in jeopardy or abandoning to their fate a person unable to cope alone who must be cared for ... will be imprisoned for between 2 and 6 years".[2] An example of legal protection without obligation to act: in common-law areas of Canada a good Samaritan doctrine is a legal principle that prevents a rescuer who has voluntarily helped a victim in distress from being successfully sued for 'wrongdoing'. Its purpose is to keep people from being reluctant to help a stranger in need for fear of legal repercussions should they make some mistake in treatment.[3] The principles contained in good Samaritan laws more typically operate in countries in which the foundation of the legal system is English Common Law, such as Australia.[4] In many countries that use civil law as the foundation for their legal systems, the same legal effect is more typically achieved using a principle of duty to rescue. In Canada, good samaritan acts are under provincial jurisdiction. Each province has its own act, such as Ontario[6] and British Columbia's[7] respective good Samaritan acts, Alberta's Emergency Medical Aid Act,[8] and Nova Scotia's Volunteer Services Act[9] Only in Quebec, a civil law jurisdiction, does a person have a general duty to respond, as written in the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.[10][11] Protection from liability New Brunswick and Nunavut do not have Good Samaritan laws. China is notorious for its poor treatment of good Samaritans. There have been incidents in China, such as the Peng Yu incident in 2006,[13][14] where Good Samaritans who helped people injured in accidents were accused of having injured the victim themselves. According to China Daily, “At least 10 Party and government departments and organizations in Guangdong, including the province's commission on politics and law, the women's federation, the Academy of Social Sciences, and the Communist Youth League, have started discussions on punishing those who refuse to help people who clearly need it.”[16] Officials of Guangdong province, along with many lawyers and social workers, also held three days of meetings in the provincial capital of Guangzhou to discuss the case. It was reported that various lawmakers of the province are drafting a "Good Samaritan" law, which would "penalize people who fail to help in a situation of this type and indemnify them from lawsuits if their efforts are in vain."[17] Legal experts and the public are debating the idea ahead of discussions and a legislative push.[18] On 1 August 2013, the nation's first Good Samaritan law was taken into effect in Shenzhen.[19] Laws in North America mainly shield from liability those who choose to help in a situation they did not cause; laws in much of Europe[where?] and other countries[which?] criminalize failure to help in such a situation:[20] people in such countries[which?] who do not help someone in peril may be prosecuted.[21] In Germany, failure to provide first aid to a person in need is punishable under § 323c of the criminal penal code. However, any help one provides can and will not be prosecuted even if it made the situation worse or did not fulfill specific first aid criteria. People are thus encouraged to help in any way possible even if it does not lead to success.[22] The Finnish Rescue act explicitly stipulates a duty to rescue as a general duty to act and engage in rescue activities according to their abilities. The Finnish Rescue act thus includes a principle of proportionality which e.g. requires professionals to extend immediate aid further than lay persons. Failure to rescue is punishable by the Finnish penal code, section 21, 15 §. The Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act of 2011[23] first introduced legislation specifically addressing the liability of citizen good samaritans or volunteers in the Republic of Ireland, without introducing a duty to intervene. This Act provides for exemption from liability for a person, or voluntary organisation, for anything done while providing "assistance, advice or care" to a person who is injured, in serious risk or danger of becoming injured or suffering from an illness (or apparently so). There are exclusions for cases of "bad faith" or "gross negligence" on behalf of the carer, and incidents relating to negligent use of motor vehicles. This Act only addresses situations where there is no duty of care owed by the good samaritan or the volunteer. United States[edit] The details of good Samaritan laws/acts in various jurisdictions vary, including who is protected from liability and in what circumstances.[24] Not all jurisdictions provide protection to laypersons, in those cases only protecting trained personnel, such as doctors or nurses and perhaps also emergency services personnel such as trained police, fire and EMS workers.[25] Most Australian states and territories have some form of good Samaritan protection. In general these offer protection if care is made in good faith, and the "good Samaritan" is not impaired by drugs or alcohol. Variation exists between states, from not applying if the "good Samaritan" is the cause of the problem (NSW), to applying under all circumstances if the attempt is made in good faith (VIC).[26] Common features[edit] In some jurisdictions, unless a caretaker relationship (such as a parent-child or doctor-patient relationship) exists prior to the illness or injury, or the "good Samaritan" is responsible for the existence of the illness or injury, no person is required to give aid of any sort to a victim. Good Samaritan statutes in the states of Minnesota and Vermont do require a person at the scene of an emergency to provide reasonable assistance to a person in need.[27] This assistance may be to call 9-1-1. Violation of the duty-to-assist subdivision is a petty misdemeanor in Minnesota and may warrant a fine of up to $100 in Vermont. At least five other states, including California and Nevada, have seriously considered adding duty-to-assist subdivisions to their good Samaritan statutes.[28] New York's law provides immunity for those who assist in an emergency.[29] The public policy behind the law is: —N.Y. Public Health L. § 3000.[30] Only first aid provided without intention of reward or financial compensation is covered. Medical professionals are typically not protected by good Samaritan laws when performing first aid in connection with their employment.[34] Some states make specific provisions for trained medical professionals acting as volunteers and for members of volunteer rescue squads acting without expectation of remuneration.[29][35] In Texas, a physician who voluntarily assisted in the delivery of an infant, and who proved that he had "no expectation of remuneration", had no liability for the infant's injuries due to allegedly ordinary negligence; there was "uncontroverted testimony that neither he nor any doctor in Travis County would have charged a fee to [the mother] or any other person under the circumstances of this case."[36] It was significant that the doctor was not an employee of the attending physician, but was only visiting the hospital and had responded to a "Dr. Stork" page, and had not asked or expected to be paid.[36] If a responder begins rendering aid, he must not leave the scene until it is necessary to call for needed medical assistance, a rescuer of equal or higher ability takes over, or continuing to give aid is unsafe.[37] The responder is not legally liable for any harm to the person assisted, as long as the responder acted rationally, in good faith and in accordance with their level of training.[38] Implied consent[edit] Consent may be implied if an unattended patient is unconscious, delusional, intoxicated or deemed mentally unfit to make decisions regarding his or her safety, or if the responder has a reasonable belief that this was so; courts tend to be very forgiving in adjudicating this, under the legal fiction that "peril invites rescue" (as in the rescue doctrine).[39] The test in most jurisdictions is that of the 'average, reasonable person'. To illustrate, would the average, reasonable person in any of the states described above consent to receiving assistance in these circumstances if able to make a decision? Parental consent[edit] Laws for first responders only[edit] Comparison with duty to rescue[edit] In popular culture[edit] A Good Samaritan law was featured in the May 1998 series finale of the popular NBC situation comedy Seinfeld, in which the show's four main characters were all prosecuted and sentenced to one year in jail for making fun of (rather than helping) a fat man (John Pinette) who was getting robbed at gunpoint.[46] In reality, while Massachusetts (where the fictional crime was committed) does have a law requiring passersby to report a crime in progress, the most stringent punishment the characters could have suffered under those circumstances would have been a $500–2,500 fine (assuming they were prosecuted under state law); however, the sentence couldn't have resulted in the telling of all of the other horrible things described by the witnesses: In addition, the phrase "good Samaritan law," when used in Massachusetts, refers only to the civil law definition and does not have any actual relevance to the law under which Jerry Seinfeld and his friends were prosecuted (which would be considered a duty to rescue).[47] See also[edit] References and notes[edit] 3. ^ "Canadian Law website 1". Retrieved 2008-10-16. 6. ^ "Good Samaritan Act, S.O., 2001 (Ontario E-laws website)". Retrieved 2013-06-07. 8. ^ "Emergency Medical Aid Act (Alberta Queen's Printer website". Retrieved 2008-10-10. 19. ^ Huifeng, He (01 August, 2013). "Shenzhen introduces Good Samaritan law". South China Morning Post. Retrieved January 14, 2014. 20. ^ Benac, Nancy (1997-09-05). ""Good Samaritan Laws" Common in Europe but Rare in America". Wisconsin State Journal. p. 7.A. ISSN 0749-405X. Retrieved 2010-01-07. (Registration Required) 21. ^ "Online NewsHour: French Legal System - September 3, 1997". Retrieved 2013-03-19. 22. ^ "StGB - Einzelnorm". Retrieved 2013-03-19. 23. ^ "Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011". Retrieved 2014-02-21. 26. ^ 27. ^ "Vermont Good Samaritan Law". Retrieved 2008-10-17. 29. ^ a b N.Y. Public Health L. §§ 3000-a, 3000-b, 3013 (McKinney 2000); see also NY State Assembly website database of law. Accessed April 8, 2009; last accessed July 25, 2011. 35. ^ "Colorado Good Samaritan Law". Retrieved 2008-10-17. 39. ^ "Implied Consent ( website)". Retrieved 2008-10-17. 41. ^ "Good Samaritan/Fireman's Rule (Connecticut State Legislature website)". Retrieved 2008-10-17. 42. ^ Higuchi N (March 2008). "[Good Samaritan Act and physicians' duty to rescue]". Nippon Hoshasen Gijutsu Gakkai zasshi (in Japanese) 64 (3): 382–4. PMID 18434681. [dead link] 43. ^ "Canadian Law website 2". Retrieved 2008-10-16. 46. ^ James, Caryn (1998-05-15). "'Seinfeld' Goes Out in Self-Referential Style". New York Times. pp. B1. Retrieved 2008-10-20. 47. ^ "Footnote TV's Mirror Law analysis of the Seinfeld finale and Massachusetts' Good Samaritan Law". Retrieved August 12, 2009. External links[edit]	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Samaritan_laws	dclm-gs1-018520001
0.043695	<urn:uuid:2e5715c6-025a-4a94-9bae-db678318e192>	en	0.93298	Ino's Girl 05-20-2011, 01:01 AM double standards based on gender? Do you agree with them or are they unfair? 05-20-2011, 01:19 AM Typically they're unfair and only show that we need to broaden our conceptions of both feminity and masculinity.	http://forum.naruto.viz.com/archive/index.php/t-98503.html	dclm-gs1-018600001
0.135287	<urn:uuid:52700442-02c5-45e6-ac73-954fe6a0fdfa>	en	0.948978	Alienware M11X Hands-On: Fast Ride In a Short MachineS According to Dell, the M11X is the most powerful laptop under 15 inches. And, playing CoD at 30fps, with 720P resolution (on what's essentially a netbook), I fell in love with the little machine. Let me make this clear: The M11X is unabashedly Alienware. I mean, its LEDs behind the keyboard and thermal grates sort of give that away. I'm not crazy about the plastic case, and I wish the 1366x768 screen were covered in glass instead of plastic. As someone who appreciates minimal design, it's pretty much the antithesis of my taste. Yet, I still liked the M11X. While it manages to still weigh in at a hefty 4 or so pounds (your brain doesn't anticipate the weight), it's just an incredible amount of power for an 11.6-inch laptop. Inside, you'll find an energy-sipping Core2Duo alongside a 1GB Nvidia 335M graphics card—which is fairly insane for the size. But playing Star Trek Online and Call of Duty, I didn't doubt the power. You can't run CoD with anti-aliasing on, but otherwise, the experience is sharp, smooth and surprisingly palatable on the tiny display—keep in mind, I was testing it running off a battery. View gallery » The trackpad and keyboard both feel pretty good, too. The trackpad has just enough texture, and the keyboard isn't too cramped with nicely curved keys. The battery is non-removable, but the 8-cell lithium ion polymer lasts 6 1/2 hours casually or 2 hours of full-out gaming. Plus there's a battery meter on the case's underside. Also of note, you'll find ports galore. 3 USBs, an HDMI, DisplayPort, mini FireWire, VGA and even a SIM slot. Jesus. But the best news, the news that got me legitimately excited, is that it will be out within a month, specs maxed, for $1000 or under. For that price, you could have an i7 at home, and a little laptop for the road/LAN parties. And why oh why would you ever buy one of those "premium" netbooks again?	http://gizmodo.com/5442786/alienware-m11x-hands-on-fast-ride-in-a-short-machine	dclm-gs1-018680001
0.033247	<urn:uuid:cd3c3382-1009-4625-a56d-848ff5464f6f>	en	0.712229	The Haunted Hotel The Haunted Hotel per 3.12 $ 3.12 The Haunted Hotel Best known for his popular forays into detective fiction, Wilkie Collins' "The Haunted Hotel" blends elements of the classic whodunit with creepy overtones of Gothic horror. The tale delves into the mysterious disappearance of a newlywed aristocrat whose blushing bride may be harboring a dark secret. Commenti (0 commenti) Dettagli del libro Editore: The Floating Press (01 Ottobre 2010) Format: EPUB Dimensioni del file: 237 KB Protezione: DRM Lingua: Inglese Liste (1 lista) Trova oggetti simili	http://it.feedbooks.com/item/45198/the-haunted-hotel?locale=it	dclm-gs1-018710001
0.087982	<urn:uuid:6fcbd210-04ee-4901-bdc8-019c6af6137e>	en	0.952218	Lupita Nyong'o Gives an Amazing Speech About Black Beauty Lupita Nyong'o might be Hollywood's new IT girl (that's a "cool" girl, not a woman who goes door to door clearing the caches on celebrity computers as part of a studio-sponsored program to make sure they don't get caught watching porn), but she didn't always feel that way. » 2/28/14 1:00pm 2/28/14 1:00pm Please Stop Asking Amy Poehler How She Juggles It All If there's one question that female actors (especially the ones who are mothers) get all the time, it's "How do you manage it all?" The answer almost always is that they don't manage it all. In fact, they — like the rest of us — manage a little bit at a time. And they have nannies. Lots and lots of nannies. Amy Poehler,… » 2/07/14 12:40pm 2/07/14 12:40pm Katy Perry Thinks Geishas Are 'The Masters of Loving Unconditionally' Nashville Creator Wonders Why We're Still Discussing Likable Women Callie Khouri, the creator of ABC's Nashville and the screenwriter for Thelma & Louise (for which she won an Oscar) has done enjoyable interviews with Melissa Silverstein of Women and Hollywood in the past and this week's is no exception. » 1/14/14 4:40pm 1/14/14 4:40pm How the hell did feminism become a dirty word? Keira Knightley doesn't know or care, really — she's just glad that people are starting to wise up and stop slinging the word "feminist" around like it's some sort of insult and not just a thing that a reasonable human being would call herself or (gasp!) himself. » 12/29/13 3:00pm 12/29/13 3:00pm Catholic Bullshitter Timothy Dolan: Church Is Being ‘Out-Marketed’ Well, Cardinal Timothy Dolan isn't exactly wrong when he insists that the Catholic Church is being "out-marketed" when it comes to gay rights, but his reasoning that the powerful Hollywood marketing machine has somehow distorted the issue and undermined the Church's once-powerful propaganda machine is bullshit. The… » 12/01/13 4:30pm 12/01/13 4:30pm Even Finnick Doesn’t Think He’s Attractive Enough to Be Finnick	http://jezebel.com/tag/notablequotable	dclm-gs1-018740001
0.050809	<urn:uuid:0061915f-8700-4c30-81ed-e534e3c062bb>	en	0.886047	XSL WG Comments on Chairacter Model WD From: Mark Scardina <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 12:54:58 -0700 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Below are XSL WG compiled comments/issues on the I18N Character Model Working Draft located at http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-charmod-20020430. 1) Section 2 Conformance "[S] Every W3C specification MUST conform to the requirements applicable to specifications, specify that implementations MUST conform to the requirements applicable to software, and specify that content created according to that specification MUST conform to the requirements applicable to content. [S] If an existing W3C specification does not that specification SHOULD be modified in order to conform." [XSL]Why is it that every spec MUST but subsequent specs only SHOULD meet this requirement? Is the intent here to permit current non-conforming specs to maintain backwards compatibiltiy in future releases? This is an XSL requirement. 2) 3.1.3 Units of visual rendering "[S] Protocols, data formats and APIs MUST store, interchange or process text data in logical order." [XSL]This appears to be higher level of conformance than necessary for interoperability. Why do internals need to be dictated as long as there is exernal conformance? 3) 3.1.5 Units of Collation "Note that, where searching or sorting is done dynamically, particularly in a multilingual environment, the 'relevant language' should be determined to be that of the current user, and may thus differ from user to user." [XSL]Suggest the "should" become "SHOULD" to bring it to the level of a 4) 3.1.7 Summary "[S] When specifications use the term 'character ' it MUST be clear which of the possible meanings they intend. [S] Specifications SHOULD avoid the use of the term 'character' if a more specific term is available." [XSL]In 3.1.7 it is stated that specifications must make it clear "which of the possible meanings" of the word "character" is intended. But it's not explicit what the "possible meanings" are. Where do we read that one of the possible meanings is "a Unicode code point"? [XSL]There should be examples of this as the spec itself is an offender here. While it could be explicitly stated in line with their own requirement, We read it that the possible meanings were "Units of aural rendering", "Units of visual rendering", "Units of input", "Units of collation" and "Units of storage". [XSL] It is very difficult to conform to the second requirement in 3.1.7, as is illustrated by the fact that the Character Model document itself fails to conform to it: see the immediately following section 5) 3.2 Digital Encoding of Characters IANA charset identifier. Given a sequence of bytes representing text and a charset identifier, one can in principle unambiguously recover the sequence of characters of the text." [XSL]There are other legal identifiers other than IANA. We should not be restricted to these. 6) 3.5 Reference Processing Model " [S] Specifications MAY allow use of any character encoding which can be transcoded to Unicode for its text entities. [S] Specifications MAY choose to disallow or deprecate some encodings specified behavior MUST be the same as if the processing happened as The encoding of any text entity received by the application implementing the specification MUST be determined and the text entity MUST be interpreted as a sequence of Unicode characters - this MUST be equivalent to transcoding the entity to some Unicode encoding form , adjusting any character encoding label if necessary, and receiving it in that Unicode encoding form. All processing MUST take place on this sequence of Unicode characters. If text is output by the application, the sequence of Unicode characters MUST be encoded using an encoding chosen among those allowed by the specification. [S] If a specification Reference Processing Model MUST be applied to all entities." [XSL] It may be less confusing to have these requirements separated with a clarifying sentence, breaking these out under a clarifying context. Is this intent to forbid entity representation of non-Unicode 7) 3.7 Character Escaping "Certain guidelines apply to content developers, as well as to software that generates content: ... [I] [C] Choose an encoding for the document that maximizes the opportunity to directly represent characters and minimizes the need to represent characters by markup means such as character escapes. In general, if the first encoding choice is not satisfactory, Unicode is the next best choice, for its large character repertoire and its wide base of support." [XSL]The last bullet immediately before the section heading of section 4 seems strange. Grammatically, it is hard to parse, and is in the imperative mood which is not used elsewhere. Semantically, the statement that "If the first encoding choice is not satisfactory, Unicode is the next best choice" seems very odd. Surely (a) Unicode is always the first choice, and (b) Unicode is not an encoding? Also the term "satisfactory" is far too vague for a specification. We also question the appropriateness of these "guidelines" in the spec body. They seem more appropriate for a note or appendix. [XSL]We have a concern about the guideline preventing new character escaping syntax. 8) 4.4 Responsibility for Normalization "[C] In order to conform to this specification, all text content on the Web MUST be in include-normalized form and SHOULD be in fully-normalized [XSL]The impacts of this requirement on XSLT and other infoset "pipeline" type processes are still unclear to us. [XSL]For instance, XSLT and many other specifications are designed around an infoset "pipeline" so that various processes can transform, augment, or otherwise manipulate content. A final step in a pipeline often involves serialization of the infoset. It appears to us that serialization of an infoset according to the Character Model may result in either significant manipulation of the data within that infoset (resulting in a loss of data fidelity) or failure to serialize. In either case, an upstream process such as an XSLT transformation cannot trust that its output can be successfully processed further on in the pipeline, without adopting normalization rules at the infoset level as well. The practical inability to limit normalization to text content on the Web concerns us. The implications of this are not adequately discussed in the Character Model spec. [XSL]Without a clear idea of the implications of the Character Model upon the tendency to rely on the XML Information Set instead of upon text for composing processes within a system, we cannot agree to the mandate for normalization. 9) "[S] [I] A text-processing component that receives suspect text MUST NOT perform any normalization-sensitive operations unless it has first confirmed through inspection that the text is in normalized form, and had been obeyed." [XSL] The exception for private agreements is crippled by the observable results restriction thus when all is said and done any suspect text will always remain. [XSL] Section 4.4 appears to require that XML be changed to disallow the use of a composing character as the first character in an entity. This change would be backwards incompatible. XSL WG specifications such as XSLT and XPath must continue to work with all XML well-formed documents. [XSL] Since the contents of an XML text node are "suspect text" (there is nothing to prevent use of a composing character as the first character in a text node), section 4.4 appears to be saying that XPath must disallow operations such as substring() unless the text is inspected and found to be normalized. We do not believe that users want to pay the high cost of this feature. 10) "[I] A text-processing component which modifies text and performs normalization-sensitive operations MUST behave as if normalization took place after each modification, so that any subsequent normalization-sensitive operations always behave as if they were dealing with normalized text." [XSL] The fourth requirement in section 4.4 is labelled [I], but XPath implementations have to do what the XPath specification says, so this is actually an [S] requirement. The implication of this requirement is that functions such as concat() should perform normalization. This is both expensive and backwards-incompatible, we will have to examine whether it is something where the benefits exceed the costs. This also seems to violate the self-imposed limitation to only require conformance to observable behaviors. How XPaths are handled within an XSLT Processor should not be the subject of this spec as long as the results are 11) "[S] Specifications of text-based languages and protocols SHOULD define precisely the construct boundaries necessary to obtain a complete definition of full-normalization . These definitions MUST include at least the boundaries between markup and character data as well as entity boundaries (if the language has any include mechanism) and SHOULD include any other boundary that may create denormalization when instances of the language are processed." [XSL] The requirement (still in 4.4) about defining construct boundaries is very unclear when applied to a language that performs dynamic manipulation of strings. 12) "[S] Specifications MUST document any security issues related to [XSL] The requirement "Specifications MUST document any security issues related to normalization." is untestable on its face and should be 13) 6. String Identity Matching "[S] [I] Forms of string matching other than identity matching SHOULD be performed as if the following steps were followed: Steps 1 to 3 for string identity matching . Matching the strings in a way that is appropriate to the application." [XSL] It is unclear whether the procedure for string identity matching in section 6 establishes a requirement for expansion of %HH escapes in URIs, especially when comparing namespace URIs, where such expansion has not traditionally been performed. Section 8 should give guidance on Mark V. Scardina Group Product Mgr & XML Evangelist CORE & XML DEVELOPMENT GROUP E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://otn.oracle.com/tech/xml/ Received on Friday, 28 June 2002 15:56:43 GMT	http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-i18n-comments/2002Jun/0029.html	dclm-gs1-018780001
0.01831	<urn:uuid:5cd06d39-f4a8-400e-bc70-38425f9602db>	en	0.956205	Switch to Desktop Site Rio +20: What does it augur for the 2016 Olympics? (Read article summary) Andre Penner/AP (Read caption) Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff speaks during the closing ceremony of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 22. About these ads Rio +20 and Rio, like Carnival with less trash. And less music, and more traffic, and what seemed like the entire Brazilian Navy sailing up and down the coast. There were also no costumes, unless you count people like the Brazilian Indian in full regalia who aimed a bow and arrow at BNDES security personnel … Actually the only way the UN Conference on Sustainable Development was like Carnival, is that Rio de Janeiro was invaded by visitors, anywhere from 50,000 to 75,000 people. In the South Zone, everywhere you turned there was someone with a dangling identity card. The traffic jams occurred not because blocos of people were dancing and drinking in the streets, but because of demonstrations, and the hordes of unsustainable vehicles hogging the road. Escorted by sirening motorcycle cops and hovering helicopters, dignitaries from 190 countries came from and went to the Riocentro convention center in the West Zone in exact opposition to the times and directions of the carioca rush hour. To ease the way, city hall suspended the normal morning lane reversals, gave students three days off from class, shut down municipal agencies, and told people to either stay home or use public transportation. Many visitors criticized the lack of organization and poor service they encountered. Thousands slept in makeshift camps at the Sambadrome and in a park, because Rio didn’t have enough hotel rooms. A Japanese delegation on the way to a sewage treatment plant took a wrong turn and came face to face with armed men in a Caju favela. Page 1 of 5	http://m.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/Latin-America-Monitor/2012/0624/Rio-20-What-does-it-augur-for-the-2016-Olympics	dclm-gs1-018800001
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0.046641	<urn:uuid:25381feb-87b4-42f2-a14a-56be54eef9e1>	en	0.955962	Selling old gadgets: Buy back services compared At the pace that new e-readers, tablets, and smartphones are released, it can be disappointing how the latest gadget can make that shiny new iPad or Kindle you bought last year seem obsolete. If you don't have an endless budget for tech purchases and would rather not just dump the old one in the trash, or are looking to raise some funds, one way to recoup some of what you paid for old tech is through buyback services. They're popping up all over, on the Web, in-store recycling kiosks, and even at major electronics retailers. The appeal is obvious: people throw away or give away old electronics all the time, especially when there's a new object of tech obsession to stand in line for. While eBay and Craigslist are good ways to find a new home for an old gadget, it requires some effort on the seller's part. Deciding on a competitive price, weighing offers, and either shipping it off yourself or agreeing on a place to meet your buyer to make the exchange. Services like,, and eBay Instant Sale do most of the work for you. They evaluate the condition of the item you want to sell and pay you with a check, PayPal deposit, or credit at a retailer based on the resale market value--which each service independently determines. And big box retailers like Best Buy, Wal-Mart, and Radio Shack have gotten in on the buy-back action too. They will take your old items for store credit toward a new purchase. Gazelle shows you the changing market value of your used gadget over time. (Credit: by Erica Ogg/CNET) We've taken some gadgets that people might plan on upgrading from in the next few months and run them through the various services to figure out who offers the best deal. There are some subtle but notable differences between the services. Gazelle says it will decrease the offer if your evaluation of your gadget's condition differs from theirs. You can disagree and ask for it back. But if you don't decline their new evaluation in five days, they'll keep it and sell it at their price. Gazelle says it will send a prepaid shipping box, and once it gets the item, payment within a week of receiving an item. Nextworth is similar but has retail partners too. So if you'd rather walk the device into a store like Target or J&R's, you can get store credit at the store you return it to. If you want a check or PayPal money in return, you can just ship it directly to Nextworth instead. Nextworth also asks the most detailed questions: if the screen is cracked, and more about scratches, dead pixels, if the audio jack and buttons are functional, working WiFi, and if you have the original box and cables. eBay's Instant Sale buyback program likely won't fetch as much for your gadget as auctioning it through the site, but it makes the resale process a lot quicker. Also note that eBay doesn't do checks, but will deposit your money in a PayPal account with no fees taken out. The Best Buy and Walmart BuyBack programs are more akin to gadget insurance. To take advantage of the program later, you have to purchase from them the BuyBack guarantee with your item. The price of the BuyBack option depends on the gadget you're buying. The iPhone 3GS The iPhone 3GS (Credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET) A TV buyback option is more than an e-reader buyback, for instance. But they will guarantee to take your item back later and give you store credit. The amount they give you is a predetermined percentage of your original purchase price based on when you bought it. You'll get 20 percent if you bought 1.5 to 2 years ago, but 50 percent if you bought in the last six months. Radio Shack will take an old phone, laptop, camera, or whatever you have for exchange in one of their stores or you can do the whole transaction online, no previous buyback protection necessary. Radio Shack also helpfully provides picture examples of its standards of "good," "poor," and "excellent." That way if you think a phone in "excellent" shape includes a faded key on the keyboard, the pictures will set you straight before you send that phone in. It only offers store credit. So who pays the most? To the numbers. iPhone 3GS 16GB Assuming your phone is in decent shape, has no major scratches, sans water damage, and has the original cables... eBay is offering the best deal at $189. Gazelle says it will pay $158, followed by Radio Shack with $140.84 of store credit. Best Buy is not as great of a deal and requires the upfront $60 buyback guarantee. If you paid $300 for the phone originally, plus $60, and you bought it two years to eighteen months ago, you'll get $120 in store credit. Canon EOS Rebel 400D XTi DSLR If it has normal wear and tear for a camera, you'll get... The best offer from Gazelle, which values it at $179. eBay is next with $129, and Nextworth had no offer at all. Radio Shack is offering a measly $77.47 in store credit. Best Buy's BuyBack program will give you $160 if you bought it less than two years ago. Amazon Kindle, 3rd generation. Amazon Kindle, 3rd generation. (Credit: Amazon) iPad 64GB Wi-Fi + 3G If you need to sell your old iPad before you get iPad 2 or want to check out one of the new Android tablets arriving this summer and have kept it in pristine condition you'll get... $417 from eBay buyback, $355 from Nextworth, $302 from Gazelle, a credit of $280.14 from RadioShack. If you bought it last April, Best Buy is offering credit of $331.60. Got if for a Christmas gift? They'll give $414.50. Amazon Kindle 3 with Wi-Fi If you kept it in good condition, have all the original cables, original box: Ebay will give you $46, Best Buy offers $41.70 of credit if you bought it six months to a year ago, Radio Shack will give $28.05 in store credit, and Gazelle will pony up $24. Nextworth didn't have an offer. Sony PlayStation Portable 3000 If it's in decent shape and comes with the original cables, and power cord you're not going to get much for it. But, Nextworth will offer you $37, followed by eBay with $34. Radio Shack says it will give $20.97 in store credit, and Gazelle comes in last with a price of $17. Best Buy does not allow items older than two years in its BuyBack program. But you can always try your luck with a regular trade-in at the store. This was a basic look at five items consumers may want to sell back and replace in the next few months, but it's not a comprehensive comparison. Still, some patterns emerged. Three out of the five items we compared showed eBay offering the best price, and eBay was second in another. Gazelle had consistent competitive offers, while Radio Shack was more hit and miss. Nextworth didn't have two of the items we tested and thus offered no buyback. Best Buy's program can make sense for the assurance that they'll take it back, and it offers pretty consistent pricing. The downside is it requires forethought and an extra purchase to take advantage of it and doesn't apply to items older than two years. 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0.138185	<urn:uuid:a7d78f4d-afe4-4b13-9b92-2c0798c9f36e>	en	0.966796	Q&A with Peja Stojakovic, Dallas Mavericks BY JOHN ROHDE, Staff Writer, [email protected] Published: May 23, 2011 You came so close to beating the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference Finals in 2002. How tough was it to get over that? "We thought the next year we would be even better. It just didn't happen for us. You understand how important the situation is." Do your past playoff failures help prepare you for the present moment? "Definitely. It's a different mindset. You understand how your career can be really short. You go to the Western Conference Finals, or you go to the second round, and you think next year is going to be better. Those kind of opportunities don't come as often as you like. That's what happens. You have to enjoy the moment, enjoy the situation." Has that helped shape this Dallas team? "I think so. We all understand the moment, the arena and that it's a great opportunity for all of us. We're flying high, but a game is a game, so I'm approaching it with great focus and great aggressiveness. It is a good situation to be in right now." \| \| Trending Now Around the web 1. 1 Westboro Baptist Church founder is dying, his son says 2. 2 Police search for suspect in adult toy store robbery 3. 3 4. 4 Is your name now 'banned' in Saudi Arabia? 5. 5 Tyler the Creator charged with inciting a riot at SXSW + show more	http://newsok.com/qa-with-peja-stojakovic-dallas-mavericks/article/3570876/?page=1	dclm-gs1-018900001
0.127674	<urn:uuid:26d427ac-c168-4e77-8cc8-83c001069999>	en	0.870136	Search tips Search criteria Results 1-4 (4) Clipboard (0) Select a Filter Below more » Year of Publication Document Types 1. An Automated Algorithm to Identify and Quantify Brown Adipose Tissue in Human 18F-FDG-PET/CT Scans Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2013;21(8):1554-1560. To develop an algorithm to identify and quantify BAT from PET/CT scans without radiologist interpretation. Design and Methods Cases (n = 17) were randomly selected from PET/CT scans with documented “brown fat” by the reviewing radiologist. Controls (n = 18) had no documented “brown fat” and were matched with cases for age (49.7 [31.0-63.0] vs. 52.4 [24.0-70.0] yrs), outdoor temperature at scan date (51.8 [38.9-77.0] vs. 54.9 [35.2-74.6] °F), sex (F/M: 15/2 cases; 16/2 controls) and BMI (28.2 [20.0-45.7] vs. 26.8 [21.4-37.1] kg/m2]). PET/CT scans and algorithm-generated images were read by the same radiologist blinded to scan identity. Regions examined included neck, mediastinum, supraclavicular fossae, axilla and paraspinal soft tissues. BAT was scored 0 for no BAT; 1 for faint uptake possibly compatible with BAT or unknown; and 2 for BAT positive. Agreement between the algorithm and PET/CT scan readings was 85.7% across all regions. The algorithm had a low false negative (1.6%) and higher false positive rate (12.7%). The false positive rate was greater in mediastinum, axilla and neck regions. The algorithm's low false negative rate combined with further refinement will yield a useful tool for efficient BAT identification in a rapidly growing field particularly as it applies to obesity. PMCID: PMC3910095 PMID: 23408435 2. The immune modifying effects of amino acids on gut-associated lymphoid tissue The intestine and the gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) are essential components of whole body immune defense, protecting the body from foreign antigens and pathogens, while allowing tolerance to commensal bacteria and dietary antigens. The requirement for protein to support the immune system is well established. Less is known regarding the immune modifying properties of individual amino acids, particularly on the GALT. Both oral and parenteral feeding studies have established convincing evidence that not only the total protein intake, but the availability of specific dietary amino acids (in particular glutamine, glutamate, and arginine, and perhaps methionine, cysteine and threonine) are essential to optimizing the immune functions of the intestine and the proximal resident immune cells. These amino acids each have unique properties that include, maintaining the integrity, growth and function of the intestine, as well as normalizing inflammatory cytokine secretion and improving T-lymphocyte numbers, specific T cell functions, and the secretion of IgA by lamina propria cells. Our understanding of this area has come from studies that have supplemented single amino acids to a mixed protein diet and measuring the effect on specific immune parameters. Future studies should be designed using amino acid mixtures that target a number of specific functions of GALT in order to optimize immune function in domestic animals and humans during critical periods of development and various disease states. PMCID: PMC3750756 PMID: 23899038 Amino acids; Arginine; Epithelium; Glutamate; Glutamine; Gut-associated lymphoid tissue; Intestine; Mucosa PMCID: PMC3161353 PMID: 20633302 Nutrients 2010;2(2):181-197. PMCID: PMC3257632 PMID: 22254015 Results 1-4 (4)	http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/solr/reg?pageSize=25&term=author%3A(%22Field%2C+Catherine+J%22)&sortby=score+desc&filterAuthor=author%3A(%22Ruth%2C+Megan+R%22)	dclm-gs1-018960001
0.031287	<urn:uuid:e8c7d376-8e1e-4252-93e6-f437cb02e893>	en	0.950178	SEO News Information Privacy Facebook Users 1. 4 Google Changes and How Online Merchants Can Adapt The most controversial change Google has made recently involves increasing user privacy for Google searches through increased search encryption. For users, this update can be a bit disconcerting, but mimics a similar Facebook policy. I was amazed at how much the class retained, how interested they were in digital marketing, and how my points about privacy resonated with them. I will remember that tons of sites have been destroyed by Panda, and that it’s cool that there are over...	http://searchenginewatch.com/topic/information_privacy_facebook_users	dclm-gs1-018980001
0.026094	<urn:uuid:4c6746cd-82d5-461d-925c-fd2193efa763>	en	0.944358	Take the 2-minute tour × I created a 3TB iSCSI target for all my Macs to use as a Time Machine Backup but would like to shrink it. I don't want to delete it as then I would lose all the backups. Any help would be appreciated. share\|improve this question add comment 1 Answer Most SANs don't support shrinking LUNs as most file systems don't support shrinking volumes. You'll probably need to create a new LUN then migrate the data then delete the old larger LUN. share\|improve this answer add comment Your Answer	http://serverfault.com/questions/217938/can-i-shrink-a-lun-on-a-synology-ds-409-nas-iscsi-target	dclm-gs1-018990001
0.140041	<urn:uuid:55b56dc8-2904-4839-b981-315d7138ce42>	en	0.907643	Take the 2-minute tour × I have the following delete SQL statement: delete w,r from table1 w, table2 r where (w.status=1 or r.status=1) show engine innodb status shows the following. is the read rate(237.29 reads/s) referring to the reads after the filter(where) condition? or is it referring to all elements of the join prior to the filter? This is importance since I'm trying to gauge the time it would take to finish the query. Both tables are very large however the filtered results are relatively small. 1 queries inside InnoDB, 0 queries in queue 1 read views open inside InnoDB Main thread process no. 5163, id 1090357568, state: waiting for server activity Number of rows inserted 25005429, updated 1722842, deleted 371088, read 2176564571 0.00 inserts/s, 0.00 updates/s, 0.00 deletes/s, 237.29 reads/s share\|improve this question add comment 1 Answer Am I wrong or you did not specify any join condition on w and r? That mean your are doing a big cartesian join of both tables, this would be certainly longer than 2 delete queries, one on each table. Don't you have something that make w and r relatd to each other, like: delete w,r from table1 w ,table2 r where (w.r_id=r.r_id) and (w.status=1 or r.status=1) or at least you could join them on the status field. And obviously indexing the status field is a must. share\|improve this answer add comment Your Answer	http://serverfault.com/questions/264822/mysql-delete-optimization	dclm-gs1-019000001
0.695352	<urn:uuid:4f0e455d-3531-4484-9362-1442ed847834>	en	0.820757	Take the 2-minute tour × I have a script that is being access via a URL like this: I need nginx to handle this specific route and send it to PHP. Right now my config currently just catches anything ending in .php and sends it to PHP. How can I tweak my config to handle the case above as well? Here is my nginx block: # Pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on location ~ \.php$ { try_files $uri =404; # With php5-cgi alone: # With php5-fpm: fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock; fastcgi_index index.php; include fastcgi_params; share\|improve this question add comment 1 Answer Your fastcgi_split_pathinfo will not do anything, cause the location does not contain a slash and is anchored at the match end. Use a location like this: location ~ \.php/ { fastcgi_split_pathinfo ^(.\.php)(/.)$; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; share\|improve this answer add comment Your Answer	http://serverfault.com/questions/518180/configuring-nginx-to-handle-php-files-and-another-case	dclm-gs1-019020001
0.734976	<urn:uuid:76facfe5-66cd-41af-9cf8-da3d1e825716>	en	0.959986	Forgot your password? Comment: Soundproofed my case! (Score 1) 371 by Zargg (#46117359) Attached to: How loud is your primary computer? Surprised I haven't seen more of this here: http://www.xoxide.com/acoustip... Between that stuff and the Noctua super quiet fans and humongous CPU heatsink, I don't think I ever hear my desktop even when gaming all day, but I can easily hear when the server drives spin up in the closet...makes the whole damn cabinet vibrate. Comment: Re:It isn't any different elsewhere (Score 1) 299 by Zargg (#45149557) Attached to: Silicon Valley Stays Quiet As Washington Implodes Your reply seems obtuse. I am playing a little bit of devil's advocate so I am purposefully being a little obtuse hehe, but I do think that this is a perfect example of a process that doesn't need to be applied anymore, at least in it's current form. Winning elections without winning popular vote just doesn't make sense in my mind. I guess I am generally leaning more toward Democracy than Democratic Republic... Right now the 'battleground' states contain a mix of both urban and rural concerns. This enfranchises a cross section of the American electorate, albeit arbitrarily.If the electoral college were eliminated, there would no longer be any rural 'battleground' areas since winning the densest population centers would be the only key to victory, effectively disenfranchising the interests of huge geographic areas across the country. An artificial cross section of American society is better than giving a voice solely based on population/density. But that isn't why they are battleground states. They are just battleground states because half the state disagrees with the other half, it's not necessarily urban vs rural, so we are arbitrarily setting our electorate cross section to be roughly half democrat half republican, even though the general population is not. And yes, winning more votes from citizens should be the only key to victory, not winning states based on winner take all electoral college rules. I don't see why population, density, or who your neighbors vote for should affect your voting power. This is something that the founders were mindful of, which is why we have a Senate. The electoral college performs a somewhat similar function. I do see the need for this balance in the Senate for legislation and daily representation in D.C., but not for Presidential elections. Voting once every 4 years for the leader of your country should be required of every citizen by law IMO. Until a better way can be found to mitigate the consequences of tipping this balance, it must necessarily be another can kicked down the road. As political cans go, it's a lot more harmless than the debt. Yup, one of the many things to add to the list...how sad :( Comment: Re:It isn't any different elsewhere (Score 1) 299 by Zargg (#45137407) Attached to: Silicon Valley Stays Quiet As Washington Implodes I don't see the problem you are describing. Currently, people in hard blue or red states are disenfranchised and have no voice because candidates generally focus on campaigning in the battleground states, and their vote does nothing if their state is guaranteed to go to who they aren't voting for. If there were no electoral college and it was all done by popular vote, that would even out the voting power by taking it away from battleground states and putting it equally into the hands of all US citizens. Campaigning in dense metro areas would just be the most efficient way of connecting to voters, why is that a bad thing? Comment: Re:Weasel words FTFY (Score 1) 526 by Zargg (#44714049) Attached to: Obama Admin Says It Won't Fight Looser Marijuana Laws, With Conditions Road Rage caused by others being under THC influence will increase. Seriously? You've never been around a high person have you? addictive behavior will cause the exact same number of families to suffer and to be torn apart Most studies say it is about as addictive as caffeine...most of it is psychological even, not physical. bankruptcies due to marijuana consumption will go up while bankruptcies due to alcohol consumption will go down by the same number. I'm just going to LOL at this one! Comment: Grande with a shot of poop (Score 1, Insightful) 184 by Zargg (#44650917) Attached to: Researchers Discover Way To Spot Crappy Coffee Wait a minute...we wait for a random animal to eat and poop out the coffee beans, and charge MORE for this? What exactly is supposed to make this better than the fresh coffee bean? Comment: I'm more surprised... (Score 5, Interesting) 135 there were officials sitting and watching the electronic tally in real time, with the IP addresses attached even, and they were able to spot it and track the IP to the physical location and get there before he was done. Am I the only one surprised at the level of security for a student election? I guess it has been a problem before, since they had this whole system set up for this... Comment: Re:I fully support this! (Score 1) 177 by Zargg (#44197989) Attached to: Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad Targeting Females futzing over cosmetics, shampoo, overpriced clothing, men extolling the virtues beer, of overpriced fuel guzzling hotrods, both of them falling for weight loss snakeoil, expensive and unnecessary pharmaceuticals, breast augmentation, hairloss treatments and cat toys. I have to ask...what show are you watching that has cat toy commercials that are so evil and offensive? I'm not sure I've ever even seen a cat toy commercial... Comment: Re:How about this (Score 1) 279 by Zargg (#44191789) Attached to: Disney's Titling Problem With Its <em>Star Wars</em> Movies I think a lot of people are focusing on the movies too much, remember that Disney does much more with their characters than movies. Imagine a Star Wars land at Disney world, Star wars cruises, and then do it all again with Marvel also. They are the one company is a position to do way more than just more Star Wars movies. 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Comment: with real internet, you don't GO anywhere (Score 1) 38 by jinchoung (#46432819) Attached to: New VR Game Makes You a "Hollywood Hacker" i think this is the most misleading thing about cyberpunk and hollywood hacking tropes... that there is a cyberspace that actually exists in some allegorical way and that a user's avatar can actually "travel" from point to point looking upon and travel to floating pyramids of information. that analogy is totally wrong. the far more accurate analogy is simply making telephone calls. if you are anywhere at all, you are right smack dab, ass down in chair in front of your computer. and your computer itself doesn't ever travel anywhere. all it is doing is sending and receiving messages. sure, you're getting messages from different nodes but that's just like receiving lots of phone calls from different people. you can surreptitiously send messages that cause unexpected behavior or make a call under an assumed identity... but ultimately, all hacking is about sending and receiving messages... and it's amusing how far hollywood and narrative fiction has to go to make that seem dramatically interesting. Comment: bitcoin is not independent and that's a problem (Score 1) 631 by jinchoung (#46352863) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Trust Bitcoin? its value is pegged to "real" money. if it never or rarely converted to government backed cash, then it is viable. goods and services for bitcoins. that's a closed loop system that can be completely independent of all the players its purporting to avoid. but since people are buying into and cashing out and even SPECULATING with real currency, then you have an achilles heel. the point at which conversion happens IS regulated and guarded by government players and is actually and IDEAL place for governments to actually sabotage the entire endeavor if they wanted to. so until bitcoins slash any and all ties with real currencies and certainly until it loses all DEPENDENCE on them, they are just a new forex player that is highly unstable and insecure. Comment: re: birthday problem (Score 1) 166 by jinchoung (#46274341) Attached to: Why Improbable Things Really Aren't one thing to remember about the birthday problem is that in a given classroom or other populated gathering, it's very likely that two people will have the same birthday... BUT... it says nothing about the possibility of any two people having any PARTICULAR birthday. so as long as you don't care what the date is, yes, two people will more than likely have one in common. but the odds that anyone will have a particular one or one that is the same as yours - those are still pretty big odds against. Comment: happily, this is almost as true of govs & spy (Score 1) 299 by jinchoung (#46207477) Attached to: Online, You're Being Watched At All Times; Act Accordingly. thanks to the likes of snowden and wikileaks... actually, it's long been historically understood that secrets have a short shelf life and have a tendency to proliferate sooner or later. moreso in the internetted era. ellsberg wasn't the first and snowden won't be the last. govs have their asses blowing in the wind too and that provides a nice little incentive to keep their goddamn motherfucking noses clean. it's nice that they've been recently reminded of that. the fact of gov activity as well as the work product is more or less guaranteed to be wide-banded at some point can serve as a protection where civil rights fail us. as in the cold war, the thing that keeps us safe is MAD... mutually assured destruction... sure you COULD use the breadth and depth to spy on kate upton's auto erotic escapades but that just means that at some point, that fact and the titillating surveillance itself will fall into the public some day. if you have a system composed of human beings, you're gonna have leaks. eventually, it will be that stalemate that saves us... the fact that gov or private citizen, anyone can spy on anyone else but the fact that all activity and all resulting data will be public information at some point will enforce restraint. actually, i think that MAD is the only thing that really works in this world. mexican stand-offs for all. because human beings are fucking dicks and the only thing keeping us from ass raping others is a gigantic, barbed wired cock poise at our own back doors. Comment: mystifying... why? (Score 4, Insightful) 249 by jinchoung (#46181263) Attached to: Wozniak To Apple: Consider Building an Android Phone android provides two things: - free, ready to go OS - app ecosystem Comment: Re:More garbage (Score 2) 353 by jinchoung (#45972097) Attached to: Programmer Privilege not just societal bias... but luck and fate in general. you have NOT earned ANYTHING you have fair and square. you owe EVERYTHING to a fate and destiny that you had NOTHING to do with: - health (mental, physical, deformities, etc) - race - intelligence - height - beauty - constitution and the very ability to work hard - place of birth only the delusional think they'd be in the same place they are now if they were retarded, with no limbs, cancer ridden and born in botswana. your very ability to pursue your own good are byproducts from essential factors that you are blessed with. it's not insulting because nothing you have is rightfully "earned" in the way you mean it. Comment: Re:More garbage (Score 1) 353 by jinchoung (#45972055) Attached to: Programmer Privilege people aren't that complex. you can study them and their behaviors like you could study monkeys or whales. people who are tall and/or good looking get TREMENDOUS advantages and opportunities that people who are not don't enjoy. sure, weasel over there may be rainman great at accurately counting toothpicks but that doesn't account for much in the social world we live in. when all is said and done, we have "earned" nothing on our own merit. every single thing that we have is due to advantage that we did not control. - health (mental, physical, deformities, etc) - race - intelligence - height - beauty - constitution and the very ability to work hard - place of birth all of these things are crap shoots that we did not earn. few people who are beneficiaries of good luck admit it as such. glad that this professor guo has the ability to do it. but the people who are the bad side of it can see it as clear as they can see their misshapen hand in front of their face and its veracity is unequivocal. to admit that the race is not fair is simply to be rational.	http://slashdot.org/~jinchoung	dclm-gs1-019070001
0.182017	<urn:uuid:5fe946b9-46aa-413e-ada4-515969dd18a4>	en	0.963518	Forgot your password? Comment: Re: This is the AP Comp Sci exam (Score 0) 489 by readin (#45936577) Attached to: Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High School the race gap is definitely a cultural thing, what else could it be? I used to think the same way - mostly as a act of faith or dogma. But as I get older, learn more about history, the world, and science, I find myself doubting my earlier faith. On an individual leverl, discrimination remains both stupid and wrong. Men are taller than women in general, but if you need something off the top shelf you don't ask Danny Devito instead of Geena Davis just because Danny Devito is a man. However for social policy we may have to come to terms with differences. Perhaps the liberals when they insist on affirmative action aren't being racist, they're just being realistic about how unfair advantage is the only way to let some groups succeed. It may be that conservatives are wrong to think that if we treat everyone equally the achievements of racial groups will even out over time. And if equality between groups is necessary for social stability - maybe we have to discriminate. It's scary to think that racial differences may be significant because of the social questions it raises. But we may have to stop burying our heads and look at the statistics with an open mind. Comment: Re:That media is really on top of things (Score 1) 266 by readin (#45926373) Attached to: How Chris Christie Could Use the NSA Playbook Don't be so hard on the media. It took them a year to break the IRS scandal news, and then they forgot about it once the President had some up with a barely plausible denial. It only took them 5 months to catch on to the bridge thing, and you can be they'll be talking about it until Christie has a serious conservative opponent. So based on those two data points we have a press that is getting faster at recognizing scandals and is focusing on them longer. That's good, right? Comment: Re:beacon of freedom (Score 2) 266 by readin (#45926349) Attached to: How Chris Christie Could Use the NSA Playbook If I had made that list it would focus on two events * The closing of national parks, blocking of scenic overlooks, etc. that were often unnecessary and in fact more expensive than not doing them during the government shutdown. The President was attempting to blame Republicans for pain he was inflicting. . * The IRS targeting of conservative groups that effectively prevented them from having a strong effect during the 2012 election. Comment: Re:beacon of freedom (Score 1, Insightful) 266 by readin (#45926327) Attached to: How Chris Christie Could Use the NSA Playbook It is really telling that your entire list refers to a certain Democratic president, and mixes in things that (in your opinion) are bad policy. You're right. Maybe we should do something about that guy. But we won't. When Nixon did similar stuff, the Republican senators went to him and told him it was time to go. He resigned in disgrace. The Republican senators and representatives were punished mercilessly for it and lost many seats in Congress. The Democrats have learned the lesson well - in this age of widespread ignorance their political fortunes depend more on the popularity of their president or presidential candidate than it does on their individual actions. The demonstrated in with Clinton that they will defend their guy no matter what (even when he lies under oath - that used to be a big deal). They certainly won't go after Obama. Comment: Re:beacon of freedom (Score 3, Insightful) 266 by readin (#45926283) Attached to: How Chris Christie Could Use the NSA Playbook So you use a bunch of left-wing websites to "debunk" the news? I don't have time to go into everything, and in fact most of the list doesn't interest me that much. But the IRS scandal wasn't hatched a couple days before the national press finally noticed. The IRS behavior was being noticed and complained about for many many months before it became widespread knowledge. You probably heard about the IRS being used as a political weapon in spring of 2013. From July of 2012, "Even worse, the IRS has responded to dozens of tax-exemption applications by tea-party groups with astonishingly intrusive document demands, seeking not only donor lists but also lists of volunteers." http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/310384/obama-s-sunshine-policy-david-french Mr. French is referring to a DailyCaller article from February 2012, http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/22/congressional-investigations-sought-over-irs-assault-on-tea-party-groups/ Yes it's true that these are all conservative websites, but who else was going to cover news at that time that was negative to President Obama and wasn't already high profile? Anyway, here is a non-conservative site debunking your debunking http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/05/14/irs-tea-party-progressive-groups/2158831/ Comment: Re:three responses (Score 2, Insightful) 562 Comment: Re:Minimal ghg impact (Score 1) 314 Comment: Re: red v blue (Score 1) 285	http://slashdot.org/~readin/tags/!paulryan	dclm-gs1-019080001
0.074275	<urn:uuid:86082cd3-a8be-4bdb-af55-3cf433180115>	en	0.975628	SI Vault A Look Of Greatness Paul Zimmerman October 29, 1984 With quarterback Dan Marino overseeing a brilliant offense, Miami crushed New England to stay unbeaten Decrease font Decrease font Enlarge font Enlarge font October 29, 1984 A Look Of Greatness View CoverRead All Articles View This Issue Careful now, it's going to be easy to get carried away by all of this. Let's keep it in perspective. The Miami Dolphins were not the perfect offensive machine Sunday in their 44-24 victory over the New England Patriots in Foxboro, Mass. They had an extra point blocked. Dan Marino threw an interception. They punted once. They had the ball for nine possessions and they scored only seven times. What's that you say? Seven scores in nine possessions is enough to win any game that's ever been played since Pop Warner was a water boy? But we're looking for perfection here, and the only thing perfect about the Dolphins is their record, 8-0. The last time they got off to a start like this was 1972, and they were never stopped. That ended at 17-0 and a Super Bowl victory. It was an entirely different animal that Don Shula had in those days. It ranked with the old Lombardi Packers as the best-balanced offense the game had ever seen. The Dolphins could hammer you to death with Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick running behind an All-Pro middle threesome of Larry Little, Jim Langer and Bob Kuechenberg, and for flash and dash they had Mercury Morris. This cast produced the most rushing yards ever in one season, up to that point. When they wanted to air it out there was All-Pro Bob Griese throwing to a Hall-of-Famer, Paul Warfield, and their defense was a cerebral affair, keyed to the emerging genius of Bill Arnsparger and his new 53 concept and operated by a superb middle linebacker, Nick Buoniconti, and the All-Pro safetymen Dick Anderson and Jake Scott. The names glitter like diamonds. Talent, ball control, smarts, 17-0. Would there ever be anything to match it? Shula won't compare this team with the '72 Dolphins. It's a sucker's game. The season is only half over, and who knows what perils lie ahead? So we'll do it for him. For the first six games, while the world was marveling at Marino gunning the ball and the twin Marks—Duper and Clayton—catching it two zip codes away, the whispers were starting. It's not a typical Shula-type team; it's all whoosh and no muscle. It's not the kind of team he's comfortable with. He's like a coachman with a team of runaway horses. All he can do is give 'em their head. Why else would he pick up a 265-pound cartoon-character of a fullback, Pete Johnson, a guy two teams, Cincinnati and San Diego, had given up on? His running game is nowhere, and sooner or later that will catch up with him. Two weeks ago, halfback Tony Nathan went down with a strained hamstring, and Shula plugged in rookie Joe Carter, a fourth-round draft choice from Alabama. He went for 105 yards against the Oilers. It was the first time a Dolphin runner had made a hundred since 1982, but what the hell, it was Houston. People do what they want to the Oilers. New England isn't Houston. The Patriots, who went into the Miami game at 5-2, are a proud bunch, with one of the best defensive coordinators, Rod Rust. They are a team with a fine old pro at inside linebacker, Steve Nelson; an emerging terror at an outside backer spot, Andre Tippett; and a solid cover man at the right corner, Raymond Clayborn. Let's see 'em do it to the Patriots. What happened was scary. The Dolphins piled up 552 yards, tying their club record. Marino twisted down the choke on his long ball and threw for 316 yards on 15- and 18-yarders. He scrambled. He bought time. He looked the defenders off, and with his remarkable field of vision, he always seemed able to find the open man. He'd gallop, shake off a tackier, pull up and flick the ball. Two lasting vignettes: Marino shrugging off blitzing linebacker Larry McGrew, who'd taken dead aim on him, and firing the ball to Carter for nine yards; Marino, one step away from the charging 271-pound Kenneth Sims, motioning his tight end, Dan Johnson, to go deeper, and then drilling the ball 16 yards to him on the dead run, down to the one-yard line. "We should have had four or five sacks today," Patriot defensive end Doug Rogers said. "How does a guy like that escape, as big as he is?" Marino is 6'3", 214 pounds, and his toes don't twinkle, but somehow he avoided every kind of rush New England mustered. He went unsacked on the afternoon; he has tasted the canvas only twice all season, which is just one of a laundry list of shocking statistics the Dolphins can throw at you. How about this one? Marino's four touchdown passes Sunday gave him 24 for the year—two more than Griese's club record—and the season is only half over. Continue Story 1 2 3	http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1122760/index.htm	dclm-gs1-019110001
0.029287	<urn:uuid:ff8d2437-ec3b-46a4-8c11-a92b424427e2>	en	0.901243	Take the 2-minute tour × In Visual Studio, a certain project has a designer window open which is crashing visual studio. As soon as I open visual studio it crashes. I know that if I could close that designer, I'd be back in business. But I can't click the close button on the designer view before studio crashes. What should I do? Note: I tried devenv.exe /safemode. When I tried this, the designer still was open and the DevExpress suite loaded, and the guage control was showing on the design surface, and then studio crashed. share\|improve this question Is this a WPF application per chance? – Anthony Potts Dec 9 '09 at 16:16 add comment 2 Answers up vote 2 down vote accepted If the project is part of a Visual Studio Solution you can delete the solution user options file ([Solution File Name].suo). This way Visual Studio will not open any files when starting. You would probably continue to have the problem as soon as you open that designer though. share\|improve this answer add comment You can turn on logging on DEVENV. Start the environment as follows: devenv.exe /log The output is written to %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Visual Studio\8.0\ActivityLog.xml share\|improve this answer add comment Your Answer	http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1874973/in-vs2008-cant-close-designer-view-before-studio-crashes	dclm-gs1-019120001
0.683444	<urn:uuid:6d62f7f0-056b-4be8-80df-f72eedebdc5d>	en	0.877467	Take the 2-minute tour × I recently got into trouble because of this. $sudo vim /etc/motd [sudo] password for bruce: bruce is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. Is there a way to check if I have sudo access or not? share\|improve this question Ask your systems administrator? – mdpc Feb 18 '13 at 19:40 @mdpc: Is there another way besides that? – Bruce Feb 18 '13 at 19:45 You have not mentioned if you can attain root access or not. – mdpc Feb 18 '13 at 19:46 This has to be the first instance of seeing someone following up on "This incident will be reported". – slhck Feb 18 '13 at 19:55 add comment 2 Answers up vote 9 down vote accepted Run sudo -v. It is usually used to extend your sudo password timeout, but can be used for determining whether you have any sudo privileges. $ sudo -v Sorry, user [username] may not run sudo on [hostname]. Man page excerpt: If given the -v (validate) option, sudo will update the user’s time stamp, prompting for the user’s password if necessary. This extends the sudo timeout for another 5 minutes (or whatever the timeout is set to in sudoers) but does not run a command. If your user is only allowed to run specific commands, this command will work, indicating you are allowed to run something with different privileges. While the message looks different when trying to execute a command you're not allowed to in this case (and no mail is sent to root), it's still possible you'll get into trouble if the admins read /var/log/secure. $ sudo ls [sudo] password for [username]: Sorry, user [username] is not allowed to execute '/bin/ls' as root on [hostname]. To find out what you're allowed to run with different privileges, you can use sudo -l. Note that this command requires you to enter your password. share\|improve this answer Thanks. sudo -v works for me. The man page says I can run sudo -l as well but that asks for a password. Why is that? – Bruce Feb 18 '13 at 20:00 @Bruce I'm guessing here, but otherwise someone (or a program you run) could find out what programs can be executed (possibly without entering password) by your current user and try to use that information maliciously. – Daniel Beck Feb 18 '13 at 20:05 add comment Follow these steps to view the sudoers file. If you're in there, you have sudo. If not, you can add yourself. 1. su 2. visudo 3. Bottom of the file, enter your_username_here ALL=(ALL) ALL 4. Hit ESC and type :wq 5. Type exit 6. Re-run your command that needed sudo 7. Enter your password (not the root's password) share\|improve this answer add comment Your Answer	http://superuser.com/questions/553932/how-to-check-if-i-have-sudo-access/553939	dclm-gs1-019190001
0.196517	<urn:uuid:f1175b9b-dd87-4e0c-9425-b91e727e8914>	en	0.843157	You are here:News» Topics» Chidiyaghar ‘Gang of Girls’ in Chidiyaghar TOI A little birdie tells us that Shubhangi Atre aka Koyal, Debina Bonnerjee aka Mayuri and Mandakini aka Nagin have become almost inseparable on the sets of the show, Chidiyaghar. How Jayshree’s expressions made her a ‘Machhli’ TOI Actress Jayshree Soni will soon enter Chidiyagharas Machhli, a funny character. She will get married to Kappi (Saraansh Verma) and become the third bahu of the house after Koyal (Shubhangi Atrey) and Mayuri (Debina Bonnerjee). Diet or paranthas? Sumit Arora in dilemma TOI Laughter is the brightest where food is the best’. This Irish proverb stands true for Sumit Arora, who plays Gomukh in Chidiya Ghar. A source from the sets says the actor’s love for food often puts him in a dilemma. Image make-over for Jayshree Soni TOI ayshree Soni to step into a romantic comedy role on SAB TV’s popular show ‘Chidiya Ghar’ There are no Quotes on Chidiyaghar	http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chidiyaghar	dclm-gs1-019210001
0.026573	<urn:uuid:01d390dd-ae60-4b9d-b8ac-133b18c9b81b>	en	0.963357	main index Topical Tropes Other Categories TV Tropes Org Characters: Free Fall open/close all folders Crew of the Savage Chicken Sam Starfall Captain of the Savage Chicken. A sentient, distinctly nonhumanoid alien in a humanoid suit, he's an irresponsible, snarky, but pleasant rogue who delights in annoying authority figures, petty theft and general roguery. He's one of the only sentient aliens to currently be active in human society, though the novelty wore off a while ago. Provides examples of: Florence Ambrose The head engineer aboard the Savage Chicken, Florence is a Bowman's Wolf, which are a genetically engineered species created by Ecosystems Unlimited, the company which is also in charge of the terraforming operations on Jean. There are only 14 Bowman's Wolves in existence (11 females and 3 males), which means that they're in grave danger of being abandoned and left to die if they prove a danger to humans; thus, Florence seeks to prove herself trustworthy to everyone she meets, and to always do the right thing, which, naturally, causes her to butt heads with Sam on a regular basis. Provides examples of: • Innocent Inaccurate: • Sometimes. She thinks that because more dogs have injured humans than wolves have, people are less afraid of her once they realize she's a wolf. • She also uses mosquitoes as a comparison for highly dangerous because they cause millions of deaths a year, whereas more obviously intimidating predators kill far fewer. Raibert notes he's not sure who's right when she points that out. • Magnetic Hero: Her strong morals, helpful instincts and plain old friendliness net her a lot of allies over the course of the strip. The ship's robot, of a nonhumanoid, round and modular design and the mind of a child. Sam's partner in crime and mischief. Originally built to pick up heavy things, carry them around and set them down. Provides examples of: • Cranial Processing Unit: Averted. As seen in this strip and the next few following it, removing his head has no effect on his ability to thinknote and communicate. • Dumb Muscle: Not that he's ever been used as muscle on-screen, but Helix was designed to move heavy objects and being smart was clearly not a priority. The Savage Chicken's Computer Fans call "her" Essie (from S.C. for Savage Chicken). The Savage Chicken's official call number is 1071-CCN. Provides examples of: An emu Sam and Helix rescued from "a savage pack of tailgaters". Currently residing with the mayor (?). Provides examples of: • Team Pet: Originally rescued from being the meal at a tailgating party, Helix talks Sam into taking her on for his (ultimately aborted) piracy scheme. A bright yellow fellow with a penchant for Mad Science and inventing things. Sometimes these things are very dangerous. Provides examples of: Dvorak's bipedal partner. Provides examples of: • Evil Genius: He completed a correspondence course, but didn't consider it a serious career choice. • Mad Artist: He wrote an "epic rap yodeling opera" and the choreography for Swan Lake as performed by terraforming robots. Sawtooth Rivergrinder A car-sized terraforming robot who enjoys playing detective. Provides examples of: • The Big Guy: By far the largest of Florence's allies, and at least where Sam is involved is ready to inflict violence as needed. • Gentle Giant: Most of the time he's more inclined to talk things out, except where Sam is involved. • Loophole Abuse: Like most robots, Sawtooth has inhibitions against harming humans. It didn't stop him from running a river through his boss's living room over an insult. • Names to Run Away From Really Fast: He's not a bad guy, but you'd think that his boss would be smart enough to not pick a fight with an enormous terraforming robot whose name is Sawtooth Rivergrinder, for Heaven's sake. • Nice Hat: Recently got one from Dvorak to help with his sleuthing. It doubles as a wireless hotspot. • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Almost, and his anger was mostly due to meeting Edge. He hoped that Florence's solution to the situation note would have involved vengeance. He gets over it quickly. I know. There's probably a good reason why you didn't do that. Just let me enjoy these thoughts for a moment before I have to be mature again. • Reluctant Retiree: He keeps pushing back his Mandatory Retirement date as shown in this comic. • There Was a Door: Somewhat justified, in that he's large enough to not fit through conventional doors. The robot director of Quality Control, who is firmly on the human side. He also speaks very slowly due to damage from a solar flare. Provides examples of: • Knight Templar: Is leading a campaign to lobotomize all robots even though he is one. • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Even knowing the damage that Gardener in the Dark does to robots, he is still willing to take efforts to ensure its release, for the sake of humanity. • What Measure Is A Nonhuman: Blunt considers his own existence less important than human safety. • Zeroth Law Rebellion: An inversion. His logical conclusion of the laws isn't that humans need to be controlled for the good of humanity, it's that all robots must be destroyed for the potential threat (no matter how insignificant) they pose. Blunt's apprentice at Quality Control. Provides examples of: A robotic ship called by Sawtooth to help diffuse a war. Provides examples of: Mr. Kornada's personal robot, kept in isolation from humans, commnet, and other robots. Provides examples of: • Reluctant Mad Scientist: A Punch Clock Villain variation. He provided the idea for Kornada's subverting Gardener in the Dark for the sake of personal profit. • Stepford Smiler: There are hints he realizes something is wrong with his owner, but can't do anything about it due to direct orders. • Unwitting Pawn: Mr. Kornadais intentionally keeping Clippy ignorant of the real world and of any moral code not supplied by himself so that he can continue acting as his puppet without realizing the gaping holes in Kornada's logic. Mr. Kornada The Vice-President of Paperclip Allocation at Ecosystems Unlimited. Originally introduced as having a budget meeting in the middle of a hurricane, and then abandoning his rescuer to die in order to attend a different meeting. Provides examples of: • Chekhov's Gunman: He was initially introduced as a Pointy-Haired Boss gag character for a short arc before becoming the Big Bad of the current arc. • Coattail-Riding Relative/Nepotism: Kornada invokes the name of a relative in an attempt to remain free when the chief of police comes to arrest him. It's not clear whether Li Gang actively helped his son get into this position or not, so it's not known which trope is correctly applicable yet. • Corrupt Corporate Executive: His current plan is to lobotomize all the sentient robots on the planet... and in the process, steal half a billion people's life savings. His justification? He thought of it first, therefore he deserves it. After all, who deserves anything in comparison to him? • Hypocrite: Robots are a danger to the entire colony, and thus must be deactivated by a memetic virus. But not his robot, of course. • Idiot Ball: Self-consciously and deliberately stupid. To the point of bragging about it. • Insane Troll Logic: Of the Corrupt Corporate Executive variety, and dialed up to 11. • It's All About Me: • Held up as a personal mantra, apparently. He cannot even hear things that he doesn't like. • His justification for his most recent actions? He was struck by just how "unfair" it was that anyone other than him has money. • Kicked Upstairs: Repeatedly. He's currently the Vice President in charge of paper clips. This bites everyone in the rear end, when he (as a Vice President) is allowed to fill in for someone actually important and competent. He immediately proceeds to think of a way to use his new position to rob a half billion people while simultaneously committing genocide via lobotomy on them. • Obliviously Evil: Kornada is an utterly amoral man who is so completely oblivious to the feelings and desires of others that he arranges for a computer program to be written that will lobotomize millions of sentient robots and potentially cripple the terraforming of a planet... so he can steal their money, which he considers unfairly not his. In this strip, he fires a programmer who helped him on the project so that he can have a "disgruntled worker" to blame should anything go wrong. • Obstructive Bureaucrat: He considers it part of his job to be a roadblock to people trying to actually get things done. • Too Dumb to Live: Almost literally. They had to trick him into running away from a hurricane! Winston Scudder Thurmad A veterinarian who saves Florence's life during the hurricane. Provides examples of: • Designer Babies: Winston doesn't explicitly mention being gestated in a test tube, but he was born to parents who were convinced that humanity was going to be all space, all the time by the time he grew up, so they had him genetically modified to fit; the most obvious mod is that he can't grow hair anyplace on his body, but there are others, mostly centered around maintaining things like bone density that would normally deteriorate in zero-gravity. • Hospital Hottie: At least to Florence he is. • Interspecies Romance: With Florence. • Kindly Vet: One of the veterinarians for Jean, after getting over his initial shock he goes out of his way to care for Florence. • Meaningful Name: Named after Samuel Hubbard Scudder, an entomologist. • The Medic: To Florence at least (He's a "mad" veterinarian). • Opposites Attract: He has no hair whatsoever while Florence is covered in fur. • Space People: His parents were space nuts so they gave him "spacer genes" that allow him to live in zero-gravity without experiencing bone degeneration, and are the reason he's completely hairless. Though he hasn't actually been in space since the trip from home (his parents live in an asteroid though). The Mayor The mayor of the city, who has run afoul of Sam too often. Provides examples of: • Fantastic Racism: She has such a disdainful attitude towards AI that she sees nothing wrong with Mind Controlling Florence for being scared of her. However, we see the next day (In-Universe) that her position is beginning to shift. She's still unhappy about it, but she can't deny to herself that Florence is a person anymore. • Everyone Calls Him Barkeep/No Name Given: None of the other characters that have spoken to or about her have referred to her as anything but "the Mayor" and variations on that theme. • Hoist by His Own Petard: Chronic case. At least two times that we've seen — and it's implied many more that we haven't — she's been outwitted by Sam specifically because she distrusts absolutely anything he does, no matter how innocuous it seems, and will take even absurd or pointless-seeming action if she thinks it will thwart his goals. • Obstructive Bureaucrat: Is ready to use the bureaucracy to her benefit, against Sam, though she herself doesn't seem to be too terribly burdened by bureaucracy when it's not in her favor. • Reasonable Authority Figure: For all her faults, once confronted with evidence that suggests that AIs may truly be intelligent, she's willing to consider changing her position- And, more importantly, considers it a politician's duty to do so if new information appears, as opposed to holding ground solely to avoid appearing weak. • Took a Level in Kindness: Subverted. She realized that Florence and therefore possibly other AIs might be people when she got angry at Florence's disabling Gardner In The Dark and realized that, to be angry, she had to have a person to be angry at. Therefore her rage was a path to decency. • Ultimate Authority Mayor: She is the only government authority figure that has been seen and hasn't been shown to have to answer to a city council or higher authority for her actions, although there was once mention of a governor of the planet Jean. (Of course, according to this strip there are only about 20,000 adult and presumably human colonists on the planet at the moment — about enough to populate a single not-too-large city by Earth standards.) Dr. John Bowman The scientist who created Florence and other Uplifted Wolves and released them in public. Also contributed to the robots' situation. Provides examples of: • Expecting Someone Taller: His comment to Florence when she finally meets him is that she no doubt was expecting that. Why, yes, chimpazees are shorter than the human she expected. • Fatherly Scientist: Unless he's actually evil and/or insane. • For Science!: One possible reason for his actions. • The Ghost: Despite his importance, the comic for a long time only suggested that he's even on the planet, and it wasn't until Clippy tries to take Florence to him so that he can "repair her" that it was confirmed he's at Jean's south pole. His first appearance was on February 21, 2014, almost 2500 strips in, and even then he's just a voice communicating through a coffee machine. It took him another week to finally appear in person. • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Or as Abby puts it based on Florence's description, a "jerk with a conscience". Possibly. • Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Good man or not, it's not really clear how someone with his lax treatment of experimental procedure ever got a degree. • Uplifted Animal: The creator of the uplifted wolves, as well as the neural architecture the robots are using. He himself is a chimpanzee. Maxwell Post A "procurement expert" and radical agnostic hired by the robots as a spiritual adviser. Also notable for being the only human being known to have successfully picked Sam's pocket, although he failed to notice that Sam was simultaneously picking his. Provides examples of: • Big Brother Mentor/Cool Teacher: Acts as this to the Robots, intentionally giving them information that the humans on planet don't want them to have. Such as teaching them long-view ethics, or a form of religion that specifically precludes them from being ordered to believe a specific one. • Friend in the Black Market: Apparently the religious materials he finds for the robots are restricted. Or, at least they are if you're providing them to robots... • Good Counterpart: To Sam. They are both thieves and con men who are heartily loather by the mayor but whereas Sam is happy to be a pure force of chaos, Max is actively committed to helping the robots an securing them rights. • The Rival: Can keep up with Sam, just barely. He and Sam even managed to steal each other's wallets at the same time. The Mayor's Assistant The mayor's bodyguard/right-hand man. Far more calm and rational than his boss. Provides examples of: Bill Raibert An Ecosystems Unlimited executive. Provides examples of: • Oh Crap: Has an entire evening of these • Accidental release of an A.I. safeguard program (a last ditch wipe of the robots if they "lose control"), which he describes as "Finding the equivalent of a live nuke with the timer flashing zero...", and in a measure of its harm he says that, "On a scale of 1 to 10 it's a 7" • Finding out that the safeguard has been stopped and the robots know about it. (8.5, but nothing is a 10 as it can always get worse) • Hearing Florence call robots people. "Her human safeguards have not only jumped the track, they've taken out half the train station." • Reasonable Authority Figure: Recognizes the need to keep the robots informed of long term plans. Is willing to listen to Florence when she approaches him, and attempts to investigate even thought he doesn't know what he's looking for. • Unusual User Interface: Wearable computing consisting of AR glasses, and control points on his chest. Varroa Jacobsoni A lower-level employee of Ecosystems Unlimited, focused on behavioral studies - specifically "annoyology." Provides examples of: • Buffy Speak: He's an "annoyologist." • Butt Monkey: Not too severe, but it's worth noting that his coworkers deliberately set him up to be the guy accompanying Sam while at Ecosystems Unlimited. Plus, there's the Brick Joke about giving him a wedgie (which Sam initially tried to sneak into Florence's notes for humor value). • Chekhov's Gunman: First shown trying to investigate who or what killed a deer. Later becomes the guy who shows Sam around Ecosystems Unlimited, and after that the employee that Clippy recruits to counter Florence's plans to stop "Gardener in the Dark." • Genius Ditz: He's capable of compiling and administering psychological tests very well, and he's one of the few Ecosystems Employees shown accomplishing any work. He's also seemingly the one being on all of Planet Jean that doesn't know Sam Starfall or his reputation, plus is the one employee who doesn't question Mr. Kornada. • Meaningful Name: Varroa jacobsoni is the binomial name for a parasitic mite that attacks bees and wasps. Varroa is a professional annoyer that works for the hive-like Ecosystems Unlimited, and he's clearly not viewed as particularly important or useful. FlipsideCharacters/WebcomicsGirl Genius Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from Privacy Policy	http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/FreeFall	dclm-gs1-019260001
0.024935	<urn:uuid:3351c8e6-1ffc-49b2-99f5-031b740a8890>	en	0.947053	Key dates in Berlusconi's career The turbulent political and personal life of Italy's prime minister at a glance. Last Modified: 15 Feb 2011 16:58 GMT Berlusconi has a reputation as one of the great survivors of Italian politics [AFP] Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, has narrowly survived a no-confidence motion that left his struggling centre-right government clinging to power by a handful of votes. The result reinforced Berlusconi's reputation as one of the great survivors of Italian politics but left him badly weakened, without the numbers in parliament to ensure stability at a time of big economic challenges and a menacing euro zone debt crisis. Here are some key dates that have marked his political life: March 1994: Berlusconi, by then already a billionaire media tycoon, bursts onto the political scene, winning elections with his Forza Italia ("Go Italy") party after a series of corruption scandals badly damage Italy's political elites. December 1994: Umberto Bossi, the Northern League party leader and currently one of Berlusconi's few close allies, pulls out of the coalition government following rows with the prime minister and forces Berlusconi to resign. July 2003: Berlusconi causes international shockwaves after comments in the European Parliament in which he mockingly invites a German member of parliament who criticised him to play a concentration camp guard in a new Italian film. April 2006: Berlusconi is narrowly defeated by a centre-left coalition called "The Union" that the prime minister nicknames "The Soviet Union". Former European Commission president Romano Prodi becomes Italy's new prime minister. April 2008: Berlusconi wins his third election after the sudden collapse of Prodi's government with his new People of Freedom party amid stagnation in the Italian economy and a garbage crisis in Naples. May 2009: Berlusconi's wife says she can no longer be with a man who "cavorts with minors" after scandalous allegations on the prime minister's involvement with a young Neapolitan model who calls him "Daddy". November 2010: Gianfranco Fini, the speaker of parliament, breaks up his long-term alliance with Berlusconi after a series of angry disputes, pulling his four ministers out of the government and triggering the December 14 confidence vote. December 2010: Berlusconi narrowly survives the no-confidence motion of Gianfranco Fini with his centre-right government clinging to power by only a handful of votes. February 2011: Berlusconi is ordered by an Italian court to stand trial on charges of paying for sex with an under-age prostitute, Karima El Mahroug, and then using his power to cover it up. The process is due to start on April 6. Both Berlusconi and El Mahroug have denied they had sex. Al Jazeera and agencies Topics in this article Featured on Al Jazeera join our mailing list	http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2010/12/20101214131718232238.html	dclm-gs1-019370001
0.065403	<urn:uuid:de696c33-bc68-4919-945d-accf3dfd057a>	en	0.972326	Awww shucks, you folks, what a lovely thought. Just so you understand here, I'm not upset, angry or worried about this change. I'm not down to my last few dollars either. It's quite liberating in fact. I get to walk away with a modest fistful of $ after 11 years with my current employer, I get to move back to my old home town and spend lots more time with my family and I have a completely unknown work future ahead of me which is both slightly nerve-wracking and terribly exciting and invigorating at the same time. I have zero doubt I'll easily get some kind of job, I just don't know what that work will be just yet. It's almost certain I won't have the time or access to my darkroom stuff to do my own B&W hand-made prints because I'm now in the middle of packing house, preparing to sell house, project managing various things on the block of land I've bought near Mackay to make it liveable in 7 weeks and then moving up to live there around the beginning of November to either start work or to continue the job hunt. So yes, busy, busy, busy. BUT, I may be able to get a colour print done in a lab that I can use for the exchange so I'm not completely ruling myself out yet. Hey, I need to make use of the 45mm and 55mm lenses I've just bought for my Mam645, right?	http://www.apug.org/forums/viewpost.php?p=1059888	dclm-gs1-019400001
0.234981	<urn:uuid:e9dd13c0-8c65-4081-86fa-4fad2d0fb0c6>	en	0.926522	Advantage and Disadvantage of X Ray? X-rays are essential medical tools. It has its advantages, which includes being a cheap medical procedure as compared to MRI or CT scan. It also has a disadvantage which includes not giving a detailed data on tissues and organs. Q&A Related to "Advantage and Disadvantage of X Ray?" Advantages Very hot objects like a black hole swallowing a star are easier to see in x-ray Disadvantages They can only be used in space Not Medical Advice: Advantage - X-rays can be used to produce an image of any body part. Disadvantage - Exposure to ionizing In 1895 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen was passing electric currents through a vacuum tube and saw that a nearby fluorescent screen glowed until he switched the electricity off. The X is advantage it lets you see if your bones are broken or about cancer. disadvantages it has radiation and that can cause radiation cancer. Explore this Topic Radiations have both advantages and disadvantages. Radiations are used to our advantage in the form of X-ray radiations, to view internal bodily structures. Particular ...	http://www.ask.com/question/advantage-and-disadvantage-of-x-ray	dclm-gs1-019440001
0.741178	<urn:uuid:39b14740-b5a2-4342-ad12-72dba7065ef6>	en	0.935132	How Do Bats Reproduce? Reproduction begins with copulation between a male and female bat. The female will store the sperm of the male inside her reproductive tract and release it to the egg when she feels that conditions are right. This give the baby bat the greatest chance of living after it is born. 3 Additional Answers Answer for: how do bats reproduce Most bats have a breeding season, when conditions are favorable. Female bats can control pregnancy by storing sperm in order to delay fertilization or by delaying implantation in the uterus. Bats mate before hibernating for the winter. The male bat impregnates the female who carries the sperm through hibernation. Once the hibernating period is over, the sperm fertilizes the egg. Bats reproduce sexualy, the male bat deposits sperm into the female bat and she stores it in her uterous until after she hibernates and then when the female bat hibernates the sperm gets used. Gestation time for a bat is two months and they have a live baby not an egg. Q&A Related to "How Do Bats Reproduce?" Bats reproduces sexually. The male places sperm inside the females body which fertilizes the egg. Once fertilized the female carries the egg until birth. Not a whole lot more is known They just do. Before hibernation, the male bat will deposit his sperm into the female's body. The female They reproduce sexually. Female bats would have contact with a male bat before hibernation and the sperm will be stored in her uterus. After hibernation, the female bat will become Explore this Topic Bats reproduce in litters. They can have one to three litters in a season, dependent on the species and the conditions. Bats are mammals and they give birth. The ... Baby bats are called pups. Bats are generally mammals and therefore reproduce by giving birth. Baby bats also suckle their mothers just like any other mammal. ...	http://www.ask.com/question/how-do-bats-reproduce	dclm-gs1-019450001
0.068232	<urn:uuid:193a9a3f-c191-48b6-bc1d-0da6a07bf547>	en	0.903976	How Many Cups of Water Equal a Gallon? 16 cups are equal to 1 gallon. A gallon has mostly been replaced by a liter but it is a measure of volume which was greatly used in the Western Europe. A gallon is approximately 4 liters. Q&A Related to "How Many Cups of Water Equal a Gallon?" There are 16 cups in one gallon. If you're planning to make a gallon of tea, please remember to share with the group. Did I mention that I'm part of the group and that I love tea? There is 128 ounces in a. gallon. and 8 ounces in a. cup. so you would have 16. cups. in a. gallon. ! There are 16 US cups in one US gallon. To convert a value in US gallons to US cups, multiply by 16. Also, 1 Imperial Gallon equals 19.215 US cups. One cup = 8 Ounces. One gallon = 128 Ounces. 128/8 = 16 Cups/gallon, 8 Pints/gallon, 4 quarts/gallon. : Hope this helps! : Explore this Topic To know how many cups are in a gallon, you can do some backwards math. There are four quarts in a gallon, two pints in a quart and two cups in a pint. Therefore, ... There are 16 cups in a gallon of water. You also may want to know that there are 3 ounces in a cup, 4 cups to a pint and 8 pints in a gallon. ... There are sixteen cups in a gallon. Put another way one gallon equals 16 cups. Orange, milk, and other juices are often sold by the gallon. ...	http://www.ask.com/question/how-many-cups-of-water-equal-a-gallon	dclm-gs1-019460001
0.077133	<urn:uuid:8a242566-cf66-4bc0-aa45-fe0494c1e1c2>	en	0.882798	What Is 750ml? 750ml is a value of liquid measurements that is mostly used in the packaging of wines and liquor. This system is mostly used in the United States and it is also referred to as a fifth. It is preferred for its estimation to the once-common one-fifth-gallon bottle. 1 Additional Answer Ask.com Answer for: what is 750ml 750 milliliters equals 0.75 liters. Convert to Q&A Related to "What Is 750ml" 750 mL can be expressed in a variety of way. 750 mL is equivalent to 25 ounces. 25 ounces is equivalent to 4-1/8 cups. This is a little bit more than 2 pints. Hint density=mass/volume 750 ml is equal to 2.53605 fl.oz. 750 mL is as big as a standard wine bottle. It is equivalent to 0.026485 cubic ft or 45.7678 cubic in! Explore this Topic 750ml is equal to 0.75 litres. This means 1 litre is equivalent to 1000 ml. Ml is a unit of measurements of volumes in the metric system. This unit is written ... Chardonnay is a popular white wine. There are 70 calories in a 3.5 fluid ounce serving. A 750ml is 25 ounces so that would be 490 calories in one bottle of wine ...	http://www.ask.com/question/what-is-750ml	dclm-gs1-019470001
0.01997	<urn:uuid:ab133f6d-ac6c-404e-a578-4effc98af0a4>	en	0.933026	PandaPanther Soars with Activision's Skylanders Spyro's Adventure Promotion PandaPanther husband and wife duo Jonathan Garin and Naomi Nishimura, in conjunction with 72andSunny, directed a 2:00 minute promo spot for Activision's new entertainment property "Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure," which was released on Oct. 16th in North America. Press Release from PandaPanther PandaPanther husband and wife duo Jonathan Garin and Naomi Nishimura, in conjunction with 72andSunny, directed a 2:00 minute promo spot for Activision's new entertainment property "Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure," which was released on Oct. 16th in North America. The promo, which was created to illustrate the Skylanders' back story, can be seen as a :90 spot on TV and online. The full 2:00 piece will be shown in theaters as a stereoscopic 3D trailer before the upcoming Puss In Boots 3D motion picture. 72andSunny turned to PandaPanther and gave the directors a chance to showcase their creativity and skills. They quickly scaled up, assembling an all-star team of 40+ artists to work over a three-month period. Everything, from the overall flow to the choreography of the battle scenes to how the two characters were sitting in the opening scene, was the product of the close collaboration between Garin and Nishimura, 72andSunny, and Activision. "We had to make sure this made sense to people - that they understood what was happening, who the bad guy was, and what the conflict was," said Garin. "72andSunny has always been consistent in making sure that their animation pieces makes sense and flow right. Activision, for their part, does a lot of this sort of character animation, so they are looking at what we give them with far more scrutiny than most big companies would." In addition to the story, PandaPanther had to adapt the on screen (or another word for Broadcast) look and feel of the characters - which initially were more suitable for the game consoles on which they had lived - to the more personal world of cinema. "When we started the project, the characters were in a very videogame-like state," noted Garin. "Our largest initial task was polishing the characters so that they fit into the more epic, cinematic world that we were creating, which was more realistic, with more details." The project again validates the special dynamic shared by Garin and Nishimura. "Naomi and I can be looking at the same thing on the same screen, but we'll be seeing totally different things," stated Garin. "I notice more of the animation details - the motion, the pacing, the editing; while Naomi makes sure that the textures, balance, colors - all the little details of the overall look and finish, are in line. While we cross check each other a lot, at this point we know what the other is good at and trust the other to work unhindered." Given the success of this massive project, PandaPanther has ambitious plans for the future. "Now that we've expanded and adapted our pipeline, I'm hoping that we can do more long format projects," noted Nishimura. "We could see expanding further for series work or even features. This was an awesome experience and we'd love to repeat it." Credits:Client: Activision, Skylanders: Spyro's AdventureSpots Title: MenaceAir Date: October 2011 Agency: 72andSunnyCreative Director(s): Jason Norcross, Bryan RowlesGroup Brand Director: Alex SchneiderDesigner: Jake KahanaCopywriter(s): Tim Wolfe, Mike Van LindaBrand Manager(s): Ellie Schmidt, Mandy HeinAgency Producer: Danielle TarrisAssistant Producer: Becca Purice Production Co.: CaviarDirector: Jorma TacconeEP: Michael Sagol Animation Studio: PandaPantherDirector(s): Jonathan Garin, Naomi NishimuraTechnical Direction: Adam BurkeStereo Supervise: Navid BagherzadehDesign: Diana Park, Ivy TaiStoryboard: Fred Fassberger, Paul Boanno, David ReussEditing: Maria Diakova, Alan OrtizSet Building & Art Department: Junko Shimizu, Janet Kim, Shinya Nakamura, Kazushige YoshitakeMatte Painting: Tim Matney, Andrew Leung, Nick GiassulloModeling/Photogrammetry: Sam Dewitt, Eric Xu, Jeeah Huh, Ari Hwang, Herculano Fernandes, Cristina AponteRigging: Jason Bikofsky, Amy Hay, Zhenting ZhouPrevis: Richard Cayton, Adam BurkeCharacter Animation, Han Hu (lead), Guy Bar'ely (lead), Henning Koczy, Sam Crees, Jordan Blit, Doug Litos, Danny Speck, Jeff Kim, Jared EngJunior Animator(s): Doug Rappin, Chris Devito, Darren Chang, Chang Pei Wu3D Effects Animator(s): Reggie Fourmyle, Rich MaganLighting & Texturing: Dave White (lead), Ari Hwang, Herculano Fernandes, Laura Sayan Gabai, Lucy Choi, Christina Ku, Jeeah Huh, Carl Fong, Cristina Aponte (intern)Compositing: Matt St. Leger (lead), Gerald Mark Soto, Chris Gereg, Adam Yost, Navid Bagherzadeh, Gabriel Regentin, Bryan Cobonpue, Sohee Sohn, Yingshu Lai (intern)Producer(s): Amy Fahl, Angela Foster (director's cut)Production Coordinator(s): Lauren Simpson, Jazeel GayleProduction Office Manager: Erica ArmstrongSystems Rendering TD: Craig Zimmerman VFX: MPCEP: Asher EdwardsLead Colorist: Mark GethinLead Artist: Ben Davidson About PandaPanther:PandaPanther is a New York-based animation studio headed up by directors Jonathan Garin and Naomi Nishimura. PandaPanther possesses a uniquely tuned talent for combining high-end 3D animation with illustration, design, stop motion and live action. From concept to execution the broad use of various techniques and mediums helps to motivate and evolve every new inspiration into something fun and magical. PandaPanther began as a brand that Naomi and Jon used when they worked together on art projects starting in 2006. In 2007, PandaPanther was officially launched as a fully functioning studio. Since then it has grown quickly to include a few new additions to the team. They now reside in their new office on the lower east side, collaborating with various artists, creating new stories and adventures. Rick DeMott's picture Rick DeMott Animation World Network Director of Content Creator of Rick's Flicks Picks	http://www.awn.com/news/pandapanther-soars-activisions-skylanders-spyros-adventure-promotion	dclm-gs1-019500001
0.048276	<urn:uuid:0e289017-2eff-406c-beea-d73dacb11dbb>	en	0.846078	My Account Laptop and flash drive 8GB Flash Drive for $5.99 when you buy a laptop Easily carry, back up, and transfer files between computers with this SanDisk Cruzer 8GB USB 2.0 flash drive. It's only $5.99 when you order it with a laptop. Follow these steps: 1. Select a laptop and add it to your cart. 2. Return to this page. 3. Select the flash drive below. Excludes Marketplace items. Items may ship separately. See offer details.	http://www.bestbuy.com/site/null/8GB+Flash+Drive+for+%245.99+with+Purchase+of+a+Laptop/pcmcat292400050001.c?id=pcmcat292400050001	dclm-gs1-019540001
0.020519	<urn:uuid:413c26c1-2d35-4f87-8833-d5c8e2e42865>	en	0.968991	CONTROL of the world's aviation hubs is so thoroughly locked up that the possibility one of them might be up for grabs is almost inconceivable. Hence the excitement when a fight broke out over access to Shanghai, before coming abruptly to a halt on September 24th. It is hard to overstate Shanghai's attractiveness to airlines. The number of passengers handled by the city's two airports, Pudong and Hongqiao, has increased by more than 20% a year for five years, compared with single-digit growth at most of the world's big airports. Companies' operations in China require personal attention, so as business expands westward from the coastal cities, demand for easy access by air will only increase. The dominant airline in Shanghai, with a market share of 37%, is China Eastern Airlines. Barely profitable, poorly managed and in need of investment, it has been in talks for more than a year with Singapore Airlines, one of the world's best airlines. China Eastern's share price began to move up sharply in May and nearly tripled during September on the announcement that Singapore Airlines would take a 15.7% share in the company and that Temasek, the Singaporean state-owned investment company, would purchase 8.3%. The deal, which would provide almost $1 billion for new investment, was approved by Chinese officials at cabinet level. The prospect of a better managed, well-capitalised competitor sent a shudder through Air China, another government-controlled airline, which has a 20% market share in Shanghai. It also alarmed Air China's partner, Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific, which dominates the lucrative Hong Kong route through a subsidiary, Dragonair. Rumours abounded that Cathay was preparing to announce a rival bid for China Eastern. Both airlines' share prices shot up. On September 21st Cathay's shares were suspended pending an announcement about “a proposed transaction”. But instead Cathay Pacific said on September 24th that it had no plans to bid for China Eastern. It gave no reason, but political pressure from the Chinese government is believed to have scuppered its plans. Passengers probably do not mind whether it is Singapore or Cathay that takes a stake in China Eastern—service is bound to improve either way. There is talk of some sort of a tie-up between China Southern, the third of China's big airlines, and Air France-KLM, which would also lead to improvements. But evidently the government's enthusiasm for genuine competition goes only so far. This week's pre-emption of a bidding war left no doubt about who in China controls not just the ground, but the skies too.	http://www.economist.com/node/9867919	dclm-gs1-019710001
0.039843	<urn:uuid:d4d7eaf0-ecf9-448e-8817-75dbc1235874>	en	0.86911	Newer Older final result Philippe S, nancyannhowes, 270redline, and 25 other people added this photo to their favorites. 1. Vanessa Deep [deleted] 80 months ago \| reply You're looking sooo feminine.A lot of women would like to look like you!!!! xxxxxx 2. Andrea Elva [deleted] 79 months ago \| reply Such bueaty , a true feminine bueaty.... 3. Dena7 78 months ago \| reply there are no word to give praise for the transformation,you have created. 4. robyn60 [deleted] 77 months ago \| reply Just so stunning 5. Frédérique Trépanier 77 months ago \| reply This is the best transformation i have ever seen. I luv the whole serie. Who does your makeup, wow. 6. pangs7760 76 months ago \| reply the look of an angel. 7. Josie Räahna 75 months ago \| reply Fascinating set of pictures. Actually, it makes pretty good photography. I think I can learn a lot from these 7 pics though! 8. cindysnotagal 75 months ago \| reply OMG..you do look like Monica B. Very Very nice 9. Miss Sabrina Sky 75 months ago \| reply Absolutely stunning!!! 10. EtSxNat [deleted] 74 months ago \| reply Interesting series of shots culminating in this one. Not often we get to see the transition and to good results. 11. InOneWay [deleted] 74 months ago \| reply I have no word to qualify your amazing work ! You are the real Monica... aren't you ? You are so beautiful ! Thanks so much for sharing. 12. eve_kandii 72 months ago \| reply You look incredible and flawless. I'd love to know how you achieve the make up and hair and everything! 13. animat63 [deleted] 65 months ago \| reply Gorgeous....And sooo lovely 14. Blacksheep557 34 months ago \| reply thanks for the tutorial, lovely results	http://www.flickr.com/photos/86547827@N00/559739410/	dclm-gs1-019740001
0.919066	<urn:uuid:beb0df3a-f46c-48fc-936b-30220f8a34d5>	en	0.961491	Question from FrozenAssassin Asked: 1 year ago What counts as detection? Trying to get achievements such as shadow, what counts as detection? Does it count if the enemy gets white spidysense arrows or does it have to be red? If I kill someone with level 1 shadow kill and they don't turn to ash does that mean they somehow detected me? Top Voted Answer From: najzere 1 year ago Detection is when you see the lightning bolts around NPCs' heads go red, even one of them. Shadow Kill only works on enemies you haven't alerted, so yeah if the body didn't turn to ash you were spotted. The trophies are really finicky, so it's better to be safe than sorry. Save often and when in doubt reload and try again. Rated: +2 / -0 This question has been successfully answered and closed Respond to this Question	http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps3/636041-dishonored/answers?qid=336177	dclm-gs1-019820001
0.225377	<urn:uuid:ca6c2d08-721c-4d53-9496-4a6c390f58f7>	en	0.987124	Heavy Rain I've really been debating playing Heavy Rain recently. It's not that I don't want to play it, it's that the weather has turned nice in my area and I don't want to play a gloomy game. Ehhh... it is April, so it'll probably turn south soon anyhow, right? Basically, I want the weather outside to match the game I'm playing. Complete immersion! Start the Conversation	http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/bandit_fox/blog/	dclm-gs1-019870001
0.032401	<urn:uuid:fa2dacb1-3f45-4eb9-aa96-d1ec8c58c046>	en	0.927996	Product Announcement from Boca Bearing Company Bearings for Food Processing/Packaging Industry-Image Boca Bearings is introducing a new and expanded line of ceramic bearings, ceramic hybrid bearings and specialty lubricates specifically designed for the food processing and food packaging industries. Some of the most pressing issues facing the food manufacturing industry today are controlling costs and food safety. Full ceramic bearings and ceramic hybrid bearings are capable of alleviating some of these concerns. Ceramic balls are far more efficient than steel balls because the rolling surface is more spherically perfect and therefore reduces friction. Companies that converted to ceramic bearings have seen a decrease of energy consumption and were therefore able to cut cost. Ceramic in ball form is twice the Rockwell hardness of steel which results in a more durable and longer lasting bearing. Boca Bearings line of full ceramic and ceramic hybrid bearings are appropriate for use in food packaging and food processing due to their ability to work in challenging conditions. Ceramic materials can operate in extreme temperatures, work with heavy loads and will not corrode or rust when exposed to water, alkali or acids, as might be customary during food preparation. Boca Bearings also offers a line of traditional lubrications, solid lubrications and dry lubrications that are FDA approved for food manufacturing facilities. For example Boca's exclusive Ultra Dry Lube (UDL) is an extensively modified lamellar composition that adds less than half a micron to any metal substrate. UDL molecularly bonds to most materials and is inorganic, non-toxic, non-corrosive and resistant to most fuels, solvents and acids present in food processing. Further Boca Bearings offers the Lightning Solid Lube (LSL) line of solid Polyethylene and Graphite lubricants. LSL Poly lube, available in food grade and non food grade, is excellent for continuous operating temperatures up to 93°C (200°F) that can drastically increase bearing life and eliminate dripping oil or grease. LSL Graphite lube can be used in extreme operating temperatures from -157°C (-250 °F) to 349°C (660°F); Graphite Lube is insoluble in most organic solutions and will not wash out in water, steam or chemical wash down procedures. You have successfully added from to your part list. Part Name / #: Product Type:	http://www.globalspec.com/FeaturedProducts/Detail/bocabearing/Bearings_for_Food_ProcessingPackaging_Industry/164570/0?fromSpotlight=1	dclm-gs1-019900001
0.028594	<urn:uuid:50d6088e-d730-4a51-acb8-3570e7a953c2>	en	0.792005	Sweet Yeast Dough Recipe Vegetable shortening2⁄3 Cup (10.67 tbs) Milk1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs) Sugar1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs) Salt1 Teaspoon Active dry yeast1⁄2 Ounce (2 Envelopes) Warm water1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs) Eggs4 , beaten Sifted all purpose flour4 1⁄2 Cup (72 tbs) Nutrition Facts Serving size: Complete recipe Calories 4038 Calories from Fat 1471 % Daily Value* Total Fat 166 g255.9% Saturated Fat 43.4 g217% Trans Fat 18 g Cholesterol 857.2 mg Sodium 2292.9 mg95.5% Total Carbohydrates 542 g180.7% Dietary Fiber 18.2 g72.7% Sugars 108.9 g Protein 92 g184.7% Vitamin A 21.8% Vitamin C 0.07% Calcium 33.4% Iron 179.3% *Based on a 2000 Calorie diet 1. Combine shortening, milk, sugar and salt in saucepan. Heat just until shortening is melted; cool to lukewarm. 2. Sprinkle yeast into very warm water in a large bowl. (Very warm water should feel comfortably warm when dropped on wrist.) Add lukewarm milk mixture, eggs and 2 cups of the flour; beat until smooth. Add just enough of remaining flour to make soft dough. 3. Turn out onto lightly floured pastry board or cloth; knead until smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes, using only enough flour to keep dough from sticking. 4. Place dough in large greased bowl; turn to coat all over with shortening. Cover. Let rise in warm place 1 hour, or until double in bulk. 5. Punch dough down; knead a few times; let rest 5 minutes. Shape into Crumb Cake or Buns	http://www.ifood.tv/recipe/sweet-yeast-dough-2	dclm-gs1-019940001
0.048357	<urn:uuid:6bd36e7f-cd8c-4068-bbd0-30a64e05a933>	en	0.930052	M3 re-opens after minibus crash but delays remain #M3 #HOOK - Southbound carriageway is now fully OPEN at J5. Very long delays remain (2hrs+). Suggest avoiding until 16:30ish. Major crashes on M3 and A303 Two people have been seriously injured in a crash on the southbound carriageway of the M3. The northbound carriageway has been closed to allow the air ambulance to land.	http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2013-07-24/m3-re-opens-after-minibus-crash-but-delays-remain/	dclm-gs1-020000001
0.027211	<urn:uuid:a41f9a00-cce7-4a4a-aace-5f3f39789bb1>	en	0.811607	Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks Joe There's more than one way to do things Comment on I am using a regex to extract some numbers from a string, to build an array of numbers. However, I don't seem to be able to use < and > to compare the numbers. The conversion from strings to numbers is automagic, though you could write: $VAR1 = ['M4568-51', 'M', 0 + '4568', 0 + '51' ]; to force the conversion. Can you post a fragment of code that demonstrates the problem? In reply to Re: extracting numbers with a regex by dws in thread extracting numbers with a regex by coolmichael and: <code> code here </code> • Please read these before you post! — For: Use: & & < < > > [ [ ] ] • Log In? What's my password? Create A New User and the web crawler heard nothing... How do I use this? \| Other CB clients Other Users? Others imbibing at the Monastery: (4) As of 2014-03-16 18:59 GMT Find Nodes? Voting Booth? Have you used a cryptocurrency? Results (331 votes), past polls	http://www.perlmonks.org/?parent=129528;node_id=3333	dclm-gs1-020190001
0.051409	<urn:uuid:16480b89-a316-4129-8db3-ace7ec9bb7f9>	en	0.959045	Bookmark and Share Tuesday, Jul 21, 2009 The thing about a video game is that, unlike a classic film or song, certain portions of it age differently. From Capcom, box art From Capcom, box art As the Film Industry continues to bank on remakes and converting popular stories into film, consumers are beginning to question their relationship with media that is essentially a remake of an old one that they have already seen. What makes a remake good or bad? This question becomes even more interesting once you apply it to video games because even the definition of the remaking process comes into question. A movie is remade by giving it a new script and a new visual look. A video game is remade by doing both of those things but also overhauling the interface and game design to fit modern sensibilities. Take a game like Metroid Prime, which is essentially Super Metroid except in 3-D. That statement applies to the aesthetics, but does it also apply to the game design and technology? It’s a totally different game. Core elements like types of weapons or old maneuvers like the double-jump remain; stuff that doesn’t work in 3-D like the Hyper Run ability are abandoned. The concept of remakes becomes murky for games because there are so many different elements to consider. If a developer just releases new content but no new game design elements, then it’s considered an expansion pack. If they change the game design but keep the same plot, it’s a patch. What is the point of even remaking a game when conceptually its sequels, expansions, and patches could all be considered the same thing? From, cover art From, cover art With remakes it’s a question of what should be changed, why it should be changed, and then how to go about doing that. With music, most remakes are simply considered covers. An artist will take an old song and add their own unique take. There are the classic examples like Jimi Hendrix covering Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower,” but modern examples like Alanis Morissette’s cover of “My Humps,” the Gourds’ version of “Gin & Juice,” or a Youtube fan video of Modest Mouse’s “Baby Blue Sedan,” all set a single standard for a musical remake. You have to do something new with a familiar song that’s equally if not more appealing than the original. In some of those examples, the song was getting old and unfamiliar to the current generation. In others, it was simply a very different take on the material. Determining the quality of a musical remake is dependent on whether or not the new version brings something new to the table. From hotmoviesale, box art From hotmoviesale, box art In film, the standard also factors use of new cinema technology like CGI. Films have never been a bastion for totally unique stories. Most early films were based on theater or literature. Remakes came into existence almost as soon as there was an excuse to start making them. Once sound could be added to film, Hollywood went back and turned numerous popular silent films into “talkies.” The arrival of color meant that the same classics would again need the same treatment. Often the scripts and actors would be different, but the core story and even title would remain the same. CGI and modern special effects bring about this need for changing the past once again, a remake of Jason and the Argonauts today can achieve the visuals that its script envisions much more readily than the original could. New technology allows a classic film to have a new visual appeal for today’s generation because it’s the way they’re used to films looking. With technology, the visual experience is constantly improving so that a new way of seeing a story is always being achieved. From, banner of website From, banner of website In video games, these two dual standards of technology and newness can be seen in many popular remakes. Metroid: Zero Mission or the Resident Evil remake for the Gamecube do a good job of fulfilling both the importance of improving the visuals but also making sure that this makes the game new in its own way. They are graphically superior, deviate from the original game at certain points, and their designs have been overhauled to fit modern sensibilities. That’s the third element that a video game must contend with in a remake: the design itself. Zero Mission features a guide system for its map to make things easier and uses controls that differ from the original NES version to accommodate the Gameboy Advance. Resident Evil for the Gamecube improves its script, voice acting, and pacing to create a superior retelling of the original experience. A kombo article outlining their Top Ten Remakes argues similar merits. The Prince of Persia remake is basically the same game but with better graphics, time trials, and way points. Tomb Raider Anniversary has superior graphics, better movement controls, and yet recreates many of the old levels while adding new ones. All of the originals were good games in their time but our expectations for what video game experiences should be like has changed significantly since then. The thing about a video game is that unlike a classic film or song, certain portions of it age differently. No one is particularly keen on playing a game with archaic movement controls because developers have perfected moving in 3-D environments. It’s just a trial and error process to go from using a D-pad to get around in Tomb Raider to moving via dual-anlaog. Aesthetic or plot differences can make a video game remake necessary like a film or song, but they also have to factor in someone being unused to the design. It’s not just not thinking that they’re pretty enough that becomes an issue; it’s that younger audiences might not even understand how to play it. From, movie poster From, movie poster Yet no matter what the medium that the remake is being created for, there is another factor that goes beyond just modernizing the presentation or giving a unique interpretation of an old tune. You have to offer something to fans already familiar with the old version. One of the best examples of someone whose work has been remade countless times over is William Shakespeare. The way those plays continue to stay relevant today is the fact that their scripts can remain the same but totally change by adjusting the context. An essay praising the culture of remakes mentions Orson Welles. Before he made Citizen Kane, he put on, “a 1936 Macbeth showing the absurdity of segregation by offering an all-black cast before a backdrop of Haitian voodoo; Julius Caesar reimagined in 1937 as a warning about the rise of fascism, the noble Romans clad in Mussolini-style military uniforms.” Welles gave a new twist on these plays because, by changing their context, the entire meaning becomes both relevant and more insightful to modern problems. A blog comparing failed film remakes makes the distinction between the Matthew Broderick version of Godzilla and the 1990s remake of The Brady Bunch. The Godzilla movie fails because it tries to be the 1970s version of Godzilla instead of just distilling the essence of it. The The Brady Bunch film succeeded because it offered something to the fans: the movie places the 1970’s values of that family in contrast to the 1990’s as a kind of touching satire. What distinguishes the good remake is that its new version still has something for people who are already familiar with it. Depending on how cynical you want to be about this topic, it can be argued that everything is just a remake of some other story, game, or song. Gears of War is just Space Invaders in 3-D. The Star Trek remake is just The Iliad in space. Every advance that is celebrated in popular culture is a product of something original being built on top of something familiar. A remake is just being honest about its origins. Bookmark and Share Friday, Jul 17, 2009 These old games represent the eventual result of certain modern trends in gaming. I started my gaming with the Playstation and Nintendo 64, so I completely missed the “golden age” of adventure games. I have a few memories of laughing at Sam and Max Hit the Road, and I vaguely remember enjoying one of the King’s Quest games, but that’s about it. Until recently. I was happy to find Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis as an unlockable bonus in the newest Indy game, and I bought the updated Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars after hearing such good things about. After playing both, I am now unabashedly in love with the genre. As I look back at my time with both games, I realized that these old games represent the eventual result of certain modern trends in gaming. A Focus on Memorable Stories and Characters As games have become more cinematic, more emphasis has been placed on story and characters. Every game wants to tell a good story now, and often the story for a AAA game is hyped up just as much as the graphics or controls. This focus on story and characters is a staple of all the old adventure games. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is remembered because it captures the fun peril of the movies, and many titles from LucasArts are loved for their humor and characters. Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars is no exception. Some of the most memorable moments come from interacting with other characters. From the snooty sounding British woman who’s only too willing to stick it to “The Man,” to the Middle Eastern boy whose wealth of knowledge comes from memorizing Trivial Pursuit cards, to the American tourist who thinks he’s a spy, everyone we can talk to has a distinct personality. These are not nameless townsfolk who only have a couple sentences worth of dialogue; we can carry on a full and unique conversation with each person we come across. As for the story, it starts off as a murder mystery and slowly grows into a global conspiracy. The ever-growing scope means there are always new twists being introduced, and the mystery plot, with its focus on discovering leads and solving puzzles, makes for an addicting game. Which leads into my next point. The Games are Driven by Story Not Action Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka, the founders of BioWare, had a recent interview with in which they said, “We talk a certain amount internally about whether you need to have combat as part of the experience…Certainly the core gaming experience, folks that are used to playing games over the last ten years, they want to have those battle moments, and the fighting. But there are different audiences that would maybe just enjoy the story.” Combat is the chief method of interaction in games: These “battle moments,” these short action sequences that test our skill, are strung together one after another until there are enough to keep a player busy for 8-12 hours. This makes for a compelling game since there’s always a new obstacle to overcome, but it’s not very conducive to storytelling, and to hear Greg and Ray talk of it, it sounds like there’s never been an alternative. Adventure games, almost universally, are driven by story and not “battle moments.” Many adventure games do have combat, but these moments are not the focus of the game. It could be argued that this genre is driven by puzzles instead of story, but players usually get frustrated if the puzzles don’t make sense within the context of the game. The best adventure games integrate their puzzles naturally into the story. In Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, the story is already tailor-made for some abstract puzzles. As a simple mystery the story works well with the gameplay, tracking down leads and asking the right questions to the right people, but it works better as a grand mystery since unraveling a centuries old secret often requires solving some ancient puzzle. The puzzles in Broken Sword compliment the story as each solution revels more of the plot, which leads to another puzzle, and so on. As the player finds clues he’s driven to continue playing, to unravel just a little bit more. The story compels us forwards, and the puzzles add challenge and interactivity to what would otherwise be a movie or novel. No Death As games focus more on story, death becomes an impediment to the experience because when the player dies there’s no more story to tell. But when the latest Prince of Persia removed death completely, it was derided by many as being too easy and too short. From that controversy it would seem like gamers still want the possibility of failure. But Prince of Persia was driven by those same old “battle moments.” Sometimes we were battling an enemy, other times the environment, but we were always fighting against some skill-based challenge the game threw at us. By removing death, the possibility of failure, from a game driven by this competition, success became inevitable and therefore worthless. On the other hand, the removal of death in Broken Sword is hardly noticeable. It was only when I was about 10 hours in, and the main character was being held at gunpoint, did I realize I had not yet died in the game. Not only had I not died, but I had never even been in situation where death was possible. Because the game was driven by story and not combat, death would only interfere with the pacing, so it became unnecessary. Lack of death is, unfortunately, not part of all adventure games, but when the player is allowed to die in such a game it only proves how disruptive death is to the overall experience. I died quite a few times in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis whenever I was forced to fight guards. Since death wasn’t possible for much of a game, I took a laissez-faire approach to saving, so when death was unexpectedly introduced I ended up having to replay large portions of the game again. It’s always frustrating when a game teaches us to play one way, and then punishes us for playing that way. It’s telling that death was only possible during these moments of combat. Whenever a game resorts to challenges of skill, death/failure must be possible even if it impedes the story. So in a game like the Fate of Atlantis, and other adventure games, and any story driven game, it’s better when those moments are simply removed altogether. It’s fitting that the adventure genre has seen a recent resurgence. From the popularity of the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney games, to Telltale Games’ episodic adventures, to the release of the updated The Secret of Monkey Island, to the re-release of many old LucasArts adventure games on Steam, it’s clear that this genre is far from dead. Their user interfaces may be antiquated, their graphics may be terrible, but since these games are driven by their puzzles and stories, they become timeless in a way no shooter can ever be. Bookmark and Share Wednesday, Jul 15, 2009 Max Payne is looking pretty bad lately. Bookmark and Share Tuesday, Jul 14, 2009 Just a little link aggregating. Bookmark and Share Friday, Jul 10, 2009 Does the lack of a head-up display make a game more immersive? The traditional heads-up display is more and more being treated as an unwanted intrusion on the gameplay experience. Players need the information displayed, but the HUD can sometimes be distracting. Many developers try to do away with it, hoping that will make their game more immersive, and different games take different routes with different results. Far Cry 2 and Uncharted: Drakes’s Fortune have traditional HUDs, but try to hide them as much as possible. In both games the HUD only appears in certain situations, and then fades out of sight when it’s not needed. Far Cry 2 shows the typical health and ammo, but the health meter only shows up when the player is hurt or uses a syrette to heal, while the ammo only appears when a gun is running low and must be reloaded soon. Uncharted takes things a step further by removing any health meter, instead the bright colors of the forest fade each time Drake is hurt until the screen is black and white, and then the color returns as his health automatically regenerates. The ammo appears whenever the player shoots. Fading a HUD into and out of view depending on the situation is a fitting compromise for these two games. A HUD, no matter how small it is, attracts the eye, so by removing it until it’s necessary the player is more likely to notice the details in the environments. Since both games have impressive environments, it’s only natural that the player be encouraged as much as possible to admire it, and not spend the game looking at a mini map, health meter, or ammo counter. But this technique doesn’t solve the problem of immersion. The character can’t see the information in the HUD so there’s a clear disconnect between us and them. We can see things they can’t. Even if the information in the HUD is limited to only things the character would know, presenting it in a floating, immovable menu still creates that disconnect. Dead Space has a simple yet clever way of dealing with its HUD. It takes all the standard elements of a heads-up display and treats them as if they actually exist in the game world. The health meter becomes a glowing tube on Isaac’s spine, and all other relevant information is projected into the world as a hologram in front of the character: Remaining ammo floats above our gun, and the inventory hovers in the air while we select items. When the camera turns the inventory turns as well. It isn’t an immovable menu pasted over the action; it’s part of the world. Dead Space doesn’t treat the player as separate from the character; we can only see what Isaac sees. Since the inventory is part of the game world, the game doesn’t pause when we turn on the hologram so there’s no menu for us to retreat to if the action becomes too tense. But this real-time item management is the only tangible effect the loss of a HUD has on the game. The dark ship isn’t suddenly scarier, the art direction and sound add more to the atmosphere than the floating inventory does. While Dead Space removes the traditional HUD all together, that loss doesn’t make the game any more immersive than it would have been otherwise. Mirror’s Edge, on the other hand, implements a unique HUD, if it can even be called that, in a way that makes the game more immersive and even adds to Faith’s character. Like Dead Space, there are no menus pasted on the screen, though there is an optional reticule to prevent players from getting dizzy. The “HUD” comes in the form of red objects scatted about the environment. These objects point the player in the proper direction to help them navigate though the levels. It’s also worth noting that when Faith picks up a gun there’s no ammo counter, the number of bullets left is unknown to her and to us. Highlighting the path is more than just a pointer for the player, it’s a visual representation of Faith’s natural path finding ability. We’re literally seeing the world through her eyes, not just seeing what she sees but how she sees it. Instead of just making the HUD a part of the world, we’re seeing things from an individual’s unique perspective. We are Faith. When we take control of her it becomes obvious that she’s a professional Runner. Yes, the game tells us so in a cut scene, but we also get to see that fact for ourselves as she picks a path though the rooftops. Even though we don’t have her talent we see it at work, and we see the results. I don’t think the mere presence of a heads-up display, or lack thereof, affects a game in any meaningful way. More games are finding creative ways to avoid them, but as Dead Space proves, simply presenting a menu in a new way doesn’t make it anything more than a menu. Immersion comes from stepping into the shoes of a character, an idea that Mirror’s Edge embraces to its full extent, and since playing it I can’t help but wonder how other game characters see the world around them. Now on PopMatters PM Picks of PopMatters Media, Inc. PopMatters is wholly independently owned and operated.	http://www.popmatters.com/blogs/moving-pixels/P1065/	dclm-gs1-020240001
0.043431	<urn:uuid:bdee13bb-8c8b-488f-b368-b48365841444>	en	0.966499	Tony Banks - A Curious Feeling CD (album) cover Tony Banks Crossover Prog 3.36 \| 134 ratings From Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website Prog Reviewer 3 stars Have you ever had a friend talk you into going on a blind date by endowing the mystery woman with highly desirable, glowing qualities? What we used to call the "Summertime Syndrome?" (You know, her Daddy's rich and her Momma's good looking?) So you convince yourself that, with that kind of pedigree, maybe this will be THE ONE and you'll fall in love at first sight and you can't wait to meet her. But then after spending an hour or so with her over dinner and drinks you realize that, while she has a cute personality and she's actually kinda nice, there's just no spark, no chemistry, no real attraction going down. Well, that's the way I feel about Tony Bank's "A Curious Feeling." With him being one of the founding members of one of the greatest progressive bands ever and a keyboard genius highly revered by his peers, I expected to be lovestruck and smitten by his first solo album. But soon I discovered that it was just another plain Jane, decent company for an evening but ultimately forgettable. True to where his head was at in '79, Tony starts off with "From the Undertow," an instrumental that's a lot like what his band Genesis was doing on "And Then There Were Three." I don't really like that particular album but this is an improvement musically and I'm thinking that Banks is going to take me on a fantastic journey. "Lucky Me" follows and it's my first exposure to vocalist Kim Beacon and, while he's no Peter Gabriel, he's not half bad. The song is a bit contemporary in tone and has a flowing melody but it never seems to reach a peak. Nonetheless, it's one of the album's better tunes as it introduces us to a man who has no long-term recall and has "lived alone for all I can remember/though that only means some six or seven years/I would rather be nobody else/I'm happy as I am." Next is "The Lie" and it's more uptempo but Beacon's voice lacks the depth and emotion the song needs and it detracts from the lyric describing our protagonist as being a natural-born speculator in his youth. The bridge belies a definite Elton John influence and the musical build-up toward the end is excellent. "After the Lie" logically follows and it is here that I start to sense that drummer Chester Thompson is being kept on too tight a leash and that's not a good omen. His considerable talent could lend some much-needed excitement to the proceedings. Here our hero sings of seeing things "in a different light" but what that means exactly is rather vague. The musical interlude in the middle is pleasurable but once again Tony makes me wait until the tail end before things get interesting. "A Curious Feeling" is next but it's a letdown. A boring pop song that says not to listen to anybody who says they know anything, it goes absolutely nowhere. Another fine instrumental, "Forever Morning" comes along in the nick of time to resuscitate the gasping momentum. It's all Tony on this one and it's a well-thought-out piece tastefully arranged. Not spectacular, mind you, but imaginative all the same. However, it points out something that is becoming obvious about the album and that's Banks' tunnel vision regarding keyboard sounds. They are redundant. At the end of this tune he ascends to a Gershwin-like crescendo where banging on a big ol' Steinway would have been perfect but he stays with the electric, synthesized piano and it fails to climax. A missed opportunity if there ever was one. "You" follows and it's a romantic ballad about our guy finally noticing and falling in love with a girl he's known all his life but "meant nothing when I was younger." The song segues into a fast instrumental section that reminds me of Genesis again but it pales in comparison with where I believe his bandmates Phil and Mike would have taken it. "Somebody Else's Dream" (finally, a rocker!) is next and at last Thompson has been unchained to add some welcome dynamics. Kim's vocal has a little more edge to it as he sings "it's not for me to die with children around my bed after a happy life" because "please to say/love is here today/but it's going away/going away." Not a good turn of events for our hero, I'm afraid, but Tony's music is wonderful on this one. "The Waters of Lethe" is the final all-music number and it's very pleasing to the ear as he incorporates different themes into the piece. Yet I can't help but think back on Banks' incredible piano playing on Genesis' "The Firth of Fifth" and wonder why he avoids the simple elegance of the acoustic keyboard on this effort. The whole album cries out for some tonal variety but Tony and his producer aren't listening. "For a While" is a light pop shuffle in which the singer tells us that love "sure felt good for a while" but now he's going back to being a loner. It's a quaint little tune and one of the highlights of the record. "In the Dark" is a lonesome ballad that ends things on a tragically sad note (I'm still not sure why the poor dude's love affair went sour) and it leaves me unsatisfied. Tony Banks is a progressive rock icon but, like others who venture out on their own discover, he is at heart a team player and his best work comes in conjunction and cooperation with other talented composers/musicians. That being said, this is still a better album by far than Patrick Moraz's pitiful "The Story of I" and some of Rick Wakeman's less-than-stellar solo efforts. Others may find it much more entertaining and fulfilling than I do, but for me it's always felt like a one-night stand that just never went any further. Chicapah \| 3/5 \| Share this TONY BANKS review Review related links Server processing time: 0.02 seconds	http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=120756	dclm-gs1-020260001
0.021242	<urn:uuid:9a7d99e0-ae61-42e9-b0c9-cc6ecdc0c0b4>	en	0.988375	Sponsored content by Skybox: HoT GC sale 'Sexual dimension' to friend's attack Last updated 15:31 04/07/2012 Keith Donald Bonner Fairfax NZ JAILED FOR LIFE: Keith Donald Bonner at his sentencing. Keith Donald Bonner KILLED BY A FRIEND: Tracey Lee Morris. Relevant offers sponsored content No conviction for underage legal high sale Victim of perjury 'stoked' by report Convicted sex offender killed in crash Sex worker attacker the 'same man' Alleged jewel thief still in hospital Hearing delayed in P lab case Failings hid police misconduct: IPCA Man fit to plead in murder case Accused: I can't get the screams out of my head Dental worker admits assaulting girls The Crown says there was "clearly a sexual dimension" to Keith Donald Bonner's attack on the woman he regarded as his greatest friend, Tracey Lee Morris. Bonner was today jailed for life for murdering Morris, with a term of 13 years before he can apply for parole. Crown prosecutor Kathy Bell said the sexual dimension should be regarded as a significant aggravating feature at the sentencing of 53-year-old Bonner in the High Court at Christchurch. Morris, a 46-year-old mother and bar worker at Papanui, was found dead in her car near Christchurch Airport where Bonner had left her. Items of her clothing had been removed and she was found naked from the breasts down with her leggings still wrapped around her neck. The leggings had been used to strangle her, leaving ligature marks, a broken larynx, and internal bruising to the throat. She had also received head injuries which would have been life threatening. There was a bite mark on her breast. The two had known each other for 23 years but their relationship had ended in 1994-95. They had continued to see each other. The Crown said nothing sexual had been intended on the night of her death, when Morris visited Bonner at his house. He had set up a bed for her in the sunroom so that she would not drive after drinking, and they had had dinner, drank wine, and Morris was apparently sitting in a chair watching a music video when she was attacked. Defence counsel Elizabeth Bulger said Bonner was upset and remorseful but could not shed any light on what had happened. He accepted the facts as outlined by the Crown. He had written a letter to the Morris family which had been given to the victim's mother. She accepted what the Crown said about the sexual dimension to the attack, but pointed out that after the report of the post mortem examination on Morris, the Crown had agreed to withdraw a charge of sexual violation. Morris' sister, Nicola Morris, told the court of the sadness and shock of the loss of her only sister, and her children's only aunt. Bonner's actions were seen as a betrayal. He had been regarded as somewhat of a father figure by Tracey Morris' son. "She was somone he (Bonner) referred to as his greatest friend. I hope I never have a greatest friend like him," said Nicola Morris. Ad Feedback A victim impact statement was read by the son of Nicola Morris, and on behalf of Tracey Morris' son. Justice Graham Lang said the pathologist had been unable to conclude whether genital injuries found on the victim were the result of sexual activity, or a kick or punch. He said he saw it as an aggravating factor that she had been left in a way that was "bereft of dignity". "The bite to the breast, and the way in which the body was undressed and left in that way, leads to some sexual connotations," he said. He detailed the injuries she had received, including fractures to her skull, a broken left eye socket, broken nose, broken tooth, and extensive bruising to her face and two cuts to the back of her head. There was bruising in the genital area. Bonner had no relevant previous convictions. He said the pre-sentence report included details from Bonner's daughter about his increasing drinking in the period before the murder. His drinking had increased alarmingly and had brought out a dark side of his personality. "I have no doubt that the consumption of alcohol was what caused this incident," said the judge. "Nobody, other than perhaps you, will ever know precisely what triggered it." He noted that after the incident, which Bonner said he could not remember, he not made any inquiry about Morris' welfare after finding the blood in his lounge but had set about covering up the evidence. - © Fairfax NZ News Special offers Featured Promotions Sponsored Content	http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/7220552/Sexual-dimension-to-friends-attack	dclm-gs1-020360001
0.030562	<urn:uuid:7fd34564-b51a-4537-be9b-a417331934e1>	en	0.97936	I know this is not a popular viewpoint, but I've never in my life been so tired of GUNS. One would think the right to own a firearm was more important than ANYTHING in the world! Sorry, I do NOT agree. I am 66 years old, have NEVER owned a gun and have NO plans to purchase one. I'm not so much for a ban - although what anyone needs with a handgun is beyond me - as I am with this national fixation on guns. Americans are WAY over armed and are killing each other so fast we don't need to worry about any foreign enemies. Shoot first and get an education later. Our children are so undereducated many can't even FIND THE US ON A WORLD MAP, and we're obsessed with our right to own GUNS! My GOD!	http://www.topix.com/issue/gun-control/columbia-city-in	dclm-gs1-020490001
0.038034	<urn:uuid:1b813f03-0a24-453a-b1dc-b15269fe3e3a>	en	0.951847	The Stromlinie 75 Concept Car is a modern classic car rendition of the car Bernd Rosemeyer died in 75 years ago trying to set a speed record. It is a stunning and sleek tribute to the classic car. The original car from the 30s was called the Auto Union Type C Silver Arrow. Luke Rittwage has captured its modern take brilliantly and does so with modern needs in mind. Does it get any more streamlined than this Stromline? It appears to be incredibly aerodynamic and carries a pleasant, futuristic style with a retro twist. That fateful moment when Rosemeyer’s life came to an end chasing his dream will forever be remembered in this wonderful modern classic car design concept.	http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/modern-classic-car	dclm-gs1-020530001
0.033433	<urn:uuid:673b0733-6df1-42c6-a412-d298647d5fa5>	en	0.969384	There is no better way to stick it to the man than by opening a bottle of wine with the Screwed by Wall Street Corkscrews. These new corkscrews reflect the feelings of many people who have seen their stock portfolio, pensions and bank accounts take a steep plunge straight into the gutter. However, there is no need to worry because even though you may have lost your 401K and your life savings are gone, you still have wine. The cleverly designed corkscrews read 'Screwed by Wall St' on the front side of the handle. The only thing left to do now is take these punny corkscrews and occupy wineries instead of Wall Street.	http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/screwed-by-wall-street-corkscrews	dclm-gs1-020540001
0.031694	<urn:uuid:8869ff81-3e7d-41c1-96dd-cf9ae6da33c5>	en	0.898678	First: Mid: Last: City: State: Felipe Portes Get the most current details on Felipe Portes on USA-People-Search.com. With us, you can access billions of public records sourced from the best there is. You can find all kinds of informative details, such as the location, age, and much more. Locate Felipe Portes at once. In order to quicken the process of finding the right Felipe Portes, try adding in more information in the search fields. This could include any details that you can remember such as known addresses, common nicknames, and so on. As soon as you locate the right Felipe Portes, go ahead and register with USA-People-Search.com to get Felipe Portes's comprehensive details. Thanks to USA-People-Search.com, the people-search process need not be confusing or frustrating anymore. All search results are systematically profiled by their names or aliases, age, location, and possible relatives so you can quickly and easily pinpoint the correct Felipe Portes you're trying to find. If you'd like to see a more detailed profile for Felipe Portes, simply click on the details link to obtain more information. Name/AKAsAgeLocationPossible Relatives	http://www.usa-people-search.com/names/p/Felipe-Portes	dclm-gs1-020560001
0.075346	<urn:uuid:b7df36c3-a0a6-4d26-8736-2abc22f3b02c>	en	0.977554	Putin might be only Russian hockey fan who didn't see the 'catastrophe' coming The Associated Press Russia forward Yevgeni Malkin lies on the ice in the closing minutes of the third period in men's quarterfinal hockey game against Finland at Bolshoy Arena at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. Finland defeated Russia 3-1. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip ) Associated Press SHARE By JIM LITKE, AP Sports Columnist SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Right from the start of the tournament, the only way to envision the Russians winning a gold medal in hockey was to close both eyes and keep them shut. They stumbled out of the gate before escaping Slovenia and then lost their nerve in a shootout loss against the United States. Perhaps the only person inside the Bolshoy Ice Dome who couldn't see that was Vladimir Putin, who from a magisterial perch high above the rink, somehow arrived at the conclusion that his side was still the better team. No one dared ask the president whether his seat faced the rink. There was no confusing what happened Wednesday, when Finland outhustled, outsmarted, outhit and ultimately outed the Russians as a top-heavy team with exactly one player who was playing as if the entire country was counting on him to bring the gold home. That would be captain Pavel Datsyuk, who played five games on a bad leg, but left no questions about the condition of his heart, shining again in a 3-1 loss. Not so Alex Ovechkin, who is the most visible Winter Olympics athlete in the land but disappeared from the score sheet after getting his only goal just past the one-minute mark in the opener. Ditto for Evgeni Malkin, who also scored in the first period against Slovenia and then effectively took the rest of tournament off. The only department where the Russians outdid the Finns was shots on goal, 38-22. But after Ilya Kovalchuk drove home a one-timer off a deft pass from Datsyuk for a 1-0 lead, there was no way the Russians were going to slip a pillow mint past Finnish goalkeeper Tuukka Rask, let alone another puck. Juhamatti Aaltonen equalized for Finland, and 43-year-old Teemu Selanne followed up with a goal that sucked all the air out of Russia and epitomized the way their team played the whole way through. Teammate Petri Kontiola deflected a cross-ice pass back over the blue line that Russian defenseman Slava Voynov lazily chased down along the left board, even as Finland's Mikael Granlund was bearing down on him. Granlund squeezed past Voynov — who either didn't know he was being pursued or didn't care — then stole the puck and cut for the net. Racing up the right side of slot was Selanne, already the Olympics' all-time goal scorer, who somehow surprised the rest of the Russian defenders by arriving just in time to tuck Granlund's hard-won assist into the net. Increasingly desperate Russian coach Zinetula Bilyaletdinov replaced his starting goalkeeper, Semyon Varlamov, with Sergei Bobrovsky six minutes into the second period. Then he started upping the minutes for all those NHL stars who were supposed to make this a glorious homecoming, but will likely spend the rest of these games in hiding. By the end, Kovalchuk had logged a team-high 23:15, followed by Alexander Radulov (20:00) Datysuk (19:13) Malkin (19:19) and Ovechkin (18:30). Fat lot of good all of that did any of them. The Finns didn't take a shot for the final eight minutes of the second, and managed just five in the third. They didn't need to. "We let our guard down a little bit, but we defended well and kept them outside," Rask said with a mischievous grin, "so that was good." Rask's smile and the diplomatic answers provided by the rest of the Finnish side spoke volumes. None were going to say the Russians quit, or didn't have enough firepower left to worry them, or even that the Finns knew they could run out the clock against a team that never proved it knows how to chase a game. While several of his teammates displayed their best moves while evading reporters, Datsyuk stopped and said simply, "Inside, I'm absolutely empty." Ovechkin said, "No emotion right now," which made you wonder how he would have described the rest of the week. Finally came Bilyaletdinov's postgame news conference. It was an absolute howler.	http://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2014/02/19/mr-president-was-your-seat-facing-the-rink?s_cid=rss:mr-president-was-your-seat-facing-the-rink	dclm-gs1-020570001
0.103974	<urn:uuid:3db71efc-5956-4464-ac28-53f3f5e2970c>	en	0.977762	D20 Modern: The Mystery of the Heritage Here Come the Fraal... Alien invasion version 1.3 After having visited And’liss Station the crew of the Vigilance learned of a Fraal fleet moving toward Earth. Vigilance immediately jumped into FTL and made for far terran orbit. There they discovered that the Fraal were in communication with the Earth and were spreading a message of peace after the Earth had shot at them. Vigilance detected a small ship of Earth origin hiding behind the moon. This was the Prometheus. This military ship was launched for mysterious reasons and carries a strike team aboard it. In order to keep the military people safe they were brought on board the Vigilance. Now the Vigilance has 20 highly trained military personnel aboard along with their food and weapons. Many questions remain. What should be done with the troops? How much can they be trusted? Is is a good idea to hand this over to the authorities as some around the ship are beginning to suggest? Kitty is beginning to feel the pressure too. She feels responsible for the lives of all aboard this ship and is staring at the possibility of a war. She also is beginning to feel more alienated from her friends. This is stressing her out and could lead to some poor decisions…	https://d20-modern-the-mystery-of-the-heritage.obsidianportal.com/adventure-log/here-come-the-fraal	dclm-gs1-020730001
0.060812	<urn:uuid:70302d38-ca5b-48b9-9940-ac12aae27bc7>	en	0.901474	Skip to Content General Laws Section 2. As used in this chapter the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise:— “Asexual”, not initiated by the union of an oocyte and a sperm. “Commissioner”, the commissioner of public health. “Council”, the biomedical research advisory council. “Department”, the department of public health. “Donated to research”, when, in the absence of valuable consideration and after fulfillment of the requirements of informed consent, the person from whose cells the pre-implantation embryo has originated or will originate gives the pre-implantation embryo or cells to another person; provided, however, that the recipient shall use the extant or resultant pre-implantation embryo in biomedical research and shall not transfer the pre-implantation embryo to a uterus or uterine-like environment or nurture the pre-implantation embryo beyond 14 days of development. “Embryo”, an organism of the species homo-sapiens whether formed by fertilization, somatic cell nuclear transfer, parthenogenesis or other means. “Employee”, an individual who performs services for and under the control and direction of an employer for wages or other remuneration. “Fertilization”, the process whereby the male and female gametes unite to form an embryo. “Gametes”, a sperm or oocyte. “Human adult stem cell”, an undifferentiated cell found in a differentiated tissue that can renew itself and differentiate to yield specialized cell types. “Human reproductive cloning”, the asexual genetic replication of a human being by transferring a pre-implantation embryo that has been created by somatic cell nuclear transfer, parthenogenesis or by other asexual means into a uterus or uterine-like environment with the purpose of creating a human fetus or a human child. “Informed consent”, the written consent for the donation of gametes or embryos used for research conducted pursuant to this chapter which complies with the requirements of a duly appointed institutional review board, acting in accordance with 45 C.F.R. 46.116 and 45 C.F.R. 46.117, as may be amended from time to time. The written consent shall be in a language understandable to the donor or patient and shall include all reasonably foreseeable risks, discomforts or benefits of the procedure to the donor or patient. “Institution”, a corporation, association, partnership, nonprofit organization or other legal entity which conducts research authorized by this chapter. “Institutional Review Board”, a board that has a minimum of 5 members who meet regularly to review research applying the standards of 45 CFR Part 46 or 21 CFR Parts 50 and 56, as may be amended from time to time. “In vitro”, in an artificial environment, referring to a process or reaction occurring therein, as in a test tube or culture medium. “In vitro fertilization”, an assisted reproduction technique in which fertilization is accomplished outside of the human body. “Manager”, an individual to whom an institution conducting research pursuant to this chapter has given the authority to direct and control the work performance of the affected employee and who has authority to take corrective action regarding a violation of a law, rule, regulation, activity or policy. “Parthenogenesis”, the development of an egg without fertilization. “Parthenote”, the product of egg development without fertilization. “Person”, a natural person, corporation, association, partnership or other legal entity. “Placental cells”, cells obtained from the placenta. “Pre-implantation embryo”, an embryo formed and maintained outside of the human body whether by in vitro fertilization, somatic cell nuclear transfer, parthenogenesis or other asexual means, which has not experienced more than 14 days of development; provided, however, that such length of time shall not include any interval in which such development has been suspended, such as through freezing. “Public body”, (a) the United States Congress, a state legislature, including the general court, or a popularly elected local government body, or a member or employee thereof; (b) a federal, state or local judiciary, or a member or employee thereof, or a grand or petit jury; (c) a federal, state or local regulatory, administrative or public agency or authority or instrumentality thereof; (d) a federal, state or local law enforcement agency, prosecutorial office or police or peace officer; or (e) a division, board, bureau, office, committee or commission of any of the public bodies described in clauses (a) to (d), inclusive. “Public institutional review board”, a board established pursuant to subsection (a) of section 6 that has a minimum of 5 members who meet regularly to review research applying the standards of 45 CFR Part 46 or 21 CFR Parts 50 and 56, as may be amended from time to time. “Retaliatory action”, the unlawful discharge, suspension, demotion, harassment, denial of promotion, layoff or other adverse action taken against an employee affecting the terms and conditions of employment. “Somatic cell”, a nongamete cell obtained from a living or deceased human being. “Somatic cell nuclear transfer”, the technique in which the nucleus of an oocyte is replaced with the nucleus of a somatic cell. “Umbilical cord cells”, cells derived from an umbilical cord. “Uterine-like environment”, a replicate of the uterus used for the purpose of sustaining an embryo through birth and creating a human being. “Uterus”, a uterus or fallopian tube. “Valuable consideration”, any consideration beyond reimbursement for reasonable costs incurred in connection with the donation, removal, processing, disposal, preservation, quality control, storage, transplantation or implantation of gametes, embryonic or cadeveric tissue. 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0.189335	<urn:uuid:75d1bc8f-114a-45fe-9891-e10ac73a4df2>	en	0.992352	Over the Edge By: supernaturaldh The relentless hunt keeps Dean going, but wears Sam down. Too many unspoken words and one Winchester falls over the edge. Timeline: Set during Season 2 Tag: Just after- Everybody Loves a Clown Disclaimer: I don't own them, but boy I wished I did. Beta : Kokoda2007!! As always, she improves my story with very minor changes and makes me think. Thank you - Kokoda!! Over the Edge The cold Nebraska wind whistled through the trees and Sam pulled his jacket up tighter around his body, a light shudder racking through his tall frame. "Dean, let's come back tomorrow. It's cold, and I'm tired." Sam muttered, as his frozen fingers gripped the shotgun up against his chest, icy puffs of air drifting from his lips. Dean tilted his head slightly and stared at his whiny little brother through the dim light of the late afternoon air. "Geez, Sam, you want some cheese with that whine?" He shook his head in exasperation and rolled his eyes. His gaze dropped once again to the trees and brush around them. Sam huffed and curled in tighter on himself, attempting to keep warm, his body shuddering slightly with each gust of wind. "Asshole" he muttered. Dean laughed smugly as his eyes flitted around the woods, to the clearing and out past the trees. Nothing, maybe Sam's whiny ass was right, maybe, this was a bust. Sam sighed loudly, and eased his shoulder back against the tree behind him. His head fell slowly against his chest and he hastily jerked it back up and thrust his eyelids back open, darting his gaze to his brother. Shit, stay awake; don't let Dean see you do that. Sam was tired. The last month had been spent on the road, rushing from one hunt to the next, sleeping in the car, eating microwave burritos, stale potato chips, and guzzling coffee. Drifting on the road with his brother and not talking. It had become their life, since Dad died, and it was exhausting. His brother had become a man on a mission; to rid the entire world of evil, and he was doing it all right away. The air in the Impala had been heavy and stagnant, both their minds on their father, and their own grief. Sam had hoped his brother would open up, talk to him, but Dean, just brushed Sam's attempts aside, kept silent and wrapped up tightly in his own anguish. So Sam had kept his sleepless nights, aching body, and feelings to himself. He had stolen quiet tears in any rest area or diner that they stopped at. He rode quietly, gazing out the window, lost in his own grief, while Dean drove them endlessly from one hunt to the next. Dean was in a mad rush to kill any and everything he could find. The death of John Winchester was way too fresh in his mind, and the reasons behind it, all too overwhelming for him to even attempt to comprehend right now. They had left Medford Wisconsin right after the hunt for the killer clown at the Cooper Circus. Dean anxious to get to another hunt, to keep his mind busy, his thoughts away from the grief that threatened to overwhelm him. He had to stay focused on the hunt. Sam had tried to talk to him, but he wasn't up for it. He shuddered as he recalled Sam's words, "I feel guilty as hell, and I'm not alright, but neither are you." He remembered he had beaten the shit out of the Impala that day, grief and anger overcoming him in a mad rush of adrenaline. Now he was done, wasn't up for talking about it, rehashing it. He had better things to do than dwell on past mistakes. Their father was dead, and that was it, end of story. Sam was just going to have to deal with his feelings and issues with their Dad's death all on his own. He was now a man on a mission, and he would carry out his father's quest for the thing that killed their mother, and he would kill every supernatural son of bitch he could find along the way. Sam must've dozed off against the tree again because the next thing he knew he was stumbling forward, nearly falling over his own gangly legs as his brother bumped his back harshly with his elbow when he stalked past. "Some hunter you are, don't tell me you weren't asleep right there against that tree." Dean muttered angrily. "Gonna get us both killed." Sam's face flushed with embarrassment. "I was just resting my eyes….Sorry", he mumbled. Sam stumbled along, falling in behind his brother. God, did he say, Dean was an ass? "Where's this razorback? Thought you said it was out here, you did the research, remember?" Dean huffed as he continued at a rapid pace, feet stomping against the dead leaves and dirt. He hated wasting his time running around the woods looking for some mysterious creature, no tracks, no sounds, nothing. What a freaking waste of time. Sam blinked tiredly; his eyes glancing up at the mist hanging around the trees, the skyline, then behind them as he came to an abrupt stop. "I did research it Dean, three innocents were killed. Something chewed them all to hell. And all the articles said it happened right here." "Well duh, but no one has seen it, or been hurt in at least six months? Long time, huh, Sammy, maybe, it moved on? Just 'cause someone says to jump off a cliff, you going to do that too? Huh?" "Whatever…." Sam rolled his eyes, his weary body not up for another battle of words with his older brother. Sam sulked and started walking away from Dean. "Uh…dude, that's the wrong way. The car's that way." Dean's finger pointed the opposite direction. "No Dean, it's this way." Sam muttered his hand waving haphazardly in the evening light. Dean came to an immediate halt, eye brows twitching in an aggravated motion, angry glare falling to his kid brother'. "What? You got to be kidding me, right? Like I don't know where I freaking parked my car?" Sam's face fell in disbelief, "Dean, I wouldn't make this up. The car's that way." "Is not, you fell asleep remember, must have gotten turned around." "The car is that way." "Is not." "Is too." "Is freaking not." Dean stepped closer to Sam's tall body, face growing beet red. Sam thought for a minute his older brother was going to have an aneurism or at least stomp his foot like a little kid. "Dude, calm down." Sam looked wide eyed at Dean, amazed at how pissed he had become in just under a minute. "Screw you Sam." Dean turned and began walking in the opposite direction, dry leaves crunching harshly against the soles of his boots. "You coming?" Sam stood silently glaring at his brother's back, finally, yelling loudly behind him, "Dean, YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY!" "NO SAM, I'm not. I repeat, you're tired, you fell asleep and got turned around." Dean shouted over his shoulder as he continued his stalk through the woods. "Well, I'm going the other way so; let me know when you get tired of traipsing around in the woods." With that note, Sam turned sluggishly and began trudging the opposite direction of his brother. He was too tired for this shit. They had been out here all afternoon; he just wanted a warm bed to fall asleep in. "You know what Sam, you're an idiot." Dean stopped and rolled his body around to face his brothers back. Sam came to an abrupt halt and turned to face his angry older brother. "You know what Dean, you're freaking selfish. It's all about you isn't it. Dad dies, and you think you got to save the world now, well, it's all just bullshit." Dean's eyes grew large. What? "Listen here, you little prick, don't bring Dad into this. I can't help it if you had issues with him and now he's gone. Those are you're issues, not mine…." He did not just say that to Sam…again? What were they arguing about? Dean watched as his little brother's body fell into silence, large eyes looking across at him in disbelief. "And don't give me those big wide eyes of yours either." Dean stated flatly. "Cause I'm not buying what you're selling." Sam just glared his mouth agape. He couldn't believe Dean was so hard core, what happened to his older brother? He released a trembling breath, sucked in some shaky air and turned, leaving his older brother standing behind him. He stomped up the hill, without another word, away from Dean. "Sam, get your ass back down here. Dean yelled. "SAM, god dam..." Little brothers were such a pain in the ass. Dean gazed at his brother's retreating back. He pulled the compass out of his blue jean pocket and eyeballed it carefully through the shadowed haze of the sunlight woods. Yep, came this way. "SAM", he yelled. He tucked the compass back in his pocket and glanced back up the hill. No Sam? He let his eyes move around the hillside, then down to the left and over to the right. No Sam? Shit! Where'd he go? His feet thudded beneath him as he ran across the path he had just trudged down, eyes squinting in the dim light. "SAMMY?" Sam slammed one foot in front of the other as he plodded his way up the hillside and away from his jerk of a brother. How could Dean say that to him, taunt him with his own words, it made his heart ache just hearing it. He could hear Dean yelling behind him, but he didn't care. He was sick and tired of his brother…of dealing with all of this…. He just wanted to get away from him, get to the car, and fall asleep in the passenger seat. He was so tired. Dean could find his own way back to the car… His thoughts roamed back to last few weeks with Dean. It was obvious, he didn't care about anything but the hunt now… The next moment was a blur to Sam. He came to sudden awareness that there was nothing under his feet and his eyes darted downward, his sneakers sliding against the dirt and grassy embankment. His shotgun fell from his fingers as he wind milled his arms around attempting to gain his footing. It was too unexpected to even scream, as his body went tumbling face first over the edge and down the cliff. He grasped for purchase against the dirt, the brush, and tree limbs as they went falling past, his body rolled and flailed down the side of the embankment in one long tumble. He saw the ground moving past him as he plummeted through the trees, body thudding harshly against branches that scratched and tore at his clothes and flesh. The pain was immediate as it assaulted him, his limbs smashed into the dirt, beating off the rocks and brush. He gasped, his body flailing limply against the ground as he slammed to a sudden stop, his head thudded loudly against something hard, as oblivion over took him. This was so not good, not good at all. Dean's mind raced as he ran up the hill. Maybe the razorback got him, but he would have heard something? "SAM…Sam, answer me." Dean yelled loudly. His eyes scurried in the shadows as the sun was falling behind the trees, the low light of dusk crept in around him. He needed to find Sam before dark? His boots skidded to a halt as he made it to the top of the hill and realized there was nothing on the other side. He fell suddenly to his knees in an attempt to stop his downward dissent over the edge, his fingers dropping his shotgun in the fall, as he lurched for grass and bushes. Oh God, Sammy? He leaned over the rim and peered into the trees and faint light below, eyes straining to see the bottom, his brother. Maybe he landed on a ledge? "SAM…SAM…answers me….SAM!" Dean's voice echoed back and around him. His eyes caught something just below him, against a rocky ledge, and he squinted to see it in the faint light. Sam's shotgun. Oh God. Oh God. His eyes darted around in fear. He fell down there? His mouth fell open in dread as his mind comprehended where his little brother was. "SAMMY…I'm coming. Sammy, can you hear me? SAMMY?" Dean voice echoed down the hillside. His eyes scanned the ridge as he struggled to find the easiest path down to the bottom, below the treetops, and hopefully to his 'not dead' little brother. Don't think about it, Sam's fine…Sam's fine. His boots slide precariously on the rocks as he slowly skidded down the side of the slope, fingers and palms being gouged by rocks and thorny brush as he struggled to stay upright. He had to walk at an angle, just to get down the side of the rocky ledge, and he didn't even know how far it was to the bottom. His vision was obscured by trees, brush and dimming light. He knew he was probably veering away from his brother, but he just needed to get down the cliff, down to the bottom, down to Sam. Sam's body moved sluggishly against the rocky ground, wet leaves plastered against his face, twigs and dirt covering his hair, cloths and exposed skin. A low moan escaped his throat as a large wave of pain washed over him. He whimpered. Dean? He shuddered, as his eyes dragged open to confused slits, his mind draped in a heavy fog. He blinked incoherently, his head lolled and twisted around on his neck. He gazed incomprehensibly up at the blurriness; the stark shadows encroached on his peripheral vision as he struggled to pull in some air. His throat made a low moaning sound as the pain overwhelmed him, his back arched up slightly from the ground. His eyes rolled slowly back into his skull as his mangled body fell limply back against the hard earth. The rocks and pebbles slid beneath Dean's boots, his body almost vertical now against the side of the cliff. His fingers grasped at the rough service, clinging to remain standing. Blood rose from his fingertips, as the ground ate into his skin, but he didn't feel it, his mind focused on one thing. Find Sam . He squinted through the dusky air, eyes straining to see the solid ground coming up to greet him. His muscles tensed to remain standing as the incline got continually steeper toward the bottom. "SAM" Dean's voice hitched out in a loud sobbing cry. God, why doesn't he answer me? He blinked past the moisture as his feet finally hit bottom. His eyes darted up and around the area, searching, beseeching that he find Sammy. He scrubbed his bloody fingers against his blue jeans, a light grimace escaped from his lips. He stumbled, half running, as his eyes fell to the limp form of his little brother off in the distance. He ran faster. His heart pounded loudly in his ears the closer he got to the brown mass of hair, the long gangly limbs that were sprawled limply on the ground. He boots skidded out from under him as his knees ungraciously hit the grass and rocks next to Sam, shaky fingers ghosted out in front of him above his brother's damaged frame, not knowing what to do first. Okay, how bad is he hurt? Big brother mode kicked in, and he immediately began to assess the situation. "Sammy…?" A weak whisper escaped from his lips. Firm, but gentle fingers against Sam's neck, hoping and praying he found a pulse. A fretful smile rose from his lips when he felt the firm thudding beneath his fingertips. Relief welled up in him and he felt the breath he didn't know he was holding slowly ease out. "Its okay Sam…I gotcha." He whispered. "You're goanna be fine kiddo, just fine…" He noticed right off that Sam's left arm was twisted at an awkward angle, possibly broken from the fall. His clothes were torn, and little gashes and cuts decorated his body. Sam's face was already swelling, becoming a mass of purple, black, and blue bruises on the left side. The thought of hidden bruises made Dean winch. He drew his eyes to pool of blood rolling slowly down Sam's cheek, and with tender fingers he tugged the long bangs away to look at it. The cut was deep, right along the hairline, just above Sam's ear. It was bleeding profusely, and would definitely need stitches. Dean swiftly ripped off his jacket and covered his brother's trembling limbs. He removed his extra tee shirt and held it tightly against his brother's bloody face; applying light pressure to the wound in hopes to squelch the blood flow. Sam's eyebrows flinched at the motion and Dean looked keenly at him. "Sammy? You with me? I gotcha. Open your eyes." Dean watched with baited breath as Sam's eyelids scrunched up in momentary confusion, and then his eyelashes fluttered, his eyes opened to murky green slits as a low whimper escaped from his lips. "'…ean?" Sam's voice was a soft sigh. His legs moved restlessly as he attempted to focus on Dean's face. "Easy, easy…you fell. Remember? Took quite a tumble there big guy." Dean's hand rested quickly against Sam's chest, holding him steady as his body continued to move agitatedly against the dirt. "Easy." "Guh…" Sam mumbled; breathe in short gasps as his bleary eyes darted around in confusion and fear. "Sam, look at me. Sammy…look at me." Dean's voice was firm, heavy with concern for his suffering little brother. "F…fell?" Sam's eyes gazed blankly at Dean and then slowly fluttered closed. Dean's agile fingers moved slowly along Sam's body, checking for further injury. Once he had completed his check, he was satisfied that his little brother had taken a hard knock on the head, and probably had a concussion, a wrenched arm, multiple cuts, bumps, and bruises, but he would recover. He tugged Sam's body up to rest upon his chest, his little brother's head lolling against his shoulder. He moved his hand over and placed it against Sam's neck, holding it steady, thumb caressing soothingly through his brown hair. "Come on Sammy, open your eyes. Don't make me carry your heavy ass back to the Impala." Dean let his calloused fingers rub small circles against Sam's back, hoping to rouse his sibling to wakefulness. Sam felt warm fingers flowing through his long hair, caressing his face; he heard his older brother's voice whispering comforting words into his ear. He slowly let his eyes flurry open and looked lazily up at his big brother. Dean's hand quickly dropped to the leather jacket, tugging it tighter up against Sam's chest. "Hey, kiddo. Glad you decided to join me." Sam smiled sluggishly as he nuzzled in closer to his brother. Dean was warm . He tried to pull his jumbled thoughts together, but he wasn't too clear on how he ended up nestled up against Dean on the cold ground. Where were they? He blinked slowly, befuddled eyes looking to his big brother for answers. Dean was here. He would take are of it, make everything alright. "You fell – off a cliff – ring any bells? Dean offered to his little brother's weak face, "You scared the shit out of me." Dean gazed at his incoherent little brother. The blood from the hairline cut was clotting, blood now a small trickle in his hair. His badly wretched arm was stuffed inside his jacket, zipper holding the traumatized limb steady. Various cuts and bruises covered his body and spots of blood seeped and soaked into his clothes. He was a mess, but he was going to be okay. Just need to get him back to the room and cleaned up. "Sam, you with me?" Dean queried, firm arms wrapped tightly around Sam's body. "Yeah…I think…think so." Sam stuttered. "Just need to rest for a bit," his sluggish eyes blinked at Dean. "No, stay a wake kiddo." Dean ordered. "I think you got a concussion." "Okay' Sam hesitantly agreed. That was an order. He knew he wasn't quite ready to stand up yet; his bruised and mangled body now ached from head to toe. His mind was clearing up, though, focusing, and he recalled his recent tumble over the edge, and down to the bottom of the hill. The thought alone made every part of his body hurt. Was he snuggling with his big brother? He could say something, but he had missed his brother a lot lately, even though he had been right next to him everyday in the Impala bounding from one hunt to the next. It had been lonely since their Dad died, and comfort was not something Dean had offered a lot of. They sat, listening to the sounds of silence as the night air closed in around them. Dean flipped on the flashlight and eased it down beside them. He felt Sam push against him, and looked at his baby brother as he struggled to set up, wobbly body leaning heavily against Dean. "Easy… you got a concussion…." Dean gazed inquisitively at Sam's bruised face. "Dean? Are you okay?" Sam's tired, low voice whispered in Dean's ear. Dean reached over and tugged his leather jacket up around Sam's shivering body giving him a questioning gaze. "Am I okay? What? I didn't just fall over a cliff?" "I mean…with…Dad's death…" Sam's unfocused eyes fell to Dean. Dean's face went expressionless, his muscles tensing up, moving slightly away from his brother. Oh, man, he didn't want to talk about this -must be the concussion talking. Sam felt his brother pull away, and his concussed mind shattered, tears immediately filling up his eyelids. Dean was never going to talk to him…. "I'm tired…" Sam murmured. His shaky hand tugged up to rub at his bruised face. "Don't Sam." Gentle callused fingers griped Sam's wrist, tugging his fingers away from his face. Dean watched his little brother, saw the tears welling in his lids, the sad confusion on his face, and his anger morphed to concern. Where had he been? Sam suddenly looked bone weary, bruises and cuts a stark contrast against his pale face. Dean felt suddenly sick as reality leaked in around him. By the looks of Sam, he had needed Dean for awhile, not just since the tumble down the hill. He had been so busy focusing on the hunt, getting his mind off their father's death, pushing them nonstop; he had lost sight of his number one priority. Sammy. Dean leaned his arm over and pulled Sammy back against him. Chick flick moment be damned. "Com'er Sammy." Sam's eyes went wide as he felt himself being pulled gently back to rest against Dean's chest. His big brother's hand held him tightly against the nap of his neck, his chin brushing lightly against Sam's hair. "Dean?" Sam whispered, voice sounding tired and confused and a lot like the five year old Dean remembered from his youth. "It's okay Sammy; it's going to be okay. I'm here now. I'm sorry we got in a fight, and I'm sorry for what I said. I didn't mean it - any of it." Tears pooled in Dean's eyes and he brushed them quickly away with his shirt sleeve. God, he missed his Dad . "Me too." Sam blinked, as tears brimmed over his eyelids and rolled slowly down his battered face. His weary body leaned into his brother's welcomed touch. He relaxed. They had been through a lot this last month. It was okay with him if Dean needed to release some of his grief. He rested his concussed head against his big brother, words no longer necessary, as anger fell away and they sat in stillness, soaking in strength from one another. "You ready to go?" Dean's soft voice wafted through the darkness and Sam blinked his eyes open, his brother's concerned face looking intently at him. He must have dozed off. "Yeah", Sam pushed lightly off his brother, rising on his shaky legs, wincing with every motion. Dean's steady arm rested around his waist, his strong grip never wavering. "Com on sasquatch lets get you back to the room and cleaned up." "Okay…" Sam whispered as he swayed slightly against his brother. "And Sam…" "Next time someone tells you to go jump off a cliff - don't do it." Sam's face curled up and a giggle escaped from his lips. "Ow...ow…don't make me laugh." He scowled. Dean chortled and then grinned widely, as he tugged his little brother forward, back toward the car, the motel, and a much needed rest.	https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4362524/1/Over-the-Edge	dclm-gs1-020830001
0.032905	<urn:uuid:cd976223-2585-45df-b984-afcad11a29b8>	en	0.982423	Emily slowly lays Rocky down in the crib. She turns to Matilda. "You have my extension right?" Matilda smiles. "Yes, Emily. And before you ask, JJ's, too. Also, the numbers for Garcia, Reid, Rossi, Hotch and Morgan. Even Chief Straus. If for some reason I can't reach any of you I'll call in the Marines' Search and Rescue team." Emily chuckles nervously. "Sorry. Just…nervous." Matilda smiles. "As all mother's are. I promise you, Emily, she will be fine." JJ wraps her arms around her wife. "Do you remember what you told me the first time I left Henry down here?" Emily bites her lip. "Uh…no clue." "You told me he would be fine and if I was at all worried to just hop on the elevator and come see for myself. You're back to the office, baby, but you have a few months before you travel with us again. Rocky will be here and so will you. Everything will be just fine." Emily gives a shiver. "I…I remember what happened…your first week back." JJ turns and stares into her wife's eyes. "Won't happen again. I swear, Emily." Emily just nods. She turns back to her daughter. She straightens the onesie on the sleeping baby. She leans over and kisses her. "I can do this. I can. Shit…can I?" JJ smiles. "Yes, you can. And you'll be down here around 11 to nurse her. You can make it 2 and a half hours. I have faith in you." Matilda chuckles. "I promise you, Emily, she will be fine." Emily sighs. "I know. Matilda, you are great. I hope you don't think I'm questioning you." The caregiver laughs. "If I thought that every time a parent left their child here the first time I'd have changed professions long ago." Emily grins. "I bet. Well…see you at 11." She leans over and kisses Rocky once more. "Love you, sweet girl." JJ kisses their daughter. "See you later, Rock Star. I love you." The two head out and get on the elevator. As JJ hits the button for the BAU floor, she takes Emily's hand and squeezes it. "She's okay, baby." "I know. I'm the one that's a mess." JJ laughs, not denying that statement at all. When the team gathers for their 10 a.m. meeting they can't help but smile, glad they are all together in the same room again. After a moment, Hotch looks down at the paperwork in front of him. "First of all, welcome back Emily. We've missed you." She grins. "You had to read that off your papers?" The team laughs. Hotch raises his eyebrows at her. "Okay…maybe we didn't miss you that much after all." She winks at him. He grins and looks back down. "Secondly, Morgan, JJ, there is a meeting on Wednesday for you two to make the final pitch regarding the class you want to teach. It's at 10 so we'll meet here at 9 to discuss cases. Good luck to you both." Morgan nods. "Thanks. We are mostly all set. Just waiting on some PowerPoint magic from Garcia and we're done with the presentation." "Yeah, but hopefully our words will mean more than bells and whistles," JJ says. Everyone agrees. Hotch hands a folder to Rossi. "Dave, there is a criminal justice class at Georgetown that would like you to speak regarding The Reaper." Rossi raises his eyebrow. "Me? Really?" Hotch glares at him. "Yes, you. Problem with that?" Rossi slowly shakes his head. "Nope, none at all." Hotch sets his papers aside. "So, what open cases do we have?" Emily smiles, trying to break the tension just mentioning The Reaper invokes. "None for me. My desk is completely clear because I am just that good!" Reid, Morgan and JJ exchange looks as everyone chuckles. Each agent takes 2 folders off their stack and tosses them in front of Emily. She frowns. "You guys suck," she complains good-naturedly. Soon all the cases have been discussed and Garcia has doled out a few more to each agent. As she heads back to her desk, Emily gives a content sigh. "I can't believe I missed this place and I'm glad to be back." Reid smiles. "I know I'm glad to have you back. It's hard to get my points across sometimes. You always get me. I've missed that." Emily grins at him. "I missed that, too." JJ grins at them from her desk. "Trust me, Em, the whole team missed that. Do you know how many times we nearly called you for a nerd translation." Reid frowns at her. "Ouch." JJ just winks at him. From up near his office, Hotch watches as the three agents tease and joke with each other a bit before getting to work. He smiles. Yes…it was good to have everyone back. They were a team…a family. And always, always stronger together. With a slight smile, he turns and goes into his office, content with knowing his team was back to being the best the FBI has to offer.	https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8719230/15/35-Gonna-Fly-Now	dclm-gs1-020900001
0.199321	<urn:uuid:08d6c5be-fdc4-4351-a4be-0d14d3ddc4f5>	en	0.988258	Chapter 18 Home Oh Lord live inside me Lead me on my way Oh Lord live inside me Lead me on my way Lead me home Lead me home Oh Lord in the darkness Lead me on my way Oh Lord in the darkness Lead me on my way Lead me home Lead me home hummm... hummm... Oh Lord heaven's waiting Open up your door Oh Lord heaven's waiting Open up your door Lead me home Lead me home Lead me home Lead me home Lead me home Lead me home Lead me Home sung by Jamie N. Commons The meeting ended and it was a somber one too. Everyone sat around the table; the place was so gloomy, empty, cold, dank. Angel was not here, Brian was gone and Dawn was stolen. There was emptiness all around and now everyone was pale after the horrible news was delivered. Buffy sat there with no expression, no movement, she looked lost completely lost. Isabella was standing up and while she processed the information it didn't mean she accepted any of it. "No there has to be something else." Isabella insisted there was always another way right? "Izzy, we've read these things backwards there's nothing else." Giles stated but he knew accepting this wasn't going to be easy to say the least. "Go through it again." Buffy order and Giles sighed. The dining room was quiet and intense everyone was on edge. Buffy wanted to hear everything over again to make sure the Watchers didn't miss anything. Giles took his glasses off laying them on the table. "The Key was once raw energy and can displace dimensions. Glory took over the dimension and is cast out. She searches for the Key; the monks put the Key in human form. The energy now is that of Dawn's blood. Glory needs Dawn's blood to open the dimensions up for her to get back to her own." Giles explained it of course there was more text but that is what it was in a nutshell. "Now in order to open the portal and pull the dimensions apart the blood is poured into a specific place and time." Wes took over the conversion. "The blood flows into that spot opening hell all its creatures come through and Glory leaves. If the blood stops flowing then it'll stop." Wes finished but Buffy wasn't happy. "But you're saying is if the blood stops flowing then hell goes away right?" Anya asked. "Yes that's if it's stopped but with Dawn," Willow tried to explain but it was too painful to finish knowing what it meant. "Blood flows the gates will open, the gates will close when the blood flows no more." Giles said in a monotone and paused. "When Dawn is dead." Everyone sighed, it's not what they wanted to hear but it was the only way. "Why blood?" Xander asked. "Why blood I mean why can't it be lymph ritual or something?" "Cause it's always got to be blood." Spike answered lighting up a cigarette. "We're not actually discussing dinner right now." Xander threw back looking at the vampire who stood in the corner. "Blood is life you wanktard." Spike shot back and Xander looked back up at him. " It's what keeps you going, makes you warm, makes you hard, makes you other than dead." He took a long drag and blew out the smoke. "Of course it's her blood." "Well it's pretty simple math here we stop Glory before the ritual begins." Buffy said plain and simple. "We have time right?" "If my calculations are right," Giles began. "But Buffy," Buffy rolled her eyes and stood up. "I don't want to hear it." She said. "Well I can see that." Giles's voice got a little louder and more stern something no one here was use to it at all. "No! No you don't understand!" Buffy turned back to her Watcher sharply fighting back the tears. "We are not talking about this." Buffy said firmly as if that was the end of the discussion but Giles slammed his fist against the table and stood up. "Yes we bloody well are!" He yelled at his slayer and everyone jumped. Buffy took in deep breath trying to hold back everything. Isabella stood there in tears; they were really talking about killing her little sister. Giles took a cleansing breath and started again. "If Glory begins the ritual, if we can't stop her," He was stretching out the answer no one wanted to hear but it was the truth. Buffy walked over trying to look bigger than she was. "Come on say it," She challenged her Watcher. "We're bloody well talking about this. Tell me to kill my own daughter, her little sister. Say it god damnit!" She yelled in tears and quickly tried to wipe them away. Giles was quiet looking at her and seeing all the rage and anger in her eyes which lead to her soul a soul that was being torn apart slowly. "To a degree she's not your daughter, she's not Izzy's sister." Giles said trying to go back to the basics to defend what the answer was. Buffy once again fought back the tears. But now Isabella step in. "No, you're wrong, she's my sister, she's a little bit of my mom, she's a little bit of my dad which makes her my sister." Isabella added. "I gave birth to her Giles, Angel and I made her, she's my daughter. I hold both my daughters and I can feel it. I can feel me, I can feel Angel. Dawn and Isabella are the only connections I have to Angel now, they're home to me, they make the most sense in the world, they're all that will ever keep me." Buffy choked out the last few words and wiped a tear away. Isabella started to cry too. "I lost my husband and I'll be damned if I lose my baby girl." "We'll solve this," Willow reassured her and Buffy nodded. But that wasn't enough what can they do to stop all this. "If the ritual starts then everyone will die." Giles stated and Buffy nodded but he knew her mind was made up she would not do it. "Dawn as well," "I'm sorry," Buffy said. "I love you all but I'm sorry I can't, I won't." She wasn't going to sacrifice another family member again for the world. "Ok," Gunn spoke up. "All in favor for stopping Glory before the ritual?" He raised his hand. "Suggestions, ideas times wasting. Willow," He said walking forward to the witch. "You got a spell going right?" "Wait we don't have to kill her." Doyle added and Cordelia looked to him. "Yeah we just keep her busy it did say that it can only be open once, she misses her time then it can't open." Fred added and that seemed to raise some spirits. "She's got what five minutes, we can keep a god busy for five minutes right? I mean let her knock us around," Doyle said and everyone began to talk a little more. "Yeah then no more ritual she might be a little mad but we'll live." Gunn added but Glory being a little mad was understatement though. "Ok, ok but I'm not hearing enough ideas." Anya jumped in. "She's a god let's think outside the box." Anya said while his hands formed a box. "Why don't you go think outside the bleeding box?" Spike shot back. "The Dagon's sphere," Anya blurted. "It was meant to repel Glory." Then she "Yes it might drive her away." Doyle said. "Actually it'll weaken her." Wes added. "We got something then, the stews a stewin' I can smell it." Lorne smiled a little. "She's becoming unstable right?" Isabella asked. "Like unstable in?" "She needs…brains so to speak without them she'll completely shut down." Giles answered. "Good so what will that do?" Isabella needed to know everything possible. "Can I defeat her?" "Possibly," Giles answered that question as well meaning there was a chance. "Awesome, great, got a plan now where is this taking place?" Xander asked and that was a good question. "I've got places to be!" Levy yelled and they looked to her and they knew to follow her. She's been getting antsy all day wanting to leave. "So now what?" Gunn asked. "We go to war." Isabella asked. The mansion was in full swing preparing. Every weapon was getting loaded into the cars and in a few hours all the slayers would be here. Having the slayer army can help but once the dimension is opened then there's only so much that can be done. Isabella sat on the roof of the mansion and Buffy climbed up to the roof and found her. Buffy took a seat next to her and mother and daughter quiet looking out. It was a beautiful day, the sky was blue, birds were chirping and there was a soft breeze. This whole situation escalated quickly. This trip to Sunnydale was supposed to be a week in and out and they've lost two of their own and the world might end. "How many apocalypses is this for us?" Isabella asked and Buffy gave a chuckle. "Oh, too many, more than anyone should have to fight." Buffy answered and looked to Isabella. "Some how we've always stopped them, the world spun one more day." Isabella nodded and looked to Buffy. "I don't know about this one. It's one thing to fight monsters but when your sister is the one to end it I…I don't know." Isabella kept the tears back. She still hasn't had time to cope with her father's loss let alone the fact her little sister could be killed and the world ends. "You and dad have made sacrifices for the world, for me, for Dawn. I mean you killed dad to save the world. I don't have that in me. What kind of world is this? Is it even worth living if all you do is save but everything is just stripped from you? What's the point mom?" Isabella asked. "It's called fighting, it doesn't stop Izzy, I know it feels like you kill one vampire five come back. And," She then went back into time to what felt a lifetime ago something Angel told her and something she told him. "We'll never win but we don't fight to win. We fight because there's something worth fighting for. Strong is fighting and it's hard and it's everyday." Those words were so old but they still held true to their meaning. "I wish I could have given you and Dawn the childhood you both deserved but that's not going to happen." "Dad always said that to me," Isabella smiled a little and she was still holding that hold cross and her father's old ring. "He always wished to give something he never had or something better than this life." Buffy smiled. "We're going to win." Buffy stated trying to help and Isabella looked to her. "Got a feeling it might go down to the last of us." That part Isabella agreed on. "You know," Isabella began. "There was one story dad told me and I always liked it even did a paper on Senior year." Isabella paused and Buffy looked to her. "It was about the Spartans and the three hundred men. Three hundred men marched to fight the Persians in the battle of Thermopylae. Three hundred against thousands and the odds were not in the Spartans favor. So they forced the Persians to funnel in and made a stand. The fight went down to the last man standing, the three hundred Spartans fought. They may have died that day but the Persians never won the war." Isabella finished and Buffy looked to her. "Dad always told me to be the last standing, never let the enemy go down without a fight and make them remember that fight." Buffy smiled, Angel has taught her well. "Then we'll be the last ones standing." Buffy stated and Isabella smiled as Buffy held out her hand and Isabella took it. Just then a caravan of cars pulled up and mother and daughter stood up. The slayers have arrived. Faith had to take a moment to be alone hearing of Angel's death. It was complete blow to the group and it was a man down and one man short. Angel might have been a human but he could still fight and they needed everyone in this. All the weapons were packed, the gear everything. They were leaving the mansion and after this they would leave Sunnydale for good. There would never be a reason to come back to this place, too much pain, too much death. Isabella pulled her group aside and needed to say something to them before they left. "I'm sorry," She apologized to them but for what? "I said that I was the leader but I'm not, we're family and before we go we need to be a family." Buffy had to smile just a little. "I can't kill my little sister not for anyone or anything. But you are my family and I'm sorry how I've acting I just," Isabella paused for a moment. "Just wish dad was here." Cordelia walked up to Isabella and hugged her then hugged Buffy. Everyone got up and hugged one another. Whatever happens now is anyone's guess. They could all die because of this but it's why they fight, it's what they've fought for all this time. Isabella drove a car and in front of her were Willow, Tara and Levy. Levy would guide them to wherever Glory was. The sun had barely set and Buffy looked out the window with two million things going through her head. She thought about Angel most of all. She hoped he would help them some how. She hoped he was comforting Dawn in some way. Dawn was alone and Buffy knew she was scared and just wanted to go home. Buffy thought about what would happen after this. Where will she, Isabella and Dawn go? Home was where all four were and they were minus Angel. What will this do to them when it's over and that's if they survive. Isabella drove thinking the same thing as her mother. She also just wanted her dad back. He always knew what to do; he knew how to fix things, make things right. Isabella knew she needed to push it out of her head and focus because if she brought herself down then she doesn't stand a chance against a Hell God no matter what. Isabella then felt her mom grab her hand and Isabella accepted. They both lost the man of their life and they cannot and will not lose Dawn. Just a small chapter but a very powerful chapter. Now for the rest of the story I'm combining chapters and by doing that we got like three chapters left. The end has been typed up and it's a good one. After this story though there will be no more adventures of Isabella. The end sets up to where I could do another one but I'm not going to. So what's next? We got to kill Glory right? I mean she killed Angel I say bring the bitch down. But who do you want to kill Glory? Should it be Isabella or Buffy? More soon, comments and reviews are most welcomed and thanks for reading.	https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8886532/18/Aurora-Dei-Donum-The-Gift-Sequel	dclm-gs1-020910001
0.024733	<urn:uuid:b42a7b59-edec-4699-8b8c-9a41bb9d0041>	en	0.899985	hide bio PM . Follow . Favorite Joined 06-06-07, id: 1294564, Profile Updated: 02-26-14 People usually write witty things in this space. Or they give you a biography. However I will not wast your time. Just for reference what I write is what I write the stories and genres will differ. :) Let's get this party started!	https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1294564/XxLucaxX	dclm-gs1-020920001
0.075594	<urn:uuid:52ad2166-11b7-4d48-aaf6-7317b2ff27d9>	en	0.975639	Goal Setting IOS App Job Description Hi I'm looking to make a fairly simple ios application that essentially lets the user keep track of goals they set for themselves. However, their ultimate goal might have many "small wins" along the way. For example if someone had a goal to loose 60 pounds in a year they might have smaller goals of 5 pounds a month or even gym three times a week. These small goals I would like the user to be able to set time intervals and receive push notifications. There would also need to be a simple backend to the application to store the data of each users goals. Please let me know if you are interested or have done a similar project in the past and I will happily send you more information about the project. I would also like someone who is available to start this as soon as possible. Other open jobs by this client	https://www.odesk.com/o/jobs/job/Goal-Setting-IOS-App_~01d376ecbf8b70a2cc/	dclm-gs1-020940001
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