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The Asymmetric Threat of Self Initiated Violent Actors
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The Asymmetric Threat of Self Initiated Violent Actors
Jonathan D. GreensteinIn a previous article I proffered the term: Self Initiated Violent Actors (SIVA
) and my rationalefor its inclusion into the lexicon applied to typing of individuals who seek to or engage in violent actsunder the auspices of terrorism. This article is a continuation of and possibly part of a longer series of articles that will speak to the asymmetric threat posed by SIVAs.
SIVAs are defined as individuals who engage in acts of violence under the umbrella of terrorist causes without specific tasking by a higher authority. While they may undertake target specificattacks as proffered by the group to which they follow; their actions are not directed. They likelymaintain a high degree of support; commitment; and possibly their intent to pursue martyrdom(shahada
). Their backgrounds can be quite varied; educational, socioeconomic and religious adherencecan span the scale as can their ethnicity, race, age and gender. Granted this wide inclusion of potentialSIVA candidates may seem overly broad, but by reviewing historical data the reader will quicklyappreciate the fact that violent actors can come from any background.While the primary focus of attention and discussion tends to be on those individuals who alignthemselves with Al Qaida (
), one of its associated groups such as Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula(
), Al-Shabaab or similar groups such as Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (
), a SIVA can self associatewith any group, with any cause. Their affiliation or alignment can be with racist, separatist or politicalgroups that use criminal violence.What differentiates SIVAs from direct affiliates or supporters of a terrorist group is their self initiation of violent acts. This includes individuals who collaborate in attack planning, logistical or financial supportprovided their activity is initiated of their own volition.A SIVA
does not
include individuals who are mission tasked by a higher authority. While this is asomewhat complex construct to articulate; for the purposes of this article I will rely on the generalframework of a tasked individual being someone who is selected and steered towards action. Thus, anindividual who is selected and indoctrinated with the specific intent to utilize them in act of terrorismwould not be a classified a SIVA.The asymmetric threat posed by SIVAs is not a new concept. The threat is that they will engage in an actof violence; the asymmetry is that they act alone and as such remove some of the traditional detectiontools. ___________________________________
The term “Self Initiated Violent Actor” and ac
ronym SIVA was first coined by the author in the course of professional research and development in 2011.2- The word shahada is derived from the Arabic verbal root shahada, which means to 'see', to 'witness', to 'testify', to 'become a model and paradigm'. Shahadatherefore literally means to 'see', to 'witness', and to 'become a model'. A shahid is the person who sees and witnesses, and he is therefore the witness, as if themartyr witnesses and sees the truth physically and thus stands by it firmly, so much so that not only does he testify it verbally, but he is prepared to struggle andfight and give up his life for the truth, and thus to become a martyr. In this way, and by his struggle and sacrifice for the sake of the truth, he become a model, aparadigm, and an example for others, worthy of being copied, and worthy of being followed.
Before delving into some potential indicators it is important to remind the reader that these arepotential indicators only. While in a law enforcement context the observation of one or more of thesepotential indicators may the initiator to engage a person in a consensual contact, they fall short of probable cause. Ensure you follow established policies and procedures before applying anything borneout of this information.
Behavioral Indicators
Some of these behavioral indicators cover both SIVAs and tasked actors. Given that a SIVA actson their own accord and without the benefit of some traditional sources of threat reporting, theawareness of these potential indicators is critical in assessing and mitigating their unique threat.
New or increased violent rhetoric. Particularly following a significant event; such as a victory by theirgroup. Just as important is a drastic change following a loss suffered by their group. Victories can includesuccessfully attacks, high profile media coverage or measured capitulation by their perceived enemies.Losses can include disrupted plots, deaths of leadership, notable sways in public opinion and bad press.It should be noted that these are subjective and what is viewed in one light by us can be viewed from acompletely different perspective by a SIVA.
Obsession with violent Jihad depictions. This is where a SIVA shares some common elements withother violent actors; they seek out videos and first-hand accounts that portray the glorious aspects of battle. Like a drug, they use it to sustain themselves.
Shunning of non-violent ideals. Both SIVAs and those tasked by higher authorities are likely to alignthemselves with postulators of violence; be it religious or other justification. Where a SIVA may bear aunique indicator is that they may never seek formal council. While they subscribe to a particular group
mission statement
they may never actually communicate directly with the group; opting to act ontheir own.
Pre-Operational Indicators
As with other criminals, a SIVA will usually engage in pre-operational activities. This is a criticalstage for frontline law enforcement, security and the first responder. While we may never be able toquantify the number of attacks that were deterred or prevented, failing to recognize potential indicatorsof pre-operational activity will surely provide us with the evidence of a plot; after it comes to fruition.
Interest in high profile locations. These can be previous attack locations or those that hold significanceto the SIVA and/or their affiliated group. As evidence by recent online postings
; target lists areconstantly being updated. ___________________________________
3-In early June 2011, Al Qaeda Central (AQC) and several jihadist forums provided in-depth discussion and postulated targeting of individuals.
Engaging in surveillance activity. As demonstrated by evidence uncovered following the Times SquareVBIED
Plot; the ability to conduct remote target selection and initial surveillance through publicallyaccessible platforms remains a viable tool for actors. Even with remote capabilities, it is very likely that aSIVA will conduct in-person target site assessments. This is the period when most acts can be eitherdeferred or detected.
Seeking employment at, with, or access to potential targets. Like any other criminal, a SIVA will likelyseek out opportunities to gain insight to a target location. If the SIVA is planning an
inside job
, themost probable route will be through employment at the target location or in a position that will provideaccess. Despite the austere job market, when other potential indicators are coupled with a drasticdivergence from one type of work to one that provides access to a facility of interest
, you may havecause for concern and increased interest.
Possession of unusual documents, maps, photos and related materials. This can be indicative of operational planning or an aspiration. A SIVA who poses an insider threat concern could be an individualwho seeks out or is found to have these materials or information outside the scope of their role withinan organization. This, coupled with potential behavioral indicators would likely be cause for furtherinquiry.Of obvious note would be maps that indicate attack routes, critical points, have time notations and thelike. Further, photos of targets taken from a distance or which focus on critical points would be cause forconcern.
Acquisition or attempts to acquire precursor chemicals, excessive ammunition and weapons. This isanother critical point in pre-operational activities when plots are detected and disrupted. Frequently, itis during the process of assembling the tools needed to execute their mission that SIVAs and missiontasked actors are identified and subsequently apprehended. Unfortunately, the ability to detect actionsat this stage has been highlighted by the simplicity of recent attacks, the use of readily available andseemingly innocuous implements.
Increased secrecy about activities and associates. While a SIVA may closely associate with a particulargroup prior to their self initiated action; openly posting on public forums, attending meetings, hostinggroup members or otherwise maintaining a visible affiliation, it is probable that such contacts will showa marked decrease as they reach a point just prior to acting. A caveat is that the decision to act can bepredicated by any number of factors and is largely driven by the individual and their mindset at the time.Though the act may appear spontaneous, it was likely well thought out beforehand. A marked change intheir public profile may be indicative of action in the near-term. ___________________________________
4-Open source reporting notes that the suspect used publically accessible web-cam feeds and Google Earth © during his pre-operational target selection and toidentify the best time at which to place and detonate the VBIED.5-A drastic change would include seeking/accepting menial labor or other behind-the-scenes positions that fall below the SIVAs capabilities
available positionsat or near the potential target.
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Tesla S P85+ vs Porsche Panamera GTS
I am soliciting input and opinion out there on which car gives a more satisfying ride.
Price wise, they are comparable. I am coming from just a pure performance perspective; nothing on the EV vs ICE technology, fuel cost savings and so forth; just pure unadulterated performance.
I test drove the P85 a few weeks ago and while i think its straight-line performance is nothing short of awesome, i feel that it is somewhat lacking when it comes to steering feel/handling around corners. Don't get me wrong; it is no slouch by any stretch of the imagination but when we are talking about cars with sticker price above $100k, we have to compare it against the creme de la creme so to speak. Perhaps it is the curb weight that is at play but who knows. Here is where I really hope the performance plus package (P85+) comes into the equation and save the day given that Elon claims "super car" territory handling. I called Tesla and unfortunately they don't have a test vehicle yet that is equipped with the performance plus package. So there is no way to confirm this one way or the other.
Incidentally, I am also very interested in the Panamera GTS. I know the looks isn't for everyone but to me it looks appealing. As it turns out, there is already a review out there by Edmunds comparing these cars.
The test numbers kind of confirm my suspicion. From the specs listed, this is not even a regular P85. It looks like a P85+ indeed, perhaps Elon's own personal souped-up version of the P85. Straight line kudos go to Tesla (albeit barely) but skidpad/slalom has the GTS well in the clear. If these are the numbers from the P85+, they are somewhat dissapointing given Elon's claim. I would conclude from just that review alone, the GTS "outperforms" the "P85+". I am putting quotes around the P85 because i suspect it is the P85+ based on the specs listed but who knows if it is going to be the actual final version of the production cars equipped with the performance plus package($10k option).
I have scheduled a test drive session for the Panamera GTS. Would really love to get behind the wheel of a GTS and see what it can really do. There are other rave reviews out there on the GTS that backs up the "unreal" handling comment from the Edmunds review. Hopefully, I can also test drive a production P85+ soon which should provide me with sufficient data to make an informed decision on which machine is ultimately for me.
Please chime in with your thoughts.
Was the p85+ ride harsher?
Anyone know if we can upgrade a p85 to p85+?
Congratulations! I think everyone here expected it, but you have to experience it for yourself. Now the worst part is waiting for delivery!
Were you able to drive a P85 and P85+ back to back? I think it would be hard to be certain if you drive them days apart. Very reassuring first report though.... thank you.
THANK YOU!! Can't wait! Still have a little hope though that the P+ will be a tiny bit faster than P to 60 :)
I think that the P+ is probably .1 sec quicker to 60. The original Motor Trend test was on Elons car which had a forerunner to the P+ package and it did 60 in 3.9 and subsequent Model S was off the production line and it did 60 in 4.0. It seems that Tesla has done considerable tweaking since then on the handling dept.
Would really appreciate getting other first hand reports on the P+ handling and noise.
can you let us know what you have driven in the past so we have a frame of reference? M5? C63?
essendon2000 - Welcome to the fold.
DAMNIT! Not I want to upgrade my Signature P85 to plus! :( Thanks a lot essendon2000 ... :)
I am an avid AMG fan; more so on their NA engines. Not so crazy with their current line of FI offerings unfortunately.
'04 CLK55
'09 E63
My family own both the Panamera 4S and Panamera GTS, I can seriously say, everyone in my family loves the car a lot, that we had to keep both to keep everyone happy. We also have a Cayenne GTS as well. you can tell we really love our porsches.
While, I think the Model S would be a better car for daily grind, an electric car still does not and will never provide the traditional feel and sportiness of an ICE sports sedan. The Model S is a very fast car, but its not a car I would like to drive fast or just go for a cruise in.
@Godzpeed I assume you have a lot of experience driving a Model S based on your statement.
Having come from a new 911S and competition package 2011 M3 sedan, I don't think an ICE could ever compare to the benefits of the P85 and especially the plus version. Tesla did with one model what other companies had over a century. Time for a revolution and I feel bad for people who go out and get a new MB S class or 7 series or P car without checking the S.
That is a good set of reference cars. Could you take a minute to give us your take on the differences between E63 and P85+ suspension?
If I were you and you were me, I'd look no further than the Porsche Panamera Turbo S. True performance from a gorgeously sculpted car. Build quality is excellent and its quiet at speed (unlike the Tesla from what's been stated) with specially laminated windows etc. Sure, if electrical propulsion is your thing, then have at the Tesla. However, if you're looking for a true sports car with more performance than you'll ever need, do with the Turbo S.
And the cost of the panamera turbo S is over $80k MORE than the Tesla S p85+ !. Porsche must be quaking in their boots at the thought that Tesla might one day add another motor to the front and still cost less.
The P85+ does everything that the E63 does well and then some.
I love the handling dynamics of the E63 but the P85+ takes it to another level thus making the driver feel even more "connected" to the road but definitely not at the expense of ride quality. The ride on the E63 may be a tad jarring/harsh at its highest setting but the P85+ seems to take it all in stride even on the 21"
The P85+ seems to be more hunkered down in corners and more ready/eager to comply to changes in lateral or sideway movements like on a winding road. Slalom comes to mind.
P85+ also seems more sure-footed when performing high-speed maneuvers like lane switching and passing/merging.
The E63 does all of these things very well mind you, as you would expect from an AMG, but the P85+ just does them that much better and with seemingly less effort all at the same time.
Sorry, did noot mean to post the same thing twice
lph - Where are you shopping for your Panamera? I can't find a Turbo S, just a turbo and an executive (at 140k and 160k respectively).
Great to hear some comparisons of these machines!
@EMDoc A lot of recent S class, 750i or Panamera owners are probably kicking themselves why they did not hear the Model S before. I also think Porsche's glory days are probably behind them. MS and MX are going to take a lot of market away from them. They might have to go back to the days that they were just a struggling 911 maker. I say this as a current Porsche owner.
@carlk - Agreed. I planned to keep the 911 and M3 but they felt so old after my MS test drive. The other companies are years behind Tesla but have many more resources. I hope Tesla can stay ahead of the game.
And the fact that there are no stealerships just sweetens the deal. So, are you selling your Porsche or adding the MS? I do agree with Porsche engineering being if they can implement the same tech as Tesla (but vw may muck things up).
"You plan to keep"
I still have my BMW S1000RR and I have to push myself to run it enough to keep the battery charged as it sits next to my MY13 Zero DS. My Maranello is feeling equally neglected thanks to MS.
Normally I would chalk this up to the new toy syndrome. However, we are going on a year for the bike and four months for MS. My new toy attention span is not that long thus I suspect this is a permanent change in behavior.
The point of all the above is I think you may find your other toys are neglected (unless of course you do things like track days at which point they will get their thrashing).
@lolachampcar -
I had planned to keep the M3. Put it on sale after finalizing my P85 and sold it early April. I'm glad I did. 18.4 mpg vs a solar powered home and car with little maintenance.
The Maranello is beautiful. I love the 430 and Italia. But I would never purchase an ICE though I always pictured having a Ferrari someday. The 911S was amazing but the MS is simply the best!
I was trailing a Panamera Turbo in which the guy had been driving a bit too aggressively. It was time to teach him a lesson. We came to a red light and I pulled up next to him in my P85. Green light......I hear heavy rev's from his car, my car silently wasted him. By a full car-length. I was actually surprised I beat him by so much because I know that car has a stated 0-60 of 4.0. We turned onto another main thoroughfare and he continued to try to keep up with me to no avail and finally just gave up. Loving Tesla!!!!!!
The antics required of a performance ICE's control modules to get good 0-60 times is silly when compared to the MS where you simply press the big pedal on the right and you have instant acceleration. My daily averages are around 310WHr/mile and yet my foot hovers over the right pedal and, when the light turns green, I leave everything just sitting there. I'd like to think it is my super reaction times but I know better :)
Right. Those published ICE 0-60 time are done by professional drivers and the best picked out of many tries. It takes a lot of skills to launch a high power car. Any dummy, although no MS owner is, can probably get the 4.2 or so time in the first try. That's the beauty of the car for the average or above average drivers.
@EMDoc I plan to keep my Cayman S for now and see what happens. The two are very different cars. I may still want to drive the two seater from time to time but who knows.
The best part about the Model S is that altitude and temperature should not have much effect. It was very hot out coming home from work Tuesday, and I floored my 911S. Between the heat and 5,000ft above sea level, the acceleration wasn't great. When I went up to Park City last summer it was even worse. The Model S should be even faster at high altitude because there will be less wind resistance but the same power from the motor.... Can't wait!
I'm looking to trade my Cayenne (Manual Transmission) I've always driven a manual... As a twist, how do the manual drivers feel driving electric. It's like ALL your work is taken away
I have a 911 I'll be keeping, for times when I need to do more than 200 miles, or just want to be old-fashioned and change my own gears. Who knows, maybe after a few months, I'll sell the 911. We don't have a whole lot of published charging stations on Long Island, if that changes.... hmmm...
I've only owned manual cars. The regen braking on the Model S is very engaging to me and has almost become telepathic. Don't miss shifting. I think if the regen was implemented on the brake pedal the car would be not nearly as fun.
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I am grateful for your kindness to a distant runner-up. And I am proud to join you this evening in commending to all Americans the man who now represents your best wishes and mine for the future of our country, my friend, Governor George W Bush, the next president of the United States.
Tomorrow, we will formally nominate Governor Bush. We do so not for our sake alone. We do not seek his election merely to acquire an advantage over our political opponents or offices for our party faithful. We have a grander purpose than that.
When we nominate Governor Bush for president, here in the city where our great nation was born, we invest him with the faith of our founding fathers, and charge him with the care of the cause they called glorious.
We are blessed to be Americans, not just in times of prosperity, but at all times. We are part of something providential; a great experiment to prove to the world that democracy is not only the most effective form of government, but the only moral government.
And through the years, generation after generation of Americans has held fast to the belief that we were meant to transform history.
On an early December morning, many years ago, I watched my father leave for war. He joined millions of Americans to fight a world war that would decide the fate of humanity. They fought against a cruel and formidable enemy bent on world domination. They fought not just for themselves and their families, not just to preserve the quality of their own lives. They fought for love, for love of an idea - that America stood for something greater than the sum of our individual interests.
From where did the courage come to make the maximum effort in that decisive moment in history? It marched with the sons of a nation that believed deeply in itself, in its history, in the justice of its cause, in its magnificent destiny. Americans went into battle armed against despair with the common conviction that the country that had sent them there was worth their sacrifice.
Their families, their schools, their faith, their history, their heroes taught them that the freedom with which they were blessed deserved patriots to defend it. Many would never come home. But those who did returned with an even deeper civic love. They believed that if America were worth dying for, then surely she was worth living for. They were, as Tocqueville said of Americans, "haunted by visions of what will be".
They built an even greater nation than the one they had left their homes to defend; an America that offered more opportunities to more of its people than ever before; an America that began to redress injustices that had been visited on too many of her citizens for too long. They bound up the wounds of war for ally and enemy alike. And when faced with a new, terrible threat to the security and freedom of the world, they fought that too. As did their sons and daughters. And they prevailed.
Now we stand unsurpassed in our wealth and power. What shall we make of it? Let us take courage from their example, and from the new world they built, build a better one. This new century will be an age of untold possibilities for us and for all mankind.
Many nations now share our love of liberty and aspire to the ordered progress of democracy. But the world is still home to tyrants, haters and aggressors hostile to America and our ideals. We are obliged to seize this moment to help build a safer, freer and more prosperous world, completely free of the tyranny that made the last century such a violent age.
We are strong, confident people. We know that our ideals, our courage, our ingenuity ensure our success. Isolationism and protectionism are fool's errands. We shouldn't build walls to the global success of our interests and values. Walls are for cowards, my friends, not for Americans.
No nation complacent in its greatness will long sustain it. We are an unfinished nation. And we are not a people of half-measures. We who have found shelter beneath the great oak must care for it in our time with as much devotion as had the patriots who preceded us.
This is an extraordinary time to be alive. We are so strong and prosperous that we can scarcely imagine the heights we could ascend if we have the will to make the climb. Yet I think each of us senses that America, for all our prosperity, is in danger of losing the best sense of herself: that there is a purpose to being an American beyond materialism.
Cynicism is suffocating the idealism of many Americans, especially among our young. And with cause, for they have lost pride in their government. Too often those who hold a public trust have failed to set the necessary example. Too often, partisanship seems all consuming. Differences are defined with derision.
Too often, we seem to put our personal interests before the national interest, leaving the people's business unattended while we posture, poll and spin. When the people believe that government no longer embodies our founding ideals, then basic civil consensus will deteriorate as people seek substitutes for the unifying values of patriotism.
National pride will not endure the people's contempt for government. And national pride is as indispensable to the happiness of Americans as is our self-respect.
When we quit seeing ourselves as part of something greater than our self-interest then civic love gives way to the temptations of selfishness, bigotry and hate. Unless we restore the people's sovereignty over government, renew their pride in public service, reform our public institutions to meet the challenges of a new day and reinvigorate our national purpose then America's best days will be behind us.
To achieve the necessary changes to the practices and institutions of our democracy we need to be a little less content. We need to get riled up a bit, and stand up for the values that made America great. Rally to this new patriotic challenge or lose forever America's extraordinary ability to see around the corner of history.
Americans, enter the public life of your country determined to tell the truth; to put problem solving ahead of partisanship; to defend the national interest against the forces that would divide us. Keep your promise to America, as she has kept her promise to you, and you will know a happiness far more sublime than pleasure.
It is easy to forget in politics where principle ends and selfishness begins. It takes leaders of courage and character to remember the difference.
Tomorrow, our party will nominate such a leader. George W Bush believes in the greatness of America and the justice of our cause. He believes in the America of the immigrant's dream, the high lantern of freedom and hope to the world. He is proud of America's stature as the world's only superpower, and he accepts the responsibilities along with the blessings that come with that hard-earned distinction.
He knows well that there is no safe alternative to American leadership. And he will not squander this unique moment in history by allowing America to retreat behind empty threats, false promises, and uncertain diplomacy. He will confidently defend our interests and values wherever they are threatened.
I say to all Americans, Republican, Democrat or independent: if you believe America deserves leaders with a purpose more ennobling than expediency and opportunism, then vote for Governor Bush. If you believe patriotism is more than a soundbite and public service should be more than a photo-op then vote for Governor Bush.
My friend, Governor Bush, believes in an America that is so much more than the sum of its divided parts. He wants to give you back a government that serves all the people, no matter the circumstances of their birth.
And he wants to lead a Republican party that is as big as the country we serve. He wants nothing to divide us into separate nations. Not our colour. Not our race. Not our wealth. Not our religion. Not our politics. He wants us to live for America, as one nation, and together profess the American creed of self-evident truths.
I support him. I am grateful to him. And I am proud of him. He is a good man from a good family that has, in good times and bad, dedicated themselves to America. Many years ago, the governor's father served in the Pacific, with distinction, under the command of my grandfather. Now it is my turn to serve under the son of my grandfather's brave subordinate. I am proud to do so, for I know that by supporting George W Bush I serve my country well.
My grandfather was an aviator; my father a submariner. They gave their lives to their country. In Tokyo harbour, on the day the Japanese surrendered, they were re-united for the last time. My grandfather would die a few days later. His last words to my father were: "It's an honour to die for your country and your principles."
I have been an imperfect servant of my country for over 40 years, and my many mistakes rightly humble me. But I am their son - and they taught me to love my country, and that has made all the difference, my friends, all the difference in the world.
I am so grateful to have seen America rise to such prominence. But America's greatness is a quest without end, the object beyond the horizon. And it is an inescapable and bittersweet irony of life, that the older we are the more distant the horizon becomes. I will not see what is over America's horizon. The years that remain are not too few I trust, but the immortality that was the aspiration of my youth, has, like all the treasures of youth, quietly slipped away.
But I have faith. I have faith in you. I have faith in your patriotism, in your passion to build upon the accomplishments of our storied past. I have faith that people who are free to act in their own interests will perceive their interests in an enlightened way and live as one nation, in a kinship of ideals, served by a government that kindles the pride of every one of you.
I have faith that just beyond the distant horizon live a people who gratefully accept the obligation of their freedom to make of their power and wealth a civilization for the ages - a civilization in which all people share in the promise of freedom.
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Sure, it may have been a shortened season with only thirteen episodes, four of which were aired during the finale night, but at least Fox gave us an ending to Arrested Development with its third and finale season.
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During the third season we saw Michael fall in love with the gorgeous Rita, Tobias risk his life to keep a beautiful head of hair, learned that Lindsay was adopted, watched the boys head to Iraq, and saw and the fitting end to the three year long trial. Oh and a nice surprise ending where the real power behind the Bluth family lied.
So while rumors continue to fly about an Arrested Development movie, you can waste your time reading them... or you can spend them on TV Fanatic reading some of the funniest Arrested Development quotes.
With over 1,000 quotes spanning the three amazing seasons, we easily have the most complete collection on the Internet. So go ahead and vote for your favorites, as we show you some of our favorites from season three:
Michael: Hey, why don't you pop a tent in front with your cousin Maeby?
George Michael: What? No!
Maeby: I'm not really the outdoorsy type.
Michael: Well, this is a good chance for you to rub off on her. | permalink
Michael: If you're really lonely, maybe it's time you went out there and you got yourself a girlfr.. a pet.
Buster: How about a turtle?
Michael: Great.
Buster: I've always loved those leathery little snappy faces.
Michael: You certainly have a type. | permalink
Narrator: Hey, that's the name of the show. | permalink
Michael: I'm not going to lie to your son.
Gob: Come on! I lie to yours all the time. | permalink
Michael: I was at the property the Japanese funded today. The whole backside has moles.
Tobias: That's Frank's problem, too. | permalink
Michael: You've never told me how many houses there are in the British Parliament.
Rita: Seven.
Michael: Are there?
Narrator: The answer is three.
Michael: Does sound about right.
Narrator: Three is the correct answer. | permalink
Michael: Mom wants to sleep with the warden.
Gob: What? Oh, God!
Lindsay: Great.
Michael: Great? The man is old enough to be her contemporary, Lindsay. | permalink
Michael: You just thought you'd put the stand right here?
Gob: Did the research. Did you know that more frozen bananas are sold here on this boardwalk than anywhere in The O.C.?
Michael: Don't call it that. | permalink
Lindsay: Did you get a lawyer?
Bob: Don't call it that. | permalink
Oscar: Well, I think it's Showtime. | permalink
Lindsay: Well, why don't you just go to Dad and ask him who Nellie is, point-blank?
Michael: So, he can just cover it up and lie? I can't stand to hear one more lie out of this family.
Tobias: Oh, there's the woman I'm sexually attracted to.
Michael: Ok, but that's the last one. | permalink
Michael: So, you just finished off the bottle?
Lindsay: Well, I had to. It's vodka, you know. It goes bad once it's opened.
Michael: I think that's another one of mum's little fibs. You know, like, I'll sacrifice anything for my children. | permalink
Michael: I like 'hot sailors'.
Tobias: Me, too ... | permalink
Michael: Gob, I'm not going to turn this mock trial into some kind of --
Gob: You were going to say "mockery," weren't you?
Michael: I was in trouble, like, three words into that. | permalink
Doctor: You could be a groom. Bring a little girlfriend up there with you.
George Michael: Oh, I don't have a girlfriend.
Doctor: A sister then, or a cousin. 'Course, you're gonna have to kiss.
Narrator: Guess who liked that idea? | permalink
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@FortuneMagazine July 20, 2011: 10:37 AM ET
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- What did Larry Summers really think of the Winklevoss twins?
"Rarely, have I encountered such swagger, and I tried to respond in kind," the former president of Harvard said in an interview at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss were at Harvard at the same time that Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, and they had come to Summers for help in their fight for a piece of the action.
Summers dismissed them, a scene dramatized in the movie the "Social Network."
Summers didn't try to dispel the portrayal.
"One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three o'clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they're looking for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an a**hole. This was the latter case."
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The Winklevoss twins have taken dozens of runs at Facebook in court since 2004. The brothers and a third Harvard classmate, Divya Narendra, have alleged that Zuckerberg had stolen the idea for Facebook from them.
Facebook promptly countersued the trio and their own social networking site, ConnectU, alleging that they had hacked into Facebook to steal data and spam users. The legal volley of claims and counterclaims went back and forth until 2008, when the Winklevosses and Narendra signed a settlement valued at $65 million, part in cash and part in Facebook stock.
But the trio later tried to pull out of the deal, alleging that Facebook had misrepresented the value of its stock. A judge ruled against them and forced the settlement to go through, but the Winklevosses and Narendra took the case to an appeals court.
In April, Judge Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, attempted to put the kibosh on the case. "At some point, litigation must come to an end," Kozinski wrote in his decision. "That point has now been reached."
In June, the twins abandoned their plans to appeal to the Supreme Court for an unwinding of their 2008 settlement, and followed up a day later with a new motion in Boston federal court. To top of page | http://archive.fortune.com/2011/07/20/technology/summers_winklevoss_facebook.fortune/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2 | dclm-gs1-036350001 |
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the government watching? >>brian: the government will provide life lock for the pentagon, which we offer now is some kind of protection because we don't want all our secret cables to be exposed by idiots like the one we just had -- >> that's different from what the president did the other day. the government has an obligation to protect the pentagon. the government does not have an obligation to protect you or fox news or me or "the new york times." so what's the government going to do? the government is going to share information with major internet providers. and pretty soon it's going to say to the internet providers, all that information we gave you about us, we now want information about you. we want to know about kilmeade's e-mails. we're worried about him. we want to know who he's pha*eulg -- e-mailing so we can keep him safe. baloney. protect the government, but leave the rest of us with privacy. if you're going to interfere with the internet, should it be done by the command of one person -- the president -- or should it be done after great national debate and the congress? >>gretch
the pentagon which is why the sequester idea was terrible. it's a choice between higher tacks and lower military spending. i don't know who agreed to that. the president likes that choice. >> even if congress would get together and give him the authority to change the areas we cut, even though we stay at the same dollar line, you would be of the opinion he would want to cut the military? >> absolutely. i think we will have the sequestration. i think the objective should be as soon as we can get military spending back up where it should be and cut domestic spending more deeply. >> former ambassador to the united nations, john bolton. great to see you. have a great weekend. >> thank you. >> remember the mayor and fired himself when the town was broke? he says it's not his fault he's illiterate. and did george washington really chop down a cherry tree? we have three minutes to study up because we are taking a history test. brian is getting behind the podium. that makes me nervous. are you cheating? >> what is this about george washington and me staying behind the podium? >> bite out of an
out of the defense department on sequester and taken them to other places in the pentagon where fat could be cut. stand up and be counted. put solutions on the table and we can cut spending and preserve defense capability. >>gretchen: there were governors on the talk shows yesterday, bipartisan support for what you're saying from governor o'malley and virginia's governor mcdonnell. let me ask you what you think the world reaction is to watching the united states, the biggest superpower in the world, talking so drastically about cuts to the pentagon and the military? >> the world sees yet another signal that america already has and will have to pull back from its obligations. enemies see weakness. allies see the potential for jumping back and forth on obligations to allies. i think they see equivocation, weakness and they wonder where america is going to be in its role in the world. that foments more violence which makes defense more necessary. >>gretchen: let's see what happens. deadline coming up this friday. coming up, he fought the president on unions and won. now governor walker
as the secretary steps up the rhetoric about dire cuts at the pentagon if sequestration goes into effect march 1. >>> the man accused of trying to blow up the federal reserve in new york expected to plead guilty to terror charges. officials say he tried to blow up the van with 1,000 pounds of explosives outside the buildings, but the explosives were fake. he is charged with trying to use weapons of mass destruction and trying to thwart al qaeda. >> there are thousands of reasons why people are late to work. traffic? the most common culprit. but not all employees blame jammed roads. a new survey reveals some of the most memorable excuses like -- good ideas for you. my car wouldn't start because the breathalyzer showed i was intoxicated. my car was attacked by a bear. here's the photo of proof. are we going to see it? >>steve: we heard it. >>gretchen: last but not least, my angry wife froze my keys in a glass of water in the freezer. come on. out of those three, that is the most logical one. >>brian: really? i tell you what, i think there is a long line of misdeeds if she is going to that extent t
during the testimony, it was interesting because panetta said the pentagon, the c.i.a., and the department of state were all on board with sending the rebels in syria where there has been mass genocide because ofor us to send them arms. you know who said no? the white house. well, we don't know if it's going to work. we don't know which of the rebels to arm. ultimately we don't know if it will result in the ouster of assad. >> brian: the "washington post" lead editorial today says hillary clinton and david petraeus, running the c.i.a. identified the group that they believe would have been the preferrable group to take over through all the rebels, they weeded through and had a plan. and the president nixed it. the word is too political. they wanted to make it seem we're not on a war footing with the election a month away. >> gretchen: maybe the election playing a huge role. let's look at the fox news polls right now. recently conducted, how many people feel our country compared to five years ago? nearly half of those polled say america is weaker and less powerful to
over 100,000 pentagon workers will be furloughed and an hour and a half line at least to get on a plane, more like four hours because they have to be furloughed. wait a second! i thought we were all going to all be affected. >> gretchen: that was monday, tuesday, wednesday. >> steve: right. it looks like the white house and cabinet minute secretaries have -- ministers clearly hyped this whole thing. keep in mind, the white house and the administration has a lot of leeway in how the cuts are administered among the agencies and phil gramm, former senator from texas who helped right the sequestration bill in the 1985s, he's going to be our guest in ten minutes. he's going to tell us about the president, if he makes the choices where they are deliberate, maximum cut for maximum political gain, that would be the wrong thing to do for america. >> gretchen: he seems to be backing off on that now because i think if this crisis ultimately did not happen come saturday, the credibility of the president and his administration would be called into question. meantime, what do you think about this? th
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A phrase that is said during the action of slipping a finger or two between the legs of a woman. This happens during foreplay to check for moisture in order to make sure she is as aroused as her breathing/dirty talk/writhing around would have one assume.
It is preferable that eye contact between both parties is maintained during the 'Just Checking' process.
'you look so hot right now'
*slips hand between legs to find moisture*
'just checking'
লিখেছেন- martini attack 3 de সেপ্টেমবার de 2009
A term used to describe a pretty girl who often makes dumb remarks.
Said girl is often found on the arm of a muscley hetero.
I didnt have time to go to the gym today. Instead i'm gonna go home to pump my dumbelle and hope that she doesn't talk too much shit.
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A phrase used to justify the faux pas that is falling asleep during sex.
It bares no relation to the effort or technique displayed by the other party. The falling asleep is usually out of character and is the result of weeks of burning the candle at both ends.
Muscley Hetero: yeh baby, d'ya like that?
Ali: Zzzzzz
Muscley Hetero: baby? Oh.My.God.
Ali:*wakes up*
urgh, i wasn't sleeping, i was just really relaxed.
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When 2 or more people make multiple replies to a comment/status update on a facebook page that doesn't belong to either of them.
The amount of rapidfire wordplay and oneupmanship can be intimidating for onlookers.
It is often the case during page rape that the owner of the page is unaware of the occurance, until they go to check their email/facebook hours later, finding a barage of reponses often completely unrelated to the original post.
OMG, you guys totally just page raped me! I only updated my status to say that i like sandwiches.
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SGV: MaMa's Kitchen returns...
Long-time dumpling, noodle, wonton & snack house, MaMa's Kitchen, recently closed in the Alhambra plaza that's home to 101 Noodle House and the bowling alley. Cruising around yesterday, I spotted this sign. I walked in, but apparently everyone was in back. It used to be a steam table joint called Quick Meal and the laminated menus still say Quick Meal while the grease stained menus only list some of MaMa's former menu, but included beef rolls. It's located in a small mini mall at 153 E. Duarte in Arcadia, just west of 2nd and next to a Carl's Jr. Further recon is needed to see if they have all of MaMa's wide variety of dumplings or if they still make a beef roll worthy of TonyC's recommendation.
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1. thanks for the update!!
1. wow. i actually recognized ma ma jia before i read the english.
rather unfortunate that they neglected to proof read the new sign before installing
1. i'm not driving up to Duarte Rd for a beef roll just like i'm not waiting an hour for XLB.
it is hilarious they just turned the old "U" upside down though.
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1. re: TonyC
That's actually Arcadia on Duarte Rd. Which puts it near the Race Track and Mall. Still too far?
1. re: Ogawak
sorry, I've become rather afraid of SGV traffic as I age. Arcadia might as well be Oxnard.
some richer, closer, Taiwanese Arcadian will have to tell me if Mama's is still as big of an eggy gut bomb.
2. I went there today with some fellow adventurers. We had some boiled dumplings: pork with leek, pork with fennel, and lamb with carrots. Every dumpling was right on the mark. I especially liked the lamb with carrots dumpling.
The beef noodle soup wasn't that popular because the beef was too tough. I did not personally try it.
I tried their beef roll for the first time. They are each about the size of a 1 pint/0.5 liter water bottle. The seasonings were good. The wrapper was thin and fairly crispy. The egg flavor was very noticeable. Like all other beef rolls, it was heavy on the stomach. We thought it was good, but we generally preferred the ones offered at 101 Noodle Express.
They have a steam table there, so you can order stuff for a quick lunch. They also have lunch specials. As before, you can order bags of frozen dumplings, including what appeared to be potstickers the size of a small calzone. The freezer is next to the door in the dining area (you can see it in the picture)
Parking is a pain. From the street, it looks like one long strip mall. In reality, it's a few small strip malls put together. The lots are physically separate, so you need to make sure you enter the right one.
Seating is cramped. I think it can fit about 18 people if everyone was skinny. Decor is about average.
There was no AC, so on a hot day (100F today), it can get quite uncomfortable.
Finally, they fixed the sign. It says "Quick" instead of "Qnick".
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1. re: raytamsgv
Thanks for the report. Wonder if the steam table is why Quick Meal is still on the markee.
1. re: raytamsgv
i have to ask: did they actually replace the sign, or put an obvious patch over the 'n'?
no A/C? UGH.
1. re: barryc
Either they actually replaced the sign, or it's the best repair job I've ever seen.
1. re: raytamsgv
in which case i assume that whoever did the sign screwed up and was forced to replace it free of charge. good for 'mama'!
1. re: raytamsgv
they flipped the u upside down.
happy to hear the eggy beef roll remains the same gut-bomb. awesome, but p.p. pop is 30 minutes closer so... eeeenh.
2. re: raytamsgv
Thanks for the report ray. Sounds like they pretty much maintain the wide variety of dumplings? Yeah, it is hot in there (low 90s the day I tripped over it) and I should have mentioned the multi-mini mall lot puzzle. Maybe they swapped the sign with the one on the side of the building, which read "Quick"?
1. re: JThur01
They have pretty much the same menu from their old location on Valley Blvd. in Alhambra.
Both signs on the front and the side are correct.
1. re: raytamsgv
had some business in arcadia so i stopped in to get a beef roll.
today's lunch clientele was dominated by people going for the 2 item $4.25 lunch special. mama did take some time to serve a couple of gwei lo patrons who had some problems with their noodle dish, much to the consternation of people waiting for the buffet lunch, and eventually me, when it dawned on me that she was the one who assembled the beef roll, and not the help in back; i waited about 20 minutes for my beef roll after she handled the people eating in and the folks getting takeout.
to the beef roll: actually one of the smallest i've seen. the inclusion of egg is unique, but apparently they smear it on one side of the scallion pancake as they fry it. this resulted in a pancake that was IMO insufficiently crisp. i would rather drive over to 101 noodle express and shell out an extra $.50 for their rendition. but if i were near the 101 noodle express alhambra location, i'd go across the street to flavor garden especially when their's is $1 cheaper at $7.
after the snafu with the sign, i checked out the new menu placing the over/under on incorrectly spelled words at about 10. to my amazement, the menu passed muster - until the last category: Tzung Tzu, described as 'stricky rice wrap in lotus leaf.' so close and yet so far.
i noticed that they offered a salted duck. i inquired as to whether it was similar to nanjing style, to which she replied "i don't know." has anyone had their duck and the duck at nanjing kitchen and comment on the similiarities/differences?
1. re: barryc
thanx for the fyi barry!
i remember my friends taking me to the old mama's kitchen years ago.
do you think their other menu items are worth trying? they make their own dumplings in house right?
1. re: chowseeker1999
i'd been to mama's kitchen before they closed. someone in our group was apparently from near where 'mama' is from, and she kept bringing out little specialties from the kitchen for us. IIRC, they did assemble their dunplings there, and they still have some frozen available to sell. i would assume quality has been retained. but then submitted for your approval, a MLK beef roll circa march 2014. note how the pancake itself appears to be a darker shade of brown, suggesting that it had received a little more time in the pan. also note the inclusion what looks like cucumber which was missing from the beef roll i had earlier this week (was it really only yesterday?).
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"So anyway, I was sitting around, you know, not doing anything, like watchin VH-1 or somethin gay like that, then all of the sudden, I get this thick boredom boner. It was alright, though, because it forced me to move around and adjust my junk. After that I actually went to the bank and grocery shopping. What a productive day, if only for that boredom boner..."
af XyourXworstXnightmareX 25. januar 2005
When you are just so bored, that you get a random (usually unwanted boner) The infamous "Boredom Boner" can appear at any time.
Mitch: "Dude... WTF?!?"
Alec: "What?"
Mitch: "You have a boner..."
Alec: "Don't worry. It's just a boredom boner it'l go away as soon as we do something."
Mitch: "Oh cool."
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af Me and Mr. Split 5. april 2011
When you get so bored at work that you spring wood. This actually makes it worse because now you have to sit there and still have nothing to do. However you can't get up to roam the office in search of killing the boredom due to your raging hard-on. These tend to last longer than regular boners.
I'm so f'ing bored sitting here but I can't get up to roam because everyone in the office will see my Boredom Boner. Shit I'm bored.
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Aerating water by means of fine pore membrane diffuser
Aeration (also called aerification) is the process by which air is circulated through, mixed with or dissolved in a liquid or substance.
Aeration of liquids[edit]
Aeration of liquids (usually water) is achieved by:
• passing the liquid through air by means of fountains, cascades, paddle-wheels or cones.
• passing air through the liquid by means of the Venturi tube, aeration turbines or compressed air which can be combined with diffuser(s) air stone(s), as well as fine bubble diffusers, coarse bubble diffusers or linear aeration tubing. Ceramics are suitable for this purpose, often involving dispersion of fine air or gas bubbles through the porous ceramic into a liquid. The smaller the bubbles, the more gas is exposed to the liquid increasing the gas transfer efficiency. Diffusers or spargers can also be designed into the system to cause turbulence or mixing if desired.
Porous ceramic diffusers are made by fusing aluminum oxide grains using porcelain bonds to form a strong, uniformly porous and homogeneous structure. The naturally hydrophilic material is easily wetted resulting in the production of fine, uniform bubbles.[1]
On a given volume of air or liquid, the surface area changes proportionally with drop or bubble size, the very surface area where exchange can occur. Utilizing extremely small bubbles or drops increases the rate of gas transfer (aeration) due to the higher contact surface area. The pores which these bubbles pass through are generally micrometre-size.
Uses of aeration of liquids[edit]
Aerated tap water
Aeration of soil[edit]
Refers to the extent of air gaps in soil.
Aeration commonly refers to the process of using mechanized equipment to either puncture the soil with spikes (spike aeration) or remove approximately 1" x 2" cores of soil from the ground (core aeration). Aeration may be overlooked when trying to restore a lawn but is vital to bring it back to health. It improves drainage and reduces puddles formation.
Spike aeration involves the use of an aeration machine with spikes up to a foot or more in length. It is sometimes used to address drainage issues in areas with turf. Core aeration is done on turf areas as a means of reducing turf compaction, reducing thatch buildup, improving the infiltration of water/nutrients, encouraging deeper roots, and creating an environment where grass seed can have direct contact with the soil.
There are many types of lawn aerators including walk behind models, ride on versions and tractor pulled versions.
Aeration in food[edit]
Refers to the process in which air, or CO2, is absorbed into the food item. It refers to the lightness of cakes and bread, as measured by the type of pores they contain, and the color and texture of some sauces which have incorporated air bubbles.
In wine tasting, a variety of methods are used to aerate wine and bring out the aromas including swirl wine in the glass, use of a decanter to increase exposure to air, or a specialized wine aerator.
Cider from Asturias is poured into the glass from a height of about 1 metre (el escanciado) to increase aeration.
See also[edit]
1. ^ Porous Ceramic Diffusers
2. ^ "AERATION". Retrieved 18 June 2014.
3. ^ "Aeration Device". Fortrans. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
4. ^ "Oxygen levels for fish and plants in a tropical aquarium". The AquaDaily. 2009-01-06. Archived from the original on 25 January 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
5. ^ Swistock, Bryan. "Methane Gas and Its Removal from Wells in Pennsylvania". PSU. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
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Saturn moon's 'buoyant' mountains perplex, befuddle
What if Titan's crust isn't thin and brittle like an eggshell, but thick and rigid, with huge floating mountains? What does that do to the implications for ice volcanoes, subsurface seas, and life?
Saturn moon Titan reveals a hazy purple haze above its opaque orange atmosphere as the international Cassini spacecraft flies past Saturn's largest moon in 2004. A new study released August 28, 2013 suggests Titan's crust could be more rigid than previously thought.
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Titan is tricky. The enormous moon of Saturn has topography like Earth's, but it's made of ice instead of rock. Throw in an opaque (and poisonous) atmosphere and a space probe that only occasionally passes by to pick up a new swath of data, and you have a truly mysterious planet. Er, moon.
"Titan has been a hard planet to study," says Chuck Wood, a member of the Cassini science team based at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, adding, "It's bigger than Mercury; that's why we call it a planet."
The opaque atmosphere has defeated Cassini's impressive cameras, leaving scientists relying on low-resolution radar and other instruments to interpret Titan's mysteries. "It's almost like seeing the moon with telescopes from Earth," says Dr. Wood. "It's hard to have enough resolution to be confident in what we're seeing."
Despite the challenges, scientists have been announcing new and bizarre findings from Titan, Saturn's biggest (and arguably weirdest) moon ever since NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission arrived at Saturn in 2004.
Titan is a "deranged version of Earth!" scientists said. Titan has lakes! When scientists dropped the Huygens probe through Titan's thick atmosphere, they saw shorelines! Rivers! Evidence of "exotic and exciting" methane-ice-sludge volcanoes! Five years later, a methane rainstorm made more headlines, followed by Titan's potential for bizarre and smelly lifeformsmile-wide dunes shaped by 'backward' winds, and theories about Titan-esque DNA.
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Educated Gamer: Is there True Beauty in Games?
Art is in the imitation of nature (Pere Andre Batteux 1675-1764) uniting the beauties of nature is what an artist does, and a game unites more than any other (Pagano 1748-99).
Although undoubtedly some games could be construed as visually beautiful, what is beauty? Where does it come from?
The beauty of art comes through the senses, all of them, so food becomes an art because of the beauty of taste as well as hairdressing and tailoring through the senses of touch and sight, perfume making through smell. All become arts because they give us pleasurable sensory information but beauty also is undefined. There is no rigid definition of beauty, it’s regarded of as is religion, that it is so obvious it doesn’t require discussion, which is obviously just a lazy explanation. Then why isn’t hairdressing and architecture and cooking and video games considered an art? Surely video games should be a super art because it gives off so much sensory information more than any other form of art, more than all the arts combined because that’s what games basically are. (Culture, Mirror's Edge, Okami HD, PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
Picnic + 694d ago
It's a combination of being a luddite and being a snob who doesn't truly have a full array of aesthetic sensibilities.
Like some people reason that if it's something mass produced that you can buy for only £40 in a supermarket it can't be art.
If they wanted to, videogame creators could create limited editions of games and give them to well known art galleries. But they'd probably make a loss on the cost of creating the game that way and there would be the time or inclination for visitors to understand the full conmplexities of the game in that time.
The people who create videogames would be seen as eccentric by most people, even by most so-called 'artists' some of whom merely repackage what has already been done 100 years ago.
Videogames may be sold at a mass market level but it still requires a niche intellectual level to actually make them.
Sadly, our educational system doesn't look likely to caught up to understanding or teaching what that is soon.
Some must view videogames as unreasonable chaos, nothing more than a fun distraction. After all, practically every other entertainment form has been regarded in this way by the so called 'upper echelons' of academia as well.
They just don't know how much they are denying what should be a serious area of artistic study.
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Technology might make our lives easier, but it's also good for a yuck or two. Or 10. Actually, the list of the most bizarre tech-related stories from last year could be a longer and more convoluted mess than Mr. and Mrs. Liza Minelli's divorce papers. But we've culled 10 that stood out.
10. Even 'Steven' had a Dell of a year
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1. Microsoft on a roll
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Multiple Choices. Write the letter of answer on the space provided before each number. Do not encircle. Erasures or change of answers are considered wrong in all items of this exam. Encircled letter is likewise wrong.
______ 1) It is the power inherent in the sovereign State to levy or impose charges upon persons, property, occupation, and others, to defray the expenses of the government and to enable it to fully discharge its functions.
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______ 2) It is the fundamental law of the land.
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______ 3) It is a term which refers to the registered voter of the State.
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Fewer mosquitoes? Less trouble with pests that attack row crops? What about pesky flies? Will extremely low temperatures reduce insect numbers? Old timers used to think so.
Probably not, said Erfan Vafaie, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service integrated pest management specialist at Overton.
“It depends upon the insect,” said Vafaie.
Red imported fire ants, for example, burrow down so deeply in the soil that they’re unlikely to be affected by cold weather, Vafaie said.
“They tend to be quite ‘insulated’, if you will, from the extreme temperature changes — unless there’s a very long sustained cold, which may slowly make its way down into the depths,” he said.
It’s been suggested by other entomologists, Vafaie said, that a colder winter may reduce the populations of mosquito species that carry West Nile virus during the following summer.
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Published Sunday, December 24, 2000
MIAMI -- One of the biggest stories in the nation's history topped what was a hectic news year in Florida, according to Associated Press newspaper editors and broadcasters.
Here are other top stories of 2000, as voted on by AP member editors and broadcasters:
- Prison guards indicted in beating death of death row inmate. Jury acquits one guard accused of beating inmate.
- Florida State football team wins national title.
- Kidnapping, return of 10-year-old girl near Gainesville.
- White man convicted in two bombings at predominantly black Florida A&M University.
- Orlando hostage slaying.
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- U.S. Sen. Connie Mack retires, Bill Nelson elected to replace him.
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Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris awarded Florida's electoral votes to Bush on Nov. 26. But Bush had to wait until the U.S. Supreme Court denied the last of the Democrats' recount attempts to claim victory. The decision became official when the electoral college awarded Bush the presidency on Dec. 18.
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(2) The international custody dispute over Elian Gonzalez, the young boy taken from Cuba by his mother to the United States, captured America's attention for much of 2000.
After months of legal wrangling, armed federal agents snatched the 6-year-old by force on April 22 from his great uncle's home in Miami and flew him to Washington, where he was reunited with his father and ultimately returned to Cuba.
(3) Florida Gov. Jeb Bush would take criticism for his proposed One Florida initiative to overhaul the state's affirmative action program and eliminate racial quotes for state contracts and university admissions.
Bush's plan led to several sit-ins and protests at his Tallahassee office and the state capital by minority lawmakers, residents and college students from around the state.
(4) A six-person Miami jury in July awarded $145 billion in punitive damages to 300,000 to 700,000 sick Florida smokers, who claimed tobacco companies knew of the danger in their products.
Six tobacco companies, who were defendants in the case, complained that the award would bankrupt the industry, but Circuit Judge Robert Kaye disagreed and upheld the ruling in November.
(5) On Dec. 11, President Clinton signed the $7.8 billion Everglades restoration bill enacting a 25-year plan to restore water flow in the ''river of grass.'' The costs will be split between the federal government and Florida.
(6) The U.S. Department of Agriculture named 59 of 67 Florida counties disaster areas because of drought. The current water shortage, which has lasted for over two years in Florida, led to many cattle farmers in those counties to ask for federal assistance.
The region received temporary relief in the fall when tropical storms dropped considerable rain on the state for the first time in months, but the drought persisted with no consistent rainfall.
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hipshot [desarrollador] 6 de Feb, 2013 a las 17:27
Ask and we answer (most things).
Let the questions flow... hopefully.
For those that don't know how to unzip a zip file, look at this!
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Tristen 6 de Feb, 2013 a las 17:39
Soo.... Here's a couple for you. :)
1) Any plans for Randomly generated levels?
2) Aftergame content such as "infinite dungeon" or otherwise?
3) Not really a question but one of my favourite games of the past would have to be Ultima 4 (ugh, I know, I could pick better) But my point here is Any chance for overworld adventure? with extra side areas/towns that potentially serve no purpose other than an alternate route to the final end?
pandesmos 6 de Feb, 2013 a las 20:35
Can you expand a little on the 4 bosses that require more strategy than just hacking? Some games I've played have seemed to execute the idea as "Boss X is impossible unless you use Specific Gimmick Y".
Also, how much will be able to be modded with the planned mod tools? Could whole new tile sets be added?
Regardless, Hammerwatch looks pretty dang incredible! /voted and shared!
vinegarninja 6 de Feb, 2013 a las 22:05
How much do you think you would charge for this game?
Looks good, but potential price range?
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Erabeus 6 de Feb, 2013 a las 22:11
Publicado originalmente por Tristen:
I love the idea of an infinite dungeon. If you've ever played Fate, the dungeon was infinite, and you would never have the "best gear" because you could always go to the 300 millionth floor and pick up something with 10,000,000% attack speed or something.
Galder 7 de Feb, 2013 a las 3:06
Didn´t find this...what about the controllers? how we will play this game...with cursors? mouse?
hipshot [desarrollador] 7 de Feb, 2013 a las 4:15
• Random levels: We have talked about it and have ideas, but the game will not be shipped with it, maybe later on.
• There's really no after game content in that sense, you can enter survival mode when ever you want, SP or Coop and we want to see that the SP is so fun, that you wanna play it again, but with a different character and trying to improve yourself.
• Hammerwatch really is about the castle, but If we are giving the opportunity to make let's say a sequel or another game, there's a chance that you can also walk outside of the castle =) I'm a great fan of outside areas and large rpgs like that too. This is obviously more a "want" than "promise" =)
• More strategy than just hacking in this case really isn't that advanced it's just a bit more than the hacking you're doing to get to the boss, let's take the first boss for example
It's a big maggot, the maggot is static on the ground, but she spawns small maggot minions and sometimes she shoots poison out from her body, in a circle. The best way to avoid this would be to raise and stand behind any of several pillar close to her then when the poison past go over and hit her, but also make sure to kill the minions, else the room will be flooded after a while
• From start, the editor will be in the game. I can't promise that we will unlock everything for modding, but tilesets and graphics are a thing we would like to have open for people to change, also tweakdata, but I just don't know how much will be in the game from the start.
• Impossible to say what the price will be at this time. There are many factors here.
• Controllers - keyboard or any gamepad should work, only tested with two so far - youtube.com/watch?v=ilYZieiuqgc)
Última edición por hipshot; 7 de Feb, 2013 a las 4:21
Zaimad 7 de Feb, 2013 a las 4:36
I have two questions.
1) While you can't tell us the price you'll be selling the game for at the moment (for obvious reasons, since Steam has a say), will you have a 4-pack style of purchase available? (I sense a yes, but I really want to know.)
2) I understand that the different classes are meant to play differently; even in Gauntlet I remember that the four classes had different maximum stats to make them better in different situations. However, will that create subtle big weaknesses in certain classes in your case? I don't want to feel gimped playing single player because the class I chose, even if it has the gameplay I like, just isn't competitive enough in terms of hacky-slashy to the other three.
Also, liking your game a lot so far. I can already see myself sacrificing hundreds of hours to Errengee for the greater good of cleansing evil from a castle.
oWn4g3 7 de Feb, 2013 a las 4:43
What happened to the money I just threw at my screen?
On a more serious note: How will character development work? Will we be able to choose what upgrade to get between the levels and spend the gold we found on them?
Excelle 7 de Feb, 2013 a las 5:37
This looks great and I'm really looking forward to it. My question would be - what kind of level size can we expect? I have to admit that I was a little worried when I saw 12 levels, since my brain was in Gauntlet/II mode with it's 100+ levels! But I realise that these levels could be hugely bigger.
Excelle 7 de Feb, 2013 a las 5:39
Also, any chance for Steam Workshop support? I don't know what work this involves on your side and what input Valve requires. Would be great to see individual maps (and campaigns?) easily downloadable from Steam!
fox 7 de Feb, 2013 a las 6:31
Is the game going to be translated? I am an Italian freelance translator, if you are interested you can contact me anytime.
Necrosyn 7 de Feb, 2013 a las 7:24
What about the puzzles? I saw couple of them in the video, should we expect a lot of them or not?
Última edición por Necrosyn; 7 de Feb, 2013 a las 9:37
hipshot [desarrollador] 7 de Feb, 2013 a las 11:12
• We would love to have a 4-pack deal, it should suit this game very well. However, that's also something I can't talk more about, because we don't really know how it works yet and we also need to be on steam as a title for that =)
• It's very important for us, that all classes can be played in single player alone and be well balanced. Our heroes are also much more varied than the ones found in gauntlet, because we have a lot more skills and features on them.
• Character development then, you find different vendors around the game, they sell different upgrades and items, like one might only sell offensive skills and upgrades and the other only potions. These vendors can sometimes be hidden, sometimes in difficult places or at most times, pretty easy to find. You use money that can be found around the game, like loot from enemies, barrels or hidden in secrets.
• A lot of people have focused on the number of levels, totally understandable. I can assure everyone that these levels are large and holds many features and secrets, also one important factor is that you can walk between the floors in one act, sometimes you might need to solve something in one floor to access something in the floor below. We also have at least 4 bonus levels (these every one will just love!) and also our survival levels.
• Steam workshop, it's like the 4-Pack question, it would be great, but we just don't know.
• This game will be shipped with default English and a setting for Swedish. Language files are however exposed, so a fan can translate the game and share.
• Our focus are not on puzzle creation, however, there will be puzzles, some more advanced some not as advanced, they will never be forced upon the player, if you don't wanna solve a puzzle, you should always be free to skip it (they will depending on the complexity be rewarded thereafter =)). There will be buttons and things that needs to be clicked to open certain passages or disable traps, this must be done, but it's not really a choir, it adds to the levels.
illkrendel 7 de Feb, 2013 a las 11:48
Will some tiles stun?
Lugalias 7 de Feb, 2013 a las 19:38
1. So if the game is split into multiple acts, will each be sold seperately?
2. How long would an estimated playthrough of the full game take?
P.S. Like your avatar XD
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User reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive (12,294 reviews)
Release Date: Mar 3, 2014
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About This Game
Key Features
• The Definitive South Park Experience
• An Epic Quest To Become... Cool
• Friends With Benefits
Recruit classic South Park characters to your cause.
• Intense Combat
• South Park Customization
System Requirements
• Memory: 2 GB GB RAM
• DirectX: Version 9.0c
• Hard Drive: 6 GB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card with latest drivers
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• DirectX: Version 9.0c
• Hard Drive: 6 GB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card with latest drivers
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Do you like South Park?
You will like this game.
Do you not like South Park?
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Being a huge fan of the South Park TV show I was hugely excited to hear when there was a game being released. Sadly I was always put off by the full price of £40. I waited until this years Summer sale and picked it up for £20 and was not disappointed.
The game takes the style of a turn based combat title, much like Final Fantasy, but it is a much more mellowed down version. I was able to breeze through most combat situations without much attention being paid. The parts of the game which got me scratching my head were trying to work out how to proceed through each puzzle, often at times I had to refer to a walkthrough as I was starting to get a brain hemorrhage.
The graphics and sound throughout the game are exactly the same as in the TV series, so if you enjoy that, you will certainly feel at home here. The ever so crass South Park esk jokes and one liners are here for the world to marvel at.
Story wise, again, very much a South Park episode, you will almost feel like you are watching the show while playing. The length of the main story is about ten hours long, some may disagree but I think that is a little short for a game at full price of £40, but there are plenty of side missions and achievements to go hunting for if that is your thing.
If you are lucky enough to find this game on sale for anything under £20. I would certainly recommend you give it a try if you have ever enjoyed the TV show, however you may not fully appreciate it. Certainly is not worth full price. But for the price I have paid, I still really enjoyed my playthrough.
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17 of 22 people (77%) found this review helpful
22.0 hrs on record
Posted: November 29
You're pretty much paying to play an actual episode of South Park. If you enjoy SouthPark like myself, and have received so much laughter for free over the years, then this is a no brainer. Matt and Trey blessed this game thereby creating the most authentic and true to the series game ever created off of a television or movie series. I payed full price for this on release day and never regretted a moment of it. Sure there were moments when I felt the game was laggin on, I didn't like this or that, and I thought they could have done more but that doesn't matter.
Best rpg... no.
Revolutionized... nothing.
Lacking replayability... sure.
Does any of this matter if you are a South Park fan... absolutely not. Why? It's all trumped by what they have done which was to create South Park inside of a video game. If you do not enjoy this game there is only one explanation... you don't like South Park... because this is South Park with you controlling the characters.
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33.9 hrs on record
Posted: November 2
Simply amazing.
If you love South Park you will fall in love with this game. It is well written well directed and just South Park funny !
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30 of 46 people (65%) found this review helpful
30.7 hrs on record
Posted: October 16
Loved this game just wish there was a DLC for it to add more gameplay
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14 of 18 people (78%) found this review helpful
14.0 hrs on record
Posted: October 12
If you liked/like South Park this is worth playing, it really is just like playing an episode of the tv show.
The comedy/South Park flavor is good, a lot of it taken straight from the show.
The RPG parts are a bit light for my tastes, very easy, and stats/leveling up/equipment didn't seem to matter very much.
Combat was very uneven, it felt hard at the start, but once you get the hang of it, it's very easy, not very strategic.
This game has a lot more in common with Costume Quest than Dragon Age
I enjoyed it very much and I'd probably play a sequel.
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15 of 20 people (75%) found this review helpful
16.9 hrs on record
Posted: June 29
Oh man! This! How many problems has this game been involved in? After THQ went under (so sad...loved them...), the future for South Park was unclear in the video game industry and we secretly wanted a GOOD South Park game...
But then Ubisoft bought the license and the game for some weird reason got delayed YET AGAIN, but then it was actually coming and leaving development hell! It's here and we all know games from development hell never receive good criticism across the board (Duke Nukem Forever, Colonial Marines, can't think of anything else atm so, sorry).
South Park, however...shows that development hell does not mean 100% certain game franchise death. It's brilliant! (almost, actually...)
Well, the sound design + writing are the things that sell it the most. I mean, it's South Park! We all wanted to see how far Trey and Matt would go with the game! The show has always been an excellent and funny (though disgusting most of the times, lol) piece of social criticism, that surprisingly has gotten under me and opened my eyes on some stuff...but never without some laughs...
The game succeeds at that with the great writing, the excellent voice writing and the overall feel of the game. It feels like a 15 hour long South Park episode, and a good one at that!
First of all! It's an RPG, so is there character creation? Yes. Is it deep? No. Could it be deeper? Oh hell yes!
You pick a race, face and hair. That's it... No initial atributes or such... you start off as a new kid in the lovely and quirky town of South Park. You have a face, hair, glasses or not, and finally, a shirt and pants + shoes. The first 30 minutes are linear, because they will get you to the KKK club (because why not?) where you meet the humans guarding the Stick of Truth (which is a stick...) and protect it from the elves who want it and with it, control the universe...
The humans and elves and this overall story is a GIGANTIC larp/dress-up play... and it work on setting the vibe. At the KKK at first, you will put your name, and you are sent on an assignment to recover the Stick, because it got stolen (don't worry, these ain't spoilers, just the basic premise: basically, the first 30 minutes of the game) during an early game fight.
In the fight, you will be introduced to the wonderful combat system: it's turn based! Alas Paper Mario (which I never played) and it reminds me a lot of Super Mario: SuperStar Saga (which I played to death! You should play it for the GameBoy Advance, it's an excellent Mario game: Open World RPG with tactical turn-based combat, amazing story and combat and exploration and main and side quests and stuff... Buy it! Pliszz!)
The combat will give you this impression that it is deep with these buffs, de-buffs, huge amounts of consumables and quirky weird weapons...
But, it's far from deep and has 1 major flaw which I will adress later. The game is deep at first. But once you get into like the 3rd or 4th or even 5th hour of the game (if you really explore everything, which I did), you will gain abilities and passives... these will overpower you so f*cking much! You have no idea! At the middles of the game I got one where if I killed someone or dealt a long-term damage (like bleeding or other stackable nerfs to the enemy), I would regain MORE PP (Power Points, which you consume to use your special attacks) than the PP that you actually SPENT ON THE ABILITY! I could just spam abilities every single turn without worrying about the using consumables, and trust me, 70% of consumables I didn't even touch! They just stacked there in the inventory (you can carry everything you want, there is no such thing as overencumbering like in Fallout or Skyrim which is good imo for this game in particular).
The flaw I mentioned above: It seems like the QA team never actually got into this, (it's something that happens rarely, but it can totally screw you over in the rare times it happens!) but, I got a very few number of times this:
-1 enemy left, he starts a riposte stance (which you can't melee, because you will be the one to take damage, not him).
-I got stunned, couldn't do shit...
-Side character: Butters! (Melee focused!). I had spent a consumable so I couldn't use a revival or another consumable. I had no PP to do a special attack or anything...
So! I attacked, and he riposted, I took damage, and then everything went back to normal...
What's wrong here?
Yes, NO END TURN BUTTON! This made me damage my character due to no more options on what to do! This doesn't matter much, but imagine the same situation, but you are dead (not stunned) and Butters had 1 HP...
You would lose... great!
It's just not well thought out, you see?
Anyways, dont think I dislike the combat... I actually love it! It's fun enough to make me want to keep on going and see what weapons and specials and new enemies I will face (enemy variety is HUGE btw)...
With combat aside... graphics look exactly like the show (which is great), and the game runs on a 30 FPS lock which is FINE! Because with the graphical style of the show, it has to run at 30 FPS. This is probably the only forgivable 30 FPS locked PC game in history, so there you go...
Sound design is solid (this next sentence, I'm going to repeat myself, but the voice acting and story deserve double praise, so... there you go), voice acting is amazing, possibly (possibly!) best of the year so far. Writing is excellent, it's South Park so, it's funny. The story is solid, the twists and turns it takes are cool and make you want to keep going.
The open world is great, it's the first time we get to see the actual map layout of the South Park, which is super cool. Every place has a story or quest of it's own (there is one where a priest tells you to "Find Jesus", another, you will have to kill a mouse with a ♥♥♥♥♥ attached to his back in a mutated process (it's a thing from the show)).
It's great and rewarding to explore, every quest is fun and unique to do, not just a "collect 10 of this"!
The game's length deserves some discussing though: It took me 15 hours to beat it, with exploration, side quest solving and other activities that can be done. It's a good value for me, especially since I get bored of RPG's at about 10 hours (unless it's Fallout or something really exceptional). But for 40€? Heh... not really. I'm writing this review during the summer sale, and I remember it was 27 euros on a daily deal, (which is what? like 35-40 dollars, around that, I think...) which then is worth it completely. Anything around that 25 euro/35 dollar price tag is worth it; though it's sad there is NO New game +. There should be New Game + is games like this! Always!
No multiplayer as well, which is good. Screw Multiplayer, we don't need that stuff! What we want is good writing, awesome story, tons, tons and tons and TONS of references to the TV show, good, fluid and fun combat, great and fun world to explore and just overall: we want a good f*cking time!
And they gave us ALL of that, and the game is mostly perfect, there isn't much to complain, at all.
My pointless and stupidly abstract score for this game is a 9/10... get it under 30 euros or 40 dollars and you should be good with your purchase.
Never fart of someone's balls...
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10 of 11 people (91%) found this review helpful
85.8 hrs on record
Posted: July 2
It'd be difficult to explain exactly why this game is so great without major spoilers, so I won't take that approach. Instead, I'll say some of the same things everyone else already has. It's like actually playing a season of South Park with your custom character, and the combat employs action commands ala the various Super Mario RPG titles and Shadow Hearts.
While some of the humor falls flat, and there's a certain thing repeated a few times early on, the vast majority succeeds in prompting laughter, which is more than I can say for most media which claims to be comedic nowadays. At the same time, it's brutally self-aware, not only of it's status as an RPG, but as a South Park videogame. The voicework and animation is spot on with the show, and, honestly, if you didn't know it was a game, you'd think it WAS an episode or movie.
Speaking of which, there's references to the movie along with the entirety of the show's 17+ year run, and yes, even music, which Matt & Trey are surprisingly talented at. The game's soundtrack takes on an absurdly epic style, with several of the main themes being very similar to that of "real" fantasy titles, like Skyrim, and with good reason. It also has a strong Earthbound vibe to it, because of the whole "kids using toys to inflict terrible damage to hostile and weird enemies" along the way.
It's not perfect; unless you turn the difficulty all the way up, you'll likely breeze through 90% of the battles, and it's very easy to hit the low level cap. There's also a number of game-breaking attack combos you can learn with every class, and debuffs are so powerful that they're practically mandatory. But it's all worth it. Despite these problems, I've spent nearly 100 hours in the game, as I went through multiple playthroughs, and didn't regret a minute of it. Well, except for those minutes with the repeated thing I won't mention early on, that is.
Oh, and no major spoilers, but I HAVE to share a minor one, which should tell you just what kind of game this is. The hardest boss, by far? Not the last one, or even the next-to-the-last one, both of whom can be tricky. But no.. it's Al Gore.
I'm super cereal you guys.
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14 of 19 people (74%) found this review helpful
28.0 hrs on record
Posted: October 6
I've played all the South Park games, and honestly I wasn't going to give this a try. But I said What The Heck and bought it for 40$. This game is really good. The story is fantastic, the humor is great, the gameplay is amazing, and I just love it all.
First, the story. Talks about the Evles VS Humans. Cartman is leader of the Humans, Kyle is the leader of the Elves. They are in a constant war for the "Stick of Truth" because "For whoever controls the stick, controls the universe" Keep in mind that it is not real violence, and they're actually hitting each other with sticks, it's all imagination. It is made to look like real violence, but it really isn't.
Second, the humor. I love the script of this game. Cartman has probably the best lines. It's just amazing how they got the humor so perfect. South Park fans will love this part.
Third, Gameplay. It's a normal RPG with a few tweaks. First of all, enemies aren't random, and you can avoid most of them, except bosses. One of my favorite parts is that your PP (Power Points) and HP (Health Points) regain by themselves when you finish the battle. That way you don't waste your items. There are certain abilities you can have depending on your class, Jew, Fighter, Mage, or Theif. Each of these abilities are unique in their own way. For example, Theif has a backstab, and Fighter has a move where you kick someone in the balls. You can also get Fart Magic, which is honestly the funniest battle mechanic ever. You unlock the abilities the more you level up, and can level up each ability up to a certain level (4 or 5 I believe). There's also tons of sidequests. This is probably one of my favorite RPG's ever.
Fourth, Customization. There are tons of customization options. Througout the game you can get wigs, facial features, and even clothes you can wear the make you stronger. Sadly you cannot be a girl, but you can make yourself look like one. You can modify your weapons and clothes to have certain colors or abilities. Things called "Perks" are unlocked by having friends in South Park. The more friends, the more perks. These perks make you stronger or weaker. You can modify your weapons and clothes by adding little patches that have certain abilities, like 20% more money, or Gross Damage, or even Bleeding. Tons of option here, you wont get upset by that.
Things I don't like about the game: First, it's really freaking short. It's not worth the 60$ it used to be, so they dropped it to 40. I reccomend waiting for a sale at like, 35 or even 30. Now the Saving feature in this game is absolute bullcrap. When you save it might save a little bit before where you actually were, making you have to do a battle or 2 again. Another thing I don't like is how the difficulty suddenly raises halfway through the game. Then again you can customize the difficulty to your taste at any time.
This game really is good, but it does have some faults. Also, you can fart on people, highly recommended if you're into this humor and gametype. I'd say wait till it's on sale though, not worth the 40$ in my opinion.
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In a school:
Popular Kids, Jocks, Gangsters, Stoners, Norms, Geeks, Morons.
Also known as Social Ladder.
Since I'm on the football team, I've moved up the food chain.
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Something used to explain how animals and humans eat what they do and why they do.
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A system used to define the standing of an individual based upon the use of "your mom," "face," or anything to stiffle intelligent dialogue or debate. Those who indulge in said saying frequent the bottom of the food chain. Invented by Markus.
Markus: I like shoes.
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A term orginating in Atlanta that, in the beginning, referred to a short person or child, but the span of the word has grown to include any and all people, especially a girl that is attractive; it is mostly used as a term of endearment to others or just a way of addressing someone, like 'Wassup Man,' Instead of "Man", shawty is used.
NOTE: Can be shortened to "shawt" or "shawtdawg".
"Waddup Shawty, when you coming over?"
twintron4 tarafından 3 Haziran 2004, Perşembe
Something Justin Bieber should not say.
Justin: Shawty right there. She's got everything I need!
Black guy: Shut up, you're not black!
babette Nicole tarafından 28 Ağustos 2010, Cumartesi
A sexy gurl
sup shawty ... how you doin'?
KRYSTYNA tarafından 20 Haziran 2004, Pazar
Shawty originated from Atlanta. It's the south's version of the word Shorty. It is used as a greeting, farewell, or in the place of peoples names or pronouns(he,she,his,her).
1) Wassup Shawty
2) Shawty trippin
3) Did you get shawty's number
4) Aight then shawty
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A word used by try hard fools and 'gangstaz' (another failed attempt at making yourself sound 'hard') to describe an attractive female.
Just about any of the mainstream rappers who claim to be 'keeping it real', but the last time they saw anything 'real' was the inside of a bulletproof stretched limousine and twenty bodyguards.
"Yo shawty its yo birthday. On a side note, I have a rather unappealing speech impediment, which makes me talk like an inbred mug."
Master Morality tarafından 2 Ocak 2010, Cumartesi
An idiotic term used by ass-hats to describe an attractive young female.
Yo shawty u wanna kick it at da club wit me?
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How R.A. Dickey went from the worst pitcher in Buffalo to ace in Toronto
Not long ago, R.A. Dickey was one bad start away from being steered to his team's coaching ranks. (Getty Images)
Whether he knew it at the time or not, R.A. Dickey was nearing the end as a professional pitcher when he came to the Mets organization. They never told him, but one or two more bad outings, and Dickey was going to be recast as a coach. That was the plan.
Even his old friend Omar Minaya, the one who as Mets general manager rescued Dickey and gave him about his 50th chance to make it in the majors, was sizing up Dickey as a potential minor-league player-coach or even full-time pitching coach when Dickey threw a stunning one-hitter for Triple-A Buffalo and kept right on going.
This morning, Dickey, 38, has a brand new $30 million Blue Jays contract after two shockingly effective seasons as a Met in Queens followed by a year in which he stunned everyone (including Minaya) by winning 20 games for the struggling Mets and beating out the great young Dodger Clayton Kershaw to join Mets legend Tom Seaver as a winner of the National League Cy Young award. Some folks are even saying Dickey's acquisition by the Jays makes them the favorite in the division that's usually the toughest in baseball, the A.L. East.
He has moved 100 miles north, from Buffalo to Toronto, but he's a world away.
Everyone knows that the story of Dickey is one of the most miraculous in modern baseball lore. But few knew how close he came to the end, probably not even Dickey himself.
Nobody saw this coming. Not his old friend Omar, who have him a chance mostly because he knew him and liked him from his early Texas days, when he had his signing bonus cut following the surprise medical discovery of a missing ulnar collateral ligament and never came close to living up to his promise as a hard-throwing University of Tennessee Volunteer pitcher. Not Omar, and not anyone.
"Nobody was smart enough to think he was going to do what he's doing now," Minaya, now an executive with the San Diego Padres, said by phone. "That's the beauty of this game."
And, as Minaya said as well, that's the beauty of Dickey, who is as persistent as they come. He'd been through a decade and a half of itinerant, mostly mediocre pitching, finishing short stays with the Brewers, Twins and Mariners when Minaya took him in what others reasonably described as the favor of a friend.
And it surely looked like that was the case when Dickey got to spring training and was by all accounts the worst pitcher wearing a Mets uniform. He was also the first cut in a prelude to him becoming what by all accounts was the worst veteran pitcher in Mets minor-league camp, as well.
As such, Dickey started the year as the No. 5 pitcher in Buffalo's rotation. He got the surprise call to start the home opener, thanks to an injury to another pitcher, and wound up pitching well enough to stay in Buffalo's rotation for the time being. Still, Mets people were considering moving Dickey to the coaching ranks. "The perception was, he might be a good pitching coach," Minaya recalled.
Dickey wasn't getting many people out before throwing those surprisingly solid 4 2/3 innings as a fill-in starter in Buffalo, and he was also hurt by being about the last remaining knuckleballer going. He'd been throwing the trick pitch awhile but had yet to use it effectively to consistently retire major-league hitters.
"You just didn't know with knuckleball guys," Minaya said, voicing the prevailing and understandable position in major-league baseball, where knuckleballer pitchers would be extinct if not for Dickey.
Then came the first turning point. Dickey threw a one-hitter for Buffalo that put him on the radar. When Jon Niese had to miss a start with a hamstring injury, Randy Niemann, a Mets minor-league pitching coach at the time, told Minaya he thought Dickey was pitching the best at Buffalo. That's all Minaya had to hear.
He was headed back to the bigs.
And, as Minaya said the other day, "The rest is history."
Dickey, pitching on a start-to-start basis when he arrived in New York, threw an impressive six innings in his Mets debut against the Nationals, giving him one more chance. His job hanging in the balance, Dickey delivered a string of solid starts, remaining in the Mets rotation and eventually earning himself financial security with a multiyear contract that turned out to be a prescient move by new Mets GM Sandy Alderson.
Dickey will be the most underpaid Cy Young winner in years when he earns $5 million to be the ace of the A.L. favorite, but his new contract calls for him to be bumped to $12 million a year for the following two seasons, or more than 100 times he likely would have earned as a minor-league player/coach. Dickey's new deal also calls for him to contribute $300,000 to Jays Care, the team's charity arm, over the course of the contract.
Dickey, who led the N.L. in complete games (five), shutouts (three), innings (233 2/3) and strikeouts (230) has appropriately credited his old buddy Minaya for giving him one last chance. But Minaya, characteristically, and appropriately in this case, demurs.
"He's done this himself, it's a credit to him," Minaya said. "He never gave up."
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Explained: Why toothpaste makes orange juice taste like battery acid
Why is it that brushing your teeth before drinking OJ can turn your morning dose of vitamin C into a dose of disgusto? The answer might surprise you.
By October 6, 2014
Startup IFTTT banking on more automation in your life
Today, companies have apps and websites. Tomorrow, they'll let their customers link electronically in a new way with if-this-then-that actions, IFTTT CEO Linden Tibbets predicts.
By November 5, 2014
Here's what happens to your body when you die
Just in time for Halloween, a new video tackles the chemistry behind dying, including whether or not our hair keeps growing after we're gone.
By October 27, 2014
Why are some sugars sweeter than others? Chew on this
The American Chemical Society looks at why some foods taste sweet, and why some sweeteners are, well, sweeter than others.
By October 21, 2014
Uber tests local delivery with Corner Store
Only available in Washington, D.C., and for a limited time, the service enables users to order household items and have a driver bring the products directly to their doorstep.
By August 19, 2014
Amazon: Don't worry, our drones are still preparing for takeoff
FAA releases guidelines that explain when hobbyists can fly drones legally. Amazon says rules won't ground drone delivery fleet.
By June 24, 2014
Could wearable tech read minds to sell ads?
Maker of brain-scanning tech says wearables like Google Glass could evolve to monitor brain signals and sell you toothpaste.
By May 21, 2014
The $99 Amazon Prime arrives, with questions in tow
The advantage of Amazon’s subscription service is the convenience of getting your products in two days. CNET takes a look at whether or not it's worth it.
By April 16, 2014
How Amazon thinks it can get you to hit 'buy' in 2 seconds or less (Q&A)
The company's new mobile app aims to make you buy your most-used products faster than ever before. Here's how your household items -- and a bit of augmented reality -- could help the retail giant's bottom line.
By February 7, 2014
How to find and clip Amazon instant coupons
Amazon.com has instant coupons you can use to save money on many items in different categories including, books, electronics, and toys.
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0.180928 | <urn:uuid:cd7fc2eb-ab1b-4c58-9bbe-547d9211eb50> | en | 0.956178 | “AMERICAN manufacturing has never been in more trouble than it is now.” Thus the glum introduction to an official report on competitiveness released in 1990, the last time America hosted a G7 summit. Its moroseness matched the nation's mood. Neurosis about the strength of Japan; gloom about the deficit; woe and decline on every side.
How times change. The country that presides over this year's rich-world gathering in Denver is feeling triumphant, even euphoric. “Is this a wonder economy or what?” asked Business Week. “On top of the world” chirped Newsweek. Notwithstanding signs of a slowdown in the second quarter of this year, the economy has been growing faster for longer than most economists thought sustainable. Unemployment has fallen well below the rate at which wage pressures have traditionally started to grip. And inflation is nowhere in sight. Producer prices fell for the fifth consecutive month in May, the longest string of declines since the 1950s.
Some back-slapping is in order, for sure. But today's economic success has also unleashed a Panglossian optimism, and that is more dangerous. A growing chorus of pundits, investors and economists argue that the good times are here—for good. They claim that such factors as globalisation and the rise of information technology have changed the way the economy works, so that old constraints on growth no longer apply. Instead, America can look forward to a prolonged period of prosperity, with both inflation and business cycles tamed.
The stakes in this debate are high. If the new conventional wisdom is correct, America does indeed face a rosy future. If it is not, unfounded confidence could endanger the economy's achievements so far. Unfortunately, it is often difficult to pin down exactly what is supposed to have changed. Believers in the “new economy” speak grandly but vaguely of productivity revolutions or the “loss of corporate pricing power”; they point to tumbling computer prices and the growth of the Internet as indisputable evidence that the economy is dancing to a different tune.
Beyond anecdote, their optimism rests on two main arguments. The first is that America's potential growth rate is much higher than conventional wisdom suggests, because productivity is much higher than official statistics measure. The second is that, regardless of productivity improvements, inflationary pressures are much weaker (or even non-existent). Global competition means that capacity can be pushed harder and unemployment sent ever lower. Do these propositions make sense?
There is some truth to the productivity claim. According to official statistics (and notwithstanding the small surge in the first quarter of this year), America's productivity growth during the 1990s has been as paltry as it was during the previous two decades, an average rise of around 1% a year. These official numbers have big and well-documented shortcomings. Productivity in services, the largest and fastest-growing part of the economy, is notoriously badly measured.
Moreover, using alternative gauges of productivity gives starkly different results. Edward Yardeni, chief economist at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, points out that the growth in firms' real sales per employee used to rise in step with productivity growth. But since 1986 or so, and particularly in recent years, they have diverged. In 1995, for instance, real sales per employee rose 10% while non-farm productivity rose only 0.2%. The biggest gains are in new-economy sectors such as high tech and communications. These figures have problems—in particular, the divergence might reflect the outsourcing of production—but they provide some evidence of higher-than-measured productivity growth.
Few economists would disagree that the real economy may be growing faster than official numbers suggest. At issue is whether the discrepancy keeps increasing. Moreover, if America's recent growth primarily reflects rising productivity, it is not clear why unemployment continues to fall. The drop in joblessness suggests that at least part of America's GDP growth comes from more labour input rather than higher output per worker.
Statistics bear this out: a large part of America's growth in the past year did indeed come from more people working, as well as working harder. Between the first quarter of 1996 and the first quarter of 1997 the number of Americans with a job grew by 2.4%, far more than the traditional annual job-growth rate of 1.4%. Moreover, the average number of hours worked each week also rose by 1.2%, again well above trend. Add growth in employment and hours worked to the official estimate of productivity growth (1%) and you more than account for the 4.1% rise in GDP. (The numbers do not add up exactly because they come from different statistical sources.) This does not prove that there has been no rise in productivity, but simply shows that much recent growth has come from getting more people to work, and persuading them to work longer hours.
And that is exactly what worries mainstream economists. Fast growth based on unusually high employment growth cannot continue forever. At some point, they fear, the unemployment rate will fall below the non-accelerating inflation rate (NAIRU) and wage-inflation will rise. Indeed, many reckon it has already done so.
Moreover, they point out, America's labour force grew remarkably quickly last year, far faster than its population. Several factors lay behind this. A buoyant economy may have lured back some people, particularly women, who had given up looking for work; welfare reform is forcing poorer women, who may have relied on a federal cheque, to find a job; and changes in immigration laws have prompted a sharp rise in the number of Latinos entering the labour force. But these supply increases are probably temporary: once employment growth stabilises, fast job growth would mean bringing the unemployment rate down further, which increases pressure on wages. At that point either corporate profits must be squeezed, or firms must pass on their higher costs through higher prices.
The new-economy crowd insists this is nonsense: inflation is dead, and the concept of a natural rate of unemployment outdated. In the new economy, firms cannot simply raise their prices: if they do, they will quickly lose out in a global market where firms and consumers can choose their suppliers at will. Yet, in fact, the United States is not terribly globalised: imports and exports still make up a relatively small share of GDP. Most of America's output is in goods and services that cannot easily be bought and sold across borders. For the price of a haircut, say, or a meal out, the globalisation argument is irrelevant.
A more subtle argument is that the pressures of globalisation and corporate restructuring have allowed American firms to push capacity further. New techniques for managing inventories, for instance, prevent the kind of involuntary build-up of stocks that used to make for large swings in output. In a more integrated global economy, companies can switch to foreign suppliers more easily. In short, the old speed limits may no longer hold.
There is probably some truth to this; but it would be foolish to push the argument too far. The capacity of the global economy is not infinite. Much of the weak price pressure faced by American firms comes from the fact that other large industrial economies have been growing sluggishly in recent years: once they pick up, commodity prices, for instance, may be under more pressure than they are now. Moreover, the strong dollar—a factor that has helped depress import prices—need not be a permanent phenomenon. If any of these temporary fillips subsides, American firms could well find their costs rising fast.
It is more likely, however, that pressure will first occur in labour markets. Historical relationships between unemployment and inflation imply that these pressures should already be evident. It is, of course, true that the NAIRU—estimates of which have never been made with enormous precision—may indeed have fallen: an ageing workforce, greater worker insecurity and the changing nature of employment contracts could all have brought it down. A lower NAIRU, however, is not the same as no NAIRU. More important, the new-economy people forget that overall labour costs have risen more slowly than wages because the cost of non-wage benefits, such as health insurance, has barely budged. This will surely not last for ever.
In short, the optimists have a point, but the danger is in pushing it too far. America's economy is undergoing some striking changes; but it has also benefited from a plethora of temporary (positive) shocks. Cheerfulness is appropriate; euphoria should be held in check. | http://www.economist.com/node/597481 | dclm-gs1-039080001 |
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By staff writers
16 Nov 2012
Occupy Wall Street has launched a ‘Rolling Jubilee’ of debt cancellations, in a “people’s bailout” campaign to wipe out millions of dollars of debt.
Unlike bailouts by wealth countries and international institutions, which have handed trillions of public money to banks and financial institutions clobbered by a financial crisis their greed helped to engineer, the “people’s bailout” is about helping the 99 per cent.
It is based on generosity rather than austerity, and uses a multiplier effect to reverse the standard corporate idea that the poor should help the rich out of the economic crunch.
The simple idea is to use donations to buy bundles of toxic debt for pennies, and then cancel it.
Set in motion yesterday (15 November 2012) through a telethon which quickly 'sold out', the imaginative campaign has already raised enough cash to knock out more than US$5.2 million worth of debt, and contributions have started to roll in at a considerable rate.
Chicago's Grist journal has described Occupy’s ‘Rolling Jubilee’ as a "model for cooperative purchasing power", and it has already attracted praise, comment and analysis from the New Statesman magazine, from sections of the business press, and from financial advisers.
"With community bids for clean solar and wind energy gaining traction across the country, maybe a Green Jubilee is already beginning to roll," added Susie Cagle, comparing the people's bailout approach with other current crowdsourcing alternatives initiatives on Grist.
The Rolling Jubilee explains the process as "a bailout of the people by the people. We buy debt for pennies on the dollar, but instead of collecting it, we abolish it. We cannot buy specific individuals' debt - instead, we help liberate debtors at random through a campaign of mutual support, good will, and collective refusal.
Alex Hern of the New Statesman explains how it works: "Distressed debt – debt which is in default – is frequently more trouble than it is worth for banks. Those institutions specialise in making money from money they hold, not recovering money they are owed. So if they have too much trouble getting that debt repaid, they sell it on. Someone pays less than the full value of the debt, and hopes to profit by recovering it and pocketing the difference."
He adds: "For really troublesome debt, sometimes that value can shrink to pennies in the pound – hence the Rolling Jubilee's plan, to buy $16,000 of debt for every $500 they raise (that is, $32 for $1)."
The difficulty, as American Homeowner Preservation found out when they used a similar technique focused on mortgages, is that once you start abolishing debt, those who hold it may stop selling it to you, not least because in America there is a deep-rooted fear of 'moral hazard' - encouraging people to behave irresponsibly. The Rolling Jubilee seeks to address this by its random process for taking on and cancelling debts, which ought to stop people speculating on it.
Rolling Jubilee explains: "There is no way to seek out a specific person and buy that person’s defaulted debt. With 15 per cent of Americans currently being pursued by a debt collector, looking for one person’s debt would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Anonymous accounts are bundled together and sold as a whole. Before purchasing debt, there is only limited information as to whose debt we are buying. These peculiarities are part of the scandal that we are trying to highlight."
The campaign adds: "We believe people should not go into debt for basic necessities like education, healthcare and housing. Initiatives like the Debt Resistors’ Operations Manual offer advice to all kinds of debtors about how to escape debt and how to join a growing collective resistance to the debt system.
"Our network has the goal of building a broad movement, with more effective ways of resisting debt, and with the ultimate goal of creating an alternative economy that benefits us all and not just the 1%."
The idea of Jubilee comes from many faith traditions including Judaism, Christianity and Islam. A jubilee is an event in which debts are cancelled and those in bondage are set free.
Yesterday evening the campaign tweeted: "Rolling Jubilee has officially erased $100,000 of people's medical debts. Millions more will be erased, soon."
* More on Rolling Jubilee: http://rollingjubilee.org/
* Follow the campaign on Twitter #rollingjubilee #strikedebt and #peoplesbailout
* Donate online: https://www.wepay.com/donations/526105166
* Edinburgh conference seeks inspiration from Occupy movement - http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/17371
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It's been kinda sorta available since mid-November, but it wasn't since the past week or two that Terra Soft's Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 was freely available (i.e. you didn't have to pay $100 for the DVDs) to make all your open-source PS3 dreams come true. Granted, they've made it pretty damned difficult
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Poll: Sleepin' in the movie theater?
Have you fallen asleep at the movie theater while watching a movie?
Sleep talk your answer to this post:
Make Your Choice
1. Vote!
Audrey Tautou in Amélie (2001)
I love movies! I can never fall asleep while watching movies at the cinema even if I wanted to!
2. Vote!
Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater in True Romance (1993)
Just as long as I am partaking in some stimulates (caffeine, nicotine, sugar, etc...) I can stay awake long enough to make it through a movie.
3. Vote!
Geraldine Chaplin and Leonor Watling in Talk to Her (2002)
I have fallen asleep on a rare occasion at the movie theater but to be fair, I was having a really tough day/week/month.
4. Vote!
Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Who can sleep in the movie theater when it's always too cold with the AC blasting?
5. Vote!
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
I may look like I'm sleeping but I'm keeping my eyes closed to lure that good looking prince/princess to steal a kiss.
6. Vote!
Javier Cámara and Darío Grandinetti in Talk to Her (2002)
If I had a little something to strongish drink before (or ... during) the movie, I may slightly doze off for a brief moment.
7. Vote!
Kate Winslet in Contagion (2011)
((sniffle sniff sniffle)) I fell asleep at the movies before but only because I was feeling really under the weather. ((cough cough))
8. Vote!
Rachael Blake and Emily Browning in Sleeping Beauty (2011)
Shh! Keep down your laughing! I don't go to the movies to watch films. I go there to catch a few zzzz's. I have trouble sleeping at home.
9. Vote!
Jean Dujardin in The Artist (2011)
The question is moot as I NEVER go to the movie theater to watch movies. I only watch movies at home, at school, or at work when my boss thinks I'm working. | http://www.imdb.com/poll/A6Y5f_C3_0Q/?ref_=tt_po_i1 | dclm-gs1-039490001 |
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Stealth: Not-So-Secret Secrets
F-117 Nighthawk
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We are now seeing Russian and Chinese “stealth” aircraft appear, at least in prototype form. The Chinese have prototypes of the J-20 large fighter bomber, which looks as if it may enter service with the Chinese Air Force in 2018. In a recently published report on Chinese military power, the US Department of Defense wrote that the J-20 shows “China’s ambition to produce a fighter aircraft that incorporates stealth attributes, advanced avionics and supercruise capable engines.” Supercruise in this context means that the aircraft can fly at supersonic speeds for sustained periods of time. This has only been achieved by the now grounded US SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance jet and the F-22.
Americans should get used to the idea that today’s military technological breakthrough will be commonplace on tomorrow’s battlefield. It costs a lot to develop and build the best military in the world.
If the pundits are right, and if major international war really is obsolete, it is largely due to America’s overwhelming military superiority: it makes adversaries reluctant to take us on. Maintaining this U.S. superiority is what keeps the world more or less at peace.
Russia, meanwhile, is working on the Sukhoi T-80, also known as the PAK-FA — a supposedly stealthy version of the SU-27 family of fighter bombers. The Russians have negotiated a co-development deal for this aircraft with India, which plans to buy around 200 of the stealth aircrafts.
Sukhoi has three T-80 test aircraft in operation, and hopes to have 11 more test aircraft flying before the first production model is delivered in 2013. The Russian air force is planning to have the T-80 in service sometime in 2015 or 2016, but its arrival in the Russian Air Force will probably be delayed. How effective the T-80 will be is open to question. Russia has developed some excellent combat airplanes over the years, but it has also built large numbers of fighters that have proven to be less than reliable, such as the 1970s’ MiG 23.
Meanwhile, the US F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, which originated in 1993, grinds ahead. It has already cost US taxpayers more than $400 billion. By the time the last F-35 leaves the production line sometime in the 2030s, the whole program will have cost more than one-and-a-half trillion dollars.
The F-35 was supposed to be the final manned fighter airplane built by the US; after that, all combat flying would be done by drones — but things may not turn out that way. The US Navy has started preliminary work on a new manned fighter attack aircraft called the FA-XX.
The F-35 was also supposed to be a fine example of multinational cooperation. Certainly the US’s European partners, including the British, the Dutch, the Norwegians, the Italians and the Danes, all had memories of successful collaboration with the US Defense Department on projects in the past. America’s foreign partners are already suffering from “sticker shock,” but as they have already invested considerable sums in the program, probably few of these partners will choose to walk away.
Any real stealth secrets inherent in the F-35 will almost certainly leak out through these foreign partners. They may have already leaked. However since the classified technology dates from the mid-1990s, it can hardly be considered truly “cutting edge.”
Many Americans believe that Stealth technology is still an exclusive US military advantage and that the “Secrets of Stealth” must be preserved at all costs. Stealth, or as it is sometimes called, Low Observable Technology, has acquired an almost mythical significance. This myth tends to blind both political leaders in Washington and many media commentators to the true value of what is misleadingly referred to as invisibility. During the 1980 Presidential campaign, the Carter administration announced that it was working on an invisible bomber, which turned out to be the very expensive B-2 bomber, of which the US Air Force managed to buy a grand total of 21.
In the late 1970s, the US Air Force was working on a smaller Stealth aircraft, the F-117 Nighthawk, which secretly entered into service in 1982. Publicly unveiled in 1989, the US Air Force hailed it as a giant breakthrough in its military technology. That was nearly quarter of a century ago, it is hard to see why anyone expects that the secrets of stealth are still secret.
About the Author: Taylor Dinerman is an expert on the Military and National Security affairs.
3 Responses to “Stealth: Not-So-Secret Secrets”
1. T-50 not T-80. The latter is a Russian main battle tank. It doesn't fly.
2. Mogul M Mogul says:
"It has already cost US taxpayers more than $400 billion. " The 390 billion includes 2400 planes so are you saying that taxpayers have already paid LM in advance for undelivered planes?
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Most of these structured pools were created by banks desiring to take mortgages off their books. In the investment world this was deemed to be a positive because if anything went wrong with the pools, the banks supposedly would have the liquidity to stand behind them.
CalPERS' SIVs weren't that kind of SIV. Their sponsors were a hedge fund and a couple of investment firms that specialized in marketing exotic paper to sophisticated investors -- such as CalPERS.
In fact, the investments were so risky that by law they could be marketed only to investors as sophisticated as CalPERS, which is always looking for "alternative" investments to even out the ups and downs of stocks and bonds.
In some businesses, this is known as seeing the mark coming a mile away.
CalPERS says it had no way of knowing what assets were owned by the structured investment pools -- "no access to any information on which to base a judgment of an SIV's creditworthiness," it says in the lawsuit. Consequently, it says, it had no choice but to rely on the rating firms, which did get to peek inside.
Unfortunately, the firms were paid to provide the ratings not by the investors such as CalPERS, which want objective judgments, but the promoters, who want anything but. Did this give the firms an incentive to rate every investment pool as gilt-edged whether it held gold or garbage? You make the call.
CalPERS' SIVs, in any case, held garbage. Naturally it's claiming that the rating firms were complicit in the debacle.
Let's pick this story apart.
First, the rating firms’ unholy alliances with the people they rate have been widely exposed, not least by the Securities and Exchange Commission and Congress, which released a pile of damning documents last year.
Even before then, the situation was no secret. CalPERS states in its lawsuit that in 2005 Moody's pocketed $715 million, or 41% of its revenue, from rating "structured" investments. The pension system didn't have to dig deep for this news: It's in the Moody’s annual report.
How about the issue of what CalPERS knew or didn't know about the assets held in the pools? CalPERS says "no amount of diligence" could have given it "actual knowledge" of what the pools contained.
This is slicing the baloney pretty thin. CalPERS knew its SIVs held mortgage assets. It knew that a bank's incentive would be to keep good mortgages on its balance sheet and dump the rest -- say, by offering them to an SIV.
In July 2007, a JPMorgan analyst reported that Cheyne Capital Management, the sponsor of one of the CalPERS pools, had the highest known concentration of real estate assets in the business. If JPMorgan knew, how come CalPERS didn't know?
More fundamentally, why would CalPERS put any money into an investment pool whose defining characteristic is that its investors can't know what it owns?
Many investors and financial analysts figured out the truth about these shady credit evaluations. The e-mails released by Congress and the SEC feature numerous investment executives telling Moody's and its cousins in mid-2007 that they didn't trust their ratings on exotic paper -- conclusions that had plainly originated months earlier, conceivably by late 2006.
Yet CalPERS claims to have been blindsided by the wave of credit downgrades the firms issued on the pools after mid-2007. It was then too late to extricate itself, as all three of its pools were headed for extinction.
The rating firms' complicity in the mortgage and financial meltdowns is a scandal -- that's true. But big investors including CalPERS played along.
They reasoned that no one would care that they had outsourced their due diligence to raters in cahoots with the ratees, as long as everyone was making money. If the money machine stopped, they figured, the rating firms would be convenient whipping boys.
The CalPERS lawsuit pulls the curtain back on this charade. Sure, CalPERS was a victim. The pension fund says it doesn't think the rating firms should be allowed "off the hook" and says it has "a duty to recover losses on behalf of our beneficiaries." But its case reminds me of a line by the great Russian author Nikolai Gogol: "There's no point blaming the mirror if it's your own mug that's crooked."
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Come a little bit closer
Closer than you are
Cause anything worth it now
Is just gonna be hard
Come a little bit cleaner
Get a little bit mean
Just give me the honesty and
Give it back to me
When I know what's mine
I can put it aside
And give in
Don't give me a reason
Don't give me a break
Just give me the loneliness
Of my own mistakes
And if it falls like a judgment
On everything that we are
Then it's just useless
Something we should discard
What's yours what's mine
Lets put it aside
And give in
Are you afraid
Does it get in the way
Of everything that wants to last
Everything that wants to stay
With all your might
Could you put it aside
And give in
With all my might
I could never put you aside
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The Great Afghan Corruption Scam
Corruption in today's Afghanistan has roots in Operation Enduring Freedom.
| Tue Apr. 2, 2013 2:33 PM EDT
Former US Defense Secretary Robert Gates in Kabul, December 2009.
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website.
Washington has vociferously denounced Afghan corruption as a major obstacle to the US mission in Afghanistan. This has been widely reported. Only one crucial element is missing from this routine censure: a credible explanation of why American nation-building failed there. No wonder. To do so, the US would have to denounce itself.
Corruption in Afghanistan today is acute and permeates all sectors of society. In recent years, anecdotal evidence on the subject has been superseded by the studies of researchers, surveys by NGOs, and periodic reports by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). There is also the Corruption Perceptions Index of the Berlin-based Transparency International (TI). Last year, it bracketed Afghanistan with two other countries as the most corrupt on Earth.
None of these documents, however, refers to the single most important fact when it comes to corruption: that it's Washington-based. It is, in fact, rooted in the massive build-up of US forces there from 2005 onward, the accompanying expansion of American forward operating bases, camps, and combat outposts from 29 in 2005 to nearly 400 five years later, and above all, the tsunami of cash that went with all of this.
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Last month, when an Afghan court sentenced Sher Khan Farnood and Khalil Ullah Ferozi, the chairman and chief executive of the Kabul Bank, for looting its deposits in a gigantic Ponzi scheme, the event received some media attention. Typically, however, the critical role of the Americans in the bank's murky past was missing in action.
Founded as a private company in 2004, the Kabul Bank was promptly hailed by American officials in Afghanistan as a linchpin in the country's emerging free market economic order. In 2005, action followed words. The Pentagon, paymaster for the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), signed a contract with the bank to disperse the salaries of ANSF soldiers and policemen.
With that, the fledgling financial institution acquired an impressive cash flow. Moreover, such blatant American support generated confidence among better-off Afghans. Soon enough, they were lining up to deposit their money. Starting in 2006, the surging inflow of cash encouraged Farnood and Ferozi to begin skimming off depositors' funds as unsecured loans to themselves through fake front companies. Thus was born the world's largest banking scam (when calculated as a percentage of the country's gross domestic product) with the US Embassy in Kabul acting as its midwife.
How It All Happened
There exists a statistical connection between the sums expended by Washington in Afghanistan and worsening corruption in that hapless nation. It is to be found in the TI's Corruption Index. In 2005, Afghanistan ranked 117th among the 158 countries surveyed. By 2007, as American greenbacks poured into the country, only two of 179 nations surpassed it in corruption. Since 2011, it has remained at the very bottom of that index.
What changed between 2005 and 2007? By the spring of 2006, the Taliban insurgency had already gained control of 20 districts in the southern part of the country and was challenging US and NATO forces in the strategic Kandahar area. With a sectarian war by then raging in US-occupied Iraq, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld felt that he could increase the American military presence in Afghanistan only marginally.
This started to change when Robert Gates took over at the Pentagon in December 2006. He began bolstering US combat units there. As a result, forward operating bases multiplied, as did combat outposts and military camps. Building new sites or upgrading old ones on the double meant that the Pentagon started awarding contracts to local Afghan construction companies unaccustomed to handling such tasks quickly. They, in turn, subcontracted tasks out to those who greased their palms. With the infusion of ever more piles of Pentagon dollars, corruption only spread.
Later, each of these bases and outposts had to be supplied with food, water, fuel, and other necessities as well as war materials. In addition, the Pentagon accelerated its program of bolstering the nascent Afghan security forces by covering the full cost of training, equipping, and paying its personnel, as well as building bases and outposts for them. As a consequence, contracts to Afghan transport companies ballooned, as would contracts to Afghan private security outfits to protect the trucks hauling provisions and materials in that increasingly war-torn country.
So, of course, did the opportunities for graft.
Between 2005 and 2007, when American combat forces in Afghanistan doubled, the Pentagon's budget for the Afghan War leaped from $17.2 billion to $34.9 billion annually. ANSF personnel also doubled, from 66,000 to 125,000 troops and policemen, though at a relatively marginal cost to the Pentagon. At $16,000 a year, the burden of maintaining an Afghan soldier was a paltry 2% of the $800,000 it cost to maintain his American counterpart.
In this period, opportunities for corruption rose exponentially. Why? In part, because the Pentagon was unable to protect the supply convoys of its Afghan contractors, something that would have required tens of thousands more US troops. The distance between the main supply center at Bagram Air Base near the capital Kabul and the city of Kandahar in the Taliban-infested south was 300 miles; and the Taliban heartland in Helmand Province lay another 100 miles from Kandahar. Since Afghanistan lacks railroads, the only way to transport goods and people was to use the roads.
The Bagram-Kandahar highway was peppered with roadblocks, each manned by the armed fighters of the dominant warlord, who collected an arbitrary "transit tax." The only way the transport companies could perform their job was by buying safe passage from the rulers of the highway and so parting with bribes of approximately $1,500 per truck between Bagram and Kandahar, and another $1,500 between Kandahar and Helmand. All of this came from the cash the Pentagon was so profligately doling out.
The warlords and private security contractors, in turn, gave bribes to the Taliban for the safe passage of these convoys. In essence, therefore, the Pentagon was helping finance its enemy in order to distribute necessary supplies to its bases. In addition, on "safe" roads, checkpoints were often manned by Afghan policemen, who extorted bribes by threatening to pass advance information about a convoy on to the Taliban.
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lorrodriguez 11/16/2011 10:39am
If this bill does go through and goverment does have a control over a majority of websites….what if that power gets into the wrong hands? hackers or terrorist then they will have a control over everything that keeps us moving every day cyber war is real!…Please dont allow this to go through for the sake of our country!
lorrodriguez 11/16/2011 10:35am
do NOT allow this bill to pass it will cripple our nation as a whole, and destroy what our founding fathers have created for us…This is the land of the of the Free!! lets keep it that way!
Kaze 11/15/2011 8:55pm
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Well, well, well. Take a look at those monetary donations thrown at our senators and representatives by the interest groups that support this bill.
Samizdat 11/11/2011 4:27pm
The ironic thing is that I will wrangle (not to be confused with Rangel) opencongress.org in any way I can to help elect Ron Paul, whereupon we will proceed to put an end to forcing the public to pay for opencongress.org. This outcome would ideally be but a benefit of ending the income tax. Isn’t it fascinating how the Eastern Bloc repudiated Communism in the early 80s, yet the U.S. increasingly embraces Communism?
CurtisNeeley 11/09/2011 5:41pm
@allyReport101 You asked, “Can anyone explain the difference between burning books and taking down websites”, and I will try.
Burning books requires a source of heat and oxygen. Taking down a copy[]right violating website requires only an injunction.
Can anyone explain the difference between wire communications and the Internet? – No you cant because they are just one method to wire communicate.
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HubsterB 11/09/2011 12:20pm
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So much for freedom in America. Download anything everywhere but here in our great country? Sounds like these congressmen are getting paid by the American taxpayers and the media moguls. Where does it end? It doesn’t. Once the door has been opened, it only gets wider. If the American public had as many lobbiest on Capitol Hill as big business, “We the people” would mean just that.
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Can anyone explain the difference between burning books and taking down websites>? Want a huge government have intellectual property law_ Something that is not scarce cannot be owned, a song/movie/media can be recreated by anyone with a tape recorder or computer, this does not mean you can take credit for creating a song you did not write, but what is shouldn’t mean is that the writer has a team of armed goons ready to stick guns in people’s faces demanding payment for singing their songs at karaoke_
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What a NOT funny f’ing joke.
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ABSTRACT The modular control of muscles in groups, often referred to as muscle synergies, has been proposed to provide a motor repertoire of actions for the robust control of movement. However, it is not clear whether muscle synergies identified in one task are also recruited by different neural pathways subserving other motor behaviors. We tested the hypothesis that voluntary and reactive modifications to walking in humans result from the recruitment of locomotor muscle synergies. We recorded the activity of 16 muscles in the right leg as subjects walked a 7.5 m path at two different speeds. To elicit a second motor behavior, midway through the path we imposed ramp and hold translation perturbations of the support surface in each of four cardinal directions. Variations in the temporal recruitment of locomotor muscle synergies could account for cycle-by-cycle variations in muscle activity across strides. Locomotor muscle synergies were also recruited in atypical phases of gait, accounting for both anticipatory gait modifications before perturbations and reactive feedback responses to perturbations. Our findings are consistent with the idea that a common pool of spatially fixed locomotor muscle synergies can be recruited by different neural pathways, including the central pattern generator for walking, brainstem pathways for balance control, and cortical pathways mediating voluntary gait modifications. Together with electrophysiological studies, our work suggests that muscle synergies may provide a library of motor subtasks that can be flexibly recruited by parallel descending pathways to generate a variety of complex natural movements in the upper and lower limbs.
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Yeah, max our your roth ($5500) and put the rest into a taxable account, set it to auto-withdraw, and just forget it exists for awhile.
In a city you could only do $40-$50 a year with no safety net, maybe, and you'd have to live with roommates or in a really shitty apt your whole life. Add another $10k a year for a decent place and 30% for savings (so around $70 - $80k), and it's enough. Investing doesn't have to be hard. You're in your early 20s right? Just keep 2-3 months expenses in cash and throw the rest in the vanguard s&p 500 index fund, set your paycheck to auto-deduct a set percent every couple...
It's totally a pain in the ass which is why I always have so much trouble bulking. I usually give myself $60/month for eating out which is about 1.5-2 meals and $20 for lunches which is like two lunches if I forget to pack one; I usually go a little over budget.
I have a couple friends that eat out _every_ meal, lunch and dinner, 7 days a week. This is in Boston so $15-$20 lunches and $30-$40 dinners, it's gotta add up to $20k a year or more.
You're not gonna be able to change someone who isn't interested in changing, most people are just dumb with food :/ it's only slightly less futile than getting a sedentary person into lifting Crossfit chicks ftw
They doubled the price of the climate confusion hammock to 10,000 euro :( my dreams are crushed
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In November last year, I spearheaded the launch of a manifesto published first on Cif by a group of people calling themselves New Generation Network (NGN). I'm pleased to find the argument I made in an accompanying editorial, that New Labour's engagement with "community leaders" had essentially been born of laziness ("the colonial model of 'bring me your headman'"), has now been echoed by Madeleine Bunting despite her earlier misgivings. It feels like a vindication.
I have no intention of getting involved in the recent fracas between Madeleine, Martin Bright or David T, but I think it's worth having a stab again at the broader debate: who should the government engage with and on what basis. Have these commentators had any impact on policy? The conflicting evidence so far sheds little light on this.
My view is that there is no coherent government policy on terrorism and "community engagement", and it depends more on which minister is running the department and civil servants they are listening to, rather than any desire to embrace or run away from Islamism. But even these usually become irrelevant in face of the biggest factor - who can deliver votes.
Allow me to offer a few examples.
Why would Labour Stephen Pound MP publicly praise Ramesh Kallidai of the Hindu Forum of Britain, despite an exposé in the Evening Standard about their ideological roots? Why does Jack Straw MP keep getting elected in Blackburn despite his pro-war stance in a heavily Muslim area? Why would Ken Livingstone court Sikh separatist groups in London (or Huge Chávez in Venezuela), and David Cameron invite them to his party?
Regardless of what journalists say about the politics of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), Hindu Forum of Britain (HFB) or Sikh Federation (SF), a political party at local level is still likely to make tacit or overt alliances with groups if they can deliver votes. All politics is local, as the saying goes. The opinion of journalists or liberals who want nothing to do with rightwing religious conservatives matters much less it seems.
Last year the columnist Pete Oborne alluded to the same, brilliantly arguing that Labour had become willing to feed into the demonisation of Muslims because it had calculated there weren't many votes to be won from them any more. It has ditched the MCB since.
Plus, such relationships are intentionally kept vague. Labour ministers do not explain the context in which they are "engaging" with Muslim organisations (cohesion? terrorism? for its own sake?), while the MCB has usually been vague on what it is campaigning for, what legislation it wants pushed/repealed and, especially, how it is measuring its own performance. It wants to be the preferred partner without explaining what it is giving and what it wants in return.
Arguments over the ideological origins of the MCB, HFB or SF, and whether the government should talk solely to them or to everyone, are only heard on the sidelines. The main focus, especially locally, is always on who can deliver votes. The examples speak for themselves.
So what should a liberal-left response be? Did the NGN manifesto serve no purpose? On the contrary, we must understand the dynamics if we are to affect them. My response would be three-fold:
1) Making the intellectual argument and taking it forward The manifesto made various arguments explicitly in a manner that hadn't been done before, in a national paper. It stated the obvious, yes, but that needed to be done. As the arguments become accepted, especially by its biggest critics, the agenda must be taken forward intellectually.
My focus on Britishness (including integration and culture) and addressing the criticisms of multiculturalism are central to that. There is also the debate around what is in the public or private realm. And there is space to go even further later.
2) Strategic intervention Such interventions are predicated on short-term legislative or policy goals. For example, the law and policy around forced marriages and domestic violence. This needs to be developed further, intellectually and politically. The scope should also expand to include civil liberties and terrorism.
3) Grassroots mobilisation Over the long term, however, nothing beats grassroots mobilisation and voter turnout. If liberals are serious about pushing forward their agenda, then they cannot do so from behind computer screens or newspaper articles. People have to be mobilised and MPs have to be warned that their alliances could cost votes. For NGN, and the liberal movement in general, there is no other substitute. I'll come back to this subject again, soon.
Given this context, liberals need to listen to everyone (including minorities) and offer them a better alternative than they are being given by the likes of the MCB, HFB and SF, using this three-pronged strategy.
Rather than an argument over who New Labour should talk with, I would prefer a discussion over what issues need to be debated and towards what goal. That provides a better idea of what can be achieved in partnership with different organisations. Their performance can then be measured too.
I would argue this is a better approach for NGN signatories and supporters, and the liberal left movement in general to take, if we want to affect the behaviour of politicians. That is the only long-term path to social cohesion. Enough arguing, let's get down to business. | http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/jul/17/votesspeak | dclm-gs1-040500001 |
0.122827 | <urn:uuid:5d5ad9f8-f9b5-4916-b5d7-8ad75988d8d6> | en | 0.933267 | Best buys: mortgage guide
Mortgages we like. Mortgages we don't like. And how to buy a house.
We like...early repayments
It is a good idea for borrowers to overpay on their mortgage to eat into the capital balance. It will see the mortgage repaid early, cutting the amount of interest paid over the life of the mortgage.
Effectively, the borrower earns the mortgage rate on their savings and there is no tax to be paid. For example, if the mortgage rate is 5%, a higher rate taxpayer would need to earn 8.33% gross on their savings to earn the same return.
But it is important to make sure that there are no penalties for paying off and that the benefit of the overpayment will be felt immediately. Many deals offer partial penalty free overpayments even if they are not completely penalty free products.
We don't like... endowments
Endowments are the major cause of headaches for many borrowers whose policies fall short of the amount required to repay the mortgage.
It's best to tackle the problem sooner rather than later as things often get worse.
It does not necessarily mean the endowment should be ditched. Overpaying on the mortgage can reduce the capital balance to make up the shortfall amount, or the shortfall can be switched to repayment, leaving the endowment to pay off the remainder. This can be done with the existing lender or, if free to move, the mortgage could be switched to a better rate minimising the impact on monthly payments.
If you decide to get rid of the policy, don't forget to check the second hand policy market for a better price.
How a house
1. How much can you afford?:
See GU's budget planner
2. Mortgage options:
Choose between repayment or interest-only. If opting for interest-only, you must sort out a repayment scheme such as an Isa or endowment.
3 . Mortgage type:
Fixed, capped, discount, tracker or variable? Trackers move rates down (and up) in line with base rate. Fixes make sense on very big loans, where rate rises would hurt the borrower.
4. Find a house/make an offer:
Currently the typical offer is 5%-10% below the asking price.
5. Do a survey and valuation:
find a surveyor at or call RICS on: 0870 333 1600. Three levels of surveys. Basic is a simple valuation survey, paid by the lender. The homebuyer's report: a surveyor reports on property's defects. Typical cost £250. A full survey covers everything in the homebuyer's survey but in more depth. Typical cost £450.
6. Appoint a solicitor:
The Law Society's Records Office: 0870-606-6575 or at Ask for a breakdown of costs before you appoint one.
7. Your offer is accepted:
The house will be sold "subject to contract". You may have to pay a deposit. This stage is not legally binding.
8. Complete your mortgage application:
Check out our best buys for the right deal.
9. Contracts exchanged:
A contract legally commits you to the purchase. The seller signs an identical one; these are then swapped. You have to pay a deposit at this stage.
10. Completion:
The balance is paid to the seller's solicitor in return for the house's title deeds.
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0.044585 | <urn:uuid:71ff1a19-f1c9-4870-8354-bd4662429a99> | en | 0.944621 | Researcher shows how to strike back at web assailants
Exploiting the exploiters
A security researcher has disclosed details on more than a dozen previously unknown vulnerabilities that people responding to web-based attacks can exploit to strike back at online assailants.
The bugs reside in off-the-shelf crimeware kits that go by names such as Eleonore, Liberty, Neon, and Yes. Attackers install them on compromised websites to streamline the process of exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities on the PCs of people who visit them.
It has long been known that some of the exploit kits are themselves susceptible to attacks, and on Thursday Laurent Oudot, CEO of French security consultancy Tehtri-Security, detailed 13 bugs that can be exploited to turn the tables on the criminals running the software. They make it possible for law enforcement agents and other investigators of online attacks to destroy command and control servers, identify the miscreants, and in some cases even launch client-side attacks against the intruders.
“The offensive concepts that we've shown today were how to strike back at attackers who use evil web tools like Exploit Packs, Web backdoors, etc.,” Oudot told The Register in an online discussion a few hours after he made a presentation at the SyScan security conference in Singapore. “Basically, we explained that it is possible to create traps or to remotely attack the malicious web tools used by people controlling botnets.”
One of the attacks against Eleonore allows investigators to steal the authentication cookies of miscreants logging in to the administrative panel used to control an attack site. It starts with as SQL-injection exploit through a browser's referrer field to plant strings in the server's database that make the panel vulnerable to XSS, or cross-site scripting exploits. Investigators can then exploit that hole and steal the cookies, which are used to gain administrative access to the panel.
Oudot said his presentation included instructions on carrying out 13 separate exploits. He has not yet published the details but said he would probably do so eventually. A brief description of the talk is towards the bottom of this page, and additional details are here.
The presentation highlights the fine line between investigating and responding to online attacks on the one hand and running afoul of anti-hacking laws on the other. In some countries, mere possession of attack scripts and hacking tools is considered a crime. US law generally prohibits the intrusion onto another person's computer.
“The question is: Are you accessing their machine without authorization or in excess of authorization?” said Mark Rasch, a former assistant US attorney who prosecuted hacking crimes and is the founder of Secure IT experts in Bethesda, Maryland. “If the answer to that question is yes then it's a technical violation of the US computer crimes statutes. In other words, you do so at your own legal peril.” ®
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0.020356 | <urn:uuid:c27d9c1c-094e-49c7-aa33-5535d05aea9c> | en | 0.979475 | Grey's Anatomy
Thursday 8:00 PM on ABC Premiered Mar 27, 2005 In Season
User Score: 8962
Grey's Anatomy Fan Reviews (1182)
out of 10
24,318 votes
• Not just copying off ER & House; its just a bad replacement.
I don't get "ABC Network" for cancelling L.A. Dragnet and replacing it with this. Grey's Anatomy is a very bad medical drama. Common their is seriously no character development. I turned on the show one night and I was like what. Seriously I only keept in on for only ten minutes.
• I absolutely love this show, i always wish it was for 2 hours instead of one! Creator-Excellent Job! My favorite character is Christina, she is really funny and always makes me laugh! I like the other character but Christina stands out the most!I look for
I give the show A perfect 10 all the way!!
• A dumb show where doctors make out and have sex every episode! It's Stupid!
A dumb and retarded stupid excuse as a doctor. my 3 month old cousin could make a better show than this. It's a horrible show with the most stupid and idiotic plot i have ever heard of. I hate it and hope it gets cancelled because we already have enough doctor shows that are way better, such as House! Grey's Anatomy is a bad show!
• Trash tv at its worst.
This is trash tv at its worst. When the very first episode begins with the main character introducing herself to the man she just spent the night with, it\'s pretty clear that this is not going to be a family show. The title is somewhat clever, but a more suitable title would be Dr. Slut. This show makes Desperate Housewives look like Masterpiece Theater, its characters obsessed with sex to the point that many of the conversations are unrealistic even by the standards of soft-core porn, which this show closely approximates. Another WC show (that is, I\'d rather watch the Weather Channel than this garbage).
• Give me a break...
Ok, this show is like a Scrubs-ER hybrid; and guess what? It just doest not work, I would rather watch ER any day of the week, even in its last seasons! This show is just not worthy of that time slot, if the show were in another time slot it would have sunk! You want to see doctors in drama... Watch ER; You want to see doctors in comedy... Watch Scrubs, as simple as that, and if you are not sleeping well, turn on ABC's Grey's Anatomy, I assure you, you will be snoring in five minutes. Guaranteed!
• NOTT!
What can I say? This is the one show that my wife and I sit down together every week to watch.
We feel like we know the characters. The issues that it deals with, are real.
It seems to keep on getting better, even as it goes into the middle of its second season.
• Just like ER and all other medical dramas, we don't need another.
This show is just like Scrubs, and a tad like ER, America should not need another one of these shows. I am tired of them, and everyone else should be too. They have all gone on too long, and they've reached their end.
American Broadcasting Company: Please hear my cries, and cancel 'Grey's Anatomy'
• If it were funny, and had better actors and writing, it could be Scrubs. Instead, it is just a 3 years late, dramatic version of Scrubs.
When I saw previews for this, I was appaled. I saw exactly what watching the first few episodes confirmed. If you took scrubs and removed the humor, you would have a drama called Grey's Anatomy.
Sadly, it was even worse than I had predicted. The cast is laughable, and the writing is so bad it is kinda funny. The plot is terrible, the setting is overused, and really, the timing couldn't be worse.
Trying to fill a void that ER did for many people, and trying to come in on the success of younger, newer doctors, like Scrubs, and of course trying to be that next medical show that works...with many failed like Medical Investigation, this show is nothing more than a calculated media hitter.
Sadly it worked in terms of ratings, replacing a far better show in the same timeslot, Boston Legal.
Don't feed the formula spewing directors and networks. Let them make a nother dozen crappy medical shows, but certainly let this one go with them, it certainly deserves it.
• Kill it!
Please Shonda, pleaseeeee let it end with this season!
• Let it go already
This show has been complete crap since the loss of Isaiah Washington. The ultimate tell tale sign of this was the musical episode, which showed that the writer's had just plain run out of ideas. I realize that fans of stupid shows like Glee can appreciate that kind of thing which is why they tune in to idiotic shows like Glee, but those of us who appreciate good tv drama don't watch for musical entertainment. With the departure of "McSteamy" the show just continues to roll over in it's grave. It's dead, the writers are just to self absorbed to realize it and give it a decent burial. I personally stopped watching immediately after the musical.
• Enough already
I tried to like this show, but it got boring real quick. Its a good show to put you to sleep with I guess. I haven't watched all seasons, but again I don't wont to.
• Waffles To
I've mostly enjoyed this show but have been turned off by the waffling Kepner storyline. Using "The Graduate" ending and having Jackson and Kepner bust up her wedding and break Stephanie's heart and her fiance's as well was ridiculous, contrived, and stomach turning. I'm done with the show despite how much I've enjoyed most of the characters and plots in the past.
• Blah, blah, blah!! Predictable
This show is done. I don't think I can watch another episode. After April decides to leave her fiance, who is a great guy by the way, and selfishly chooses Jackson after Jackson embarrasses poor Stephanie, a great girl, to crumbles, that was it for me. April is okay but there is nothing special there, and she often seems all over the place. It has gotten to the point where one can expect a certain character to get the girl/guy and be happy, and the rest is like, whatever. Grey's Anatomy is now boring, and no longer intriguing. It used to be a good show , but has long since lost that title.
• I'm no geek
Really boring!!!
• Ross + Yang = disgusting
This season is going from boring to annoying. Several characters are uninteresting like Ross and some totally not memorable.
• a racial show ?
This was great
it used to be about Meredith Grey and her band
i loved it
now he has become an Afro-american centric show
is Shonda Rhimes obsessed with enforcing black cast in Grey's Anatomy ?
i have nothing about that as long as the story is good, but it's longer the case
ER was a real melting pot and much more interesting
• Seriously ?!
Are these people for real ? They stil run this show, inspite of the opinion of its own very avid fans, that it was suppose to end ages ago. Are they trying to make it run longer than ER, by all means ? FYI, dear producers, your money are being wasted for a show that has eneded at least 3 seasons ago. Give it a rest. End it.
• Starting seasons were good,after that it's just non sense.
At the start the show was nice,the twists and turns were good not everything has to be every episode there has to be something extreme,there are no happy times,its like the writers think when there is nothing to do KILL A DOCTOR people will get emotional. That's pretty much this show is.
• stupid show
Take off the air
• Once a good show-Now off the rails
Really used to like this show. Interesting characters, good story lines and good continuality. However I think it's overstayed its welcome. Go to Netflix and watch the initial years-no comparison! This season has no direction and no believability. Stick a fork in it. And the music!! Was almost as bad as the singing episode a few years back.
• Used to be a good show
A very very long time ago. Jumped the shark at least five years ago. Time to go.
• Show about Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome
Our son suffers with this horrible syndrome, the show presented the syndrome so poorly!!! Can't believe Sandra Wilson has a daughter with this disorder. We were so excited the show was going to discuss such a rare disorder. Disgusted how the show brought this syndrome to the public eye. If the sufferers of CVS had it this easy it would not be so unbearable. Sad we had all our friend and family watch this episode. OMG, for weeks on end our son lays in a state of extreme nausea....... so sad!!!!!
• This Show
It's the worst show ever and i gave it many chances to impress me its just doctors having sex with each other.
• As horrible as the hype
I was forced to watch this show by my gf... the first episode I saw was where someone was going to do a penis transplant... I was then forced to watch some more... I've lost all faith in American intelligence. I can see now why the world thinks we're a bunch of idiots. Grey's Anatomy is one of the worst written, acted, and plotted shows I've ever seen.
Somehow they've compiled a cast where nearly every character is beyond bearably annoying.
Avoid this show and the morons who find it interesting at all costs.
• why did Lexi and Mark have to die?? why not Arizona?
I really hate how season 9 ended with Mark dying. Having Lexi die in season 8 was bad enough. I personally think that Arizona should have died instead. Mark and Lexi should have been reunited after telling each other their true feelings. There is a spark, and mystery about both of them on the show that can not be replaced by the other characters. Arizona should have been died instead! The whole show will be based on sadness from now on, with the surviving victims trying to deal with their losses, as well as the trauma that was left in their lives after the crash. I think the fans should have taken a vote on who the most popular characters in Grey's Anatomy before they decided to kill off two of the most interesting characters on the show. As far as I am concerned the show is going to be much less interesting, and a lot more depressing from now on.
• Why Shonda Why
I have stood by Grey`s Anatomy since season 1 and stuck with it even when you took George away. But this is to much for me. Every single character was getting boring or annoying except for Mark. The only one on this show who made me laugh and cry and care about. Why do you keep taking away the only characters that had any meaning. He had a baby, dammit. His story could have gone on but i really want to know the reason for this. You have murdered one of my favorite characters for the last time. I will never watch this show ever again.
• what happened to the season?
I am incredibly disappointed w/grey's anatomy this season, they can't seem to be able to choose rerun vs new episode!! haven't seen a new episode since the really great "what if". what the heck is going on? I so look forward to that program every Thurs. and have been so disappointed. BRING BACK MY GREY'S ANATOMY PPLLLLEEEZZZZZZZ....and get rid of that stupid "little grey" - yuk
• Very disappointed...........
Murdering an unborn child, really ???? I am so sick of PC junk being shoved down my throat, it was bad enough watching 2 women smooch in bed. Used to be one of my favorite shows, as soon as the baby was killed that ended it for me, was that really a necessary story line ????..Very sad to see where we are headed as a country...............
• BOYCOTT Greys Anatomy!!
Seriously!! Murder an unborn baby for ratings! ABC should be ashamed. Show went from a 10 to negative 2. Everyone with any ethics should just boycott the show. They crossed the line. Stop talking about it and just turn it off and send a message to the sponsors...
• If I wanted a musical, I would have gone to Broadway.
I have to say, as a long time fan, I found this episode hard to watch. It was so cringe-worthy I couldn't focus on the plot. Yes, Cali can sing, but she's the ONLY ONE! Well, Miranda Bailey was okay and what I heard of Alex - but that's not the point! I'm all for trying something new (like the mockucumentary episode after the shooting), but this episode did not pull off the musical thing. At all. First of all, why did songs continue in the background and people keep flapping their mouths behind closed doors while other characters attempted to carry on normal dialogue? Awkward. And that weird cheesy Running On Sunshine interlude? Yuck (that may have something to do with the fact that I hate that song). Well, that's okay, I still love you GA. Let's just forget that this episode ever happened.
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0.117279 | <urn:uuid:c8512181-0321-4ffc-b0eb-a3c7d5c9073d> | en | 0.971325 | View Full Version : Fat intake while bulking
06-25-2006, 09:29 PM
I did a search and didn't quite come up with what I was looking for, so I apologize if this has been asked a thousand times already.
I have foolishly been neglecting to count my macros while on my current bulk, so when I put the numbers into Fitday a moment ago, I was a little surprised with the results.
I'm currently about 208 lbs, aiming to bulk to about 225-230 lbs and then cut. I've often read that a good rule of thumb for fat intake is about 0.5 grams per LBM. For me that would be around 90 grams or so. I checked Fitday, as I already mentioned, and it looks like I'm getting about 200 grams of fat per day! Yikes. Don't get me wrong, I'm not dirty bulking or anything like that. These fats are all from natural peanut butter, olive oil, whole milk and sunflower seeds.
My problem now, is that obviously I need to get about 100 less grams of fat per day (right?), so how can I go about doing that, and still get 5000 calories a day? Most of my fats were coming from my weight gain shakes (raw oats, whole milk, peanut butter, olive oil, whey protein, a banana, honey). From the 2L of whole milk I drink a day, I'm getting 65 grams of fat right there! Should I start drinking skim milk and stick with peanut butter and olive oil...? I don't want to give up on making shakes because liquid calories are so much easier to get down and quicker to make.
How much fat is everyone else getting while bulking, anyways?
Any advice or input would be appreciated greatly. Thanks a lot guys/girls.
06-25-2006, 09:35 PM
If the majority of the fat is good fat, then I don't see a problem. When you're eating that much food, you're bound to go over the fat/protein recommendations to meet your caloric needs.
06-25-2006, 09:50 PM
Yep. Healthy fat is an excellent caloric ballast. I only "need" about 55-60g fat daily, but I usually go 80-90, and that's on a cut.
06-25-2006, 10:03 PM
Not foolish if you're bulking. You getting enough carbs to fuel your workouts? Most likely. You getting enough protein for recovery and new tissue synthesis? Probably. You avoiding assloads of sugar? If yes, then you're basically good to go. I don't believe in bulking per se, but if you're taking in 500+ calories over maintenance for weight gain purposes, then macros don't much matter as much as overall number of calories. Cutting is a different story, when you're trying to calibrate macronutrients to minimize muscle loss... so the macronutrient balance matters.
So really, don't sweat the macros during a bulk, it's a waste of time.
06-25-2006, 10:03 PM
Yeah I've found that healthy fat really is the easiest way to boost my daily calorie intake but I still think that 200 is a little bit too much (who knows why I didn't realize I was getting that much before I counted today). At the moment, I'm getting somewhere in the neighbourhood of 500 grams of carbs per day. Should I try to up this by 100 or so, and aim for closer to 120 grams (or less) for fats? I think I can easily accomplish this by switching over to skim milk to lose that 65 grams of fat, and perhaps eating a bowl or two of rice over the course of the day. I'll probably be losing about 640 calories from switching the milk but that shouldn't be too hard to make up for. Any thoughts?
06-25-2006, 10:07 PM
No need. Really.
06-25-2006, 10:08 PM
Sorry Belial, I guess I posted at the exact same time as you, and therefore didn't get a chance to read what you had to say. What you said makes sense. I usually don't worry too much about these things so I don't know what made me start today.
And yeah Built, on second thought I think you're right. If I'm making gains now then why worry?
06-25-2006, 10:09 PM
if you don't feel lethargic when working out, then there really is no need to get rid of 100g of fat, especially if its healthy, for carbs. on a bulk, as long as your reaching your caloric goals with clean foods, then why sweat the macro's as long as your getting enough of each (which it sounds like you are). | http://www.wannabebig.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-81462.html | dclm-gs1-040740001 |
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I know that boiled crawfish are usually bought at a fish market and eaten at home, but does anyone have a recommendation for restaurants at which they are served?
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1. Charlie's Seafood in Harahan, The Galley on Metairie Road, Frankie and Johnny's Uptown. A few options....
1. Eating boiled crawfish in a restaurant isn't unusual or atypical in any way....how'd you get that idea? Sal's Seafood, Perino's Boiling Pot, and Harbor Seafood in Kenner are all boiled-seafood-centric spots for you to try.
1. +1 Harbor Seafood; it's one of my favorites. Also Seither's Seafood in Harahan has good prices on boiled seafood and good fried pickles too.
A third option between home and restaurant is taking out fresh boiled crawfish from a retail outlet, which is done well by regional grocery store chain Rouses, as well as seafood shops like K-Jean's and Big Fisherman. | http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/694056 | dclm-gs1-041170001 |
0.022869 | <urn:uuid:41133b08-8fdc-4d2d-9401-e4daee173acd> | en | 0.964079 | Middle Ground Coastal Battery
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A close-up of the coastal battery
The Middle Ground Coastal Battery is a heritage site of an antique coastal gun battery managed by the Indian Navy on an islet off the coast of Mumbai, India. It is situated on Middle Ground isle in Mumbai Harbour, a few hundred metres away from the Gateway of India, in Thane Creek.
The Middle Ground Coastal Battery was once part of a reef, like the nearby Oyster Rock. Middle Ground islet is a piece of hard basalt rock, emerging from the creek bed, having an area of a few hundred square metres.
The island was fortified in 1682 by the British East India Company to curb the sea piracy in the area. Later a marine police force of Bhandaris was stationed on the islet to keep an eye on the pirates who used to board ships. The Bhandaris were chosen for their honesty and local knowledge. They had a distinctive uniform of yellow turbans and blue trousers. After piracy moved to the South China Sea, about two hundred years ago, the police were disbanded and the rock passed into the control of the Royal Navy (RN), and from thence to the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) and eventually to the Indian Navy (IN).
The RIN added to the fortifications with the use of cannons and later on three anti-aircraft guns to protect the harbour from a perceived Japanese invasion during World War II. The AA guns were eventually removed, but the deep cylindrical mountings of the old guns still remain.
Current use[edit]
The island is manned by a staff of eight sailors of the Indian Navy who keep in touch with the mainland through radio communications. Currently the island serves as the saluting base to the Flag Officer Commander-in-Chief (FOC-in-C) of the Western Naval Command. The old cannons are ceremonially fired along with a bugle call when a new FOC-in-C takes office or when a naval ship returns to its home port in the harbour after an extended deployment.
The edifice stores artefacts of the colonial era such as ceramic bathtubs, etc. A maritime museum occupied a portion of the isle, but it was shut down in 2000 with the exhibits moving to the maritime museum of the decommissioned aircraft carrier INS Vikrant (R11) when it was opened to the public. Ensigns of old naval ships are still stored on the isle.
The islet is difficult to visit owing to the problems faced while berthing during low tide. The Navy has been offered many lucrative deals for the obsidian isle, but selling it would heavily compromise the security of warships berthed at Naval Jetties.
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0.185388 | <urn:uuid:bec8cec1-4144-4550-bc57-7e41972b6e63> | en | 0.972084 | Burglars Decide To Steal Bentley Watches Instead Of Bentley Cars
Those who run luxury car dealerships take extra precautions to make sure cars costing well over $100,000 don't get swiped in the middle of the night. And even those measures are worthless when thieves just drive the car off the lot. So why don't they lock down other expensive stuff sitting in the showroom?
Apparently, the people running Symbolic Motor Car Company in La Jolla, Calif. didn't lock up their Breitling for Bentley watches securely enough, because they were stolen in the middle of the night. U-T San Diego reports the dealership was burglarized early yesterday morning.
In the surveillance video, you can see the second thief going through the smashed glass doors and nearly slipping on the floor, holding onto two Continental GTs for balance. It's a little funny. But San Diego police say they believe the two knew exactly what they were going for and smashed the case with the watches and walked out.
San Diego police say the watches were worth more than $100,000 and damage to two cars and the building is estimated at $50,000.
Breitling for Bentley is a series of watches with more badges than the usual Breitling, modeled by David Beckham and even more douchey. Apparently they're very exclusive, according to the website, so they should be easy for the police to track down.
Now a new Bentley isn't as exclusive, so these thieves probably would've been better off taking one of those. | http://jalopnik.com/burglars-decide-to-steal-bentley-watches-instead-of-ben-1462953233 | dclm-gs1-041770001 |
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The much anticipated third installment in "The Hobbit" series, "The Battle of the Five Armies," wraps up Bilbo Baggins' fine adventure with two-and-a-half hours of personal and political drama. Gandalf anchors the multifaceted conflicts-- fighting the enticement of gold and power, struggles with morality, the critical importance of friendship and one's word--in short, dedication to good over evil.
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Unearthed has versions on everything else it seems: PC/Mac, iPhone/iPad and Android, and PlayStation 3. The game follows fortune hunter Faris Jawad from Morocco to Damascus, Alexandria and Dubai, searching for the treasure of the famed Muslim explorer Ibn Battuta. Evil treasure hunters stand in Faris' way.
Yes, it's easy to bag on this. It may not be what folks in the west would buy (or what Saudi gamers themselves would choose to import), but the country is new to games development, and they've got to start somewhere.
Still, if it's going to be so ... inspired by Uncharted, couldn't it have picked a word with a different prefix for its title?
More screens at the jump; they look better than the video.
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ANAHEIM -- Left-hander J.A. Happ likely will make his return to the Blue Jays' starting rotation on Wednesday in Seattle.
Happ made his third rehab start for Triple-A Buffalo on Friday night and allowed three runs over 4 2/3 innings. He threw 95 pitches, allowing six hits and three walks while also recording six strikeouts.
The next scheduled day for Happ to throw would be Wednesday and that lines up perfectly with when the Blue Jays need another starter. The outing normally would have gone to right-hander Todd Redmond, but he was optioned to the Minors after a disappointing start Friday against the Angels.
"It will probably be Happ," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "He's solid, he's healthy. He threw a lot of pitches [Friday night], but that's what he does."
Happ hasn't pitched in the Major Leagues since he was struck on the head by a line drive off the bat of Tampa Bay's Desmond Jennings in early May. He suffered a minor skull fracture on the play but it was a sprained right knee that ended up forcing him to miss so much time.
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Landau and Streater proved that a set of Kraus operators, Ai, is extremal if and only if the set
$\{A_{k}^{\dagger}A_{l}\}_{k,l \ldots N}$
are linearly independent. I have seen very convincing arguments both for and against. You can even see two PDFs of Mathematica notebooks "proving" both answers here: http://quantummoxie.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/a-quirky-mathematical-problem-in-need-of-explanation/
What is missing from these proofs?
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I think you mean Streater, and not Streeter. Also, try using \dagger and not \dag - it may like the LATEX better. Anyway, I think the theorem says that the CPTP map $\rho \mapsto \sum_k A_k \rho A_k^\dagger$ is extremal in the convex set of all CPTP maps. The way you've written this is not really right, as it makes no sense to say the set of Kraus operators themselves are extremal and nobody outside quantum information will have any idea what you are asking. – Jon Yard Jan 29 '10 at 19:05
@Jon Thanks for the LaTeX hint and the Streater correction. I will try to rephrase the question so that it makes more sense. – sep332 Jan 29 '10 at 19:15
I just looked at your Mathematica code and your check for linear independence is wrong. You compare the last row of "V" with a row of three zeros, not nine. Actually the whole thing is moot since you are checking to see if 64 3 by 3 matrices are linearly independent - well the space of 3 by 3 matrices is only 9 dimensional, so there's no way that they could be linearly independent. – j.c. Jan 29 '10 at 19:48
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Hi Jon. Actually, the requirement that the set $A_{i}^{\dagger}A_{j} \oplus A_{j}A_{i}^{\dagger}$ be linearly independent is specifically for extremal unital channels. If the requirement on unitality is relaxed, Landau and Streater showed that only the set $A_{i}^{\dagger}A_{j}$ need be linearly independent.
jc: I see your point, but then can you tell me what is wrong with my Mathematica code? In other words, there must be something wrong with it if it returns a "True" for linear independence. Maybe someone has a better way to check these in Mathematica.
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The problem is in the line reading linearIndependeceQ. It currently compares the last row of the row-reduced V matrix to {0,0,0}. However, the rows of V are 9-vectors (as they come from flattening 3 by 3 matrices). Hence you could change the Table[0,{3}] to Table[0,{9}]. This however would fail if there were numerical error (always a problem when comparing real numbers with equality in a computer). A better way to check is just to look at RowReduce[V] and see that you get a whole bunch of rows of zeros. But, like I said - the dimensionality argument makes this all kind of silly. – j.c. Jan 29 '10 at 21:14
Just checked, and, indeed, I get lots of zeroes (in fact, that's what I did originally, several weeks ago). But I would argue it's not a silly question for two reasons: (1) I'm not convinced by your dimensionality argument since I can think of a simple counterexample (I seem to be running out of characters...?) and (2) even if I were wrong, it would still imply a serious limitation in Mathematica - it ought to pick up on something as ridiculously silly as that. – Ian Durham Jan 29 '10 at 21:45
(1) I'd like to hear your "counterexample". I don't see how you can have more than n^2 linearly independent n by n matrices, unless our definitions of linear independence don't agree... (2) A good argument for never blindly trusting the results of Mathematica, I guess. – j.c. Jan 30 '10 at 0:50
OK, nevermind. I thought you could do it with complex vectors (i.e. I thought the theorem was only true for reals) but apparently not. Nevertheless, in dealing with really large data sets, I rely on Mathematica and, for it not to pick up on something as simple as this, is seriously worrying. – Ian Durham Jan 30 '10 at 3:23
No problem Ian. Though, I think that the way you are checking linear independence might not be the best way (since it gives wrong results). To see if m matrices are linearly independent, you should just vectorize them (using Flatten) and make them the rows of a matrix A (as I think you've done). They are linearly independent iff Rank(A) = m. For this channel Mathematica tells me the rank is 9 (the max possible value) (without resorting to numerics), and this is obviously much smaller than the 64 you'd need for extremality. – Jon Yard Jan 31 '10 at 6:56
Actually, I think the channel is not extremal because I suspect you are misquoting the Landau-Streater result. So I will state it here.
To be precise, for anyone unfamiliar with the field, a quantum channel is a trace-preserving, completely-positive linear map on density matrices (positive semidefinite matrices with unit trace), of potentially different sizes. A basic theorem in quantum information says that every quantum channel from $m\times m$-dimensional to $n\times n$-dimensional density matrices can be written in Kraus form: $$ \rho \mapsto \sum_{i=1}^N A_i \rho A_i^\dagger, \text{ for linear operators } A_k \colon \mathbb{C}^m \to \mathbb{C}^n \text{ satisfying } \sum_k A_k^\dagger A_k = I_m. $$
It is easy to show that the set of quantum channels between systems of fixed dimension is convex. It also easy to show that the set of channels that map $\frac{1}{m} I_m$ to a fixed density matrix $\sigma$ is convex. Now the theorem of Landau-Streater says that if $m = n$, a channel with Kraus form as above is extremal in this latter set if and only if the $N^2$ linear operators $A_i^\dagger A_j \oplus A_j A^\dagger_i$ (of size $2m \times 2m$) are linearly independent. It seems you have instead been working with $m\times m$ matrices. But I think that even if you were to continue and apply the theorem correctly, you would only prove or disprove extremality in the convex subset of unital channels, i.e. those for which $\frac 1m I$ is a fixed point. So potentially you could strengthen Ben-Or's conclusion by showing non-extremality in this subset, or otherwise you might conclude extremality there, which would tell you nothing about extremality in the entire set of channels.
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This thread seems more or less dead, but there is one minor correction I must make to Jon's statement of the theorem. Landau and Streater's result assumes that the set of Kraus operators $\lbrace A_i\rbrace$ is linearly independent to start with; otherwise the theorem is not true. A trivial case of this would be to pad with 0 operators. Otherwise Jon's write up is excellent.
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Due to the misuse of the offensive flag on Youtube videos in chat, can we have separate spam and offensive flags in chat, and then disallow flagging Youtube videos as offensive?
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The offensive flag is misused on comments sometimes too. Should we disallow it there? – John Apr 7 '11 at 20:22
Can we just not post offensive Youtube videos? (I did not view this particular one, so I'm not commenting on it.) – mmyers Apr 7 '11 at 20:25
Aren't some videos posted offensive, what would we do about them? – Lance Roberts Apr 7 '11 at 20:27
Define "misuse" – Holocryptic Apr 7 '11 at 20:31
@Holocryptic: "Because you don't like it." – Powerlord Apr 7 '11 at 20:57
@R. Bemrose Offensive: causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying. I think that about covers it. – Holocryptic Apr 7 '11 at 21:00
@mmyers: The one linked in The Comm Room is a parody of Rebecca Black's Friday. – Powerlord Apr 7 '11 at 21:00
@mmyers: The other one I didn't mention was a Rebecca Black Friday video now purged from The Bridge. I got suspended immediately after posting about the flag. – Powerlord Apr 7 '11 at 21:05
@Holocryptic: How about as a joke? Which ultimately resulted in a 30 minute suspension for me? – Powerlord Apr 7 '11 at 21:08
@RBemrose Um... "I didn't mean to press ok but I clicked the wrong button, sorry" – Michael Mrozek Apr 7 '11 at 21:13
The biggest problem with this is the idea that videos can't be offensive. They absolutely can be. – RobM Apr 11 '11 at 11:36
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Disallowing flagging Youtube videos is ridiculous; you can't just block it because one time someone flagged a Youtube video and you disagree. It's like saying people shouldn't be allowed to downvote questions tagged because one time you asked a question and got downvoted unfairly
Chat has the nice feature of letting users disagree with flags, which should dramatically reduce the chances of somebody getting banned incorrectly because their video was flagged when it shouldn't have been. If a video gets enough spam/offensive flags to hit the threshold without 10k users like yourself disagreeing fast enough to stop it, it probably really is spam or offensive
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And yet, having been suspended for linking to Rebecca Black's Friday video after it was mentioned by another user in chat I know for a fact that your logic is wrong. – Powerlord Apr 7 '11 at 20:50
@RBemrose So you posted a video everyone has already seen 400 times, and had already been linked by another user in the same room, and your post got flagged as spam? The system sounds like it's working just fine – Michael Mrozek Apr 7 '11 at 20:51
@Michael Mrozek: mentioned != linked – Powerlord Apr 7 '11 at 20:54
@MichaelMrozek: Oh, and thank you for giving a good reason for implementing the first part (separate spam and offensive flags) even if you disagree with the second. – Powerlord Apr 7 '11 at 20:56
@RBemrose I'm not opposite to splitting spam and offensive flags, but I have no idea what the benefit is – Michael Mrozek Apr 7 '11 at 21:01
@MichaelMrozek: Context for the people evaluating the flag. If I flag something for being spam, it should be considered differently than something I flagged as offensive, particularly since you don't see said context in the valid/invalid dialog. – Powerlord Apr 7 '11 at 21:04
@RBemrose You completely do see the content, and it shouldn't be that hard. If it's spam or offensive, you agree with the flag; if it's neither, you disagree. You don't need to draw a distinction like "well, this is pretty offensive, but the other user flagged it as spam, and I disagree with that, so the flag is wrong" – Michael Mrozek Apr 7 '11 at 21:07
I agree, but I worry about whether people totally ignore the auto-suspension aspect when deciding on these flags. That's probably a separate discussion, though. – Tim Stone Apr 8 '11 at 0:06
I wholeheartedly agree that "youtube link to rebecca black" is absolutely not what the flag system is for. I tried to raise awareness that flagging is not "fun", as it brings a suspension with it. I guess I should stress it some more:
"Annoying" is not a valid flag reason.
By flagging an annoying message you expose it to all of the ~150 moderators and all 10kers on the site. You're advertising the annoying content, then getting a chuckle out of it when you see it removed.
You monster.
I regularly supervote "annoying" flags as invalid on chat.SE, and when I had 10k rep on meta I did the same as well (thank you Waffles). However, I'm not online 24/7.
That said, this sounds like a rant rather than an actual request. Just because people suck at flagging, it doesn't mean we should remove flagging.
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I don't think your particular solution is a good way to handle this, but I'm very open to suggestions. We just had a case where two users were suspended because of a couple of music videos. I wouldn't make as much of it if most of the flaggers (who will of course remain anonymous) weren't fairly high-rep users who should know better.
To be clear, auto-suspension (for a short while) when your message gets removed as spam or offensive is a good thing and will not be removed – but apparently some people have very strange ideas what constitutes spam or offensive messages.
If there are any ideas how to improve this, I'm all ear.
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Perhaps the wording in the UI could be modified to include mention that reaching the threshold includes suspension? – Rebecca Chernoff Jul 5 '11 at 23:32
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Perhaps judging a man by his cologne isn't as superficial as it seems.Duke University researchers, using sophisticated machinery to analyze hundreds of chemical components in a ringtailed lemur's distinctive scent, have found that individual males are not only advertising their fitness for fatherhood, but also a bit about their family tree as well.
"We now know that there's information about genetic quality and relatedness in scent," said Christine Drea, a Duke associate professor of biological anthropology and biology. The male's scent can reflect his mixture of genes, and to which animals he's most closely related. "It's an honest indicator of individual quality that both sexes can recognize," she said.
Lemurs, distant primate cousins of ours who split from the family tree before the monkeys and apes parted ways, have a complex and elaborate scent language that until recently was completely undiscovered by humans. Drea said it's language that is undoubtedly richer than we can imagine.
"All lemurs make use of scent," she said. "The diversity of glands is just amazing."
Ringtailed males have scent glands on their genitals, shoulders and wrists, each of which makes different scents. Other lemur species also have glands on their heads, chests and hands. Add to these scents the signals that can be conveyed in feces and urine, and there's a lot of silent, cryptic communication going on in lemur society.
Wearing a scent-based nametag declaring one's genetics is probably useful in avoiding aggression with closely related males, Drea said. It's also quite likely to help prevent inbreeding by signaling family relationships to females, but the research to prove that is still ongoing.
For this study, Drea and postdoctoral fellows Marie Charpentier and Marylène Boulet focused solely on male ringtailed lemurs living at the Duke Lemur Center (
The males have a gland and spike on each wrist that is used to scratch and mark saplings with highly aromatic scents. A pair of glands on the shoulders "like misplaced nipples" manufacture squalene, a scent molecule that works like glue to keep the more aromatic compounds in place longer. Males can be seen dabbing the wrist gland on the chest gland and then scratch-marking. The wrist glands are also central to the "stink fighting" of ringtails, in which they rub the glands along the length of their bushy tails, and then foist them into each others' face to express dominance.
Most importantly, the male also has a scent gland on his scrotum that becomes critical to marking territory and advertising fitness during mating season. He does a handstand and rubs this gland directly onto a tree trunk to let any interested lemurs know who he is and what he's made of.
Scent not only speaks volumes, it's physiologically expensive to make, Drea said. When a lemur is ill or socially stressed, its scent changes dramatically. "If he loses his signals, it's quite likely its because he's less genetically fit," Drea said. "And his sexual or social partners can know that."
Female ringtailed lemurs have just one scent gland in the genital area, but their scent is more complex than the males'. Via scent, females may advertise not only their fertility, but the presence of a pregnancy and how far along it is, Drea said.
To a human, a lemur has a sort of musky scent. "In its little vial, the sample smells just terrible," said Charpentier, the postdoctoral fellow who deciphered the genetics and is now examining the behavioral response to these scents.
But under a gas chromatograph and mass spectrometer, postdoctoral fellow Boulet found that the powerful musk resolves into at least 203 different chemical compounds in a complex mix that has been found to vary not only by season, but by an individual's genetics as well. Boulet conducted this analysis after collecting cotton swabs of scent from the scrotums and other parts of 19 male lemurs throughout the seasons.
These findings fit with work done on how people feel about the odors individual humans leave behind on a T-shirt and sheds more light on Charles Darwin's theories about sexual selection being one of the drivers of evolution, Drea said. In both cases, there is some subtle signaling in scent that apparently helps govern mate choice or nepotism, even when humans' meager sense of smell isn't conscious of it, she said.
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1. -Males' expectations reflected stereotypes
--if thought they were going to talk to an attractive woman--expected her to be friendlier and perceived that she was friendlier than males who thought they were talking to unattractive woman
-Males' expectations were also a self-fulfilling prophecy
-Independent judges rated woman (thought to have been attractive) to have been friendlier
-Playing hard to get
-Very hard to get empirical data supporting this strategy
-Although people prefer moderately selective mates to those with no selectivity, lack of perceived interest is typically perceived as a turn off
2. 1) Exposure
2) More opportunities to interact
3) Similar economic and social backgrounds
3. -Males (subjects) thought experiment was about communication--had picture taken
-Told would have conversation w/female student; given folder with a woman's picture
--either attractive or unattractive woman (but not woman male subject was to talk with)
--Talked on phone to a female subject; call recorded
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--After call: male rated perceived friendliness
--Conversation rated for actual friendliness
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--Personality tests (social skills; introversion-extroversion; masculinity-femininity; MMPI
--Subjects matched for date (randomly)
--Rated date at intermission
--Contacted several months later about further dates
5. -They are more popular, better liked by parents, teachers, and peers.
-Dealt with less severely if they commit a transgression
-Teachers give them more information, better evaluations, more opportunities to perform, and more support for their educational endeavors.
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2. Some benefits of being physically attractive-Mates of symmetrical men show the most reported orgasms.
-Women's breast size symmetry positively affects women's attractiveness
-How symmetry interacts with other criteria for sexual and romantic interest is still being explored
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--Less fat
--Fuller and more symmetrical lips
--Darker eye brows
--More and darker lashes
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--Higher cheek bones
--Prominent lower jaw
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While it’s often said no publicity is bad publicity, Greece is a clear exception to the rule. Mentions of Greece in stories on the terminal are approaching its May 2010 high; corresponding with the period Greece first accepted an EU sponsored bailout. Greece’s more frequent mentions have come at a cost for the country and investors alike as bond yields soar, while the price of protecting against a Greek default through CDS rises precipitously.
Greece’s 10-year yield is presently trading just shy of 17%, highlighting that investors have likely already accepted the inevitable that the country cannot survive without bond holders taking a significant haircut. The cost of protecting against a Greek default is approaching 2000 basis points, making it more than three times as risky as Argentina on a five year CDS basis.
Greece will be holding a critical confidence vote tonight for Prime Minister George Papandreou that will likely determine whether the country will be forced to default/restructure now or in several months’ time. After this vote Greece will have two weeks to pass additional austerity measures to unlock an additional EUR12bn in aid from its neighbors - Greece owes approximately EUR18bn in debt payments now through August. In any case, any European aid will likely prove to be a temporary relief with this scenario playing out again and again until a painful restructuring is finally undertaken.
Hesitation from eurozone officials around a Greek restructuring are being stoked by the possible impact on their own countries. Officials are likely trying to buy time in hopes of finding calmer markets before forcing Greece to restructure, limiting the potential contagion effect. The problem is markets won’t calm, while there is still a hurricane raging in Greece.
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0.021035 | <urn:uuid:f975bcf3-3337-4a35-98c7-34886f80aec6> | en | 0.989466 | LAFAYETTE, Ind. A coroner has determined that an elderly veteran found dead last month on the living room floor of his home had been decomposing for more than nine months a period during which neighbors said they saw his wife living in the home and acting as if nothing were out of the ordinary.
Tippecanoe County Coroner Donna Avolt said Tuesday that Gerald Francis Gavan Jr., 88, died more than nine months before his body was discovered May 3 lying near the front door of his home.
A forensic entomologist will testify in court, Avolt said, that Gavan's date of death was at least July 15.
Tyler Imel, who moved in next door to Gavan last August, said he was shocked to hear that the man had been dead the entire time they were neighbors. Even more unnerving, he said, is the fact that Ila Solomon, the woman he knew as Gavan's live-in caretaker, carried on as if everything were normal.
'It's really disturbing,' he said, 'the fact that we've been living here the whole time and talking to her.'
Imel said he even spent time on Gavan's porch with Solomon, never suspecting the man's body was rotting just a few feet away on the other side of the front door.
Imel's housemate, Joe Childs, said Solomon was always friendly and would come and go from the house frequently.
'If I lived with a dead body in my house, I couldn't compose myself the way that she did every day,' he said.
Solomon said Tuesday there's a simple explanation for why she gave no indication that Gavan was dead: Because he wasn't.
She refuted the coroner's report altogether.
'I think that there is enough proof and evidence that that's not true,' Solomon said.
She claimed Gavan didn't die until April 28, when he likely experienced another small stroke.
Dehumidifiers, rodents and flies accelerated the decomposition of Gavan's body enough in five days for a professional forensic entomologist to think he'd been dead since July, Solomon said.
She explained that the dehumidifiers were present to dry out lumber for Gavan's woodworking projects, the flies came from fertilizer in the house and the rodents were supposed to be fed to Gavan's pet snakes, which have since gone missing.
Avolt said Solomon's story is not supported by her team's findings.
'The entomologist will say and prove that at least July 15, 2013, if not before, was the date of death,' she said.
Solomon said a foul odor forced her to sleep in the house she owns next door during the five days she claims Gavan lay dead on the living room floor. She declined to disclose why she didn't report the man's death to authorities, citing instructions from police detectives.
'I would love to answer,' she said. 'I would love to tell you. I really, really would.'
She said everything she's done has been rooted in a deep love for Gavan, whom she married two years ago.
'I love Scooter,' Solomon said. 'There's nothing I wouldn't do for him.'
That's why, she said, she's been trying to get his remains transported to a 'body ranch' in Texas, where researchers study vultures feeding on human bodies.
Solomon said Gavan told her he wanted to experience a tradition he heard about in India in which bodies are put on a hillside for birds to eat. In his death, he wanted to get 'a bird's-eye view,' she said.
Avolt said she was able to identify Gavan definitively by verifying that the screws and metal plate in his ankle match medical records. The plate was implanted, she said, after he broke his ankle.
Avolt said she's waiting on enhanced toxicology results to determine more precisely how Gavan died.
Lafayette police detectives working the investigation couldn't be reached for comment Tuesday.
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2. If it's in my hands, it's mine.
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5. If it's mine, it must never appear to be yours in any way.
6. If I'm doing or building something, all the pieces are mine.
7. If it looks just like mine, it's mine.
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The three major events of the Buddha’s life—his birth, enlightenment, and entrance into final nirvana—are commemorated in all Buddhist countries but not everywhere on the same day. In Theravada countries the three events are all observed together on Vesak, the full moon day of the sixth lunar month (Vesakha), which usually occurs in May. In Japan and other Mahayana countries,...
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Tuesday, April 23rd 2013 at 9:00 pm
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Cafe Inquiry is our monthly casual get-together to meet people and discuss topics of science and humanism.
This month's discussion: What is more important in human experience, reason or emotion?
While reason and emotion have been traditionally framed as opposites in both science and philosophy, recent research in both fields is finding that emotions are a key factor in creating rational thought. If emotions play a bigger role in our lives than previously thought, what does that mean for us as atheists/secular humanists who tend to prize reason over emotion?
In addition, much public policy is based on the idea that people are rational actors. If we are driven more by emotions than rationality, where does that leave social and economic policies that treat people as rational actors?
Are reason and emotions at odds with each other? How should we, as secular humanists/atheists, conceptualize the relationship between reason and emotion?
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Think of any type combination that either hasn't been done or is rarely used.
#11xthunder7283Posted 4/17/2013 11:18:08 AM
pokemon2poker posted...
Davidk92, take your sorry ass back to tv tropes where you belong. You're not welcome on gamefaqs. If you insist on sticking around, you'll be receiving a call to arms in the future. I'm gonna humiliate your ass with Turtwig, if you're not scared.
just leave the topic
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#12FireTypeMasterPosted 4/17/2013 11:41:26 AM
Fenneking Fire/Psychic
The royal Fox pokemon. After many Insults Fennekin decided to force itself to be a psychic type
Fenneking is the Evolved form of the evolved form of Fennekin
#13VampLordAdamaruPosted 4/17/2013 11:46:26 AM
Fire/Water Pistol Shrimp
Fire/Flying Pegasus-based Rapidash evo or Ponyta split-evo
Normal/Dark or Dark/Fighting Minotaur-based Tauros evo
Fire/Bug Illumise evo
Electric/Bug Volbeat evo
Bug/Fighting Ledian evo
Bug/Dark Pinsir evo
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#14jayman7Posted 4/17/2013 11:57:10 AM
pokemon2poker posted...
Davidk92, blah blah blah unnecessarily hostile blah.
Well, this was totally called for and not mod bait in the slightest.
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#15ColtCababaPosted 4/17/2013 11:59:02 AM
Name: TryToStealthRockMeNowB****Omon
Type: Fire/Flying
Ability: Magic Guard
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#16melvin343Posted 4/17/2013 12:09:53 PM
We need to see a Type: Psychic/Dark Pokemon for once and I know who should have this, that new Mewtwo look-a-like should have this type. Make it happen Gamefreak.
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#17DarkDragon386Posted 4/17/2013 12:42:16 PM
melvin343 posted...
This is actually an interesting type. It would have 0 resistances, 1 immunity to Psychic, and a 4X weakness to bug. It would have to be one of the weirdest defensive typings ever.
I think a good water/bug is in order. Make it a mosquito larvae that evolves into an exaggerated water mosquito.
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#18VegantoKeensPosted 4/17/2013 12:53:03 PM
Fire/Grass: Moss covered land dragon.
Fire/Water: That one mythological sea serpent with the blue flaming tail, forgot which country made it up.
Water/dragon: Megalodon shark.
Grass/Dragon: Comodo dragon.
Ice/flying: A harpy, just please one that doesn't suck like Delibird or is a legendary like Articuno.
A lot more electric combos: Dark, Psychic, Fighting, Rock, Ice.
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#19Masenko86Posted 4/17/2013 12:58:14 PM
Gray_Areas posted...
A Jalapeno Pokemon. :)
A Dragon that can't fly and has no wings, and it is slow, defensive, and physically strong (the design could be a Terrakion/Dragon kind of hybrid).
Davidk92 posted...
Do you people even READ the OPs?
I do. :)
Nice. I thought of a marijuana pokemon of that type. Or a burning tumbleweed or something.
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#20stranksyPosted 4/17/2013 1:52:12 PM
Fire/Grass or Ghost/Grass: Jack-o-lantern pokemon
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User:Gta-mysteries/Brucie Dialogue
Activity One
Brucie: The thing is Niko, there is something you don't understand about me bro.
Niko: Definitely true.
Brucie: I know it all seems straight forward - what you see is what you get. Ok?
Niko: No, trust me, it seems pretty weird.
Brucie: But underneath these rock hard abs and biceps of steel, lurks the beast, bro.
Niko: What?
Brucie: I'm a wild animal, man. I'm a raging torrent, bro.
Niko: Sure - my English not so good. Can you keep it simple?
Brucie: I'm an animal on fire. I'm crazy. Loco. Lunatic. Look, all I'm saying, man, don't unlock the forces you can't possibly understand. Capiche?
Niko: I'll try not to.
Activity Two
Brucie: NB, man. You ever wonder why I look so good? Huh? You ever think, what motivates Brucie to sculpt his body into rock hard, cut granite?
Niko: Can't say that it helps me up at night, but I'd guess that it's because you're a bit insecure. There's nothing wrong with that.
Brucie: You're a crazy bastard, man. Fucking crazy. I love you, man. I love you but you're wrong, bro. Okay, I'm cut like I am because I can. Most people are happy with being average. They settle for what a midsize car, 2.4 kids and a chubby fucking wife. Huh? Yeah right.
Niko: I'd settle for people stopping trying to kill me. That's an average life I could go for.
Brucie: You don't mean that! Shit, you like to push shit to the next level as much as me. As I was saying, people settle for the average and don't look for any more okay? I wanna be everything I can be. I will pump iron, hit the cardio, juice to the max - I'll do, I'll do all that to look the best I can. That's why I've got the hottest bitches in my bed, the sweetest rides in my garage, the coldest ice on my wrist okay? You know it NB. I don't let anything stop me from hitting the pinnacle baby.
Activity Three
Brucie: Let me let you in on a little secret, NB.
Niko: Sure, as long as it doesn't involve what you really get up to in the gym.
Brucie: You want to learn something or you want to make fun?
Niko: Make fun.
Brucie: Tough - it's time you learnt something, okay? Look, you're fast and you're powerful, but unless you turn speed into velocity, unless you have direction, you might be going in the wrong direction, okay?
Niko: Thanks for that Brucie - really interesting.
Brucie: Yeah I'm writing a book. Yeah and I've got my own website - all about life coaching.
Niko: Good luck.
Brucie: No I don't need luck - I've got vision bro. In short, my philosophy is: "Life is about making the best of yourself."
Niko: Amazing. How do people do this?
Brucie: A lot of hard work down the gym, some excellent supplements and two-hundred egg whites a day.
Activity Four
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L.A. Dodgers' troubles escalate
A general view of Dodger Stadium is seen during the game between the Atlanta Braves and the Los Angeles Dodgers on April 21, 2011 in Los Angeles, Calif.
Tess Vigeland: As if a 35-and-44 record isn't bad enough, the L.A. Dodgers' blues got even worse today. The team's owner, Frank McCourt, filed for bankruptcy protection.
If you're familiar at all with the team's troubles of late, you know that the off-field errors and strikeouts are piling up. There's a divorce, a rejected multi-billion-dollar TV contract, the possibility of a team takeover by the league, and fans are taking a flyer.
For more we're joined by Matt Futterman, sports writer for the Wall Street Journal. Good to talk to you.
Matt Futterman: Thanks for having me.
Vigeland: Boy, this thing just never ends, does it?
Futterman: It's going to go on for quite some time, seemingly.
Vigeland: Oh boy. So let's start with why Frank McCourt chose to file for bankruptcy today. Is that because he's not going to be able to make payroll?
Futterman: That's one reason. The other reason is because it's really the best thing he can do to prevent Major League Baseball from seizing his team.
Vigeland: Yeah, so there was talk if he was not able to make payroll, that Major League Baseball would take over the team. How does this stop that?
Futterman: Well it attempts to stop it by lining up $150 million in financing where he asks the judge -- he's going to ask him on Tuesday - to allow him to remain in control. He's got what's called debt-earned possession financing, and try to convince the judge also to force Major League Baseball to approve a media rights agreement for him.
Vigeland: Right, now this is the proposed contract with the FOX network that would reportedly be worth about $3 billion. And Major League Baseball has rejected that.
Futterman: It has rejected that because they were worried that he was going to do what he's done in the past, which is use that contract to raise debt and use the money that he has on personal expenses. And baseball wants that money to go back into the team and not Frank McCourt's pockets.
Vigeland: One of the most fascinating aspects of the bankruptcy filing was looking at who the creditors are here, and I know Manny Ramirez is the biggest one, isn't he?
Futterman: Yeah.
Vigeland: They owe him like $20 million or something?
Futterman: Right, but poor Vin Scully is owed $152,000. Vin Scully!
Vigeland: Oh Vin? No!
Futterman: He's worked for like 60 years for the Dodgers or something like that, and he's out $152,000 at the moment. But yes, there are some other good names in there. One: Uribe, who helped the rival Giants win a World Series last year; he's owed some money. Marquis Grissom, who hasn't played since 2005. So there's a lot of people that have their hooks into Dodgers money at this point.
Vigeland: So what are the options for Major League Baseball in terms of responding to this?
Futterman: They're going to try and block the debt-earned possession financing. They're going to say that you do not need to approve this outside hedge fund, Highbridge Principal Strategies. We're here, we'll provide the financing until we can sell the team, because they don't want Frank McCourt to be the owner anymore.
Vigeland: Have you ever seen anything messier, particularly when it comes to such a storied sports franchise?
Futterman: Definitely not. Maybe what's been happening with the Mets, but they at least have the excuse of getting mixed up in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme. But nothing along these lines where you have a bankruptcy, a divorce, a club in limbo. And the great irony of all this? There are people frothing at the mouth to buy this franchise because it has an expiring television deal, and anyone who buys it can use it to start their own regional sports network. I think they're talking about a sale that will easily surpass $1 billion.
Vigeland: Well their first job is certainly going to be to get the fans back in the seats, because they are leaving in droves. Matt Futterman is a sports writer for the Wall Street Journal, thanks so much for joining us.
Futterman: Thanks for having me.
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Eczema facts
• Eczema is not a single disease but a reaction pattern of the skin produced by a number conditions.
• Atopic dermatitis, a common causes of eczema, is more prevalent in those with asthma and hay fever.
• Eczema appears as small blisters that can weep and ooze, or as crusted, thickened plaques of skin. It is almost always quite itchy.
• It is important to distinguish the different kinds of eczema because effective treatments often differ.
• If eczema is produced by skin exposure to a specific substance, it can be helpful to avoid it.
• Keeping the skin healthy and moisturized can prevent many kinds of eczema.
What is eczema?
Rather than a specific condition, eczema is a group of unrelated diseases that have a similar appearance. When it is new eczema, the affected skin appears red and elevated with small blisters (vesicles) containing a clear fluid. When the blisters break, the affected skin will weep and ooze. In older eczema, chronic eczema, the blisters are less prominent and the skin is thickened, elevated, and scaling. Eczema almost always is very itchy.
Are there different types of eczema? What causes eczema?
1. Atopic dermatitis: This condition has a genetic basis and is probably most commonly called eczema. Atopic dermatitis tends to begin early in life in those with a predisposition to inhalant allergies, but it probably does not have an allergic basis. Characteristically, rashes occur on the cheeks, neck, elbow and knee creases, and ankles. Rarely, a few those with atopic dermatitis can get an extensive herpes simplex infection called "eczema herpeticum."
2. Irritant dermatitis: This occurs when the skin is repeatedly exposed to toxic substances.
3. Allergic contact dermatitis: After repeated exposures to the same substance, the body's immune recognition system becomes activated at the site of the next exposure and produces eczema.
6. Scabies: It's caused by an infestation by the human itch mite and may produce a rash very similar to other forms of eczema.
7. Pompholyx (dyshidrotic eczema): This is a common but poorly understood condition which classically affects the hands and occasionally the feet by producing an itchy rash composed of tiny blisters (vesicles) on the sides of the fingers or toes and palms or soles.
10. Xerotic (dry skin) eczema: When the skin becomes pathologically dry, it will crack and ooze.
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What is a urinary tract infection (UTI)?
• Two ureters, narrow tubes about 10 inches long, drain urine from each kidney into the bladder.
• The bladder is a small saclike organ that collects and stores urine. When the urine reaches a certain level in the bladder, people experience the sensation that they have to void, then the muscle lining the bladder can be voluntarily contracted to expel the urine.
• The urethra is a small tube connecting the bladder with the outside of the body. A muscle called the urinary sphincter, located at the junction of the bladder and the urethra, must relax at the same time the bladder contracts to expel urine.
In the United States, urinary tract infections account for more than 7 million visits to medical offices and hospitals each year.
• Urinary tract infections are much more common in adults than in children, but about 1%-2% of children do get urinary tract infections. Urinary tract infections in children are more likely to be serious than those in adults and should not be ignored (especially in younger children).
• Urinary tract infection is the most common urinary tract problem in children besides bedwetting.
• Urinary tract infection is second only to respiratory infection as the most common type of infection.
• These infections are much more common in girls and women than in boys and men younger than 50 years of age. The reason for this is not well understood, but anatomic differences between the genders (a shorter urethra in women) might be partially responsible.
• About 40% of women and 12% of men have a urinary tract infection at some time in their life.
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Hardware, Embedded Systems When China launched its first microprocessor, the Godson 1 in 2002, it wasn't much of a competitor to what Intel and AMD had to offer. The 64bit Godson 2, released in 2005, still didn't worry the Western chip makers, but the chip did start to pop up here and there outside of China. Expect to see a lot more of them in the coming years, as the Godson 3 promises to be a chip that can compete head on with the big ones: quad-core, eight core version in the pipeline, and 200 extra instructions aiding in x86 compatibility.
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That's exactly what it's all about. I've been working with the main vendor of Loongson based computer systems ever since I heard about the release of the first systems one and a half years ago.
Suffice it to say that many companies and individuals (including me) both inside and outside of China have been working very hard to get all software ported over to the Loongson processor.
That's because it's finally a credible alternative to the complete dominance of the computer landscape by Intel and Microsoft that would otherwise be the case, not only for China but the world at large.
In a way it's about breaking Intel's monopoly on microprocessors the same way GNU/Linux has broken MS Windows' dominance in operating systems. GNU/Linux runs on many architectures, it's just closed source that doesn't because of its inherent limitations.
That's not a reason or excuse to keep an otherwise very good operating system from being used on desktops and notebooks based on non-x86 platforms. You simply can't take closed source software into account during the development of a free operating system, only make it work as well as is realistically possible.
Getting x86 software for Windows and Linux to work on these processors is nothing but an afterthought. That may be hard to believe for some people but it's what's necessary to make a clean break from the past and take matters into your own hands.
I hope a European alternative will be established too, possibly based on the ARM Cortex A9 architecture. If people really believe in free market principles the additional competition should only be encouraged in a market that's been dominated by a few proprietary companies for far too long.
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The loongson is produced by STMicroelectronics, a European company, in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Science.
All this talk about the free market and americans feeling threaten by the free market makes me laugh though. Your real problem is not the chinese or that they build or may build cheaper and better processors. No, the real problem is your twisted view of the world as a scene of war where competition is always better than collaboration and the more you compete the better, no matter how much you destroy, except when you loose. The problem is in your mind, really.
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I haven't said that American companies should stop to exist and I wouldn't want to since I'm happily using Intel and AMD processors here, but seriously, what's wrong with another big party to give the customer an additional choice for a microprocessor?
It doesn't even matter to me that it's a Chinese or an American processor, it's just an alternative to the obvious assortment of x86 processors that are on the market.
You are putting words into my fingers that I haven't even uttered. If you knew more about the situation you would know that there is a greater landscape of semiconductor companies that have a right to sell product than your precious Intel or AMD, the latter of which which isn't even second or third on the list of largest semiconductor companies.
It's too bad for them Intel doesn't license the x86 architecture so in order to have a competitive product on the market, they have to resort to licensing another one. Other architectures such MIPS, ARM, PPC and SPARC are being licensed, so what other choice does a starting (fabless) semiconductor company have than to license one of these?
For that matter it is Intel that is dominating the market in an unhealthy way, otherwise you would have a choice of an x86, SPARC, MIPS, PPC, ARM or another implementation for your general computing needs.
I run all of these, but don't make the mistake that I'm waiting for American companies to die or to be destroyed, that's laughable since four of these were invented in America. It's about a return to the healthy situation we had 10 years ago when you had a choice of systems from various vendors before Wintel destroyed that landscape.
I also wish for several of the companies that design the processors to collaborate, as they're already doing to a large extent. After that there is a choice of having completed designs manufactured at several manufacturing plants such as those from IBM, TSMC and UMC. Can you tell me what's wrong with that (it's today's reality anyway)?
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As an American I totally agree. We have been trained in arrogance as a nation that we must be the best or destroy every other competition, that we must be the leader and not the follower. Unfortunately for us the world had changed drastically, some of it due to things put in motion by our own government and now you have other nations who can do it cheaper and better all working together and here we want to be king of the hill or take our ball home. The kicker is that taking the ball home in this instance can gravely affect our already ailing economy if we don;t get our asses in gear.
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Okay so I've got high performance multithreaded software I'd like to sell in the chinese market. There ARE buyers available. Is there any way to get information or even sample hardware (more than one core) to work on? The only immediate problem *could* be that we've coded some IO assuming little endian, but that's very easy to isolate and fix.
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The problem is that Loongson 3 hasn't even taped out, so unless you get hold of a multiprocessor system based on Loongson 2E/2F, which apart from the KD50 (prototype of a supercomputer) I haven't heard of yet, there is nothing to do but wait until the hardware is being sold.
Loongson is a little-endian MIPS III compatible processor so I don't think you'd have to change that much. But it would of course be good to make the changes required to make your code run on big-endian architectures anyway.
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I know an American girl.
I’ve known an American girl for a while but I’ve only just begun to meet her.
She has a lot to learn but so do I.
Through mutual love of all things written were try to understand the things we cannot put down.
She says you’re so cool and I say she’s needs to smile more.
I know an American girl.
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The slow overture of rain,
each drop breaking
without breaking into
the next, describes
the unrelenting, syncopated
Not unlike the hummingbirds imagining their wings to be their heart, and swallows believing the horizon to be a line they lift and drop.
What is it they cast for? The poplars, advancing or retreating, lose their stature equally, and yet stand firm, making arrangements in order to become imaginary.
The city draws the mind in streets, and streets compel it from their intersections where a little belongs to no one.
It is what is driven through all stationary portions of the world, gravity's stake in things, the leaves, pressed against the dank window of November soil, remain unwelcome till transformed, parts of a puzzle unsolvable till the edges give a bit and soften.
See how then the picture becomes clear, the mind entering the ground more easily in pieces, and all the richer for it.
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The Way Things Work
is by admitting
or opening away.
This is the simplest form of current: Blue moving through blue; blue through purple; the objects of desire opening upon themselves without us; the objects of faith.
The way things work is by solution, resistance lessened or increased and taken advantage of.
The way things work is that we finally believe they are there, common and able o illustrate themselves.
Wheel, kinetic flow, rising and falling water, ingots, levers and keys, I believe in you, cylinder lock, pully, lifting tackle and crane lift your small head-- I believe in you-- your head is the horizon to my hand.
I believe forever in the hooks.
The way things work is that eventually something catches.
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The Surface
It has a hole in it.
Not only where I concentrate.
The river still ribboning, twisting up, into its re- arrangements, chill enlightenments, tight-knotted quickenings and loosenings--whispered messages dissolving the messengers-- the river still glinting-up into its handfuls, heapings.
glassy forgettings under the river of my attention-- and the river of my attention laying itself down-- bending, reassembling--over the quick leaving-offs and windy obstacles-- and the surface rippling under the wind's attention-- rippling over the accumulations, the slowed-down drifting permanences of the cold bed.
I say iridescent and I look down.
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From my perspective, the majority of people get through 1 day on a single charge. Incrementally increasing battery life from here doesn't make sense until battery life can last 2 days, otherwise you don't actually change consumer behavior and the increase is not appreciated by the average buyer. | http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1bhj3z/why_is_nobody_paying_attention_to_battery_life/c96q8no | dclm-gs1-044410001 |
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As an atheist, I'm pissed that someone would try to exploit the death of OP's brother.
In the bigger sense, I'm more pissed about the "poem" itself. This happens a lot this time of year, but throw religion into the mix and people feel they have even more license to do it. And by "it," I mean people completely ignoring the concept of meter in poetry.
As the great Tom Lehrer once wrote: "The tune don't have to be clever,/ And it don't matter if you stuff a couple extra syllables into a line./ It sounds more ethnic if it ain't good English/ And it don't even gotta rhyme...sorry, rhyne."
Christmas commercials are usually the worst offenders, but xtian people do it all year long. Just because the last word of every other line rhymes, that DOES NOT A POEM MAKE. Well, not a good one, in any case.
Now don't get me wrong here, there's nothing wrong with free verse. Just don't try to pretend once you've established a meter to your "poem" that you're free to then toss it aside whene're you feel like it or it's more convenient because you suck at writing and can't find the words to say so that it fits your meter. | http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/152rtq/so_my_26_yo_brother_recently_died_and_some_one/c7j0vsp | dclm-gs1-044420001 |
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Shhh... You're giving away all the good secrets! At least you didn't explain how Good Cop/Bad Cop can also work wonders with these people.... Oops. | http://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/17kc8n/how_to_deal_with_opposing_counsel_who_is_a_bully/c86hryj | dclm-gs1-044430001 |
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He's got dat Asian market. I did hear that his routine was really disappointing though- basically the same material he was using when he was 20 but less funny because he doesn't have the same crazy energy he used to. | http://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1ibo5v/this_has_got_to_be_one_of_the_best_captured/cb360by | dclm-gs1-044440001 |
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Separating carbon dioxide from its polluting source, such as the flue gas from a coal-fired power plant, may soon become cleaner and more efficient.
A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher has developed a screening method that would use ionic liquids “” a special type of molten salt that becomes liquid under the boiling point of water (100 degrees Celsius) “” to separate carbon dioxide from its source, making it a
There are major efforts to reduce CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuel, but before it can be sequestered, it must first be separated from its source, a step known as “capture.” This new technique could significantly enhance the efficiency of the CO2 capture process.
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But the new system overcomes many of these shortcomings. Chemists recently became interested in ionic liquids because they are solvents with almost no vapor pressure, and do not evaporate, even under high temperature conditions.
Using ionic liquids as a separation solvent has unique advantages over traditional solvents, according to LLNL scientist Amitesh Maiti, whose research appears as the cover article in a recent issue of ChemSusChem, a new journal focused on chemistry and sustainability.
Advantages include high chemical stability; low corrosion; almost zero vapor pressure; supportable on membranes; and a huge library of ion choices, which can be potentially optimized for CO2 solubility.
Maiti’s work involved devising a computational strategy that can reliably screen any solvent, including an ionic liquid, for high CO2 capture efficiency.
“It’s a great advantage to have a method that can quickly and accurately compute CO2 solubility in any solvent, especially under the range of pressures and temperatures as would be found in a coal-fired power plant,” Maiti said. “With ionic liquids serving as the solvent, the process could be a lot cleaner and more accessible than what is used today.”
Over the last few years several ionic liquids have been experimentally tested to be efficient solvents for CO2, providing data that could be useful in optimizing the choice of ionic liquids for CO2 capture.
“But each new experiment costs time and money and is often hindered because a specific ionic liquid may not be readily available,” Maiti said. “By creating a computational tool that can decipher ahead of time which ionic liquids work best to separate CO2, it can be a much more efficient process when field tests are conducted.”
Maiti developed a quantum-chemistry-based thermodynamic approach to compute the chemical potential of a solute (CO2 in this case) in any solvent at an arbitrary dilution. He found that this result coupled with an experimentally fitted equation-of-state data for CO2 can yield accurate solubility values in a large number of solvents, including ionic liquids. He confirmed this by directly comparing the computed solubility with experimental values that have been gradually accumulating over the last few years.
Next, he used this method to predict new solvent classes that would possess CO2 solubility nearly two times as high as the most efficient solvents experimentally demonstrated.
“With the vast choices of ions, we have barely scratched the surface of possibilities,” Maiti added.
His hope is that the accuracy of the computational method will allow scientists to see useful trends, which could potentially lead to the discovery of practical solvents with significantly higher CO2 capture efficiency.
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Image: Molecular modeling of CO2 capture by an ionic liquid membrane. A typical fossil-fuel plant (top left) produces significant CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions. A membrane based on ionic liquids may absorb such emissions.
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Casual sex with a friend that didn't stay so casual.
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My best friend just came out to me... but I was in love with him.
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My best friend (boy) just came out to me that he is gay (I'm a girl).
I have been in love with him for 2 years now, and I am utterly devastated by this. I am really, really heartbroken. This happened just 3 days ago and I'm still in a state of shock. I don't know what to do now. I tell myself I'm feeling sad because I thought I might lose him, because he is now this new person I never knew, because he was never the guy I thought he was. But honestly, it may be because I am losing him as in I can never be his girlfriend/wife (because he will never like girls!). How do I deal with this?
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I'm going traveling alone soon, and do realize the risks of it. I've recently been thinking about the prospects of rape, I know it may not be more likely to happen in a foreign country than here, but I do live in one of the safest places in England, so I'm quite ignorant of the likelyness of it. I'm a virgin, and have no idea if it would hurt more than if I were not. I know it sounds like a stupid question but its not something I can discuss with anyone I know. Anyway, would it be worth losing my virginity prior to leaving on the off chance? I have no one in mind to lose it to, and I understand it needs to be with someone I trust and feel comfortable, I'm just confused and need some help. Thank you.
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I'm SO ready...and he SO isn't.
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I am a girl that has a past, I am still a virgin, but I know some things, but my current boyfriend is a complete virgin. I was even his first kiss. I am seventeen and can feel all these urges, and I want him to do something, make a move, or something....anything, but he never does. I talk to him about it, and all it seems to do is upset him.....what can I do?
She came out...and now I'm questioning myself.
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My friend came out to me the other day. I've never doubted my sexuality, but in the instant that she told me this, I got this weird feeling. I actually thought to myself in that instant that I could possibly feel more than just friendly towards her. I fantasized or a moment that, if she did come on to me, I wouldn't be too unhappy about it and might actually be with her in that way.
I've become frustrated with men recently. The guy I'd been crushing on after mending a broken heart told me he was gay (which would be the third time in a row this has happened). Could this just be a reaction to that? I doubt that I'm a lesbian, as I think I'd know something like that by now. Could I be bi? Could I be straight but still experiment without being "bi"? Am I taking this teeny thought WAY too seriously?
He refuses to believe that I need foreplay!
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He was sweet at first, but then I said no to sex...
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I'm a 15 year old virgin and at the beginning of the summer holidays a met this guy through a friend of mine. We got on really well and started dating about a week after we met. The only problem is now we've been going out for a few weeks he's started to change, he's not as sweet and caring anymore and has started to try to get me to do more sexual things with him. He says his last girlfriend and him had sex after two weeks and doesn't understand why I will only do basic things. Up until now I've found it so easy to tell people I don't want to do something, but I've told him I don't think we've been dating long enough to do anything serious and he won't listen. Please give me some advice, I'm worried soon I won't have the guts to stand up to him and I don't want to be rushed into anything I don't want to do.
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The latest dev diary for BioShock Infinite details Elizabeth's unique ability to manipulate "tears," what designer Ken Levine calls "windows into other worlds." These tears represent, essentially, other dimensions, and players can use Elizabeth's power to make progress through the game. In one gaemplay sequence, the video shows the player summoning a piece of cover to hide behind.
Because Elizabeth can only access one tear at a time, players can employ different strategies for every scenario. "Everybody's play experience is going to be different," Levine promises.
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AUSSIE THREAT: Australia captain Michael Clarke taunted England with threats of broken bones as his team closed in on victory.
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OPINION: That the first Ashes test erupted into a bit of a slanging match was no surprise.
That it took so long to happen was unusual.
This is the peak of test cricket, the ultimate contest in a sport where insults and mind games have long been used to intimidate as much as a bouncer aimed at a batsman's head.
And long may it continue. These are grown men, after all, and as one respected skipper from another sport famously said, "this isn't tiddlywinks".
Cricket is made for sledging. Two batsmen at the mercy of 11 opponents, many of them right up close and personal.
There's so much downtime, it's impossible not to make a snarky comment or two.
Getting inside an enemy's head seems to be commonsense, no matter the approach.
It's always been part of serving a test apprenticeship . . . youngsters expected a "welcome" whenever they stood at the batting or bowling crease.
Of course, the clever sledgers are always the ones that deliver their cutting lines with humour. And the challenge is always to come up with a suitable retort.
A bit like playing and missing, and then following up next ball with a flowing cover drive to the boundary.
Authorities trying to take this flavour out of the game are fighting a losing battle. In a sport devoid of physical contact, the mental challenge is a crucial element
And to have old hands like Ian Chappell complaining about it now is just a nonsense. The Chappell era was a stellar season for sledging.
Of course, intrusive TV microphones weren't around then. As spectators we'd detect a bit of angst in the middle. But the old adage of leaving that stuff on the field meant the words were never reproduced until tell-all biographies were written or the humour was delivered on the after-dinner speaking circuit.
It's there for everyone to see now - lip-reading isn't a prerequisite for getting the total cricket experience.
I doubt there's a sport where sledging isn't involved. Take a closer look when you're watching anything from darts to dodgeball, league to lacrosse, rugby to wrestling, and you're sure to see sledging.
It might be a shout, it may be a whisper; it might be delivered face to face, it may just come via a subtle sideways glance. But it's aimed with the same intent - to unsettle the opposition at any cost.
And in sports that dominate our sporting psyche, that's just part of the examination they call a "test".
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My coveted blue 5 zip finally made it to 50% off at ssense. I didn't think that would happen. I had no choice but to buy.
These would be the perfect boots for me if they fit, which they don't. Classic issue of boots just fitting big, sometimes. What can you do but find them a new home? Made in Italy. I purchased them form a member here, just tried them on. My search continues. Previous owner claimed them as "like new" but fibbed a bit. They look like they've been worn around a bit, so I'll call them 9/10 condition. Simple, cool boots. Let my curse be your boon. Boots are located in Canada....
Found the hat on their site. Do they ship international? Can't seem to enter a non-Japanese address. Don't they know I'm melaninless?
Who makes that hat? Is it a million dollars? That's exactly what I'm looking for.
That's the sole. Sewn on somehow.
Yes, that too. The fact that all but one of the things I've cross-referenced between the US and Canadian Yoox sites have been more expensive for Canadians is a bummer. Yes, it's a common thing for international companies to do, but it's still, deep down, a jerk move.
I don't understand how it works in these cases, no.
Fair enough. I wish it was much better regulated, though. When I first started buying stuff online no one was charging duties, including Yoox as late as early 2013. Still ModernTailor somehow gets away without doing it. Anyway, basically if you can streamline charging me taxes and duties you can streamline refunding taxes and duties. I don't have a moral problem with paying them.
Also, let me say Yoox treats Canadians like garbage and I really shouldn't support them. They charge 28% taxes and duties on purchase but refuse to refund those same taxes and duties for a return. I sent them an email asking to exchange the blazer for the next size up since it would cost me $165 to just return it and buy the 52. They sent back a copy/past of their shipping rules. That's a crummy way to treat a customer.
Cantarelli shoes are the nicest shoes I've ever worn for the price. Very, very cool. These might just go into my daily wear rotation if I can find some stretchy laces. I'm not lacing up shoes every day. Tombolini blazer. 50/50 cotton/linen. I really like big lapels. Tiny in the chest and shoulders for a 50 but LOOKS amazing. Kinda conflicted. Might see what a tailor can do to let it out.
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Researchers have made a giant leap towards the goal of ‘bio-printing’ transplantable tissues and organs for people affected by major diseases and trauma injuries.
Scientists from the Universities of Sydney, Harvard, Stanford and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have bio-printed artificial vascular networks mimicking the body’s circulatory system that are necessary for growing large complex tissues.
“Thousands of people die each year due to a lack of organs for transplantation,” said study lead author and University of Sydney researcher, Dr Luiz Bertassoni.
“Many more are subjected to the surgical removal of tissues and organs due to cancer, or they’re involved in accidents with large fractures and injuries.
“Imagine being able to walk into a hospital and have a full organ printed — or bio-printed, as we call it — with all the cells, proteins and blood vessels in the right place, simply by pushing the ‘print’ button in your computer screen.
“We are still far away from that, but our research is addressing exactly that. Our finding is an important new step towards achieving these goals,” Bertassoni said.
Researchers explain that cells need ready access to nutrients, oxygen and an effective ‘waste disposal’ system to sustain life.
This is why ‘vascularisation’ — a functional transportation system — is central to the engineering of biological tissues and organs.
“One of the greatest challenges to the engineering of large tissues and organs is growing a network of blood vessels and capillaries,” said Bertassoni.
“Cells die without an adequate blood supply because blood supplies oxygen that’s necessary for cells to grow and perform a range of functions in the body.
“To illustrate the scale and complexity of the bio-engineering challenge we face, consider that every cell in the body is just a hair’s width from a supply of oxygenated blood.
“Replicating the complexity of these networks has been a stumbling block preventing tissue engineering from becoming a real world clinical application,” said Bertassoni.
Using a high-tech ‘bio-printer’, the researchers fabricated a multitude of interconnected tiny fibres to serve as the mold for the artificial blood vessels.
Lastly they removed the bio-printed fibres to leave behind a network of tiny channels coated with human endothelial cells, which self organised to form stable blood capillaries in less than a week.
The study found that the bioprinted vascular networks promoted significantly better cell survival, differentiation and proliferation compared to cells that received no nutrient supply.
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Yogesh, who had been travelling from one place to another since the incident and has 13 cases against him, was arrested from INA Market on Friday.
With this arrest, all those involved in the heist have been apprehended. The police said Rs.12 lakh in cash and a 0.32 bore pistol with ammunition used in crime have been recovered. Vijay Nahar Singh, Yogesh, Hari Kishan, Deepak and Ranjit Rumal are the main accused in the case, they said. Except Yogesh, all others were arrested in separate occasions.
“Yogesh was involved in 13 cases, including murder, robbery, dacoity, narcotics Act, snatching, etc. He was convicted in three cases of robberies and drugs, and spent around eight years in jail. He also took supari in one case to eliminate one person over a land dispute,” a senior police official said.
Yogesh was good at changing his appearances and had stayed in temple, mosques and gurdwaras during the past three months. With this, police have arrested 16 people and recovered around Rs.4.25 crore.
The gang had waylaid a cash van on September 28, pinned down a security guard and shot him after he tried to snatch their weapons. They fled the spot in the cash van leaving behind the car in which they were following the vehicle. The guard later succumbed to his injuries.
It was a raid at the main accused Hari Kishan’s house in Khirki that helped the police in its trail. The key of the looted cash van was recovered in his house. Hari Kishan and his wife Rashmi were apprehended from Banda in Uttar Pradesh on October 3. The first to be arrested was Hari Kishan’s brother Deepak Sharma a day after the heist. — PTI | http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/fifth-defence-colony-heist-accused-arrested/article4278674.ece | dclm-gs1-044860001 |
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30 years on: Remembering the Memotech MTX 500
Very possibly the second-best British micro of the early 1980s
Memotech MTX 500
Archaeologic Memotech liked to advertise its MTX 500 and 512 microcomputers with a picture of a speeding black Porsche, but the machines, which made their first public appearance 30 years ago this month, while undoubtedly quick off the mark soon slammed hard into an unforeseen wall thrown up by a sudden, severe change in market conditions.
Announced in June 1983 at the Earl’s Court Computer Fair and at the height of the UK home computer boom, the MTX almost immediately won plaudits for its build quality, performance, capacity and all the functionality its developers had crammed in. Only slightly more expensive than a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, the MTX nonetheless had a spec to match that of the BBC Model B. It ought to have been of one the defining micros of the third generation of British home computers, but the near-complete collapse in demand after Christmas 1983 which killed the likes of Dragon Data, Camputers and others, would prevent it ever realising its full potential.
Memotech MTX 500
The MTX 500
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Memotech was the brainchild of two Oxford boffins: a mathematician and a metallurgist, Robert Branton and Geoff Boyd.
During the mid-1970s, Boyd studied for his PhD in Oxford University’s Department of Metallurgy. There he’d had to design electronic circuits for lab work, and quickly discovered he was a rather dab hand at it. Becoming something of an electronics enthusiast, he was soon building audio kit at home.
Around 1977, Boyd met Branton, who was then working within Oxford’s programming research group. Boyd recalls encountering his soon-to-be business partner at a ‘crammers’ session in which the two, and others, were giving extra tuition to school kids getting ready to take their A level exams. The two became friends, and when, in 1979, Boyd moved to the University’s Engineering Department to begin his post-doctorate research work and his electronics projects shifted toward more complex computing circuits, the pair decided to go into business.
Boyd recalls their first work: a touch interface system, devised and designed out of hours - the two men were still in their day-jobs at the University - as a successor to the the Qwerty keyboard. “It was customisable. It would have readers on it - you just slipped a bit of paper in and convert it from, say, a keyboard into map reading device, and that’s really where we started.”
Enter the ZX81
Branton was the software guy, Boyd the hardware man. The two found backers to provide the finance, and a company was formed, Oxford Computing, to produce and market the gadget. It wasn’t, Boyd recalls, an ideal experience - he feels the backers got rather more out of it than he and Branton did - so the two men quit and began to seek out a new project on which to work.
And then, in March 1981, Sinclair Research launched the ZX81. “The thing that was crucially different about the ZX81 was that it was the first small computer with floating point arithmetic. Because we were both scientists, that made a huge difference in terms of what it could do. And that’s why we got involved. We probably bought one of the very first ones, in kit form.” But the machine had just 1KB of memory, and the two partners realised that users were going to need a lot more.
Boyd says he was very interested in memory at the time, having designed the memory sub-system for the digitiser. He used that as the basis for an additional memory unit for their ZX81, and so was born the first product they could make and sell rather than license. Memotech was formed, and their efforts yielded some of the first memory expansion modules for the Sinclair machine, along with Centronics and RS232 printer interfaces, and a typewriter-style keyboard, connected through the ZX81’s expansion port, for quick-fingered coders to use in place of the Sinclair-standard membrane job. The HRG masked 2KB of the ZX81’s Rom with firmware of Memotech’s own to add 248 x 192 hi-res graphics, in conjunction with Memotech Ram expansion.
The company didn’t just offer hardware. Branton’s software skills were put to work producing spreadsheet and word processing applications.
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Memotech made its name selling ZX81 'Memopaks’
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Memotech’s add-ons business was a huge success, and the company grew very rapidly indeed, especially when Sinclair’s own ZX81 Ram Packs were in short supply and, later, when Timex, Sinclair’s contract manufacturer, launched the ZX81 in the States under its own name.
“When Dram ICs were purchased, they needed to be fully tested... which typically lasted three to four minutes,” recalls Boyd. “In the UK, there were two contract manufactures who made Sinclair’s add-on packs: Thorn EMI and AB Electronics. They used GenRad testing machines that cost over $1 million each. You couldn’t speed up the test, so the throughput of these machines was limited.
“Memotech couldn’t afford these machines to test its Memopaks, as they were called, so we built our own testing rigs using Intel 8048 8-bit microcontrollers with a complete memory test system that cost us less than $500!”
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