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Cam: I'm sorry but you know I have two weakness: children cursing and old people rapping!
More like Little Bo Cheap.
Cam: It's kind of like a first date.
Mitchell: Actually it's the opposite of the first date. You don't want to have sex, but you do want a baby.
Cam: Why so much tape Jay?
Jay: Why are you wearing a sweater when it's 95 degrees out?
Cam: It's my Christmas sweater!
Jay: Based on those stains, you are the Christmas sweater.
Cam and Jay, kind of sounds like a bird.
Do you know what's illegal in Europe? Nothing! You're going to college!
Claire [to Haley]
All this from someone who never chunked a Punkin!
I sleep clown.
It's a somber occasion and all of my tops are too joyful.
Cameron: How would she know I'm gay?
You're going to find somebody because you're an amazing girl Katie, you're the whole package, I just prefer someone who has one.
Cameron: Wham Bam thank you Cam.
Mitchell: Seriously you got her number.
Cameron: Sure did and all my shirts should be ironed and the seams should appear straight, just like their owner.
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The spanish term used to describe ganja.
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by Jmoney4376800 May 15, 2006
When a man takes his dick and rolls it up backwards to the base, then holds it over a girl's face and smacks her square in the nose with it. It obviously requires some skill and inherited wealth to properly do, but if equipped have at it.
Guy 1: Yo man, did you hear that Tony gave that slutty chick an awesome blossom?
Guy 2: Yeah dude, he knocked her square the fuck out and then wouldn't pay for her hospital bill.
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1. used to pick up girls, but only under intoxiacation.
2. pretty much the same as yaddidamean... just a more hyphy version.
1. "what up beezy? YADDIDAHOLLA?"
2. "im tryin to get really fucked up and do a lot of fucked up shit yaddidaholla?"
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Who is the biggest loser?
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Sarah Viren
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1. Ed T. says:
At the risk of sounding like a broken record: when they are younger, how about let’s let them *go out and play*, instead of that regimented exercise stuff and threatening to keep them inside and sedentary as a form of punishment? Young children seem to be very adept at using their muscles (somewhere I read that this is a biological thing), but just as we tend to stifle their minds, we do the same to their bodies.
As far as the older ones go, try this:
1) Quit treating physical activity as some sort of punishment (quite common when I was in school.)
2) Allow them to have a full range of athletic activities (e.g. don’t ban certain contact sports simply because of a fear of lawsuits.)
3) Allow them time to shower and clean up afterwards!
2. This program was meant to jump start the kids and motivate them to just try……and once they see that they have the power to change themselves, they can use that experience and feeling later to do it on their own. They need to believe in themselves.
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Suggestions? It's a 2nd marriage nothing too fancy. I thought of suggesting Starker's but any other maybe more casual ideas? I haven't been to Starker's but everyone seems to rave about it for rehearsal dinners. Does Carmen's have a private room?
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1. Carmen's doesn't have a specific private room but I think they will close one of their rooms to accomodate you.
If you're looking to stay in the Plaza/Brookside area, Grand Street has a private room. For more casual, look at Classic Cups' cellar room or Brio upstairs...
1. Classic Cup wine cellar
Plaza III basement or will close off a certain space
Accurso's had a rehearsal dinner when I was there a few weeks ago
Jack Stack I think has a private room...
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1. re: stellamystar
If you want to go way casual I'd recommend Manny's on SW Blvd. Think they have something that works out to 12-13 pp, so the leftovers can buy a lot of pitchers of margs! Went to one there, and to be honest was one of the most fun rehearsal dinners i've ever been to. They have a number of different rooms/areas there to fit the bill. Also, I had my rehearsal dinner at Buca Di Beppo down on the plaza. Same as Manny's, there are a bunch of different rooms to choose from, and the prices aren't outrageous. I'd highly recommend Buca if you are looking for a relatively casual experience. I'm not a huge fan of the food there, but everyone left our party raving about it (though most were out of towners that had prob never had real Italian Food).
2. 1924 Main has a great private wine room that holds 30 or so. Awesome food, a little less "formal" than Starkers if your guests don't mind driving downtown. | http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/510322 | dclm-gs1-045350001 |
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Southern Paiutes at Moapa wearing traditional Paiute cradleboard and rabbit robe
The prehistoric landscape of what is now the Las Vegas Valley and most of Southern Nevada was a marsh of abundant water and vegetation. Over the course of hundreds of thousands of years, rivers that were present sank into the ground, and the marsh receded. The valley evolved into a parched, arid landscape that only supported the hardiest of animals and plants. At some point in the valley's geologic history, the water that had been submerged below the terrain sporadically resurfaced and flowed into what is now the Colorado River. This helped proliferate luxurious plant life, creating a wetland oasis in the Mojave Desert landscape.
Native Americans lived in the Las Vegas Valley, beginning over 10,000 years ago. Archeologists have discovered baskets, petroglyphs, pictographs and other evidence in diverse locations, including Gypsum Cave and Tule Springs. Paiutes moved into the area as early as AD 700, migrating between nearby mountains in the summer and spending winter in the valley, near Big Springs.[5]
1829–1905: origins[edit]
A trade caravan of 60 men led by the Mexican merchant Antonio Armijo was charged with establishing a trade route to Los Angeles.[6][7] Las Vegas was named by Mexicans in the Antonio Armijo party,[8] By following the Pike and Smith routes through a tributary of Colorado River they came upon the Las Vegas Valley described by Smith as the best point to re-supply before going onto California. The travelers named the area "Las Vegas" which is Spanish for "The Meadows".[9]
John C. Frémont traveled into the Las Vegas Valley on May 3, 1844, while it was still part of Mexico. He was appointed by the President to lead a group of scientists, scouts, and spies for the United States Army Corps of Engineers who were preparing for a possible war with Mexico. Upon arriving in the valley they made camp at the Las Vegas Springs, establishing a clandestine fort there. A war with Mexico did occur, resulting in the region becoming United States territory. The fort was used in later years by travellers, mountain men, hunters, and traders seeking shelter, but was never permanently inhabited.
For the next few years the area remained unoccupied by Americans except for travelers and traders. Then the U.S. Army, in an attempt to deceive Confederate spies active in southern California in 1864, falsely publicized that it reclaimed the fort and had renamed it Fort Baker, briefly recalling the area to national attention. After the end of the war in 1865, Octavius Gass, with a commission from the federal government, did re-occupy the fort. The Paiute nation had declined in numbers and negotiated a new treaty with the United States, ceding the area around the fort to the United States in return for relocation and supplies of food and farming equipment. Consequently, Gass started irrigating the old fields and renamed the area 'Las Vegas Rancho.' Gass made wine at his ranch and Las Vegas became known as the best stop on the Old Spanish Trail. By 1872, Gass expanded his ranch to 640 acres (260 ha), and used his position as a legislator to have the territory around his ranch included in Nevada instead of Arizona.[dubious ] In 1881, because of mismanagement and intrigue with a Mormon syndicate, Gass lost his ranch to Archibald Stewart to pay off a lien Stewart had on the property. In 1884, Archibald's wife, Helen J. Stewart became the Las Vegas Postmaster.
1905–1929: birth, growth and crisis[edit]
St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church near 4th and Bridger in downtown was founded in 1910.[10]
By the early 20th century, water from wells was piped into the town, providing both a reliable source of fresh water and the means for additional growth. The increased availability of water in the area allowed Las Vegas to become a water stop, first for wagon trains and later railroads, on the trail between Los Angeles, California, and points east such as Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Hoover Dam in 1942
On July 3, 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed the appropriation bill for the Boulder Dam. The dam was later renamed the Hoover Dam during the Truman administration. Work started on the dam in 1931 and Las Vegas' population swelled from around 5,000 citizens to 25,000, with most of the newcomers looking for a job building the dam. However, the demographic of the work force consisting of males from across the country with no attachment to the area created a market for large scale entertainment. A combination of local Las Vegas business owners, Mormon financiers, and Mafia crime lords helped develop the casinos and showgirl theaters to entertain the largely male dam construction workers.[11]
1941–1945: war years[edit]
On October 30, 1942, R. E. Griffith rebuilt on the site of a nightclub called Pair-O-Dice,[14] that first opened in 1930, and renamed it Hotel Last Frontier. A few more resorts were built on and around Fremont Street but the next hotel on the Strip publicly demonstrated the influence of organized crime on Las Vegas. Although ethnic organized crime figures had been involved in some of the operations at the hotels, the Mafia bosses never owned or controlled the hotels and clubs which remained monopolized by hard-bitten local Las Vegas families who were unwilling to cede ground to the crime bosses and proved strong enough to push back. This changed in post-war Las Vegas when Jewish gangster Bugsy Siegel, with help from friend and fellow mob boss Meyer Lansky poured money through Mormon owned banks for cover of legitimacy and built The Flamingo in 1946.
1947–1963: postwar boom and organized crime[edit]
Owned and operated by a joint combine of Mormon elders who provided political and business legitimacy and people involved with organized crime who provided unreported income and street muscle, such as Meyer Lansky these crime hotels became regarded as the epitome of gambling entertainment[cite]. Even with the general knowledge that some of the owners of these casino resorts had dubious backgrounds, by 1954, over 8 million people were visiting Las Vegas yearly pumping $200 million into casinos. Gambling was no longer the only attraction; the biggest stars of films and music like Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Andy Williams, Liberace, Bing Crosby, Carol Channing, and others performed in intimate settings. After coming to see these stars, the tourists would resume gambling, and then eat at the gourmet buffets that have become a staple of the casino industry.
However, the confluence of various marginal and/or suspected groups such as Jews, Sicilians, and Mormons into the gambling enterprises in Las Vegas and the subsequent cornering of the gambling market in the city by these groups sparked a two-year investigation by Senator Estes Kefauver and his Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce in 1950–51 [citation]. The hearing concluded that organized crime money was incontrovertibly tied to the Las Vegas casinos and was becoming the controlling interest in the city thereby earning for the groups vast amounts of income which was strengthening their influence in the country. This led to a proposal by the Senate to institute federal gambling control. Only through the power and influence of Nevada's Senator Pat McCarran did the proposal die in committee.
Along with their connections in Hollywood and New York City, these interests in Las Vegas were able to use publicity provided by these media capitals to steer the rapid growth of tourism into Las Vegas thereby dooming Galveston, Texas; Hot Springs, Arkansas; and other illegal gaming centers around the nation.[15] Nevada's legal gaming as well as the paradoxical increased scrutiny by local and federal law enforcement in these other locales during the 1950s made their demise inevitable.
1950s: atomic testing[edit]
Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site
1955–1980: the beginning of modern Las Vegas[edit]
Howard Hughes[edit]
Hank Greenspun[edit]
Local government[edit]
Much like other American settled counties and towns throughout the United States, entertainment venues were segregated between black and white owned businesses. With almost all of the businesses owned and operated by whites, Black Americans were segregated from entry into the venues which remained focused, regardless of their legitimacy or criminality, on entertaining a white only clientele. As a result of property deeds, non-white owned or customer oriented businesses were confined to clubs on the "west side" of the tracks. This also was enforced in many of the work positions thus, African Americans except those who provided the labor for low-paying menial positions or entertainment and Hispanics were limited in employment occupations at the white owned clubs. However, because of employment deals with black worker groups, many clubs favored black workers and the Hispanic population actually decreased ninety-percent from 2,275 to just 236 by the middle 1950s.
However, organized crime-owned groups saw a business opportunity in not dividing their clientele by race and despite property deeds and city and county codes disbarring such activities, made several attempts at de-segregating their businesses in the hopes putting out of operation the non-white owned clubs and expanding their own market share. An attempt at forming an all-integrated night-club modeled on the Harlem Clubs of New York City during the 1920s and 1930s like those owned by German-Jewish gangster Dutch Schultz was made. On May 24, 1955, Jewish crime boss Wil Max Schwartz, along with other investors, opened the Moulin Rouge. It was a very upscale and racially integrated casino that actually competed against the resorts on the Strip especially the non-white owned strips on the west side. However, by the end of the year, the casino closed as Schwartz and his partners had a falling out. But the seeds for racial integration were sown.
Many sources have credited Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack as a significant driving force behind desegregation in the casinos.[16] One famous story tells of Sinatra's refusal to perform at the Sands Hotel unless the hotel provided Sammy Davis Jr. with a room.[17] The famed performing group made similar demands at other venues forcing owners to amend their policies over time.[18]
However, it took political action most often supported by Jewish crime groups for racial desegregation to occur. In 1960, the NAACP threatened a protest of the city's casinos for their policies. A meeting between the NAACP, the mayor and local businessmen resulted in city wide casino desegregation first starting with the employees and many whites were attritioned from positions and their jobs given to the black unions. Along with the rest of the country, Las Vegas experienced the struggle for civil rights. Activists like James B. McMillan, Grant Sawyer, Bob Bailey, and Charles Keller dragged Las Vegas to racial integration.
Another big force for equality was another criminally connected Jewish activist Mayor Oran Gragson. Spurred into local politics by a vigilante ring of cops who repeatedly broke into his appliance store, he implemented infrastructure improvements for the minority neighborhoods in Las Vegas, backed the NAACP in its actions, and promoted black workers for jobs. He also championed the cause of the Pauite tribe that owned a small portion of Las Vegas and stopped the U.S. government from evicting the tribe and actually made infrastructure improvements for them. His work helped reverse the decrease of minority populations in Las Vegas. Local legislation kept up with the national legislation and integration was finally established. The only real violence came as a result of school integration, with violent riots and fights occurring in Clark High School when black gangs and youths began attacking the whites and sparking white flight from the school district from 1965 to 1971.
MGM fire[edit]
1970-Late 2000s: explosive growth[edit]
Since 1989: the megaresort era[edit]
The Strip resorts in late 2009
Helldorado Days was resumed in 2005 for the City of Las Vegas' centennial celebration.[13]
Late 2000s towards 2010s: downturn and recovery[edit]
Despite the success, the home mortgage crisis and the late 2000s recession affected the economic success. Soon after, new home construction was stalled, and construction projects were either canceled, postponed, or continued with financial troubles. Some of these projects included the MGM Mirage property of CityCenter, Fontainebleau, Echelon, and The Plaza. The global financial situation also had a negative effect on gaming and tourism revenue, causing many of the companies to report net loss.
Las Vegas has still managed to host many conventions and major events. Las Vegas will be hosting the Latin Grammy Awards up until 2012.
Many analysts agree that the Las Vegas economy is recovering, with improving conditions in tourism and the housing market for 2013.[22][23] Prices are rising and there has been a large increase in the million dollar home market, with many new custom homes being built. January 2013 marks the 19th consecutive month with home sales higher than the same month in the previous year.[24] In addition, Las Vegas was named America's Top Turn Around Market for 2012 by Trulia.[25]
See also[edit]
1. ^ History of Las Vegas
4. ^ http://www.lvol.com/lvoleg/hist/lvhist.html
7. ^ http://lasvegas.sdsu.edu/
9. ^ H2O University – 6 thru 12
10. ^ Chung, Su Kim. Las Vegas Then and Now. Thunder Bay Press. San Diego, California: 2005. p. 36
11. ^ Las Vegas Made Safe, TIME Magazine, June 1, 1931
12. ^ "Fremont Street History". Retrieved 9 December 2008.
John Dombrink, William Norman Thompson (1990). http://books.google.com/books?id=F6Z1G1FqcskC. University of Nevada Press. pp. 138–139.
17. ^ "Sammy Davis Jr.". Nevada Humanities.
19. ^ City of Las Vegas History, retrieved 2012-06-20
20. ^ Vegas Building Boom Goes Bust, retrieved 2012-06-20
21. ^ Downturn douses Nevada's population-growth streak, retrieved 2012-06-20
22. ^ [1]
23. ^ [2]
24. ^ [3]
25. ^ [4]
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Tathagata Bhattacharya
Tuesday , March 05, 2013 at 18 : 57
Why Wharton invited Modi, disinvited him and why many others withdrew
The controversy generated over the invite extended to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi to address the India Economic Forum at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the subsequent withdrawal of the same needs to be seen in a nuanced manner.
Why did Wharton invite Modi?
Narendra Modi has successfully portrayed his image to a section of the so-called upwardly mobile middle class Indians as one of a harbinger of growth and development. There is a body of statistical data which can challenge these claims (ranging from child malnutrition to health parameters) but the bottomline is that he has been able to cultivate an image of an able administrator - the iron man who does not tolerate corruption or any other roadblock on route to industrialisation, wide roads and attracting fat investments, thus creating more jobs for the young and bringing more prosperity to his people.
It is also true that the 'Emerging Indian superpower' dream is more of an obsession of those educated Indians who are more prone to likening human development (and by extension that of a country) to just devising a more efficient productive process. One can be sure that Wharton, the oldest business school in the world affiliated to an institute of higher earning, as much they may teach their students to be innovators and out-of-the-box thinkers, finally has to submit to the business basic of reading the fine print. And the print is always in the red and the black. But it is not just this convergence between Wharton's raison d'etre and a small section's megalomania that springs to mind when one actually puts on the thinking hat.
While it is more likely than not that the Indian students at Wharton see Modi as a messiah who will cure India of all her ills, the man who will turn this ancient landmass of holy smokescreen into a brow-beating superpower, what is infinitely more interesting is a February 2009 article in 'Forbes', headlined 'Billionaire Clusters' in which Duncan Greenberg writes, "Billionaires who derive their fortunes from finance make up one of the most highly educated sub-groups: More than 55% of them have graduate degrees. Nearly 90% of those with M.B.A.s obtained their master's degree from one of three Ivy League schools: Harvard, Columbia or U. Penn's Wharton School of Business."
What is interesting is not so much about the content of the article. The timing is of essence. The article appeared at a time when the 2008 economic meltdown was making its effect felt in the most profound way - American working class families were seeing their savings wiped out, their homes taken away, their jobs vanish. While the collapse of finance capital and losses of banks were being socialised by the average Americans, the alumni from Wharton and its likes continued to pocket astronomical salaries and bonuses.
Enterprises and institutes which believe in and stand for socialising losses and privatising profits usually tend to see pro-industry statesmen as safety nets in the investment workflow. Seen in this light, it is only natural that Wharton will roll out the red carpet for Modi.
But why was the invite cancelled?
Enter U. Penn and the matter got complicated. Three members of the varsity faculty were aghast at this invitation being extended by Wharton. They wrote a letter in protest and many research scholars, fellow academics from U. Penn. and other institutions, and other members of the American intelligentsia lent their signatures to the petition. It was addressed to the organisers of the India Economic Forum.
While pointing out that the US government has revoked Modi's tourist/business visa and refused to give him a diplomatic visa for "severe violations of religious freedom," the petition reportedly ridiculed the organisers at Wharton for trying to lend a helping hand to Modi in his image rebranding exercise by lending him credibility as an "exemplar of economic and social development".
All the three faculty members - Ania Loomba, Catherine Bryson Professor of English; Suvir Kaul, A M Rosenthal Professor of English and Toorjo Ghose, Assistant Professor at the School of Social Policy and Practice - are from humanities or social sciences. Possibly, since literature and social sciences have been relatively insulated from the onslaught of positivism or from the lack of empathy, emotions and an innate concern for human lives and dignity, they could not accept the fact that the very institution they were a part of, could extend a red carpet, albeit virtual, to a man who is widely held responsible for thousands of deaths in the 2002 Gujarat riots, a man who has been reprimanded by courts of India for failing to act to prevent the 2002 killings.
Now, organisers at Wharton possibly did not expect such a strong reaction. Some of them, I am sure, are of the opinion that people should look beyond 2002, forget if not forgive, and look at Modi's record of governance. But once the petition was launched, news of it spread like wildfire, specially in the US and in India. Wharton was suddenly in the news and not all reports, tweets and status messages applauded the move of the organisers.
An institution with the history and alumni of Wharton does not tolerate negative publicity. To the organisers, preservation of Wharton's aura (read political correctness) was more important than resurrecting Modi's image. So Namo (Narendra Modi in short, as his fans call him) was dropped as the keynote speaker at the India Economic Forum, Wharton, 2013.
Why is Suresh Prabhu not going?
Senior Shiv Sena leader Suresh Prabhu, who was supposed to speak at the meet, pulled out, terming dropping Modi as a national insult. He said "The university should be a place where divergent views are debated. Such a decision, that too by a varsity in the US, is unfathomable."
However, I think there is something more tangible and lucrative than national pride that prompted Prabhu to take this decision. Modi is known to be close to Raj Thackeray and MNS. I strongly feel this is Prabhu's attempt at building trust between Modi and the Sena before the 2014 general elections.
Why is not Gautam Adani taking part?
Gautam Adani, the chairman of the $8 billion Adani Group that has interests in power, coal mining and trading, gas and oil explorations, shipping, port handling etc, also announced that he will not be taking part. His office released the following statement soon after Wharton decided to withdraw the invitation to Modi: "Gautam S Adani, chairman, Adani Group, had conveyed his inability to join as a keynote speaker at the Wharton Economic Forum. This was communicated almost a fortnight ago as he has other pressing commitments."
One has to keep in mind that the Adani Group is the main sponsor of the Wharton conclave on India. But then, the Adani Group is headquartered in the Gujarat capital of Ahmedabad. His key businesses including power, oil and gas exploration and the Mundra and Hazira ports are all situated within the boundaries of the state. It just does not make business sense to get into the bad books of Modi.
Why did Sadanand Dhume pull out?
Writer and journalist Sadanand Dhume has written in his 'Wall Street Journal' blog that he is pulling out because of the "organizers' failure to uphold its stated purpose: 'to provide a neutral platform to encourage cross pollination of ideas' about India."
"No court has found Mr. Modi guilty of involvement in the violence and he denies wrongdoing, the fact that more than 1,000 people died on his watch, about four-fifths of them Muslim, can't simply be wished away," writes Dhume.
However, Dhume would do well to remember that a fellow minister of Modi's state cabinet has been convicted in the Gujarat riots case by a special court and sentenced to 28 years in jail for being the 'kingpin of the Naroda riots' in which 97 people were killed. The Narendra Modi government was, on February 8, 2012, pulled up by the Gujarat High Court for "inaction and negligence" on its part during the 2002 post-Godhra riots, a first for any state government in pre and post-Independence India. So the absence of direct evidence should not be necessarily construed as an evidence of absence.
Also Modi's closest aide and former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah is currently out on bail. He is a key suspect in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter killing case.
Dhume wrote a piece in 'Foreign Policy' some time back on Modi. It had lauded Modi for creating jobs, bringing in capital and ushering development. Dhume would do well to check the percentage of casual workers (upwards of 70 per cent) employed in Gujarat's industries and the appalling conditions they live in. He should also witness the horrific living conditions in the Dang, Sabarkantha and Banaskantha areas. He should crosscheck the statistics on farmers' suicides. He should also pay a visit to the Alang ship scrap yard and see how workers are exposed to extreme health hazards including radioactive exposure without minimum safety measures being in place. Indian media sources would prove infinitely more exhaustive and useful in understanding Gujarat's growth dynamics than international publications which tend to look at things on the surface, owing to the nature of their international readership.
Is Arvind Kejriwal Modi's replacement?
Arvind Kejriwal is and is not Modi's replacement. His single point tirade against corruption and price rise finds resonance cutting across party lines, religions and any other community affiliations. Everyone agrees with what he says he wants but not how he wants. Also the euphoria of the summer of 2011 is long over and Anna Hazare has distanced himself from Kejriwal. He is non-controversial and not the talking point that Modi is. He has already announced that he would go on fast from March 23 onwards. The India Economic Forum will be perfect. What better pad for the launch of Gandhian protest than a Wharton conference hall?
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While GitHub has long had a steady revenue stream, its operating margins did get perilously thin. “Our ambitions were outstripping our resources,” Preston-Werner told Lacy. “We were in a phase where we were operating so cash-lean that we had essentially no money in the bank.” The company’s newly-hired chief operating officer looked at the books and was like, “What’s wrong with you people?”
Not only was Preston-Werner determined to squirrel away money in reserves in order to be “responsible,” but the company was also about to launch GitHub Enterprise, a big and expensive push into serving businesses. So when it did come time to discuss fundraising, GitHub decided it wanted to put itself in a position where it would never have to worry about having enough money to invest in a particular opportunity.
“We thought if this is something we’re interested in,” Preston-Werner said, “then we should do it when the opportunity is right.”
One assumes the company’s reserves are looking pretty healthy these days.
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Following are my problems:-
1. Is it possible to get the list of applications that a user has installed, against their google account through Google Play, programmatically through the use of any api?. Please note that I am not asking about the list of apps currently installed in the device, but ones that have at some point been installed.
I need a solution to the above as I am thinking of a scenario in my app, which is:
• I want to give my app to the user for free during the first three months, after three months if user uninstalls the app and then installs it again I want to detect through any api (from Google Play) that the user has installed the app a second time (and should not get any free usage). Please note that I don't want to use any web service to store the account id & device id of the user at my side.
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This is where you can start searching: code.google.com/p/android-market-api This could also be helpful : stackoverflow.com/questions/10661434/… – userSeven7s Aug 3 '12 at 18:33
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For option 2, you can create a file on the SD card. This will remain there when the user uninstalls/installs. But the user can always delete your special file. Unless you do something at your side, you are never sure if the user already used your app before.
To be completely sure, store it online: You will need to have a very simple database which holds a list of device_id that installed your app. Further more a webpage which fills this database. In your app you download/open this webpage which the webpage will fill the DB.
App > WebClient (or other) which opens http://www.example.com/registerDevice.php?device_id=. The php site fills the db.
You app will need to check the database if the current device already has installed this app inorder to work/not work. You can do this via the same php and check the response. You could for example return 'ok' or 'not ok' or something else.
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This would be very unreliable method of storing the info. Sdcard may be formatted, replaced, the file deleted, etc. Even more likely in 3 months timeframe. – Pointer Null Aug 1 '12 at 20:59
Thanks for the reply @PoweRoy. But can you please tell me what that something I have to do at my side. – Shashank_Itmaster Aug 2 '12 at 3:53
@mice: indeed it is very unreliable – RvdK Aug 2 '12 at 14:45
@Shashank_Itmaster: see updated answer – RvdK Aug 2 '12 at 14:48
@PoweRoy: I got your point related to that db through php site. But in the question I have noted that point clearly. Please note that I don't want to use any web service to store the account id & device id of the user at my side. – Shashank_Itmaster Aug 6 '12 at 3:25
The simplest method is to get the account of the user the first time he/she runs the app, and send that detail over to you. How this is can be done is well-documented over here: How to get the Android device's primary e-mail address
You will have to add another line of code to check back to the database at the first start of the app.
EDIT: For a non-web solution, simply add a timer to the start of your app:
schedule(TimerTask task, Date when)
the task should be adding a token AFTER the period of time you wish to give, to the phone's memory with the user's account details for authentication (see first solution on getting the account details)
Finally, as above, add a check-back to the phone's memory for that particular file to see if the user has used the app before.
The problem with any type of authentication that is based on the phone's memory is that people can easily remove the token, if they can find it, and reuse the app again.
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Thanks @bernlim for the reply. But you have not got my point in the question which writes Please note that I don't want to use any web service to store the account id & device id of the user at my side. – Shashank_Itmaster Aug 6 '12 at 3:22
edited for you! – bernlim Aug 6 '12 at 5:46
Try this device specific implementation:
PackageManager packageManager = getContext().getPackageManager();
List<ApplicationInfo> applications = packageManager.getInstalledApplications(
// retrieves some information about all applications (even uninstalled ones)
// which have data directories
Of course this method won't work if user replaces the device. But you don't need to use any web service.
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You can use this by keeping a database of hashed device id and users google id on a 3rd party server. Also see http://android-developers.blogspot.de/2011/03/identifying-app-installations.html
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I was just wondering how Jetblue picks aircraft for a specific route. I have flown on 35 of the B6 aircraft so far, many of them as much as 6 times and I was wondering if any B6 employee can tell which aircraft is going to which airport on any given day. I am off to Burbank this Sunday morning and I wish there was a way I could know what bus I will be on. Does anybody know????
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I am not in the department that deals with scheduling, but I can help out with the how. All aircraft are tracked on time, cycles, etc. Based mostly on MX scheduling and planning, any open DMI/MEL items and the like they are able to determine which aircraft to fly where to keep the a/c staggered for the various checks they have to go through (i.e. "C" checks where they are out of service for a few days at a time).
Reply 2, posted (8 years 7 months 2 weeks 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 2508 times:
There is a tracking system but due to aircraft swaps, 503JB might be scheduled to go to LGB but an hour before the flight it is swapped and goes to MCO instead. there is no real way to plan a trip to fly a specific tail. Much like Southwest, they swap tails 737-7 for 737-7 all day long. same range and seats so easy to swap and no one would know... except us airline people lol
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Photo of NV9
1.4/5 rDev -40.4%
I do not like Budweiser. I know this and yet, when a case was on sale a couple weeks back, it seemed like a good idea to split on one with some friends. I ended up having 2 and then stopped drinking for the night. The feel in the mouth and the appearance are not terrible, but definitely nothing special.
The taste is beyond bad. A lot of beers get knocked on hear for not having any taste, particularly the huge light beers (Coors Light, Bud Light, etc...), there is a fair amount of taste with Budweiser, it's just a bad taste, that makes me want to drink anything else, but.
Photo of BEERME528
3.4/5 rDev +44.7%
It is the king of beers and there is a reason for it. You can find it anywhere and it never fails to refresh. Great price, good ABV, and a fine taste. You can't go wrong with a Bud at any gathering, any time of the day or year. When in doubt, grab some Buds.
The smell is bland, but with a decent head and a refreshing taste, you have found a winner in Budweiser. It is hands down the best macro in the world. It's tough to rank it against many micros because different times call for different brews. BBQ's, baseball games, concerts, etc... Budweiser cannot be beat. Lounging on the couch at a relaxing gathering with friends, maybe it can be beat. But all in all, this is a good buy for any circumstance.
Photo of beerdrinker4life
2.53/5 rDev +7.7%
Drank this beer out of a can while visiting friends in Brooklyn! Super hot day and we bought a round of beers. Not my first sure but I was not buying them!
Everyone was drinking out of a can but I poured the last half of mine into a glass. Strange beer! Really light yellow color. Its almost clear! The head was nice at least. Really night tight white foam. But the beer was almost clear!
Smelled kind of weird. Some hops in there but then a wierd green apple smell. Same in the taste too.
The mouthfeel was the worst thing about this beer. Crazy thin taste. Tastes like nothing is there or not a lot of ingredients went into it. Tastes thin!
Overall a below average beer. How did this ever become so popular?
Photo of gskitt
1.58/5 rDev -32.8%
This is the beer I'd steal from my Dad. Need to review it. Had warm on tap at concert. pours a pale yellow. no head. no lacing. smells of corn oil. taste is acrid. needs to be cold. i guzzled one on line for restroom so i wouldn't have to prolong the agony. Mouthfeel is off, tacky? Needs to be cold. easy drinkin though. yea, I made the right choice to mature up to craft.
Photo of andrenaline
2.42/5 rDev +3%
Took down several pints during this year's Stampede.
S - Bready and grassy with sweet corn.
T - Much like the scent, very bready with some corn notes.
M - Carbonation levels are good on this one, so I can't give it a bad rating here.
O - Certainly not my beer of choice, but I would never turn one down.
Photo of JohnnyChicago
1.68/5 rDev -28.5%
Poured from a 12oz can into a pint glass.
A: pours a fizzy yellow with not head to speak of.
S: Bad adjuncts and week hops. Smells like that one dive bar that never mops its floors.
T: Grainy, rough. The undeniable lack of barley flavour starts this off. Hops are actually perceptible, but lack any kind of punch or stand-alone flavour.
D: I'll give it this: it can be refreshing on a hot day...well unless you have some ice water instead. Mouthfeel is far to thin and body is far too overcarbonated.
Overall: What more to say? Its just a bad beer. Of course compared to the thousands of quality beers out there, but even compared to other bad American lagers, this is just tasteless and borderline offensive. The fact that this is the most popular beer in the world is both saddening and slightly pathetic.
Photo of BigDRS
1.68/5 rDev -28.5%
A - Color is pale yellow. Head dies down to nothing in a matter of seconds. Yep, we're off to a great start.
S - Corn. Yay corn. The nose has a strong sweetness with a bit of malt character in there too ... but it's not impressive by any stretch of the imagination.
T - As my Dad used to say, this is beer flavored water. I really can't think of a better way to describe it. There's just a bit of corn/malt flavor to it, but nothing else. So much for the "king of beers".
M - Mouthfeel simply reminds me of slightly carbonated water.
O - Budweiser is a beer to be enjoyed during beer pong, college parties, and whenever it's the last brew in the fridge.
Photo of notchucknorris
2.8/5 rDev +19.1%
Photo of ehammond1
2.4/5 rDev +2.1%
Thanks for sharing Sam!
A slight sweet aroma with some corn elements, though something seems a bit foul.
Relatively flavorless. Some corn, some sweet grain, nearly no hop presence at all.
Light mouthfeel and a touch of metallic unpleasantness.
The average American adjunct lager. No more, no less. No good. (Though, to be fair, it is better than Bud Light and Bud Light Lime!...so there's that...)
Photo of ElCommodoro
1.68/5 rDev -28.5%
Pales a very clear light golden with an enormous bone white head that prevented me from pouring the 12 oz. bottle into my 16 oz mug until it receded, which it readily did. It left some lacing, but it didn't look very appetizing.
It smells like old wet grains that have been sitting around for a while.
The taste was more soggy cheap bread taste with some nasty tasting hops. It may have a BIT more flavour than other beers in its price range, but that taste is NOT good. It's almost as bad as that weird taste they put in all light beer.
Bad beer. Worse than Busch.
Photo of BeerFMAndy
1.83/5 rDev -22.1%
12 oz can split into a Central Waters tulip. (Sorry Paul...)
27Oct10 "Born On date", no info.
Thanks to my brother?
A - An effervescent white head tops the pale piss-yellow brew shortly before disappearing into oblivion.
S - Almost no aroma at all. Faint rice and moldy wood with mineral and malt. This is shameful, but I suppose anyone that drinks it will never actually smell it.
T - Pale malt and low rice notes with an uncontrollable flavor burst of beechwood! Ha. Really, there isn't much going on here. It's honestly not offensive, but definitely not great.
M - Light-bodied and crisp with a slightly dry finish. Lingering off metallic notes creep in and knock it back a peg.
O - I'm clearly not a fan of the company's business practices or their swill but this beer isn't offensive. It's just not good.
Photo of tjsmith910
3.1/5 rDev +31.9%
The one thing I truly take away from this beer is that it taste like just beer. The response that I have to a beer seems to always come back to a comparison of styles to budweiser. It is average to me in every aspect of what a beer is. The label is the most impressive feature here but it is also the only impressive feature.
Photo of jwhancher
1.83/5 rDev -22.1%
Bought a case specifically for one neighbor for a party I held last weekend. Lucky me, my neighbor barely dented the case! Here's my review for a beer I don't care for but will review unbiasedly as I can.
Pours a clear straw color with white head that fades to thin film after a few minutes. Crystal clear in color. Looks like seltzer water with some beer for color.
Smells of wet grains. Nothing to desire here.
Tastes of a grainy corn or rice like sweetness. Mostly bland. Not really consumed for taste. Yet strangely not too offensive. Bland.
Very watery mouthfeel. Not very bitter. Reminds me of seltzer or club soda.
Not an attractive beer by any means. I'll need help running through the case. Will likely give away to the same neighbor. Even still, I've had way worse. Have to hand it to Bud for putting out such a consistent bland product for the masses.
Photo of evlu1441
2.28/5 rDev -3%
I have never had Budweiser in my life! This will be my first experience with this extremely popular brew. Hopefully the "King of Beers" can impress me just a little (I'm not expecting a whole lot).
It pours a VERY pale yellow colour. I just reviewed MGD, but this is even more pale than that!. There is almost no head to speak of.
There isn't much of an aroma... which I suppose is part of the point of such a massively appealing beer. Smells like wet grains a little... Kind of typical for this type of macro lager.
The flavour is quite a bit better than I expected given the look and smell. There is quite a bit of sweetness here, which I enjoy in some Asian lagers. The carbonation is quite intense, but there is also a little bit of hop flavour going on. I want to say that I'm getting a little bit of a banana aftertaste going on, but I don't want to pay this beer too high of a compliment. I might just be a little buzzed (3rd beer tonight).
Overall, not the worst beer I've had tonight hahaha!
Photo of Eramen
2.23/5 rDev -5.1%
A- Light golden colour, thin head which vanishes a few sips into the drink.
S - Grass, carbonation smells, light grains.
T- For the most part it is like the smell, add a sweet, nectar, sugary taste, and some sweetened white bread.
MF - Thin, like water, a lot of carbonation, far too much for my liking, it seems to take away from any more pronounced flavour which could be appreciated with this particular beer.
O - Standard macrobrew, content yourself for what it is, certainly not the worst of them, but if one is ever stuck, 'it would do'.
Photo of ktrillionaire
2.95/5 rDev +25.5%
It has been quite a while since I had one of these... born on date of Jan 06 2011, not the freshest. I must say that those who say there is no discernible difference in taste between Bud, BL, ML, Coors, PBR, etc. are flat-out wrong. This Bud, for example, is a very different tasting beer compared to AALs that I am more acquainted with such as PBR and/or Narragansett. The aroma is very light and has faint Sake-like notes of rice and alcohol. The taste is very light as well, offering almost no bitterness but lots of pale crisp dryness and a bit of an alcohol punch. The feel is sharply effervescent and is an integral part of the overall brew. Not the best beer, but it is not as bad as, say, Bud Light or Michelob Ultra.
Photo of AlCaponeJunior
1.85/5 rDev -21.3%
(hopefully) the last of my July 4th AAL tour of duty, lol.
Pale yellow and clear, a torrent of bubbles explodes and forms a two finger which dissipates very quickly, leaving some lacing.
Smell is unremarkable. Slightly grainy with some adjuncts.
Taste is somewhat sweet, grainy, and lightly malty. Slight bit of a rice taste.
Feel is very carbonated, extremely light, and leaves a slightly unpleasant aftertaste.
Overall for a "flagship" beer I can't for the life of me figure out why this beer is so popular. It's nearly flavorless and doesn't leave me wanting another in any way.
Photo of SpeedwayJim
2.65/5 rDev +12.8%
Had this with the girlfriend's family on Independence Day. Thought I might as well review it. From notes. Poured into a Troegs pint glass.
Beer creates a huge 2 finger frothy white head that cascades up quickly and dissipates just as fast. Beer is a clear goldenrod that reveals huge bubbles. Sticky, web-like lacing is actually a nice touch.
Nose is really undetectable. Kind of aluminum-like with a bit of odd tartness that can't really be placed. Not bad, but not much to be noted at all.
Beer opens super sweet and malty. I feel like I'm drinking a middle-of-the-road berlinger weisse that isn't sour but instead is replaced by sweetened lemon juice. No finish or aftertaste. Gets even sweeter as it warms to the point when I feel like I'm having sugar water with a few hop pellets thrown in.
Light bodied and highly carbonated. Abrasive, crisp, and honestly, pretty refreshing. No finish and no aftertaste.
This beer serves its purpose well as a thirst quencher. No offensively bad flavors and no notable good ones. Very one dimensional and plain overall, serviceable for a hot summer day or a family BBQ.
Photo of chugalug06
3.65/5 rDev +55.3%
A - Nice big foamy head. Pour is aggressive. Brew is piss color with great clarity.
S - Lots of rice and corn. No hop or malt. Very typical AAL.
T - Good balance for the style. Compared to other styles, this brew is weak, but to other AALs its extraordinary. Very fulfilling brew. Lots of smooth flavor. Doesn't pack the large punch (high abv) of micros.
M - Smooth, delicious, refreshing on a hot day. No bitterness. Perfect carbonation and wonderful medium body. Super easy to put down.
O - I poured this brew into a glass, but drinking it out of a can is almost a must. Definitely one of the better BMC pairings. The 4th of July can is the shiz, best can ever. Brew is best served *ICE* cold
Photo of PeprSprYoFace
2.28/5 rDev -3%
Never reviewed this one even though I've had it a million times. These are the cool American flag cans for the 4th.
Poured into a pils glass. Pours a super lite golden color. Very clear. Nice bubbles though. The one finger white head dissapated to a super thin film. Very little lacing if any.
Not much to be said about the aroma. Just kinda a bit of malt. Very slight pils aroma.
Taste is also bland. Just a bit of malt but then a crispness. Not much else
Mouthfeel is pretty much dry and a bit of refreshing crispness. But it could use a bit more body.
Overall this beer is just good for beer pong really. Wouldn't enjoy it on it's own.
Photo of GossageBrewery
2.48/5 rDev +5.5%
Photo of IPA35
2.5/5 rDev +6.4%
This is the first out of my collection of six foreign lagers (non-Dutch).
First of all, the label.
It says that this is the best beer in the world. Appearantly there is no other brew that costs so much to brew. I find that VERY hard to believe...
The beer is very pale, probably more pale than a Corona Extra.
It has good carbonation.
The smell is very faint and what I smell is in one word: cheap. It has a slight corn/grain scent.
Taste is incredibly bland. It truely tastes like sparkling water with a dash of Heineken added to it. The good thing about a weak taste is that it does not taste horrible either. It has a bit of a strange aftertase, probably because of the adjunct.
Overall a very weak beer, especially because I am into craftbeer now since last winter. Would work well while sitting outside with 30+ degrees Celsius though. But even then there are better alternatives.
Photo of mdaschaf
2.03/5 rDev -13.6%
A: Light yellow with a somewhat foamy white head that dissolves quickly. Very spotty lacing forms and is gone just as fast.
S: Mostly corn and some adjunct, little bit of grain and slight metallic aroma.
T: Pretty weak, some corn and grain, a slight bready malt component and an extremely faint floral flavor. Slight sweetness on the finish.
M: Light to medium bodied with high carbonation. Not the easiest to drink actually, as it has a slighty gritty texture.
O: Just as bad as I remember it. Not very flavorful at all, which is why it appeals to a large population. Plenty of other adjuncts I would prefer...if I have to drink one.
Photo of kylehay2004
2.25/5 rDev -4.3%
I love how people write reviews as if they are trying this beer for the first time as they are writing. Didn't any of you go to college?
So I am sure no one needs to read these reviews anyways but the beer is straw yellow, a half finger head forms. The smell is of barely. Taste is bitter which is noticeable immediately and remains long after you have finished the beer. The beer tastes and looks watered down but really its just lack of hop flavoring.
Photo of ToasterChef
2.3/5 rDev -2.1%
A leftover can purchased for my father to consumer during our Father's Day cookout has been chilling in my fridge. I'm taking it out to review tonight. Born on date is 19 April 2011; it is poured into a pint glass.
Clear straw liquid contains many stream of carbonation, as well as patches of bubbles clinging to the sides of the glass. The head is small, white, and made up of smaller sized bubbles. It disappears quickly and leaves a skim of foam. Swirling the glass leaves a slight film, but it returns to the body quickly, as if it was never there.
The aroma is of corn, which is normally an unpleasant scent, but as far as corn aromas go, this one isn't awful.
When it is served cold, this beer doesn't taste half-bad, considering the generally unappealing nature of the style. There is some corn sweetness and a bit of bitterness, but really, most of the flavor is masked by the low temperature...as it should be. It's hard to give a 1 to something you can't really taste.
Watery with lots of carbonation—that's standard for the style, right?
This beer isn't too bad; I'm not sure it deserves the across the board 1 scores that it often gets. Sure, it is somewhat offensive smelling, and if served at any temperature above ice cold, it doesn't taste much better than it smells. But you could do a lot worse for a macro beer. Still, I probably won't have another one for a long time.
Budweiser from Anheuser-Busch
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carl byron rodgers
Dear Yako66,
I respect your opinion.
I do not except the reference to Hitler, as these kind of loaded words are at best irrelevant at worst extreme, the very kind of extremism (loaded words and rhetoric)used by opposition groups and trade unions that led to the death of Biagi or D'Antona.
Think about it.
Berlusconi's visit to Obama in the States was depicted as a triumph for Berlusconi by most of the media (TV and press) in Italy. Here is a sober analysis.IL Sole-24Ore has a translation of this article on its website.
US and EU focus on Italian PM’s performance
By James Blitz in London
Published: June 24 2009 22:49 | Last updated: June 24 2009 22:49
Silvio Berlusconi’s image will have been badly damaged by the spate of stories over his alleged links with models and starlets. But for western governments, the critical question is not what the Italian prime minister does in his private life but whether he can help solve the pressing problems facing the US and European Union.
For the Obama administration in the US, Mr Berlusconi is a leader with whom some business has to be done. Italy, unlike some states in the Nato alliance, firmly supports the international mission in Afghanistan and has no intention of withdrawing its 2,350 troops. Mr Berlusconi has also became one of the first EU leaders to pledge his country will take inmates from the Guantánamo Bay detention centre. But president Barack Obama is clearly far less keen on Mr Berlusconi than George W. Bush, his predecessor, was.
Mr Berlusconi’s declining influence is not entirely his fault. “The fundamental shift in Europe in the last two years is that France and Germany now have very pro-US governments,” says one western diplomat. “That means Italy matters less to the White House.”
However, some of Mr Berlusconi’s actions have made him a difficult ally. One issue, say western officials, is Mr Berlusconi’s decision to sign a deal with Russia to speed up the new South Stream gas link to Europe. Russia is building the link in competition with the western-backed Nabucco pipeline, which aims to bring gas from Central Asia and the Caspian to Europe and ease dependence on Russian gas. “Berlusconi’s support for [Russian premier Vladimir] Putin on this is causing a lot of anger in Washington and Brussels,” an EU diplomat said.
Italy also infuriated Britain this year by trying to establish a diplomatic dialogue with Iran.
Mr Berlusconi’s next big challenge is July’s G8 summit in L’Aquila, with his decision to greet leaders in a city recently hit by an earthquake causing nervousness in world capitals.
We now know that Berlusconi invites models, escorts, show girls in his official and private residences. In my opinion he has a low opinion of women: they are play things or just sex simbols.If he thought otherwise he would NOT continue to make such jokes as he does about women in public. He has now accused Parrizia D'Addario of being paid a handsome sum for her story. And she in turn has challenged to produce proof. She and her friend have confrimed the story of the parities in Berlusconi's official residence. Photos also have been published of the jewellery given by Berlusconi and of the bathroom in the official residence. Photos of topless girls in Berlusconi's villa in Sardegna have been published. There can be no smoke without fire! So please give me and others the benefit of doubt.
Moreover,we know for a fact that he retracts his statements every other day. If he were really serious he would have given his interview to a more independent journal than the most popular GOSSIP journal than "Chi" which is part of his media empire.
Yes, I will never understand the "TRUST he has with his peolple" as you put it. If there is any justice in life then we shall see.
Food for thought.
Italy: Berlusconi's way
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* The Guardian, Tuesday 23 June 2009
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If a contest was to be held to choose Europe's most sexist politician, Silvio Berlusconi would undoubtedly win. It was Berlusconi who said that the Spanish cabinet, with its equal number of male and female ministers, was "too pink". It was Berlusconi who said there were not enough soldiers in the army to prevent rapes, because Italian women were too beautiful, and who suggested that foreign firms should establish themselves in Italy because Italian secretaries were the most attractive in the world.
And, if it is objected that these were only words - harmless fun, in the president's own estimation - his behaviour toward the women in his own life has also been much criticised, not least by his wife. So it is fitting that a growing scandal concerning a series of beautiful women should be a cause of embarrassment, and perhaps of more than embarrassment, for a leader who had hoped at this moment to be concentrating on his statesman's duties as host of the G8 summit next month. When his wife announced her intention to divorce him because, among other reasons, of his relationship with the 18-year-old model Noemi Letizia, Berlusconi went into his standard escape and evade pattern - alternating dismissive jokes with attacks on the press while refusing to answer any questions - it seemed for a while as if he would get away with it. Now a new set of allegations has surfaced, concerning the attendance of other young women at lavish parties held at Berlusconi's villa. This seems more like dotage than dalliance.
His attitude to women is only one among the constellation of reasons why Italians should not have three times voted Berlusconi into power. His refusal to recognise any conflict between his business and media interests and his political position, his attacks on parliament and the judiciary, his use of his majority to give himself immunity against prosecution, his failure to act against organised crime, his economic mismanagement and the illiberal reforms he is planning would all compete for the top position.
But Berlusconi's success, sadly, is a product rather than a cause of the collapse of Italy's political system, a collapse which has fatally weakened both left and centre, leaving the field free for opportunists and xenophobes. It is a tragedy that the "mani pulite" judicial investigations into political corruption which seemed to promise a grand renewal of Italian politics in the early 90s have led Italy to this pass. Berlusconi's promise in the elections earlier this year - that he would bring Italy stability - means not much more than that Italy and the rest of Europe will have to endure him for quite a while longer.
@ Il Mango di Treviso
You seem to hold a mix of delusions of grandeur "I was last night at a reception with foreign dignitaries..." and vulgarity "Ma cosa vuol dire????" [I can imagine you gesticulating]- rather like the crowd in government.
Whilst on the subject that you mix with foreign dignaitaries, perhaps you're in on the joke where Italian diplomats- not least those at La Farnesina- are left to clear the mess of the gaffes and "slips of the tounge" that people like Berlusconi, Calderoli and all of those other quality ministers make. But then when one hob-knobs which such people, rather like a cuckold husband, you're the last to know of the jokes made about you.
To Mr De Santis:
I really wanted to stay out of this debate from today on, but your comments are just too appaling! You said:
"Gianna 1954 belong to the kind of Italians who are not Italians.You do not find in other counties people spitting on their Land like those typically Italian communists."
Then I probably belong to the same group of people, not that I care which box you decide I belong to. But to say: "Berlusconi lied? To lie to Bolshevics intruded into Justice is a RIGHT,A DUTY,A PLEASURE." is just ignorant and unjust. A prime minister should be honest - end of! It is people like you, who thinks that certain individuals have special privileges, that are ruining the italian dream of a real democracy. It is of people like you that I dream Italy will rid itself one day.
Ma dai Valeriana...of course I knew about Veronica Lario's affair but quite frankly I couldn't care less. She is not a prime minister and I don't care what she does! Simple as that. I wouldn't care about Mr Berlusconi's sexual life if he wasn't the person in charge of Italy. I am not adding comments to this website for the sole purpose of going against one person, but I've had enough of Berlusconi's abuse of power and I want justice. I'm just trying to explain to you my point of view and the reasons behind it, but it seems to me that you are 'climbing mirrors' as we say in Italy. None of the arguments you have arised on this subject (and I have been following from day 1) have any substance in my opinion and the latest (on Ms Lario) is just the final straw. You are now resorting to Mr Berlusconi's wife in order to defend the premier. Give me a break!
To Girolamo:
Firstly, Berlusconi is accused, amongst other things, of using public money for personal purposes and tax evasion. As I said, if he was innocent he would go to court instead of protecting himself with self-made legislation and he would be jailed if found guilty, just as anyone else. This process is part of something called democracy.
Secondly: I know Italy is mainly catholic. This is one of the reasons why I left the country many years ago. However, even the catholic church is now contesting Mr Berlusconi's moral values and recently deemed them unacceptable.
Thirdly: I find your comments and judgement on protestants highly inappropriate, offensive and out of place. Religion is a personal choice and your comment shows your bigotry.
To Valeriana:
The fact that, thanks to Travaglio the world always had a negative impression about Berlusconi is, to me as it is for many people, a good thing. I think we will have to agree to disagree on this. And about Berlusconi's gaffes: NO ONE could have ignored them as they were made at official meetings. They show how unfit he is to hold his position and the fact that you wish they went unnoticed shows that you, too, would prefer to cover up the premier's shameful behaviour.
As predicted last night TG1 gave quite a few minutes to the interview Berlusconi gave to "chi" the very popular GOSSIP journal in Italy and owned by him. And it gave more time to the reaction of the Berlusconi Government ministers and representatives to the article in Famiglia Cristiana than what the editor of that journal actually said about Berlusconi's behaviour as the prime minister of Italy.It is evident that the Direttore of TG1 is in the pocket of the Berlusconi government. I have for one decided to boycott TG1 from today until there is a more independent and "truth loving" Direttore.
Prime minister: “I have never paid a woman. If I’d known she was an escort, I’d have chased her away at once”
Why should one believe the above statement any more than what Patrizia D'Addario declared about her encounters with him? In fact we all know that Berlusoni retracts his own declarations every other day. And Patrizia D'Addario has not retracted what she has stated. In fact she has challenged him to produce proof.
@Girolamo, Santoro is not the Direttore responsible for the transmission of the daily news for TG1. He conducts only one programme called Anno Zero weekly certain times of the year. In fact he does a great service to the public by exposing social injustice, non respect of existing laws, corruption and excesses of politicians. He regularly invites Ghedini, the Deputy and the advocate of Berlusconi to his programme. He is also very critical of PD and its lack of leadership. If you have not seen the recent programme on the road transporters in Italy I urge you to see it. Did you know that more people die on the roads because of the accidents caused by the transporters (cammionisti) than deaths at work? And these deaths are caused mainly because the transporters do not respect laws and there are not enough checks and there are corrupt practices. The public/ voters have the right to know of such deaths and malpractices.So long live Santoro!You would never find such an investigation on the Mediset TV channels.
Secondly, I never argued that the Barigate episode should be in the headlines. However, when compared with news about certain murders of unknown people etc. Barigate is of national importance.
The way the news items are manipulated today in RAI is an ample proof of the lack of freedom of media in Italy. Thank goodness there is BBC, The Economist, the Financial Times and other international press.
@ Fedy
Valeriana has been pushing the propaganda for weeks. At this point it seems to play on "devil's advocate" since the positions are untenable and ridiculuous (just go through all of the past postings), although benign compared to some of the more nasty, incoherent stuff posted here. It's a wind up for which I wouldn't take seriously.
@ stefano de santis
!$*%??? Don't know what's your point, but you convinced me.
@ Valeriana
Your doing a great job of "advocatus diaboli" ;-)
I am compelled to raise another semantic problem. Western newspapers attack Mr. Berlusconi who is just a man. Mr. B.'s fans mantain they are attacking Italy's honour. Technically a man cannot be a party, he cannot as well be a nation, otherwise sentences like "Rome is the capital of Berlusconi" or "Berlusconi has approximately 60 millions inhabitants" would be meaningful ones
So the italian ambassadors complaining for a “systematic campaign of demolition of Italy’s image” are saying something without any sense.
When Italian newspapers reported about the recent crisis of the UK government forthe accessive expenses reimbursements, the English ambassadors did not protest for any “systematic campaign of demolition of UK's image.”
I was surprised that Mr. Frattini, a potentially excellent Foreign Minister unfortunately perpetually bypassed by his prime minister, had ordered such an absurd action. Also because in a democratic country the Government normally cannot intervene on what is printed by national newspapers without violating some essential democratic rule.
Just URSS, in Nazist Germany, in Fascist Italy this could have happened.
The majority of Italians voted him in power. I hope they enjoy him:
about powerful people and how to deal with them, read Machiavelli's History of Florence.
Here are my answers:
1) 1994 Occhetto vs Berlusconi
Do you know Occhetto background?
Answer: Yes, and I also know about Berlusconi, Craxi and P2
2a) Villa Certosa = shame on who sent that photographer (not a freelance!) who found nothing.
2b)The Bari scandal = I think programs with some morals are ashamed of even repeating that SB is involved with such things.
Answer: So you want to shoot the messenger when you hear the message? SB should be ashamed for his sleazy, immoral activities, not the photographer.
"Your are very gullible."
Answer: Not gullible enough to believe you, fortunately.
Looks like the Berlusconi fans on this thread should stick to unsubstantiated slagging off of imaginary communists, rewriting history and nurturing their feeble-minded conspiracy theories.
When they actually have to come up with verifiable facts (not just propaganda, assertion and hearsay), they fail miserably.
Nothing new: the Economist along with most of the foreign press is as blind as the Italian opposition is. Berlusconi has been elected till 2013 and if the opposition persists in its unconvincing message he will be democratically re-elected till 2018...He is there because of the utter incompetence of the opposition. Until that does not change, you might as well get used to Berlusconi being Prime Minister.
The italian instinct is just inherent with too many corruption imbroglios, they just can't' get it right no matter who is in power, one is just worse than the other, so far, I see it as Berlusconi being the better than the previous ministers. It has over 300 protective laws with 1000 loop-holes in it's government, etc. They created their own government to have such conditions, when they formed the latest constitution and being Italians, do you really believe they establish protection laws so that others would have more difficulty to corrupt? No, they created it so that corruption is a prime factor in their government/laws, etc. An "inherent" rip-off artist sitting at a conference table enacting new laws certainly is not going to make laws so that he himself can not be it with's my opinion as I see them, so I hope this is not taken as some kind of slur!! I don't mean it as offense, but factual internet instincts of them.
Bonaiuti letter starts well, but ends ridicolous.
the third point is the least unfortunate:
about the final point, we should read the laws about privacy, but I think that as far as the faces of the guests are hidden their privacy is not at risk, moreover many of the guests were 'public figures', artists and showgirls.
On this last point, I would also congratulate with Bonaiuti for reading the Italian Constitution, albeit selectively.
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FOOD is important. But half an hour before the mid-afternoon deadline on February 23rd that the mediators had set for a peace deal on Kosovo, and with NATO's air force and warships on stand-by, America's negotiators were alarmed to find the ethnic-Albanian Kosovo delegation still at lunch—without having agreed even among themselves. Even so, Chris Hill, the chief American mediator, did manage to salvage something from 17 days of staircase diplomacy between the floors of the Rambouillet chateau outside Paris: a commitment by both the Kosovars and their Serb opponents to accept a settlement in principle, and to meet again on March 15th. But this has only put off the day of reckoning.
It was not supposed to have turned out this way. The Americans had bet on squeezing the Serbs with the threat of bombs on the one side and the Kosovars' approval of the deal on the other. It was thought that the agreement on offer, giving a three-year interim period of wide autonomy to the Serbian province of Kosovo, backed by a NATO peacekeeping force to keep Serbia's soldiers at bay, would be hard for the ethnic Albanians to resist. But resist they did. And the broadest smile this week probably belonged to Slobodan Milosevic, Yugoslavia's president (and still, in effect, Serbia's boss), who was rescued—at least for now—from both bombs and political humiliation.
. . . for Milosevic and the SerbsReuters
The Kosovars' failure to sign was partly due to the absence of a leader. Adem Demaci, who spent 28 years in prison for seeking an independent Kosovo, has emerged as a powerful force within the fragmented ethnic-Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). But, aged 63 and ill, he refused to come to Rambouillet, remaining instead in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana. Even telephone calls from Madeleine Albright, the American secretary of state, among others, failed to persuade him to let the KLA be disarmed. And he was still insisting on an eventual referendum on self-determination for the 1.8m or so ethnic Albanians who make up 90% of Kosovo's people.
The head of the rebel army's political wing, Hasim Thaci, 29, who was the Kosovars' chief negotiator in France, felt obliged to defer to Mr Demaci. He left Rambouillet to consult the older man in Ljubljana—and was sternly told to reject the deal. But he did join the rest of his delegation in approving it “in principle”. The Kosovars will now “consult their people” before March 15th.
Has this killed a deal? Not necessarily. Much depends, in the weeks ahead, on the balance of power among the Kosovars. If Mr Thaci can win over the hard men grouped around Mr Demaci and the KLA's string-pullers in exile, the Kosovars might just swallow the deal as it stands. And the different groups may be less divided than is generally thought. On February 24th the KLA's news agency announced that the Kosovars had set up a “provisional government”, made up of three different ethnic-Albanian groups, including both the KLA and its political rival, led by the more peace-minded Ibrahim Rugova.
But if the Kosovars do not budge, the mediators will be back to square one. Any further concessions towards the ethnic Albanians will make it all but impossible to force the Serbs to sign. As it is, the Serbs seem unmoved by western threats. For all Mrs Albright's posturing, it seems that Mr Milosevic believed her no more than did Mr Demaci. Mr Milosevic is happily blaming the Kosovars for the deadlock. In the eyes of many Serbs, he has seen off the NATO threat and hung on to Kosovo, the cradle of their medieval kingdoms and of their Orthodox heritage.
The Serbs could, however, be more ready to shift than meets the eye. Some well-placed people in Belgrade say that Mira Markovic, Mr Milosevic's influential wife, who leads the small but moneyed Yugoslav Left, has been telling her husband that his regime could not withstand an attack by NATO. And the Serbian delegates to the talks, who gave conditional backing to the autonomy plan but have stood by their rejection of foreign peacekeepers, may be edging towards moderation.
Instead of speaking of “Europe's Vietnam”, Milan Milutinovic, Serbia's president, now says that “the scope and character of an international presence” can be discussed. This is code for saying that a NATO-led force might be acceptable if it included a big Russian contingent; if the military mission's name excluded the word “force”; and if formal control over it were given to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). The NATO countries would reject outright only the last of those demands.
But a big fear is that maverick KLA commanders—local warlords, in effect—and shadowy Serb paramilitaries will try to wreck the peace effort. Clashes in the past week have added several thousand Kosovars to the 200,000-plus who have fled their homes since the strife began a year ago. Every morning a few more bodies, ethnic-Albanian and Serb, are found murdered in unexplained circumstances.
The 1,300 unarmed OSCE “verifiers” in Kosovo are ill-equipped to stop the fighting. More than 2,000 NATO troops are on stand-by in Macedonia, to “extract” OSCE monitors in trouble, or to become the bridgehead of a peacekeeping force. While Messrs Demaci and Milosevic ponder their next moves, both sides are making preparations to fight on. The KLA is still bringing weapons into Kosovo from Albania, while the Yugoslav army has mined a bridge on the road that NATO would use to get in from Macedonia or the OSCE to get out. Indeed, the stakes are as high as ever. | http://www.economist.com/node/187700 | dclm-gs1-046470001 |
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What happened to Sudeep starrer Theertha?
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Every one knows that Sudeep starrer movies will sell like a hot cake. According to Gandhinagar Pandits, his movies will never face any trouble or be delayed. No doubt his movies will at least return the producers" investment.
Now what happened to Sudeep starrer movie Theertha? Even though the movie was started shooting two years ago in the shade of Malayalam movie, The movie is not ready to release. Director Sadhu Kokila, the film crew and the producers have kept themselves tight lipped. They do not want to comment on the delay of the movie.
The movie Theertha has been produced by Gopi and Shriram, who have earlier produced by Vishnuvardhan"s average hit movie Ekadnatha. They have also produced Upendra starrer News and Sudeep"s Nandi. Now the conflict between the producers and the financer has made the movie delay for two years.
Even the movie Ekadantha was delayed for a year due to financial problem. The delay of the film Theertha has hit the image of Sudeep. However, the producers have now come forward and promised to solve the financial problem soon and release the movie in September.
Theertha features Saloni, Ananth Nag, Rangayan Raghu and many others in the casts. Gurukiran has scored the music. Two songs of the film have been shot abroad and one song has been shot in a set.
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BELFAST (Reuters) - Violence flared for a second night around traditional Orange Day parades in Northern Ireland, with police coming under attack from petrol bombs, fireworks, stones and bottles and responding with water cannon.
A total 32 police were injured on Friday night in what Chief Constable Matt Baggott described as "shocking and disgraceful" violence, including head, eye and leg wounds.
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User avatar #955 - hauntzor (11/12/2013) [-]
Most likely my favorite noise collective band. A lot of their instruments are completely built from scratch or circuit-bent from other electronics.
User avatar #957 to #955 - shibe ONLINE (11/12/2013) [-]
i looked up wolf eyes to kinda look up a bit on this project
and supposedly i've already been on their main website
User avatar #956 to #955 - shibe ONLINE (11/12/2013) [-]
Not too big on noise. Just gonna say that. I listen to a bit of dark ambient. Which of course incorporates a lot of sounds of noise.
But I may try this album out.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ctbonhPoSE but dude if you haven't, listen to this. it's field recordings of rain like ****** with reverb or something. It's ******* coolio
User avatar #963 to #956 - hauntzor (11/13/2013) [-]
edit: sounds cool. Reminds me of Nurse With Wound or Brian Eno.
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ah. Didn't know if you'd made that clear.
I'mma listen
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Stormqueen! by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Shrug. Same Darkover story, different setting. I could write the plot out on the back of a cocktail napkin, and then MZB does her usual trick of filling up the extra 300 pages with navel lint.
I have such a hard time writing Darkover reviews, because I hit the fourth sentence and there's nothing more to say. I read these with the hope of there being redeeming features, and then nada. Boring. At this point I think I'm artificially inflating these by a star when there's NOT an egregious instance of sexism every other page.
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Daniel Matheson A feminist with Twilight on her favorite books list. Alright.
Grace Twilight on her GOOD books list, I think you'll find. Jane Eyre is a favorite, Twilight I thought was an effective example of that sort of YA fiction I enjoyed it for what it was, but "favorite" is about six steps too far. I reread Te Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, I don't reread Twilight.
It's not a bad thing to note sexism when it shows up, by the way. I don't like Edward because he's creepy and controlling. I don't like Darkover because the the women feel wrong and false, and are frequently wedged into gender roles which seem kind of nuts when you consider this is a series about spacefaring humans who then settled a planet and inexplicably went RIGHT back to throwback gender roles.
I like books that explain those societal quirks, like in The Handmaid's Tale. I am not a fan of books where it's taken as a given, and Darkover in particular feels terribly dated and very specifically tied to the era in which it was written.
Pern has throwback gender roles, but also has an explanation and eventually an enlightenment. I have a very, very hard time reading future-speculative fiction and encountering female characters who seem less equal than women are today. Why the backtracking? What happened? I guess an argument can be made (and has been made) that those strict gender roles are "natural" and that the past few centuries of women's emancipation is a temporary quirk, but... I don't really buy that without one hell of an explanation. I don't think we'll "naturally" revert to men exclusively holding leadership positions and women being aides, and that's why it's so weird to read about feudal societies in the supposed future.
Longer response than I suppose you're looking for, but there you go.
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ED BURNS may now be better known for roles in high profile movies such as Saving Private Ryan and the more recent 15 Minutes (in which he starred alongside Robert De Niro), but, as his latest movie proves, there is far more to him than mere acting.
The Sidewalks of New York has been written, produced and directed by Burns (as well as starring) and marks a return to the type of form which first brought him to attention with the likes of The Brothers McMullen and She's The One.
That is to say, it's a thoughtful, provocative and frequently amusing tale about how people fall in and out of love in a city as big as New York, though ultimately inconsequential.
Featuring a terrific cast, including Dennis Farina, Stanley Tucci and Heather Graham, it is the type of movie that is almost certain to provoke a debate between the sexes after it has finished and one which, no doubt, contains at least one pertinent moment for each viewer.
Burns heads the cast as Tommy, a successful `bridge-and-tunnel' guy who yearns for nothing more than stability in a relationship. After breaking up with his long-time girlfriend, Tommy ventures tentatively back into the dating world, where he meets Rosario Dawson's spirited Italian Puerto-Rican, Maria, who teaches at an upscale grammar school, and Graham's real estate agent Annie, who is starting to suspect her husband (Tucci) of having an affair.
Serving as Tommy's mentor, meanwhile, is the sublime Farina, whose seasoned seducer, Carpo, readily confesses to having bedded 500 women and who provides the majority of the movie's funniest moments - in one glorious moment he attempts to chat up a woman with the legendary phrase, 'do you want to sit up on the porch with the pup, or run in the yard with the big dog?'.
Also along for the ride is David Krumholtz's down at heel musician doorman, Benjamin, who starts off by seeking a reunion with the aforementioned Maria, but who ends up falling hopelessly in love with Brittany Murphy's spirited waitress, Ashley, who, in turn, is having an affair with Tucci's arrogant dentist.
If there is a criticism of Burns' movie, it's that there are simply too many characters to develop fully, which means that certain favourites aren't afforded as much screen time as they should be. Farina, in particular, is criminally under-used, while Dawson's Maria drifts out of proceedings for too long during the movie's middle section.
Burns, though, is always good value when on screen, as is Krumholtz's smitten Benjamin, who manages to transform his character from an irritating stalker into someone quite likeable by the movie's conclusion.
And while Tucci and Graham are as good as we have long come to expect in their respective roles (even if they make an unlikely couple), others, such as Murphy (right, of Don't Say A Word fame) and Dawson, offer promising signs for the future.
The Sidewalks of New York further benefits from a strong script and some wry observations about the nature of relationships, all of which should appeal to the more discerning viewer.
At a time when the majority of American movies seem pre-occupied with teen angst and gross out relationship gags, it is refreshing to find something a little meatier on the subject, that provides some food for thought.
It won't appeal to all tastes (and will, no doubt, be too slow for some) but as an intelligent insight into life, love and grown-ups, it certainly has our recommendation. | http://www.indielondon.co.uk/film/sidewalks_newyork.html | dclm-gs1-046770001 |
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Insome places, the damage was bad. Seattle's Pioneer Square anddowntown Olympia were two of the most damaged urbanareas.
The quake struckjust before 11:00 a.m., and Nisqually became aseismic wake up call in the middle of the day.
I don't remember feeling much of anything, saidJack Snell of Lake City, whowas in his home at the time. But he is aware that the next quake might be a lot bigger.
I'm sure this area here is not very good for an earthquake, he said.
I thought, by golly, if I can do something to help science I'll do that, Snellsaid.
Netquakes helps scientists beef up their network of seismometers around Washington, particularly in the especially earthquake-vulnerable western half.It will all be piped in to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.These strong motion sensors will paint a detailed picture of what the ground under our feet looks like. That information helps predict which parts of the state are going to shake more and which will shake less.
There are three basic types of quakes under Washington.Nisqually, the 1965 and 1949 quakes were deep, happening about 30 miles below the surface, likely cracking of the ocean floor near the mantle of the earth.Their depth minimizes their damage.
Science is busy pulling back the veil that shrouds our earthquake risks.Everyday the picture gets a little clearer, and the news a little more disconcerting.That's where the third type of quake comes into play -- faults near or at the surface.
Just last week one of those quakes played out in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was a shallow fault,responsible for a 6.3 magnitude earthquake thatkilled at least 145 people.
From exposed evidence of the Seattle Fault he spotted under I-5 near Downtown Seattle while stuck in traffic, to new frightening evidence found in 2009 that suggests the South Whidbey Island fault extends east of the Cascade mountains to near Yakima.By following aerial surveys, Sherrod digs trenches across suspected faults looking for evidence and exposing the danger.
Are they active? How big are the earthquakes they produce? I call that first order of problems, said Sherrod. And we're just getting some of those questions answered now.
In 2005, the potential devastation from one of these faults was addressed in a study looking at a6.7 magnitude quake on the Seattle Fault.
While the quake would technically be smaller than Nisqually, it's damage far, far greater because it's a lot closer.That study in part prepared by Washington's Emergency Management Division estimated it would kill 1,600 people, injure 24,000 others and destroy 9,700 buildings.
Where does the Seattle Fault go to the west? Where does it go to the east? asked Sherrod.
Those are answers he is trying to find.
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Agincourt 08-28-2009 01:08 PM
Launched Achievement
I've been playing the Force Unleashed for a long time and am very close to getting all the achievements of the game, but one really just doesn't make any sense to me. The achievement of 'Launched' requires killing 100 enemies with grapple moves, but moves like Sith punt just don't work. Or at least I don't know if I get it right. What is a grapple move and is there anything that would help?
When I press attack (B) and jump (A), I just swing the lightsaber and jump and that's all. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks
JKAMaster 08-28-2009 06:57 PM
I think it means the mid air grab combos. Use the Y+B, or XXXB, with the grapple slam combos once you get the enemy in the air (X+A, Y+B)
Shem 08-28-2009 07:41 PM
There are two grapple moves you can use that will give you that achievement (take it from me since I've gotten every achievement in TFU, including the five new ones that came with the Tatooine mission this morning).
Agincourt 08-28-2009 09:04 PM
You mean Y and B simultaneously? Tried it a number of times and I either just attack or my opponents just knock me down. Was this a hard one to get? Thanks
JKAMaster 08-29-2009 05:19 AM
Yes, and the XXXB combo to launch them in the air. Then finish it with another simultaneous combo to complete the grapple. The moves should slam the opponent to the ground.
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U.S. soldiers try to rebuild Najaf, where a shaky cease-fire deal is in place with supporters of rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. American soldiers begin asking Iraqis to turn in their arms for cash at the city's police station. But as the program begins, some Iraqis arrive thinking they're applying for vacant police jobs. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.
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Attacks in Egypt and London may illustrate a shift in the way terrorists operate. University of Pennsylvania professor Marc Sageman tells Jacki Lyden "freelancers" carry out some attacks that are not always endorsed by al Qaeda.
Authorities in both Great Britain and Egypt have been pursuing leads in separate terrorism investigations over the weekend. Police in England announced today they've arrested a third man in connection with the July 21st attempted bombings in London. They're also looking into links between London's bombers and terror cells in Somalia and Ethiopia. Professor Marc Sageman with the University of Pennsylvania has been studying al-Qaeda since its inception in 1988. He says connections between al-Qaeda and terrorist cells in countries around the world are indirect. I spoke with him earlier today.
Professor MARC SAGEMAN (University of Pennsylvania): This whole terrorist threat has evolved because of our success in destroying the training camps and the communication between al-Qaeda central and their followers. But the social movement--a violent Islamist, born-again social movement--has increased. And so what we have now is randomly distributed attacks all over the world for free-lancers who want to make a name for themselves. And the old al-Qaeda is now in a position to retrospectively accept the gift of these free-lancers. These free-lancers, of course, do this operation in the name of al-Qaeda, and al-Qaeda then can pick and choose which one they accept. For instance, they will not accept any operation that kills children, so they rejected Beslan. And I think they rejected last week's killing of about 25 Iraqi children.
LYDEN: What support, if any, do you think that the smaller free-lancers, if you will, get from the established networks?
Prof. SAGEMAN: Well, I think that they want to be part of this whole movement, this jihad. And they get that from al-Qaeda central because they access the Web sites anonymously. And, of course, the leadership can post goals, documents, directions on this these Web sites. So the command and control is indirect through the Internet, and what they want to do is they just want to create a better world. It's very much like young people 30 years ago became Communists for similar ideals. They wanted to build a better world. They wanted to build a utopia. And they thought that joining the Communist Party would be that method. Now they turn to militant Islam.
LYDEN: You did a psychological assessment of the Madrid bombers. Can you tell us a little bit more about the kinds of family these people came from?
Prof. SAGEMAN: Madrid was actually a mixture of several groups. You had the students who came from foreign countries, such as Morocco and Tunisia, who felt homesick and went to the mosque to find other Muslims and got into a group of militant people. And then you have a group of drug dealers who became religious and joined them, and they, of course, were the one who had the contacts to get the dynamite to do the horrors of March 11th in Madrid.
LYDEN: What would you say are the implications of this looser network on the entire movement of suicide bombing and terror?
Prof. SAGEMAN: Well, that forces us to really fight it in two ways: One is that we actually do have to eliminate the people who are currently terrorists because we're not going to change their mind; the much harder task is to prevent the next generation from becoming terrorists. And this is very much becoming a geological warfare.
LYDEN: Marc Sageman is an adjunct professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania's Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict.
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CYCLING; On Bastille Day, French Riders Are Upstaged By Dutch
Published: July 15, 2002
Vincent Barteau, who did it in 1989, knows what it's like to be a Frenchman who wins the Tour de France stage on Bastille Day, before huge crowds with hearts swelling with chauvinistic pride.
''You cry, you cry, you're happy, you cry, you keep crying,'' he said. ''You say to yourself, 'I'm the hero of France today.' That goes on all night. It's wonderful.''
And the secret to winning the crown jewel?
''The trick is to pedal faster than the others,'' he said with a guffaw.
The last laugh was on Barteau, now a television commentator, and more than 59 million other French citizens today. On the national holiday commemorating the day that the Bastille prison fell, and with it the French monarchy, so did the dream of a Frenchman winning today's eighth stage.
Finishing first in the 217.5-kilometer (134.9-mile) stage was a Dutchman, Karsten Kroon of the Rabobank team. The second man was also a Dutchman, Servais Knaven of Domo. The third man was another Dutchman, Erik Dekker of Rabobank.
Fourth, fifth and sixth, hardly the positions that tens of thousands at the finish here yearned for, were Frenchmen: Franck Renier of Bonjour, Sébastien Hinault of Crédit Agricole and Stéphane Augé of Jean Delatour. In seventh place was Raivis Belohvosciks, a Latvian with Lampre.
After a series of early attacks, the seven took off with less than 109 kilometers (67.7 miles) remaining, built a lead that reached a maximum of six minutes and stayed away to the sprint finish. Showing good strength in sunny and warm weather, they took turns trying to bolt away from one another near the end, where Kroon won easily.
He was timed in 4 hours 36 minutes 52 seconds, an average of 47 kilometers (29.2 miles) an hour. Most of the rest of the 182-man field crossed the line 1:55 later.
The overall leadership remained unchanged on the eve of a long individual time trial that should start sorting out the contenders.
For now at least, Igor González de Galdeano, a Spaniard with ONCE, continued to wear the yellow jersey, leading by four seconds over his compatriot and teammate Joseba Beloki. Jörg Jaksche, a German with ONCE, is third, 12 seconds back, with Lance Armstrong, the defending champion, in eighth place, 34 seconds behind González de Galdeano.
This eighth of 20 daily stages started in Saint-Martin-de-Landelles, where the Tour de France honored one of its own, Daniel Mangeas, the on-site race announcer since 1976 who warms up the crowds at starts, where he introduces each rider, and at finishes, where he keeps posting the news en route.
Mangeas is a native and resident of Saint-Martin-de-Landelles, a pretty place with many flowers, in Normandy. He also sponsors a bicycle race there, the Polynormande, every August.
Never in his long career has he been known to utter an unkind word about a rider over the microphone. Instead he will recall an impressive 36th place in a minor race or a promising performance. For the true champions, there are no superlatives too glorious, no adjectives too fulsome.
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Lack of demand, not government regulation, is the big problem with the economy.
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Key senators are reported close to a deal on legislation to overhaul financial regulations.
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#!/usr/bin/perl $bc = abs(shift || 100); $p_sub = sub { 'Take ' . (shift == 1 ? 'it' : 'one') . " down, pass it around,\n" }; $b_sub = sub { 'bottle' . (shift != 1 ? 's' : '') }; $c_sub = sub { $_ = shift||'No'; "$_ " . &$b_sub($_) . ' of beer' }; $w_sub = sub { &$c_sub(shift) . " on the wall"; }; $sub = sub { $_ = shift; print &$w_sub($_), ",\n", &$c_sub($_), ",\n", &$p_sub($_), &$w_sub(--$_), ".\n\n" }; map(&$sub($_), reverse(1 .. $bc)); print "burp!\n";
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Denis Donaldson, the senior Sinn Féin administrator who had admitted being a British agent for 20 years, was yesterday found shot dead inside the isolated cottage to which he had retreated in Co Donegal. Reports last night suggested his body had been mutilated and his right hand almost severed.
Suspicions that he had been murdered by dissident Republicans cast a shadow over the government's hopes of reviving the stalled political process . Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, the Irish prime minister, are due to meet tomorrow in the hope of restoring devolved government to the province. Downing Street insisted Mr Blair's visit would go ahead. Mr Donaldson had been one of the key figures charged in connection with the so-called Stormont spy ring, an affair which brought down the last devolved assembly in 2002.
The case against him and two others eventually collapsed when it emerged last December that he had been spying for British intelligence since the 1980s. His death was roundly condemned last night, with Peter Hain, the Northern Ireland secretary, saying he was "completely appalled by this barbaric act".
Mr Ahern added: "We hope that whoever was responsible for this callous act will be brought to justice as soon as possible." The Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams MP, said he condemned anyone who had killed Mr Donaldson. In a brief statement, the IRA insisted that it had "no involvement whatsoever" in the killing. It was signed, as with all statements, from the leadership, P O'Neill.
The Democratic Unionist leader, Ian Paisley, told Channel 4 News: "We don't know who has done this but the finger must be pointed towards those who were angry at what this man had done." The Ulster Unionist leader, Sir Reg Empey, said the authorities might never know the perpetrators. "There was an inevitability about this. A lot of people in the republican movement and other organisations will sleep better knowing he is out of the way. Some people will see it as tidying up loose ends." | http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/apr/05/northernireland.northernireland1 | dclm-gs1-047290001 |
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out. a tale of two cities here, the city on the left, the winning city is baltimore maryland. the city on the right is, we hope still the winning city, depending on the situation when all the reports come in it will be -- that's the city of new orleans. joe flacco, the ravens quarterback is the most valuable player, he's speaking now, addressing the media. let's listen in. >> you've seen those guys do it. they have the ability to score and score quickly. that's kind of what they did there. we got them to 28-6, they were able to go the length of the field and put a good drive together. and we kind of -- you know, we didn't get anywhere on our third down, first, second and third down. we got a punt return and boom. games happen -- games can go like that, that's why you have to take care of the football and get first downs, but -- we have a team that no matter what the situation, we're going to overcome it to the best of our ability and it's kind of fitting that we won it like that today. >> is it special for you? >> yeah, it's unbelievable. especially the way it happened. the niners driv
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Finland Dumps Handwriting In Favor of Typing
Geof Writing != handwriting (523 comments)
As your sources explain, the practice of writing is important for learning. Through writing we develop thoughts, compose them, as fyngyrz says below, reformulate them. Writing is a way of thinking.
The issue, however, is not writing: it is handwriting. Typing, printing and cursive (I hesitate to include texting, as I find even swype/swiftkey excruciatingly slow, and I'm pretty sure using my thumb would bring on early arthritis) are all methods of writing. The links you include speak only of writing, not handwriting. They are not about the importance of cursive.
I strongly suspect that the different technical affordances of handwriting compared to typing do indeed lead to different learning experiences. One enables editing, the other demands sentences be formulated before they are written, and that subsequent words be adapted to what has already put down. Are such differences educationally significant?
One study found handwriting enhanced student composition more than did typing, though the authors put this down more to fluency (speed) and point to the importance of teaching touch-typing. This might actually support the Finnish position. Another article theorizes that there might be benefits to manual writing. A study of university student essay examinations found no difference in performance. This study found grade 6 students could type faster than they could write by hand.
This is just the result of a quick search, but I don't see strong evidence one way or the other.
Personally, my handwriting is awful. My teachers didn't even teach me how to hold a pen correctly (I have been unable to correct by habit of using all 5 fingers). Through university I took notes in my own simplified printing (each letter one stroke with at most one reversal), a system I still use when speed matters. Recently I learned that movement should come from the arm, not the wrist; for the first time, my handwriting became legible. Learning to type, however, felt like it opened up the world to me. I wish I could write fluent cursive. Is Finland doing the right thing? Darned if I know.
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Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken"
Geof Not all means of expression are valid & equal (739 comments)
Your argument applies to itself. You are accusing people of abdicating judgment: your solution is to not judge Linus! Furthermore, you are confusing criticism of the messenger with criticism of the message; as SuperBanana points out, this is a straw man argument.
Not all opinions are valid and equal: nor are all means of expressing them. We have the right to speak freely; we also have the right to judge such speech as invalid or unacceptable. I suggest this right to judge is in fact an obligation. Silence implies consent. Abusive behavior should be called out. You may argue that Linus was not abusive, but to argue that we should never make such judgments in the first place is to fall prey to the false equivalence you decry.
about 5 months ago
Figuring Out the iPad's Place
Geof Tablets are toys (333 comments)
I have an iPad Air and Zagg keyboard case for it. Toys. Both of them, toys.
I agree. Tablets are almost entirely without practical use. With one exception: reading PDFs.
I bought mine for reading role playing game PDFs as I am running out of shelf space. It is *great* for that. What I find rather stunning is how useless it is for anything else. I had thought tablets were toys, but after the success of the iPad I figured I was probably wrong. Apparently not.
(Mine is an Xperia Tablet Z. With its 16:10 screen and 224 ppi it's perhaps not as good as an iPad for PDFs, but it's not as locked down, it's light, and on sale with its SD card slot it was 33% cheaper. At least until !@#$ing Google neutered the SD card with Android 4.4, but that's another story.)
about 8 months ago
Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds!
Geof Non-JS mode is buggy: misses comments (2219 comments)
Comments are sometimes missing from the HTML-only view. For example, try finding comment #37499132 by user "bugnuts" in the following discussion in both the JS and HTML-only views:
Comments #37499256 by NoSig and #37500168 by pRock85 are also missing.
It appears that an entire contiguous block of comments has gone missing between pages 2 and 3 of the nested view. Some discussions are missing hundreds of comments. In general, a higher proportion of comments (sometimes hundreds) go missing in longer discussions. I have a suspicion that this may have to do with how long threads cross page boundaries. In some discussions with long threads (some with more than 100 comments in a single thread), subsequent pages would be identical or near identical. The software seems to try to start comment display on a new page at the root of the current thread. Maybe in some cases this leads to mis-counting how many new comments are being shown, and thus to gaps.
I discovered this in 2012 when analyzing older Slashdot discussions. I reported it but did not hear back. I suppose it is possible it has been fixed for newer discussions but not for old ones. Also, with the decline in commenting activity on Slashdot in recent years it should be less likely to occur.
To return to the original topic, I find the beta unusable because there is no way to display high-scoring comments with context, then expand out low-scoring comments to investigate surrounding threads. This destroys the value of Slashdot's amazing moderation system. Without it I can neither read nor moderate effectively. If it is done away with, I won't be coming back. I'm not a fan of the new look either, but unlike the integrity of the moderation system that is not critical.
about a year ago
Thousands of Gas Leaks Discovered Under Streets of Washington DC
Geof Except: "little incentive to fix small leaks" (292 comments)
From the article:
If this is true (I imagine it might vary by jurisdiction), then the incentive runs the other way: companies are paid to pump gas into the pipes regardless of whether it reaches its destination. They actually get to sell more gas if some of it leaks.
In theory, there would be an optimal level of leaks that maximizes profits; from a financial point of view it would actually make sense for a company to ensure that leaks did not fall below this number. I'm certainly not suggesting companies are choosing to leak deliberately (it seems unlikely to me), but that's one hell of an incentive structure.
If the quote is accurate and representative. Journalists have been known to get things wrong. I would be curious to hear whether you know about that side of things.
about a year ago
Could We "Wikify" Scholarly Canons?
Geof Scholar of open access estimates up to 96% savings (63 comments)
If more of scholarship turned toward open access, libraries could shift money from paying for subscriptions to supporting journals or journal mirrors. They'd likely save considerable cash doing so.
Heather Morrison, a colleague of mine, researched this. She estimated savings as high as 96%. The details are in her dissertation, Freedom for scholarship in the internet age - which is, of course, open access. The cost estimates are on page 86 (the 98th page of the PDF).
about a year ago
HTTP 2.0 Will Be a Binary Protocol
Geof Unnecessary binary forks the tool base (566 comments)
I agree that it's a stupid idea, but there is almost nothing about text that makes it special. If the HTTP/2.0 standard is actually a standard, then it will be pretty easy to make an app or a plugin that translates it.
There's almost nothing about English that makes it special, but I wouldn't recommend documenting the spec in Klingon. (To be fair, you agree that binary is a bad idea.) Or hey, would could use APL for the reference implementation!
Intrinsically, you are correct: there's nothing much special about text. But the significance of text isn't intrinsic: it is extrinsic. Text is special because it's standard. We have a rich selection and history of tools, techniques, idioms and sober experience to draw on when it comes to dealing with text. With a new binary format we would have none of that. Your imagined translator has a lot of work to do before it can match up to the existing capabilities of text-oriented tools, let alone exceed them. Unnecessary binary formats effectively fork the development infrastructure.
If you ask me, it makes about as much sense as replacing the Roman alphabet with Chinese idiograms for English. Chinese characters are for more information dense: you can fit more on a page and you can read it faster. In many respects it's more efficient (it has even proven effective as a shared written form for diverse spoken dialects). That doesn't make it a good idea, regardless of the availability of translators.
We have plenty of historical examples of text protocols providing advantages over their binary equivalents. Do we have any good examples of the opposite: in which a binary protocol replaced a text protocol and proved superior by virtue of being binary?
about a year and a half ago
Security Researcher Attacked While At Conference
Geof Some of her words and his (666 comments)
From her blog (her post is long and detailed):
I don’t want to write this. I don’t want to get caught up in anything to do with this women in infosec bit. Everyone who does get lambasted so badly at this point I’d rather avoid it entirely. You can’t say anything about sexism without getting lumped in with the creeper cards or the talk canceling at Bsides SF. . . . I’m bogged down in book edits. I’m teaching a lot of new classes this summer and fall. Needless to say, I don’t have time to process this much less write about it. Plus I’ve gotten enough pushback already. People I thought were my friends and colleagues have said things to me about this that have cut deeper than the actual assault ever could. I don’t want to deal with more of that. I don’t want to see the comments for this post. But I feel like I have to do this. I weighed my options. If I shut up and do nothing and later hear he did this to someone else, I will feel personally responsible. I have to do everything I can to make sure another speaker or attendee doesn’t get worse than I got.
This wasn’t like any of those grey areas that make anybody question the validity of any rape claim. . . . . We talk for a little bit about nothing consequential. Guy jumps on me and pins me down. . . . Perhaps I was not making myself clear, “No!” “Stop!” “I don’t want to do this!” . . . Once he had my pants down and his pants down and was completely ignoring my shouting for him to stop, it suddenly became clear to me what was about to go down. He was holding my arms down of course, so I leaned up and bit him on the arm as hard as I could, at which point he started swearing and punched me in the face. . . . I managed to lunge up towards the table and grab hold of a coffee cup. I knew I only had one shot. So I hit him with everything I had, and I got him right in the temple. And guess what, he let me go.
This is the last thing I have to say about all this. My duty is done. I don’t want to be the poster girl for infosec feminism. I want to be a researcher, and a trainer, and a speaker, and an icon.
From his blog (he wrote very little):
It was brought to my attention a recent flood of Twitter messages containing a number of accusations (ranging from "horrible", to "very horrible") against my person. The accusations were originated by someone who happened to be a speaker at the same Conference . . . and, for reasons that I didn't and don't understand, has been repeating blatant lies, every time magnifying it a bit more -- which nobody in their right mind could believe. . . . think about events that happened in the last decade based on "assumptions", or the kind of anti-humanitarian scenarios this world has experienced simply because some mentally-disordered person came up with a blatant lie that everyone followed with questioning. I will personally not contribute to the existing drama, since it someone else's game to get attention at any price.
What disturbs me here is the knee-jerk suggestion that she invented the story for some unspecified reason. Statistically, only a very small number of rape accusations turn out to be fabricated. Of course I don't know for sure what happened. I've never even heard of these people before. But based on the little evidence I have seen, I know who I believe.
about a year and a half ago
Gnome Founder Miguel de Icaza Moves To Mac
Geof I went the other way, OS X - Linux (815 comments)
I went the other way about two and a half years ago. I'm sure someone will tell me I was doing it wrong; I wouldn't be surprised if they're right. But I found the FOSS package managers for OS X incredibly painful to work with. I remember it taking at least a day of mucking around with compiling and pre-built binaries just to get the tools I needed for web development. It took me ten minutes to get the same thing working in Ubuntu.
Still, there were plenty of headaches: sleep mode, hybrid graphics and synaptics. Even though I had been avoiding dependence on proprietary software since activation chased me away from Windows, I had to give up really useful Mac tools like Scrivener, Tinderbox and Screen Flow (I still boot the Mac when I need to do a screencast). I used to be a programmer. Now I'm a social scientist. These days I do mostly reading and writing, not programming; the loss of Scrivener was a hard blow. I smoothed the way by writing my own tool.
OS X was significantly better for all but the most ordinary end-user applications. My area of research is the online commons - copyright, FOSS, creative commons - stuff like that. I could make my peace with Apple when they were only a pipsqueak tyrant. When they released the iPad and it was locked down, I simply couldn't stomach it anymore: and I was tying myself to an ecosystem that could be progressively enclosed by Apple. A friend of mine - a social scientist, not a programmer - switched to Mint, proving it was finally doable. Also, XMonad is pretty cool, and my search for a decent editor finally led me to take vim seriously.
Linux isn't perfect, but it's come a long way since I first used it for development in 1993. It really is usable - and sometimes excellent - for everyday work. Using a platform is supporting that platform. I wouldn't tell anyone else what to do, but I'm content to use this one.
about 2 years ago
Is the Concept of 'Cyberspace' Stupid?
Geof Space != place, e.g. mathematical spaces (292 comments)
about 2 years ago
Have Questions For MIT's Aaron Swartz Review?
Geof That is not the only legitimate approach (175 comments)
I have argued before that this is only one kind of civil disobedience. The context of MLK's quote and actions is important: he is laying out a strategy and criticizing the actions of his opponents.
He's not kidding about anarchy. The torture and lynchings carried out by rabid segregationists were truly barbaric. The Civil Rights movement depended on the defense of law. While protesters fought local and state laws, they appealed to friendly rulings from the Supreme Court. Their aim was to draw in the federal government to affirm the existing legal rights of blacks. The quote you have chosen, and indeed the letter as a whole, is an effort to walk a delicate line, defending the right to civil disobedience while reaffirming respect for the laws that the movement depended on for success.
You can't simply take this quote out of context and treat it as a universal claim about all law-breaking. In the same letter he gives the example of the Boston Tea Party: but the people who participated in that event disguised themselves to avoid being caught. Then there's this:
The freedom fighters in Hungary in 1956 actually fought. People died. Nor do I think for a moment that MLK would say all resistance to Nazi laws must be open, loving and done with a willingness to accept the consequences. More relevant to Civil Rights, of course, was the previous history of slavery. No-one on the Underground Railroad broke the law openly. When escaping slaves got cold feet, Harriet Tubman would force them to continue at gunpoint lest they reveal the identities of others. Not only was such lawbreaking justified: I would suggest that inaction in the face of such great injustice was wrong.
The matter of civil disobedience cannot be resolved without considering context. Is the tactic effective? Is it likely to produce bad outcomes (e.g. anarchy)? Is the law just in its intent, its consequences, and its application? Is it politically legitimate? Are there better alternatives for opposing it? MLK chose what he believed was the most lawful way to achieve a just end. Looking at the state of copyright law and politics in the U.S. and internationally (Swartz's manifesto explicitly discusses access to knowledge and the developing world) and the outcomes (his actions were hardly likely to provoke anarchy), I think Swartz may have done likewise.
I have written more previously, which I won't repeat here.
about 2 years ago
Geof This is about defining/defending "the profession" (248 comments)
behavior that is unacceptable in a computing professional (Simonelis)
no longer suited for the profession (Dawson)
about 2 years ago
Hacktivism: Civil Disobedience Or Cyber Crime?
Geof Mod parent up: no need to accept punishment (243 comments)
Many people argue that if you break the law on principle and don't accept the punishment you're doing it wrong. This is incorrect. There are, as you so nicely illustrate, other approaches. Indeed, the reason for acquiescing to punishment is precisely to highlight the law's abuse! Arguing that protest is unethical if it does not accept punishment is a neat trick. In effect, it is often little different from arguing that the law is right because it is the law.
The problem is that the American civil rights movement has been taken a standard for protest. But it was an unusual case. The protesters knew that they were in fact acting in accordance with their legal rights, and could appeal to the federal government for support. This is hardly a universal illustration of how to defy the law.
The strategy of the civil rights movement began with a legal agenda pursued by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), resulting in a number of Supreme Court decisions in the 1940s and 1950s affirming the civil rights of African Americans. Activists then attempted to nonviolently assert those rights, knowing that segregationists would respond with violence. The ensuing crisis would compel the federal government to enforce rights upheld by the courts.
The other standard for civil disobedience is Gandhi. But like the civil rights movement, he used it because it was an effective tactic:
The underground railroad is an example that makes clear that the ideal of submitting to punishment can be antithetical to principled, legitimate defiance of the law. On the Volokh Conspiracy, a commenter named Mark Nelson makes the point:
I'm rather confused by the widespread misconception (repeated here) that civil disobedience is primarily about being willing to serve jail time. That's one possible tactic, to draw attention to a cause and the injustice of a law by being arrested amidst much publicity. But it's not the only or historically the main tactic. Another major reason for civil disobedience is to render a law unenforceable by flouting it. That may (depending on the person/situation) be intended either to eventually get the law changed by demonstrating to the public that it's manifestly unenforceable, or simply to directly circumvent it, effectively nullifying it whether it gets repealed or not.
The tactic can actually be enhanced by not being caught in some cases. One famous American example: the Boston Tea Party was an act of civil disobedience performed by people who took some care to ensure they would not be caught. It was mostly an act of symbolic politics, but did not involve anyone getting arrested as part of the symbolism: they disguised themselves and escaped with impunity. Anon Y. Mous also mentions the Underground Railroad, another prominent example of civil disobedience explicitly aimed at violating the law without being caught, in that case of the direct-circumvention variety.
In Swartz's case, the goal was simply to release academic papers to the public, producing an actual "fact on the ground", not to make a symbolic protest against intellectual property by going to jail.
The idea that one cannot legitimately protest the law without suffering for it is an oddly puritanical myth that needs to be debunked.
about 2 years ago
Does All of Science Really Move In 'Paradigm Shifts'?
Geof You misunderstand the article (265 comments)
the article complains at great length that the social sciences are a mistake: they're really veiled branches of philosophy
The article says no such thing:
Value judgments are always at the core of the social sciences. “In the end,” wrote Irving Kristol, “the only authentic criterion for judging any economic or political system, or any set of social institutions, is this: what kind of people emerge from them?” And precisely because we differ on what kind of people should emerge from our institutions, our scientific judgments about them are inevitably tied to our value commitments. But this is not to say that those values, or the scientific work that rests on them, cannot be publicly debated according to recognized standards. . . .
The lasting value of Kuhn’s thesis in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is that it reminds us that any science, however apparently purified of the taint of philosophical speculation, is nevertheless embedded in a philosophical framework — and that the great success of physics and biology is due not to their actual independence from philosophy but rather to physicists’ and biologists’ dismissal of it.
In other words, physics and biology sciences, just like social science, are reliant on philosophy: but there normal functioning - what Kuhn calls "normal science" - depends on them disregarding this dependence. But when a crisis is reached, philosophy becomes central. (I had to read that and the following text a few times to appreciate the important distinction between independence and dismissal.)
Here is Kuhn in the book itself, explaining why competing paradigms are incommensurable. Arguing agains Popper's idea of falsification, his point is that scientific method cannot provide a foolproof method for deciding between them:
No process yet disclosed by the historical study of scientific development at all resembles the methodological stereotype of falsification in direct comparison with nature. . . . anomalous experiences may not be identified with falsifying ones. Indeed, I doubt that the latter exist. As has repeatedly been emphasized before, no theory ever solves all the puzzles with which it is confronted at a given time; nor are the solutions already achieved often perfect. On the contrary, it is just the incompleteness and imperfection of the existing data-theory fit that, at any time, define many of the puzzles that characterize normal science. If any and every failure to fit were ground fo theory rejection, all theories ought to be rejected at all times. On the other hand, if only severe failure to fit justifies theory rejection, then the Popperians will require some criterion of “improbability” or of “degree of falsification”.
(Frankly, this is probably a little unfair. Perhaps no falsifying test can be absolutely perfect, but some can come awfully close.) Ultimately, when a paradigm shift takes place it can only be resolved through consensus, not scientific objectivity. Thus the character of a scientific community is central to his inquiry and his theory:
. . . the choice between . . . competing paradigms proves to be a choice between incompatible modes of community life. Because it has that character, the choice is not and cannot be determined merely by the evaluative procedures characteristic of normal science, for those depende in part upon a particular paradigm, and that paradigm is at issue. . . . Each group uses its own paradigm to argue in that paradigm's defense.
The philosopher Juergen Habermas has explored the nature of science also. He argues that the scientific questions are decided on the basis of evidence: but that no objective method can determine what counts as evidence. It is the consensus of the community of scientists that makes this judgement. Thus the fundamental basis for science is not scientific. Look at climate science: the existence consensus is not incidental to the question of climate change: it is an essential part of how science actually works. Just as science produces theories, not Truths, it is dependent on consensus about measurements, not objective facts.
On this basis, social sciences are science. They are not thinly-veiled philosophy: they are empirical. Kuhn suggests, however, that they lack paradigms and are therefore different from the natural sciences. One of the dangers pointed out particularly by the article and by Popper in particular is that many social scientists have claimed scientific objectivity akin to that of physics or biology, ignoring the philosophical foundations of their fields. In that sense you are right (just look at the current state of neoclassical economics - though it's clear that is a field subscribing to a very influential paradigm). But the social sciences are not exceptional in this - all sciences have philosophy at their base. Unfortunately, in the rush to extreme postmodernism this was taken by many mean that science is just another way of knowing with no special claim to knowledge. This extreme interpretation has abated, however; I suspect climate change is one major reason why.
about 2 years ago
The Evolution of the Computer Keyboard
Geof Article is biased (201 comments)
The Liebowitz and Margolis article only considers typing speed. On that basis, it finds a lack of evidence that Dvorak is significantly faster, and substantial evidence that it is only slightly faster (on the order of 5%). More importantly, the article claims that the costs of switching would likely wipe out any gains:
There are several versions of the claim that a switch to Dvorak would not be worthwhile. The strongest. which we do not make, is that Qwerty is proven to be the best imaginable keyboard. Neither can we claim that Dvorak is proven to be inferior to Qwerty. Our claim is that there is no scientifically acceptable evidence that Dvorak offers any real advantage over Qwerty.
However, the article makes no mention of accuracy or repetitive strain. It does claim that Dvorak typists move their fingers shorter distances, which would seem likely to reduce strain. In the absence of anything more substantial, I'll fall back on personal experience.
I switched from Qwerty to Dvorak 20 years ago on a bet, and have typed Dvorak ever since. I agree with the article's assessment that it isn't a whole lot faster, probably less than 10%. It's probably also slightly more accurate, but I'm really not sure. However, I am convinced that it is much easier on the fingers. I simply don't suffer from the strain I used to with Qwerty. When I Have had to be bilingual, as it were, at a client site (sometimes for weeks at a time), I have recovered my speed with Qwerty - and the increased strain along withi it.
Liebowitz and Margolis's article is motivated by an economic argument that market entrepreneurs will tend to converge on superior technologies and standards. I am not an economist: but I am a social scientist with some expertise in how innovation is socially shaped, and I don't buy their larger argument. As a scholar, I would point to Trevor Pinch and Weibe Bijker's classic work on the development of the bicycle, and philosopher Andrew Feenberg's assessment that technologies do not succeed because they are efficient: they are efficient because they succeed. One of the best examples of this that I know of is the IBM PC, which even as it took over the market was in many ways technically inferior to its competition.
A big problem I see with the Liebowitz and Margolis argument is that they assume typing speed is the measure of technical superiority. In reality, technical debates are often all about which criteria are relevant. It may well have been that when Qwerty and Dvorak were developed market actors also took for granted speed was the correct criterion. But this is precisely the kind of assumption that locks technology into path dependence. Is it more important to maximize speed, or to minimize stress and injury? There is no single objective answer to such questions. One can only claim market efficiency by assuming an answer. Saying "the aggregate choices of market actors decide" is circular logic that avoids the issue - in which case, the evidence Liebowitz and Morgolis present about speed is irrelevant anyway.
more than 2 years ago
Sexism In Science
Geof Actual data: wage disparity is real (467 comments)
A study that took into account education, hours worked, and skill into account found that:
more than 2 years ago
Geof Re:Please keep the URLs working (466 comments)
Agreed. Please don't break the existing content.
more than 2 years ago
When a Primary Source Isn't Good Enough: Wikipedia
Geof Your are missing the point (333 comments)
Science is based on the belief that there is a real world out there that has properties anyone can discover. What made this world "real" was that these properties did not depend on anybody's opinion, so you didn't have to give a damn about anybody else's opinion of your research either; you could discover the truth yourself, and be right even if everybody in the world disagreed with you.
Now we have social science. It's based on the belief that reality is defined by majority opinion. Naturally, one man's opinion is worthless, and only when a consensus is reached can you state that you know anything.
I'm afraid you completely misrepresent both science and what you call social science (but isn't). The problem is not whether the world is real: the problem is how can we know what these properties are.
Truth is not self-evident, as you imply. In fact, science does not produce "truths" at all: it produces theories. Scientists gather evidence and construct theories to explain the evidence. This is inductive reasoning: it can never be 100% certain.
Science isn't something "anyone" can do, as you imply: in many cases it takes a lifetime of expert training to be able to assess scientific evidence - and even then, there are honest disagreements and mistakes. Take your field of expertise. Can anyone make sound judgements? Is the common sense of the amateur dependable? I'll wager not.
So, we have scientists evaluating evidence, but they don't all agree. There is always evidence that doesn't quite fit. A scientific theory is never perfect. (If they did agree, if everything fit, then they would move on to something else because that particular problem would no longer be interesting!) With these scientistific experts disagreeing, how are we to decide who is correct?
Consensus. Communication. Agreement does not make things true in the world, but it is the best method we have for trying to judge whose truth is the right one. And it is imperfect.
You have fallen into two errors: First, of believing that once Truth is found that fact can be known and reliably communicated. Second, of believing that the only alternative is to believe nothing is true and reality is the invention of majority opinion. You are wrong on both counts.
Such misunderstandings lie at the root of anti-evolutionary belief, and sustain conviction that climate change science is a fraud. A non-expert believes he has found the one critical piece of evidence that disproves the consensus, and becomes convinced that this overturns the science. Science isn't calculus. It doesn't work like that.
The debate over evidence and whether it is possible to know Truth is an ancient one, reaching right back to Plato. One of the most important and influential scholarly works of the 20th century (and the source of the term "paradigm shift") is The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn. I highly recommend reading the whole book: every scientist should read it. There is a pretty good recent overview at The Guardian, of all places. (Though the last bit about science being data- rather than theory-driven is bunk. It is both.)
As for social science, fifty years ago it was caught up in the belief that it could discover scientific laws of society akin to Newton's laws of physics. Then in the 1980s and 1990s there was a widespread rejection of this position, which in many cases resulted in an extreme postmodern rejection of science as a special way of acquiring knowledge. Thankfully, both extreme positions have now been widely rejected.
more than 2 years ago
Scientists Stage Funerals To Protest Against Cuts — a New Trend?
Geof Sweeping generalizations are bogus (263 comments)
Scientists have an interest in continued funding. They are also in the best position to justify the work that they do. If you actually want to argue about whether these are good cuts are bad, you need to address the substantive arguments they make: not throw around sweeping generalizations.
Intelligent managament is about adjusting and reallocating, not cutting across the board. The programs you list are not all equivalent: not in net economic cost (or benefit), not in social cost (or benefit), not in terms of efficiency, or any number of other things. The idea that no one wants to give up anything so "everyone has to give up something" is ideological claptrap that tars some programs with the perceptions of others. (In any case, the easiest way to achieve it is to raise taxes.)
If you actually look at the context of these cuts in Canada, it's pretty clear that they are not all motivated by cost-savings. They coincide with elimination of the manditory long-form census, seriously damaging the government's ability to masure the impacts of social programs. There are huge cuts in environmental science, including climate change monitoring and a unique experimental lakes study area. The amounts involved are small, but the targets line up perfectly with the politics of a governing party that depicts environmentalists as terrorists and whose economic priority is oil exports. And as it happens, Canada - one of the countries under discussion - does not have "massive" debt - at least not compared to other OECD countries.
For a "blue skies" project, consider the packet switching research carried out in the late 1950s at the National Physics Laboratory in the U.K. The government decided that every project should have a "customer" with an application. Packet switching didn't. It was cut back. The U.S. invented the Internet.
more than 2 years ago
Koch Bros Study Finds Global Warming Is Real And Man-Made
Geof No, they did a curve fit (769 comments)
I believe you are mistaken. From my reading of the article, the start date for the study has no impact on the results.
What they did was to take the global temperature record and various subsets of it (e.g. discarding urban measurements, adjusting for poor-quality measurement stations and so) and compare it to the record for various factors, such as volcanic eruptions, solar activity, and CO2 emissions, that could potentially affect temperature. Basically, they compared curves. They found a clear signal corresponding to volcanic eruptions, nothing measurable from solar cycles, and the best match by far was with CO2
Keep in mind that scientists do not measure global temperature: as different measurement stations go on- and offline and large areas of the Earth lack monitoring, that would be virtually impossible. This is why you never see claims that the global temperature used to be X, now it is Y. Instead, they measure changes in temperature. So if a given station measured Z degrees last year and Z' degrees this year, delta T = Z' - Z. That change can be compared with changes in measurements at other stations to get an overall fluctuation for a given time interval.
I am rather surprised you got modded down. I don't see any reason why you should have been. You are clear about your interpretation and the reasons for it.
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Why Two NFL Coaching Transitions Have Affected Team Anxiety and Confidence
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Harbaugh was instrumental in rebuilding Smith's self-confidence
Every football player with a pulse and a pair of tight pants has felt the familiar squeeze of anxiety clinching tightly around their chest. The pressure to perform amidst the fear of failure can either paralyze or empower a player depending upon one’s character, external perceptions, self-confidence and even experience level.
This potent chemical response in the brain and body plays a critical role in the performance of athletes everywhere. This is especially true of athletes competing in one of the most violent team sports in the world, at the highest levels of competition. It only seems reasonable to say self-confidence is an absolute necessity to survive the NFL.
However, if an athlete is able to completely abandon the grip of nervousness, he then runs the risk of facing a new animal altogether: overconfidence.
Success in the NFL hinges on a delicate balancing act between confidence and anxiety, belief in oneself and fear of failure. Each serves a role in maximizing performance on both an individual level and as a team.
Sometimes the perfect balance can come shortly after the right coaching transition.
The Transition Effect
Mike Singletary served as the head coach in San Francisco between the midway point of the 2008 season through 2010. During that span he was victorious in 45 percent of his games, regressing each year.
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Eric Mangini
My former boss and one-time Jets head coach Eric Mangini also lasted three seasons in his first gig as head honcho. Like Singletary, Mangini won less than 50 percent of his games in that span, with a slightly better win percentage of 48. In addition, both coaches experienced their highest win percentages in their first year.
Both Singletary and Mangini are obviously unique; however, they still share similar coaching styles highly relevant to this article.
Each of these old-school, hard-nosed throwbacks tend to prescribe heavily to the ideals of discipline, accountability and a no-nonsense approach when it comes to player relations.
Though focuses such as these may seem fairly normal for a football coach, executing them effectively while reducing unwanted side-effects usually means the difference between long-term success and gradual demise.
I can tell you from first-hand accounts that Eric Mangini created an anxiety-filled environment from the top down.
Every single member of that organization, from the assistant coaches to the players on practice squad, existed in a state of perpetual anxiety brought on by the underlying fear of becoming Mangini’s next victim for public execution.
He would routinely look for and find players or coaches who were operating in a way that he deemed unsuitable and make examples of them in the next team meeting. These daily rituals were not done with an ounce of humor to cushion the blow of being humiliated in front of the entire team.
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Admittedly, the anxiety served as a strong motivator which helped to maximize preparation and effort. It also prevented players from truly relaxing and being themselves, because the last thing you wanted was to be the guy showing up on some hidden camera he had throughout the facility doing something stupid or not making the most of your time. This raised the bar of expectations for the entire team through fear.
There was even a time when Mangini busted out a video of defensive walkthrough period from the day before. Apparently Mangini had an office intern filming that period through an office window well out of sight. Nobody, not even the defensive coordinator, was aware they were being filmed.
From a distance, the walkthrough had the appearance of being light-hearted and somewhat disjointed. Side conversations and a sluggish pace were abundant throughout the tape, which he dissected and criticized in front of the entire team for at least 15 minutes.
Keep in mind here that the tone of this bashing is deadly serious. There is not so much as a snicker among the players in the meeting for they were fully aware that a single chuckle at the wrong moment could switch Mangini’s focus directly to them.
In an article I wrote about life on the roster bubble, I describe what it’s like playing for Eric Mangini:
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Me on the Jets
If you were a guy on the bottom of the roster, there was no telling what you could be asked in the team meetings. I would go into those meetings every morning far too nervous to focus on anything helpful toward my preparation. I was not alone in feeling this way. Mangini had his team caring so much that he had inadvertently created extreme levels of performance anxiety throughout the organization.
For coaches, it’s important to understand the amount of stress athletes are under. Increasing their anxiety with over-the-top consequences such as intentionally humiliating a player in front of the entire team is detrimental.
This method of flexing your authoritative muscle in order to maintain order and motivate players is similar to what Mike Singletary had going on with the 49ers as well.
As mentioned earlier, the style does yield positive results in several aspects of a player’s development. Unrivaled discipline and a high standard of preparation are valuable tools in the competitive world of the NFL.
Every player experiences anxiety in their own unique way. The more self-confidence a player has, the less likely he is to be adversely affected.
Experience is one of the greatest natural builders of self-confidence and can reduce high levels of anxiety that would otherwise be destructive.
Such anxiety reigned supreme in both the Jets’ and 49ers’ locker rooms, growing stronger over the years until eventually these head coaches were shown the exit.
What remained from each team was a roster full of talented, hard-working athletes unwittingly stripped of their self-confidence, left confused and leaderless.
Enter Jim Harbaugh and Rex Ryan.
The contrast in coaching styles between the predecessors of Harbaugh and Ryan is stark, to say the least.
When Harbaugh entered the scene in San Francisco as head coach, it soon became clear that the energy around that organization was being dramatically overhauled, beginning with Alex Smith.
Prior to teaming up with coach Harbaugh, Alex Smith had endured five subpar seasons filled with ridicule and resentment. Over time, the lack of success paired with the expectations of a No. 1-overall pick began to show on the face and in the body language of the struggling QB.
Clearly this was a kid who was being completely stripped of his self-confidence.
Mike Singletary offered very little in terms of solace for Alex Smith, and gave up on him relatively quickly. The year Harbaugh arrived Alex Smith was a free agent looking for work. He convinced Smith to re-sign with the 49ers for a one-year deal and gave the insecure signal caller something he hadn’t had in a long time: someone who believed in him.
In Harbaugh’s first year in San Francisco Alex Smith led the 49ers to 14 wins, including a memorable postseason victory against the Saints. That’s only five wins fewer than his career total as a starter up to that point. As evidence of his growing confidence, Smith also had as many game-winning drives that year (6) as he did for his entire career (Pro Football Reference).
Smith was not alone in this feeling; the entire roster was suddenly infused with a newfound sense of worth. This feeling helped led them all the way to the NFC Conference Championship and a close loss against the New York Giants.
Similarly, Both Jim Harbaugh and Rex Ryan have willed their respective teams to back-to-back conference championships games in their first two years as head coach.
It’s no coincidence that these two positive coaches have so many parallels in their success taking over for dogmatic, despotic oppressors.
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Rex brought confidence and positivity in his first two years with the Jets
Those overbearing coaches who preceded Harbaugh and Ryan left a valuable gift as they handed over the reins. The gift could not have been more perfect for their contrasting successors.
Jim and Rex were each handed rosters completely competent in nearly all phases that they would eventually de-emphasize in their own coaching styles—such as discipline, mental preparation, conditioning and accountability.
However, as the Jets have begun to demonstrate over time, those areas that were once strengths eventually regress without continual focus.
As for Jim Harbaugh and the 49ers, can he continue down the path of growth and sustained success, or will the cracks in his game slowly begin to turn into gaping holes?
What does the future hold for Harbaugh and the 49ers?
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One of the interesting things about confidence is that the more success you encounter, the more confidence you acquire. And with more confidence, yup, more success. One begets the other.
This momentum can eventually build into something so powerful that it propels an average starting NFL quarterback on a magical journey all the way to a Super Bowl victory and eventually make you one of wealthiest men in NFL history—sound familiar?
Eventually that high level of confidence peaks after a certain point and can become a detriment. Overconfidence is the result of a player having an exaggerated understanding of his abilities. This can also manifest itself in the form of underestimating your opponents as well. Either way, the longer the athlete functions in this frame of mind, the more he begins to lack in the areas of preparation and self-improvement. This allows for stagnation and complacency to set in.
On the flipside, a player suffering from the effects of a slump is basically on the complete opposite end of the spectrum. This mindset is typically brought on by high levels of anxiety (like the kind an ironhanded coach can induce) coupled with a lack of self-confidence.
But with all that said, it’s important to note that both anxiety and confidence can swing an athlete’s momentum in any direction.
The key is finding that elusive balance like the Jets and the 49ers were able to do as a collective unit and try to hold onto it for as long as you possibly can. A lot of things can affect the outcome of a game, but this element is perhaps the most critical of all and yet ironically, it’s one of the least emphasized as well.
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Subconscious, or: unconscious, is defined as the complex of mental activities within an individual that take place without his awareness.
A person in a coma can represent:
The idea of being unaware that something is going on, or "sleepwalking" through life without living meaningful
Not participating or unavailable
Helplessness ...
Synonyms of unconsciousness
noun: insensibility, swoon; plural: insensibilities, swoons; related terms: cognitive state, state of mind, automatic pilot, autopilot, unawareness, unknowingness, blackout, semiconsciousness, stupefaction, stupor, ...
The Collective Unconscious
The main Carl Jung theory that his dream interpretation was built on, was that of the "collective unconscious.
Aloha, normally I start by telling people that in your dreams, all the people and objects are you in the dream, they are just reflections that your unconscious mind chooses to use to speak to you in metaphors stating the state of your unconscious ...
Unconsciousness in a dream indicates events that occurred without the dreamer's awareness, or memories that may be dormant or repressed in the subconscious.
One theory of the mind separates it into three aspects: consciousness, the subconscious and the unconscious.
If you dreamed of someone else being unconscious, you are likely to hear news of an illness; if you had the rare dream of being unconscious yourself, a physical checkup would probably be beneficial.
go ...
Dream dictionary definition for unconscious: Unconsciousness represents not being fully aware of your surroundings and what is going on around you.
To dream of being knocked unconscious may represent your helplessness and inability to function in a situation. You were not prepared for a change or problem.
These brief and traditional attributions for hands can prove meaningful in our daily practices. Being mindful of which hand is used (depending on the intent I wish to convey) has manifested some fascinating results.
Essence. Life energy. Unfortunate love affairs. Severe disappointment.
The unconscious.
A time of transformation or transition.
The Freudian interpretation says it's a phallic symbol that represents how you experience your. >> Read more
Enhance your Dream Interpretation ...
The unconscious; the unknown; the hidden or mysterious; secrets; fertility. It may contain or represent, wild animals (instincts), fairies or elemental beings (unconscious energy), the potential for physical or spiritual healing, inner guide.
Secret - Unconscious thoughts being revealed; hidden parts.
Secretary - Helpful part of self; organization; identify priorities. Sub-ordinate feminine aspect.
Sedative - Emotionally uptight; learn to relax; responsibility.
see also: unconscious resting lying down unable to waken bed pillow
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What Does Your Dream Mean?
About Dream Symbols ...
Do I have unconscious fears or dreads of some sort?
See Avoid Being Victims - Martial Art of the Mind - Techniques for Exploring your Dreams - Edgar Cayce
Hatching ...
brain: Reason, the intellect, understanding.
breast: Nurturing, love or what needs loving.
BLACK : the unconscious mind; void; death of the old.
GREY : fear, confusion.
WHITE : truth, "coming clean", purity; can also be symbolic of death & new beginnings.
3 PROGRAM YOUR UNCONSCIOUS: As you get close to falling asleep, repeat, "When I wake up, I will remember my dream." The unconscious and the memory are influenced by repetition.
Sea Dreams about the sea are strong signals from the unconscious mind. If you dream of being lost at sea, you are unsure about your feelings for a certain person.
Alternatively, it refers to emerging unconscious thoughts and feelings.
To dream that you are left behind, indicates your fear of not being able to keep up. You are questioning your abilities and/or may not be utilizing your full potential.
Belch ...
He symbolizes a powerful part of the unconscious.
In astrology, the planet Neptune represents the unconscious forces and powers of the human psyche. It is believed to influence paranormal faculties, psychic abilities, irrational fears and insanity.
This was the dream of Carl Jung who was thinking about his ideas about the unconscious mind. The medieval portions of the house linked to the influence of medieval times on the human mind - the caveman inside us.
What you see is related to your persona and unconscious. Seeing images through the mirror may be a safe way for you to consider and/or confront material from your unconscious.
Recording your dreams regularly provides an ongoing unconscious story which is as much the story of your life as that of your waking life journal.
The part of your life which is represented is usually a memory, material from your unconscious mind, or something that is physically far away from you.
Understanding dreams can be exhilarating experience once you take the time to jumble the prices your unconscious mind is trying to hint at.
Your unconscious could be telling you that you need to take a break from your responsibilities. A dream of drinking alcohol with others in a social setting can indicate a desire to have an easier time connecting with others.
The term 'Unconscious mind' has really confused the situation. We know there are two minds ? the left and right minds. These could be described as the intuitive mind and the rational mind. Freud believed that we could have unconscious thoughts ?
Be sure to write the dream down immediately upon awakening, as an issue from that past life could be coming to the surface of your unconscious mind.
There are symbols found in the human unconscious that mean similar things to all of us. By understanding these symbols, it is possible to analyze our dreams and to learn from them.
For our understanding here though, we will refer to universal symbols of the collective unconscious as archetypes, and reserve the term symbols to represent images that are very personal to the dreamer.
You may be unconsciously thinking that bad fortune is coming your way. Some people begin to have dreams of blackbirds as they age, perhaps because they are realising the actuality of eventual death.
The hallucination that we experience in dreams can also be the result of direct messages from the unconscious - psychologically freeing the mind so it can ‘roam'at its own speed, allowing hidden memories, ...
In a dream, water can represent the unconscious, the emotions, intuition and instinctive drives, so a dream about a river bank can symbolize your need to integrate your emotional, intuitive side with your practical rational side, ...
and injure you through the unconscious abetting of friends.
victimized through the artful designing of persons whom she trusts.
Darkness is symbolic of incomprehension, the unconscious, malice, death, and concerns about what is not known. If the sun pierces the darkness, you will be able to defeat the obstacles in your way.
If you dreamed of someone else being unconscious, you are likely to hear news of an illness; if you had the... Continue dream interpretation - Unconscios"continue dream interpretation
Dream interpretation - Underground ...
To dream that you are in a basement, symbolizes your unconscious mind and intuition. If the basement is clean and neat, you are happy and well-adjusted. If the basement is dark or messy and dirty, then you are unhappy with your current situation.
Ufo Ugly Umbrella Uncle Unconscious Undercurrent Underground
Underskirt Underwear Unfaithful Unfriendly Ungrateful Unhappy
Unicorn Uniform University Unknown Unmarried Unoccupied ...
To dream of a kid, interpret you will not be over-scrupulous in your morals or pleasures. You will be likely to bring grief to some loving heart.
The anima is the feminine component dwelling inside a male's unconscious mind. The animus is the masculine component dwelling inside a female's unconscious mind.
If you are defeated in the game, you might be unfortunate in bestowing your affections, and your
affairs will remain in an unsettled condition.
Backgammon: To dream of playing backgammon, denotes that you will, while visiting,meet with unfriendly hospitality, but will unconsciously win friendshipswhich will endure much straining.
To dream that you are falling into an abyss symbolizes the depths of your unconscious. You are afraid and/or uncertain as to what you will discover about yourself and about your hidden feelings and fears.
To dream that you have lockjaw, signifies there is trouble ahead for you, as some person is going to betray your confidence. For a woman to see others with lockjaw, foretells her friends will unconsciously detract from her happiness by assigning her ...
regarded as the color of death, its appearance in our dreams may represent the death of old ideas or change. Another possible explanation is that it represents a hidden or rejected aspect of the dreamer. It is the color of mystery, the unconscious, ...
one thing in your life that you are somewhat afraid of - either that it will happen or that it won't happen. Your dream is allowing your brain to act out on its fears and worries. Unfortunately, when given the go ahead to do so, the unconscious mind ...
If you are by nature superstitious, you may be getting a challenge from your subconscious to let go of a particular compulsion. Or, your superstitions may be receiving validation from your unconscious mind. In your dream, is the ritual empowering?
See also: See also: Dream, Dreams, Dictionary, May, Will
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Naraharitirtha (1324-1333 CE).[1] was a disciple of 13th Century Indian saint Madhvacharya and is considered the founder of the Haridasa (a Hindu Vaishnava) movement n India. He was not only a noted saint but also a pontiff to the ruling Vijayanagara royal as evidenced by some inscriptions. The pre-pontification name of Naraharitirtha was Shyama Sastry.[2]
Early years[edit]
No clear picture appears regarding his early years except that he was the minister of the King of Kalinga (modern Orissa, a state of Eastern India) described in a work called Narahariyatistotra which says he was a minister for twelve years. Hence its assumed that he was a native of either Andhra Pradesh or Orissa. Inscriptions from the Srikurmam and Simhacalam temples also attest to his ministry in Kalinga.
Though presumably not of Kannada origin, many of his works were in that language, although only three compositions in Kannada have been recovered. They are, yanthu marulade nanenthu, hariye idu sariye and tiliko ninnologe neene
Naraharitirtha was responsible for the conversion of many princely and aristocratic families of Kalinga and Andhra regions to the Madhva fold. The descedants of these families still flourish in the coastal Andhra and adjoining states. Though some allude to the belief that Naraharitirtha was indeed the founder of the Haridasa movement, based on the strength internal evidence of songs confirm that it was Sripadaraya who pioneered the haridasa movement, almost a century later.
Naraharitirtha is also attributed to be the founder of The Yakshagana and Bayalata dance and cultural art forms which still flourishes in parts of Karnataka and Kasargod in Kerela and is gaining widespread attention outside this region. He is also the founder of the Kuchipudi dance form when he was the "mathadhipathi"(high-priest) of his monastery in Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh.
1. ^ "Sri Narahari Tirtha". Online Webpage of Haridasa ( Retrieved 2013-03-17.
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The New York Times sent reporter Sabrina Tavernise to the battleground state of Ohio, to the blue-collar town of Steubenville in pursuit of a pet theory: Barack Obama may struggle to win because some whites are racist. Tavernise starts by suggesting this could be a problem with Democrats, but “ultraconservatives” quickly surface.
The locals were most quotable in the Times when made undocumented suggestions like “you had all these whites saying, ‘Oh, there’s another vote from some drug addict.’” They also associated the notion of racial discrimination in job interviews with anti-Obama sentiment:
Franciscan University is a very traditional Catholic college (my son attended it for a year). It’s very pro-life, so it would make sense that Montgomery might not be your ideal Obama voter in 2008. But did she say “ultraconservatives,” or is the Times suddenly projecting?
Here was Tavernise’s methodology in her hunt for racism: "In 50 interviews in this county over three days last week, 5 people raised race directly as a reason they would not vote for Mr. Obama," Tavernise reports. She di not ask "specifically about race, but about their views on the candidates generally," so that "those who raised the issue did so of their own accord."
As James Taranto at The Wall Street Journal theorized, “If 45 of 50 interview subjects didn't mention race, one could just as easily take the position that the glass is 90% full rather than 10% empty.” But Tavernise and the Times felt that even a small amount of what they perceive to be racism could be crucial in a close election.
It’s also ridiculous for the Times to imply through its mining for quotes that the concept that Obama “got the Nobel Prize without deserving it” is racist. Obama felt he won the Nobel Prize without deserving it.
Tavernise sometimes didn't find the quotes that actually would match her thesis:
Anyone who reads these sentences can see it’s the liberal who brings up Obama’s background and faith, and assumes it's "racist" for radio hosts to suggest Obama is selling socialistic ideas like nationalizing the auto companies and the health care system. Felsoci was talking about blacks voting overwhelmingly for Obama. It might not be “black ignorance,” in that black voters are stupid, but it might be “black disinterest in the facts, voting blindly on race.”
See Samuel L. Jackson: "I voted for Barack because he was black. Cause that's why other folks vote for other people -- because they look like them...That’s American politics, pure and simple. [Obama’s] message didn’t mean [bleep] to me.”
But the Times never noticed that comment.
When recent polls show black voters prefer Obama 90 percent to 4, why isn’t the Times sending one of their reporters into neighborhood bars to ask them if they’re racist? If as the Times suggests in its headline, that it's sad "Race Is Still an Issue for Some Voters," can we expect a reporter tsk-tsking at black tribalism?
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QEST is a stargate between the universe of devices which speak MQTT, and the universe of apps which speak HTTP and REST. In this way you don't have to deal any custom protocol, you just GET and PUT the topic URI, like these:
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Let's build cool things with MQTT, REST and Arduino!
Here we are dreaming a Web of Things, where you can reach (and interact) with each of your "real" devices using the web, as it's the Way everybody interacts with a computer these days. However it's somewhat hard to build these kind of apps, so researchers have written custom protocols for communicating with the devices.
The state-of-the-art protocol for devices is MQTT, which is standard, free of royalties, and widespread: there are libraries for all the major platforms.
The state-of-the-art protocol for apps are REST and HTTP, so why can't we bridge them? So QEST was born.
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with the release of the newest Chromebook and Chromebox (where the latter is an interesting choice for a family PC for people who don't need apps like photoshop etc.), I wanted to check out a dual-boot capability for myself.
My question now (I have found the possibility to fire up a normal linux console under Chrome OS, but for me to use this system at university, I will need a C/C++ compiler and a (more or less advanced) text editor. The last one should be available on the chrome web store (or however that's called), but I can't find anything for the compiler.
TL;DR: Is there a c/c++ compiler on chrome OS? (ssh-ing into a server with an compiler is not really an option as it doesn't provide offline coding possibilities - on a bus, on a train etc.)
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You'll probably need to build it yourself.
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Thanks, I'll try that when I'll get my hands on Chrome OS (I was looking for in-depth info and trying to rule out any show-stoppers before buying one). – Asmodiel May 30 '12 at 10:25
You mean like from here? – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams May 30 '12 at 10:27
I would install it side by side with Linux as in the 'normal' chromeOS you won't get gcc access (nor its libs). For more details on the process of installing chromeOS - greenido.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/… it's a bit old ;) but still relevant. – Ido Green May 31 '12 at 13:31
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Venezuela bans private gun ownership
Shake that ass
(BBC) Venezuela has brought a new gun law into effect which bans the commercial sale of firearms and ammunition.
'Must do more'
While voters don't seem to hold Mr Chavez responsible for the insecurity, the situation has worsened throughout his 13 years in office.
The government's most recent statistics put the murder rate at around 48 per 100,000, although some non-governmental organisations estimate it's much higher - 60 per 100,000 in 2011, one of the highest rates in the world.
Critics say the new gun laws and other recently announced measures, like a victim's compensation fund, are just the latest in a long line of failed attempts to bolster security.
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Well, I'm sure the Venezuelan criminals will obey the law and turn in their guns then. And of course the noble Hugo Chavez would never be using this law as a way to avoid dangerous popular unrest by honest Venezuelans when he nakedly steals the 2012 elections, right?
The last masterbatory comment does not say what is used in all of the murders in each area and what percentage of the population is murdered not to mention breaking down murders by type, economic status etc.
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Asked over 1 year ago - Killeen, TX
We had a verbal agreement, bank statement showing the atm withdrawl, text messages and emails of her stating that she owes me this money and all her weekly excuses. This has been over a year.
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Answered . This is a small claims case. File in local JP court when the defendant resides
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Answered . You sue in the small claims court and you could win, but collecting is highly unlikely. Keep in mind that Texas is an extremely debtor friendly state. Nobody gets your house except the lender and the IRS. Nobody gets your car except the lender and the IRS. Nobody gets your wages except the IRS and child support. Nobody gets your pension/retirement/401k/IRA except the IRS. Most people don't have any thing more than that, so there is nothing to get to satisfy a judgment. HOWEVER, a judgment is good for 10 years and can be renewed.
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Answered . Shakespeare said "neither a borrower nor a lender be." If you give money to a friend, you need to decide what the value of the friendship is and give accordingly. Collecting a debt is a messy business and you could wallpaper a local stadium with the legal paperwork of court judgments that cannot be collected. Hope this perspective helps!
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Is it Speech, Because If It Isn't, Then First Amendment Protections Don't Apply
The right to freedom of speech has been found to protect individuals using their voices to communicate to others. That seems like a no-brainer application of the First Amendment. Sometimes the question is more complicated. What about carrying a picket sign? Again, today it seems clear. But sixty years ago, the Supreme Court viewed picketing as a combination of a constitutional right of expression with a physical activity, and intimated that less protection might flow to activities that combine speech with conduct. For the most part, today, such distinctions work little or no difference. A distinction arises in the instance where a person with a message seeks to express that message without the use of words. A classic example is the instance of burning a draft registration card as a means of expressing opposition to war. The First Amendment may protect symbolic acts as speech where there is an intent to speak and a likelihood that the intended message will be understood.
Is It a Public Forum, Because If It Isn't, Then Little Constitutional Protection May Exist
The Supreme Court has taught that speech protections arise, in part, depending on where the speech takes place. Standing in your neighbor's living room to protest against higher property taxes, no constitutional violation will be found when you are arrested for trespass, stopped from speaking and incarcerated. So the first important distinction among places is whether the property in question is owned or controlled by a government entity. Private property falls outside of the protective scope of the First Amendment. Streets, sidewalks, and parks, the Court has explained, are the paradigm of a public forum. Precisely where we think protests and speeches will occur. There, the power of the Government to limit expression is small. On the other hand, many places owned by governments, including military bases, government offices, courthouses, are not public forums for speech, and restrictions can be quite severe, so long as they do not mask disapproval of a particular viewpoint.
Content Control? Viewpoint Disapproval?
Assuming that its speech that you are engaged in, and a public forum where you do, the remaining issue is whether, to what extent, and how, the government may regulate your expressive activities. First, a restriction that favors one side of a topic is virtually certain to be found unconstitutional: "No Speakers Opposing Tax Increases" is just an invitation by the Government to be sued. Second, outside of streets, sidewalks and parks, the government can create forums of a limited nature. Only allowing student clubs on campus, does not discriminate on viewpoint, nor even on content, just speaker identity. In specially created forums, such restrictions are permissible. Third, content restrictions in public forums are seldom constitutional. "No election protests" doesn't protect or punish one view, but has no reasonable justification on a public sidewalk. Fourth, time, place and manner of speech restrictions, not masking dislike of content or view, are permissible.
Thinking of Conducting a Demonstration or Protest?
If a successful event is your goal, groundwork well in advance is always advisable. Depending on your community, regulation of public demonstrations and protests may involve obtaining a permit. Obtaining a permit may involve a written application and other prerequisites. Well in advance, contact police and/or streets and parks departments and inquire whether permits are required and how they may be obtained. If you are planning an event of great significance or importance, consulting an attorney aware of applicable regulations can spare you headaches, or worse, later.
Additional Resources
http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/know-your-rights-demonstrations-and-protests https://www.rutherford.org/files_images/general/I09_Free-Speech_2002.pdf https://www.liberty.edu/media/9980/attachments/resource_picket_parade_demonstrate_witness_chptr_14.pdf
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(MoneyWatch) When Eric Schmidt decided that he knew better than the U.S. state department and headed off to North Korea, it looked like a bold move.
When Mondelez CEO Irene Rosenfeld decided that, over the opposition from employees and many of her company's board members, that she would acquire Cadbury, that looked bold, too.
When, after months of wrangling, the CEOs of Xstrata and Glencore finally agreed to merge their huge extraction companies, they looked big and tough and strong.
This is what we expect of leaders, isn't it? Tough decisions in the face of market turmoil, economic confusion and slow growth?.
But would you like to work for any of these people? In a fascinating study entitled "It's All About Me: Narcissistic CEOs and Their Effects on Company Strategy and Performance," academics Arjiit Chatterjee and Donald Hambrick assessed the fortunes of 111 CEOs in the computer and software industries.
Now, before we proceed let's be clear on the basic personality traits that define narcissim:
1. A sense of entitlement: I'm special and should get special attention.
2. Attention: I like, even need, to be the center of attention.
3. Superiority: I am better or smarter than others.
4. Self-absorption: I spend a lot of time contemplating my extraordinary qualities.
Sound like anyone you work for?
To select the CEOs they wanted to study, the researchers relied on six basic markers of narcissism, including how many times the CEOs photograph appeared in their companies' annual report and on websites; the CEO's prominence in press releases; the use of the first person pronoun in press releases (for example, "I," me," "us,"); the length of the "Who's Who" entry on the executive; and the level of both cash and non-cash compensation the person received.
Assessing the qualities and actions of the 111 chief executives, a pattern emerged. Because narcissists crave attention, they often work hard to achieve glory. That often gets them into positions of power and influence. Once they get there, however, they still need attention and applause. This, according to the researchers, means they are more likely to embark upon what are often considered bold strategic moves, with mergers and acquisitions a particular favorite. Never mind that M&A has a terrible track record -- it gets attention.
And because such execs are self-centred, it doesn't really occur to them to ask whether what is good for them is also good for the business. In fact, the separation between those two is pretty invisible to narcissists.
What the researchers found was that the higher the level of narcissism, the greater the number and size of acquisitions. Narcissists deliver outsize performance -- big wins or big losses. That, in turn, tends to generate more extreme performance and, as a consequence, to generate greater volatility.
In other words, if you work for a narcissist, you are likely to see plenty of office drama. Lots of big strategic moves, very little steady growth and no guarantees. If that isn't your idea of fun, find a real leader.
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Here, I'm taking about the many professional pundits who have been discussing these cameras so much recently.
I would have expected the benefits of the FF sensor to totally outclass the MFT sensor, but the reviews seem to discuss them as comparable -- or perhaps even lean toward the EM1 -- and, well, I'm surprised.
To what extent is this because the EM1 has better auto-focus? And so is that basically a benefit of having a smaller sensor? eg, in the way that the A7/A7r should trounce the EM1 in ISO because they have a bigger sensor, does they likewise lose in auto-focus for the same reason?
Or is it the body stabilization -- I've heard numerous good comments about the EM1 stabilization -- and I do wonder about it, as the FE55mm is NOT stabilized (whereas the SEL35 lens for ASP-C IS stabilized).
If the A7/A7r had body stabilization, would that have made a big difference in the converstation? Presumably that would be no help with auto-focus -- anyhow, I do find it interesting that that A7/A7r isn't coming out way ahead with the pundits...
Only other obvious issue is touch-screen -- I am surprised Sony didn't include that.
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2) Which of the following is true about Alexei Lalas's band 'The Gypsies'; a) They supported Counting Crows on tour, b) They supported The Spin Doctors on tour, c) They supported Hootie & the Blowfish on tour.
3) George Berry is probably most closely associated with Wolves, but which club did he actually make nearly twice as many appearances for?
4) Which bearded defender, currently playing in England, appeared in the 2004 Champions League final?
5) Who does Olof Mellberg currently play for?
6) How old was Socrates when he turned out for Garforth Town? (We'll give you three years either way.)
7) Name the teams Abel Xavier played for in England, in chronological order.
8) Which bearded German defender did Real Madrid sign in 2007?
9) Why did Daniele De Rossi call a press conference for the Italian media in the summer?
10) What's the first name of Bulgarian bearded defender Ivanov?
11) Which bearded defender had a fight with Zlatan Ibrahimovic at AC Milan that ended with the big Swede suffering a cracked rib?
12) Why might Ricky Villa have been particularly motivated to do well in the 1981 FA Cup final replay, in which he scored his famous goal against Manchester City?
13) Why was the usually clean-shaven Alan Cork sporting a massive beard in the 1993 FA Cup semi-final against Sheffield Wednesday?
14) Alex Song is one of how many children?
15) Where is Gennaro Gattuso currently playing?
16) Which bearded former Coventry defender was Kevin Keegan's first signing at Newcastle?
17) George Best signed permanently and played (in competitve games) for four British teams other than Manchester United - name them.
18) Name the actress who played Diane, the lady who Mark Renton makes sweet, sweet love to in the film 'Trainspotting', an act he compared to Archie Gemmill scoring against Holland in 1978.
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Help me with my design
05 December 2013 - 11:25 PM
I'm writing a compiler, and I'm trying to come up with a good design for an abstract syntax tree, and it's conversion into code.
The Problem
The AST is built in depth first order, such that every node added will only ever refer to previously added nodes, and in most cases referenced nodes are the most recently added nodes. It is naturally a tree, so each node except the root node is referenced by one parent. For data, an AST node has a type, which can optionally be represented as an enum, a string value, and references to a usually small number of other nodes.
The above naturally leads to an implementation of a std::deque of nodes, acting like a stack. This takes advantage of the fact that elements in a deque tend to be adjacent in memory. It also allows the tree to grow without reallocation as it is built.
To convert the ast to code, I need to traverse the ast in essentially the same depth first traversal, except it may be convenient to start at the root node instead of the first node added. This would make make code generation a recursive algorithm, implementing depth first traversal. How to convert each node depends mostly on the logical type of the node. There may be a hierarchy to this conversion, that is it may make sense to say that converting a constructor is similar to converting a function. A hierarchy may organize code better.
So it strikes me as prudent to use virtual dispatch to implement the conversion. That is, each node type has an associated virtual convert/code_gen/compile function somewhere.
These two designs are at odds with each other, and I'd like your input on how to graft them together. There may also be other considerations that I've overlooked.
How to have a near continuous in memory and simply structured data, but use virtual dispatch to do operate on that data?
Thanks for your replies.
Critical size to pass by value
09 September 2013 - 10:31 PM
How big is a class or struct when it's cheaper to pass by reference than by value?
Large structs are cheaper pass by reference, but structs containing just an primitive type, or no objects at all are cheaper to pass by value. But what about types in between? what size is the cut off point? Is the number and mix of types a consideration?
This is essentially the same as asking "when should RVO kick in?"
There is some advantage to passing by value in alias analysis, and for my purposes I want to separate this effect. I'm curious what effect alias analysis has, but I'm also interested when the expense of the copy itself matters.
I'm pretty sure that for non trivially copyable types, passing by reference will always be cheaper, except for aliasing implications, but for POD types that's not so clear.
Garbage collection algorithim
15 July 2012 - 06:34 PM
I'm looking for a garbage collection algorithim that would behave like the following psudo code example specifies.
Class Foo {
int id;
GraphNodePtr<Foo> next //defaultly null
Foo(int theID):id(theID){}
GraphNodePtr<Foo> graph(0);
GraphNodePtr<Foo> node1(1);
GraphNodePtr<Foo> node2(2);
GraphNodePtr<Foo> node3(3);
node1->next = node2;
node2->next = node3;
node3->next = node1; //circular loop
graph->next = node1;
graph.next.release()//nodes 1, 2, and 3 are immediately deleted here
That is, you have a a single pointer type that can detect orphaned loops. And the garbage collection needs to guarantee that orphaned objects are released once they are orphaned.
Python global variable problem
26 June 2012 - 07:14 AM
So I have 3 files like so:
[source lang="python"]#Test1.pyimport Test2, Test.Test3if __name__ == '__main__': Test2.initVal() print Test2.getVal() Test.Test3.func()[/source]
[source lang="python"]#Test2.pyval = {}def initVal(): val[0] = 1 def getVal(): return val[0][/source]
[source lang="python"]#Test/Test3.pyimport Blobs.Test2def func(): print Blobs.Test2.getVal() #blobs is top level package[/source]
This prints 1, then gives me an exception, because func() sees val as empty the second time. How do I make it see the properly changed variable?
EDIT: clarified behavior
[java] Server with timeout.
11 August 2008 - 09:34 AM
I'm trying to implement a Server which will timeout after a period of inactivity and stop replying. I have the following code, but it seems to use up my cpu and leaks memmory. Is there a better way to do this?
//various imports
public class LoggingServer extends Thread{
private static final long IDLE_TIME_MILLIS = 15000;
private static final int LOGGING_SERVER_PORT = 9091;
private Collection<TraceLogData> log = Collections.synchronizedCollection(
new ArrayList<TraceLogData>() );
private static ServerSocketChannel ssChannel;
private AtomicBoolean CallCompleate = new AtomicBoolean(false);
static {
try {
ssChannel = ServerSocketChannel.open();
ssChannel.socket().bind(new InetSocketAddress(LOGGING_SERVER_PORT));
} catch (IOException e) {}
public void run(){
try {
long lastConnect = System.currentTimeMillis();
while( !CallCompleate.get() || System.currentTimeMillis()
< lastConnect + IDLE_TIME_MILLIS ){
SocketChannel sChannel = ssChannel.accept();
LoggingConnectionHandler handler =
new LoggingConnectionHandler(sChannel.socket(), log);
lastConnect = System.currentTimeMillis();
} else {
} catch (IOException e) {
public boolean getCallCompleate() {
return CallCompleate.get();
public void setCallCompleate(boolean callCompleate) {
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The United States goalkeeper hailed the striker's impact on Tuesday's last-16 encounter, whilst admitting his disappointment that his team could not find a way past the Red Devils
Tim Howard branded Romelu Lukaku the key difference between the two sides as the United States' World Cup came to an end against Belgium.
The Chelsea forward, who played with Howard during his loan spell at Everton last season, came on at the start of extra time and made an instant impact as he played a hand in setting up Kevin De Bruyne's opener before scoring himself to give the Red Devils a 2-1 win.
Howard, who had kept the Americans in the contest with a series of excellent stops, breaking the record for the number of saves in a World Cup finals game with 15 in total, was full of praise for the 21-year-old's performance.
"They brought big Rom on and he was a handful," the Stars and Stripes shot stopper told Fifa's official website.
"He ran at us, scored a goal, created chances for other guys. Big Rom changed the game."
Despite going 2-0 down, USA forced a dramatic climax after teenager Julian Green's 107th-minute volley and Howard admitted that he was devastated that his team could not find a way to draw level.
"It's heartbreaking, I don't think we could have given any more," the 35-year-old continued.
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One year ago this month, Americans learned that their government was engaged in secret dragnet surveillance, which contradicted years of assurances to the contrary from senior government officials and intelligence leaders.
It is time to end the dragnet – and to affirm that we can keep our nation secure without trampling on and abandoning Americans’ constitutional rights.
For years, in both statements to the public and open testimony before the House and Senate, senior government officials claimed that domestic surveillance was narrow in focus and limited in scope. But in June 2013, Americans learned through leaked classified documents that these claims bore little resemblance to reality. In fact, the NSA has been relying on a secret interpretation of the USA Patriot Act to vacuum up the phone records of millions of law-abiding citizens. Under a separate program, intelligence agencies are using a loophole in the law to read some Americans’ e-mails without ever getting a warrant.
Dragnet surveillance was approved by a secret court that normally hears only the government’s side of major cases. It had been debated only in a few secret congressional committee hearings, and many members of Congress were entirely unaware of it.
And yet, it was inevitable that mass surveillance and warrantless searches would eventually be exposed. When the plain text of the law differs so dramatically from how it is interpreted and applied, in effect creating a body of secret law, it simply isn’t sustainable. So when the programs’ existence became public last summer, huge numbers of Americans were justifiably stunned and angry at how they had been misled and by the degree to which their privacy rights had been routinely violated. Inflated claims about the program’s value have burst under public scrutiny, and there is now a groundswell of public support for reform.
Benjamin Franklin once warned that a society that trades essential liberties for short-term security risks losing both. That is still true today, and even the staunchest defenders of mass surveillance concede that reforms are inevitable.
The debate over exactly what reforms should be made is likely to continue for at least the next few years as Americans continue to learn about the scale of ongoing government surveillance activities. As an initial step, we have worked with our colleagues in the House and Senate to build support for a package of real and meaningful changes to the law that would promote the restoration of Americans’ constitutional rights and freedoms, while protecting national security.
This package of reforms includes overhauling domestic surveillance laws to ban the bulk collection of Americans’ personal information, and closing the loophole that allows intelligence agencies to deliberately read Americans’ e-mails without a warrant. It includes reshaping the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court by installing an advocate who can argue for Americans’ constitutional rights when the court is considering major cases, and by requiring that significant interpretations of U.S. law and the Constitution be made public. And it would strengthen and clarify the government’s authority to obtain individual records quickly in genuine emergency situations.
These reforms would erect safeguards against the further erosion of our right to privacy, and ensure greater transparency and openness.
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George and Kathy Maxwell say the chair represents Obama, much like the empty chair Clint Eastwood spoke to at the Republican National Convention. But they say the reason it is hanging from their tree is because someone stole the first one they had on the ground.
We figured we d hang it up so everyone can see it; there is no offense intended -- well other than hoping people vote against Obama of course, said Kathy Maxwell.
After Eastwood s RNC chair conversation, conservatives took pictures of empty chairs and posted them online. A few of those chairs were pictured hanging by rope from trees, causing outrage at what was dubbed chair lynchings in Texas and Virginia.
It s really painful for people who have a knowledge or connection to that history: some people have family connections to it and some people have seen the pictures, said Sirius Bonner, a special advisor on diversity at Clark College.
That s really unfortunate but that s really a bunch of hooey, that s really my belief, said Maxwell.
Bonner is disappointed by the Maxwell s decision to leave the chair hanging, but hopes it sparks a serious discussion.
When you re made aware of how people respond to it, when you re made aware of some of the history, what do you do at that point? I think it s unfortunate that they ve decided to leave it up, and what I think it does is create an opportunity to have further dialogue and conversation, said Bonner.
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You buy this gorgeous candle as one half of a set—one is "masculine," the other is "feminine"—sort of an arty-candle version of the yin/yang bumper sticker eternally affixed to the car of the progressive American suburbanite like—well—white on rice.
The "masculine" is not all tobacco-leather—mosquito spray, the reflexive eau de "male" so many fragrance companies gravitate toward. It is prettier. Which in my opinion is more masculine: It smells pretty and it's got pink designs all over it, so the burner of said candle would have to be fairly secure in his manliness to get up the nerve. (It's called Eros to sex it up a little bit.)
Rose, the girl one, is delicately stunning in the vein of the beloved Diptyque scent Baies. Yin/yangishly, you cannot have one without the other—they only come together.
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Getting The Most From RAW
A valuable tool for the digital photographer, RAW must be treated with respect to maximize its benefits
Getting The Most From RAW
Digital offers so many new choices that it can be confusing at times. Remember what it was like when we first started photographing—our choices were befuddling then, too. We had no idea of what an ƒ-stop was or why we should choose a particular ƒ-stop and shutter speed combination. And what about depth of field versus selective focus?
Digital capture is similar—new things to learn that, once mastered, will be taken for granted. Sometimes, the choices aren't perfectly clear, like RAW and JPEG. Let's explore why RAW can be an important choice for many photographers, with ideas on getting the most from it.
I've covered JPEG and internal processing in cameras in the past because I felt there were many photographers who would be better suited shooting that way, yet the tech folks pushed RAW without consideration of how a photographer liked to work. Well-meaning experts often promote one approach to digital, but some photographers uncomfortable with that way lose some of their enthusiasm for our medium. If you get the results you want and need from high-quality JPEG, then keep doing it.
RAW is an extremely important tool for the digital photographer, however. There are three reasons why photographers should use it, I believe: they like processing images; they find limitations, causing them problems when shooting JPEG; and they need the increased flexibility RAW offers. RAW shouldn't be an automatic format to use because another photographer says so—that can lead to frustration in the time spent at the computer and when working with the RAW converter.
Once you decide to work with RAW, it's essential to understand that RAW requires a certain workflow to maximize its benefits. Many photographers now shoot RAW + JPEG so they get the best of both formats—a great way to go (especially since memory cards now offer a lot of megabytes with less cost). You gain the increased flexibility of RAW when you need it and the ability to work quickly with JPEG files when that's appropriate.
To use RAW to its best advantage, let's cover some basics. It certainly isn't a magic bullet that transforms any kind of exposure or lighting condition into a great shot. RAW is a type of image file with minimal change to the data coming from the sensor. It isn't unprocessed data as you may have read—the sensor creates analog information that must be processed into digital data. This is accomplished with the A/D converter and is a complex engineering challenge that, luckily, camera manufacturers have mastered for us.
A RAW file holds more tonal and color information than JPEG and offers a great deal of flexibility in how you can work the tones and color in an image. With RAW, you can frequently extract tones and details from the brightest and darkest areas of an image that have no detail in a JPEG file. In addition, image tonal qualities can be maintained throughout a greater range of adjustments done in RAW.
RAW allows you to enlarge digital images to a larger size with higher quality when done in the RAW converter than if you enlarge them later in Photoshop or using most other enlarging software. This can be remarkable, allowing superb-quality prints from even small digital files.There have been many misconceptions about RAW, however. One of the most common and unfortunate myths we hear is that RAW is so adaptable that you don't have to be as concerned about exposure or color since you can fix it in RAW.
The problem with such thinking is that it shortchanges RAW, creates more work to do in the computer (which can be frustrating) and can give you less than the best tonalities and color. Consider a couple of things: RAW comes from a sensor that has a finite range from black to white —if your exposure is outside of that range, nothing can bring it back, not even RAW; and RAW comes from a digital translation of analog information given by the sensor—GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) is definitely appropriate here. RAW does its best when it has good files from the start.
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The modern advocates of discrimination do their best to tiptoe around this parallel, but rarely with much success. Witness this exchange on Twitter, featuring the Heritage Foundation’s Ryan T. Anderson, who was raging about the aforementioned wedding-venue case:
That argument begged for what struck me as the obvious rejoinder: if “free association and contract” covers one kind of discrimination, shouldn’t it cover all kinds?
That occasioned a sudden and sharp change of tone, as Anderson did a 180-degree turn to argue that “free association” somehow protects the right to discriminate against gay people, but not the right to discriminate against black people. See for yourself:
In this tweet, he linked to an essay also written by himself, in which he argues, basically, that only certain kinds of prejudice are old enough to qualify for legal protection.
Belief that marriage is a male–female union is shared by the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions; by ancient Greek and Roman thinkers untouched by these religions; and by various Enlightenment philosophers. It is affirmed by canon, common, and civil law and by ancient Greek and Roman law… Only late in human history does one see political communities prohibiting intermarriage on the basis of race.
The first and most obvious point is that he’s drawing lines arbitrarily to arrive at his desired result. Bans on interracial marriage may be “late” compared to the entire span of human history, but as far as Western civilization goes, they’re very old indeed. In the United States, some of them date back to the 1660s, the colonial era. Why doesn’t this qualify as “old enough”? Why should it matter if a prejudiced belief is 300 years old or 3,000?
But more fundamentally, this argument is plainly irrelevant, since we’re not ruled by the dead hand of the past. The law in America isn’t based on what ancient Greek and Jewish philosophers believed; it’s based on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. And the Constitution requires equal protection of the law – which, as an overwhelming majority of recent court cases have agreed, means that arbitrary gender-based restrictions on the legal benefits of marriage can’t stand.
On the flip side of this, defining our laws solely by reference to what long-dead people believed would open the door to all kinds of evils that were ubiquitous in the ancient world: slavery, monarchy, theocracy, torture, genocide as a tactic of war. We reject these practices because we’ve made moral progress, because we recognize as injustice many things that were once widely accepted. Saying that some belief should be preserved just because it’s old is the clumsiest imaginable example of fallacious reasoning.
However, as faulty as Anderson’s argument is, he at least sees racial discrimination as a bad thing deserving of a legal remedy. There are conservatives and libertarians who take the opposite tack – who argue that we should repeal civil-rights and anti-discrimination laws, and bring back the days when lunch-counter owners could ban black customers or stores could hang out the “No Jews Need Apply” shingle. Senator Rand Paul said this in 2010, for example, though he later backpedaled on it; the same is apparently true of failed Senate candidate Todd Akin. Other, more marginal figures said so even less apologetically. Granted, this is still a fringe position – but the more legal losses that religious conservatives rack up in the battle over anti-discrimination laws, the more prominent I predict it will become.
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<tangent> How is @_ not global in scope? I mean, it gets implicitly localized on any subroutine call, but it's present by default and package independent:
use strict; use warnings; @_ = @ARGV; package Foo; print for @_; @_ = qw(1 2 3 4 5); { local @_ = reverse @_; print for @_; } package main; print for @_;
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Whichever direction you link it, that would seem to present a problem. If you're installing a separate perl because you want to leave the stock perl pristine for the OS to use, well, the OS will expect to find the stock perl in /usr/bin/perl. If /usr/bin/perl is a link to /usr/local/bin/perl (or wherever), then the OS will be using your local version, so you might as well have just replaced the stock version with your own version, right?
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Mapping congressional districts functions at a dynamic intersection of geography, politics, and community. Can technology, as with so many other issues at this intersection, improve the current system?
"Brian Olson is a software engineer in Massachusetts who wrote a program to draw 'optimally compact' equal-population congressional districts in each state, based on 2010 census data. Olson's algorithm draws districts that respect the boundaries of census blocks, which are the smallest geographic units used by the Census Bureau. This ensures that the district boundaries reflect actual neighborhoods."
The article shares a few examples of the difference between Olson's "optimally compact" districts and the gerrymandered reality of congressional districts.
An interesting question raised by speculating on a new system for districting, is the question of "communities of interest": "As Jonathan Bernstein wrote last year, a community of interest could be defined based on rural/urban divides, shared cultural background, economic interest, ethnic background, demographic similarity, political boundaries, geographic boundaries and on and on." In other words, "You can define a 'community of interest' pretty much however you want," which introduces the kind legalistic arguments that can enable, you know, gerrymandering.
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Larry Weissman: What inspired you to be a writer?
Richard Price: My grandfather, a Russian immigrant, was a factory worker and wrote poetry in his spare time. It would get published in a Brooklyn YMHA mimeograph, before xerox, and I would see these poems in print in this little bound thing with my grandfather's name on it and it would flip me out.
LW: And when did you first begin identifying yourself as a writer?
RP: Pretty early, actually, when I was ten or eleven. It was the one thing where I felt I could be very precocious.
LW: How do you think your upbringing in the Bronx has influenced your writing?
RP: Well, it's where I'm from and that tends to dictate where you gravitate towards. You always tend to look back instead of looking forward.
LW: What attracts you to the novel as an art form?
RP: What attracts me to the novel is the space, the sense of no limits. The only requirement is that whatever you write must be readable and, hopefully, compelling. That's the exact opposite of the screenplay, in which you've got to get this things over and out in 110 pages, with no descriptions. They're very different, one is a wide open range, the other is a sort of cramped space. I prefer to write novels because, well, I'm a novelist. I feel like an artist when I'm writing a novel, when I'm working on a screenplay I feel like a craftsman.
LW: I know that you do an incredible amount of research before you begin each novel, can you describe your writing process?
RP: Basically, if I have a rough idea of what I want to do, I go and hang out in the place, and with the people similar to the people I want to write about. I take notes, but I don't ever look at my notes. It's a lot more fun for me to go out and soak up experience than it is to sit down at a desk and hammer out a novel.
LW: So the research is the part you enjoy most?
RP: Well, they call it research, but it's not exactly like I go out with a clipboard and a pith helmet. It's just basically hanging out and seeing what strikes me.
LW: So there are two opposite modes to your creative process, one being a very social...
RP: Yeah, one is a delay tactic and the other one is what counts.
LW: You are about to go into the process of writing the screenplay of your own novel, and you wrote the screenplay for your last novel, Clockers...
RP: Well, it's not a lot of fun. I write sort of bulky books, and you have to take that book and truly tear it apart. You're working with a time limitation, it can't be more than two hours, which means 110 or 115 pages. Number two, it's yours. What are you going to throw away, what can you do without.
LW: Sort of like dismembering your baby?
RP: Yes, exactly. It's very difficult to be objective and to say, "This character goes, this has to go." Because if I wrote it, I like it. The impulse is to film everything in the book, but I can't do that. The only advantage is that I have an intuitive understanding of what the book's about, that might be hard for someone coming in from the outside. But, by and large, a writer doing their own screenplay adaptation is not a great idea.
LW: When you are writing, what comes first, character or plot?
RP: Well, it's different. When I'm writing screenplays it's always plot, because it's a premise, a situation. When I'm writing novels it's always character, because the plot evolves out of the personality.
LW: You have an amazing ear for dialogue, do you spend a lot of time listening to people and conversation?
RP: No, it's just something like a knack, it's not something you can cultivate.
LW: What inspires you to write about the inner-city?
RP: It's where I'm from, where I grew up and spent my formative years. It's kind of a blue collar outer-borough background. And the issue of race. Race is something that'sa perpetual sore spot.
LW: And was it daunting to approach a subject like that?
RP: Not really. Of course, you're always anxious not to do something stereotypical. Maybe that's why I do all the hang time, too. The only thing that is problematic for me is if I feel like I can't do an honorable job of creating characters. They're obviously not me.
LW: Are your characters the vehicles for the questions you want to ask, or are the questions an organic outgrowth of the characters?
RP: I don't think of it that way. You have to understand, when you're writing, it's often not until you've finished that you can step back and look at it and say, in a more objective way, this is what I was driving at. In the process of writing, I'm just basically absorbed by the story I want to tell.
LW: How was the Susan Smith case an inspiration for Freedomland?
RP: There were three elements of the story that were pivotal to me, although I was not particularly interested in writing about Susan Smith per se, and I didn't. The racial hoax, "The black guy did it." The second thing was the media, the impact of the media upon the event and how she used the media until they were able to eat her up. And the third was the mystery of the woman herself. People lead lives and they're kind of powerless, and what they do is very small, and then it culminates in one act that creates a chain reaction of world class headlines. What stayed with me was the intersection of racial paranoia, media frenzy, and personal tragedy. I was really interested in what type of woman could get into a jam like this, a woman that is not a sociopath, that is not evil. It's just, life has done this and she moved left when she should have moved right. I was very interested in trying to set up a balance between the small, intimate things of a person's life, and the gargantuan chain reaction that affects the world.
LW: What would you like the reader to come away with after reading Freedomland, other than being thoroughly entertained.
RP: A receipt from the bookstore. No, it's sort of a portrait of race in America right now, in the sense that people are on either side of the big racial divide. They basically look at each other in a very bald way, as the enemy. They each feel victimized by the other. I tried to set up a situation where that is the case, where the races are divided, but there's a woman in the middle and whoever gets close to her tends to feel, unexpectedly, sympathy, empathy, pity, affection. And it screws everyone up and makes them into all-around human beings as opposed to advocates for their race. I wanted to set up a model for the politics of decency, to show people acting like human beings towards each other, regardless of race.
LW: Who are some of the people who have influenced your writing?
RP: From literature there's Hubert Selby, Richard Wright, and James C. Farrell. Also, the early films of Martin Scorcese. Lenny Bruce. Weegee, the photographer.
LW: What are you looking forward to working on next?
RP: I have to wait and see what hits me, I don't want to force it. I don't have a clue as to what I want to do next.
LW: You've reached a level of success that most writers can only dream of. What challenges would you like to tackle in the future?
RP: I'd really like to do a play. I did one in the seventies as part of a theater group, but I can't even remember it.
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Taz 12-02-2010 12:37 PM
The hypocrisy of the media attack on Wikileaks
Good read right here. :reporter:
With a regularity that's becoming almost traditional, the latest major release from Wikileaks has been accompanied by a chorus of disapproval from the establishment. Politicians, analysts and, most worryingly of all, journalists, are lining up to condemn the organisation's eccentric founder, Julian Assange.
The White House and the Foreign Office instantly sprang to action. The media's response was less predictable, and far more irritating. Writers point out that the West will be a more dangerous place if, for instance, Saudi leaders feel they cannot have confidential conversations with US officials. One might respond that the world becomes a far more dangerous place for a few unfortunate individuals when they do, but that's a small response to an attack that requires something bigger and more substantial.
Society is about roles, with groups pitted against each other in a bid to balance the outcome. The executive is given certain powers, for instance, while the legislature - constituted quite literally by the mates of the executive - is tasked with scrutinising its decisions. The same is true for international diplomacy. Diplomats strive for confidentiality. Journalists strive to uncover secrets. The fact that many columnists see fit to attack Wikileaks is evidence of how severely they have misinterpreted their mission statement.
The only difference between Wikileaks and other news organisations is that Wikileaks is doing its job properly. This is not a symptom of its greater intelligence, merely its ability to comprehend the ramifications of new technology. Wikileaks is like a symbol of globalisation. It has no HQ. It uses a Swedish company for net hosting, but puts servers all over the world.
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LX 12-02-2010 04:23 PM
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Renihan_00 12-03-2010 10:56 AM
Did what the media was supposed to do and supposed to be allowed to do under the right of the press.
Except there isn't really freedom anymore anywhere...so there you have it.
To me, the whole siutation is very depressing and basically is making it very clear how far our corporate overlords can and will go to stay in control.
Bill Haverchuck 12-06-2010 06:07 PM
:reporter: ... :police: ... :facepalm: ... Yes, I know he's joking.
Taz 12-06-2010 07:41 PM
Ah, he's channeling his inner Bill O'Reilly ... how nice.
'trane 12-08-2010 03:14 PM
WikiLeaks just made the world more repressive
WikiLeaks just made the world more repressive - The Globe and Mail
Bill Haverchuck 12-08-2010 03:27 PM
interesting article, 'trane. It's good to get some balance.
LX 12-08-2010 03:41 PM
The thing that gets me is that the abuses against the Timorese, including shit bordering on genocidal attacks during Suharto's rule (if not outright genocide), basically got a green light by the US. They definitely gave the initial invasion an ok, without which it would not have happened. All for their own strategic interests. And as the abuses grew worse, the US worked very hard to weaken the effect of what was otherwise international condemnation.
So how much of this third most common topic reveals such neglectful aspects as that, as opposed to the kinds of tepid, but benevolent diplomatic confrontations this guy suggests are so intrinsic?
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What a bummer when that genial Hollywood company-man Chris Columbus was hired to direct the movie of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001). The adaptation was faithful to a fault, but the picture was a bland, twinkling, Christmassy thing that missed or muffled the book's emotional beats, and it had none of the subversive energy out of which J.K. Rowling's Harry had been forged. I'm not saying Rowling is some kind of Riot Grrrrl. But despite the headmistressy civility of her prose and her insistence on a disciplined and controlled nonconformity, her books express a rage against a certain fascistic strain of the blue-blood English upper crust and their clueless allies, the vulgarly snobbish middle-class mortals known memorably as "muggles." Every book begins with the lonely, friendless, maltreated orphan Harry shut in his room, practicing his magic in secret—just as Rowling must have shut herself away to summon up the pagan fury at the core of each new adventure.
Well, OK, picking Cuarón wasn't such a stroke of genius. He directed maybe the most evocative live-action kids movie since The Black Stallion (1979), A Little Princess (1995), and his failed modern 1998 Great Expectations (set in Florida and New York's SoHo) was a worthy stab at re-energizing a classic. More important, his approach to constructing a world on film is the opposite of Columbus'. Where the latter works from the top down, dollying into his lavish sets from on high, Cuarón builds his scenes from below, from deep inside his storybook universe. It helps that the characters' emotions are so vivid. The tactile power of Cuarón's filmmaking is clear from the first scene, in which Harry (once more Daniel Radcliffe) is discovered under his covers in the middle of the night in that awful Dursley house, doing something naughty. No, it's not what you're thinking: He's playing with his wand. I mean, he's testing out his new potency. I mean ...
There's room for suggestiveness here, because Potter isn't pre-pubescent anymore, and neither is the actor. Harry is a gangly and confused English teen, uncertain both of his right to express himself and the extent of his powers to do so. He's the quintessential prickly hormonal adolescent. When a nasty aunt (Pam Ferris) insults his dead mom and dad, Harry can't contain his rage and blows her up like a barrage balloon. Cuarón doesn't direct the scene for whimsy: He's one step away from some David Cronenberg vision in which she's splattered all over the walls.
The entrance to Hogwarts' dining hall, with the Glee Club warbling "Double double toil and trouble … Something wicked this way comes!" is both funny and goose-bumpingly operatic. But the palette of this film is scarier: The contrasts are higher, the blacks deeper, and Cuarón irises in and out of many scenes like a silent Expressionist master. The colors reflect a new uncertainty. Harry is in mortal danger from Sirius Black (Gary Oldman), a wizard who's supposed to have it in for him and who has managed to escape from the prison Azkaban. The guards who pursue Black are possibly worse than he is: cowled, skeletal creatures called Dementors that suck peoples' souls out of their bodies—and that take a mysterious interest in Harry's soul, too.
In truth, those Dementors are not quite as bone-chilling as I'd hoped they'd be, at least compared to Peter Jackson's Ringwraiths in Lord of the Rings. But there's a chilling effect when they hover in the air and pull at their victims' faces like taffy. Harry's pal Ron * (Rupert Grint) says the Dementors make him feel cold, as if he'll never be cheerful again—an evocative description of real adolescent depression. Cuarón is mindful of these metaphors, so the movie works on more than one level.
Unfortunately, it isn't gangbusters on the first, narrative level. Although possibly the best of the books, Prisoner of Azkaban is very much a middle chapter. It loses momentum in the second half, and there's no climactic wand-off with some super-villain. (Voldemort remains off-screen.) Gary Oldman can be a terrific actor, but he's too finicky, cold, and small of spirit for Sirius Black. (Sean Bean would have been a better choice.) And Michael Gambon, replacing the late Richard Harris as the top wizard, Dumbledore, can't resist camping it up. The happy additions are the always enigmatically lewd David Thewlis as a mysterious professor named Lupin (the name hints at his secret) and Emma Thompson as a spaced-out, frizzy-haired divination instructor with glasses that triple the size of her eyeballs. She's proof that even wizards have their New Age pseudoscientists; and she gives Emma Watson's delectable Hermione a chance to show that girls can be more healthily skeptical than boys any day.
Even when Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban runs down, there is so much magic to marvel at: the stranded wizard's night bus that's like a visit from Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro (1988), with a rasta shrunken head calling out the stops; the giant flying hippogriff, with its body of a horse and head of an eagle; and the whomping willow, which flings the three protagonists around in unprecedented dimensional detail. There's a 3-D texture to those ornate corridors, the oil paintings with their parallel vaudeville routines, the undulating landscape, and the lakes like magnificent fjords. In Cuarón's hands, the world of Harry Potter doesn't feel like a synthetic movie theme park anymore. It's almost real, Hogwarts and all.
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Cristina is back! But to begin with, she's back in bed and unable to get out, at least for a couple of days. Mere is with her, and as she VOs that doctors aren't always right, she is on the phone with Derek and we learn that she's spent the last two nights there since Cristina doesn't want to be alone. But she tells him (and assures us) that Cristina is "Back-back."
Bailey and Callie walk in to work and Callie gripes that she has to cancel a surgery since they have to meet with their lawyers again about the lawsuit. Bailey asks how it is going and Callie isn't allowed to say, but her voice indicates that it's not great. I don't know why - repeatedly relieving the crash that killed your best friend and father of your child and maimed your wife sound like a barrel of laughs! Speaking of her wife, Bailey then asks about Arizona and Callie gives much the same answer. She admits that Arizona is actually walking with the prosthetic but that that she won't leave the house until she's perfect and when Callie tries to encourage her, she gets yelled at for pushing. Bailey has no patience for this kind of nonsense and wants to order Arizona back to the hospital already, but Callie chirps that then Arizona would just be cranky and resentful towards her, too! Callie is actually holding up surprisingly well given how much this crash has fucked her life and family.
Princess Kate, covered in vomit, runs in to Alex who sheers at her that she stinks. She tells him that Santa Claus came to town, and while this sounds like some dumb code, I'll save you all and explain that is the name of a particular repeat homeless patient. Alex doesn't care about an explanation and orders her to change while his love for her sits, embryonic and thus far undetectable, deep inside his heart. Kate is frustrated, which is basically what one could write for every single scene she has appeared in this season.
Mere walks up to Alex with a list; it seems he is buying Mere's old house, which I find rather awesome, but she's pissed that his realtor sent over a list of things to fix before Alex will buy the place. She reminds him that the made a deal and not only shook on it, but drank on it too, which means it's extra-super iron-clad. Alex says that this is just business and they should be grown-ups about it, which makes her even more irate because Alex really shouldn't be the one trying to call someone else out for not being mature.
Remember the intern locker room? I didn't at all until I saw the newest batch of interns there. If they are resurrecting this set, these guys really must be around to stay for a while. Kate gripes about Alex while changing into new scrubs. Heather commiserates because Santa barfed on her a couple of weeks back, too. Leah (who?) just wants to know if Alex said anything about her. Stephanie isn't sure why Leah would start off the year by sleeping with her boss (ah yes, we saw her in Alex's lap once, if I recall correctly), unaware that at this point it's practically a prerequisite for working at this hospital. It's pointed out that Heather hooked up with Alex too, but she just chalks it up to her social anxiety and claims it was easier than talking to him. Smash grins at her and says he's a great listener. Seriously, I love him so much. He's the one intern who can stay and about whom I'd like to learn more.
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The Waterlilies in Bloom art installation may be inspired by nature, but it is created using manmade technology. Each giant 'waterlily' is made up of glimmering CDs. It is as though artist Bruce Munro, who is known for his light exhibits, wanted to improve on his last compact disc creation by turning what looked like a vast ocean into something that would actually float in the water.
Using more than more than 65,000 upcycled CDs, the Waterlilies in Bloom art installation pays tribute to the iconic waterlilies of Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Munro reveals, "The unmatched beauty of Longwood Gardens inspired me in so many ways. Creating works that speak to the landscape but also enhance the natural beauty of the Gardens was an exciting artistic challenge." Stats for Floating CD Installations Trending: Older & Warm
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It's nighttime in Kyoto, and Shima Enomoto, one of my guides, is pointing up at the sky. "Can you see it?" she asks. "Rabbit making a rice cake." She laughs. "Almost a cartoon."
"Maybe it will take some time," I say, looking above rows of buildings, trees with buds about to unwrap and signs that flash their avenue colors into fire. "Tomorrow we'll be on the road," I say. "I'll look again."
It's only Day One of my trip, and already life feels strange. It could be jet lag, but the idea of walking through fields and over mountains and ending up in Tokyo doesn't strike me as realistic. But this is the plan.
A minshuku, or wayside inn, displays a traditional hat and straw sandals of the kind that ancient pilgrims wore while walking the Nakasendo Way in Japan.
A minshuku, or wayside inn, displays a traditional hat and straw sandals of the kind that ancient pilgrims wore while walking the Nakasendo Way in Japan. (Photo for the Washington Post by Peter Mandel)
Walk Japan, the tour company I'm here with, specializes in ambitious treks, and I've signed up for one of its longer routes: the 11-day Nakasendo Way tour. My group will follow the path of an ancient and largely forgotten highway known as the Nakasendo.
Starting in Kyoto, we'll walk the more scenic, better-preserved parts of the trail through Hikone, Sekigahara, Magome, Tsumago and Narai before ending up in downtown Tokyo. We've been told to be ready to hike from six to 16 miles each day along a mix of lanes, gravel tracks, forest paths and cobblestone roadway.
Dating back to the 7th century, Japan's Nakasendo was once a path for shoguns, pilgrims and samurai -- not to mention average travelers like us -- who, according to my brochure, wore out pair after pair of straw sandals on the rolling terrain.
Studded with Shinto shrines and statues of deities charged with watching over those on the road, the Nakasendo reached the peak of its usefulness and romance during Japan's Edo Period (1603-1868), before steam trains and paved roads changed the pace of travel.
One of the most exciting parts of the walk for me is the chance to spend some nights at wayside inns known as ryokan or, when simpler, as minshuku. I once helped compile a book about the world's oldest family firms, and these traditional hostels popped up in the research again and again.
Sure enough, after trudging through bamboo forests during our first day on the road, we turn in at Masuya Inn in the village of Sekigahara -- a minshuku that, we were told, has been in business for more than eight centuries.
A group of hikers on Japan’s Nakasendo Way in April pass one of the many wooden signs designating the route of the ancient and largely forgotten
A group of hikers on Japan's Nakasendo Way in April pass one of the many wooden signs designating the route of the ancient and largely forgotten highway from Kyoto to Tokyo. (Photo for the Washington Post by Peter Mandel)
"Yankee Candles?" I ask. "In Singapore?"
"Yes, of course," says Wong, who is dressed for hanging out in a food court, not for hiking. "Extremely popular there. Especially the lemon verbena."
"It's a stick," I say.
"No, it's not," Addyman says. "It's a snake. But it's not a dangerous one."
Every now and then, the road leads us into tunnels of shade created by cedar and cypress, and at one point, we stop at a sign with a picture of an angry-looking predator. Next to it is a small steel cup. "Ring bell against bear," translates Enomoto with a nervous laugh.
Wong gives it a pull, and the sound reverberates, bouncing back from hills ahead. "Not to worry," Addyman says. "These are Japanese bears. They're very shy." According to Addyman, the signmakers should be more worried about the wild boar.
But as we begin to climb, no one seems concerned about becoming a snack for animals. Our focus is on learning to pick out the three Japanese characters carved into stone and wood road signs that designate our route. The first symbol looks like a bird built out of bamboo; the second like the prongs of a pitchfork; and the third like Noah's ark. Or more like half an ark.
"Meadow. Mountain. Way," deciphers Addyman. "That's the Nakasendo -- literally translated."
Each day of the walk, the road seems slightly steeper and white-capped mountains seem more dominate. It may be because we're working harder, but eating is on everyone's mind. Meals at our inns have been like edible galleries, with a main exhibit (usually a hot pot) and interesting mini-plates presenting forest mushrooms, squares of tofu, or sashimi, on the side.
"Wish there was a convenience store near here," someone complains as we're picking our way around paving stones that were laid to make the path more predictable for tired feet and hooves.
"No hope, no hope," Wong says. "But Naomi says there's a Boss Coffee machine in the next village. Or it might be the one after."
"Only in Japan," adds Tracey Yeh, a banker from Singapore. "It's vending and more vending. You don't want to run out of change even deep in the woods."
Yeh pulls out a bag of Calbee potato chips: soy sauce and mayo flavor. "Want some?" she asks. We pool what we've got. Wong breaks open a box of Pocky-brand snack sticks. "Rum and raisin," he grins. No one has any rice cakes, but one of the guides offers around some deep-fried eel bones in a cellophane pack.
We reach the top of a pass, where everyone takes a break and where our guides point out a poem, a sad one, that has been inscribed in stone. The author was a princess, we're told. Princess Kazuno-miya, who traveled the Nakasendo in the mid-1800s, when she was forced to leave Kyoto for Edo to become the shogun's wife.
"Why compose it here?" Wong asks.
"Well," Enomoto says, "this is about the point where views back to Kyoto are lost."
Here, there is a kind of shrine. It's not like those we've passed so far: Most have been small and tidy, with well-made torii gates and statues, sometimes, of Jizo Bodhisattva, guardian of travelers. This one is massive. Most have had a sacred rope, a shimenawa, strung across the entrance. This one is hung with twisted branches and leaves.
"It's like Christmas Day," someone says. "Christmas in Japan."
As for me, I'm grouchy the second I see white. As a New Englander, I'm in search of spring.
When others are using walking sticks like ski poles, I'm chopping at the snow. Chopping and stomping. Trying to make it go away.
As we begin to descend, roadside deities regard us from their pedestals and temples -- maybe approving, maybe grieving just a bit. Our tour, and the Nakasendo itself, ends in Tokyo.
From the outskirts of the city, we board a train and tick off some miles sitting down. There's a sense of throwing off a load. And, maybe a little, of guilt. Once in the glass-box city center, we exchange our path for crosswalks. We trace the last few miles on foot.
Our goal, as modern pilgrims, is Tokyo's Nihonbashi bridge. And almost without realizing it, we are there.
Out come cameras and, from the bottom of someone's pack, a single package of Pocky that we somehow missed.
"Have we done it?" asks Yeh.
"We have," Addyman confirms.
Later that evening, to try and remember it, I make it back to the bridge. I find myself standing underneath a cherry tree that's only steps from where the Nakasendo ends. Its canopy is not like the cedar's. Much more delicate. Frailer. Like straw for sandals.
Through the branches, I see a streetlight. No, it's rounder, whiter than that: It's the moon.
I think of Shima Enomoto. But she has gone.
"Can you see it?" she would ask.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): To promote my new book Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia, I've tried to set up lectures at bookstores. One place I contacted was A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books in San Francisco. It turned me down. Ironically, I was later able to score a gig at a spot called A Dirty Poorly-Lit Place for Books. It's a seedy dive in a run-down neighborhood. My audience was a handful of rowdies instead of the well-heeled crowd that might have seen me at the other store, and I sold just one book. But I enjoyed my time thoroughly, as my uninhibited congregation joined me in my favorite rituals, like kicking our own asses, burning money, throwing imaginary stones at heaven, and dancing in slow motion on tabletops. Would audience members at A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books have done that? I think not. The moral of the story, Aquarius: It'll be very lucky if you, like me, have to settle for your second choice in the coming week.
PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20):You don't need to know how your computer and car work in order to use them. Their inner workings may be unfathomable, but that doesn't matter as long as you benefit from what they do for you. Let's apply that same principle to a certain relationship that is perplexing you. You obviously get something out of your alliance with this person, since you've chosen not to leave it. Yet you seem bothered by the fact that you can't figure out what you are to each other and where you're supposed to go next. My advice? For now, stop trying to understand it. Just surrender to the fruitful mystery. Simply let your connection perform its enigmatic magic.
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How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings
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. they don't receive combat pay and it's absolutely ridiculous. so recently, the pentagon established that a woman that serves in combat is entitled to receive all of the things that go with it to show our country's appreciation. so it seems to me that if we're going to have a draft and i really believe that if we did have a draft set up that congress would not be so anxious to the democrats and republicans to put our young people in harm's way. >> tell me why you say that because you're introduced this legislation multiple times and it's clearly something you're very committed to. you bet your life because the people in the congress that allow these things to go on, they have no fear that anyone in their community and their families are going to be making any sacrifice at all. less than 1% of americans, most of whom volunteer for economic reasons paid the price in terms of 6600 lives lost, tens of thousands of people wounded. veterans, american veterans coming home, disoriented, unemploy unemployed, some homeless and no one pays a price. i submit to you, we would not be in iraq, afgh
apart and obviously the optics of being out of town when there's steep cuts to the pentagon and other government programs is not great but it's really an oversimplification of the issue. >> molly, what about the plan put forth earlier this week, the $110 billion plan to avert the sequester. is that going to gain any traction? >> i doubt it. republicans have already basically said that's dead on arrival and as jake said it's not like they were getting anything done here in washington before they went on vacation. there really hasn't been any progress. there are no negotiations, nobody's talking to each other. you have these one-sided plans being put together and then they sort of get lobbed over the fence and the other side says eh, no. we're a long way from a constructive dialogue happening between the parties on capitol hill. >> jake in a piece yesterday you wrote "house republicans say if they spend the next two years like they spent the past two they'll become irrelevant." who are the most prominent republicans leading this charge toward as you put it irrelevancy? >> toward irrelev
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May 18, 2001|From Associated Press
RENO — Lawmakers from Nevada said Thursday they feared that President Bush's plan to expand nuclear energy would create more pressure to build a high-level radioactive waste dump at Yucca Mountain, 90 miles north of Las Vegas.
Bush's new energy plan calls for the "safe expansion" of nuclear energy by establishing a national repository for nuclear waste. It does not specify whether the repository should be built at Yucca Mountain.
"The . . . plan promotes nuclear power as a miracle fix to our nation's energy woes, just as it was 30 years ago--and we still don't have a solution for the safe disposal of radioactive waste," said Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-Nev.) agreed, saying, "Until we solve the nuclear waste issue, it is not a viable alternative in my view.
"While nuclear energy may be the cleanest energy-producing material for the environment, it leaves the highest toxic waste material known to man in its wake," he said.
Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) saw positive signs in Bush's proposals, including funding for recycling and technology to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, but he had a caveat.
"If the Bush administration wants to push nuclear power, I would support them in that effort, if it means they won't be bringing nuclear waste to the state of Nevada," Ensign said.
"But I will strongly oppose additional nuclear power plants as part of the Bush administration's energy package if there is a push for storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain."
Ensign said it is cheaper and safer to store nuclear waste in dry casks at sites where it is produced than to ship it for storage in Nevada.
In terms of direct references to Yucca Mountain, Reid said the language in Bush's plan "is much softer than I thought it would be."
"The [Energy Department] is over a decade behind schedule for accepting nuclear waste from utilities but has made progress toward characterization of the Yucca Mountain, Nev., site," the report said.
"Construction of an exploratory studies facility has been completed, a viability assessment was published, and recently scientists placed their extensive research about Yucca Mountain on the record for public scrutiny. However, key regulatory standards to protect public health and the environment at the repository have not been issued."
"It's not perfect by far, but it doesn't call for interim storage. It doesn't call for changing [Environmental Protection Agency] standards. It even gives some hope in looking at other technologies," said Reid, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
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I am being taken out for dinner tonight in Bethesda. Any particular recommendations for places I should either go or avoid?
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1. Yes, I was, but someone has offered to take me out in Bethesda tonight, so I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. I do love Indian food, so thank you.
1. I disagree with the pizza at Mia's and Passage to India.. both these places dissapointed me. But I can't speak on the other recs from Chocolate Chic pea
1. re: gooseterp
I too was VERY disappointed by passage to India!
I keep thinking I'm the weird one, but I just didn't find the depth of flavor and spice as I have had at Indian restaurants elsewhere.
It's a shame - it was a lovely and had excellent service.
I might give it another go, though.
2. Lots of choices in Bethesda, depending on what you're looking for, of course.
-Jaleo (love the white gazpacho)
-Mia's (casual, but really good pizza)
-Green Papaya
Haven't been to yet but have heard good things about
-Rock Creek
Personally, I would avoid
-Mon Ami Gabi (overpriced, unhelpful etc)
-Houstons (they're everywhere)
-whatever the New Orleans place is on Cordell
There are many more choices in between, but those are a few off the top of my head. Hope you have fun tonight wherever you go!
1. I second Jaleo, Rock Creek and Cesco.
Also good:
David Craig (on St. Elmo)
Tako Grill--fabulous sushi/japanese on Wisconsin
Raku (on Woodmont) -- Asian food
I've heard great things about Persimmon (on Wisconsin), but I've never been.
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I'll second Persimmon...I've only been there once, and it was before going to a movie, but the food was excellent. For the life of me, I can't remember what I ordered but I do remember that it was definitely a gem of a place in Bethesda.
I also REALLY liked Mia's...I know it doesn't get great reviews, but I thought the pizza was great, the service was fine - excellent beer selection too.
1. re: bethanyll22
I've been disappointed by Tako Grill on a number of occasions -- I'd stick with Sushi Taro in Dupont.
2. To repeat some of the others, I frequent:
Passage to India
Rock Creek
But I think the best cooking in Bethesda by a good margin right now is at David Craig.
1. I would not go to Centro - I want to like this upscale italian restaurant, but I am always disappointed. High prices with less than memorable food. Raku is our hands-down favorite, but it is getting harder and harder to get into.
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yeah I agree about Centro. I use to love their chicken and then one day it just got really bad. Raku is definitley my favorite
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Can't believe I forgot Raku! Great restaurant!
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I was at Centro last weekend, and really had a good time. My food was good-to-great, but not outstanding, but the service was really fantastic (our server's name was Michael), and the recommended wine was great (but expensive). The mussels appetizer was really unbelievably good, as was the chocolate and banana crepe dessert. The stratacelli (filet mignon with greens) was good, the chocolate gelato is great, the steak tartare appetizer is alright. The stuffed pork chop was decent. I wasn't disappointed, in short, and would go back as long as someone else was paying (as was the case last weekend!), but it sounds like there are other places in Bethesda that are better-liked and better priced. | http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/382991 | dclm-gs1-050180001 |
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2. Fletch
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That was a good clip. Archie had some good things to say about the Cowboys, and rightfully so.
The Cowboys need to get some pressure on Drew Brees, much like we did on Peyton Manning. We also need to pressure the Saints into some turnovers to take the wind out of their sails.
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I kind of looked at it as him making excuses for Eli... implied excuses, anyway. He's talking about how Romo got to sit and watch and how Rivers got to sit for two years in San Diego and learn while some young QB's just get thrown in there. Uh, who might that be Archie? Your two sons who neither one came into the NFL playing like Romo and Rivers are? Your youngest son who after almost 3 years as a starter isn't playing nearly as well as the guy you condemed to play in horrible San Diego? Nearly as well as an undrafted guy from E. Illinois?
I think Archie does a pretty decent job of previewing Saints games... but don't think for a second that he doesn't think about his son's every time he talks about any NFL QB who is playing well.
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Hey I don't fault Manning for that. It's human nature. He also spent lots of time talking about the Saints and it wasn't until the host brought up the Cowboys that our name even surfaced. Agree he doesn't want address Romo situation too much but did mention Romo having opportunity sit and learn and (left out) was the name of his 2 sons who didn't have that chance. BTW: Peyton played pretty good in his rookie season; brother Eli is not Peyton nor his father Archie.
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I've always given Eli the benefit of the doubt. Young QB ... thrust into the limelight of the big City. Well, I still think it's not all his fault. But then again, man, is he inconsistent.
I can't blame it on his lack of weapons, cuz he's got some serious weapons, and a great running game to boot.
Something's just not right about Eli.
The NY media is ripping him to shreads. I think it's effecting his play.
Peyton is playing in a smaller market, where the Colts are IT. NY has the Yankees, Knicks, Rangers, and a host of other teams ... and the Giants are only a part of the NY sports scene. There's no mercy when it comes to poor and inconsistent play.
Then again, Eli made his own bed. He has to sleep in it now.
He didn't want to be part of the SD organization, and now they're only probably the best team in the NFL.
But back to Eli's play ... he's undoubtedly on the bubble. Coughlin will be gone next year, and a new coaching regime may want someone more consistent back there. Let's just say, there will be no loyalty to Eli next season.
6. CrazyCowboy
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Eli is still going to be a force in our side for a long time......his last name is Manning--nuff said
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so he basically guided his son to be an early starter :laugh2: rather than have him sit and watch, then play with the best TE and RB in the league
8. AsthmaField
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Yep, looks that way. He sure could be sitting pretty in SD, that's for sure.
9. CowboyChris
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Eli wouldve been sitting behind Brees in SD. :starspin
10. Alexander
Alexander What's it going to be then, eh?
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Honestly, what a loser like Archie Manning has to say about this team means nothing to me.
11. burmafrd
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Eli Manning will NEVER be as good as his brother; or his father.
I have seen enough of him to absolutely believe that the game does not mean as much to him as it did to them; theylived and breathed and worked like dogs to make it; I see NOTHING like that in him. He is not a leader and he is not the guy to make the 3rd and 12 pass that the game depends on.
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Mannings = Whiners
Figures that he'd make an excuse for ShEli.
Guess what?!?!? ShEli was not only a FIRST ROUND DRAFT PICK, but THE TOP PICK of the draft. He is expected to start pretty immediately.
Romo was an UNDRAFTED FREE AGENT and an established passer with 40k career passing yards was in front of him.
ShEli had the opportunity to go to SD and sit for a few years behind Brees but NOOOOOOOOOOOO Archie wanted him to go to NY. You wo-Mannings made your beds, lie in them babies.
13. CowboyChris
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lmao ShEli
14. ghst187
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i don't claim originality on that btw.
someone else used here a long time ago, i liked it
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Archie has no choice but to concede ROmo is the genuine article because he's schooled both his boys so if Romo is fraudulant than what would that make his offspring?
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The post of CRPF Director General has been vacant for over a fortnight after incumbent Dilip Trivedi had retired on November 30.
Villages are talent-rich: Union Minister Kalraj Mishra ET
"Villages have enormous talent. Proficient training will make the unemployed skillful and attain self-sustenance," Mishra said.
Lalit Narayan Mishra murder case: Four convicts get life term ET
The court, in its judgement, directed the Bihar Government to pay a compensation of Rs five lakh each to the legal heirs of Mishra and two other victims who had died in the incident.
Banks reluctant in sanctioning loans to MSME sector: Kalraj Mishra ET
Mishra told PTI that he has written to the Finance Ministry in this regard and is awaiting a response from them.
1975 L N Mishra murder case: Court judgement likely tomorrow ET
The case relates to the bomb blast at the function attended by Mishra at Samastipur Railway Station. He succumbed to his injuries the next day.
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In geometry, polygons are associated into pairs called duals, where the vertices of one correspond to the edges of the other.
Dorman Luke construction, showing a rhombus face being dual to a rectangle vertex figure.
Regular polygons are self-dual.
The dual of an isogonal (vertex-transitive) polygon is an isotoxal (edge-transitive) polygon. For example, the (isogonal) rectangle and (isotoxal) rhombus are duals.
In a cyclic polygon, longer sides correspond to larger exterior angles in the dual (a tangential polygon), and shorter sides to smaller angles.[citation needed] Further, congruent sides in the original polygon yields congruent angles in the dual, and conversely. For example, the dual of a highly acute isosceles triangle is an obtuse isosceles triangle.
In the Dorman Luke construction, each face of a dual polyhedron is the dual polygon of the corresponding vertex figure.
Duality in quadrilaterals[edit]
As an example of the side-angle duality of polygons we compare properties of the cyclic and tangential quadrilaterals.[1]
Cyclic quadrilateral Tangential quadrilateral
Circumscribed circle Inscribed circle
Perpendicular bisectors of the sides are concurrent at the circumcenter Angle bisectors are concurrent at the incenter
The sums of the two pairs of opposite angles are equal The sums of the two pairs of opposite sides are equal
This duality is perhaps even more clear when comparing an isosceles trapezoid to a kite.
Isosceles trapezoid Kite
Two pairs of equal adjacent angles Two pairs of equal adjacent sides
One pair of equal opposite sides One pair of equal opposite angles
An axis of symmetry through one pair of opposite sides An axis of symmetry through one pair of opposite angles
Circumscribed circle Inscribed circle
Kinds of duality[edit]
The simplest qualitative construction of a dual polygon is a rectification operation, where the edges of a polygon are truncated down to vertices at the center of each original edge. New edges are formed between these new vertices.
This construction is not reversible. That is, the polygon generated by applying it twice is in general not similar to the original polygon.
Polar reciprocation[edit]
As with dual polyhedra, one can take a circle (be it the inscribed circle, circumscribed circle, or if both exist, their midcircle) and perform polar reciprocation in it.
Projective duality[edit]
See also: Dual curve
Under projective duality, the dual of a point is a line, and of a line is a point – thus the dual of a polygon is a polygon, with edges of the original corresponding to vertices of the dual and conversely.
From the point of view of the dual curve, where to each point on a curve one associates the point dual to its tangent line at that point, the projective dual can be interpreted thus:
• every point on a side of a polygon has the same tangent line, which agrees with the side itself – they thus all map to the same vertex in the dual polygon
• at a vertex, the "tangent lines" to that vertex are all lines through that point with angle between the two edges – the dual points to these lines are then the edge in the dual polygon.
Combinatorially, one can define a polygon as a set of vertices, a set of edges, and an incidence relation (which vertices and edges touch): two adjacent vertices determine an edge, and dually, two adjacent edges determine a vertex. Then the dual polygon is obtained by simply switching the vertices and edges.
Thus for the triangle with vertices {A,B,C} and edges {AB,BC,CA}, the dual triangle has vertices {AB,BC,CA}, and edges {B,C,A}, where B connects AB & BC, and so forth.
This is not a particularly fruitful avenue, as combinatorially, there is a single family of polygons (given by number of sides); geometric duality of polygons is more varied, as are combinatorial dual polyhedra.
See also[edit]
1. ^ Michael de Villiers, Some Adventures in Euclidean Geometry, ISBN 978-0-557-10295-2, 2009, p. 55.
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Zimbabwe inflation at 2,200,000%
Zimbabwe $10m note
New bank notes have been issued to cope with soaring prices
Zimbabwe's annual rate of inflation has surged to 2,200,000%, official figures have shown.
The figure is the first official assessment of prices in the troubled African nation since February, when the rate of inflation stood at 165,000%.
Zimbabwe, once one of the richest countries in Africa, has descended into economic chaos largely blamed on the policies of President Robert Mugabe.
Mr Mugabe was re-elected last month in a controversial one-man race.
The opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), pulled out of the run-off election, saying its supporters were being attacked and killed.
This situation is not sustainable. There's going to be some sort of implosion
Rejoice Ngwenya, economist
Rising costs are forcing retailers to increase prices a number of times a day for goods purchased with billion dollar bank notes and the number of people falling into poverty is on the rise.
In May, the central bank issued a 500m Zimbabwe dollar banknote, worth US$2 at the time of issue, to try to ease cash shortages amid the world's highest rate of inflation.
This is in stark contrast with the situation at independence in 1980 when one Zimbabwe dollar was worth more than US$1.
Mr Mugabe denies that he is ruining the economy, laying the blame on international sanctions he says have been imposed against Zimbabwe.
The US and the EU have imposed targeted sanctions, such as a travel ban and an assets freeze, on Mr Mugabe and his close allies.
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0.101892 | <urn:uuid:287703bf-6d75-4730-a4ff-1bf80b1f72d4> | en | 0.968776 | Re: Does becoming a parent alleviate clinical depression?
In article <1147370350.810343.164880@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Lady
Penelope Creighton-Ward says...
shinypenny wrote:
Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward wrote:
A friend of mine on Prozac is soon going to become a father. I was
curious if he can expect his depressiveness to get better. Any
research or stats on this?
Sleep disruption tends to be viewed as a symptom of depression, but
IME, lack of quality sleep can actually trigger or exacerbate mood
disorders. It becomes a cycle - lack of sleep triggers mood disorder
which triggers more lack of sleep and even worse mood disorder....
So bringing a baby into the household is a risk, merely due to sleep
disruptions - if nothing else.
Then you've got the hormonal changes women go through on top of that.
And then you've got the identity/role crisis that parenthood can evoke
in both men and women.
If this is a close friend or relative, I would suggest offering help at
night, if necessary, so the father can get a full night's uninterrupted
sleep. And encourage him to continue with his meds at very least, until
baby is sleeping through the night. If he's only seeing a GP, also
encourage him to add counseling into the mix too.
Thank you for your suggestions. This is indeed a close friend but we
live very far apart so I can't offer practical help at night,
Having thought about this some more, I'm not sure if being on Prozac
qualifies him as clinically depressed, maybe I used that term without
really knowing what it means. I know he was depressed for years and
would have stretches when he took meds for it which helped him
tremendously. However, he'd go off the drugs to try to avoid
dependency, and I believe may not be taking anything at the moment.
Still, this (unplanned) child's arrival is causing him all sorts of
anxiety. I try to cheer him up, to talk about the positive aspects,
but clearly, it's not just cheering he needs.
I had asked my question because I wondered if the dopamine presumably
generated by the love he'll surely have for this baby would somehow
alleviate his depresssion.
If you want to help him, your help can take two forms (other than listening).
1. Encourage him to talk with a medical pracitioner about any symptoms or
problems with his moods that he may be having. You really aren't at all in a
position to do anything but that.
2. Offer whatever *practical* help you can, even from a distance. If you have a
child yourself, possibly he and his GF or wife don't realize what basics they
need - things like receiving blankets.
But someone who isn't familliar with depression to be talking about love and
dopamine and how the world should brighten with love of a little child really
doesn't help at all, and at least sounds like just more of the hackneyed and
simplistic pablum that folks who are well-meaning but ignorant so often bring to
their relationships with someone in depression and their loved ones.
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0.108629 | <urn:uuid:3a7452ca-017d-4a11-94c6-561e21aecdb0> | en | 0.936648 | Recent Articles The American Prospect - articles by author en Scout's Honor <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> <p><font class="nonprinting articlebody"> <br /> <br /> </font></p> <p>Before the end of June, the Supreme Court will decide whether the Boy Scouts can be forced by antidiscrimination law to accept openly gay members and scoutmasters. The Scouts argue that "gay scoutmaster" is a contradiction in terms, going so far as to claim, in their petition asking the Court to hear the case, that their function of teaching boys "what it means to be a man" cannot survive in the presence of men who are gay. </p> <p> <br /> <br /> </p> <p>The case began in New Jersey, where a local Boy Scout council expelled former Eagle Scout and Junior Scoutmaster James Dale after a newspaper article appeared in which he was identified as a co-chair of the gay student group at Rutgers University. Dale sued under the state's civil rights statute, which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation by public accommodations. Last August the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts had violated that statute and ordered Dale's reinstatement. The Scouts appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. </p> <p> <br /> <br /> The legal issue now before the Court is whether the Scouts have a First Amendment defense to the enforcement of the law. They argue that one of their expressive activities is to condemn homosexuality as immoral and therefore that forcing them to accept openly gay scoutmasters would violate their constitutional rights. New Jersey's highest court rejected that argument, holding that the Scouts, in fact, did nothing to promote any views of homosexuality, so that admission of a gay scoutmaster would not impose a significant burden on the organization's right to continue its expressive activities as before. </p> <p> <br /> <br /> However the Supreme Court resolves it, one level of conflict that this case illustrates is the tension between equality and freedom, between the right to belong and the right to exclude. The Boy Scouts argue that if they can't exclude Dale, then the NAACP can't be allowed to exclude a member of the Ku Klux Klan. </p> <p> <br /> <br /> That's a powerful claim, and one that discomfits even the strongest believers in equality. But pause and unpack it. The analogy the Scouts have tried to draw is odd. They aren't asking whether the NAACP must accept white persons, but whether it must accept persons committed by their membership in the Klan to a core idea that opposes the NAACP's central raison d'être. Is the Scout policy aimed at excluding persons who disagree with their belief that homosexuality is immoral or at excluding gays? </p> <p> <br /> <br /> Surely there is a difference. True, excluding gay men and youth would work as a mechanism to exclude some people who believe that homosexuality is moral. Fifty years ago, it might have excluded all of them. But that is no longer the case. If the Scouts genuinely want to preserve an enclave where pro-gay messages are forbidden, they must exclude everyone, regardless of sexual identity, who would communicate that message. Yet even though a pro-gay message could very well have a greater effect on a boy if it came from a straight man rather than a man known to be gay, the Boy Scouts do not require straight scoutmasters to communicate only antigay views. Given that, one has to ask whether the Scouts' exclusionary policy is really about maintaining their freedom of expression--or does it cross a thin line into what is simply the purge of an unpopular group? </p> <p> <br /> <br /> Perhaps some organizations are so centrally devoted to a core ideology of inequality or difference that the mere presence of certain persons would undermine it. The Klan, for example, might have a legal basis for excluding African Americans; the Boy Scouts might be able to defend excluding girls. (Since the New Jersey law exempts certain same-sex groups from sex discrimination challenges, that issue is not before the Court.) But when a group of five million members that describes itself as "open to all boys" declares one group of boys undesirable, the Court must ensure that their argument is genuinely a defense of expression and not a pretext for prejudice. </p> <p> <br /> <br /> </p> <p>hatever the outcome, the Court's decision will have ramifications far beyond the bounds of this case. A large number of civil rights claims revolve around issues of what I call "expressive identity," in which people communicate a message just by asserting who they are. This phenomenon includes not just the coming-out declarations of lesbians and gay men, with the inherent message of gay pride, but virtually any claim for inclusion by a previously excluded group. One of the placards in an early civil rights demonstration stated simply, "I am proud to be a Negro." In Louisiana in the early 1960s, that statement was expressive of a political message while at the same time being part and parcel of a claim for equal treatment. </p> <p> <br /> <br /> </p> <p>The law has never fully grappled with the tension that is inherent in such situations. Instead, with the incrementalist logic that drives the law, courts have sought to frame some civil rights cases as really about expression, and others as really about identity, so that their resolution could turn on which principle applies. The problem is, this undermines protections for equality. A claim for equal treatment can too easily be defeated when the expressive component of an identity creates a defense. Sure, say the Boy Scouts, we'll accept homosexuals who don't come out. Theirs is the essence of all "don't ask, don't tell" policies: You can have equal treatment or self-respect, but not both. That is counterfeit equality. </p> <p> <br /> <br /> One marker of the power of this issue is the number of friend-of-the-court briefs filed in the Boy Scouts case. According to <i>The National Lawyer</i>, the case ranks in the top 10 in the number of briefs ever filed in a case before the Supreme Court. Many of these combatants are the organizations usually involved, pro or con, in any debate about sexuality. One notable newcomer, however, is the NAACP, which is supporting Dale. This is the first brief that the NAACP has filed in support of a lesbian and gay equality claim. The NAACP was the organization that litigated the seminal cases establishing that an organization, as well as an individual, has a right to free speech. Its brief in the <i>Dale</i> case points out the potential risk to civil rights if the courts don't understand the dynamics of expressive identity claims: "Simply put, if [the Boy Scouts] were right, every application of antidiscrimination law would be forced speech, in the sense that requiring a defendant to hire, feed, house, or employ an individual would be tantamount to a 'compelled endorsement' of the proposition that [certain plaintiffs] should not be excluded." </p> <p> <br /> <br /> </p> <p>The Boy Scouts occupy a unique place in American culture, claiming to be the very embodiment of masculinity and good citizenship. Indeed, they merge the two into one indivisible concept. (If the Girl Scouts seem to be a missing voice in this debate, the reason is that they don't have an antilesbian policy. No wonder the <i>Dale</i> case feels more like a contest over the meaning of masculinity than over the meaning of scouting.) </p> <p> <br /> <br /> </p> <p>Yet in the beginning, the Boy Scouts of America, with their goal of making good citizens out of immigrant and low-income boys, were for their time a voice for tolerance, if not equality. In contrast to Lord Baden-Powell and British scouting, they forswore anti-Semitism; and the national Scout office, while condoning segregation, contested the efforts of Scout councils in the South to limit the program to whites. </p> <p> <br /> <br /> It is no small irony that an organization that once practiced more equality than the law required is now resisting an equality law. It is a sign of the tectonic shifts occurring beneath the surface of the culture. The rhetoric of egalitarian masculinity is no longer a satisfactory substitute for fully inclusive democracy. And the implicit assumption that conforming to gender norms is the price of admission to a shared civic culture is under severe challenge. </p> <p> <br /> <br /> The Scouts may win or lose this court battle, but either way they have lost the high moral ground. Their claim to be a paragon of good citizenship rings hollow when their strongest argument to the Court is that they have a right to believe in inequality. Of course they have a right to believe in whatever they want. But they may find that fewer Americans are inclined to believe in them. </p> <p> <br /> <br /> <br /><br /> </p> <p><br /> </p> <hr size="1" /><center> <p align="center"><font face="verdana,geneva,arial" size="-2"></font> class="nonprinting"> </p> <hr size="1" /> <!-- dhandler for print articles --><p> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> </p> </center></div></div></div> Wed, 19 Dec 2001 19:11:19 +0000 140644 at Nan Hunter | http://prospect.org/authors/126347/rss.xml | dclm-gs1-051450001 |
0.028358 | <urn:uuid:37adedc7-ded9-4b59-a333-45c0cd94c377> | en | 0.944459 | A Tale of Two Countries
It has become an accepted truism in American politics that both Democrats and Republicans want the same things: a prosperous America, a strong America, an America true to principles of freedom and liberty.
Perhaps 50 years ago that was true.
Today, it no longer is.
The fact is that the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are no longer arguing over means; we are arguing over ends. Democrats know that economic prosperity for the broad swath of the United States cannot be bought with higher taxes; even Bill Clinton recognized as much in the 1990s, which is why he lowered capital gains taxes dramatically after raising personal income taxes just as dramatically. Instead, Democrats argue, as President Obama did in 2008, that taxes must be raised “for purposes of fairness.”
Democrats also know that American influence in the world can’t be attained purely with negotiations, timetables and unilateral pullouts. Kind words don’t win hearts, and they don’t defend our friends from aggression. Democrats simply hope to be left alone. After all, as President Obama has said, America has demonstrated “arrogance” and sought to “dictate our terms” to other countries. And that just isn’t fair.
Fairness lies at the root of the Democratic agenda. It’s a leveling agenda, not a growth agenda. What’s more, it’s a philosophy of constant revolution since ultimate fairness can never be achieved in a world where we are all blessed with different gifts. The philosophy that prizes fairness above all else — at least in material and cultural terms — can never achieve human happiness, since such fairness can never be attained. And even if it: could: be attained, it would require unbelievable levels of suppression. The human spirit is not built to serve the god of fairness.
Prosperity and strength lie at the root of the Republican agenda. Conservatives don’t support lower taxes because we hate the poor.
Conservatives support lower taxes because lower taxes create prosperity for everyone. Individuals always know more about their lives than any bureaucrat does. They know more about their needs and wants. They know which products they require, and they know how to find the best deal. No government can better distribute resources than individuals making individual decisions can. Competitive markets have done more to create wonderful products and raise the quality of living across the globe than any other institution. Central planning does not create wealth. It merely redistributes poverty.
When it comes to America’s role in the world, conservatism does not rely on America to be one among many. We must be proud of our role as a global leader. Our values are: superior to those of other countries. Our system, prizing limited government and preserving individual liberties, is the greatest system of government ever devised. Why would we run from the honor of leading? Why would we shirk that responsibility? Most importantly, if we wish to see the world a happier place, why would we deny to others the opportunity to share in our lot, especially if it preserves our interests to do so?
Mitt Romney knows all this. Barack Obama does not. That’s why Obama suggests on Jay Leno that banks have to be regulated because they’re “in it to make money.” And that’s why Mitt Romney knows that businesses must be encouraged to profit-seek, rather than punished for doing so. That’s why Obama leaves American ambassadors to die overseas rather than giving an intervention order. That’s why Romney knows that backing down in the face of foreign fire is a recipe for disaster, not peace. The Democratic road leads to an end: Europe.
The Republican road leads to an end: a resurgent, dominant America on the world scene.
We can choose to fade into oblivion, suffering from high taxes and broken promises, telling ourselves that the government will take care of us even as we go broke. Or we can choose to rise again, believing in the values that made us great. In less than a week, that choice is in our hands.
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In the wake of a monstrous crime like a madman’s mass murder of defenseless women and children at the Newtown, Conn., elementary school, the nation’s attention is riveted on what could have been done to prevent such a massacre.
Luckily, some years ago, two famed economists, William Landes at the University of Chicago and John Lott at Yale, conducted a massive study of multiple victim public shootings in the United States between 1977 and 1995 to see how various legal changes affected their frequency and death toll.
Landes and Lott examined many of the very policies being proposed right now in response to the Connecticut massacre: waiting periods and background checks for guns, the death penalty and increased penalties for committing a crime with a gun.
None of these policies had any effect on the frequency of, or carnage from, multiple-victim shootings. (I note that they did not look at reforming our lax mental health laws, presumably because the ACLU is working to keep dangerous nuts on the street in all 50 states.)
Only one public policy has ever been shown to reduce the death rate from such crimes: concealed-carry laws.
Their study controlled for age, sex, race, unemployment, retirement, poverty rates, state population, murder arrest rates, violent crime rates, and on and on.
The effect of concealed-carry laws in deterring mass public shootings was even greater than the impact of such laws on the murder rate generally.
Someone planning to commit a single murder in a concealed-carry state only has to weigh the odds of one person being armed. But a criminal planning to commit murder in a public place has to worry that anyone in the entire area might have a gun.
You will notice that most multiple-victim shootings occur in “gun-free zones” — even within states that have concealed-carry laws: public schools, churches, Sikh temples, post offices, the movie theater where James Holmes committed mass murder, and the Portland, Ore., mall where a nut starting gunning down shoppers a few weeks ago.
Guns were banned in all these places. Mass killers may be crazy, but they’re not stupid.
If the deterrent effect of concealed-carry laws seems surprising to you, that’s because the media hide stories of armed citizens stopping mass shooters. At the Portland shooting, for example, no explanation was given for the amazing fact that the assailant managed to kill only two people in the mall during the busy Christmas season.
It turns out, concealed-carry-holder Nick Meli hadn’t noticed that the mall was a gun-free zone. He pointed his (otherwise legal) gun at the shooter as he paused to reload, and the next shot was the attempted mass murderer killing himself. (Meli aimed, but didn’t shoot, because there were bystanders behind the shooter.)
In a nonsense “study” going around the Internet right now, Mother Jones magazine claims to have produced its own study of all public shootings in the last 30 years and concludes: “In not a single case was the killing stopped by a civilian using a gun.”
This will come as a shock to people who know something about the subject.
If we care about reducing the number of people killed in mass shootings, shouldn’t we pay particular attention to the cases where the aspiring mass murderer was prevented from getting off more than a couple rounds?
It would be like testing the effectiveness of weed killers, but refusing to consider any cases where the weeds died.
In addition to the Portland mall case, here are a few more examples excluded by the Mother Jones’ methodology:
All these took place in gun-free zones, resulting in lots of people getting killed — and thereby warranting inclusion in the Mother Jones study.
If what we care about is saving the lives of innocent human beings by reducing the number of mass public shootings and the deaths they cause, only one policy has ever been shown to work: concealed-carry laws. On the other hand, if what we care about is self-indulgent grandstanding, and to hell with dozens of innocent children being murdered in cold blood, try the other policies.
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I recently decided to comply with the YSlow recommendation that static content is hosted on a cookieless domain.
As I already use the root of my domain (donaldjenkins.com) to host my website—on which Google Analytics sets a few cookies—that meant I had to move the CNAME URL for the CDN serving the static files from cdn.donaldjenkins.com to an entirely separate, dedicated domain. I purchased cdn.dj (yes, it's a real Djibouti domain name), hosted the files on the root (which contains nothing else, other than a robots.txt file) and set a CNAME of e.cdn.dj for the CDN. This setup works, but I was rather surprised to find that YSlow was still flagging the static files for not being cookie-free: here's a screenshot:
Static files still not cookie-free
The cdn.djdomain was new, and was never used for anything other than hosting these static files. Running httpfox on the site shows the _utma and _utmz Google Analytics cookies are being set on the static files listed above—despite their being hosted on an entirely separate, dedicated domain.
Here's my Google Analytics code:
//Google Analytics tracking code
var _gaq=[['_setAccount','UA-5245947-5'],['_trackPageview']];
// [END] Google Analytics tracking code
I'm not obsessing about this issue—I know it's not really affecting server performance—but I'd like to just understand what is causing it not to go away...
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I know it's been a couple of years, but I see no cookies on e.cdn.dj domain when I load your main site... can you post a follow -up on how you resolved it? or was it a false positive of some sort? – rmalayter Dec 2 at 22:16
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I can't really follow you (sorry this should be a short comment, but serverfault won't let me).
does YSlow recommend to host static content without cookies? because hosting on a cookieless domain does not make sense to me. the cookies usually get set by whatever js scripts you're running in these static content files. so if you now set a CNAME to your static files (with the google analytics code) ga is just gonna load and set cookies from that domain.
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Thanks for the comment. Yes they do, see the link I included in my first sentence. The Google Analytics code is set in the main domain. The static files are called in the main site but hosted in the separate static one. If GA can set cookies via a CNAME that defeats the purpose of separating them... – Donald Jenkins Mar 3 '12 at 11:55
ah i realize now exactly how your setup works. three things come to my mind... what happens inside the two .js files on your e.cdn.dj domain? and you could use firebug or the likes to see if the response header from your domain still contains the cookies. and lastly, check the expiration/caching properties of your webserver. he might deliver a cached response which still contains the response header with cookies. – jcfrei Mar 3 '12 at 12:01
The only .js that sets cookies is GA, I've checked that in httpfox, which also shows that GA is setting a cookie on each of the static files I'm trying to keep separate. I also deliberately changed names and paths, so that the (old) cached versions would no longer be served. Here's a screenshot of the request and response headers for one of the image files: i.via.dj/EiOc to show you what I mean. The cookie is being requested despite the file being a new one... – Donald Jenkins Mar 3 '12 at 12:08
hm, and I see you're loading the GA code at the very end of your page and it still manages to set cookies on all requests... really can't think of a reason why GA would or should do this (but it apparently does) – jcfrei Mar 3 '12 at 12:15
Yeah, I use the html5boilerplate version of the GA code: it's really cool, loads in the end and still works… Oh well, never mind, I just like to understand things. – Donald Jenkins Mar 3 '12 at 12:26
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Rebecca saw bill's nuts while he was doing the "gum sitter" for a couple of buddies.
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I'm trying to compile the nvidia driver and the VirtualBox drives on openSUSE 11.2. Both compile fine (after the usual make oldconfig plus a partial build of the kernel) but when I try to load the modules, I get this error:
vboxdrv: no symbol version for module_layout
What's wrong? How do I fix this?
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Not cogent to openSUSE, but under Ubuntu 10, I found that the solution was:
apt-get install dkms
apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic
unset KERN_DIR
/etc/init.d/vboxadd setup
# Although presumably if the apt-gets had been done first,
# the last two lines would be superfluous.
Hope this is useful to someone else down the way.
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Found it. The package kernel-default-devel was missing. To install it, run this command as root:
zypper in kernel-default-devel
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Verify the version of kernel-default-devel matches the version in the uname -a. – To1ne Mar 30 '12 at 13:22
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I need to make a button in the shape of rotated triangle (or let's say any polygon). Can anyone give any advice?
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polygon of more than three line segments? concave / convex polygon? self intersected / non sef intersected polygon? please specify more clearly... – OlimilOops Nov 20 '10 at 1:02
Not self intersected. Just a simple polygon. Like quadrilateral, with sides of different lengths and angles. – Tofig Hasanov Nov 20 '10 at 1:14
No need for concave also – Tofig Hasanov Nov 20 '10 at 1:16
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Look at the Win32 API CreatePolygonRgn() and SetWindowRgn() functions to create and assign an HRGN object to the Button's HWND handle.
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This looks helpful, thanks. It doesn't look much like a button though, more like just a colored area. Is there a way to give it a button style (so that it has "pressed" look, when pressed). – Tofig Hasanov Nov 20 '10 at 1:35
@Tofig: TButton is a wrapper around the Windows Button control. If you want a button that is not rectangular, you have to do the "looks like a button" part yourself. – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers Nov 20 '10 at 13:06
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From the ExtJS documentation:
flex : Number
This configuration option is to be applied to child items of the container managed by this
layout. Each child item with a flex property will be flexed horizontally according to each
item's relative flex value compared to the sum of all items with a flex
value specified. Any child items that have either a flex = 0 or flex = undefined will not
be 'flexed' (the initial size will not be changed).
But the documentation does not give a lucid application on how it affects the layout and how to use it. Also, I could not find any good tutorials/examples on how to use it on Google.
Appreciate if someone can throw more light on this.
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There is a good usage and demo of flex at the following sites:
1. Sencha Examples (at vbox node)
2. Java2s
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It's proportional ratio for length vbox (height) & hbox (width)
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I am in the process of learning the MVC pattern and building my own lightweight one in PHP
Below is a basic example of what I have right now.
I am a little confused on how I should handle AJAX requests/responses though.
In my example user controller below, If I went to www.domain.com/user/friends/page-14 in the browser, it would create a User object and call the friends method of that object
The friends method would then get the data needed for the content portion of my page.
My app would load a template file with a header/footer and insert the content from the object above into the middle of the page.
Now here is where I am confused, if a request is made using AJAX then it will call a page that will do the process over, including loading the template file. IF an AJAX call is made, I think it should somehow, just return the body/content portion for my page and not build the header/footer stuff.
So in my MVC where should I build/load this template file which will have the header/footer stuff? ANd where should I detect if an AJAX request is made so I can avoid loading the template?
I hope I am making sense, I really need help in figuring out how to do this in my MVC I am building. IUf you can help, please use some sample code
* Extend this class with your Controllers
* Reference to the model wrapper / loader functions via $this->model
* Reference to the view functions via $this->view
abstract class Core_Controller {
protected $view;
protected $model;
function __construct(DependencyContainer $dependencyContainer){
$this->view = new Core_View();
//$this->view = $dependencyContainer->get(view);
public function load($model){
//load model
//this part under construction and un-tested
$this->$model = new $model;
user controller
* Example Controller
class User_Controller extends Core_Controller {
// domain.com/user/id-53463463
function profile($userId)
//GET data from a Model
$profileData = $this->model->getProfile($userId);
$this->view->load('userProfile', $profileData);
// domain.com/user/friends/page-14
function friends()
//GET data from a Model
$friendsData = $this->model->getFriends();
$this->view->load('userFriends', $friendsData);
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For me, I developed a separate object that handles all template display methods. This is good because you can then ensure that all the resources you need to display your UI is contained in one object. It looks like you've isolated this in Core_View.
Then, when an AJAX call is made, simply detect that it is an AJAX call. This can be done by either making the AJAX call through an AJAX object, which then references other objects, or you can take an easy approach and simply set an extra POST or GET field which indicates an AJAX call.
Once you've detected if it's an AJAX call, define a constant in your MVC such as AJAX_REQUEST. Then, in your template/UI object, you can specify that if it's an AJAX call, only output your response text. If it isn't, proceed with including your template files.
For me, I send it through an AJAX object. That way I don't have to worry about making a single output work for both cases. When it's ready to send a response, I just do something to the manner of print( json_encode( ...[Response]... ) ).
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well, it would all start with normal request which would load the initial page. there are many options as to handle this but let's say that you start with /users/friends page which would list all your friends. then each of the friends should have link to specific friend's profile -- now this is the moment where ajax could kick in and you could ajaxify links to your friend profiles - this means that instead of normal you would instead use let's say jQuery and setup click handler in a such way that
$("a").click(function(){$.post($(this).attr("href"), null, function(data){$("#content").html(data);}});
this would use "href", and upon click would make post request to your backend. at backend, if you see that it's post, then you would just return the content for that particular friend. alternatively, if you have get request, you return all - header - content - footer.
if you use technique above, make sure to properly handle the data you receive. e.g. if there are further actions that should be done via ajax, make sure to "ajaxify" the data you get back. e.g. after updating html of the content, again apply the $("a").click routine.
this is just trivial example, to kick you off, but there are many more sophisticated ways of doing that. if you have time, I suggest reading some of agiletoolkit.org, it has nice mvc + ajax support.
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You will need to use a different view. Maybe something like:
funciton friends() {
$this->view = new Ajax_Request_View();
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Julkaisupäivä: 1. huhti, 2014
Osta Gray Matter
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7.5/10 – IGN
90% – RPG Fan
Tietoja pelistä
• Play as Dr. Styles and Samantha
• Innovative gameplay that combines science and the supernatural
• Processor: 1.8 GHz Processor or faster
• Memory: 1 GB RAM
• DirectX: Version 9.0
• Hard Drive: 6 GB available space
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11/12 (92%) arvioi tämän hyödylliseksi
14.6 tuntia pelattu
Julkaistu 10. lokakuu.
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Julkaistu 25. lokakuu.
Cerebral challenges with a spunky protagonist
The Good:
* Locations are exquisitely drawn
* Decent but sometimes underwhelming voice acting
* Good inventory system that does take getting used to
* Performing magic is a neat idea
* Story is a slow burn but worth sticking with
* Progress indicators on map really helps
* Characters feel real and act/react realistically
The Bad:
* Pace is really slow, don't expect Monkey Island progress
* The magic & other interfaces are clunky and confusing
* The talking head models are oddly unsettling
* The sheer amount of locations and options can overwhelm
* Characters often don't look like they are in the scene
* Some dialogue is unskipable
* Serious bug in chapter 6, requires you save often
* Conclusion is unsurprising if you've paid attention
Background: Seen it come up in bundles, finally scored a copy. Completed the game (12 hours).
Impressions: An innovative twist on the PnC genre with a compelling character, ideas and a decent paranormal mystery story. Clunky interface choices that make it hard to know how to interact and perform tricks. I enjoyed the game and liked the artwork which reminded me of J.M. Linsner at times. The plot is a slow burn that demands patience but is rewarding as you progress. It's hard to recommend for everyone as it's target audience is somewhat narrow but what it goes for it mostly achieves.
Recommended for: Paranormal fantasy book readers and those with patience and in for the longhaul.
Conclusion: 7/10. A very solid and rewarding effort thats not everyone will love.
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Julkaistu 12. elokuu.
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Julkaistu 20. lokakuu.
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5/6 (83%) arvioi tämän hyödylliseksi
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Julkaistu 13. marraskuu.
Really solid 3rd person point and click. Great voices. Fairly lengthy. Completely worth it for fans of this genre =)
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17.9 tuntia pelattu
Julkaistu 13. heinäkuu.
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4/5 (80%) arvioi tämän hyödylliseksi
9.0 tuntia pelattu
Julkaistu 14. marraskuu.
This was an excellent game! I recommend it to anyone who is a fan of Point 'n Click games or just a fan of Jane Jensen (EcoQuest II, Gabriel Knight 1-3).
The locations are well done as are the characters, the story is great and well written. Using "magic" as a tool solve puzzles was also a neat idea and was done fairly well. The voice acting isn't the greatest, but I've definitely heard worse.
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19.7 tuntia pelattu
Julkaistu 5. elokuu.
You probably wouldn't like it. I really did.
Thanks for making this. I'm looking forward to future works.
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2.8 tuntia pelattu
Julkaistu 21. joulukuu.
This game has serious performance issues on lots of machines, which renders it unplayable unless you restart your machine before you play. Every time.
No thanks.
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4/6 (67%) arvioi tämän hyödylliseksi
28.2 tuntia pelattu
Julkaistu 9. lokakuu.
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1/1 (100%) arvioi tämän hyödylliseksi
15.1 tuntia pelattu
Julkaistu 14. joulukuu.
For people who like point and click puzzle games and nice artwork to look at this is a really fun game. The storyline is interesting, although there are a couple of places wher eI felt the plot was forced along. I initially had trouble with the cut scene videos playing smoothly, but that evened out after a computer restart. In all honesty, this game was a 9 out of 10 for me.
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14.4 tuntia pelattu
Julkaistu 15. joulukuu.
A lot of fun! Kept my attention all the way to the end, and the ending was so much fun. The use of magic was a treat too!
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Julkaistu 4. joulukuu.
I love point-and-click adventure games and have played loads, and Gray Matter is now one of my most favorites. That's not to say it's perfect though, but it's defintiely one of the best.
- beautiful art
- great music
- a well-done and interesting story, if a bit cliche and cheesy (in an addictive I-have-to-know-what-happens-next sort of way)
- a unique and fun gameplay mechanic with magic tricks, which had me wishing I could do more with it (hoping that if there's a sequel they expand and enhance this feature! it was a lot of fun). I've never played, or heard of, a game featuring a magician (as in, a stage magician, where the magic isn't really magic) and it felt different and exciting and was a lot more fun than I expected!
- the puzzles feel intuitive and fun but still provide a challenge. I really, really like the implementation of highlighting locations depending on what can/has been completed there. The progress list was also very helpful for the once or twice when I would get stuck and not know what to do, and be able to suss it out based on what my progress list said was only partially completed.
- the quality of the voice acting varies, and took me out of the game a few times when it made me go "huh?". Occasionally a character said something in an odd inflection or with no emotion. It reminded me a lot of Cole Phelps interviewing people in LA Noire, where his reactions didn't always fit the technique choices of 'truth', 'doubt', and 'lie'.
- the animations surprised me by being lower quality than expected. I've recently replayed The Longest Journey, a game that came out in 1999, and Gray Matter's animations reminded me a lot of TLJ. I guess the screen shots made my expectations higher? Certainly not awful, but not what I expected from a game in 2014.
- I experience no bugs/glitches EXCEPT one that effectively prevented me from continuing the game, forcing me to reload a save from hours earlier. I recommend making at 2-3 saves per chapter and keeping them, just in case. This was the only time I was forced to consult walkthroughs, in order to try to figure out what went wrong. Eventually determined it was not necessarily due to me but something just went wrong in the game... I suspect I did something in an odd/unexpected order and messed something, a la King's Quest. Don't expect this to be something that happens often though, as when I looked into it it seemed like a rare problem (but it's still a problem that exists, and a big one at that).
I got the game on sale for ~$3 and felt like I got way more than my monies worth, honestly. Even with what I consider to be 'cons', I'd have happily paid the full price for the game and am recommending it to my friends. I really hope there's a sequel someday!
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2/3 (67%) arvioi tämän hyödylliseksi
17.2 tuntia pelattu
Julkaistu 24. lokakuu.
A solid point and click adventure from Jane Jensen. It's no "Gabriel Knight", but "Gray Matter" has a unique story with good pacing. Jane Jensen's story telling as well as the introduction of a magic system help the game stand out. Good voice acting and a good looking art style help to round out the game.
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17.0 tuntia pelattu
Julkaistu 6. elokuu.
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Julkaistu 6. elokuu.
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13.8 tuntia pelattu
Julkaistu 1. syyskuu.
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1/2 (50%) arvioi tämän hyödylliseksi
17.3 tuntia pelattu
Julkaistu 28. syyskuu.
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2/4 (50%) arvioi tämän hyödylliseksi
6.2 tuntia pelattu
Julkaistu 13. lokakuu.
fans of gabriel knight should check this out
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89/94 (95%) arvioi tämän hyödylliseksi
8.2 tuntia pelattu
Julkaistu 2. huhtikuu.
One of the best adventure games i have played, and I’ve played a lot of them.
The story is really great and keeps you playing. Characters are deep and well though-out.
The Music is phenomenal, very climatic and gives really a lot to the game. One of the best soundtracks I’ve listened to.
If you like old-school adventure games this is your jam (and who am I kidding. If you like the genre you probably played it a ton already)
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"In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it." -- Cal Thomas
You've undoubtedly heard the old wives’ tale about frogs and boiling water. If you toss a frog into boiling water, he'll immediately jump out -- but supposedly, if you increase the temperature just a bit at a time, the frog will sit comfortably in the water until he's cooked alive. Is that true? No. However, if you apply that story to the way that human beings behave, there's a lot of truth to it. The world is extraordinarily complex and human beings are remarkably adaptable; so it's entirely possible that if changes are incremental enough, people will adjust to "the way the world is" without truly examining the size of the shift that's changed their world.
In the last few decades, our country has spiraled downward into decadence in ways that are genuinely threatening the continuance of the American Dream.
1) Our legal system is broken: There's nothing just about our legal system anymore. Liberals have pushed the idea of a "living constitution," which means nothing more than implementing left-wing policies and calling it constitutional law. Every constitutional case is now decided by the number of judges who still believe in the Constitution that happen to be on the bench for the trial. Laws are no longer applied equally either. If the people running the government don't like certain laws, say against illegal immigration, they simply refuse to enforce it.
Getting beyond that, because lawyers have become a corrupt parasitic class in America, innocent people can be crushed by the cost of defending themselves in court, even if they've done nothing wrong. "Right or wrong" is now often determined by who can afford to pay lawyers or whether it's cheaper to settle than fight it out in court, as opposed to who's innocent and who's guilty. There's also a "lawsuit lottery mentality" that has led to lawsuits based not on merit, but on the chance of being paid off because it's cheaper than a settlement or the hope of getting a large, undeserved financial reward from a jury that doesn't like the rich or a corporation.
John Hawkins
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High winds have caused serious driving conditions in the Fens as huge clouds of dry top soil are blown across fields and onto the roads.
The clouds - known as Fen Blow - are so dense drivers are being forced to turn on their headlights and sometimes pull over until the sudden dust storms subside.
BBC Look East's Mike Cartwright reports.
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Thursday 25 December 2014
Connolly: We need older characters
Billy Connolly thinks there should be more room in movies for older actors
Billy Connolly reckons films need to reflect real life - by having more mature characters.
The Scottish comedian stars alongside veterans Dame Maggie Smith, Pauline Collins and Sir Tom Courtenay in new movie Quartet, about a retirement home for musicians.
Billy said: "It's a very modern thing, this dependence on youth. If you get old black and white movies like Dial M For Murder, those movies in the 40s right up until the 50s, movies were all full of old people. There were hardly any young people.
"The young people were played by people in their 30s or 40s. The young crumpet would be 35 or 38, mincing around. There was a change in the 1950s. I think they invented the teenager in the 1950s and there was no such thing before that. And they stuck them in everywhere they could."
He added; "I hope they just get back to the way they did before or a mixture of the both and use older actors. Instead of having the token old one like Driving Miss Daisy every now and again. Have it the way life is, a mixture."
Many of the supporting cast of the film - directed by Dustin Hoffman - are real-life musicians.
"That was one of the better parts of the film, that they were real musicians and they play all the time like real musicians do. You can't stop them," Billy said.
"Between takes you feel them playing. And they hadn't had a phone call in 20 years (to perform) most of them. They're all superb. They were all lead players, ace players, but they hadn't been asked to work because of their age."
:: Quartet is released in cinemas on January 1.
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US probes Tesla electric car fires
The US is investigating battery fires in the Tesla S car (AP)
The US government's car safety watchdog has opened an investigation into battery fires in Tesla Model S electric cars.
The National Highway Traffic Administration said fires broke out in two of the cars in the US after the underneath hit metal road debris which then pierced the batteries and caused a thermal reaction and fires. In each case, the car warned the driver and they escaped unhurt.
The probe affects more than 13,000 cars from the 2013 model year that were sold in the US. Tesla has sold about 19,000 of the cars worldwide.
The batteries are beneath the passenger compartment and protected by a quarter-inch-thick metal shield. Experts say that if theys are damaged, they can cause arcing and sparks and touch off a fire.
The NHTSA said it opened the preliminary evaluation "to examine the potential risks associated with undercarriage strikes" on the Tesla cars. The investigation could lead to a recall, but a decision likely is months away.
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk said that the company asked the government to investigate, even though its cars catch fire at a far lower rate than petrol-powered vehicles.
He also wrote that Tesla has done an over-the-air software update to give the car more ground clearance at road speeds.
He said that the software change was made to cut the chances of underbody damage. "The theoretical probability of a fire injury is already vanishingly small, and the actual number to date is zero."
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The decline of the direct link between customer and maker, due to the rapid development of retail trade, was largely made possible by the invention of several woodworking machines, mostly steam powered. Much handwork remained, however, and only large manufacturers could afford major machinery installation. In the early 20th century it was still possible for a cabinetmaker in Britain or Europe to earn a living, though in most cases he installed a basic machine such as a circular saw or worked in a district in which machine shops were available. Thus in Shoreditch, London, whole streets of houses ... (100 of 5,127 words)
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Services such as public administration, education, computer programming, and tourism account for about one-fourth of the GDP. Tourism is a growing source of foreign exchange. Resort areas, particularly on the coast, attract visitors throughout most of the year. Among these is Punta del Este, renowned as a meeting place for high-level international conferences. Uruguay’s computer software industry has become increasingly important to the economy.
Labour and taxation
Services and trade employ more than half of the Uruguayan workforce, whereas about one-fifth of workers are engaged in manufacturing. Relatively few are employed in financial institutions and agricultural enterprises. The standard workweek is 44–48 hours. Workers are legally entitled to 20 paid vacation days following one year of employment. Women comprise about half of the workforce, but most of them hold low-wage jobs, and there are few women in the upper echelons of Uruguayan corporations. Approximately one-eighth of Uruguayan workers are union members; most are members of a labour confederation called the Inter-Union Workers Assembly–National Federation of Workers.
Uruguay has not had inheritance or personal income taxes since 1974. The government’s main sources of revenue are value-added taxes and export taxes. Real estate taxes and corporate taxes are also levied.
Transportation and telecommunications
Paved roads connect Montevideo to other urban centres in the country, the main highways leading to the border and neighbouring cities. Numerous unpaved roads connect farms and small towns. Overland trade has increased markedly since the Mercosur (Southern Common Market) pact was formed in the 1990s. Most of the country’s domestic freight and passenger service is by road rather than rail. The basic railroad network, purchased from the British after World War II, also radiates from Montevideo and connects with the Argentine and Brazilian systems.
Oceangoing ships call mainly at Montevideo. Vessels of various sizes navigate the inland waters, and a hydrofoil service connects Buenos Aires and Montevideo across the Río de la Plata. An international airport lies near the Carrasco beach resort some 13 miles (21 km) from downtown Montevideo. The government-owned airline, Primeras Líneas Uruguayas de Navegación Aérea (PLUNA), links Montevideo with the provincial capitals and international destinations.
Telecommunications in Uruguay are more developed than in most other Latin American countries. The telephone system is totally digitized and concentrated in and around Montevideo. The system is government-owned, and since the 1990s there have been controversial proposals to privatize it, or at least to sell some of its shares.
Government and society
Constitutional framework
The government operates under the 1966 constitution, as amended following the period of military rule (1973–85). Amendments in 1996 separated municipal and national elections and changed the balloting system for the presidential election.
A president and a Council of Ministers hold executive power, and a vice president serves as president of the bicameral legislature. The president and vice president are elected to five-year terms and may not seek immediate reelection. If no candidate receives a majority vote in a presidential election, a runoff election (ballotage) is held to decide between the two leading candidates. The General Assembly consists of the 31-member Senate and the 99-member Chamber of Representatives, whose members are elected to five-year terms by direct popular vote.
Local government
Local administration is provided by the country’s 19 departamentos, each of which has a departmental board (legislature) and an intendente municipal, a chief executive who acts as a combined departmental governor and mayor for the departmental capital.
At the head of the judiciary is the Supreme Court, composed of five justices who are elected by the General Assembly to 10-year terms and are eligible for reelection five years after their previous term ends. The Appellate Tribunals, each composed of three judges, form the next-highest judicial level, followed by the Courts of Record. The Supreme Court justices select Appellate Tribunal judges for confirmation by the Senate. Prison conditions are poor yet better than those in many other Latin American countries. Some trials last for years because of delays in the justice system.
Political process
National officials in Uruguay are elected every five years. All Uruguayans 18 years of age and older are required to vote. Elections have been secret and obligatory since 1918, and a 1932 law granted women the right to vote. A nine-member Electoral Court monitors local and national elections. Elections in Uruguay are generally considered to be fair. The country has a highly regarded system for tallying ballots.
The two principal traditional political parties are the Colorado (“Red”) Party (which has had a liberal urban base) and the Blanco (“White”), or National, Party (supported by the more conservative landowners). A third party, the leftist Broad Front (Frente Amplio), also called Progressive Encounter (Encuentro Progresista), is a coalition of Christian democrats, socialists, communists, and dissident members of the two other parties.
Police in Uruguay are poorly paid, and many have been accused of improper conduct. The country has no secret police. Uruguay’s small army, navy, and air force are made up of volunteers, most of whom enlist for one or two years of service. Uruguayan soldiers have participated in numerous United Nations peacekeeping missions.
Health and welfare
Since elaborate social legislation was enacted in 1912 and 1929, Uruguay has been recognized for its advanced welfare programs, offering extensive subsidized health care and numerous benefits to the unemployed, low-wage workers, and the aged. Uruguayan employees with low annual incomes may receive maternity benefits, and mothers who earn low wages can receive child-care benefits. The large Hospital de Clínicas in Montevideo has long been a low-cost medical service centre for the needy as well as a research centre. Life expectancy is relatively high, with averages of 73 years for males and 79 years for females.
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1Includes the vice president, who serves as ex officio presiding officer.
Official nameRepública Oriental del Uruguay (Oriental Republic of Uruguay)
Form of governmentrepublic with two legislative houses (Senate [311]; House of Representatives [99])
Head of state and governmentPresident: José Mujica
Official languageSpanish
Official religionnone
Monetary unitpeso uruguayo (UYU)
Population(2013 est.) 3,298,000
Total area (sq mi)68,679
Total area (sq km)177,879
Urban-rural populationUrban: (2011) 94.7%
Rural: (2011) 5.3%
Life expectancy at birthMale: (2012) 73.7 years
Female: (2012) 80.7 years
Literacy: percentage of population age 15 and over literateMale: (2010) 97.9%
Female: (2010) 98.7%
GNI per capita (U.S.$)(2012) 13,510
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