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Q. A bicycle is of course a bike and a tricycle a trike. When does a trike become a "tadpole"?– K. Frog
A. "Tricycle" comes from the Greek "treia" for 3 and "kyklos" for a circle or wheel.
The word has been in use since the early 19th century, originally signifying a "three-wheeled horse-drawn carriage." The most common type today is the child's three-wheeled pedal toy, but early tricycles were mostly for adults. Adult pedal tricycles are known to have existed from 1868.
Most tricycles have two wheels at the back and one at the front, known as "deltas." Trikes with two front wheels and a wheel at the back are "tadpoles," so-called because the big end is at the front, like a tadpole.
The tadpole trike is a recumbent vehicle, which is rapidly becoming popular among middle-aged former bicyclists tired of the discomforts of upright bikes.
Q. If we don't exactly see with our eyes, what do we see with? For an unusual answer, consider Erik W., blind since age 13, who today is an amazing rock climber, plays soccer with his daughter as well as rock-paper-scissors and tic-tac-toe.–L. Braille
A. An early victim of retinoschisis, Erik now "sees" via light-triggered electrical pulses delivered to his tongue, using a tool called the BrainPort, says Buddy Levy in Discover magazine. "With more tactile nerve endings than any other part of the body except the lips," Levy explains, "the tongue can discriminate two points spaced less than a millimeter apart."
In 2001, Erik became the first– and, to date, the only– blind climber to summit Mount Everest. You have to learn to climb a whole new way, he says; it's like learning Braille or French for the first time.
The BrainPort gives Erik's tongue the world in two dimensions, which he then mentally converts to three dimensions. "Mentally" is the key: We all see fundamentally with our brains as much as with our eyes, and resourceful Erik is anything but brain-blind.
Q. What if a baseball team refined its sign-stealing so well it could tell its hitters exactly what pitch was on the way every time. Now would they all become Hall-of-Fame- type sluggers?–Y. Berra
A. Maybe not. In a bizarre 1961 test of this sort of set-up, Milwaukee catcher Sammy White and pitcher Lew Burdette agreed that, having tried everything to get Orlando Cepeda out without succeeding, it was time for a more unusual ploy.
When White crouched behind the plate, he announced to Cepeda what pitch was coming, says Peter Morris in A Game of Inches. Cepeda protested to the umpire but was told it was not illegal. From that point on, White told Cepeda every pitch he signaled to Burdette, yet despite the information, Cepeda was retired easily every time.
In another case, the Tigers got tired of Ted Williams hitting their pitchers so relentlessly. So they gave him the chance of calling his own pitches. The great Williams complied– yet was so unnerved he went 0-for-5.
Why? Answers Morris: Considering the old formulation that hitting is timing and pitching is disrupting timing, perhaps with some hitters the surprise of being told the pitch might disturb that delicate balance.
"While such sketchy anecdotal evidence doesn't prove anything," Morris says, "it at least suggests that knowing what pitch is coming is less of an advantage than might be expected."
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CRESTVIEW � North county school populations have surpassed 2012's enrollment by more than 200 students, school officials say.
CRESTVIEW � North county school populations have surpassed 2012's enrollment by more than 200 students, school officials say.
With 2,024 students as of Aug. 30, Crestview High School remains the county's biggest school. The school's population has increased by nearly 100 students.
"Our numbers are way up," Principal Bob Jones said on opening day. "We registered 2,050. Niceville (High School) was 1,980."
School officials credited most of the increase to having the largest freshman class in the school's history � 641 students as of Friday. Last year's freshman class was 400 students.
As of Friday, Niceville High School had 1,968 students. Fort Walton Beach and Choctawhatchee high schools had 1,769 and 1,618 students, respectively.
Riverside's 936 students have made it the county's largest elementary school. The school had to deny some waiver requests, Principal Tammy Matz said.
"We're over projection," she said. "We're just bustin' at the seams."
With 921 kids, Davidson is the district's second-largest middle school, surpassed by Ruckel's 988 students.
Because student enrollments continue to fluctuate as students transfer to other schools or move away, an official population count is unavailable until October.
Most Crestview schools saw population increases, though Riverside and Walker elementary schools and Shoal River Middle School saw slight decreases.
Northwood Elementary School principal Dr. Donna Goode attributed an increase in 65 Cougars to the school's designation as an arts and sciences institute.
"We've been publicizing that we offer drama and we offer dance and music. We're going to have productions," she said.
"We're getting ready to do a whole lot of fun and exciting things as well as the Common Core (State Standards Initiative), and that has attracted parents and kids who are excited about the new program."
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In area kindergarten-through-12th-grade schools, Baker and Laurel Hill schools saw slight population increases.
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Area school populations
School 2011-12 2012-13 Aug 2013
Antioch Elementary 786 832 869
Baker School 1,337 1,367 1,373
Bob Sikes Elementary 799 823 880
Crestview High 1,862 1,930 2,024
Davidson Middle 904 888 921
Laurel Hill School 452 431 437
Northwood Elementary 705 689 754
Riverside Elementary 847 952 936
Shoal River Middle 875 862 858
Walker Elementary 700 714 703
Richbourg E.S.E. 49 53 58
Southside Center 178 197 188
Emerald Coast Career 104 114 36
Total enrollment 9,598 9,852 10,037
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Excuse the pun, but something is afoot in Chicago. Something important. But first, a little history. It all began in the Eighties.
While in other American cities hip hop took permanent residence, Chicago, forever a law onto itself, remained the city of house. Left to its own devices, out of the scene emerged the slurred, electro-infused ghetto-house, so-called for its popularity within the poor south and west regions of the city. Having dominated local haunts throughout the Nineties, in the early Noughties ghetto-house itself mutated: speeding up to 160bpm while hyper-syncopating house's 4/4 signature, before breaking Jesse Saunders' original vision down into abstract levels of complexity. Juke was born, which around eight years after its inception remains arguably the most cutting-edge form of music on the planet, as this second scene-sampler from Planet Mu reaffirms. Like most avant garde black music since Afrika Bambaataa's 'Planet Rock', juke (and attendant dance style 'footwork') redefined technical boundaries, and in the process created art; reason enough to investigate further this futuristic genre. However, in a day and age where the past rules all, that juke offers a wholly unprecedented musical experience - a bona fide shock of the new - is reason enough to move to Illinois.
Juke is wrongly likened to IDM. Like IDM it's evocative of a Byzantine cerebrum – a sound set firmly in the psychological. But juke is composed with only one purpose in mind - to move your feet. Rarely, however, does such a rigorously utilitarian form of dance music make for such a fascinating home listen.
Anything completely new is by its nature unusual, but this is different. Juke is strange... discomfortingly, perversely, captivatingly strange. It's repetitious to the point of self-destruction. It's minimalistic, but cascades with activity. While rife with sharp-minded (and mind-sharpening) flourishes, it possesses a brain-damaged quality. And no matter how forceful, immediate or vibrant the track, nonetheless the material remains remote, almost absent; one stepped removed from the listener, from an emotional connection, from reality. Which serves to kill any suggestion of human involvement, in turn creating a spooky impression that the tracks are somehow self-generative, automatic, or more unnervingly – sentient. It's an acute form of machine soullessness that proves a red herring of sorts, obscuring an essential truth that whoever produced the track, did so to numb the pain of poverty - eviscerate it through musical lobotomy, and ultimately dancing. What could be more 'soul'? Or human?
Most of all, however, there's the inkling that amongst the 808 handclaps, the relentless toms and the cyclical vocal samples, resides in juke something completely hideous.
It's an evil quality that many tracks here revel in, if not make explicit reference to. Young Smoke's 'Psycho War' plies horror movie strings to metallic, insectoid pulses, while DJ Jlin's 'Asylum' samples video-game Mortal Kombat ("Get Over Here!") and a vomitus growl of "Suicide!" over tweaking electronics and elephantine brass. The brass is then pitched down a key, pulling the track into a queazy droop and afflicting your frontal lobes like a stroke might. Meanwhile, DJ Spinn's anxious 'Crazy 'n' Deranged' and DJ T-Why's 'Orbits' highlight another of juke's thematic staples: neurosis - notably a trait the genre shares with the equally disturbing gabba-techno, while Bernard Herrmann's Psycho theme is regularly used as inspiration for the synths. Sampling ESG's spooked 'UFO' and the Lord of The Rings theme (playful samples are a juke standard), 'Orbits' creeps along on only the bare minimum of percussion. Unnervingly empty therefore, it speaks of isolation and voices in the dark. Meanwhile, DJ Earl's 'Hit Da Bootz' uses the sample "Fuck being your boyfriend, girl I wanna hit your bootz". The snippet in another context (the sentiment is standard miami bass) would be bump'n'grind pervy. Juke, however, dictates the vocals be repeated to nightmarish degrees, creating a scene of sexual mania.
However it's *DJ RP Boo, largely credited with inventing the sound, who has the edge on disquiet here. For dance music to be unsettling, it usually requires slowing the tempo, maybe some macabre atmospherics and a lot of negative space. Not so with juke. Putting the 'slasher disco' purveyors to shame, both the producer's tracks here are banging, not to mention uniquely fucked up. Wet and pitched-down, 'Off The Hook's skin-crawling voice clip "Boooooooo" provokes a shudder on every occasion, while his 'Heavy Heat' samples what might be Pharoahe Monch's 'Simon Says', yet reduces the horns to milli-second long loops. Over and over again they go, until trance delirium sets in. Keening synths all but draw a knife across your throat, followed by a deranged "You belong to me!". By which point we are indeed at the mercy of "another RP Boo track".
Bang & Works Vol. 2 also captures a genre in transition, as both the old guard and the young producers increasingly look to other genres for a way to progress the sound, or at least re-flavour it. Self-evidently, DJ Metro's 'Tekno Bangz' is techno-infused, as are DJ T-Why's 'Juice' and 'Finished', while Young Smoke's 'Space Muzik Part 3' is what Planet Mu describes accurately as 'Musique Concrete gone footwork'. Boylan's 'Bullet Proof Soul' has a sweet whiff of UK garage about it, while Traxman's 'Funky Block' and DJ Clent's 'DJ Clent #1' mine hip hop. Elsewhere, scene figurehead DJ Rashad and partner Gant-Man offer up 'Heaven Sent', containing traces of P-funk and early Detroit techno, whereas Traxman's 'Brainwash' sounds like HI-NRG in a blender. Its a measure of juke's strong, singular make-up that contradictory elements can be incorporated without diluting the sound's root identity.
Where next for the genre? Bang & Works Vol. 2 provides some signposts, but it's anyone's guess. Odds on, though, it'll sound a little like the future, yet – as this is a movement at odds with the currency hegemony of retro-futurism – a future not as we currently know it. For the history-making producers here, musical nostalgia seems as impossible a feat as the jaw-dropping footwork juke inspires.
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I spent some quality time with my nostepinne yesterday. I frogged my owlie sweater last year and the yarn has been sitting in a giant center-pull ball at the top of my shelf ever since. I was paranoid about the wool losing its elasticity so after deciding on a movie, Legends of the Fall, I put my nostepinne to work! I got 8 yarn cakes from it…but they're all different sizes. Odd.
A few days ago I frogged my summerflies shawl/scarf/bib/utter crap. People liked it but I didn't, no biggie.
Oy. And then my Bird of Passage. When I did it the first time 'round I did the backwards loop cast on incorrectly (but it's so easy, right?). I told myself f#$% it, just keep going. I set it aside for a few weeks and when I came back to it a few days ago decided to just start over from the beginning. As soon as three rows were pulled out I regretted it…but it was too late for me to stop.
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Fail and Yahoo! Yahoo! is firing a bunch of people to cut $400 million from its budget. That sucks for the people who work there, but the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who hustled Yahoo! out of more than $2.5 billion in the last 4 years probably aren't terribly concerned.
In the typical American fashion, Yahoo! bought a bunch of shit it didn't need with money it didn't have. That, of course, was no problem at the time because the stock market always goes up, and they get a fuck-ton of airline miles every time they buy a Web 2.0 startup. In the other typical American fashion, the sharks took advantage of Yahoo!'s poor financial sense and engineered a little bit of the old redistribution of wealth - namely distributing Yahoo's wealth across their pockets.
I love this country.
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Oddpost - Because Gmail Is Hard
On April 1, 2004, Google launched the first beta of GMail. This was one time when the word revolutionary was actually appropriate, at least in the context of web-based e-mail. It didn't exactly solve world hunger, but it caused Yahoo! to freak the fuck out and pay upwards of $30 million for a ten-man startup called Oddpost a couple months later. Oddpost became the new version of Yahoo! Mail, and the world breathed a sigh of relief.
VerdiSoft - The Ghost In The Machine
VerdiSoft was a company that did something with mobile phone syncing. It's some way to sync your office shit to the numerous mobile gadgets you have because you have no interpersonal relationships and need to fill the void with material possessions. VerdiSoft never actually shipped a product, but Yahoo never believed products to be important. What is important, though, is spending $58 million on a startup you'll just roll into Yahoo! Mobile.
Maven Networks - Still Trying To Make Online Video Profitable
Google realized that it was making the other publicly traded companies look bad, so in 2006, it bought YouTube as a solid loss-leader to even off its balance sheet. Still wanting to run with the big dogs, Yahoo pissed away $160 million on Maven Networks two years later. Maven does something with video platforms or some shit. Fantastic.
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Yahoo! spent billions more on other stuff too. Funny, none of these "investments" prevented them from laying off their staff.
The goal of Web 2.0 was to get users first, then figure out how to make money off of them. Well, at least that's what you tell your investors. In reality, the goal is more like "get users, and hope to get acquired and become somebody else's problem." For Silicon Valley, this really is self-destructive behavior, with Yahoo! being the enabling friend who brings us clean needles from his job as an orderly. Sure, he's not intervening like a true friend would, trying to get us into rehab, but he feels like he's helping because we're still disease-free.
Well, hospital administration just figured out that Yahoo! has been raiding the supply cabinet. Looks like we're fucked now. ®
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OK, all you text addicts. In the wake of our recent column about text etiquette, our readers mostly agreed with our expert: It's not smart to text an important conversation with your boss or superior. But as our e-mail and Facebook comments reveal, many of us still seem too attached to our handheld devices.
"My former employer turned off texting on cell phones and killed access to social networking from company computers," wrote Diane. "One of the employees must have been going through severe withdrawal, so she started excessively updating her Facebook page from her cell phone throughout the day. This wasn't exactly smart because her senior managers were her Facebook friends."
David said texting co-workers is a no-no: "Call them or have a face-to-face. Texting has become the coward's way out!"
Bob, however, thought that if an important conversation or apology needed to happen between co-workers, a text is OK to get things started. "I'd send a text requesting the conversation," he said. "The text gives the other person time to think and collect their thoughts without putting them on the spot. Ideally the apology will be over the phone or face-to-face so that they can hear the sincerity of our tone and see it in our body language too."
Bela said texting is best kept for your personal "inner circle." "People misinterpret texts all the time (personally and professionally)!"
The issue extends beyond the workplace, and our readers wanted to talk about that too.
Ozzie said, "I was at dinner the other night, and all four of us at the table were on our Facebook pages! That's bad."
"On New Year's Eve we were out to dinner," wrote Judy. "A couple nearby were both texting away ... I just find that rude and a waste of money. Why not go to a fast-food place if you're not there to enjoy the place and the company?"
Kate added: "These two men were out -- their body language definitely said they didn't know each other well. From my vantage point I could see BOTH of them texting under the table! Then when one guy got up to use the restroom, the other guy quickly shoved his phone between his legs so his date wouldn't notice he had it in his hand the whole time. I guess you had to be there, but it was pretty funny to watch."
"Unless it is an emergency or a quick question or answer, I think it should be done in private, while you are not walking or driving," wrote Mindy.
Lisa wrote: "Texting is replacing having real conversations. We're becoming robots fixated on hiding behind a facade of what we think is real."
And the BIG WHOOPS award goes to Larry.
"I tried to send an explicit text and photo to my girlfriend and accidentally hit 'all' to my contact list when firing it off," he told us. "This means all work colleagues, my MOTHER, my child's teacher. It was weeks of apologizing and begging forgiveness. I still can't look my kid's teacher in the face without blushing. Your expert was right: Don't drink and text! It leaves room for 'operator error.' "
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Scottish English
|(Braid) Scots, Lallans
|Native to
|United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
Scotland: Scottish Lowlands, Northern Isles, Caithness, Arran and Campbeltown
Ulster: Counties Down, Antrim, Londonderry and Donegal
|Native speakers
100,000 (1999)[1]
1.5 million L2 speakers[1]
Total: 17%[2] to 85%[3] of the Scottish population speak it to some degree
|Language family
|Early forms:
Early Scots
|Official status
|Official language in
— Classified as a "traditional language" by the Scottish Government.
— Classified as a "regional or minority language" under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, ratified by the United Kingdom in 2001.
— Classified as a "traditional language" by Tha Noarth/Sooth Boord o Leid
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Northern Ireland
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Scottish English, or Scots,[4] is the version of English spoken in Scotland.[5][6] A spin-off, Ulster Scots can be found in the north of Ireland. It is quite different from the Scottish Gaelic language, which is a Celtic language.
There have been disagreements about the linguistic, historical and social status of Scots. Focused broad Scots is at one end of a scale, with Scottish Standard English at the other.[7][8] Scots is generally regarded as one of the ancient varieties of English, yet it has its own distinct variations.[7]
Northumbrian Old English was established in what is now southeastern Scotland as far as the River Forth by the seventh century. The region was part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria.[9] Early Scots began to diverge from Northumbrian English in the twelfth and thirteenth century. There was immigration of Scandinavian-influenced Middle English-speakers from the North and Midlands of England.[10]
Later influences on the development of Scots were from Romance languages via ecclesiastical and legal Latin, Norman[11] and later Parisian French due to the Auld Alliance as well as Dutch and Middle Low German influences due to trade and immigration from the Low Countries.[12] Scots also includes loan words resulting from contact with Gaelic.
From the thirteenth century Early Scots spread further into Scotland through the burghs established by King David I. The growth in prestige of Early Scots in the fourteenth century, and the decline of French in Scotland, made Scots the prestige dialect of most of eastern Scotland.[13] From 1610 to the 1690s during the Plantation of Ulster large numbers of Scots-speaking Lowlanders, some 200,000, settled there.[14] In the core areas of Scots settlement, Scots outnumbered English settlers by five or six to one.[15] Southern Modern English was adopted as the literary language after 1700, while "Modern Scots" is sometimes used to describe the spoken language after 1700.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Scottish English at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009) (The figure of 200,000 is an error, from the total being listed in two countries.)
- ↑ [Iain Máté] (1996) Scots Language. A report on the Scots language research carried out by the General Register Office for Scotland in 1996, Edinburgh: General Register Office (Scotland).
- ↑ The Scottish Government. "Public attitudes towards the Scots language". http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/01/06105123/0. Retrieved 3 January 2010.
- ↑ Less often Lowland Scots or Lallans
- ↑ Grant, William 1931. Scottish National Dictionary
- ↑ Gregg R.J. 1972. The Scotch-Irish dialect boundaries in Ulster. In Wakelin M.F. Patterns in the folk speech of the British Isles. London.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 A.J. Aitken 1992. In The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Oxford University Press, p894
- ↑ Stuart-Smith J. 2008. Scottish English: phonology in Varieties of English: the British Isles. Kortman & Upton (eds), Mouton de Gruyter, New York. p47
- ↑ A History of Scots to 1700, Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) Vol. 12 p. xxxvi
- ↑ A History of Scots to 1700, DOST Vol. 12 p. xliii
- ↑ A History of Scots to 1700, pp. lxiii-lxv
- ↑ A History of Scots to 1700, pp. lxiii
- ↑ "A Brief History of Scots" in Corbett, John; McClure, Derrick; Stuart-Smith, Jane (eds) 2003. The Edinburgh Companion to Scots. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0-7486-1596-2. pp. 9ff
- ↑ Montgomery & Gregg 1997: 572
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With eligibility of both women's ski jumping and women's hockey being called into question for the 2014 Olympic games, we have to ask: what role does sexism play in determining Olympic sports?
In 2006, the International Olympic Committee voted not to include women's ski jumping in the 2010 games on the grounds that there simply weren't enough qualified skiers. Since this decision, American ski jumper Lindsey Van has been trying to convince the IOC that they're ready and eligible to compete. In 2009, Van and 14 other athletes filed a lawsuit against the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 games. They argued that, since Canada has laws against gender discrimination, government-funded organizations like the VANOC should not be able to discriminate against women on the basis of sex either. Although the court ruled that they were victims of gender discrimination, they found that the IOC was not covered under Canada's charter, and not subject to Canadian law. Basically, ski jumpers are shit outta luck.
To make matters worse, some argue that ski jumping was nixed not because of a scarcity of athletes, but instead a patronizing concern for the weak female body. In January, Ruth Gregory wrote in guest post for Sociological Images that the "rumor that ski jumping damaged women's ovaries and could lead to infertility...floated in the background of the many conversations that I had with coaches, ski jumpers and parents over the three years I was a part of the ski jumping world."
Sexism plays a less obvious role in the debate over women's hockey, but that doesn't mean it's not there. Women's hockey has been an Olympic sport since 1998, when the first female teams competed at Nagano. The Americans brought home the gold that year, and since then, the U.S. and Canada have more or less ruled the game. However, this year the North American teams have been seeing such huge wins that some are wondering whether women's hockey should remain an Olympic sport. The Canadian women's team has won their first three games by 18-0, 10-0, and 13-1 respectively, and the U.S. team has won their three games by a combined 31-1. Hockey writers are none too impressed by this display of dominance, with several writers calling it "unsportswomanlike." Kevin Amerman bemoaned the "embarrassing" win and told the Canadian time to "take it easy." "You won't see this behavior from the men," he argued. Stu Cowan for the Montreal Gazette expressed a similar sentiment following Canada's 18-0 win against Slovakia:
I wanted to scream out: "Okay! ... enough already!" As the goals kept coming, the Canadian TV announcers actually talked about how Team Canada coach Melody Davidson would still be grilling her players at practice the next day about their mistakes - what, were they not supposed to allow any shots on goal? - and when a Slovak player shoved a Canadian from behind near the end of the game it was called "unfortunate." Unfortunate? If it was an NHL game there probably would have been a brawl.
The Olympic motto is supposed to be swifter, higher, stronger; not beat, crush, destroy. It was an ugly game ... and it should never have been allowed to happen.
Toronto columnist Steve Simmons fears that the "gap in talent is widening" as Canada and the U.S. have improved at a much swifter rate than other countries. If they continue to win at these rates, the IOC may end up pulling women's hockey.
Even if we ignore the sexist undertones in both Cowan's and Amerman's pieces, the problem with women's hockey is borne out of the same discrimination as the debate over women's ski jumping. While no one is arguing that women's hockey is damaging to the ovaries (at least, not yet), the continued discussion over whether two teams are too good rings with a familiar patronizing tone. And North American teams may be kicking ass, but part of the reason that they are able to do so comes from what CNN calls a "chauvinistic lack of funding" for women's hockey players abroad. American and Canadian players have a distinct advantage over the other teams because they have had better training, more funding, and a more advanced program. Canadian coach Melody Davidson rightly calls it a "no-win situation" and points out that there is "a lot more patience on one side of the puck." Fortunately, the IOC has not yet announced plans to cut women's hockey, and there is chance that other teams will improve enough to become real contenders. As U.S. coach Mark Johnson points out, every team is playing the best than can, and even the non-medal winners have the honor of competing. "Their players are doing the same thing as our players and living the Olympic dream."
Ski jumper Katie Willis hopes that she'll get a chance to live the Olympic dream in 2014. Willis, along with several other athletes, was invited to be a "small part of the Olympics" and act as a forerunner (someone who jumps ahead of the competition to test the conditions) for the male ski jumpers. Both Willis and Alissa Johnson refused to play the role of tester, choosing instead to focus on getting women's ski jumping approved for Sochi. "It's kind of contradictory, like, why are we fighting in the first place?" remarked Johnson. "It shows them we're O.K. with being on the sidelines."
For Women's Ski Jumpers, Olympic Chance Remains Elusive [NYT]
Olympics Bar Women From Ski Jumping, Except To Test The Hill [NYT]
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Women's Hockey Needs Mercy Rule [Montreal Gazette]


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The digital storefront is just a subsection of its e-commerce site, but one that highlights wearable devices for health and fitness, wearable cameras, smart watches and apparently wearable tech for babies, according to TechCrunch. (The wearable tech for babies includes a baby movement monitor clipped onto a baby's diaper.)
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"The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" is waning at the box office but still has gotten off to a blockbuster start with 1 million in its first five days, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The third chapter in Summit Entertainment's vampire romance fell off sharply after debuting last Wednesday with .5 million. That was the second-best opening-day haul ever, behind its predecessor, last year's "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," which opened with .7 million.
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After that huge first day, "Eclipse" averaged about million daily over the next four days. That includes an estimate for a slow Sunday as people turned their attention to Fourth of July activities.
"Weather has a lot to do with a Fourth of July opening. I'm not lookingto make excuses, but between barbecues and fireworks, we have a lot of competition," said Richie Fay, head of distribution for Summit. "I do think people will come back to the movie."
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Its total through Sunday came in well short of the 0 million mark set last year by "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," the record-holder for best five-day start for movies opening on Wednesday.
"Eclipse" easily held the No. 1 spot for the weekend, though its million Friday-to-Sunday total was only a fraction more than what the movie took in just on opening day. "New Moon" took in 2.8 million in its first weekend last November, though the movie opened on Friday and the figure includes its record opening-day gross.
Summit estimates "Eclipse" will climb to around 1 million domestically by Monday. The movie also has added 0.2 million in 42 overseas markets.
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"Eclipse" has found a wider fan base than "New Moon," with a bigger percentage of males turning out for the latest installment. Female fans accounted for 80 percent of the audience on "New Moon" but only 65 percent of crowds for "Eclipse," Summit reported.
The latest adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's best-selling novels, "Eclipse" continues the love triangle involving a broody teen (Kristen Stewart), her vampire sweetheart (Robert Pattinson) and her werewolf pal (Taylor Lautner).
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The weekend's other new wide release, Paramount's "The Last Airbender," opened well with .7 million to finish at No. 2 for the three-day weekend. The movie took in .2 million since debuting Thursday.
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan ("The Sixth Sense"), "The Last Airbender" is based on the cartoon series about a youth with mythical powers who can unite four warring nations.
"The Last Airbender" found a solid audience despite dreadful reviews from critics, who found the plot muddled and the dialogue stilted.
Disney's animated smash "Toy Story 3," which had been No. 1 the previous two weekends, slipped to third-place with .2 million, raising its total to 9 million.
"Toy Story 3" is about to pass last year's "Up" at 3 million to become No. 2 on the chart of Pixar Animation's blockbusters. The Disney unit's top-grossing film is "Finding Nemo" at 9.7 million.
Hollywood's overall business rose, helping to shore up this summer's sliding box office. Total revenues came in at about 3 million from Friday to Sunday, up 19 percent from the Fourth of July weekend last year, according to box-office tracker Hollywood.com.
Revenues this season are running at .16 billion, down a fraction from summer 2009. Factoring in higher ticket prices, though, movie attendance this summer is down 6.7 percent, according to Hollywood.com.
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companies start the year with an M&A push, but Microsoft could eclipse them
The progressively softening economy makes good fodder for op-ed columnists, but it doesn't seem to be affecting the always-lively mergers and acquisitions activity seen in the technology arena. People may not be buying houses anymore, but companies are sure keen on buying each other.
After a strong M&A year in 2007, the first few months of 2008 show that the trend hasn't abated quite yet. As an example of the pace of deals, there have been at least 35 mergers and acquisitions for venture capital-based technology companies so far in the past two months, noted Adam Wade, at Dow Jones Financial Information Services.
market is very similar to what we say in 2003 and 2004, when more companies
were acquired, but for lower prices," Wade says.
deals in the last two months have included: Sun snapping up desktop
virtualization company Innotek;
"The last 12 to 18 months has been torrid," says Charles King, president and principal analyst at Pund-IT. "The shifts in corporate tax law under the Bush administration have made life profitable for many corporations, and the ones doing well have been sitting on a lot of money. And now they want to spend it."
Especially big is the announcement from Oracle that it will acquire BEA Systems, for about $8.5 billion, demonstrating Oracle's long-term interest in middleware.
Although there were a number of sizeable deals in just the first two months of the year, no company achieved quite the level of sound and fury that Microsoft demonstrated when it announced on February 1st that it was going after Yahoo.
Considering a potential proxy fight to replace Yahoo board members, Microsoft's takeover is likely to be decisive and swift, but it differs significantly from the behemoth's past deals, notes Rob Helm, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft.
"This is really an unusual move for Microsoft, both in terms of size of the acquisition, and the fact that it taps out all the company's available cash," he says. "It's not organized like any other kind of Microsoft deal."
unusual is the buy itself, he adds. In the past, Microsoft has purchased
software companies like
the tech world, it's fairly common to see large acquisitions like
As if to prove the point, Yahoo made its own acquisition announcement, just a day after rejecting Microsoft's initial offer. The company plans to spend $160 million on Maven Networks, a developer of inventory management and reporting tools, and an ad engine.
the economy may cause slowdowns in some sectors of technology, some analysts
believe that acquisitions won't be particularly affected. If anything, the
changeover in
been a kind of unspoken thing, but there could be a large effect on M&A
activity with a new presidential administration," he says, pointing out
that anti-trust actions during the
In addition to year-end scurrying, the industry could also see continued consolidation in areas like storage, security, middleware, and online services. Storage, in particular, has become so complex that it's something of a deal magnet.
"You don't just store information anymore, you have to find ways to manage it, and secure it, and move it around," says Roger Kay, president of research firm Endpoint Technologies Associates. "That means more companies are entering the market with little pieces of the puzzle, and bigger companies are acquiring them to put their services together."
the entire industry has seen fewer deals coming from private equity firms than
in the past, which could be beneficial for enterprise application vendors who
wouldn't have to compete with the firms for acquisitions, says Albert Pang, an
analyst at
Hewlett-Packard is expected to play a more active role in software consolidation, he notes, and also look for more team-ups in areas like telecom, healthcare, and software as service vendors. "There are a growing number of mergers and acquisitions in all software segments," he says. "2008 should be no exception."
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I want to keep the TOC in so this is standard like other cheat sheets in this series (Jim Nov 25 2012)
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Achim, 3-jul-2012
I think your error configuration is not good. You have to set display_errors and display_startup_errors to On, otherwise it would be too hard to debug your code (yes you need debugging even on the server). The better practice, is to set to to On by default, and use a framework (a piece of code) to redirect that to a log for general user, and keep it on the screen for admins/developers. I've seen infinite developers set it to off, then set it to On for debugging, and leave it there.
- OWASP makes suggestions for security not for compfy debugging. Security is the goal.
- Hence Off is the choice for produktive systems. --Achim, 5-jul-2012
- I don't know if you've experienced it or not, but this is exactly the difference between an open community and a commercial rigid ISO workgroup. We provide solutions that people actually use, not solutions that are perfect if we lived on the moon. This error handling issue is very important. Also the startup error should be on, otherwise users only think the site is dead. There shuold be a critical error level, delivered to the admin via SMS or Email, so that these errors are handled properly.
Why the hell is file_uploads off? Are you one of those guys who believe everything should be off to provide a secure system?
- Yes (but there is a hint that some settings need to be adapted to real systems:) --Achim, 5-jul-2012
- Could you elaborate the security risks with file_uploads?
Also disabling functions and etc. its a very bad practice. This is only used in dull shared web hosting systems, and nobody gets their hosts.
- Either we try to make a crappy PHP secure, or you have to live with brain-dead develpers using something like
- --Achim, 5-jul-2012
- Develoeprs should be aware of dangerous functions. Some IDE's deliver warnings when variables are used in dangerous functions, we could create a tool that would scan the code and tell so. This is the same scenario as the first issue.
Most usage of PHP is available source code (Wordpress, Joomla, MyBB, etc.) and they all use these abilities. What you're indicating just says "dont follow this cheat sheet", no offence!
- the cheat sheet is about security, not about using insecure frameworks. --Achim, 5-jul-2012
- 15% of websites are powered with Wordpress, and they are among the most secure of all :)) Do you expect every admin to pay a few thousand bucks for it?
We gotta discuss session handling, there's a lot of issues there.
Allow_url_fopen Off is not secure at all. my most recent paper lists 12 methods of converting and LFI to a RFI, if somehow has an LFI flaw in the code, url_fopen On or Off wont matter.
- Right. But if set on, it's definitely insecure and very easy to exploit. --Achim, 5-jul-2012
- I'm just saying LFI is enough big of a threat that we need to educate developers about it. If we don't, there are absolutely no countermeasures.
The memory and execution time limit defined there, is very bad practice. This limit kills the php script, and results in numerous errors which are extremely hard to debug. They do not mitigate DOS, you can simply run 10 scripts instead of 1. The optimum values are 32MB memory, 30 second execution time, with ability to extend it in user code.
- It's a suggestion, feel free to adapt it to proper values. Just using the default may bring you to some risks. --Achim, 5-jul-2012
- We need to find a solution to put a cognitive limit, otherwise there's no JUST" value for it. I need to delve my head into PHP manuals.
Please get back to me on this, or my email at [email protected]
Hi Abbas, could you add some clarification for ORM? Not everyone knows the acronym which diminishes the general readability and usability. Thanks! --Peter Mosmans 04:47, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Citing 72% of servers stat
Can someone provide the source for the statistic under the "PHP overview" section that 72% of web servers run PHP. Also, is that 72% of all servers worldwide? — Roy Vanegas (talk) 22:45, 17 March 2014 (CDT)
- W3 Techs claims 81.8% "of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know". --Markus Malkusch (talk) 07:31, 18 March 2014 (CDT)


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Going north: new trends in emigration
Canada's up. Australia's down. The age profile of emigrants is rising, as is the number of families emigrating. Part one of a Generation Emigration special looks at changing migration patterns
A Generation Emigration special series runs in The Irish Times today, Monday and Tuesday. Below, Ciara Kenny begins the series with a look at changing trends in emigration. On Monday, Pamela Duncan and Rosita Boland exmine the people and places that emigrants have left behind, while on Tuesday, our correspondents Simon Carswell, Lorraine Mallinder and Helene Hoffman report on recent Irish arrivals in the US, Canada and Australia.
At the Working Abroad Expo in the RDS in Dublin this month, mechanics and plumbers lined up alongside bankers and nurses looking for information about opportunities abroad. Graduates chatted excitedly about working holidays abroad, couples pushing buggies asked about schools in places they had never been, and men in their 50s inquired about emigrating for the second or third time in their lives. It was as close a snapshot of current migration trends as you could find.
The organisers started the event nine years ago to provide young graduates with advice about working in Australia. Now it's a major jobs fair, featuring companies from all over the world.
A Canadian immigration official attended in 2009 and liked what he saw, and the following year a small delegation of immigration officials and employers was sent to represent Canada. This year Canadian companies took up more than half of the exhibition stands.
"The most noticeable trend over the past 12 months has been the swing away from Australia towards Canada, which has been driven by the demand from employers and from the Canadian department of immigration," says David Walsh, sales manager for the Working Abroad Expo. "They are going through a skills shortage, and in Calgary, the economic heartland of Canada, 19 of the 25 skillsets most in demand are readily available in Ireland. "
The interest in Canada among potential emigrants has been increasing in line with Canadians' interest in us. Six hundred and sixty-two Irish people were granted permanent residency in Canada in 2011, up from just 314 in 2006, and 5,293 temporary workers entered the country from Ireland in the same year, up from 1,970 five years previously.
When the application system for Canadian working-holiday visas for this year opened to Irish people at the end of January, the quota of 6,350 was filled in 48 hours. The quota for 2014 will be expanded to 10,700.
Cathy Murphy, the director of the Irish Canadian Immigration Centre in Toronto, estimates that more than half of the visa quota went to Irish people already in Canada who were applying to stay for a second year.
There have been notable changes since the centre opened, 12 months ago. "The number of people coming in looking for information about permanent residency even since January has been incredible," says Murphy. The centre is also dealing with more queries from families in Ireland looking for information about schools and housing. "There has been a definite shift in the last six months towards people in their late 30s and early 40s."
Rising age profile
Everyone who speaks to The Irish Times for this article says the rising average age of emigrants and the number of families leaving are the most notable trends of recent months.
Of the 527 people at the Working Abroad Expo who responded to a survey by University College Cork's Emigre project that traces recent emigration patterns, 44 per cent were over 30, and 14 per cent were 40 or older. More than one in five had mortgages in Ireland, and 27 per cent had children.
"The striking thing to me when we compare this cohort with the emigrants of the 1980s is the age profile," says Dr Piaras Mac Éinrí, who leads the Emigre project. "More couples with young children are leaving as a family unit, which is not a traditional feature of Irish emigration.
"They might be less likely to return. Those who leave in their early 20s are likely to be only in their early 30s if and when the economy turns around, and there's more of a chance they will come back if circumstances are favourable. About half of those who left in the 1980s did. But a family who are in their 30s already, whose kids are growing up in another place, are much less likely to come back."
Another finding of Mac Éinrí's survey was that almost half of all respondents were in full-time employment in Ireland, but two-thirds cited dissatisfaction with their career prospects as one of the main reasons for emigration.
Mac Éinrí, who is 58, was also struck by the number of men of about his own age at the fair. "It would be very tough for them to get visas for Australia or Canada. They are looking at a pretty bleak future. To emigrate is very tough for a lot of people, but to do so in your 40s or 50s, when you've never lived abroad, is a huge culture shock," he says.
The Irish migration agency VisaFirst has also noticed significant trends over the past 12 months. The number of applications from teachers, welders, solicitors, mechanics and IT professionals, as well as from articulated truck drivers looking for jobs in Canada, it has dealt with has increased significantly, according to its manager, Edwina Shanahan.
The number of architects using its services has dropped by 80 per cent over the past 12 months – "They have all gone already," says Shanahan – and the number of plumbers and electricians seeking help to move to Australia has fallen by about 20 per cent. "People in construction still form the highest proportion of our business, but teachers, nurses, people from civil service backgrounds and business managers from the banking sector are certainly on the rise."
Despite the swing towards Canada, Australia remains popular, though there have been some significant demographic changes over the past 12 months or so, with the Irish population there maturing and becoming more permanent. With about 15,000 Irish people in Australia on working-holiday visas, Ireland has the fifth-highest representation of any country, though numbers might be declining.
Statistics published by the Australian department of immigration and citizenship last month show 6,504 Irish people were granted working-holiday visas for the first time between July and December last year, a decrease of 28.8 per cent on the same period in 2011.
According to Shanahan, young people are finding it harder to save money to go away on working holidays, and parents cannot afford to fund them to the same extent as before.
Desire for permanence
The numbers successfully applying to stay on in Australia for a second year rose to 3,735 in the latter half of 2012, an increase of 33.7 per cent on the same period in 2011, indicating a desire for more permanence among the Irish population there.
The number of Irish workers granted four-year, employer-sponsored 457 visas is also on the up, increasing by 18.4 per cent to 3,670 in the second half of 2012. Significant numbers of sponsored Irish workers are also bringing their spouses and children to Australia, with more than 2,000 secondary 457 visas issued to their dependants during the same period.
Tomorrow, on St Patrick's Day, 44 Irish people will be granted Australian citizenship, at ceremonies in Perth and Sydney, allowing them to stay in Australia indefinitely. This will bring the total number of Irish who have secured Australian citizenship in the past six years to more than 7,000.
Australia, Canada and New Zealand are often the most talked-about destinations for Irish people looking to emigrate, but the UK still attracts the most migrants from Ireland. CSO figures show 19,000 Irish and other foreign nationals moved there in the 12 months prior to April 2012. It is likely that the UK has remained the most popular destination for migrants from Ireland in the year since then, although as visas are not necessary for Irish people it is difficult to know exactly how many are going.
Crosscare, an information and advocacy service for migrants run by the Dublin archdiocese, notes the growth of commuter migration over the past 12 months. It is becoming very common for workers to travel to the UK during the week and return to family at weekends or every few weeks, says Joe O'Brien, its policy director. "In most instances, the family are tied to Ireland because of a mortgage or it is seen as the preferable option to uprooting children and emigrating as a family unit. They can see it as a temporary arrangement, but often it lasts years."
The Gulf states are attracting increasing numbers of experienced and highly skilled construction professionals lured over alone or with families by the promise of tax-free salaries and work on billion-dollar infrastructure projects. The Irish population in the United Arab Emirates has increased by 30 per cent, to an estimated 6,000, people in the past 18 months, while the number of Irish in Saudi Arabia has also risen, to about 3,000. Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain are popular for similar reasons.
What is certain is that Irish people are still emigrating in large numbers. The most recent CSO figures show 46,500 Irish people left the country in the 12 months to April 2012, a rise of 16 per cent on the previous year and up from just 12,900 in 2007. We will have to wait until September for figures for the past 12 months, but a significant change seems unlikely.
This article appears in the Weekend Review section of The Irish Times today. In the Magazine, read No place like home: the young Irish who are happy to be here.


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The people of Gaza are being squeezed to death. This week's blackouts have finally reached the attention of the world -- and the international community could help end the blockade. Our obligation is clear. This isn't about Israel vs Palestine or Hamas vs Fatah: this is about 1.5 million human beings locked up in the biggest prison on earth.
Incredibly, the UN, European Union and Arab League have so far failed to act. We must seize this moment with an emergency campaign: demanding that the international community step in to end this blockade, ensure the free flow of supplies, and help broker the ceasefire which civilians on all sides desperately need. Please click below to sign the emergency petition -- we'll deliver it to the UN, EU and Arab League when we reach 100,000 signatures, so sign and tell everyone you know:
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Carrey has been fighting for a tightening of America's gun control laws in the aftermath of a school shooting in Connecticut last December, and he subsequently withdrew his support for "Kick-Ass 2" over its depiction of violence.
However, Mark Millar, who wrote the "Kick-Ass" comic books and is a producer on the movies, now admits Carrey's headline-grabbing stunt actually did the film a big favor.
He tells Britain's Daily Record newspaper, "In a weird way, Jim Carrey did us the biggest PR favor of all time. Universal (studios) estimate that it's about $30 million worth of publicity that we got out of him pulling out."
Millar adds, "Jim has been a massive advocate of gun control and come under flak for it from the gun lobby, who really hate him for it. It gave them real ammunition when the first poster of him in 'Kick-Ass 2' was of him with a pointed gun (sic) in his hand. He got all these gun guys tweeting him and it started to upset him. Eventually he felt he had to justify things.
"I understand what happened. It was a bit of a curve ball but in a brilliant way the situation bought us double our marketing budget. In terms of airtime it was a $30 million silver lining."
The writer and producer goes on to insist the incident has not soured his relationship with Carrey, saying, "Nobody has spoken with Jim since. He has just dropped off radar. I know he's seen the film and the ultimate irony is that he is brilliant. It may be his best role in a decade because he's so charismatic. I really wanted to work with him again and I certainly wouldn't be against it."
The "Kick-Ass" sequel, a follow-up to Matthew Vaughn's 2010 hit, stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Chloe Grace Moretz as youngsters who team up to fight bullies. Carrey plays a vigilante named Colonel Stars and Stripes.


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