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How to talk to complete idiots / Three basic options. Choose wisely, lest you go totally insane
There are three basic ways to talk to complete idiots.
The first is to assail them with facts, truths, scientific data, the commonsensical obviousness of it all. You do this in the very reasonable expectation that it will nudge them away from the ledge of their more ridiculous and paranoid misconceptions because, well, they're facts, after all, and who can dispute those?
Why, idiots can, that's who. It is exactly this sort of logical, levelheaded appeal to reason and mental acuity that's doomed to fail, simply because in the idiotosphere, facts are lies and truth is always dubious, whereas hysteria and alarmism resulting in mysterious undercarriage rashes are the only things to be relied upon.
Examples? Endless. You may, for instance, attempt to explain evolution to an extreme fundamentalist Christian. You may offer up carbon dating, the fossil record, glaciers, any one of 10,000 irrefutable proofs. You may even dare to talk about the Bible as the clever, completely manufactured, man-made piece of heavily politicized, massively edited, literary myth-making it so very much is, using all sorts of sound academic evidence and historical record.
You are, of course, insane beyond belief to try this, but sometimes you just can't help it. To the educated mind, it seems inconceivable that millions of people will choose rabid ignorance and childish fantasy over, say, a polar bear. Permafrost. Rocks. Nag Hammadi. But they will, and they do. Faced with this mountain of factual obviousness, the bewildered fundamentalist will merely leap back as if you just jabbed him with a flaming homosexual cattle prod, and then fall into a swoon about how neat it is that angels can fly.
But it's not just the fundamentalists. This Rule of Idiocy also explains why, when you show certain jumpy, conservative Americans the irrefutable facts about, say, skyrocketing health care costs that are draining their bank accounts, and then show how Obama's rather modest overhaul is meant to save members of all ages and genders and party affiliations a significant amount of money while providing basic insurance for their family, they, too, will scream and kick like a child made to eat a single bite of broccoli.
Remember, facts do not matter. The actual Obama plan itself does not matter. Fear of change, fear of the "Other," fear of the scary black socialist president, fear that yet another important shift is taking place that they cannot understand and which therefore makes them thrash around like a trapped animal? This is all that matters.
This is why, even when you whip out, say, a fresh article by the goodly old Washington Post -- not exactly a bastion of lopsided liberalthink -- one that breaks down the rather brutal truth about the real cost of health care in this country, it will likely be hurled back in your face as an obvious piece of liberal propaganda. Go ahead, try it. Or better yet, don't.
Option two is to try to speak their language, dumb yourself down, engage on the idiot's level as you try to figure out how their minds work -- or more accurately, don't work -- so you can better empathize and find a shred of common ground and maybe, just maybe, inch the human experiment forward.
This is, as you already sense, a dangerous trap, pure intellectual quicksand. It almost never works, and just makes you feel gross and slimy. Nevertheless, plenty of shrewd political strategists believe that the best way for Obama and the Dems to get their message across regarding everything from health care reform to new environmental regulation, would be to steal a page from the Glenn Beck/Karl Rove/sociopath's playbook, and start getting stupid.
It's all about the bogus catchphrases, the sound bites, the emotional punches-to-the-gut. Death panels! Rationing! Fetus farms! Puppy shredders! Commie medicine! Gay apocalypse! Forced vaccinations! Exposed nipples during prime-time! Let one of these inane, completely wrong but oh-so-haunting verbal ticks bite into the below-average American brainstem, and watch your cause bleed all over the headlines.
The big snag here is that the Dems, unlike the Republican Party, aren't really beholden to a radical, mal-educated base of fundamentalist crazies to keep them afloat. Truly, the political success of the liberal agenda does not depend on the irrational, Bible-crazed "value voter" who's terrified of gays, believes astronomy is a hoax and thinks Jesus spoke perfect English and really liked giving hugs.
In other words, there really is little point in the liberals adopting this strategy, save for the fact that the major media eats it up and it might serve to counterbalance some of the more ridiculous conservative catchphrases. What's more, it could also give the whiny, bickering Dems something slightly cohesive to rally around -- because the truth is, the Democratic Party isn't all that bright, either.
And now we come to option three, easily the finest and most successful approach of all. Alas, it also remains the most difficult to pull off. No one is exactly sure why.
The absolute best way to speak to complete idiots is, of course, not to speak to them at all.
That is, you work around them, ignore them completely, disregard the rants and the spittle and the misspelled protest signs and the fervent prayers for apocalypse on Fox News. Complete refusal to take the fringe nutballs even the slightest bit seriously is the only way to make true progress.
This also happens to be the invaluable advice of one Frank Schaeffer, noted author and a former fundamentalist nutball himself, who made a simply superb appearance on Rachel Maddow's show recently, wherein he offered up one of the most articulate, fantastic takedowns of the fundamentalist idiot's mindset in recent history. It's a must-watch. Do it. Do it now.
Now, you may argue that, while Schaeffer may be dead right and also rather deserving of being quoted far and wide, it's also true that calling people stupid is no way to advance the debate, and is itself rather childish and stupid. And you'd be absolutely right.
But you'd also be missing the point. When you ignore the idiots completely, you are not calling them anything at all. You are not trying to advance any sort of argument, because there is no debate taking place. You are simply bypassing the giant pothole of ignorance entirely.
You are not kowtowing to the least educated of your voting bloc, like the GOP is so desparetely fond of doing. You are not trying to give the idiotosphere equal weight in the discussion. As Schaeffer says, "You cannot reorganize village life to suit the village idiot." By employing option three, you are doing the only humane thing left to do: you are letting the idiotosphere eat itself alive.
Do it for the children, won't you?
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Boot a Sabayon Linux LiveCD/DVD or other Live disc. Get to a virtual terminal (console) or open a Konsole/Terminal window on the Desktop, and log-in as the root user.
Mount the root partition of the installed system (and, if you have /boot on a separate partition, mount that too). If separate partitions are used for other areas of the system (for example, a separate partition for /var/log) then you will need to mount them too. Additionally, mount the /dev and /proc filesystems so that they can be used by the chrooted environment.
In the following example, /dev/hda1 is the /boot partition and /dev/hda3 is the root partition. Obviously replace those with the device names for your boot partition (if you have one) and your root partition. If your partition names are of the form /dev/sd<letter><number> rather than /dev/hd<letter><number> then obviously use that form instead. Obviously, if you do not have /boot on a separate partition to / (root) then you should omit the mount and umount commands referring to /boot.
# mkdir -p /mnt/sabayon/boot # mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/sabayon # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/sabayon/boot # mount -t proc none /mnt/sabayon/proc # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/sabayon/dev
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(chroot) #
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(chroot) # <enter any command you want>
Once you have finished, you can exit from the chroot environment and unmount the drives:
(chroot) # exit # umount /mnt/sabayon/boot /mnt/sabayon/dev /mnt/sabayon/proc /mnt/sabayon
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Sounds good to me. What do you mean, this could get interesting?hey GaryN, We should start a thread "The Ancients Knew" and give these patent seeking egos a run for there so called NEW
I was thinking earlier about Mazdas device:
Silly me, it isn't mind control at all. Think of the theramin.
The basic idea
A cute kitty video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNMm5CKm ... re=related
If you search theremins, you will see a lot of that one hand up, and one hand down.
With Mazdas device, the ring is rotated at the wrist, and the other hand is moved in 3 dimensions to adjust frequency, phase and amplitude of the big ring RMF. Away you go! That really must have impressed the fearful masses.
Give it up dude, your wings have been clipped.
Better leave it to the patron saint of pilots.
Excellent link to the Navajo rugs too Kevin, the cavity with the dot, the egg, they eye. It all seems to hang together to me.


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|Home >> Ask Olympus: How do I best care for my Olympus xD-Picture Card?
How many times can I reuse my Olympus Panoramic xD-Picture Card?
Memory cards are a renewable resource—they can be reused again and again. Unlike film, they are not susceptible to the effects of extreme weather or airport x-rays. People have even reported accidentally running their memory cards through the laundry with no adverse effects. Memory cards can be reused thousands of times if you follow the following tips:
Keep the Contacts Clean
Avoid touching the metal contacts on memory cards that have exposed contacts—xD-Picture cards, SD cards, and microSD cards. Skin oil on the contacts can reduce the connectivity with the camera memory card slot or a memory card reader. Contacts should be wiped clean with a dry, soft cloth—such as a microfiber. Do not use solvents.
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Memory cards should be formatted to maintain top performance. They should only be formatted using the camera—never format using a computer as it may render the card unreadable by the camera.
Formatting clears the directory structure of the card and removes any artifacts that might be left behind by erasing. Repeatedly using the ERASE and ERASE ALL camera options and not formatting can result in a buildup of file artifacts that may eventually cause the card to fail. Be sure to download and save any images on the memory card before formatting.
If the memory card is accidentally formatted in the camera, all is not lost—you may be able to recover your images. Formatting clears the directory from the card that is used to find and manage the image files and creates a new directory. The images are still there, but there is no way for the camera or imaging software to find them.
Do not shoot any new images if the card is accidentally formatted—the new images will overwrite the old images. There is a very strong probability of retrieving images from a formatted memory card using media recovery software, which can be purchased at a camera store or online. There are also free versions of media recovery software that can be downloaded on the Internet. The software can find the files and then the files can be saved to a folder.
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- Disconnecting the camera or removing the memory card from a card reader with a file still open: When a file is open on the computer, the computer is communicating with the image file information—the file header on a Windows computer or the info fork on a Mac computer. If the camera's USB cable is pulled from the computer, or the memory card is pulled from a card reader or printer with the file opened, the header or info fork may become corrupted. The thumbnail of the image will appear scrambled or there will be a partial image with the rest of the image being gray. Here, again, the camera will be unable to read the corrupted data and be unable to get past the corrupted image. Media recovery software may be able to save the card and images, but the chances are less than if an edited file is returned to the card. To properly disconnect a camera or remove a memory card from a card reader or a printer, first close all files and imaging applications to be sure the computer or printer is no longer communicating with the file. Then shut down the USB connection with the camera or card. Computers see cameras and memory cards as drives. On a Windows computer use the Safely Remove Hardware function in the Taskbar in the lower right corner of the desktop screen before unplugging a camera or removing the memory card. On a Mac platform, either drag the drive icon on the desktop to the Trash, or use the EJECT button before disconnecting the camera or removing the memory card from the card reader or printer.
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I've been playing World of Warcraft since closed beta in 2004. I bought it at retail and leveled quickly. I've purchased Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King at midnight and bought Cataclysm online and started playing as soon as Blizzard flipped the switch.
And I have loved it. I have experienced all the game has to offer. I leveled numerous characters and played two of them at progressive end game (and that's not counting all the alts who tagged along later). I played at the 2300 bracket on my Death Knight and was a Duelist the first 2 seasons on my Warrior. I stopped typing /played because I knew it was a big number.
Even while maintaining a raiding schedule I found time to graduate from college, date, meet my wife, and have a baby (almost 6 months ago now, holy crap).
And WoW has changed a lot over the years. Fewer and fewer folks remember that. Newer players will jump at the chance to correct when you say you remember doing Upper Blackrock Spire with 40 people.
They don't how many times you farmed Scholomance for your Tier 0 helm. Or what it was like during the original Tarren Mill/Southshore struggle. It's stuff people love to talk about but few were actually there anymore. We went and killed the Horde leaders once. Just because we could.
And there were the things people would list as bad. I killed Ragnaros for almost 2 years and finally got a pair Wrath leggings the last run before we took him off the schedule. In comparison, we had 2 Eye of Sulfuras drop on our first two kills. Reputation was generally meaningless. When they released battlegrounds, we went in there with our raid epics rocking a 5,000 point health pool as Warriors.
There was no PvP gear. Alterac Valley lasted days. You could join, fight for a while, go to work or school, come home and rejoin the same one. Without cross-server dungeons and battlegrounds your server was a community. You knew people from fighting them and competing with them. Not from passing them in Dalaran.
Blizzard has gone a long way in improving the game. Making reputation grinds mean something to some extent, even if they still are annoying. You no longer have to hope for your Wrath leggings to drop among the loot table of leggings for every class. Just hope that your token drops. Questing is streamlined. Shiny arrows, turn-ins mid-quest chain, sparkling objects to name a few. It's easy to get in a new zone and quest everywhere.
Gone are the days of the jokes of "Where is Mankrik's wife?" Now she would have had a gigantic arrow floating over her poor lifeless body. Secret quest hubs don't exist. Now when you finish a zone, you know it's finished because the quest chains sent you everywhere. I think it was 2 or 3 years into the game before I learned about the pirate quests in southern Arathi Highlands.
The guesswork is out of the game now too. For better or for worse. Calculations are precise and accurate. There is a "best spec" no matter how Blizzard wishes it wasn't so. There is a mathematical best. And a lot of the streamlining of talents and spells has removed the need for a lot of "external resources."
I started this site during the Burning Crusade when a friend asked me to share my WoW knowledge. Originally it was about the life of a reroller, as I had given up my Warrior in favor of my new Horde Hunter. And the topic slowly refined into Hunter stuff.
New blogs have come and gone. WoW Insider has gone through their share of Hunter blogs, some who I have frequently disagreed with. I called out BRK more than once back in the day. I am not as vocal as I used to be, but I am no fan of Frostheim either. But the WoW blogging community is absolutely fantastic. Any game should be proud to have a community of bloggers that is half as dedicated and passionate as the WoW community does.
Blog Azeroth was a fantastic resource and met many great folks there. Some of moved on to be something well beyond just a blog. Take good ol Matticus for example. Many people are still going strong and those who have gone before me, like Phaelia. Hopefully I have made an impact on the community at least a fraction of what those people did. And there are people who I had differences with that we were able to reconcile only to find out we agree on a lot of things (Hello to you Rilgon!).
In my opinion, World of Warcraft is as "good" as it is going to get. And in that, the magic it had for me is all but gone. There isn't much left to "fix" it seems. There will always be class balance, spell adjustments, new raid encounters and the like. But the game experience is refined and focused. Ranks of spells are gone. Pop-up notifications when you have new spells to train, new talent points to spend, etc. You can teleport to dungeons without ever knowing where they are actually located. And those dungeons have maps! These aren't complaints mind you. I am not advocating making the game more difficult for casual players or new players. But the overall arc of the game has drastically changed its curve.
Patch 4.1 is bringing back Zul'Gurub and Zul'Aman. That's awesome for a lot of people. But I've done those. A lot. I did Zul'Gurub with 20 people back when it was new. I did ZA timed runs and repeatedly lost the roll on the bear. The throwback to Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep was awesome as it was included in other new dungeons.
If I had time to raid still I know I would enjoy going through new content as I has always have. I would love to have been killing Cho'gall for months now. As it stands, I have my baby boy who requires me to have the ability to stop a game at will to attend to fatherly duties.
Let's face it, a raid with 10 or 25 people won't take kindly to wet diapers and feeding times. And that leaves leveling alts, and progression has always interested me more than alt leveling. The only reason I have so many is because I did it when raiding was over.
Over the years I have missed a lot of great games. I made time for things like Mass Effect 1 and 2, Dragon Age Origins (and now Dragon Age 2), and Portal. But other than that, my gaming has been severely limited to World of Warcraft. But I do other things. I still play Magic: The Gathering. I also play the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game and am an active judge.
Almost every weekend I pack up my cards and/or board games and occasionally my munchkin and meet up with my friends and play games like Dominion, Colosseum, Ticket to Ride, Descent, Acquire, Ricochet Robots, or any other number of geeky board games.
I want to write about all the things I do. All the games I play, and not just Hunters in a game that is seeing remarkably less play time from me lately. I haven't logged into the game for about 4 days now and I haven't given it a second thought.
Am I cancelling my subscription? I don't think so. At least not yet. I have 75k gold I would want to do something fun with first. I am guild master of Throwdown with BobbyFlay. I don't want to leave people hanging like that. And I am certainly not one of those people who proclaim "I am so glad I quit this crappy game" because that's not how I feel. I love the game. I just don't love how much time I have to engage in the activities I loved.
So what does this mean for the site? Obviously the posts have gone down in quantity over time. Not because I don't want to write, but because I didn't have anything to write about regarding Hunters.This also means I probably won't finish Pick-A-Pet which I regret. It was progressing nicely and if there isn't an alternative yet, anyone else can feel free to take up the reigns.
The site will stay up indefinitely. It's all part of my hosting plan that all my other sites run off of and who cares about 10 dollars a year for a domain? Who knows, maybe the domain will server a purpose again one day. There are new MMOs coming out that I want to play/try. I am looking at you Old Republic!
So I am starting my new site. Which you can see at Behemoth Gaming. I've had the domain for a while and it fits so nicely into my Twitter account and my Youtube account.
Here is what I am hoping. I know a lot of you read this site for Hunter stuff. And I want to say thank you to every person who has ever taken the time to read my site. Whether you were a frequent commentator or a one-time visitor. Knowing people listened to what I had to say made it a lot of fun running the site.
I am hoping if you enjoyed my writing and attitude that you will read my new site. As always, I will syndicate my full feed for those of us who love our RSS feeds. I also have forums up and running for those folks who enjoy that sort of thing. If not, I understand and thank you for supporting me just by reading my site over the past 3 and a half years.
My first post is up already, regarding my first impressions of Dragon Age 2. Hopefully you enjoy the familiar layout yet slightly different color scheme.
I am sure there are things I am forgetting to say but I figure this post is long enough and I secretly hope you will all be joining me on my new site.


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3 generations of woman in Peru family bag deer on same day
PERU, Maine (AP) � Three generations of women in the same Maine family bagged a deer while hunting on the same day.
Twelve-year-old Katelyn Carlow of Peru shot her first deer on Friday, a 125-pound doe.
Her mother, Julie Carlow, shot a 130-pound doe at a different time on the same day.
Katelyn's grandmother and Carlow's mother, Brenda Gammon, got a six-point buck weighing about 150 pounds.
Gammon, the Region 9 School of Applied Technology director, tells the Sun Journal (http://bit.ly/UMfEep ) it was a "freaky day."
Gammon's husband, David, bagged an eight-point buck earlier in the season.
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The Kingdom
When my mom gets pissed she watches Die Hard. She cackles and punches the air and I can see her falling in love with Bruce Willis a little each time. She gets so worried about all those people and his poor feet, but then he kicks those pompous, spoiled, rich, foreign bastards ass and the world is a little safer and easier to bear. When my step dad gets angry - and I mean the silent, stewing, breath-holding, heart attack courting angry, he watches Desperado. He is El Mariachi in Antonio Banderas form sidling up to and blowing the heads off of spoiled, rich, foreign bastards with a busty Salma at his side. What could be better? What rosier glasses to see the world through when you are in a snit?
My justify and release anger movie of the week is The Kingdom. First it's just a good movie. The script is tight with just enough workable action movie traits to keep me entertained and involved. The characters are familiar - you've seen them a dozen times before in different movies and different combinations and here they are again, ready to hang tough and go all the way. In The Middle East no less! But wait. Something's different. The fearless leader - god bless you Jamie Foxx - really is smart and not just some kid with a chiseled jaw pretending to problem solve. The feisty female/ berserker is my on-again girl crush, the AWEsome Jennifer Garner. Chris Cooper, once again pulling his weight, and Jason Bateman whose struggle to survive is is a fist in your heart, fill out the team work roster.Continue Reading


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A kind, courteous notice for Apple Inc., Qwest and other corporate executives standing in the gap for US consumers
If privacy and technology weren't powerful issues driving our society they would not be the targets of those who: love power, play with power and love legal leverages.
It does seem the only thing standing between most of us and unfettered information pillaging is a CEO and a crack team of lawyers. The corporations are in the most unfortunate position, as data custodians, to also be the guardians of a perceived new chattel.
What rivals the State for power are those who have more principal in human capital than they might have. The only way to balance this myopic point-of-view is to for them to have the same information of their rivals. I do believe this is the perspective of the National Security State, a shard of government amid elected government.
One of the issues company culture faces is many company heads do not view themselves as separate from the consumer public when they relate to the State. It has come up more than once that the National Security State doesn't comply with the same laws the rest of our society is held to. That puts a wedge between corporate America and the National Security State, and all the consumer charges in their care, as well.
In the case of Apple hard-lining an FBI request to decrypt phones for access, or to break what they make, it is not just the executive culture at Apple who mistrusts the motives of the State. A majority of their consumer charges won't ever trust national intelligence ever again after the Snowden leaks. Apple lost ground and consumer trust because they complied and went along with unqualified NSL requests without a warrant in the past, like many bullied corporations. Their simplified objective is to survive and to make profit.
Company executives with strong motives for profit and balance seek to acquire business from the US government. In doing business with the government they become prey to their motives for dominance over their business lifecycle. Among whistleblowers like, Bill Binney, Thomas Drake and Edward Snowden there are other less sung corporate voices who have also come forward. I think their stories are muted in intense, threatening legal attacks and attacks on their reputation for not serving the interests of the State. They are now gagged in arbitration and threats of incarceration. Warrant canaries are the only some of the public evidence their infrastructure is being violated by National Security legal orders.
I think of one Quest executive in particular who was jailed. This man didn't really have an interest in complying with a national security request without a court order because it would have put his company in a position to be sued. I think he must have said to himself, "If I allowed this illegal thing to happen to my friends and family, I expect to be sued". He feared betraying the consumers who trust him. Wouldn't it be corrupt for a government to ask someone to do something illegal?
He refused to comply with the government request for data without a warrant. Then the government pulled their business from Qwest. Then they sought to place him in jail. They wanted him to fear the government more than the consumers. For him to take the fall for their illegal behavior is in their interest, not the interest of Qwest company or consumers. To be clear, it didn't help Qwest or his customers for him to be jailed for 4 years. I would argue that it didn't help the government either. He served his sentence. His conviction was overturned for malfeasance on appeal to clear his name. It was later reinstated by a different judge.
It is an unnatural balance that National Security maintains. Their poorly qualified demands for intelligence equity from US companies is sustained by force against the US people. They have made points repeatedly that it does not require our trust to 'protect' us from terrorists. They do not require our trust to dominate our information infrastructure in a competition over information fiefdoms. Their administrators communicate consistently they do not need our trust to violate our interests and interfere with ordinary law as use of force against their own citizen.
So it is no surprise the State oppositions to "encryption dogma"comes as an executive "must not". Encryption stands to check them in a broken or corrupted system. This is a system where the courts reinforce divided interests of justice. Law enforcement regard policy of avarice and plots of men instead of the laws. Business leaders play dangerous games with 2 customers: the consumer market and the more coercive market, the US government.
If this were a time when we were more ignorant or more trusting then perhaps Apple would wholeheartedly help the FBI more with a lawful court order. However, the day has come where the path to compromise with the corrupt has met its limit. To comply with their request would lead to self-harm. Thank God for this fateful day.
Law enforcement must now moderate a self-correction or forge on against the public as an enemy. They are not the market. So we, The People, have the difficult task of retraining or correcting government structures we are compelled to endorse.
If I were a large multinational corporation, I would not submit to further aggression on my business. I would try to find a way to drop business with the US government for breach of interests. In fact, I would advise, with careful consultation with contract lawyers, those who have interests in doing business with the US government to drop their most treacherous government clients, the intelligence actors. They have proven they will attack companies and business leaders against the interests of laws we must comply with. Their reasons seem that they believe they are both separate and superior in constitution to a US citizen. I might also prepare to countersue for retaliation and provide both more legal and physical security to company executives. Spoiler alert: Refusing a tyrant is grounds for more tyranny. So hire a great strategist.
The National Security state is operating under a corrupting falsehood that they have a separate law and separate governance than domestic and International law. They are small in number in comparison to the rest of us. They will seek to degrade and undermine what they cannot directly or legally dominate. That sort of force should only be used on your enemies. They are not currently trustworthy partners in any venture.
We hope that will change because we are not their enemy.
The national security agencies isolate themselves and divide themselves against the US people as if we are not their neighbors, their friends, their teachers, their relatives and their bosses. They have more than a PR problem. They have a divided government problem. We will still be America without a corrupt militarized National Security State. However, will we still be America if we allow these agencies to continue to denigrate the interests of common and international law and domestic markets?
There is a range of choice and option. You can choose who you do business with.
Current government constituencies will not stop crying "National Security" prior to a power grab. So let the proverbial wolves-of-want get them for overusing the anti-terror excuse to exhaust your trust.


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Beat the Streak Report: Thursday, Sept. 17
Today's recommended picks
Evan Longoria, 3B, Rays
.500 AVG (5-for-10) lifetime vs. Orioles starter Mark Hendrickson
Victor Martinez, C, Red Sox
.500 AVG (4-for-8) lifetime vs. Angels starter Ervin Santana
Torii Hunter, OF, Angels
.455 AVG (5-for-11) since '04 vs. Red Sox starter Josh Beckett
BTS all-time leader: Michael Karatzia, 49
MLB all-time leader: Joe DiMaggio, 56
Yesterday's results
enronshorttrader went with Joe Mauer for the second day in a row, a wise move considering that the Twins backstop came through with a pair of hits for the second day in a row. The performance moved the BTS leader's streak up to 39 games.
GBaby remained in second place, his 35-game streak unchanged following the selection of Manny Ramirez, who didn't play. While that scenario would normally give other contestants the chance to catch up, the two fans directly behind him, beashane and mcdonald6, both saw their 33-game streaks snapped.
That left khreynolds as the holder of third place, at 30 games. larrythemailman1 moved into the fourth spot with his 29-game streak and j-m-peterson locked down fifth place, at 28 games.
Yesterday's Top 5 most selected players
1. Ichiro Suzuki (SEA): 8.9%, 1-for-3
2. Derek Jeter (NYY): 7.1%, 0-for-3
3. David Wright (NYM): 5.2%, 3-for-5
4. Chase Utley (PHI): 4.8%, 1-for-3
5. Joe Mauer (MIN): 4.6%, 2-for-3
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I went with Jayson Werth v. Detwhiller.
Fingers are crossed.
Hoping that Dethwiller does not do a CC Sabathia impersanation tonight!
Pedroia also looked OK.
A big tip of my Cub cap to hammanm….Who posted that he liked Placido Polanco today v. Grienke KC. Grienke's recent ERA is a Walter Johnson like, microscopic 0.38—-but Polanco went 1 -3. Proves that you do not put together a 43 game streak as hammanm did earlier this year without knowing how to make clutch picks. Hammanm – do you still like Torii Hunter on Friday?
I am going to stick with Hunter. This game is more luck than anything and more often than not, when I second guess and change my initial pick that is when I get an o'fer from the player I end up selecting.
I am going to stick with Hunter. This game is more luck than anything and more often than not, when I second guess and change my initial pick that is when I get an o'fer from the player I end up selecting.
Hammanm – Your comment on switching players is on target.
My last switch was when I took Johnny Damon and he had an o-fer v. Verlander. That ended my 12 game streak.
FRiday – Guys – Any ideas besides Torii Hunter v. Tommy Hunter?
How does Jacoby Ellsbury look to you?
FYY – Stay away from the Cub – Cardinals game – Lilly v. Smoltz – tough to figure this game out. Lilly as been doing well – Smoltz is a "wild card?"
HR Beat the Streak – I'm going with Alexi Ramirez v. Hochevar KC. Game at CWSOX a hitters park for sure. Ramirez hits him well. May not be a bad bts pick too – he usually bats 8th though.
Hamman I will agree with you on that statement 110%. Every single time this year that I changed my pick I lost my streak. ALWAYS stick with your gut as it's never ever wrong. Tomorrow my gut says Jeter and I'm sticking to it.


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Jennifer Nettles
Jennifer Nettles, one of country's current queens, learned to play piano, started writing songs and performed with her church as a child. While in college, she formed the duo Soul Miner's Daughter with Cory Jones. Then in 1998, The Jennifer Nettles Band was born and she earned a spot on the 1999 Lilith Fair roster. In 2000, she released a folk alternative album called Story Of Your Bones. In 2003, she joined forces with other Atlanta music notable Kristen Hall and Kristian Bush to create country outfit Sugarland. They signed to Mercury Nashville the same year and released Twice The Speed Of Life and their first hit single "Baby Girl" the following year. In 2005, they won an ACM Award for Top New Duo or Group. Hall left the group in 2006, but the other two continued on, touring with Kenny Chesney and releasing Enjoy The Ride. That CD contained crossover hit "Stay," which won an ACM Song Of The Year, the first winner ever penned by a woman solo. Sugarland won a 2009 Grammy Award for Best Country Song and ACM Vocal Duo of the Year award. The "Stuck Like Glue" singer put out a solo album in 2014. She is married to former model Justin Miller, with whom she has son Magnus (b. 12/2012).


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JLeRN Reporting: Skills and Capacity in the UK for the Learning Registry
This is one of a series of posts from the JLeRN Experiment, forming sections of what will be our Final Report. Please send feedback and discussion in the comments section, as your own blog post response, via Twitter (hashtags #jlern #learningreg) or on the OER-Discuss and Learning Registry email lists. To see all the posts, click here.
JLeRN Draft Report: 3. Skills and Capacity in the UK
Who has skills and expertise?
As far as we can tell, only a small number of JISC and JISC CETIS staff, the JLeRN team, and those few dozen who have attended Learning Registry or JLeRN events are familiar with the Learning Registry concepts and use cases. See the previous report section on Appetite and Demand to get a feel for who has been following and participating in this work. Obviously there are probably other lurkers out there whom we haven't met (yet)- feel free to make yourselves known in the blog comments!
Direct technical experience with the Learning Registry in the UK HE sector consists of (and please let me know if I've missed anyone!):
- JLeRN developer Nick Syrotiuk;
- The ENGrich team at Liverpool University, and their local technical staff who have worked with them setting up a Learning Registry node;
- Julian Tenney and his colleagues who work on Xerte at Nottingham University, who took an early interest in the Learning Registry when it started;
- Pat Lockley, formerly of Oxford University, now maintaining an interest in his own time outwith his current post; see his blog post for JLeRN describing and giving access to four Learning Registry tools he has developed.
- Those working on the JISC OER Rapid Innovation projects SPAWS (see blog posts here), RIDLR (see blog here) and Xerte/Xenith (see blog posts here) teams.
We have unfortunately lost the expertise of one key JISC CETIS expert: John Robertson; and two key developers: JLeRN's Bharti Gupta, and Jorum's Steven Cook (who worked on developing a CakePHP Datasource for Jorum to use with the Learning Registry). All of these people had become skilled in various aspects of the Learning Registry and all have now moved outwith JISC's community.
Where the gaps are
As the afore-mentioned Appetite and Demand blog post notes, we've had enough interest and use cases coming in to make us feel the involvement we've had at Mimas has been worthwhile. Feedback from the institutions and projects working with or dipping their toe into JLeRN and the Learning Registry has mostly consisted of requests for easier entry to and navigation of the existing Learning Registry documentation, and simple Web apps and APIs to enable exploring, publishing to, searching and extracting from a Learning Registry node, as well as tools for capturing and collating paradata.
JLeRN has done a little to move forward with tools: we have the JLeRN Node Explorer by Nick Syrotiuk; Pat Lockley's tools which we have facilitated access to through presentations slots and this blog; and we've tested using an OAI-PMH utility, developed in the U.S., to extract Jorum metadata and publish it to a node with its keywords converted into Learning Registry tags. We have kept our own node up-to-date in terms of software releases, and experimented with installing nodes on Ubuntu and Windows. We never found capacity to try out a cloud-hosted node – our American colleagues use Amazon Web Services, but we could never get to the bottom of how to manage costs within a UK university funding environment. Nor was there much call for experimenting with the more complex architectural proposals of the Learning Registry, namely, linking nodes in networks and communities.
What would be needed for the Learning Registry to move to the next level in the UK?
As the previous Appetite and Demand section noted:
"[…] those who recognise the gaps in paradata provision are interested in the Learning Registry at a strategic level, but this invariably raises an accompanying problem of expectations management. In describing the problem area the Learning Registry is aimed at, and the innovative approach being taken, it can be easy to latch onto this work as the next big thing that will solve all problems, without recognising that there is (a) a lot of work to be done, and (b) that work would require a well-supported infrastructure, both technically and in terms of communities, shared vocabularies, and so on."
The JLeRN team have found that working with the Learning Registry code and specifications has been, to date, relatively straightforward. There is an initial steep learning curve in becoming familiar with the documentation and concepts, but the CouchDB-based software itself is easy to install and manage. As Pat Lockley has said, it is "state of the art".
However, an example of an obvious weak spot is the limited vocabulary of the Learning Registry Paradata Specification, which throws into sharp relief the idea that any scalable implementation of the Learning Registry as an architecture will bring about some very familiar requirements: communities will need to agree on such issues as vocabularies, degrees of openness, licensing, shared content standards, and so on. That the Learning Registry as a technical investigation has chosen to push these concerns back out to the community, thus avoiding more years of technical discussion and testing around interoperability, does not mean that these concerns have evaporated. Moreover, JLeRN has asked David Kay of Sero Consulting to prepare a brief on where the Learning Registry sits in the broader context of the Web, linked data, research data management, activity data and libraries. There may be parallel development going on and we need to keep an eye on that.
What it does mean is that, if we are to close the gap between the strategic enthusiasm for the potential wins of the Learning Registry, and the small-scale use case and prototype testing phase we are in, we will need a big push backed by a clear understanding that we will be walking into some of the same minefields we've trodden in, cyclically, for the past however many decades. And it is by no means clear yet that the will is there, in the community or at the strategic level.


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Catch the jammer in wireless sensor network
PIMRC 2011, 22nd Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, September 11-14, 2011, Toronto, Canada
Jamming attacks can severely affect the performance of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) due to their broadcast nature. The most reliable solution to reduce the impact of such attacks is to detect and localize the source of the attack. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of localizing an omni-antenna jammer. We propose Catch the Jammer (CJ), an efficient jammer localization scheme whereby victim nodes at the border of the jammed region share their location information with their one-hop neighbor nodes which further collaborate to find the position of the jammer. This new localization technique first computes a convex hull for the set of victim nodes and further extracts the corresponding minimum covering circle. Simulation results show that CJ outperforms most of the existing localization algorithms depending on the variation of the jammer's transmission range and the position of the jammer.
|Catch the jammer in wireless sensor network
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|wireless sensor network; jammer; localization; convex hull; minimum circle covering
|Septembre 2011
|Sécurité numérique
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|@inproceedings{EURECOM+3546, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139679 }, year = {2011}, title = {{C}atch the jammer in wireless sensor network}, author = {{S}un, {Y}anqiang and {M}olva, {R}efik and {\"{O}}nen, {M}elek and {W}ang, {X}iaodong and {Z}hou, {X}ingming}, booktitle = {{PIMRC} 2011, 22nd {A}nnual {IEEE} {I}nternational {S}ymposium on {P}ersonal, {I}ndoor and {M}obile {R}adio {C}ommunications, {S}eptember 11-14, 2011, {T}oronto, {C}anada }, address = {{T}oronto, {CANADA}}, month = {09}, url = {http://www.eurecom.fr/publication/3546} }
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Karin Erskine
Karin Erskine has worked since 1981 as a freelance at a variety of theatres and opera houses both in Sweden and abroad.
At The Göteborg Opera, she has designed costumes for a number of opera performances, including The Flying Dutchman, The Merry Widow, Elektra, Dialogues des carmélites, Der Rosenkavalier, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Parsifal, The Rake's Progress (also in Copenhagen) and Alcina.
At Stora Teatern / The Göteborg Opera, she created the costumes for most of Ulf Gadd's and Sven-Erik Goude's dance theatre works, including Der Ring des Nibelungen, Tango Buenos Aires 1907, Bhima and The Rite of Spring.
International productions include La damnation de Faust, directed by Robert Lepage, which was performed in Japan, at the Bastille Opera in Paris and the Metropolitan in New York. Under David Radok's direction, she was responsible for the costumes for Bathsheba at the Royal Swedish Opera, and The Rake's Progress at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen.
At the Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space in Prague in 2003, Karin Erskine, along with Lars-Åke Thessman, received the gold medal for costume design and set design for The Göteborg Opera production of Elektra. She has also received an Oscar nomination for the costumes in Ingmar Bergman's film The Magic Flute. Her recent projects include the costumes for The Tales of Hoffmann at the Royal Danish Theatre and Don Giovanni at Drottningholms Slottsteater.


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Will it be Christmas in summer?
If a new farm bill finally goes to conference and takes shape as expected, it just might be for Christmas tree growers.
Readers of Farm Press may remember how, some 18 months ago, political posturing and willingness to flat-out lie in order to rile up the masses eventually led a Christmas tree check-off program – that had been in the works for close to four years -- into limbo.
A quick recap: At the beginning of the 2011 holiday season, it was announced in the Federal Register that Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack would appoint members to a Christmas Tree Promotion Board. The board – backed by a 15-cent-per-fresh-cut-Christmas-tree-sold check-off fund -- would be responsible for "promotion, research, evaluation and information designed to strengthen the Christmas tree industry's position in the marketplace."
Somehow, the well-known, right-wing Heritage Foundation got wind of the new check-off and set their followers' blood pressure racing by claiming the government was set to impose a new "tax" on Christmas trees. Already stoked by much anti-tax rhetoric, the new "Christmas tax" was simply too much for many to bear and – despite efforts by producers and advocates to explain what a check-off actually does – the program was shelved by a cowed Obama administration.
More here.
And on the shelf it has remained. But new developments, tied to the writing of a new farm bill, could mean the check-off is about to get a second life.
In late May, I spoke with Marsha Gray of the Michigan Christmas Tree Association about the situation. Among her comments:
Looking back…
"We'd gone through the whole process, had the proposal written, had the comment period, had great support from the industry and were simply waiting for it to be approved and it was placed on the Federal Register.
"Very quickly, a blogger picked it up and called it 'Obama's Christmas tree tax.' That really misrepresented that it wasn't a check-off program but a new tax. That created a firestorm and the check-off ended up being stayed.
"That doesn't mean the check-off was completely gone. It just meant it was put on hold and, 18 months later, we're still in that position. Nothing has changed."
Did you get any feedback from the USDA in the intervening months? Did they just keep putting you off?
"We did spend a lot of time (in 2012) working with USDA, first through our attorney. Every check-off has an attorney to represent them.
"We let the (2012) holiday season pass, let everyone take a deep breath, and in late winter tried to find out what could be done to lift the stay. It became clear that the USDA supported us and wanted to see the check-off move forward but was hitting a brick wall with the White House.
"We'd spent all of (2012) trying to make contact and find out what we needed to do to get movement on this. A number of us had appointments in Washington in September meeting with USDA, with legislators.
"Following the (national) elections we assumed the stay would be lifted, that the check-off would be in force early this year. Unfortunately, once again, nothing.
"Since then, we've continued to make requests and find out what the status of the check-off.
"The most encouraging and exciting thing happened (the week of May 13). We have a group of House legislators that support us and would like the check-off to move forward. As a group – led by Oregon Rep. Kurt Schrader -- they proposed an amendment to the House version of the farm bill. The amendment directs the USDA to lift the stay and allow the program to move.
"Even more exciting is a recent quote from (White House Senior Policy Advisor for Rural Affairs) Doug McKalip, who we've had contact with at the White House. He said the amendment might allow the White House to go ahead and lift the stay. If there's this much support from the (House), there may be no reason to wait for the farm bill.
"That's our hope. I don't know if it will happen but, right now, that would be the best thing for us."
Gun-shy, farm bill
Is it your sense that the White House was reluctant to take on the anti-tax people? Why have they been so gun-shy about this?
"Well, this is my personal view: They know we'd done everything correctly with the check-off. It was published in the Federal Register and we received permission to begin the program initially.
"My assumption is they didn't like the negative media attention and the misrepresented story they were unable to get corrected."
It seems too many folks still don't understand what check-offs do and the fact that growers are just pooling money as opposed to setting up a tax.
"It's a challenge. We're in a time when there is a lot of sensitivity to new taxes, to increased taxes. We all feel that.
"The problem is the check-off was mischaracterized as a tax. Even though we're explaining 'no, this is different' they couldn't seem to separate the two.
"But we've done a huge outreach even though it really isn't our responsibility. We wanted to correct the story.
"Typically, when you ask people if they are familiar with 'Got milk?' or 'Beef. It's what's for dinner' their eyes light up. They say, 'Oh, is that what's behind those efforts?' No one has a concern about those – or with watermelon, mangoes, whatever. But suddenly the Christmas tree industry check-off comes up and someone decides to point a finger and call it a tax."
What about the next step? Are you expecting the amendment to move through the House farm bill process unhindered?
"We've heard no real negative focus on this. The amendment was approved on a voice vote and I don't believe there was any opposition. The House Agriculture Committee was fine with it and we're very encouraged by that.
"We also have a lot of support in the Senate."
In terms of the conservative think-tanks, (former South Carolina Senator and current head of the Heritage Foundation) Jim DeMint, these types of people, has there been any pushback?
"I haven't seen or heard anything from the Heritage Foundation. There was a bill introduced by DeMint last year that would've negated all check-off programs. That went down in flames. Very few supported that legislation."
More on that legislation here.
Anything else?
"The message we'd like to share is we're trying to use the program that has existed for a long time, since the 1960s. It's self-funded by our industry and a board of growers would decide how the funds would be used for research, promotion and furthering the industry. We're looking for consumers to understand what this actually is.
"We want nothing except the same treatment of any other agricultural commodity. We just really want to get started with our check-off program – we've waited long enough."