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NIST and Willow Garage: Solutions in Perception Challenge
Willow Garage and the National Institute of Standards (NIST) are launching a new type of robot perception challenge aimed at both:
- establishing which perception problems have solutions and
- advancing perception solutions to new domains.
Figure: A 3D textured point cloud of some of the objects. In this image 4 of the 5 objects are recognized with coordinate systems overlaid representing the object pose relative to the robot.
Most existing challenges in computer vision and perception aim at making progress in complex object class identification tasks such as pursued by the PASCAL Visual Object Classes challenge. These contests are useful, for example, in creating progress in web image retrieval tasks. In contrast, the Solutions for Perception Challenge aims at advancing sensing based robotics by identifying domains where roboticists can rely on having a working perception solution. Another key difference from other perception challenges is that to be of use for robotics, a perception solution must not only identify objects but calculate the 3D pose of the object relative the the robot.
First Challenge
The challenge will debut at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2011 in Shanghai, China, on May 9-13, 2011. There will be a somewhat unusual cash prize structure for contestants: up to $10,000 dollars will be awarded exponentially starting at $3.50 for a first prize winner who achieves 80% recognition and increasing exponentially from there. This prize structure reflects the increasing difficulty of achieving scores closer to 100%. The first contest focuses on recognizing rigid textured objects.
Contestants can make use of ROS infrastructure and code stubs along with OpenCV and PCL libraries for 2D and 3D image and point cloud processing.
Joining the contest
To join the contest, please send an email with subject "Join" to: email@example.com. Please see the challenge wiki for instructions, data and starter code links
This challenge is organized by Gary Bradski (Willow Garage) and Tsai Hong (NIST). Further encouragement and support has come from Thomas Kalil, Associate Director for Policy at the White House Office of Science and Technology and from Elena Messina, Chief of Intelligent Systems Division at NIST.
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Utilitarianism Summary
(Critical Survey of Literature for Students)
One of the geniuses of the modern era, John Stuart Mill coined the term "utilitarianism," the subject of this brief, five-part essay. By doing so, he reaffirmed and redefined the philosophical doctrine espousing the practical, useful idea that the rightness of an action may be measured by whether it achieves the greatest possible good for the greatest possible number. It was a doctrine around which a small but influential group of English radical reformers—utilitarians—rallied, Mill among them. All of Mill's intellectual activities were calculated to effect changes in British society. When Utilitarianism was published in 1863, Mill already enjoyed international recognition as a distinguished political economist. He was a precocious polymath, however, and his fame rested equally on his contributions to political theory and to political philosophy. On Liberty, for example, which he published in 1859, just a few years before Utilitarianism, stands as one of the greatest expositions on civil liberty ever written and endures as an assertion of cultural freedom.
John Stuart Mill imbibed his utilitarian philosophy and his extraordinary education from his father, James Mill. James Mill, in turn, had been a companion to, and a devoted disciple of, Jeremy Bentham. Although Bentham acknowledged intellectual debts to various European thinkers, including Claude-Adrien Helvétius, Cesare Beccaria, Voltaire, and Jean le Rond d'Alembert, he nevertheless rightly has been considered the founder of the British utilitarian movement.
Britain's utilitarians premised their philosophy on Bentham's remarkable work An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789), a reformist document that sought to bring scientific analysis to bear on ethics, legislation, and law. The opening chapter of Bentham's landmark work furnishes utilitarians with the basis of their beliefs, namely, that humanity is the servant of two absolute masters that govern all of its actions: pleasure and pain. The principle of utility, therefore, lies in approving or disapproving of every action according to its tendency to augment or to diminish the individual's, or society's, happiness. Utility itself Bentham identifies as "that property in any object" that tends to produce "benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness" or, conversely, that prevents "mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness." Around such principles and definitions, Bentham elaborates the philosophy to which John Stuart Mill adhered for many years.
By the 1860's, however, reassessments of utilitarian philosophy seemed in order. Previously the beneficiary of wide exposure among educated people in Great Britain as well as in Europe, utilitarianism had lost its original force. Utilitarians were disturbed that their precepts were being confused with the merely expedient behavior by which they often characterized a flourishing new generation of industrialists and entrepreneurs. They worried that the literature about utilitarian doctrines had become so abundant that understanding of them was being diluted. In addition, John Stuart Mill had begun a reevaluation of his own thought, and thus of Bentham's ethical concepts. James Mill's death made John Stuart's work easier; the elder Mill had censored his son's writings, particularly those dealing with utilitarian beliefs. The importance of Utilitarianism thus lay in its reflections of changes in John Stuart Mill's intellectual position. While the essay does not rank among Mill's greatest works, it nonetheless became the best-known essay on the subject.
The "General Remarks" with which Mill prefaces his essay are significant chiefly because Mill, unlike Bentham, makes no pretense of using the scientific method to justify his principles. Bentham and Mill alike employed deductive reasoning. Each based his discussions on assumptions, or first principles, that were not susceptible to scientific proof. It may be true intuitively,...
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Happy Thursday!
So I have all these DIY posts that I have been saving until after my best friends baby shower, and I'm going to finally post about them now.
I have a ton of pictures to share of the baby shower too.
It was a total Pinterest inspired baby shower, and it was perfect. :)
I'm so happy for her and how everything turned out.
I did manage to make some things for her and one of them is this baby onesie.
You will need:
1.) Onesie :)
2.) Thread color of your choice
3.) Ribbon (for suspenders)
4.) Fabric of your choice (I bought mine from Joann's)
I made my own template for the tie. I just drew it free hand.
I don't own a sewing machine so I hand sewn this. (It took a long time, so I would recommend a sewing machine!)
That's pretty much it!
It was so much fun to make.
I think it's adorable. :)
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100 for test you
whether you understand or not
Di Persimpangan Kutub
sun and moon for you
or star which one you choose?
Choose which show you a straight way
which correct which make your heart be fresh
so why so late like turtle
hurry up brother hurry up sister
make your eye touch these question
make your brain run and run more
to catch any best and true answer:
1= What is Di Persimpangan Kutub?
[a]= Name of a theory
[b]= Name of a concept
[c]= Name of a research
[d]= Name of a concept which still in research
2= How many principles in Di Persimpangan Kutub?
[a]= 11
[b]= 10
[c]= 9
3= Di Persimpangan Kutub terminology will change its meaning. When will it happen and how?
[a]= When Di Persimpangan Kutub in version 52% exist and the creator of the version change its meaning
[b]= When Prophet ISA come to us and ISA change its meaning
[c]= When Mahdi come to us with his soldiers and colonize many part of this planet and the terminology change automatically [suitable with Mahdi guidance]
4= What is Intipati Asas prinsip?
[a]= It is Siratan Awal
[b]= It is any information which become DPK principles content
[c]= It is any information which become DPK principles content which had its number and it is not siratan awal.
5= What is Kaedah DPK?
a= Pencetus
b= DPK Theory
c= Pencetus or/& DPK Theory
6= What is The Mind Of Kill Root Problem?
a= Concept for resolve any matter which become last or main problem
b= Concept for seek out any proof
c= One content in DPK Theory
d= Strategies for kill any plant root
7= Who is MAHDI?
a= A prophet who still alive
b= Arabian
c= A caliph
d= God's lover
e= Muhammad son of Hasan who will become a leader for whoever especially for ISLAM follower.
8= IS Prophet Isa still alive and Where Prophet ISA live now?
a= Yes he is . He live at invisible place
b= No he is not. He live at other planet
c= Yes he still alive and he live at paradise now
d= No any correct answer for this question
9= What PROPHET ISA TEACH TO HUMAN BEING?
a= Christian religion
b= Islam religion
c= Islam in INJIL BOOK
d= Nothing except philosophy
10= What is the shadow of matter?
a= A kind of shadow
b= A secret which only DPK creator know its real meaning
c= A name of one commando group
d= A kind of spy operation
e= No one know what it is
11= Which Below show the basic characteristic for any people who eligible get call as Di Persimpangan Kutub people?
a= Love
b= Go away from human being
c= Investigate on true and false
d= alone
e= uzlah
12= When are you use Penanda?
a= At home
b= Out
c= At book shop
d= Any place
e= In Ferrari, A model of car
f= When you use any method or indicator which you can treat it as the first method for investigate anything you want.
13= What is 2PPM?
a= The matter which you most misunderstand
b= Two matter which can make you misunderstand
c= Any people in group 26-50%
14= You need one emergency source. In DPK concept what is that?
a=Prior DPK
b= DPK source
c= Gaya Darurat Pencetus
15= What is Misi Penjana Generasi 3 Mega?
a= Secret mission
b= Fantasy in short story
c= Method for resolve indigence
16= What is Kahelip?
a= Car and helicopter
b= Car
d= Helicopter which transform its shape to a car
e= Car which can transform its shape to helicopter and can be a car again.
17= What is GWE?
a= General Way Explanation
b= Explanation about worldly which concerning ISLAM
C= Explanation on worldly & Islam
18= What is DPK Decoration?
a= DPK content
b= Non-DPK content
c= Image and video in DPK content
d= Any content which we see it at any article on DPK concept but this is not DPK concept
a= Ataara
b= Automatic behaviour …
c= I Key….amp adD
d= Reaction Between Sensor
20= Why "Bukuan Otomatik" become one secret terminology?
a= To avoid any crime happen
b= To keep your health
c=To protect any secret information
21=What is Iasa eka jara?
a= No one know except DPK founder
b=Biasa meneka sejarah
c= A secret terminology
22= What do you know about Wabak 1985?
a= This is a disease concerning emotion
b= This disease was happen since January 1985
c= a kind of very dangerous germ, that is 1985 bring this mental disease
23= The Arrow Return To Back is:
a= About Robinhood
b= About Your Secret
c= About Kitaran Personaliti
24= If you get Akjiza, whole such below may happen except:
a= Something amaze you
b= calmness
c= CAUSE YOUR eurati STRONGER
d= Go to hell
25= What about lust twin?
a= Lust which happen at the same time
b= Lust which has same characteristic
c= Lust which sometimes or often happen when another lust happen first
26= What about arati?
a= A name for an Indian woman
b= A secret
c= Anything which amaze us
27=Edana ? Choose the right answer:
a= Emotion which happen reason any factor concerning it
b= A kind of soul problem
c= Mental disease
d= Have no right answer here
28= What is siratan ghaib?
a= Siratan awal
b= Siratan lanjutan
c= Siratan which invisible
29= Di Persimpangan Kutub fight whole below except:
a= Use mazhab with Gaya Darurat Pencetus
b= Use mazhab Syafie
c= GST
d= Democracy
30= What is Ashabul Araaf?
a= A name for a president
b= A place at heaven
c= A place at hell
d= People who have a total of sin which same much like a total of not sin
31= When exist animal can speak like human being, this is mean:
a= this IS A CIRCUS ANIMAL
b= the animal ever go to school for learn human being language
c=Doomsday will happen tomorrow
d= One of last sign which show doomsday will happen is happen
32= Exist thick mist as a sign that doomsday will happen. How long the period for the mist will thick?
a= 44 day
b=34 day
c=50 day
d=40 day
33= What is love wave?
a= About Juliet love Romeo
b= One method for resolve any wrong content in DPK concept
c= people who like to learn about wave
d=Good wave
34=Whole below are about PENANDA except:
a= Usual Mixed Vagueness
c=Amorous to any women
35= Detected Matter Bounce To Beginning is:
a= Make sure whether exist any content of the source you investigate give strong evidence which show any wrongness in pencetus or not
b= Make sure whether exist any content of the source you investigate related to pencetus or not
c= Make sure whether exist any content of the source you investigate has same theme to pencetus or not
36= Islam source & GWE are:
a= Sky source
b=Source Sky
c= Twin Sky Source
37= Examples below show Alam Sumber except:
a= Computer technology
b= Democracy
c= Biology
d=" Faraid" system
38= Whole below explain about Source Without LEVEL EXCEPT:
a= Source Without Level are DPK concept, DPK source and eli inta Da la urna.
b= Source Without Level get this name because this source become arbitrator for value any non-DPK source but when this source value other DPK source or DPK concept in Version 52% or higher or when this source value eli inta Da la urna, Source Without Level might use Its special indicator namely Real DPK Comparison Indicator/RDCI. However, Source without level also can or may value any DPK source and non-DPK source with its value indicator that is number of general cbvs and same number of general cbvs AND also can use RDCI together for value any DPK SOURCE AND non-DPK source if exist reasonable to do whole indicator value. The conclusion, Source Without level can become arbitrator to value anything without use any indicator value or number if exist reasonable to do this and reason this the source like without level or like without any indicator value but also might reasonable use whole or some of those indicator number for value any DPK source and non-DPK source . So, DPK source, DPK concept and eli inta Da La urna like source without level when they can value without their level or with their level when reasonable exist . Reason like this, we call these source as Source WITHOUT LEVEL.
c= When non-DPK source or other DPK source has more many content which also content more many truth, these source may force Source Without Level which try to investigate these source use Negligence of Cbvs That Can. A kind of CONFIDENCE NAMELY SPECIAL FREEDOM might happen when Negligence of Cbvs That Can happen. Although one of eli inta Da la urna's characteristic is still win that is what he/she do always and still right, their SP1 might not have complete edition and be due to they also have no complete S1+. So, eli inta Da la urna might has lower value indicator than non-DPK source or other DPK source or than other Source without level in some condition especially like WORLDLY.
d= eli inta Da la urna has no any karamah or mukjizat
39= S1+ is mean:
a= Source number one or main source
b= Source which has proof for every matter
c= Source number one will combine with other source
d= No any real answer here
40= Miss Diana make correction at the book [original]. This explain about:
b=Not Move DPK Source
c= Move DPK Source
41= In what process in Diagram of Pencetus exist new theory?
a= In fifth process
b= In second process
c= In last process
d=In sixth process
42= "Fasik" is:
a= Who always cheat
b= Who always honest in what he said
c= Who always has evil characteristic
d= Who always love truth
43= Exist two matter get number 2 in DOP. Why?
a= Because these are detected matter bounce to beginning
b= Reason those two matter are very important and might almost happen at the same time
c= Be due to those two matter become main theme
44= Source of Level 1 is about:
a= Al-Quran
b= Kutub al-Sittah
c= Al-Furqan & Kutubussittah
d= Islam reference books
45=Which one of these option is wrong?
a= SLGC for al-Quran is 1
b=SLGC for Kutub al-Sittah is 2
c= Smaller SLGC for Kutub al-Sittah is like Bukhari is 1 & Muslim is 2
d=SL3 has no any SLGC
46= Sensor Detect Sky Technique is
a= Al-Quran and Kutub al-Sittah value SL2, especially Kutub al-Sittah value it
b=SL1 value SL2, especially al-Quran value it
c= Al-Quran value SL3
d=Kutubusittah value SL3
47= Below information are Pure Islam Source Except:
a= Fatimah
b= AL-KHAZIM Son of Zakariya
48=Ocean Detection Technique is concerning:
a= Use whatever source which can value any source
b= Technique for test ocean
c= Technique for put fence at ocean
d=Technique for detect ocean temperature
49= These formulas exist in DPK concept except
a=p9=cbvs Z>Y%#
b=fDc=9 T>U
50= ? in DPK theory might is mean:
a= "I felt lazy to give or write its entirety cbvs because I believe that I can compare any source in future easily without know its entirety cbvs or without write it".
b= I do not know who become the last author for the source
c= "I still did not sure about its entirety cbvs
a= Kill Root Problem
b= VIM
c= Root Avoid Tool
52= VIM is mean
a= Very Interesting Manual
b= Very Influential Mind
c= Very Important Meaning
53= Source or information which can believe and treat it has not wrongness on its true or wrong and on its exact or not exact. This information is:
a= VIC
54= Two action explain on
a=RoAT & ELt
b=RoAT & ElT
c=ROAT & ELT
55= ( Understand & often remember that assumptions are often untrue. ALLAH s.w.t (A God) said that assumptions are not true) IS PENCETUS in number:
56="Leader after me are twelve imams. The first is Ali, next is Hasan son of Ali, next is Husain sibling of Hasan, next is Ali son of Husain who get nickname as Zainal A'bidin, next is Muhammad son of Ali who get nickname as Baqir al-Ilmi, next is Ja'far son of Muhammad who get nickname as al-Shadiq, next is Musa son of Ja'far who get nickname as al-Kazhim, next is Ali son of Musa who get nickname as al-Ridha, next is Muhammad son of Ali who get nickname as al-Taqi, next is Ali son of Muhammad who get nickname as al-Naqi, next is Hasan son of Muhammad who get nickname as al-A'sykari, next is Muhammad son of Hasan who get nickname as AL-MAHDI, He will disappear in very long period till cause peoples feel difficult to have faith about himself, afterwards he will come by get permission from ALLAH for "flatten" the justice at this earth after the world full of cruelty." After that, Jabir ask: "Can peoples get something favourable juncture he (Mahdi) disappear?" Messenger of Allah reply:"Certainly. Like use a sun favourably when it covered with cloud."
The above hadith, can we see it at:
a= Mawaddah
b= Yanabi'
c= Yanabi' al-Mawaddah
57="Pihak yang diamanahkan atau diberi tugasan oleh kumpulan terbanyak sesuatu kawasan agar menguruskan pemilikan bersama dan yang dipersetujui bersama dengan menjadikan al-Quran & sunnah NABI MUHAMMAD sebagai perlembagaan , perundangan dan cara hidup yang diutamakan" is:
a= Terminology about biggest group
b=Terminology on government
c= Terminology on way of life
58= Fill correct word at the star [****]:
i= SP1 or Sumber Peringkat 1 or First Level Source or Level Source 1
ii= S1+
iii= Sumber DPK or DPK source
iv= Ability detect information at **** [one invisible place at hereafter which exist any information about what will happen]
v=Has karamah or mukjizat
vi= What he/she said and what he/she do always and still right, contain strong and win evidence. STILL WIN!!!
The right word at **** above is:
a= Heaven
c= Sky
d= Lauh Mahfuz
59= Purdah is:
a= Clothes which every muslim women must wear it.
b= Clothes which every muslim women must wear it except who Allah give permission for not wear it
c= Clothes which every muslim women must wear it except in any condition which Real Islam give permission for not wear it
60= Juncture still a child,imam Mahdi went to *** or Madinah (one of this place) and*** there. Since that , human do not know where imam Mahdi is but prophet Muhammad guarantee that imam Mahdi still alive. Imam Mahdi has familial relationship with prophet Muhammad.
Words at *** are:
a= Syam & live
b= Jeddah & rest
c= Mecca & lost
d= Baghdad & work
61= >Sumber *** = Short Cut DPK Source = DPK source which become more short, more easy to remember and understand, be a note or reference book in summary form which contain easier practical which more save time, money and energy, more comfortable. more economize.
a=DPK PEMINTAS
b= DPK PEMUSNAH
c=DPK SEJATI


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I'm about to create a do-everything dashboard for my team and am still having second thoughts about my project/solution structure. Since this could be a long ongoing project, I want to get the structure right from the beginning.
This is what I had in mind:
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There's a lot of talk these days about Heath Ledger's performance as The Joker in Batman: The Dark Knight, and while it's certainly deserving it's only one part of the masterpiece that is director Christopher Nolan's newest installment in the Batman Franchise. To say that the film's a piece of something beyond it's scope almost diminishes it, because as a singular whole there's so much right about this film, there's actually nothing at all wrong with it. But even to say that is doing it a disservice.
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Earlier this fall, "Hart of Dixie" actor Wilson Bethel wrote on Twitter that he was "glistening like a Christmas ham" for an upcoming episode.
Bethel, who plays bad boy Wade Kinsella in the CW series, seemed a little embarrassed while talking about being shirtless for so much of the episode, but said that it makes sense within the story and is used with a great sense of humor.
"It doesn't really enter into the realm of being egregiously ridiculous," he told me shortly after filming the episode. "That said, yeah, I was baby-oiled up and had most of my features on display [laughs], which now I guess will be broadcast to the world."
They'll be broadcast for all to see at 8 p.m. Monday, as a matter of fact, in the episode "In Havoc and in Heat." Wade and the other residents of Bluebell, Ala., suffer through a heat wave that lights a romantic spark to the antagonistic relationship between Wade and Rachel Bilson's character, Dr. Zoe Hart.
But don't think that Wade, or Bethel, are simple sexy himbos. They both have a lot more to offer than charisma and million dollar smiles.
Bethel, who had his big break in the HBO series "Generation Kill," happens to be a well-known L.A. DJ, co-owner with his brother of the music web site www.mixtaperiot.com and one of the founders of the L.A. arts magazine Amor Fati. The son of author Joyce Maynard and artist Steve Bethel also was a finalist to play "Captain America" and is an accomplished slack liner, the PC term for tightrope walker.
Right now, however, he's concentrating on "Hart of Dixie" and showing that Wade is more than a handsome face and buff body.
"Wade also has this really kind of sweet side to him that I think Rachel's character brings out a lot," Bethel said. "It's kind of amazing from my perspective because it's really the best of both worlds. I both get to be the bad ass and also the guy that people really love, which is really a pretty ideal situation … He's kind of, I guess, a bad boy with a heart of gold."
Bethel and I talked more about muscle cars, slack lining and his other projects.
Tell me about Wade.
For starters, he's kind of ever evolving and that's one of the really exciting things about working on the show. … I'm watching as this character grows and really fills out in a lot of ways that are very exciting from an acting perspective and in terms of a personal perspective.
The kind of description of Wade that I was given upfront was that Wade is this kind of a town bad boy. He's kind of a lives-by-his-own-rules type of guy. While that is the case and continues to be the case there are other elements of Wade that are quickly being clarified as we're reading new scripts and the action begins with the writers and me and the other characters.
These new elements of Wade are starting to come out now and are really cool. Wade also has this really kind of sweet side to him that I think Rachel's character brings out a lot and a side that is as prone to doing really selfless, very nice things for people albeit in very understated ways.
He almost has like a kind of guardian angel kind of quality about him that has shown up now in several episodes that we have shot and are shooting, but it's kind of amazing from my perspective because it's really the best of both worlds. I both get to be the bad ass and also the guy that people really love, which is really a pretty ideal situation.
I'm sure there are a lot of things that we're still going to learn about him. My dad will enter into the picture a bit. I know in a future episode I'm going to be getting into some mischief with and ex-wife figure, so there is always this sense of an evolving take on it. He's kind of, I guess, a bad boy with a heart of gold.
So he has been married? He has an ex-wife?
Well I can't go too much into that, but there is an ex-wife episode.
It may not be his ex-wife though?
You'll just have to wait and see.
OK. And then can you say who is playing your dad?
Truth be told we actually just had the table read yesterday and I'm not sure of the actor's name, so I will—he reads great.
These changes in Wade, do they come about mostly because of his relationship with Zoe?
I think both because of that and some not because of that, but I think it's one of those things of like when you're kind of falling for somebody whether you like it or not you're opened up in certain ways that you might not have been otherwise. So I think there is an element of Wade that as his affection for Zoe develops maybe he finds himself acting out of character a bit for himself whereas maybe in a certain situation he would be more selfish. With this kind of blossoming affection for Zoe he finds himself maybe taking a different kind of approach.
That said I do believe that he does have this kind of innate quality of him that is a really good guy and it's kind of obscured sometimes maybe by people's perception of him as being this kind of archetypal bad boy type character and so there is that interesting kind of conundrum that I think a lot of people face, what their outward appearance is to other people and what other people is expected of them to be and what they genuinely are. That makes for really interesting work on my end as an actor, where you have a kind of interior and exterior life for a character.
He seems maybe a little bit of a womanizer and someone who likes to get along with his charms and his looks.
Yeah, absolutely and again that remains true to a certain extent. But you'll see there is much more of him in subsequent episodes and that's where you really start getting the shadings that I think give the character a lot of depth.
How do you like driving his muscle car?
It has been a dream my whole life to have a late '60s or early '70s muscle car and I'll tell you what, there is nothing so good as the feeling of 458 horsepower underneath your hands. It's pretty incredible.
Do you ask to take that home for the weekend?
I wish they would let me. They're smarter than that. They know that I wouldn't be at work on Monday if they gave me the car for a weekend. I'd be in Baja.
And never coming back.
[Laughs.] Yep.
I saw that showrunner Leila Gerstein said there will be some Wade-Zoe flirtations and you just confirmed that.
Yeah, I don't think there is any doubt about it. I mean we're making out in the pilot, so it lays the foundation pretty firmly from Jump Street. Yeah, that's a pretty central defining characteristic of our relationship is the flirtation that kind. But one thing I like about it is—it's a kind of fun, needling flirtation where they're always kind of getting on each other's nerves a little bit or I'm getting on her nerves, but I think there is really that kind of deep innate affection there that drives it further.
And so there will be a lot of that repartee.
Totally, absolutely, yeah.
Are you happy that you're not shooting in the South and that you're shooting in LA or would you rather be down on location?
To be honest I loved shooting the pilot down there, but I'm thrilled that we're shooting in LA. It can be both really fun at times as an actor to be able to shoot on location and go to some really cool places and I have had some really wonderful opportunities to do that. I have traveled a fair amount with my work, but especially for a series where you might end up spending years of your life working on it. It's a lot to kind of up and relocate for maybe three or four, five years or more and for eight or nine months out of the year, so I really couldn't be happier to be in LA. This is where my life is, my friends are and I'm a stalwart proponent of LA. So yeah, I'm thrilled to be here.
So let's talk about your costars, working with Rachel for instance. How is that?
Rachel is pretty much one of the coolest gals I have met in Hollywood, which is saying a lot because I have met a lot people in the time I've been doing this. She is just an incredibly cool, fun, down-to-earth chick and I really couldn't be much more blessed to have her as the lead of our show. She is easy to work with and really fun too.
We have a really good private relationship and also it's kind of reminiscent of the repartee of our characters—a lot of joking around, a lot of needling back and forth, but all in the spirit of fun and a strong affection for one another. I think she is a really cool chick.
Had you met her before?
Yeah well, my first job in LA was actually working on "The OC" as a matter of fact. When I was 18 years old Rachel and I had a scene together.
That's cool. How about Scott Porter? I met him at Comic-Con this year. We were at this party and we both got pulled into this after-party and ended up bartending together.
That's hilarious and that is totally something that Scott would do. Scott is amazing. Scott is amazing and it's like between me and Scott and Chris I think there is just a really cool little romance going on there. I have so much love for those guys. They're just terrific guys, the type of dudes you want to hang out with and grab a beer with, which we've now done plenty of times. And also go dancing with, be able to talk about acting, really just guys who are down to just roll with the punches, which is about the best you can say of any friend.
So in both of their cases, really in the case of everybody on the show, what an incredible amount of talent there is. Everybody brings so much to their characters, so much to the show and really, really dynamically so.
And do you get a chance to work with all of these folks in your scenes too; everybody intermingles?
Yeah, absolutely and again it's because the writers I think are doing a really wonderful job. They're not rushing it either, so it's not like trying to throw everybody together, which sometimes you see on shows. You slowly get the full scope of the intermingling. It's a small town, so everybody has a certain amount of history together.
I just got a kind of script synopsis the other day of an episode that is coming up because I hadn't yet worked with Jaime [King] who I'm very keen to work with. She was so talented and there is a really cool storyline coming up with me and her and Scott all joining forces together, so I'm really looking forward to that. I think that will be fun and yeah, it's one of those things where I think over the course of the season and hopefully multiple seasons you're going to see a lot of cool little different pairings of all of us and being able to play off each other's strengths both as the characters and our strengths as actors.
You were a finalist for "Captain America." How was that?
It was pretty rugged. I think if you talk to any actor who has been doing it for awhile, everybody has gone through countless rejections and close calls, but every now and then there are parts that both speak to you on very kind of deep connection character levels and also ones that are obviously potential game changers as far as just the scope of the project. Obviously when you're talking about something like a hundred million dollar major franchise action movie those are game changers, so yeah, it's safe to say I had a lot invested in the process of auditioning for that movie and when after several months of callbacks and screen tests and stuff I didn't get it it's safe to say I was pretty devastated.
But I learned a lot from it and I also, with those types of things I think the best thing that you can hope for is that you walk away from it having felt like you grew in some way. I feel like I grew immensely from that experience both as a person and as an actor and I think in Hollywood there is often a sense of like, 'Oh, you know, somebody just got their break.' It happened overnight or whatever, like suddenly this person is famous. Really for 95 percent of the actors who I know who are working in Los Angeles it's a slow build of near misses and a near miss helps you get your next job even though you didn't get the last one.
And maybe that's because it makes you a stronger person, maybe it's because it makes you a better actor in some way, but I can definitely say with some conviction that I wouldn't be where I am today if I hadn't not gotten a lot of the jobs that I didn't get, which is part of it. That is part of making it in this business: not getting jobs and learning from not getting jobs.
How difficult is it not to take that personally, or is it not really at all?
Yeah, it's very hard. It's very hard, but you learn. You learn to figure out ways of coping, whether it's bottles of Jameson or meditating or some combination of the two. [Laughs.]
Is that your trick?
[Laughs.] Some combination of Jameson and meditating, absolutely.
How about "Generation Kill"? That was sort of your big first huge project?
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. I think if you talk to any of the guys who worked on that show, a lot of whom have now gone on to really wonderful work on big projects in TV and film, on Broadway.
We knew that we were working on something so far above the kind of standard for what is expected of television, so there was that element of it, of working on something great, incredible material. But then there was also this aspect of growing together as people. We shot for 7 1/2 months in Africa, about 20 guys who we're brothers now, and it's an experience that almost all of us walked away from feeling connected for life.
Now every time one of us gets engaged or—I was just at one of the guy's weddings last month. We are still so tight. We see each other all the time. We talk all the time and it's something that is so rare I think, especially in Hollywood, although I mean really in any adult relationship to be given those opportunities to forge really meaningful strong relationships with other adults in a relatively short period of time is special. I think the most lasting thing that I took away from that job was these friendships with these guys.
Also, I learned so much. I was one of the younger guys on that shoot and learning from guys who have been working for five years longer than I have, 10 years longer in some cases, and guys who have been in the game for 20 years longer. Getting a job like that is the kind of stuff that no acting class or no conservatory can teach you. It's the most valuable kind of experience on that experience and working with incredibly talented actors.
And did I mention we got to shoot guns in the desert? Very fun, everything from a 13-year-old boy's dream. It was like summer camp for a very, very long time.
I'm sure it was. I also read that you're a DJ, a former DJ.
Yeah, not former. I still do it. Yeah, I still have a weekly gig here in LA and always hunting down new music, new records, making mixed tapes, the whole bit.
Where do you do that? Where is your weekly gig?
It's in a spot called Bar Lubitsch in Hollywood and I'm always doing kind of different events around town and stuff like that. It's one of those things that was always great for me to have when I was not working regularly as an actor, It kind of takes my mind off not working and also making a little extra money on the side and until this day it just brings me such great joy to DJ, to be playing music for other people, get people dancing. It's really a pretty awesome, thrilling hobby to have on the side.
Cool, and you and your brother have 10,000 vinyl records I read.
Well, I have about 10,000. He has probably another 15, so between us we have probably about 25,000 I would say. Our long-term goal is opening up a record store someday, a used vinyl shop, but he has got to get his out of storage first. He moved out to LA last year and we live together now. It's not particularly easy to haul out 15,000 records in a U-Haul. His are in a storage unit in Brooklyn as we speak, but someday we will unite our record stashes and have one of the great West Coast record stashes.
Do you like all kinds of music or is there anything in particular?
No, I mean all different kinds of music. I definitely have particularly a strong affinity for music of a certain era from the '60s and '70s, but of that era everything from rock 'n' roll to blues to R&B and soul music to Brazilian music, Latin music, psychedelic music, funk, all over the map, all over the map.
Anything current have your ear?
I listen to a ton of current music too. I mean obviously as far as records go and the hunt of looking for records there is something particularly enticing about the treasure hunter aspect of looking for old records, which is not to say that I am not always discovering new music and new music that I love, but just as far as the actual act of collecting there is something particularly fun about collecting old records.
Well what has your ear right now?
Right now, let me see. I have to look on my iPod real fast and see whatever I'm playing the most. I'm loving Bon Ivors' new record. I think that is just like a really pretty fabulous record. Local Natives have been one of my favorite bands for awhile, LCD Sound System. I love this new band Tame Impala; it's very kind of throwback psychedelic rock.
I always have love for Kanye, so Kanye's new record with Jay-Z I've been playing a lot, and of course his last solo record I absolutely adore. Yeah, all over the place, many different styles.
Most of those CW shows have great soundtracks. Maybe you can contribute to that.
I would love to, believe me. It has long been one of my ambitions to have a component of musical direction in my work in some way or another, so it would be awesome. I would love for that to be the case.
And do you and your brother still do the website?
Yes, absolutely. Mixtaperiot.com always has fresh new contemporary music, fully free and downloadable, so yeah, definitely check the website.
And you did that just so that you could sort of introduce all this music that you're finding.
Absolutely, yeah.
I also stumbled upon the magazine, Amor Fati.
Yeah, Amor Fati was an art and literary magazine that I put out with a few of my colleagues and friends that was a really cool, an art and literary quarterly. It's on temporary hiatus because my time is so monopolized right now by the show, so we ended up putting out four issues of really high quality print only Los Angeles based artists and writers that was a really cool project that we had going for a year and a half and work that I'm very proud of. Really just putting the spotlight and giving shine to writers, poets and artists right here in LA, which often kind of gets overlooked in that area.
Often people have a sense of LA being so film and television centric that other arts are not as well represented here, so our goal was to have a magazine kind of or a quarterly that was really about illuminating the many talents of the local community here and I think we were really successful in that.
My sincere hope is that I will have time enough at some point in the near future to resurrect it and keep it going because actually one of the harder things about taking this job was knowing that I wasn't going to have enough kind of time and energy for that, but Amor Fati will live on and I think you can still order back issues online if you're interested.
Is it true that you tightrope walk too?
I am a pretty damn good tightrope walker, although to be clear in contemporary nomenclature it's more widely referred to as slack lining. That's the kind of extreme sport nomenclature for it, but yeah, I've been doing it now for about three years and I recently walked my longest line yet. I did a 164-foot long and 12-foot high line, which was pretty fun.
How did you get into that?
Leave it to a place like LA to just have a niche culture for just about anything. [Laughs.] There is a pretty strong niche culture of slack liners down in Santa Monica. On any given day on a weekend you can go down there and get your first few wobbly steps on a slack line. It's an incredibly fun sport.
That's cool.
Yeah, people do that really wild stuff these days; do like crazy tricks and stuff.
Well maybe they'll have you doing something where you have to go across a line to save somebody on the show.
Yeah, that would be pretty awesome.
You also have two movies coming out soon: "The First Ride of Wyatt Earp" and "Stealing Summers."
Yeah, "Stealing Summers" right now my understanding is that it's premiering in New York sometime soon. It's a really cool, fun Indie that we shot down in Argentina and got to do some really cool character work in and worked with some great other actors, James [Jagger] and Sophie [Auster].
"First Ride of Wyatt Earp" will go down in history as my first and hopefully not last Western, which was super fun getting to play Doc Holliday.
You did? That's cool. And with Val Kilmer.
Yeah, the original Doc Holliday or my favorite Doc Holliday I should say. That element of it was pretty wild, to be playing Doc Holliday in a movie with the guy who made that role absolutely legendary.
You're getting to do all kinds of stuff. While doing this research I learned that your parents are author Joyce Maynard and artist Steve Bethel. I had to go back and look at the cover of one of your mom's books to figure out which one you were. These little tow-headed kids.
[Laughs.] Yeah, me and my brother look a lot alike.
And I wanted to just commend you for that note you wrote that appears in the forward of her book, "At Home in the World."
Yeah, it's funny how that note lives on. I still occasionally get emails from readers of my mom's who read my defense of her and were very moved by it. Yeah, it's a proud moment for me. It's not every day you get to defend your parents from misguided angry attacks.
Right, exactly. So was your getting into acting part of your parents being artists?
No, not in that direct way anyway. But yeah, I think you can certainly say that for people who grew up in artistic households there is maybe more freedom to pursue those artistic careers in the arts. My parents never offered anything but support for my at times seemingly misguided pursuit of an acting career. I think that is a lot more than a lot of people can say.
We live in a culture that is so unsupportive of the arts in a lot of ways that I feel really, really blessed to have parents who just encouraged me every step of the way in that regard. But no, other than their love and moral support and the kind of household that I grew up in as far as it's also engendering creativity there was no direct link between my getting started in this business and my mother.
Who did get you started?
I guess you could say I have always had a very theatrical bent from a very, very young age and I think anyone who knows me for a long time would corroborate that. I have a lot of energy and have a propensity toward making drama wherever I go, making scenes. And then I got into doing theater and plays when I was really young, 7, 8 years old and had some really wonderful opportunities even in growing up in rural New Hampshire of being surrounded by enough really cool, creative, interesting people and going to kind of funky interesting schools that supported art and supported theater. I don't know. I have always had a very strong connection to it.
That's great. Thanks for your time Wilson. Why don't you give me your pitch for the show as a final note?
"Heart of Dixie" is a purely entertaining show in a way that doesn't leave like the kind of saccharine aftertaste of a lot of shows that maybe that are too kind of sickly sweet. It also manages to not ever leave you feeling like you just saw something you didn't want to see. It has all the kind of brightness and charm I think of the fabled South and all these characters that are just so much fun to watch and so much fun to watch develop in their relationships and individually.
And do you get along with Burt Reynolds?
To be fair I have not met Burt Reynolds yet. I'm really disappointed by it, but I hope that one day I will get to wrangle with that alligator.
Earlier this fall, "Hart of Dixie" actor Wilson Bethel wrote on Twitter that he was "glistening like a Christmas ham" for an upcoming episode.


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Manchester City missed the chance to usurp Chelsea at the top of the Premier League as Arsenal battled to a 1-1 draw at the Emirates Stadium.
Following Chelsea's shock 1-0 defeat at Crystal Palace earlier on Saturday afternoon, Manuel Pellegrini's men, who still have matches in hand, would have gone ahead on goal difference with victory over the out-of-form Gunners.
However, despite taking an early lead through David Silva, it was Arsenal who showed the greater desire as they recovered to turn in a strong second-half display and level through Mathieu Flamini.
Liverpool host Tottenham on Sunday and now have the championship destiny in their own hands, with key clashes against City and Chelsea at Anfield still to come.
City - who had named an unchanged XI following the rampant midweek 3-0 win at Manchester United - started brightly; full-back Pablo Zabaleta had some joy down the right before Jesus Navas curled a 20-yard effort just wide.
Arsenal, with Lukas Podolski starting after his goal in the 2-2 draw with Swansea on Tuesday night, just could not sustain any sort of possession as the visitors closed down space quickly.
However, the home supporters felt they should have been awarded a penalty on 12 minutes when Tomas Rosicky went down under a challenge from Zabaleta. There looked to be some contact, but referee Mike Dean pointed for a goal kick.
The sense of injustice galvanised Arsenal, who started to ask more questions of the City rearguard.
Man City, though, were lightning on the break and swept into the lead on 18 minutes.
Podolski was dispossessed in midfield, and Silva carried the ball forwards and to the edge of the Arsenal penalty area before feeding Edin Dzeko on the left.
His shot cannoned back off the near post, with the ball hitting Silva's foot and bouncing into the far corner.
Arsenal - thrashed 6-0 at Chelsea to ruin manager Arsene Wenger's 1,000th match last weekend - needed a response to make sure they were not overrun once again in a showdown with a top-four rival.
The ball was in the City net after 21 minutes - but Arsenal midfielder Flamini had already been flagged offside from a deep left-wing cross before he looped his shot over Joe Hart.
Yaya Toure, who had a trial at Arsenal as a raw youngster, was booked on 30 minutes for tugging back Rosicky on the break.
City skipper Vincent Kompany then also saw a yellow card for body-checking Mikel Arteta.
To their credit, Arsenal were still very much in the contest as half-time approached - with Rosicky the next man cautioned for another full-blooded challenge on former Gunners full-back Gael Clichy.
Silva soon followed after he left a high boot in on Arteta as the Spaniard hacked a clearance away in the Arsenal box.
City almost doubled their lead at the start of the second half when Navas' low cross from the right was spilled by Wojciech Szczesny, and the ball deflected off Arsenal defender Per Mertesacker but just the wrong side of the post.
Santi Cazorla's drive stung the hands of England keeper Hart before Arsenal levelled on 53 minutes.
Patient build-up by the home side was rewarded when the ball was worked out to the left for Podolski, and his low centre into the penalty area was swept into the far corner by Flamini as he arrived on cue 12 yards out.
Arsenal suddenly found another gear, with Sagna's cross from the right flying through the six-yard box.
Hart then somehow deflected a fierce angled drive from Podolski behind.
City boss Manuel Pellegrini made a change on 65 minutes as James Milner came on for Navas.
Following their dominant spell, Arsenal started to come under more pressure, but showed great resilience - a trait so often missing this season.
With 13 minutes left, Wenger sent on Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain for Podolski, before City substitute Javi Garcia replaced Nasri.
Arsenal continued to push on but City, always dangerous on the counter, were not about to throw away what could just turn out to be a crucial point in their title quest.


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!! MSVC and MinGW DLLs
Assume we have a testdll.h, testdll.c, and testmain.c. In the first case, we will compile testdll.c with MinGW, and let the MSVC-compiled testmain call it. You should use
gcc -shared -o testdll.dll testdll.c -Wl,--output-def,testdll.def,--out-implib,libtestdll.a
to produce the DLL and DEF files. MSVC cannot use the MinGW library, but since you have already the DEF file you may easily produce one by the Microsoft LIB tool:
lib /machine:i386 /def:testdll.def
Once you have testdll.lib, it is trivial to produce the executable with MSVC:
cl testmain.c testdll.lib
Now for MinGW programs calling an MSVC DLL. We have two methods. One way is to specify the LIB files directly on the command line after the main program. For example, after
cl /LD testdll.c
gcc -o testmain testmain.c testdll.lib
The other way is to produce the .a files for GCC. For __cdecl functions (in most cases), it is simple: you only need to apply the reimp tool from Anders Norlander (since his web site is no longer available, you may choose to download
[this version|http://wyw.dcweb.cn/download.asp?path=&file=reimp_new.zip]
enhanced by Jose Fonseca):
reimp testdll.lib gcc -o testmain testmain.c -L. -ltestdll
However, for __stdcall functions, the above method does not work. For MSVC will prefix an underscore to __stdcall functions while MinGW will not. The right way is to produce the DEF file using the pexports tool included in the mingw-utils package and filter off the first underscore by sed:
pexports testdll.dll | sed "s/^_//" > testdll.def
Then, when using dlltool to produce the import library, add `-U' to the command line:
dlltool -U -d testdll.def -l libtestdll.a
And now, you can proceed in the usual way:
gcc -o testmain testmain.c -L. -ltestdll
Hooray, we got it.
This guide may also be helpful.
Here is an example of creating a .lib file from a mingw dll, in order to be able to use it from MSVC.


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Documentarian Errol Morris travels back to the '70s to tell the story of Joyce McKinney, a blonde bombshell who found herself at the center of the perfect tabloid storm that became known as "The Case of the Manacled Mormon." In the process, Morris examines the relationship between tabloid "stars," the media and the public--nobody emerging with their dignity intact.
"Tabloid" brilliantly uses McKinney's tale to show how addictive press coverage can be for the subject, how low the press will stoop and how ravenously we the people consume the garbage they produce. More importantly, it's a reminder that this idiocy is not a product of the internet, but is a food chain that has existed for decades.
McKinney was a beauty queen who had lived such sheltered life that she says she hadn't seen much of the world "until I got to Utah," a declaration she makes with not a whiff of irony. It's there that she met a young Mormon man, Kirk Andersen, with whom she would fall so deeply in love that she "would have skied down Mount Everest in the nude with a carnation up my nose."
When Andersen disappears to England one day, McKinney hunts him down, abducts him at gunpoint and drives him to a secluded cabin, where she chains him to a bed and has sex with him for three days. She says it was a romantic getaway, "like a Honeymoon," he would later tell police it was kidnapping and rape. The mind reels at how MSNBC, Us Weekly and CNN would cover this thing.
More than 30 years later, McKinney happily sat for Morris, talking at length in her faintly sexy southern drawl, displaying all the charm, wit and audacity that made her such compelling copy. It's clear that for all the misery the press caused her, she still loves the attention.
Morris intersperses her version of events with interviews with Peter Tory of the Daily Express and Kent Gavin of the The Mirror, two men who originally covered the story, and have loads of evidence that suggest that McKinney wasn't quite the sweet young thing she claimed to be.
If Morris makes a misstep, it's having Troy Williams, a gay activist and radio host in Salt Lake City, offer commentary on how Andersen's Mormonism may have been guiding him. Williams has great presence, he's a natural speaker, but as someone who says he was "saved … from Mormonism," he's clearly biased. Still, he knows his stuff and offers some hilarious bizarre background on the Church will certainly do Mitt Romney's presidential bid no favors.
Just as you're thinking that maybe McKinney is a misunderstood victim of a rabid press and a heartless lover, she outs herself as something more complicated. She suffers a suspiciously well-documented theft, is nearly killed by a dog that OD'ed on prednisone, ships another dog's DNA off to South Korea to be cloned. One might be tempted to call it her third act, but it's clear that she is perpetually poised to put her self in the public eye at any moment.
"Tabloid" is a compelling and amusing reminder that all the new social ills we bemoan aren't really new at all.


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Syosset eighth-grader Vito Arujau pins twice in Nassau tournament
When Syosset's Vito Arujau has a tough match coming up, the eighth-grader has the option of calling his brother Nick, a current Cornell wrestler and three-time New York state champion, for advice. If Nick's not around, then Vito can just talk to his dad, Vugar, a two-time freestyle wrestling world champion and a bronze medalist at the 1992 Olympic Games.
But thanks to all the knowledge and training from his dad and brother, Vito hasn't had that many tough matches lately.
Arujau, 41-0 this season, secured two pins at 99 pounds Sunday at Hofstra to make the semifinals of the Nassau Division I wrestling championship, which ends Tuesday.
"They always said that Vito was better than Nick when they were little," Syosset coach Mike Murtha said. "He's a technician. They have two different styles. Nick was very aggressive and willed his way upon people. Vito is a very precise, technical kid and an extremely hard worker, and I think that's a reflection on his father."
Nick finished fourth in Nassau County in his eighth-grade season, and with two more wins, Vito would be able to say he got the better of his brother. But beating Nick's achievements isn't Arujau's main goal. "I want to one-up my father's accomplishments," he said.
Joining Arujau in the semifinals is teammate Dan Choi, who won both of his matches at 195 in a combined 3:28. Syosset finished the first day in fourth place with 58 points.
Ahead of Syosset were the usual suspects: Wantagh finished first with 112.5 points, MacArthur second with 89 and Island Trees third with 70.5.
Island Trees' success was heavily weighted on its heavier wrestlers. Brandon Cassar reached the 182-pound semifinals with a pin in 4:27 over Plainview JFK's Dylan Schmidt, and second-seeded Tom Sinclair reached the semis at 220 with a 59-second pin of Wantagh's James Murphy. Kevin Strauss of Island Trees dropped a 3-1 decision to Ryan Gilganic of Seaford in the quarterfinals at 195. Vinny Manna (285 pounds) and Lucas Panebianco (152) also join their teammates in the semifinals.
"We have a lot of big kids who are football players," Cassar said. "We work together during football season on our stances and we just battle it out in practice. We practice under hooks and throwing each other, and you get used to it. Kids can't defend it because we're stronger."
Said coach Lou Tuorto: "Hard practicing every day, we do the same thing and try to give them intense practices . . . We have a good thing going."
At 145 pounds, Louis Hernandez of Mepham and Matt Schmelzinger of Garden City look to be on a collision course for a championship rematch. They squared off for the county title last year, with Hernandez earning a pin in 1:25.
"I definitely think the match would be harder than last year," Hernandez said. "This year, he should be a little more defensive and try to not get taken down. He kind of knows what I do, so I just have to stick to the plan and I should be fine."


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On April 8, 2009, four pirates armed with AK-47s clambered up the side of the U.S.-flagged container ship Maersk Alabama, sailing off the coast of Somalia. But after a brief scuffle with some of the 20 crewmembers, the pirates opted to abandon the 508-foot long ship, sailing off in one of its motorized lifeboats. They may not have captured the Maersk Alabama, nor looted its millions of dollars' worth of food and humanitarian aid bound for Kenya, but they didn't leave empty handed. The pirates had a captive: Maersk Alabama's captain, Richard Phillips.
Four days later, three of the four pirates were dead – each from a single .30-caliber rifle bullet to his brain, courtesy of the U.S. Navy's SEAL Team Six. The fourth pirate, just 16 years old, was in Navy custody. And Phillips was on his way home, unharmed but for the psychological strain from four days in captivity in a sweltering lifeboat, unsure whether he would live or die.
The precision killing of the three pirates by six members of SEAL Team Six, the same unit that would later kill Osama bin Laden in his Pakistan hideout, has rarely been described in detail. Retired Rear Adm. Terry McKnight, who commanded U.S. naval forces off Somalia during the Maersk Alabama standoff, devotes 45 pages of his new book Pirate Alley to the people, methods, equipment and even politics behind Phillips' daring rescue.
McKnight's book, published by the Naval Institute Press, shines new light on the SEALs' role – and, by extension, the rarely mentioned skills the secretive and lethal warriors bring to bear on battlefields across the globe. To be fair, some of these details are mentioned in passing in No Easy Day, the controversial memoir by former SEAL Matt Bissonnette that was published last month. But McKnight's book also reveals new information about the vital role that intelligence specialists – and particularly a Somali interpreter – played in the raid.
From January to early April 2009, McKnight commander Combined Task Force 151, a rotating mix of a dozen or so warships from the U.S. Navy and its European and Asian allies that patrols more than a million square miles of the Indian Ocean, stretching from Kenya to the Persian Gulf and east to west from Somalia to India. Since the collapse of the Somali government in 1991, sea banditry has steadily risen, with impoverished former fishermen and hardened criminals alike arming themselves with guns and rockets and taking to the sea in captured trawlers and fiberglass boats called "skiffs." In 2008, Somali pirates hijacked 44 large commercial ships, an increase from 12 the previous year. The average ransom rose from a few hundred thousand dollars to millions.
Piracy was an old problem by the time McKnight took command of his task force. But the attempted hijacking of the Maersk Alabama and the kidnapping of Phillips were new. The Maersk Alabama was the first U.S.-flagged ship – that is, an American-owned vessel registered in the U.S. and subject to U.S. laws and protection – had been boarded by pirates for two centuries.
McKnight had stepped down as CTF-151 commander just three days before the Maersk Alabama incident, so he did not directly participate in the U.S. response. But with his high-level relationships, intimacy with counter-piracy methods and many inside sources, his account of the pirate-takedown is the most detailed yet.
CTF-151's destroyer USS Bainbridge was the first to respond to the maydays from Maersk Alabama, which bobbed near the pirates – and Phillips – in the stolen lifeboat, preventing it from escaping to land. The 9,200-ton Bainbridge had swapped its helicopters and pilots for a catapult-launched Boeing ScanEagle drone plus the robot's operators. It also had a beefed-up intelligence team that included one of the Navy's few, and prized, Somali interpreters. While technically part of CTF-151, the Bainbridge had her own unique missions. "I'll go out on a limb here and guess that the mission had something to do with supporting U.S. Special Ops forces in Somalia," McKnight writes.
Under the command of Cmdr. Frank Castellano,* Bainbridge* raced toward the Maersk Alabama at top speed. In the day it took the destroyer to reach the scene of the attempted hijacking, the crew began synthesizing intelligence from multiple sources, including the ScanEagle, an orbiting Navy patrol plane and reports from Maersk Alabama's crew. According to McKnight, the interpreter added a dash of local knowledge, including the fact that pirates often chew narcotic khat leaves to ward off seasickness. In this case, "it turned out the pirates had run out of khat," McKnight writes.
The pirates were already on edge when Bainbridge reached the lifeboat on the night of April 9, freeing the Maersk Alabama to continue to Kenya. The destroyer "lit up the place" with spotlights, sirens and loudspeakers. "They were pissed," Castellano said of the pirates, according to McKnight. The bandits threatened to kill Phillips. In fact, they really just wanted to reach shore and ransom the merchant captain, McKnight writes. But if they could escape the American navy, the pirates seemed willing to die, according to the retired admiral.
Three more U.S. warships were on their way, but Castellano realized he needed more specialized help. "I don't have sniper rifles on the ship," he recalled in an interview with McKnight. According to McKnight, the Bainbridge skipper specifically requested Navy SEALs. Perhaps Castellano was familiar with the naval commandos' skillset, having spent part of his deployment supporting them with his drone. More or less simultaneously, the White House determined that SEAL Team Six was the best force to handle Phillips' rescue.
But those SEALs were based 8,000 miles away in Virginia. So in the meantime, another group of SEALs "working in the Horn of Africa" deployed to the warships. "This group would keep the situation at bay until the Team Six operators dispatched from the United States came in," McKnight writes.
According to McKnight, on April 10 six Team Six SEALs flew from Oceana, Virginia, direct to the Somalia coast. Their Air Force C-17 cargo plane refueled in the air no fewer than three times during the 16-hour flight. "SEALs are understandably concerned about stealth," McKnight writes. "That tells me that the operation was planned so that they would parachute into the ocean under cover of darkness, probably a high-altitude low-opening jump so that the pirates weren't alerted."
McKnight cites the log book from the frigate USS Halyburton, recently arrived alongside Bainbridge. The log mentions six SEALs embarking the ship at 2:30 in the morning on April 11, then transferring via small boat to Bainbridge. McKnight says the SEALs brought their own sniper rifles, described elsewhere as .30-caliber SR-25s.
At 4:45 that afternoon, President Barack Obama, who had just been in office for three months, authorized the use of lethal force in Phillips' rescue. Minutes later, the pirates radioed Castellano's interpreter, announcing they were going to start the lifeboat's engine and "make it to shore, no matter what," according to McKnight. On his interpreter's advice, Castellano informed the pirates that they had drifted 80 miles from their own clan's territory. The pirates would need to negotiate with the elders of a rival clan in order to even consider going ashore. Castellano proposed that meeting take place at sea. The pirates agreed.
Later, they also agreed to let Bainbridge take the lifeboat under tow, ostensibly to keep the boat stable as the weather worsened. Sailors hooked a cable to the lifeboat and the destroyer slowly, imperceptibly, began winching the boat closer and closer to itself, until it was just 25 meters away. The SEALs were apparently already lying prone on Bainbridge's flight deck, scanning the lifeboat with the crosshairs of their sniper rifles.
In McKnight's telling, the tension ratcheted up the next morning, April 12. One of the pirates, only 16 years old, had been injured battling the Maersk Alabama's crew. He asked to go aboard Bainbridge for medical help, effectively giving himself up to the Americans. At the same time, another pirate radioed that Phillips needed to see a doctor. A Navy corpsman motored over to the lifeboat with a change of clothes for the kidnapped captain: blue pants and a bright yellow shirt. "Captain Phillips didn't figure it out right then, but there were people aboard Bainbridge who wanted to make sure the he more or less glowed in the dark," McKnight writes.
Stressed near the breaking point, on the night of April 12 Phillips wrestled with his captors in a failed escape attempt. In the scuffle, a pirate fired his rifle into the sea. That was enough for the SEALs. The next time all three remaining pirates showed their heads, three SEAL snipers fired one shot each. "Each of the three pirates was struck in the head, a deliberate shot that is used to kill a target while making sure that he doesn't have an involuntary muscle response and pull the trigger on the automatic weapon in his hand," McKnight writes.
"BAINBRIDGE RETURNED FIRE," is all the destroyer's log book said, according to the admiral.
Phillips' captors were dead; the captain was free. A pirate standoff that could have ended in disaster instead resolved itself without any American blood shed – thanks in large part to a small team of far-flying, night-parachuting, sharpshooting Navy commandos, with an assist from a Somali linguist. And their exploits off the Somali coast would remain relatively obscure, if not for McKnight's revealing book.


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If you have been struggling to sell diamonds for top price, the chances are that you've been cleaning your ring incorrectly. Remember nothing can sell diamonds quite like that shiny sparkle and luster. After all, no one wants a rusty, dusty rock.
In this article, we have rounded up six tried-and-true ways to do a bang-up job of cleaning your diamond ring.
Turns out, ammonia solution can help you bring back that sparkle of your diamond ring. Mix 4 parts warm water and one part ammonia in a sizeable bowl. Let your ring sit in the solution for approximately 20 mins, pick it up, and give it a gentle scrub with a soft bristle brush. Once shiny, rinse in clean water and let it air-dry. Voila! And you're ready to sell the diamonds for big bucks!
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Baking soda is truly the king of household remedies. And, yes, it can do wonders for your diamond ring. Start off by stirring in baking soda into a small bowl of water (preferably quarter full) until you get a paste-like consistency. All you have to do is rub this paste all over and in every nook and cranny of your diamond ring. Let it sit for less than five mins then rinse in warm water. This method restores the luster, sparkle, and new look of your ring in a breeze.
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Dishwasher soap is perhaps the simplest way to re-shine and re-sparkle your diamond ring. Just drop your ring in a dishwasher soap + warm water solution, and let it sit for 15-40 minutes. Once nicely soaked and wet, use a soft bristle brush to scrub off dirt and grime. When you are satisfied with the luster, rinse and place the ring on soft tissue to air dry.
Use diamond ring cleaning solutions:
There are a ton of diamond cleaning solutions on the market today. If you are in a hurry to sell the diamonds, soak your ring in trusted brand solution for the suggested time. It'll come out sparkling clean and shiny.
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Here's another way to prep your ring so you can sell diamonds fast. Mix 2 tablespoonful of baking soda and half a cup of vinegar in a small bowl. Drop your ring in the solution and let it soak for at least 15 minutes, then give it a gentle scrub with a soft bristle brush to remove any dirt or grime. Next stop: shine town!
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text: Benzine 1,133 Report post Posted September 8, 2012 I have decided to build a raku kiln, both for personal use, and for my students to use. I had a couple questions, for those who may have dealt with the process. I am using a steel trash can as the structure, lined with ceramic fiber blanket. My first question is regarding the fiber blanket. I found one, for a good price online, but when I got it, I realized that I forgot to check the density. It is half the density that is recommended for a kiln, three instead of six. It is one inch thickness, which is also recommended. Can I just double layer the blanket to compensate for the lack of density? Second, how far above the burner should I have the shelving? While having the shelf near the top of the lid, will make unloading easier, I'd like to be able to fire some taller objects. Thanks for your help. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Dame Helen Mirren walking out of the local liquor store clutching a fistful of quick-picks? It happens.
Mirren – who co-stars in the remake of "Arthur" alongside Russell Brand, playing the role of faithful but caustic servant Hobson originated by Sir John Gielgud in the original (the remake makes Hobson a nanny to the spoiled rich manchild rather than a butler) – says that despite her own respectable financial profile, she, too, dreams of cashing in big with a winning lottery ticket and living life in the Trump Lane.
"It's a fantasy that we all have: What would we do if we had a billion dollars," the Oscar-winner tells PopcornBiz. "That's why when the lottery gets really big, when it's up to $40-$50 million, I go out and buy a ticket, because maybe I'll win! You don't buy the ticket…You fantasize about what it would be like to have millions and millions and millions of dollars. I think we all do that and here we are – we can see what happens when you have millions and millions and millions of dollars. So I think it's a fantasy that we all carry within us, anyone who's ever bought a lottery ticket. We're all dreamers."
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That's not to say that Mirren hasn't found her own Arthur-esque indulgences after a few major paydays. "My husband and I bought a castle in Puglia," she confesses. "It's like turning on one's taps full and money just pours out into the desert until it's gone. Puglia is in the heel, the bottom of the heel of the boot of Italy. It will be beautiful, but it's not finished. It's not really a castle. It's actually a farmhouse, but it is different: It's got a little bit where you can pour boiling oil out of it. Puglia was being invaded all the time. They had endless invasions, so even the farmhouses are fortified. It's a fortified farmhouse!"
But with a castle to call home, an Oscar on her mantle and a British title preceding her name, Mirren's feet remain on the ground – and literally in the ground, having just been cemented into Hollywood history at the famed Grauman's Chinese Theater.
"I feel really, really honored," she says, recalling her first visit to Hollywood. "It's the first place you want to go to because Los Angeles is Hollywood and Hollywood is Hollywood Blvd. and Grauman's Chinese is Hollywood Blvd. So that's the place you go to as a tourist. It's the first thing you want to see. It's the only thing really that you know about as far as Los Angeles is concerned. And so you go and you look at Joan Crawford's hands and feet and the whole history of American filmmaking is encapsulated in that one little area on that one street."
"That street, to me, has always been the street of dreams," she continues. "Personally, I'm thrilled that the Oscars are back on Hollywood Blvd. I think that's where they should be. There's just the whole history of filmmaking and seeing all those incredible stars. To find myself now, so many years later, that my hands and feet are going to be there, I'm absolutely blown away by it. Becoming a Dame: you know, fantastic. Winning an Oscar: amazing. Hands and feet: incredible!"


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