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Review: 'The Act of Killing' re-creates Indonesian slaughters
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"The Act of Killing" takes more than a little getting used to. It's a mind-bending film, devastating and disorienting, that disturbs us in ways we're not used to being disturbed, raising questions about the nature of documentary, the persistence of evil, and the intertwined ways movies function in our culture and in our minds.
Director Joshua Oppenheimer accurately calls this film "a documentary of the imagination," and its unusual form and style meant he worked on it for nearly eight years without any guarantee that it would turn out well. Yet the results are so impressive and unsettling that documentary masters Errol Morris and Werner Herzog both signed on as executive producers.
"The Act of Killing" demonstrates its singular nature right from the start, when it juxtaposes a chilling historical quote with a gaudy, surreal visual tableaux so wildly unexpected it would seem to come not just from another film but an entirely different universe.
The quote, from the French philosopher Voltaire, neatly encapsulates the film's theme: "It is forbidden to kill and therefore all murderers are punished. Unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
This statement is followed by an image that is pure dreamscape, an inexplicable fusion of David Lynch and an Esther Williams musical. Out of the mouth of an enormous metal goldfish the size of an airplane fuselage comes a line of dancing women glamorously costumed in red and white. Joined by a man garbed in black and a hefty cross-dresser in a floor-length turquoise gown, they make their way to a waterfall while an unseen voice encourages them to experience "real joy." What could possibly be going on here?
The complex answer starts with the knowledge, conveyed by type on screen, that back in 1965 the Indonesian government was overthrown in a military coup. The threat of a communist takeover was given as the reason, and within a year more than 1 million putative communists were executed by the new regime, though the reality was that anyone the regime didn't like could be so labeled and eliminated.
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Though Gen. Suharto, the leader of the coup, was forced to resign in 1998, his people remain in power in Indonesia. American documentarian Oppenheimer, who wanted to make a film about the situation, found that while the families of the victims were still too traumatized to speak, the killers themselves had been turned into national heroes and were delighted to boast about what they had done.
More than that, at least one of the executioners, the documentary's protagonist Anwar Congo (the man in black in the opening sequence) had a lifelong passion for Hollywood product. So Oppenheimer had the exceptional idea to ask Congo, who claims to have killed more than a thousand people in ways inspired by the movies, his pal Herman Koto (the man in the turquoise dress), and other executioners to re-create on camera, literally, metaphorically, or somewhere in between, the murders they committed.
The scenes Congo (who lives in the North Sumatra city of Medan) and his colleagues come up with are the disquieting heart of the film. In addition to wacky allegories like the one with the giant goldfish, there are film noir scenarios, the re-creation of a fiery attack on a village and a memorable sequence where Congo gets heavily made up to play one of his own victims.
None of this would have been possible without the rapport (Oppenheimer calls it "a genuine intimacy and trust") that was built up between the filmmaker and the subject, who casually explains he had to come up with new killing methods because beating people to death was creating too much blood.
That connection also allowed Oppenheimer exceptional access to Congo's world as he mixes with the powerful figures who still run Indonesia. People like Yapto Soerjosoemarno, the head of the 3-million-strong paramilitary group Pancasila Youth, who insists, "we have too much democracy, it's chaos. All this talk about human rights pisses me off."
As "The Act of Killing" unfolds, we experience the central place cinema has in psyches worldwide. Even more gripping, we watch as appearing in these re-creations gradually has an effect on Congo he does not anticipate, both disturbing his sleep and serving as a kind of therapy. As Herzog has observed, "these men have escaped justice but they've not escaped punishment."
On a more philosophical level, "The Act of Killing" forces us to acknowledge how we all create our own realities. The pride these murderers take in very particular circumstances, we come to understand, could be duplicated from inside any culture that celebrates any violent act. As Oppenheimer says at the close of a director's statement, "This is not, finally, a story only about Indonesia. It is a story about us all."
'The Act of Killing'
Rating: Unrated
Running time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
Playing: At Nuart, West Los Angeles
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Developers are often hesitant to use new or unfamiliar tools. We like code. We understand code, and we understand the things that we build from code. When our tools start to automate the coding process—taking control out of our hands and hiding it behind a slick, GUI interface—we tend to get a bit nervous. This leads many developers, both new and experienced, to avoid or ignore the tools that Apple has provided. Most of the time, this is a mistake.
Yes, some of these tools do require an investment in both time and energy before you can use them properly. Yes, none of these tools is without their drawbacks. However, in the long run, becoming familiar with these tools and using them properly will let us develop software more quickly, will reduce the number of bugs in our projects, and will make it easier to maintain our codebase.
Most importantly, however, by using the tools we are positioning our project for the future. No one knows exactly what Apple has planned; however, I guarantee that they will continue to build on the tools and frameworks that they have already developed.
Every developer should at least know how to use five key tools. In my opinion, you should use these on any new project—especially projects targeting iOS 7. You should also strongly consider porting over older projects as quickly as possible.
ARC, or Automatic Reference Counting, is a compiler feature that automatically manages memory management in Objective-C.
Traditionally, Objective-C has used manual reference counting to track the lifecycle of objects. When objects are created, they start with a reference count of one. If you want to hold onto an object, you call retain. This increases the reference count. When you're done, you call release. This decreases the reference count. If the reference count ever hits zero, the object is deallocated.
ARC uses the same basic procedure, but instead of having the developer manually manage the memory, it automatically analyzes the code and adds the required retain, release and autorelease calls at compile time. It also optimizes the allocation, deallocation and memory management code. This is one of the incredibly rare cases in software engineering where we have a tool that both makes our lives easier while also improves performance.
Compared to manual memory management, ARC code is cleaner and removes entire categories of bugs. The bottom line is, to do effective manual memory management, the developer must be 100% correct, all the time. Even one small mistake could cause serious memory errors. Unfortunately, the human brain is just not designed to handle repetitive, detail-oriented tasks with perfect accuracy. On the other hand, this is exactly the sort of thing at which compilers excel.
I have a lot of anecdotal evidence that shows ARC's effectiveness. I teach a lot of beginning iOS classes. In these classes, we create a relatively simple project using manual memory management, just to make sure the students understand what's going on under the hood. Invariably, when we test these projects, we almost always find at least one memory-related bug.
Now, ARC won't protect you from every possible memory-related problem. We still have to avoid retain cycles. We still have to make sure our application isn't allocating too much memory or holding onto memory that it no longer needs, and we still need to make sure we have strong references to any objects that we want to access outside the current method. But all of these problems are equally true for manually managed memory. ARC doesn't solve them, but it also doesn't make them any worse.
Furthermore, ARC's Zeroing Weak References help prevent dangling pointers by setting any weak references to an object to nil when that object is deallocated. And, honestly, dangling pointers are a much more serious error than a simple memory leak. Manually managed memory simply does not have anything that can duplicate this feature.
At this point, ARC is a mature technology, and there's no good reason to avoid using it. Developer brain power is a limited resource, and it's better spent solving real problems than manually tracking memory.

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Tesco reviewing slow-growing US operation
Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, said Wednesday it is reviewing options for its slow-growing U.S. venture Fresh & Easy.
Tesco launched the venture in 2007, and now has 200 stores in California, Arizona and Nevada. But the business has not done as well as hoped. The company said it had recently received several approaches from potential buyers or partners in Fresh & Easy, whose chief executive, Tim Mason, will be leaving.
"This hardly represents Tesco's finest hour, but it is more about what it says about likely changes in management's thinking," analysts at Panmure Gordon said, welcoming the announcement as a sign that "management is prepared to take difficult decisions."
Tesco shares rose 4 percent to 339.75 pence as trading opened in London.
Like-for-like sales at Fresh & Easy, which exclude new stores and space, grew less than 2 percent in the third quarter.
Tesco Chief Executive Philip Clarke has been concentrating on the company's U.K. base, where its dominant market share has recently slipped a bit. Like-for-like sales in the home market, excluding petrol, were down 0.7 percent in the quarter.
In its annual report released in April, Tesco said it was "building real momentum in Fresh & Easy" with 12 percent like-for-like growth. As one sign of progress, Tesco said it had reduced its losses in the United States for the first time in 2012 - the year when it had once aimed to turn a profit.
"It is now clear that Fresh & Easy will not deliver acceptable shareholder returns on an appropriate timeframe in its current form," Clarke said. "Whilst the business has many positives, its journey to scale and acceptable returns will take too long relative to other opportunities."


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Quote of the Day
"It was never God's intention to send a person to hell. He does everything He can to keep us out of it."
~Greg Laurie (from "Is Baptism Enough for Salvation?")
Today's Answer
Are You a Growing Christian?
Adrian Rogers
Are you growing? Here are some ways you can tell.
What do you think about?
One of the first signs that you are growing in Christ is that you think about what Jesus has done on your behalf. You reflect upon it and you praise Him for it. Your sins are forgiven and you're on your way to heaven. What a glorious thought!
What are you doing with your life?
You're saved, but you don't stop there. You develop muscles and become a strong warrior to the glory of God. You become an active member of the Lord's army. Let me ask you: Is the devil afraid of you? Are you an overcomer or are you overcome?
If you are saved and still sitting on the sidelines, shame on you! Indeed, shame on all of us if we're not exhorting and encouraging one another to lay down our lives to get into active service for our Lord!
Are you evangelizing and discipling others?
A father is one who has children. Do you have any spiritual children? This is a mark of a growing Christian—that you are multiplying yourself (what God did in you) by sharing it with others. When you appear before the throne of God, will you be standing there alone? Or will you be standing with children you have "parented" in Christ?
Do you know why we have so many flabby Christians? They come down the aisle of the church, get baptized, then come Sunday after Sunday and just sit, soak, and sour. They do not exercise. They don't have daily quiet times; they're not sharing Christ in their communities and neighborhoods; they're not ministering in their church.
Taken from "How To Be a Growing Christian" by Love Worth Finding Ministries (used by permission).
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July 15, 2009 — 19th century infant deaths
attributed to smothering and overlaying, by either a co-sleeper or
bedding, were in all likelihood crib deaths, or Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome (SIDS). These deaths would have been mislabeled by lawmakers
as neglect and even infanticide, because SIDS had not yet been
identified, according to Dr. Ariane Kemkes, an independent researcher
from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
SIDS is the third most prominent cause of death among infants under
a year old, accounting for 30-55 percent of infant deaths during their
first year. Although the specific causes of SIDS remain largely
unknown, the infant's age, gender, race, neonatal history and sleep
environment are recognized risk factors.
Historically, the unanticipated death of an apparently healthy baby
during night-time sleep would have been rationalized as accidental
smothering or overlaying. Lawmakers attributed smothering deaths to
negligent caretakers and characterized infant-adult bedsharing
practices as proof of parental incompetence.
Dr. Kemkes investigated whether 19th century infant deaths
attributed to smothering or overlaying shared the same characteristics
as known SIDS cases. She analyzed data from the U.S. Federal Mortality
Schedule from the years 1850-1880. She found that, just like SIDS,
smothering and overlaying deaths occurred primarily during the second
to fourth month of the baby's life, were more likely in the late winter
months and amongst boys, and there were more infant deaths among black
The author concludes: "The study strongly supports the hypothesis
that these infant deaths represent empirical evidence of 19th century
SIDS mortality."
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Dr. Maulana Karenga
Professor and Chair
Department of Africana Studies
California State University, Long Beach
B.A., M.A. University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. United States International Unviersity
San Diego
Ph.D. University of Southern California
Los Angeles
Dr. Maulana Karenga is professor and chair of Africana Studies at California State University, Long Beach. He holds two Ph.D.'s; his first in political science with focus on the theory and practice of nationalism (United States International University) and his second in social ethics with a focus on the classical African ethics of ancient Egypt (University of Southern California). Professor Karenga is the foremost exponent of Maatian ethical thought, having developed over the last three decades, a creative and scholarly Kawaida interpretation of ancient Egyptian ethical thought as a living tradition and a useful philosophical option for critical reflection on the urgent issues of our time. His second dissertation, a major work of 803-pages titled Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African Ethics, and submitted in 1996, was the most requested work from UMI out of 45,000 dissertations and theses worldwide of that year. Published as a book in 2002, it has received praise from the Africana Studies and Egyptological communities as a seminal and defining work which has opened up a valuable new dialog with ancient Egyptian thought and culture.
An activist-scholar of national and international recognition, Dr. Karenga has had a far-reaching effect on Black intellectual and political culture since the 1960s. Through his organizational and intellectual work, and his philosophy, Kawaida, he has played a vanguard role in shaping the Black Arts Movement, Black Studies, the Black Power Movement, the Black Student Union Movement, Afrocentricity, ancient Egyptian studies and the study of ancient Egyptian culture as an essential part of Black Studies, Ifa ethical studies, rites of passage programs, the Independent Black School Movement, African life-cycle ceremonies, the Simba Wachanga Youth Movement, Black theological and ethical discourse, and the Reparations Movement.
Moreover, he is the executive director of the Kawaida Institute of Pan-African Studies, Los Angeles, and national chairman of The Organization Us, a cultural and social change organization, so named to stress the communitarian focus of the organization. Dr. Karenga has also played a key role in national united front efforts, serving on the founding and executive committee of the Black Power Conferences of the 60's, the National Black United Front, the National African American Leadership Summit, the Black Leadership Retreat, the National Association of Kawaida Organizations (NAKO), and on the executive council of the national organizing committee of the Million Man March/Day of Absence, as well as authored the Mission Statement for this joint project.
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By DAVID GREEN
Fayette got part of what it was after from the Ohio Public Works Commission, but the search for funds continues for a pair of infrastructure projects.
The Small Government fund of the Ohio Public Works Commission (OPWC) approved full funding of the West Industrial Parkway sewer and water project through a grant and a loan. The project includes repaving the road following construction.
The work would replace a gravity sewer line with a lift station and replace a water main. The project would help prepare the area for future industrial development.
The village would receive $53,390 in a grant and $56,610 in a loan for the $110,000 project.
Village administrator Amy Metz said the funding remains in place for two years, but she hopes to succeed in obtaining additional money to allow the project to get underway this year.
The village also has two years to come up with half the cost of widening Gamble Road from S. Fayette Street east to the end of the new school property.
The road measures only 18 feet in width. A project costing $245,000 would increase the width to 21 feet, relocate utility poles and install street lighting.
A grant would furnish $120,041 and a loan would cover the remaining $125,000.
Metz is seeking CDBG funding through the Fulton County Regional Planning office, but she noted that an income survey needs to accompany the request.
Metz thanked Steve Brown from the county regional planning office and Yvonne Beck from Small Government for their assistance.
TRASH—In Metz's report to council last Tuesday, she noted that nearly 30 households participated in the spring cleanup effort in which a fee was charged for curbside pickup.
BRUSH—Brush collection for chipping continues through Friday. Residents are invited to transport their own brush to the village barn west of Eagle Street at any time.


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It's snappier than the punk rock opera of 2004's classic American Idiot and the sprawling majesty of follow-up 21st Century Breakdown. But on Uno!, the first of three Green Day albums to be released over the next four months, even though they hark back to their pop punk roots, it doesn't mean they revisit the raw, more basic and sometimes bouncy mood of the band's first incarnation on the likes of 1994's Dookie.
Because though the album is shorter, Green Day still retain the tougher, more refined and ambitious musical approach of their two previous records, both of which helped revive their popularity and make them one of the biggest American bands around.
And as single Kill the DJ suggests, the weight of the world is not bearing down so heavily on main man Billie Joe Armstrong's shoulders this time round. It's a silly, fun song, though the idea of holding a nice chap like superstar DJ David Guetta under water until he drowns seems a little passe in this day and age. Still, it's catchy as hell.
Yet the 11 other slabs of pop punk rock are far better, with standout Loss of Control coming on like a cross between The Damned's Neat Neat Neat and a rousing stadium rock anthem, with its arcing guitar riff and foot-planting, knee-flexing chug.
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Despite the bratty flippancy of Kill the DJ, Uno! is a powerful, poignant record, from the thick, thumping groove of Carpe Diem, where Armstrong asks "are we all too young to die?" which is a nod to all three of them turning 40 this year, to the lovely melodicism of Sweet 16 and the dulcet, wonky guitar of Stay the Night that intensifies to a gallop before ending with an outrageously long solo.
And, not forgetting that Armstrong writes a stirring love song too, Fell For You is one of his best yet as he sings about her "crashing my imagination" and kissing her lips and "it felt so true".
Then there are the straightforward grunt songs like their trashy Pistols-meets-Buzzcocks impression on Angel Blue and Let Yourself Go, which is sure to be a live favourite with its potty-mouthed lyrics and brazen outbursts of shouty vocals.
It's songs like punchy anthem Rusty James and unassuming first single, Oh Love, with its rousing, almost Celtic swagger, that ensures this is yet another fun, chest-beating, shout-along triumph. Whether they can keep it up for a further two albums - especially with Green Day hip-hop track, Nightlife, to come on Dos! - we'll have to wait and see.
Stars: 4/5
Verdict: Cracking good start to a pop punk rock trilogy
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race, one of the group of populations regarded as constituting humanity. The differences that have historically determined the classification into races are predominantly physical aspects of appearance that are generally hereditary. Genetically a race may be defined as a group with gene frequencies differing from those of the other groups in the human species (see heredity; genetics; gene), but the genes responsible for the hereditary differences between the traditional races are extremely few when compared with the vast number of genes common to all human beings regardless of the race to which they belong. Many physical anthropologists now believe that, because there is as much genetic variation among the members of any given race as there is between the groups identified as different races, the concept of race is unscientific and unsound and racial categories are arbitrary designations. The term race is inappropriate when applied to national, religious, geographic, linguistic, or ethnic groups, nor can the physical appearances associated with race be equated with mental characteristics, such as intelligence, personality, or character.
All human groups belong to the same species ( Homo sapiens ) and are mutually fertile. Races arose as a result of mutation , selection, and adaptational changes in human populations. The nature of genetic variation in human beings indicates there has been a common evolution for all races and that racial differentiation occurred relatively late in the history of Homo sapiens. Theories postulating the very early emergence of racial differentiation have been advanced (e.g., C. S. Coon , The Origin of Races, 1962), but they are now scientifically discredited.
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Geographic coordinates: 13° 15' N, 61° 12' W
Coastline km: 84 km km
Climate: tropical; little seasonal temperature variation; rainy season (May to November)
Terrain: volcanic, mountainous
Elevation: lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m highest point: La Soufriere 1,234 m
Natural hazards: hurricanes; Soufriere volcano on the island of Saint Vincent is a constant threat
Currency: East Caribbean dollars (XCD)
Population: 118,432 (July 2008 est.)
Languages: English, French patois
Capital: Kingstown
Divisions: Charlotte, Grenadines, Saint Andrew, Saint David, Saint George, Saint Patrick
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Rushlights stars Josh Henderson and Haley Webb as an unscrupulous young couple trying to pull off a seemingly simple con; all they have to do is drive to Texas, pass Webb off as a recently deceased acquaintance, collect an inheritance, and skip town before anyone gets wise. Of course, if the con really were that simple, there'd be no movie, so Henderson and Webb end up getting wrapped up in some predictable small-town intrigue involving Beau Bridges and Aidan Quinn—middle-aged brothers who are, respectively, the town's sheriff and its top lawyer.
Unabashedly pulpy, Rushlights brings to mind the noir cheapies churned out by the studios of Hollywood's Poverty Row in the early 1950s. It has a few of the better qualities of sub-B noir—above-average camerawork, a rogues gallery of bit players—and all of the flaws. It even has the sort of slipshod pacing—complete with abrupt, anticlimactic dissolves—that is usually associated with productions trying to conserve film stock.
Whatever pleasure could be derived from the movie's generically twisty plotting is negated by cardboard characterization, indifferent editing rhythms, and a score that sounds like it was pulled from a production music library. Henderson and Webb are non-presences cast in roles that are less characters than collections of plot twists; because Rushlights spends so much time on two protagonists that nobody bothered to write or play, it ends up feeling overlong (even the blandest '50s quickies at least had the virtue of only running an hour). As if to make up for the blandness, director/co-writer Antoni Stutz—whose only prior feature is the Traci Lords/Julie Bowen vehicle You're Killing Me—throws in a lot affected violence; pseudo-shocking stranglings, stabbings, and bludgeonings are a regular occurrence. As a result, the movie resembles a flavorless meal doused with hot sauce.


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IPBES has issued a call for nominations for the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel (MEP) for the three-year term 2015–2017, replacing the current interim MEP. The MEP is an important body as it is responsible for overseeing the scientific and technical development and implementation of the IPBES work programme.
In order to ensure that IPBES builds effectively upon existing initiatives and networks, and does not duplicate effort, it is clearly essential that experts from such existing institutions are well-represented on the MEP.
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A native of Edo, Eizan Kikugawa was born as Toshinobu Omiya in 1787. He began his artistic career studying with his father Eiji Kikugawa, a Kano painter and fan maker, before pursuing printmaking under Hokusai's pupil Hokkei. From the start of the 19th century to his retirement, Eizan was leading artist of bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) and shunga (erotic prints). He is considered the founder of the Kikugawa style. After 1830, he worked almost exclusively as a painter until his death in 1867.
Eizan admired and followed in the footsteps of Utamaro, despite the fact that he never trained with him. Working primarily in the genre of bijin-ga, Eizan captures beautiful women with sensibility and lyricism, imbuing them with an elegance and graceful classicality. Though the increased demand for ukiyo-e during the early 19th century caused some artists to rush their designs, Eizan resisted this pressure, maintaining impeccable design skills throughout his career.
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PARIS, June 29 (UPI) -- Parisians took to the streets Saturday for the city's annual gay pride festival a month to the day after the first French gay couple was legally married.
The annual celebration of gay culture in the French capital took on a more political tone, given last month's vote by President Francois Hollande's ruling Socialist party to legalize same-sex marriage in the country.
Radio France Internationale said members of Hollande's government marched in the gay pride parade carrying a banner "LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender], let's fight for equality!"
Other signs encouraged gays to fight for legalized assisted procreation procedures that had been part of the same-sex marriage legislation but were scrapped before the final vote.


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Many years ago, researchers confirmed the existence of the "Lady Macbeth Effect." The gist of it is that we humans really do associate metaphorical uncleanliness with the more literal sort: if we've done or witnessed something immoral or unethical, we are often likely literally to want to go wash or bathe in response. Like Lady Macbeth and her infamous, "Out, damned spot," when we say, "I kind of want a shower after reading that," we mean it.
So other than the obvious stereotypical hygiene jokes, how does the Macbeth Effect relate to gaming? It turns out that video games can cause it. Science Daily reports that a team of psychologists at the University of Luxembourg have observed the Lady Macbeth Effect in "inexperienced" study participants who played violent video games.
There's a lot of violence in many genres of video games. Researchers have spent decades going back and forth wondering whether violent games inspire violent behavior in the real world. The verdict on that seems to be "probably not," but it does seem, according to new research, that those of us who are regular players are desensitized to and unfazed by the virtual acts we perpetrate on digital people. But players unfamiliar with the conventions and on-screen blood react differently.
Participants played a violent game for 15 minutes, and then were asked to select a "gift" from a list of items. Subjects who were not accustomed to playing violent games showed a strong tendency to go for "hygenic" items, or items related to cleaning the self: shower gel, toothpaste, deodorant, and the like. Subjects who had more experience with playing violent games were not particularly likely to choose the hygenic items. Additionally, players not accustomed to playing violent games "felt higher moral distress" than their counterparts.
Dr. André Melzer, one of the scientists conducting the study, explained that the Macbeth effect "is a psychological phenomenon in which a person attempts to purify oneself in order to cope with feelings of moral distress," and suggested that gamers who have more experience pulling the virtual trigger on hi-def people have developed an alternative coping strategy of some kind.
Most of us don't think of our pastime as something that requires complex psychological coping mechanisms to enjoy. But it's possible, the research indicates, that violence in gaming may have a stronger effect on us than we think.
The full findings of the study will be published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology later this year.
Inexperienced Video Gamers Show Macbeth Effect [Science Daily, via GamePolitics]
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J.P. Morgan, like many sell-side analysts and fund managers, are betting on a New China this year.
The New China is no longer obsessed with investment-fueled smoggy growth. Rather, the New China wants clean air, good health and the convenience of the Internet.
Clean air means clean energy. The broker suggested we buy into city gas distribution companies and wind power manufacturers.
Pollution is a healthcare crisis. The12th Five-Year Plan budgets Rmb1.7tn for air pollution control and Rmb2tn for water pollution treatment. Resource taxes and environmental/polluter-pay taxes are planned. The government aims to increase private sector investment in drainage and sewage treatment facilities and to reform the gas production and distribution network. We believe the clean air winners will be the city gas distribution companies and wind power producers.
Picks: ENN Energy (XNGSF), Longyuan Power and GDI.
Dairy is J.P. Morgan's favorite pick in consumer staples. Dairy consumption in China is still low next to Korea or Japan:
Our top pick is the dairy sector. It enjoys government policy support and structural milk price increases due to the lack of quality supplies. Its attractive characteristics are: (1) largest revenue pool in the staples space; (2) low competitive intensity (only two or three major players and limited international competition); and (3) margin upside due to product mix upgrades. We like companies with wide geographic coverage and distribution networks, widely recognized brands and diversified product portfolios attractive to aspiring consumers.
Picks: China Mengniu Dairy (CIADF), Want Want (WWNTF).
Mobile gaming and e-commerce are also favorites:
We prefer mobile gaming and e-commerce within the IT sector. We believe mobile gaming monetization will stay robust in 2014. This should lead to mobile ad demand for large mobile ad unions such as Tencent (TCEHY). China's e-commerce sector is entering another growth phase, in our view. China's e-commerce penetration is only 9% compared to about 2% 3-1/2 years ago. Vipshop (VIPS), a leader in China's online flash sales market, should benefit from a growing online flash sales market, an under-penetrated online flash sales user base, improving logistics efficiency and high user retention rates.
China's independent oil services companies may benefit too as the government reduces the role of state-owned enterprises:
A declining conventional resource base, increasing import dependency and access to potentially the largest unconventional gas deposits globally are reasons why we see positive fundamentals continuing for all our China oil service coverage. We expect tendering to improve for independent oil service companies as the government aims to reduce SOE producer dependency on in-house service functions, and we continue to favor companies that differentiate themselves by gradually employing a U.S. integrated oil service model. Our coverage on average offers about 30% FY14E earnings growth and 30% absolute potential upside to our PTs.
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Snack Attack: Make Your Own Trail Mix
I love me some trail mix. It's a great snack that satisfies both salty and sweet cravings. And if made the right way, it provides healthy nutrition that your body needs. Whether I'm at work, running errands, or on a hike, trail mix is my go-to snack for that extra boost of energy I might need to get through the next couple of hours.
Even though it's easy enough to buy trail mix, it's more fun to make it. Added plus: you can make a week's worth of snack packs so you always have a healthy snack ready. Not only will you save money, you will also get more variety because you can change up the ingredients whenever you want. In my kitchen cabinet, I keep a wide variety of fixings that I can use to make into a trail mix, or snack on their own. Nuts, dried fruit, rice crackers, and dried veggies are some of my favorite things to use. Make sure to buy fruit that isn't loaded with sugar, and nuts that haven't been salted. And if you want a little sweetness in your mix, add some chocolate, yogurt, or carob chips. Or if you want a little spice, add some curry powder, herbs, or Morrocan spices. Just make sure that the ratio of your trail mix is three parts healthy stuff, to one part everything else. A good combo of these ingredients will provide you with a snack that's full of protein, fiber, and vitamins.
See what trail mix combos I make at home, when you read more.
Here are some of my favorite mixes:
- Cashews, dried cherries, and dark chocolate chips
- Almonds, walnuts, dried apricots, dried cranberries, and milk chocolate chips
- Roasted almonds, dried ginger, and bittersweet chocolate chips
- Almonds, sunflower seeds, spicy wasabi peas, curry powder, and coconut flakes
- Pecans, raisins, dried figs, and peanut butter chips
What are some of your favorite trail mix combos?
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HSA Calls for Prosecutions Before Another Hunt Saboteur is Killed
On 22 January 2002, hunt protestor Simon Wild was attacked at a meet of the Chiddingfold Leconfield and Cowdray Hunt in West Sussex. He was then ridden over by a member of the hunt on a horse. The League Against Cruel Sports has announced its intention to use bodyguards to protect protestors from similar incidents. The huntsman has gleefully admitted his part for last Saturday's Independent, and pro-hunt commentators are laughing about the situation.
11 years ago this Saturday, on 9 February 1991, Hunt Saboteur Mike Hill was killed by a vehicle belonging to the Cheshire Beagles Hunt. On 3 April 1993, Tom Worby died under the wheels of the Cambridgeshire Foxhounds hound-van. On 1 Sept 2000, hunt saboteur Steve Christmas came close to losing his life when he was run over by a 4x4 at a meet of the Old Surrey, Burstow & West Kent Hunt. Steve had to be airlifted from the scene and spent months in intensive care.
Today the Hunt Saboteurs Association called for more appropriate policing at hunts. Spokesperson Nathan Brown said "We have recently seen approximately 100 police officers mobilised in Sussex to prevent hunt saboteurs from blowing horns or spraying the ground with a harmless mix of citronella oil and water. Meanwhile, no concerted attempt has been made to tackle the violence dished out to protestors by hunts and their supporters."
Taking one day as a snapshot, Saturday 19 January 2002, attacks were made on hunt saboteurs at 5 different hunts across the country showing how widespread the problem is:
- Woodland Pytchley Hunt, Northants. A hunt steward was arrested and taken to Corby police station after a hunt saboteur was attacked.
- Four Burrow Hunt, Cornwall. A hunt saboteur was taken to hospital in an ambulance after being run over by a horse trailer.
- Vale of Aylesbury Hunt, Hertfordshire. A hunt saboteur was driven at by an angry hunt supporter and had to throw himself clear to avoid being hit.
- High Peak Harriers, Derbyshire. A hunt supporter drove at hunt saboteurs. She hit one female sab who landed on her bonnet and became trapped between two vehicles.
- Vale of White Horse Hunt, Gloucestershire. Hunt sabs driven at by van and one of them clipped. Driver reverses and announces " If you f***ing get in the f***ing way of my f***ing car again I'm going to f***ing kill you... you 're gonna f***ing die!!"
Aside from numerous cases of violence, this season has already seen other incidents such as hunts trespassing on railways, hounds being killed, trespass through villages, and sheep being disturbed during the lambing period. Reports have been received of disturbance by a hunt causing 2 pregnant ewes to abort their lambs.
Notes to Editors:-
- Jeremy Whaley, 51, from Duns (but about as Scottish sounding as Prince Charles) and the Master of the Berwickshire Hunt, was arrested after he tried to break through a police cordon in Regent Road, Edinburgh last Thursday. Police later said a 51-year-old man had been arrested for public order offences.
- The Scottish Parliament votes on whether or not to ban hunting on Wednesday 13 February.


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the mirror effect.
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Open a new document (you can choose the dimensions by yourself) and add the object or text of your choice in form of a new layer. I chose a styled-down version of the DesignLovr logo.Step 2
Duplicate the layer (Ctrl+J) and flip the new layer by going to Edit>Transform>Flip Vertical.Step 3
Move the freshly flipped layer down until the bottom of the original layer and the top of the duplicated either touch or have only little space in between them (depending on which method you choose you get a slightly different Mirror Effect, just play a little around and see what you like).
Now you have to add a layer mask to the duplicated layer by clicking on the little symbol at the bottom of the layer palette (see the red circle below). Select the Gradient Tool (Shift+G), choose black and white as colors in the Tool Option Window (it usually is placed directly above your canvas) and move the white stop to the left until a location of 50% is indicated (see screenshot below).Quicktip:
Now create the gradient by clicking on the lowest point of your duplicated layer (in my case it was the bottom of the D of DesignLovr) and pulling a straight line to the highest point (the end of the g in the example).
By adding a layer mask to a layer you have the possibility to fade out parts of a layer completely or partially. When the layer mask is selected in the layer palette you can simply paint with the Brush or Pencil Tool on the canvas or you can use the Gradient and Fill Tool.Step 4
Wherever you apply black the corresponding layer will fade out completely, different grays will fade it out partially (as if you reduce the opacity just on the specific part of the layer) and white will leave things as they are. It is a powerful feature of Photoshop that allows you to use only parts of a layer without the need to delete something with the eraser.
The only thing left to do now is to lower the opacity of the duplicated layer in the Layers Palette (usually a value between 30% and 50% is good) and you're done. Looks great, doesn't it?Final Result
In order to create an even stronger mirror impression you can also add a split gradient to the background as I did below.Additional Info
You can achieve different results by playing with the distance between the two layers, the gradient you add to the layer mask and different opacity values.
I also prepared a version in which I used an icon (from the Smashing Retro Icon Set) instead of text, the process is the same.
The Mirror Effect had his big moment a few years ago during the Web2.0 boom. It was heavily (over)used on a great amount of web sites and is out of this reason a little bit frowned upon by many web designers nowadays. But that is no reason not to use this effect if it suits your design.The Showcase
The mirror effect can help to give your design depth, realism and a polished, shiny look. As you will see in the showcase it is often (and should be) used very subtle and added rather to objects than text. It seems to be especially popular in the combination with iPhones (another, overused web trend).
Just do yourself and others the favor and use the effect only if it really fits rather than on your next grunge design.
The amount of web sites that use a mirror effect is much smaller than it was just a few years ago, but you can still find it on selected web sites.
In combination with a simple black or white background it adds an extra ounce of elegance (reminding one of shiny, polished surfaces) to a web site and can help to emphasize a product or object
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Lets get started…
1. The first thing we want to do is create a new document with the dimensions of 1020×1180.
2. Starting from the top, we want to begin with our header. Using your Rectangle Marquee Tool, make a selection similar to the following and fill it with #000000.
3. Keeping it black would just be boring, so the next step is to add some blending options. To do so, go to your layer in the layers palette and right click it and choose Blending Options from the drop down menu. Insert the following:
4. For our navigation, we want to give it a "bubbly" look at the bottom. To achieve this, there are a few different ways of doing it, and the way I am going to show you is very simple. Using your Elliptical Marquee Tool, make a circle simple to the following and fill it with #000000.
5. Now what we need to do is duplicate this layer by selecting your layer in the layers palette and hitting CTRL+J (Command+J). Place your duplicated layer in a similar way as the following:
6. Merge your layers and keep repeating this process until you get something that looks like this going across your header:
7. Using your Rectangle Marquee, make a rectangle similar to the following and fill it with #000000 on its own layer.
8. Merge your "bubbles" layer, and your newly created rectangle layer together and then lower your layers opacity to about 80% and insert the following blending options onto your layer.
9. For the logo I used the font Chunk , and for the musical icon, I downloaded the Mono Icon Set. Keep this set handy as we will use it in other parts of this tutorial. I then applied the following blending options to both the icon layer, and my text layer:
It will look something like this:
10. Our links will be fairly basic on the right side of our header. Using a font similar to helvetica, go ahead and add some white text to represent our links. For our active link text, I used the color #1F282F. I then used the Rounded Rectangle Tool with a radius of 5px to create a box behind my link with the following blending options:
11. Your header should look something like this:
12. Next we want to create the color glow that will be behind our screenshot preview in our featured area. Create a new group in your layers palette (Command+G), and label it "Color Glow". Then Command+Click your blue background layers thumbnail preview in your layers palette to make it an active selection. With your new group selected in the layers palette, go ahead and chose the layer mask icon at the bottom of your Layers Palette. This will make it so nothing will be visible in our content area of the site.
13. Next use a soft brush to add some bright colors in a similar way to the following, each on their own layer. Then lower the opacity of each layer until you like your results. This is what I came up with:
14. I wanted to add a little starburst effect as well that will radiate behind our screenshots, so I downloaded this rising sun brush pack and added a starburst effect.
15. Take a screenshot of your favorite music streaming site (I chose last.fm for this tutorial), and place your screenshots in a similar fashion.
16. All that is left for this is to add a little shadow underneath our screenshots. Use your Elliptical Marquee with a bit of a feather, and fill a selection similar to the following with #000000 and then lower the opacity to a point you like.
17. The last thing I did was to add a "Play" icon that I made using my Elliptical Marquee with a black fill, and my Polygonal Lasso Tool with a white fill. Lower the opacity on it and the left side of our featured area will look something like this when we are complete. We will then be able to move onto the right side.
18. Using your Text Tool, add some text in a similar way to the following. Our heading is #1E282F, while our body text is #FFFFFF.
19. With your Pen Tool, make a path similar to the following under your heading:
20. We want to add a stroke to our path. Chose your Brush from your Tools Palette and make sure your foreground is set to #1E282F, with about a 2px soft brush active. Make sure you are on a new layer, and then select your path from the Paths Palette, and then choose the Stroke Icon at the bottom to add a stroke to your path.
21. On your strokes layer, insert the following blending options:
22. The last thing we need to do for our featured box is to add our "Sign up now" button, and our "Find out More" button. To do this we want to use our Rounded Rectangle With a Radius of about 20px.
23. Add the following blending options to your layer:
24. Using your Text Tool, add some text in a similar way to the following. I then added an icon from the Iconic Icon Pack.
25. On your icons layer, added the following blending options to give it a nice green gradient.
26. Then follow the same steps to create a "Find out more" button. The only thing that changes is that our icon will use a different gradient. I used the same gradient as our blue background, except it is reversed. Your header will look like this when it is finished.
27. Our content area is up next. With your Rectangle Marquee, make a selection similar to the following and fill it with #FFFFFF.
28. Insert the following blending options onto its layer.
29. Starting with the left side of our content area, we are going to make the "Start Listening" box. So pull out your Rounded Rectangle Tool from your Tools Palette and set the radius to 10px.
30. On this newly created layer, we then want to add the following blending options:
31. To make the the heading of our box, we want to Command+Click (CTRL+CLICK) the thumbnail in our layers palette of our rounded rectangle layer to select it. On a new layer, fill your selection with #000000. Using your Rectangle Marquee Tool, select most of the box that will house content and choose Edit>Clear. It will look something like the following:
32. Insert the following blending options onto your newly created layer:
33. All that is left for the heading is to add some text to describe the content box. I chose to add a little icon on the right to add a "open new window" type option.
34. Once you add some content into the box, you can have something that looks like the following:
35. The right side of our content area houses a "featured Artist" box, and "What members say" box. These boxes are fairly basic. Using the Rounded Rectangle with a radius of 10px is how I created the container, and the back of the heading. Use the same gradient you used in step #32 for the background of your box, and then use the same gradient you used for your active link in step #10. Add some content and your content area will look like this:
36. All that is left is the footer and then we will be done! Using your Rectangle Marquee Tool again, make a rectangle similar to the following and fill it with #1F282F.
37. Now insert the following blending options onto its layer:
38. All that is left is to add some icons and text and your footer will be complete. All icons are from the Iconic Icon pack we downloaded previously. When it's all said and done, your final template should look like the following:
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KGB Illegal
From Conservapedia
According to the KGB lexicon of intelligence terms[1] an Illegal (in Russian, a Nelegal) is a
|specially trained individual (an intelligence officer or agent) who lives under instructions from intelligence, and with the help of Intelligence, in a specified country with identity documents containing new assumed identifying particulars, generally in order to conceal from the authorities and the people around him his national and state affiliation, his true surname, and biographic particulars, thereby creating the conditions for conducting intelligence from illegal positions.
An Illegal Agent (Agent-Nelegal) is a
|specially selected and trained agent supplied by Intelligence with foreign identity documents with particulars selected from him, or obtaining such documents under instruction on his own and settling on the basis of these documents in a target country or a third country, in order to carry out intelligence assignments.
A Illegal Intelligence Officer (Razvedchik-nelegal) is a
|staff member of an intelligence service located on the territory of a target country and carrying out intelligence activity from illegal positions, under a false name, using forged identity documents relating to a citizen of the target country, a third country, or his own country, or concealing his actual presence in the country.
- ↑ KGB Lexicon: The Soviet Intelligence Officer's Handbook, Edited by Vasiliy Mitrokhin, 2002.


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Reposting because we now have a proper link from the FP: Do you keep tagging your posts with #oppositelock and any variations you can think of, but nothing posts here? Let me know and I (or another admin) will make you an author so you can post. Hell, even if you're just a frequent commentor, let me know, and I'll author you so your comments don't always get bumped to the end of the line.
EDIT: I will be unavailable for most of June. If you want to be added, ask on any of the posts here.


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2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 stick (4 ounces) cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon (4 ounces) cold solid vegetable shortening
1/2 cup ice water
8 large, ripe but firm peaches (3 1/2 pounds)
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter, thinly sliced
Egg wash made with 1 egg yolk mixed with 2 tablespoons water
Whipped Cream, for serving
How to Make It
Step 1
In a food processor, pulse the flour with the sugar and salt until combined.
Add the butter and shortening and pulse until the mixture resembles coarse meal.
Transfer the mixture to a large bowl and sprinkle the ice water on top. Stir with a fork until a crumbly dough forms.
Turn the dough out onto a work surface and knead 2 or 3 times, just until the dough comes together.
Cut the dough in half and form into 2 disks; wrap in plastic and refrigerate until firm, at least 30 minutes or overnight.
Step 2
On a lightly floured surface, roll out each disk of dough to a 12-inch round.
Ease one of the rounds into a 9-inch glass pie plate and transfer the other round to a baking sheet.
Refrigerate the dough.
Step 3
Preheat the oven to 400°. Bring a large saucepan of water to a boil and fill a large bowl with ice water.
Using a sharp knife, mark a shallow X in the bottom of each peach.
Blanch the peaches in the boiling water for about 1 minute, until the skins begin to loosen. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the peaches to the ice water to cool.
Drain and peel the peaches and cut them into 3/4-inch wedges. Transfer the peaches to a large bowl.
Add the sugar, lemon juice and flour, toss well and let stand for 5 minutes.
Step 4
Pour the peaches and their juices into the chilled pie shell and scatter the butter slices on top.
Brush the edge of the pie shell with the egg wash and lay the round of dough from the baking sheet on top.
Press the edges of the pie shell together to seal and trim the overhang to a 1/2 inch.
Fold the edge of the pie dough under itself and crimp decoratively.
Brush the remaining egg wash on the top crust and cut a few slits for venting steam.
Step 5
Transfer the pie to the oven and place a baking sheet in the bottom to catch any drips. Bake for 30 minutes.
Reduce the oven temperature to 375°, cover the edge of the pie with foil and bake for about 40 minutes longer, until the filling is bubbling and the crust is deeply golden on the top and bottom.
Transfer the pie to a rack to cool completely. Serve with Whipped Cream.
Make Ahead
The dough can be refrigerated for up to 2 days or frozen for up to 1 month. The peach pie can be stored overnight at room temperature.
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The recently released Operation Anchorage downloadable content update for Fallout 3 will have to keep gamers entertained for longer than planned. Apparently, the next two content updates are both delayed by several weeks. When approached for comment, a Bethesda representative went on the record saying that, "the next DLC for Fallout 3, The Pitt, will be out in March. Broken Steel will be out the following month, in April."
Gerald: Not really a big deal, as far as I'm concerned. The Pitt should be a more expansive update to the game, as it expands the playable area outside the Capital Wasteland into Pittsburgh, and a delay to get things right sounds reasonable.
Broken Steel is what I'm really looking forward to, as it will extend the original game, stripping out the current (disappointing) ending and allowing for more juicy leveling. I really hope a whole new set of perks are added for those extra levels, though it'll be hard to top the fan-created Grim Reaper's Sprint, which entireyl stripped out any sort of difficulty from the combat.
The Pitt is an idea that needs to be expanded upon as far as I'm concerned. I would love to play a Fallout game that took place in a virtual United States, coast-to-coast, a persistent world with other characters banding together to survive the apocalypse. This Fallout MMO would probably be more awesome than even I could handle.


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EclipseLink/Examples/JPA/GlassFishV3 Web Tutorial
EclipseLink JPA Deployed on GlassFish 3 using Eclipse WTP
Note: This tutorial' is under construction for the next week as of 20080909.
If you want to get a small web application running quickly on GlassFish - the services provided by the Web Tools Project pluggin in the Eclipse IDE can take care of the deployment details and set the server into debug mode for you.
This basic example details how to use Eclipse to run/debug a minimum J2EE web application servlet using EclipseLink JPA as the persistence provider. The goal of this example is to detail the minimum steps needed to run EclipseLink inside GlassFish using the Eclipse IDE - at this point no presentation/controller layer such as JSF, Spring or Struts will be used beyond a basic HttpServlet so we can concentrate on the the integration layer JPA setup.
The DALI project was used to generate Entities from a schema with sequences already populated.
Development Environment
Software: Eclipse IDE for Java EE 3.4 M5 Ganymede (Feb 2008) with all 5 packages (DTP 1.6, EMF 2.4, GEF 3.4, WTP 3.0, XSD 2.4), Oracle 11g DB 22.214.171.124.0, Java JDK 1.5.0_11, GlassFish 3.0 TP2
This example will run fine with Eclipse 3.3 EE and any Database that EclipseLink supports.
Install Eclipse EE
- I installed a clean version of Eclipse Ganymede M5 with all of WTP 3.0
Install a Database
- In this example I am using Oracle 11g, the table schemas have already been created manually and all entitity java classes have been generated using the Eclipse DALI tool.
Install GlassFish
- Do not use V3 TP2 - use the V3 Prelude release instead.
- See the following quickly solved issues posted to the GlassFish forum
http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=46886&tstart=0 GF3tp2 domain1 fails to start out of the box - JDK 1.7 collision and no proxy set
http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=46886&tstart=0 GlassFish V3 SNAPSHOT Server Plugin for Eclipse 3.4 jar problems with TP2 - use the Prelude Plugin
- See the following GlassFish Technology Preview 2 page.
- Note V3TP2 is currently a subset of JEE5 but it has everything we need JSF 1.2, JSP 2.1/Servlet 2.5 and JPA 1.0 via EclipseLink
- Using GlassFish V3 TP2 install - the jars are named 10.0-tp-2-SNAPSHOT - but the plugin expects 10.0-SNAPSHOT
- Using GlassFish V3 Prelude install - we run into jar naming conflicts - solved below.
- However, A workaround is to use the snapshot plugin which matches with the jar names in Prelude except for a missing javax.management.j2ee-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar which you can stub, get from another server or create from the tp2 javax.javaee-10.0-tp-2-SNAPSHOT.jar
All of deployment, JNDI setup, persistence.xml configuration, jpql query example - in progress ......


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Bill Pearl is a classic bodybuilder and author of "Keys to the Inner Universe" and "Getting Stronger".
Read on as this multi – Mr. Universe 1953, 1961, 1967, 1971 shares his 50+ years of training wisdom.
Q: "Would you briefly tell us what a good basic routine would be for gaining size when you're not trying to totally cut up?"
B.P. "If a person wants to gain massive muscular bulk, if I want to get my arms as big as I can possibly get them, I would probably do around 20 sets a day of say 4 exercises and 5 sets each for the triceps and 20 sets for the biceps per workout 3 times per week. That would be around 60 sets of triceps and 60 sets of biceps work per week. I would keep the repetitions between 6 and 8 and I would do all basic movements where I can handle as heavy weights as I can and then I'd take my diet and I'd consume any nutritious food that had calories in it and just flat eat!"
Q: "I was wondering when you talk about volume training like 20 sets for the biceps three times per week, what you think about lower volume, high intensity type of training that (the late) Mike and Ray Mentzer use. They said you can theoretically become a champion even if you're not a genetic freak in just 5 years if you apply their method of high intensity type of training."
B.P. "Mike and Ray Mentzer used to write to me when they were young kids back in Pennsylvania, when Ray was 9 years old and Mike was 11 years old. They'd send me little pictures of themselves and all types of stuff. I'd answer them back. I'd never dreamed they'd end up like they were, but Mike and Ray are genetic freaks. Ray is one of the strongest bodybuilders I have ever seen in my life and Mike is equally as strong.
They have trained heavy all these years. They must have tendons like the size of my thumb. Their bodies can stand that Heavy Duty type of training where they limit the number of sets to no more than five for either the triceps or biceps, while carrying each set to total failure in both the positive and negative rep levels for maximum growth stimulation. I can say with all sincerity that Mike and Ray do not train like this year in and year out."
Q: "About the use of dumbbells. Do you use a lot of dumbbells in your training as opposed to barbells or does it make any difference to you?"
B.P. "Well, it does make a difference because you want as much variety in your training as you can possibly get and if I had to pick dumbbells over barbells I would go with the dumbbells. I think if anybody gets on a training program where the same exercises, sets and reps are done day in and day out, month after month, your body becomes so accustomed to what you're doing that muscle growth will stop altogether. I will change my entire training program every 6 to 8 weeks. Different sets, different reps, and a different goal for yourself can generally shock you into a new growth range."
Q: "Can you give me a typical workout that you might use from time to time?"
B.P. "I train 6 days per week. On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I will train all the muscle groups for just one exercise each for 6 sets of each. I group the body parts in such a way so that I can do super sets and in doing so I won't rest too long between sets. I change the exercises every workout day. As an example I might do Incline Dumbbell Flys for the chest on Monday, while on Wednesday I might go with the Bench Press and on Friday it might be Decline Bench Presses. Each of the 6 sets I do is increased from the previous one and each week I try to add 5 pounds to all my previous 6 set poundages.
On Tuesday I will do 18 to 20 sets for the chest and the back and on Thursday I will work the legs and shoulders for 18 to 20 sets each. I break up the back and leg training in the manner I have just described because they're the two largest muscle groups and it's not as tiring this way. I work my calves every day for a half hour. Saturday is arm day and just a laid-back fun day.
There are four muscle groups which I work six days per week for 6 sets of one different exercise each day. They are the Forearms, Abs, Leg Biceps and the Neck. I will train at about 85-90% of maximum and I try to do 30 sets per hour which is 1 set every two minutes. My rep scheme is varied in that I will do 6 to 10 reps per body part, but as I grow stronger I will up my reps to 15 for the upper body and 25 reps for the legs."
Q: "I was just wondering how long I should be working out before I make the transition from say a 4 day a week workout schedule to something like 6 days per week and doing 18 to 20 sets per muscle group like you just mentioned, or 6 out of every 8 days like three time former Mr. Olympia, Frank Zane, does or something like that? I mean, how long should a bodybuilder be working out basically before switching to something a lot more intense like your workouts?"
B.P. "If a bodybuilder is not responding on a hard and heavy 20 sets per muscle group three times a week and he is not growing, believe me, doing five times that much is not going to do it for you. There has to be a limit to this. There is no set answer to this question. I know guys who can train 3 or 4 days a week, 45 minutes a day and make very good progress and others just don't grow at all. I would never do more than 20 sets per muscle group three times per week. I don't care what I did, to me it just isn't worth the effort. You're going to spend your whole life in the gym.
No one says that more time in the gym is better. Personally, I can tell you that I can get all that I need in a lot less than 6 days a week, 3 hours a day in the gym. I don't have to train that much, it just means I like it. I like the surroundings, and I like the people. I use this as my time of the day to do what I so desire, but I'm sure I could be as healthy and fit as I could possibly be in one-half of that length of training time. But I enjoy the sport and I don't mind being in the gym. The minute it becomes a drudgery and I don't like it the smart thing to do is back off. Making the transition over from say a 4-day to a 6-day workout schedule and going from multiple sets to mega sets of say 20 will depend on how much time you have had in the sport of bodybuilding. I have trained for so many years I am sure I could do 25 sets per muscle. It's like trying to get 6 gallons of water into a 5-gallon bucket. You can't do it because there is going to be a gallon which will be wasted.
It's just like in bodybuilding, you can only put so much into a particular effort and get so much out of it. Now for the length of time you have trained it may be 8 or 10 or 12 sets or even 6 sets per muscle group would be just as good for you as 20 sets would be for me. So you've got to realize the length of time you've been in bodybuilding and how much of a background you have understanding what you are doing with regard to your training and how mature your muscles are. All this has a big bearing on this.
Now I'm sure that if I do less than 20 sets per muscle group I'm not even going to maintain what I've got alone make any growth factor. The longer you have in the sport of bodybuilding, if you want to continue to improve, you've got to spend more time at it. If you want to get big, thick, coarse, bulky muscles, handle heavy weights, keep your reps low at about 6 to 8, and do numerous sets and you will grow!
I'll say one thing. Any time a guy is training and the minute something negative about whatever you are doing comes into play, you had better get off it. Say you're doing a really heavy bench press like 300-400 pounds. You walk into the gym on Monday and do it, no sweat. Now on Wednesday, lo and behold you don't get the 300 or 400 pounds that you easily got on Monday, because you're still tired from your last bench routine. You come back in the gym again on Friday and you blow your benches again. Pretty soon you are gearing your whole workout to that 300-400 pound bench press. So you walk out of the gym and say 'I had a lousy workout because I missed my bench presses.' Psychologically, you can't succeed in your workouts if you have a bad attitude toward it.
Another example. Guys will come up to me and say, 'Bill, my arms won't grow. Everything I do my arms won't grow. What will I do?' If every time you pick up a barbell and curl it they aren't going to grow, because you are programming your arms not to grow, isn't this true? Your muscle doesn't have a brain. Your head controls the muscle. The muscle doesn't control the brain. So you've got to say, 'O.K., I'm going to work my arms and my arms are going to grow.' I say, change your mental attitude about your training, because if you don't you can't take anything negative that you are doing in the sport of bodybuilding and turn it into positive results, it won't work. Everything you do in the gym has to be done on a positive note. You must condition your subconscious mind to think that you are getting bigger and training with more intensity, and your body will have to respond accordingly."
Q. You say that you train 6 days a week. What exercise do you use to keep your abdominals in shape?
B.P. "There is no one specific exercise that I do for my abdominal development. I do 5 to 6 different abdominal exercises for 100 repetitions each or maybe 7 exercises and 100 reps each. There are plenty of exercises to choose from in the abdominal section of my book Keys to the Inner Universe, and the combinations are virtually endless. I don't care how much you work your abs, if you're carrying fat there you can't do situps and burn that fat off your midsection. You cannot spot reduce a bodypart through exercise. All those situps are going to do is burn calories and tone the abs a certain amount, then Mother Nature is going to pull fat off your body where it wants to, not where you want it to. If you have got heavy, thick obliques, which is normal on most guys, and you think side bends are going to reduce them and you don't change your diet, you're crazy. You're never going to get it off of there."
Q. How much excess bodyweight do you think a bodybuilder should carry before he begins physique contest training?
B.P. "I would think that you should try to stay within 2 or 3 months of being in peak condition at all times if you're constantly competing in physique contests. Never let yourself get out of position where you can't in a period of 2 or 3 months get back in the best shape you've ever been in your life. If you gain more bodyweight than that, you're asking for trouble."
Q. Would you suggest taking a couple of days off from training just prior to a physique contest?
B.P. "I would think you should take a couple of days off. For instance, if the physique contest is on a Saturday, you should probably get your last workout on Wednesday, but if you've been on a very strict diet like most people are today and you've been on this diet for the past 6-7 months, what happens if you take the two days off before this contest which is so important to you and you totally blow the diet? What would this do to your mental attitude? It would ruin it. So you will have to make this call yourself based upon your knowledge of contest training."
Q. Who do you think is the strongest bodybuilder that you've ever trained with?
B.P. "The strongest bodybuilder that I've ever trained with was probably Franco Columbu on specific lifts, but the guy I've seen handle the most weight on all sets and repetitions on all the exercises was Ray Mentzer.
I saw Ray training at a gym over in Germany a few years ago, and he was using about 240 pounds on a Nautilus bicep machine. Ray took that thing and sat down and with one arm curled that weight (240 pounds) up. When Ray went in to take a shower, I went over to that machine, and with two arms I could not curl it, and I consider myself strong. All of a sudden my attitude towards Ray changed tremendously."
Q. What's the best bench press you've ever done?
B.P. "Four hundred and fifty pounds. At my age I don't squat 600 pounds any more. I've squatted 605, I've done the seated press behind the neck with 310 pounds for 2 reps. I was probably one of the strongest bodybuilders around for a long time until recently."
Q. Do you include running in your workout schedules?
B.P. "I run at times, but I don't run on a steady basis. I think it would be a good idea if a person wanted to burn calories and consume more food, then running is good, but I think if you're in hardcore bodybuilding, I don't think you're going to run too far because if you have got that much energy left over, then you're doing something wrong in your workouts."
Q. There was a big change in your physique in the late 1960s and early 1970s where your torso took on a more muscular look. How did you do that?
B.P. "By becoming more aware of my diet, which meant just taking all the nutrition I knew and started putting it into use."
* Thank you for reading this classic Iron Game Interview with bodybuilding legend, Bill Pearl. Check out some great videos below on Pearl and Franco Columbu.
Stay tuned for more great articles!
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The New England Revolution has hired Stephen Myles as the team's assistant coach. He will join the team for his first practice session on Monday, Feb. 8.
"We're pleased to add Stevie to our staff," Revolution head coach Steve Nicol said. "He's someone who will fit in well with us in the way he goes about his job, the experience that he has and the knowledge that he'll bring to our staff. He also has a great understanding of the U.S. soccer system, which will help us in developing our player programs."
Myles, 48, comes to the Revolution from the David Beckham Academy in Los Angeles, where he has been the assistant director of competition since 2005. He has also spent the last two seasons coaching the LA Galaxy's Under-16 team in the club's youth development academy. Myles' other previous coaching experience in the U.S. includes stints as the director of coaching with the Santa Anita Soccer Club, assistant coach with the San Jose Cyberrays (WUSA) and director of coaching for the Tulsa Thunder youth program.
In his native England, Myles spent nine years progressing through the coaching ranks of his hometown Sheffield United. He began his time with the Blades in 1991 as the head coach of the Under-14 and Under-16 teams before being promoted to director of the team's academy program (Under-9s through Under-16s) in 1992. In 1995, he took over as youth team (Under-18) coach, winning two premier youth league titles. Myles became the coach of the reserve team in 1998 before helping coach Sheffield United's first team as an assistant caretaker head coach during the 1999-2000 season. Following his tenure with Sheffield United, Myles had a short spell as an academy coach with Barnsley FC before relocating to Tulsa.
A former professional player himself, Myles' 15-year career included stints with five English clubs, but was highlighted by a 10-year stay with Frickley Athletic Football Club from 1982 to 1992. He also spent time with Chesterfield, Scarborough and Boston United before finishing his playing career at Sheffield United, where he originally began his playing career in the club's schoolboy program.
He holds a UEFA "A" coaching license.
Myles replaces former assistant coach Paul Mariner, who departed the team in October 2009 to accept a position at Plymouth Argyle in the English Championship.
The Revolution is scheduled to open the 2010 season on the road against the LA Galaxy on Saturday, March 27 at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. The Revs are set to open their 2010 home slate on Saturday, April 10, when they host Toronto FC. Visit revolutionsoccer.net or follow the Revolution on Twitter (@NERevolution) for more information.


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Taidje Khan wrote:What a retarded question. CLEARLY it would depend upon the nature of the fight. I mean, are we talking about a surprise attack, a prolonged war, a cage-match, what?
Batman would win a war. If he has enough time to set his shit up the way he wants it, I think he could defeat Superman, let alone Iron Man.
But you can't get around the fact that Iron Man can walk up to him out of the blue and crack his skull like a walnut. Seriously, you cannot dance around that fact.
Without sufficient information, I have to side with Iron Man. Because Batman would require a certain set of conditions to defeat him. Iron Man's good to go as is. He could throw down right now. Batman would have to spend a bunch of time strategizing just to give him a fighting chance.
But there's no question who has the better movie this year. Iron Man was okay. It had it's moments. Solid movie. Worth the price of admission. Sure.
The Dark Knight is going to completely ruin everybody's shit. It will fucking. SLAY. Total domination by any and all standards. History will forever after be divided into pre-TDK and post-TDK. No argument is possible.
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the batman returns was good aswell


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Surrender the Dark by L.A. Banks
Pocket Books (March 2011)
Mass Market: $7.99
Celeste Jackson has fought all her life against a fog of hallucination and substance abuse, but it's not until she meets her protector, Azrael, an angel who has left the safety of the Light, that she learns of the evil forces that have been trying to ruin her, and why. A fierce battle for control of the mortal realm is brewing, and only Celeste—with the help of the Remnant, her half-human, half-angel brethren—can stand in the way.
Together, Celeste and Azrael must gather an army of sensitives to defeat the dark powers that have ruled humanity for centuries, but time is running out. If Azrael surrenders to his growing desire for Celeste, he risks being trapped among humanity forever. But the longer he stays, the harder she is to resist. To save the world, Celeste must draw on her own dark experiences with addiction to help Azrael overcome the one temptation that could possibly make him an eternal prisoner—his obsession with her.


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You can now explore the Grand Canyon without even being there.
Thanks to Google Maps, panoramic images of the famed canyon went online today, displaying more than 75 miles worth of trails and surrounding roads.
Just by moving your mouse or swiping your finger, you can wend your way through any of the trails to marvel at some of the amazing images captured by the Google Maps team. One view guides you along the Blue Angel Trail, another takes you past the Colorado River, and a third pops you a couple of hours away to gaze at Meteor Crater.
The images were collected by the Google Maps team with help from "Trekker," a wearable backpack with a camera system that can capture 360-degrees of the surrounding view. Controlled via an Android smartphone, Trekker gets the job done through 15 5-megapixel camera lenses and a battery that can last the whole day.
Still, the trek wasn't easy for the team. As described in a Google Maps blog posted earlier today, the Trekker backpack weighs 40 pounds, and the temperatures in the canyon vary wildly. But a few muscle cramps later, and the team was able to capture more than 9,500 panoramic photos of the canyon for all of us to enjoy.


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