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As Jaime and I noted yesterday, many Democratic politicians feel the need to preface any discussion of guns with an assurance that they, too, own guns and love to shoot, as though that were the price of admission to a debate on the topic. But what you seldom hear is anyone, politician or otherwise, say, "I don't own a gun and I don't ever intend to" as a statement of identity, defining a perspective that carries moral weight equal to that of gun owners. So it was good to see Josh Marshall, in a thoughtful post, say, "Well, I want to be part of this debate too. I'm not a gun owner and, as I think as is the case for the more than half the people in the country who also aren't gun owners, that means that for me guns are alien. And I have my own set of rights not to have gun culture run roughshod over me." Let me tell you my perspective on this, and offer some thoughts on the question of what sort of a society we want to have when it comes to the question of guns. Because there are two radically different visions that are clashing here.
For the record, I, too, am not a gun owner (you're shocked to learn this, I know). I took riflery at camp as a kid, shooting a .22 at paper targets (and when you achieved each new level of marksmanship, you got a certificate from the NRA!), and I've held unloaded guns a few times. I understand the attraction of guns. They give you a feeling of power and potency, and they're fun to shoot, which is why every little boy loves playing with toy guns. But in the town where I grew up, you never saw a gun that wasn't in a cop's holster. If any of my classmates' parents had them (and I'm sure some did), they never mentioned it, and my own parents would sooner have adopted a pack of hyenas than brought a gun into our home. As far as that community was concerned, the relative absence of guns was one of the things that made it a nice place to live. It wasn't because everyone got together and took a vote on it, but that absence was nevertheless an expression of the community's collective will.
I'm sure that many gun advocates would hear that and say, "Don't you realize how vulnerable you all were? You should have been armed!" But the truth is we weren't vulnerable (crime was low; I have a vague memory of one murder that happened during my entire childhood but I could be imagining it), and although as kids we always complained that the town was boring, everyone seemed pretty happy with the security situation. And if one day, a few of the town's citizens started letting everyone know that they were now carrying firearms when they were down at the drugstore or the bank, it wouldn't have made anyone feel safer. Just the opposite, in fact. It would have changed everything for the worse.
What I'm getting at is that one of the things that makes a society work is that people have rights that are protected in the law, but they also exercise those rights with consideration for the society's other members. For instance, we have a strong commitment to freedom of expression, such that many things that would be deemed obscene and get you tossed in jail in other countries are tolerated here. So if I want do a performance art piece that involves lots of cursing and tossing about bodily fluids, I can do it. But I'm not going to do it on the sidewalk in front of your house during dinner time, not because I don't have the right, but because that would make me an asshole. In the exercising of my rights, I'd be changing the conditions of your existence, even for a brief time, in a way that you'd find unpleasant. So because I value having a society where we all live together, I'll choose to find a theater to put on my performance, and you can choose to come see it or not. In the same way, if you choose to have a gun in your home because you think it protects you, that's your right. I'm going to choose not to let my kid come play with your kid at your house, and we can all get along.
According to the Constitution, you have a right to own a gun. I'll be honest and say that I wish it weren't so; the fantasies the most extreme gun advocates notwithstanding, our liberty is protected by our laws and institutions, not by our ability to wage war on our government. Canadians and Britons and French people aren't any less free than we are because they are less able to start killing cops and soldiers when they decide the time for insurrection has come. Nevertheless, that basic right exists and it isn't going to be taken away. But the rest of us should also be able to say that there are limits to how far your exercising that right should be allowed to change the rest of our lives, and if necessary the law should enforce those limits.
As I've written before, the goal of many gun advocates, particularly those who promote concealed carry, is that we make it so as many people as possible take as many guns as possible into as many places as possible. That's been the focus of their legislative efforts in recent years, not only passing concealed carry laws nearly everywhere, but also passing laws to make you able to take guns into bars, schools, government buildings, houses of worship, and so on, and also advocating for laws that would let you take your guns to communities where it would be otherwise illegal to carry them. Which would mean that your right to carry your gun trumps the right of everyone else to say, this is a place where we've decided we don't want people bringing guns.
Is it possible that on my next visit to the local coffee place, a madman might come and shoot the place up? Yes, it's possible. And is it possible that if half the patrons were armed, one of them might be able to take him down and limit the number of people he killed? Yes, it's possible. It's also possible that I'll win the next Powerball. But if holding out that infinitesimal possibility means that every time I go down for a coffee, I'm entering a place full of guns, it's not a price I'm willing to pay. That's the decision I've made, and it's the decision that the other people in my community have made as well.
But gun advocates want to create a society governed by fear, or at the very least, make sure that everyone feels the same fear they feel. "An armed society is a polite society," they like to say, and it's polite because we're all terrified of each other. They genuinely believe that that the price of safety is that there should be no place where guns, and the fear and violence they embody, are not present. Not your home, not your kids' school, not your supermarket, not your church, no place. But for many of us—probably for most of us—that vision of society is nothing short of horrifying.
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First of all, this is a very well written and respectful article and, for that, I commend you. However, you don't dig very deep into the execution of something like this. Currently, private business owners can choose whether to allow firearms, assuming people follow the rules. People can choose not to enter an establishment whose gun policies don't agree with their personal views on the issue. It gets a bit harder to do this for whole communities. Most communities are going to fall under state or city ordinance and should have to follow their rules. Maybe you could do something like this for gated communities but there is no simple solution. Also remember that this is a two way road. You can argue that gun carriers obstruct your freedom to live gun free but proposed firearm bans would also obstruct the freedoms of gun owners. Lastly, not everyone who supports gun rights envisions a world were everyone is armed and in constant fear. Most of us just want to know that we have the freedom to purchase a firearm should we so choose. A society where gun owners and abstainers do not interfere with each other would be great, but it is somewhat unrealistic.
Mon, 2013-01-21 19:45
Yeah, well... Look, it seems to me that we're talking about two kinds of rights. I'd call them "active rights" and "passive rights". Maybe legal philosophers or somebody has a better way of putting it, but I guess these will do for now. A passive right is a right that we all have that we don't have do anything to exercise. Sitting in your house by yourself is a passive right. When you're exercising this right, you aren't affecting anybody else. All you're doing is sitting there. Toting a gun around in public, though, is an active right. When you exercise this right, you are doing something, something that affects other people. I guess the classic example is, "The right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins." You have the right to swing your fist around wildly, and that's an active right. But when my nose just sits there quietly, it is exercising its own passive right, the right to sit there inoffensively and not get hit by any fists. And it's true that by reining in your right to freely swing your fist around by saying, "Don't hit me in the nose," I am curtailing one of your rights. But it's hard to argue that your right to flail your fist around where my nose happens to be trumps my right to have my nose sit here unaccosted.
So it is with gun-totig, it seems to me. When I go around out in the open, I think I have some right not to have armed people everywhere around me. My being unarmed doesn't violate any right of yours, but your packing heat violates my right not to feel threatened by armed people, people I have no way of knowing aren't psychopaths or criminals. Now, it's true that there are public places where, if I go out into them, I accept that there might be armed people. I don't like it that on a public street there might be armed people, some of whom might be nuts. But in schools, in churches, jeez, surely we as a society have some right to say, "No here. You leave your gun at the door or keep the hell out." I would argue that even a whole town or township or city could, if a substantial majority agrees, ban people from carrying guns in public. There's debate on what those limits should be, or how big a majority it should take to outlaw guns in public. But to equate your right to tote a gun with my right to feel safe and unthreatened while minding my own business is, it seems to me, akin to arguing that I'm indefensibly violating your rights when I ask you to keep your swinging fist away from my nose.
Mon, 2013-01-21 20:05
It takes a lot less action to carry a gun than to swing a fist and, if done responsible, concealed carry should never affect you. Take a look at crime statistics amongst holders of concealed carry permits, its very rare. Schools are already gun free zones by federal law and churches have every right to post signs forbidding firearms and law abiding CC license holders should follow those rules. In the interest of transparency, I don't carry or even own a gun. I actually reside in another gun free zone, a college campus. I can assure you that this does not make me fell any safer. A student was actually robbed at gunpoint outside the engineering complex last year. The person responsible was not a CC permit holder and had no interest in obeying the law.
Mon, 2013-01-21 20:19
And for the record, I don't have a problem with the general idea of the majority in a given place getting together and saying, we don't like the idea of concealed carry and we don't want it here. I think it would have negative or no effect on crime, but it's a choice that I am not fundamentally opposed to letting people make. This is already done for private property (including businesses) as well as select public property (such as schools). The problem is, banning concealed carry in whole cities would usurp state law in many places. It would also be hard to enforce as honest CC permit holders could wonder into neighboring cities without knowing. I see a lot of problems with execution.
Fri, 2013-01-25 06:18
It's really a good point. Do we want to be part of a society that acts good only out of fear or one that promotes good through positive communities. The gun rights activities and general conservative belief, although they are Christians, seems to be that humans are natural bad and lazy and they must be kept in check with fear and forced to work hard through fear. I'm just not sure that I agree with this world view.
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Has anyone built Spike from the retail set yet? My son will be presenting his at our club meeting this afternoon. ( This thing is a battery killer! )
He programmed it exactly from the tutorial and it seems to work fine - although it doesn't always detect an object < 6 cm and react with the stinger. It does however detect < 30 cm quite efficiently - causing it to move backward. In short, to get it to sting you have to hold your hand in front of it for a while.
Anyone have similar experiences with this model?
One more question: Is is possible to change the resolution on the NXT-G ( more icons on the page) without changing the computers resoltion?
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I built the spike... there was a delay in the motion sensor response...
I haven't found a way to increase the resolution within NXT-G without changing my overall PC display... sorry.
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I've played a little with Spike and I found a small change you can make to have it react faster. The main problem is the 1 second Move command to make it back up. During this time it can't sting. If you change this duraction to Unlimited then it won't wait that 1 second.
If you make this change then you will notice another problem. Spike will oscillate if something is near the 30 inch mark - it goes a little forward and then a little back.
To fix that use a Timer. After the Move command to back up put a Timer command to reset timer 1. Then put the Move command to go forward within a Switch so that it only happens if Timer 1 > 1 second, i.e. it will only move forward if it has been at least 1 second since it started moving backwards.
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For what, you ask?
The feds are investigating accusations that New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez had sex with underage hookers on trips to the Dominican Republic, The Post has learned.
"Clearly, they [FBI agents] were pursuing it," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of the watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, who reported Menendez to the feds last year.
Menendez and his Dominican junkets have come under intense scrutiny in the past 24 hours after the feds raided the Florida office of Dr. Salomon Melgen, a Menendez friend.
Tipsters told Sloan's group that Melgen repeatedly flew Menendez on a private jet to the Dominican Republic, where the doctor allegedly supplied prostitutes to the senator.
Melgen did not respond to requests for comment.
Menendez's office said, "Any allegations of engaging with prostitutes are manufactured . . . and are false."
I quoted the entire article, from the supposedly Republican-leaning New York Post, for a reason. Do you see what you're not noticing? If you didn't already know Bob Menendez was a member of the Democrat Party, you certainly weren't going to get that piece of information from Post writer Josh Margolin.
I wonder why the NYPost would neglect to mention that Mr. Menendez is a Democrat. Party affiliation is a fairly easy way for people to identify political figures. For the news consumer, understanding where an elected representative sits on the partisan spectrum is a great help when trying to get a grasp on current events. Yet we never get to know Bob Menendez very well from this article, especially as it relates to his profession. He must be from the very popular Generic Party. Tra-la-la, ho-hum, move it along folks.
Isn't it also strange how this investigation didn't come out until after Boisterous Bobby was safely re-elected? I know Joseph Kyrillos, Menendez's GOP opponent last November, tried to make some hay out this but that tactic was largely seen as a dying campaign's last gasp. Most the of the media blew it all off: "These are baseless allegations against this divorced senator from an unknown region of the United States. Also hookers are notorious liars. Besides prostitution is legal in the DR, so yeah."
We can all see how Garden State voters were rightfully protected from this unseemly intrusive information. Nobody thinks it's important that their Senator is being investigated by the FBI for improperly using a campaign contributor's private jet to hook up with underage hookers at the same campaign contributor's private club located in a foreign country with notably lax prostitution statutes. Citizens would not be at all interested in learning about a situation like this, especially during an election where the Democrat Party was
shamelessly moralizing dutifully explaining to America all the many ways that Republicans want to exploit women.
Media observers, including some conservatives, think that press bias is just a matter of how a news organization presents stories. Giving a story a left wing spin is a time-honored tactic for the Democrat Party shill working at an MSM outlet. The media still does this all the time. But it's more than just putting a progressive-friendly sheen on stuff. It's about guarding the good guys–ie Bill Clinton, Barney Frank and Bob Menendez–and punishing the evil retrograde Republicans and conservatives.
Here is more: RS McCain makes this pungent observation.
…you want to tell me that's not newsworthy? Turn in your press credentials, clean out your desk and find another line of work, because you clearly have no aptitude for the news business.
See, that's just it. The media loves a good political sex scandal, when it's a Republican at the center of it. When a GOPer does something awful, the press loves to spin it into their favorite narrative–"This latest sex scandal indicts the entire hypocritical Republican party."
When it's a Democrat that's accused of using people like a box of kleenex, suddenly it's not newsworthy.
Protecting the progressive brand is more important than, you know, actually reporting the news.
Back to the story: It just keeps getting uglier.
The main source in the Bob Menendez underage hooker scandal sent the FBI the names offour hookers who confirmed they had attended sex parties with Salmon Melgen and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) in the Dominican Republic. On Tuesday, FBI agents raided the West Palm Beach business of Dr. Melgen who is suspected of providing free trips and even underage Dominican Republic prostitutes to U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J.
I'll say this. We live in a country where a person is innocent until proven guilty. None of this has been found to be true yet. Menendez might not have done any of it.
At the same time, I don't see the FBI investigating something like this if there isn't something to it. I mean, do they like wasting time and resources on complete dead-ends? I don't think that happens too often, especially since the target of the investigation is such a high-profile public figure.
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February 1, 2013 at 10:12 am
Ace points out that the FBI raid was about MediCare fraud by the good (perverted) doctor.
So we've got a triple threat here: underage prostitution, MediCare fraud, and potentially a billion dollars worth of quid pro quo corruption.
Here's an exit question for those asserting, "Besides prostitution is legal in the DR, so yeah.": so it's okiley-dokiley to send yourself over to DR to get around most US states' prostitution laws, yet it's an outrage to send your money out of the country to get around US tax laws?
And, does anyone remember when everyone on the Left took as absolutely true that elRushbo was visiting hookers in the DR based solely on the fact that he had Viagra in his possession, and that it was supposed to prove to everyone that he was subhuman scum?
February 1, 2013 at 11:33 am
The progressives are planning to make pedophiles the next protected class. The media knows that, which is why, for them, it is not news.
February 1, 2013 at 3:53 pm
Hey, as long as he didn't smoke after sex no crime was committed.
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TDD GSP has taken down the best of the best so at some point Nick will be on his back even if thats all he trained since he retired. So working on sub's will lessen GSP's GNP due to being extra careful.
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Shouldn't read too much into this. All CJ said is that Diaz is going to make sure he's really strong off his back by training a shitload with Shields, who has a very strong top game. It would be insane for him not to work on his guard for this fight.
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One of the questions I get asked the most is some version of "what do you think of crowdfunding?" I usually answer with some noncommittal answer about how it is going to be important, but no really knows how it will impact the trajectory and success of startup companies. After all, the notion of banding together through social media to fund the development of a prototype, documentary film or art project has been going on for many years now.
Adam Berk had a vision of creating an online library where neighbors could borrow tools and electronics from one another. Why buy a fancy camera you only needed to use once for a big trip? Why invest the money in physical tools for a home remodeling project if you are never going to need them again? Adam and his best friend Dave spent 5 years creating this utopian community, neighborrow, powered by a new form of currency. Their business model was to eventually white label the product and sell it to large apartment buildings and others who wanted to facilitate a borrowing community. But they never achieved their vision.
Last week we launched a brand new program for startup companies who had previously presented at 1 Million Cups, the Kauffman Foundation's weekly educational program that features two local startups presenting to the community over coffee. This new effort, launched with the folks at Dream Big America, will continue to put a spotlight on startup companies from throughout the country.
"If you truly believe in the potential of your company to change the world for the better, there's no excuse for settling for an acquisition."
I was reading through this month's Inc. magazine earlier when this quote caught my eye. My first thought was to challenge the notion. There are specific occasions when an acquisition is exactly what a company needs to move forward or to move on. This is just how things work, but the bold words sparked my interest enough to turn the page. I flipped to Issie Lapowsky's feature with Vimeo founder Jake Lodwick. Lodwick was fired a year and a half after selling Connected Ventures, the parent company of Vimeo and College Humor, to InterActive Corp, an Internet company that owns the likes of match.com, Urbanspoon, and dictionary.com. After the acquisition, he felt stripped of his creativity. Where innovation once dwelled, process was introduced. Lodwick was fired a week and a half before he planned to quit. This experience backs his words of advice to entrepreneurs who think an acquisition means nothing will change within the mission of an organization. Lodwick bitterly states that "in fact the mission was lost, and everything will change."
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Welcome to Hinman College!
Hinman College is a spirited residential area with enthusiastic students!
We place emphasis on some of the most important parts of residential living: community, tradition, and our residents' active involvement in the social and academic life of the college.
Hinman is extremely proud to have an area wide focus on Community Service and Leadership, which is incorporated into many of our events and traditions! We offers resources such as the Hinman Success Center which includes the Discovery Center, computers and printers, study rooms, and offices of professional staff members. Outside we have tennis courts, a beach volleyball court, basketball courts and a dining hall. To top it off, Hinman College is centrally located across from the lecture halls.
Hinman is comprised of five residence halls with more than 1,000 residents living in four- and six-person suites.
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GORE BIKE WEAR® fosters an inquisitive culture and a passion for cycling. For almost 30 years they have produced cycling apparel that accepts no compromises in comfort, protection, design or safety.
A cooling jersey with a highly efficient venting system. Mesh panels in the back, underarms and nape combine with a full length zip provide all the ventilation you need to stay cool.
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I want to have a skinit on my MBP but i still want the protection of a case. Since this is suppose to be transparent i'm hoping to have the protection of the case and the skinit show through. So will the case still fit with a skinit on the Macbook pro?
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The past week I've been on holiday and stumbled on a very nice buy at an RSPCA shop in Rothbury.There was a large box filled with Terry Pratchett audio tapes for a pound each, probably from one person's collection, there was also a black adder tape in the box.
Of the dozens that were there I bought three:The last continent,Feet of clay and Thief of time, none of which I've read.I was careful not to keep them in the car too long because as TP (or possibly NG) has taught me,cassettes left in cars for any length of time magically change into Queen albums
I enjoyed one side of The Last Continent and got halfway through the next side when the tape got badly tangled in the machinery .Thankfully my dad is well versed in the lost art(and it is a lost art,or at least dying) of tape handling and respooled it, then he gave the witch-like advice that I should run it all the way forward and back to restore the tension.I've attempted this but I've discovered it won't wind past a certain point,probably the point where the tape came out in the first place.
I've not tried the other tapes yet but I'm looking forward to it.If they work I'll listen to some good stories and if not I'll have fun poking around with antique electronics.


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David Maxwell has been president of Drake University since May of 1999, and holds a faculty appointment as Professor of Literature. Dr. Maxwell is considered a thought leader in academia and has been an active member of several national higher education associations.
Previously, Dr. Maxwell was director of the National Foreign Language Center in Washington, D.C., from 1993 to 1999, after serving as president of Whitman College from 1989 to 1993. Dr. Maxwell was at Tufts University from 1971 to 1989 as a faculty member in Russian language and literature, and served as dean of undergraduate studies from 1981–89. He holds a B.A. in Russian Areas Studies from Grinnell College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Brown University. Dr. Maxwell was a Fulbright Fellow in Moscow in 1970–71.
Dr. Maxwell is married to Madeleine Mali Maxwell, a creative director. They have two sons: Justin, a user experience guru in Silicon Valley, and Stephen, a physicist at national laboratory.
"Drake University is not an institution in which knowledge is simply a commodity that is conveyed in the classroom by an educated faculty to a less educated student body. We are an institution that recognizes we have much to learn from our students, from their discovery of things in our work that we have never thought of before ourselves, from the richness of their intelligence, their insights, and the diversity of their experience." – David Maxwell
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Take a look at the source of the UNL homepage. Doesn't matter if you're on- or off-campus. If you browse through the headers, you'll find this line:
<meta name="ICBM" content="40.817719, -96.701513" />
Yes, that's ICBM as in the missile (I can't find any other definition that fits), and the content appears to be the approximate lattitude/longitude of UNL. Having no GPS at hand, I can't verify it beyond being somewhere in our area of Nebraska.
I doubt it's anything sinister, probably just someone's sick idea of humor, or a way to blow off some steam. Still, someone should probably pull it off of there.
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A renowned international dining destination
Bangkok is a renowned international dining destination, and Royal Princess Larn Luang upholds this reputation with its collection of superb restaurants in Bangkok that serve a wide range of cuisines and delicacies in well-designed, elegant spaces.
Princess Café
For all-day dining, Princess Café offers guests delicious Thai fare that spans different regions and tastes. In addition, an extensive list of international dishes is available for selection at the buffet or a la carte.
Hours: Daily, 06:00 to 24:00.
The Empress
Fine regional Chinese fare with an emphasis on Cantonese cuisine is served at The Empress, which features evocative contemporary Chinese décor in a white and red motif. Cantonese classics highlight the menu, along with the popular daily dim sum lunch.
Lunch: Daily, 11:00 to 14:30
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Authentic Japanese food is served at Mikado, where the setting includes sunken tables and serene views of the hotel gardens. Fresh sushi and sashimi are prepared at the sushi bar, and there are teppanyaki and other classic Japanese dishes and drinks available, including sukiyaki, shabu-shabu and sake.
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Piccolo offers a variety of classic Italian favorites and live music is provided during dinner time.
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Enjoy light snacks and refreshing drinks around the pool area or at the counter while you kick back and relax.
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The Art and the sea gallery features a changing selection of paintings and ship models from the Merseyside Maritime Museum collections.
Liverpool has had a thriving artistic community for more than 200 years. Most of these paintings are by artists who lived locally. They include portraits of ships which were owned and operated from Liverpool as well as views of the port and river. The majority were painted for the ships owners, builders, captains or crew. They are generally very accurate and evocative of a dynamic port.
The collection of ship models is large and wide ranging. Whilst there are many vessels with a Merseyside connection, there is good coverage of British merchant ships in general. The collection also includes warships, fishing craft and models made by French prisoners of war from about 1790 to 1815.
The displays of maritime paintings and ship models are changed regularly so that the full range of the collections can be seen.
To accompany the exhibition Titanic and Liverpool: the untold story there is currently a display of models, paintings and posters from the White Star Line in the Art and the Sea gallery.
The Illustrated Catalogue of Marine Paintings features some of the Museum's finest oil paintings in full colour and is available to buy from the online shop, as well as the museum gift shop.
See all of the paintings from the collection on the BBC 'Your Paintings' website.
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This week brought us the release of Ivy Bridge. This particular release is especially strange and rather challenging to cover as a lot of the critical parts are spread out over a 3 month period. Earlier this month we saw the release of the Z77 chipset, which is the primary enthusiast chipset to support Ivy Bridge (like the Z68 Chipset). This week we get the release of the Quad Core CPU versions of Ivy Bridge.
The article below is a great extensive look at the Ivy Bridge release and more specifically, the Core i7-3770K. I just want to touch on a few key points here which will be important to you.
The number one question I am sure: "Is it worth upgrading to Ivy Bridge from Sandy Bridge?" From a value standpoint my answer is no – UNLESS you want to run PCIe 3.0, or you want to support Thunderbolt technology.
Before I continue, there is a HUGE caveat about Thunderbolt. If you are wanting to use Thunderbolt devices with your new Ivy Bridge System – DO NOT BUY ANYTHING YET. The Z77 chipset will be supporting Thunderbolt with an additional controller, but this will not be released until the end of May. So that means you can't buy a Z77 motherboard right now, and have it support Thunderbolt. If you don't care about using Thunderbolt, then don't worry about it.
The largest benefit for building an Ivy Bridge system is PCIe 3.0 – or it will be eventually. Currently you can play any game at max settings with PCIe 2.0 cards – though I am interested to see the effect PCIe 3.0 will have on current benchmarks. There are currently PCIe 3.0 capable cards on Tom's Benchmarks, but it is difficult to compare the current offerings. AMD's 7XXX series cards are PCIe 3.0 capable, and they perform better than the previous generation – but that is to be expected for a new generation video card. nVidia has released the GTX 680 as their only PCIe 3.0 video card, and it outperforms everything except certain cards with higher memory at higher settings – the Extreme benchmarks are dominated by 3 and 4 GB cards, which is to be expected considering the large resolution (keep this in mind when Retina Displays become mainstream).
My take on this is that if you have a Sandy Bridge system right now, don't upgrade just yet (unless of course you simply enjoy doing that, then feel free to go nuts :). There is no value justification in upgrading from a Sandy Bridge / Z68 system to an Ivy Bridge / Z77 system at this time.
Just to wrap up some other notes about this release. This release is only for the Quad Core Ivy Bridge CPUs. The i7-3770k reviewed below is the IB version of the i7-2600k/2700k. The i5-3570k is the IB version of the i5-2500k. So the mid-range build will likely consist of an i5-3570k on a Z77 chipset board. As I am writing this, I haven't actually seen these chips available in retailers, so I am not sure when that will happen. It's nice to note that the new versions of these CPUs are actually going to be slightly cheaper than their predecessors – the i7-3770k being $19 cheaper than previous, and the i5-3570k being $13 less. This says to me that retailers are going to likely drop prices on Sandy Bridge not insignificantly (or at least provide sales).
So again, if you currently have a Sandy Bridge system of at least the mid range build, there's really no reason to upgrade to Ivy Bridge (other than for the heck of it).
I'll be building a new Ivy Bridge system in the next couple of months – I'm waiting on Thunderbolt for Z77 as well as the rest of nVidia's Kepler lineup.
For now, do check out this article for more extensive information on the Ivy Bridge release.
The Intel Ivy Bridge (Core i7 3770K) Review
The times, they are changing. In fact, the times have already changed, we're just waiting for the results. I remember the first time Intel brought me into a hotel room to show me their answer to AMD's Athlon 64 FX—the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition. Back then the desktop race was hotly contested. Pushing the absolute limits of what could be done without a concern for power consumption was the name of the game. In the mid-2000s, the notebook started to take over. Just like the famous day when Apple announced that it was no longer a manufacturer of personal computers but a manufacturer of mobile devices, Intel came to a similar realization years prior when these slides were first shown at an IDF in 2005:
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Hello again.
My third question is about what I would have to do if I decided I didn't like Windows 8 and I wanted to go back to my Windows 7 installation that came originally pre-installed on my computer.
What I know from past experience is once you upgrade to a higher version Windows Operating System even if it's just a Service Pack Upgrade is once you go to a higher version you cannot downgrade - not using the computer's original Restore cds that is. I think back in Windows XP and also again in Windows Vista I tried to do a system restore to clean up my system and start fresh and after I took all the time to back everything up and got started with the restore I got an error message saying something along the lines of "Sorry, you cannot install this version of Windows, the version of Windows that you currently have is higher than the version you are trying to install." It was something along those lines.
I forgot what I had to do to finally get myself downgraded, this was years ago, but I do recall it being such a huge hassle especially because the computer I was doing this on was my one and only computer so I was left on my own to figure this out without being able to seek help online about the matter.
So I am wondering what sort of headache I will be in for if I do this Windows 7 to Windows 8 upgrade and decide I am not happy with it. Do you know if we still get that sort of error message about not being able to overwrite a higher version with a lower version?
Thanks in advance for your answers and opinions. I don't have any more questions at this time.
Thanks again everyone.


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