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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal officials on Monday unsealed five criminal cases filed against 18 current and former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies as part of an FBI investigation into allegations of civil rights abuses and corruption in the nation's largest jail system.
Los Angeles County social workers rallied outside a county supervisor's office in El Monte on Monday, demanding the county hire more workers for the Department of Children and Family Services to relieve caseloads and provide better care.
College of the Canyons will host a free orientation next Monday for job seekers interested in the fields of aerospace and biomedical manufacturing.
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Clouds of dust will soon not be a problem at 86th Street. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says a state-of-the-art air filtration system will solve the problem they have been at having construction of the Second Avenue subway at 72nd Street.
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People who "objectively" blog on news/politics should better be careful with their assertions
I do read Nur al-Cubicle's blog on a regular basis. She (I THINK it's a "she" - but maybe I let the fact that "Nur" is a female Arabic name mislead me) is providing an invaluable service to all those of us who either cannot read French/Spanish/Italian or just don't feel like slugging through all the newspapers ...
But I find some of her slants to be cheap, petty, & based on ideological assumptions as opposed to solid reasoning. And what is worse - while in being cheap & petty she is merely putting herself onto the same intellectual level as the rightwing assholes against whom she is trying to write - by letting her emotion-based ideology getting the better of her careful reasoning she is giving them ample ammunition to invalidate ANYthing that she says, just like Cindy Sheehan's antics have done a grave disservice to all those involved in bringing the number of casualties in Iraq to the forefront of public awareness in the U.S.
For instance: in a post titled "Let's Go Kill Us Some Innocent Iraqis" Nur refers to a video shot by members of the private security firm AEGIS. Just watch the video & then come back to this here post.
Seen it? O.K. Welcome back.
Now ... What can be gathered and concluded from this video is the following: The AEGIS men are driving along a highway (presumably the one from central Baghdad to the airport) & are using their weapons to ensure that no car can approach them from behind. My personal guess is that they are afraid of being rammed or blown up by a suicide car-bomb. As you can see in the video, as soon as a car approaches, they start shooting at the car. I suspect that they are aiming at the front (bumper and/or grill) or the engine. OF COURSE, while sitting in a moving vehicle, NOBODY can aim precise enough at another moving car to be absolutely CERTAIN that the driver or passengers of that other car do not get hurt or even killed. And thus, it is clear that the AEGIS men do not care if their shooting will harm/kill the driver/passengers of the vehicle they're shooting at.
But the assertion that the AEGIS men are on a ride to "let's go & kill us some innocent Iraqis" is crap. If they wanted to kill innocent Iraqis, there are simpler, easier ways to do that. (Yes, I KNOW this sounds horrible - but I'm staying within Nur's frame of reference here.) In addition (& as another proof of just how wrong Nur is),as you can see, the AEGIS men do not shoot at oncoming traffic, or cars that they are overtaking. They are clearly not on a "shooting spree".
Now, what Nur al-Cubicle, in her zealous attempt to present her readers with yet another case of "bad white guys commit an act of barbarism against innocent Iraqis", is completely missing is the general problem:
In an attempt to "out-source" the safeguarding of locations - like the Baghdad airport - to private security firms the powers-that-be are producing a situation where these armed people in civilian clothes are driving around in non-marked vehicles (both in order to minimize the danger of being targeted by the armed resistance), are obviously paranoid about being attacked, act according to a "better him than me" modus operandi, and get away with it.
Obviously, these guys might ALSO be racist and might even entertain notions of "let's go bag us some sandniggers" - but the video Nur al-Cubicle (& a host of other bloggers) cites does not prove this allegation. I personally think that the whole system of private security firms is intrinsically problematic and should be addressed as such, as many a publication (I remember reading this one on Salon last year) has done.
In my point of view, if private security firms ARE to be employed (& I have massive problems with that) & if then these guys want to go from one place to another (or even as "foreigners"), & are therefore afraid to drive unarmed in a civilian vehicle ... well, then they should hitch a ride on an army or police vehicle. And I haven't even addressed the issue that the Geneva Conventions apply to them as little as they do to "Al-Qa'idah in Mesopotamia" yet ...
As it stands, I say "move them out of Iraq".
BUT, dear bloggers/journos, please don't make assertions you cannot prove. Instigation of hatred towards "the West" is as bad as instigation to hatred towards "the East".
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Agreed, mate, agreed.
And welcome.
Posted by: The Lounsbury at December 8, 2005 01:01 PM
Good post. Nothing more to say.
Posted by: Baal Shem Ra at December 8, 2005 02:18 PM
wait, actually, I do have something to do.
why would the contractors film this? I have a hard time conceiving that they consider this video evidence will be exculpatory if they kill someone and get in trouble for it.
How can they expect other drivers to guess that an unmarked car contains contractors, especially considering that the point of travelling in an unmarked car is precisely so that no one will guess that it is transporting contractors? Just how much do they have to shoot on a journey?
Posted by: Baal Shem Ra at December 8, 2005 02:52 PM
I'd also observe that the video has been "doctored" by the addition of a bad country music soundtrack. This makes it impossible to hear what the people in the car are saying. Since this video has been edited to highlight shooting incidents, I can only assume that the audio would have been exculpatory.
Posted by: Anonymous at December 8, 2005 07:17 PM
dear all-
why would the contractors film this? i am not contesting the assertion that it IS some sort of trophy video, but then ... people videotape all sorts of things. as for "exculpatory evidence" - from what i understand about the situation in iraq they do not have to fear much, even IF they are injuring/killing an iraqi.
as for the "how much can they guess ...?" - the shots are intended as warning shots, quite possibly even "disabling" shots (just like the u.s. army snipers are supposed to hit the engine block when stopping a car with a bullet). but you're right: it IS a catch-22. if the other drivers don't know you're a mercenary, then they don't know that it's dangerous to come close to your car -- if you DO let them know you're a mercenary then you're endangering yourself.
in the end, i'd stop the whole "military/security outsourcing". it blurs the lines between military and civilians (ask the humanitarian NGOs how they feel about armed men in civvies) and it creates a legal grey zone in which armed groups can establish their own rules & regulations without any functioning governmental oversight.
ps: i take it that L must either be very weak or heavy on black moroccan to be this nice. i'll enjoy it as long as it lasts.
Posted by: raf* at December 9, 2005 06:05 AM
Black Moroccan? What do you know about me JV?
And yes, I am weak. It's annoying. Very annoying and damned inconvenient.
Posted by: The Lounsbury at December 9, 2005 11:33 AM
in the end, i'd stop the whole "military/security outsourcing".
It'll never happen. "Security outsourcing" is filling the gap left by all the extra troops Rumsfeld swears are not needed in Iraq. If they got rid of private security troops, the administration would be forced to commit a bunch of extra military troops which they won't do as they've been swearing for years that they aren't needed.
Posted by: Anonymous at December 9, 2005 01:23 PM
Raf, I think somebody has made a conscious decision that "private" security forces are desireable in Iraq, precisely because they DO opearte in a gray area. I think it's a horrible idea. But I think it's not going to be changed at this late date, especially when the US is talking about withdrawal of what military forces we have in Iraq. So, the next best thing I guess (to disbanding the private contractors) is to try to figure out a way to make them accountable for their own actions.
Posted by: Craig at December 9, 2005 03:18 PM
dear anonymous & craig,
you don't know me. if you did, you'd never think that i seriously expect this policy to be changed. i'm not cynical, but i'm not naive, either ...
Posted by: raf* at December 10, 2005 12:00 PM
Dear Raf,
I actually rather like the content of your posts. While I don't necessarily agree with your analysis, I find it interesting and thought provoking. That, to me, is the most valuable thing I find on the internet.
Having said that, I'd like to request a personal favor: proper capitalization. The lack of proper capitalization sets up cognitive dissonance for me when I read your posts. Having said that, at least you do use proper punctuation. If you didn't, my head would probably explode!
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Posted by: raf* at December 10, 2005 03:31 PM
Technically, the word 'internet' in that context requires a capital 'I' as exemplified in the sentence, 'The Internet is the largest internet in the world'.
Since you were referring to the former, then the capitalisation rule stands.
Posted by: Meph at December 10, 2005 04:50 PM
I really need to object to the over-use of commas in this whole discussion.
Posted by: Craig at December 11, 2005 04:16 AM
Some have dared question my capitalisation assertion (but obviously not on the site). Please do not make me stoop to pasting links, do your own donkey work.
Posted by: Meph at December 11, 2005 06:43 AM
over-use. "Overuse".
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Clinton Recreation Department officials know they want to raise money off their facilities through advertising and sponsorships, but where to draw the line of what's appropriate for fields that will be filled with children on any given night they're not so sure.
Recreation Director Gregg Obren and Program Supervisor Josh Eggers are working with city administration and Clinton City Council members to develop a policy that will outline what types of marketing or sponsorships are appropriate for the various groups that use the parks and recreation facilities. Over the course of the different sports seasons, Jurgensen Soccer and Sports Park offers advertisers a chance to reach 10,000 people, Obren said. Emma Young would see around 8,000 during the year.
"We have three fields occupied four to five nights a week, four to five hours at a time, the traffic is just unbelievable. So I think there would be a need for it. I think that people would want to put signage up, but what does that policy look like? Who do we allow? What is the criteria and how do we define that?" Eggers said to members of the Rules and Regulations Committee on Tuesday.
Areas such as the scoreboards, fences, team benches, bleacher backs, concession stands and other areas of the various city parks and fields would be available for a business or person that would like to display a sign. What it would cost to display a sign in any of these areas hasn't been fleshed out.
For now, officials work to determine what type of signs would be allowed through the sponsorship program they plan to roll out this year. While they don't want to promote alcohol to children, they also don't want to deter potential sponsors or advertising, which are projected to bring in around $27,000 that will offset the city contribution to the department.
The draft policy already lays out some of the basic rules that would prohibit any signage that promotes violence, contains tobacco, uses profane language, is libelous or attacks ethnic, racial or religious groups from being displayed.
But whether to allow a bar or distribution company to advertise for a specific brand or drink is another question.
"Maybe the idea is you just cannot list the individual alcoholic beverage," Obren said.
Bars that wanted to sponsor an adult softball team and have their business name on a shirt would not have need to detract from the fact that they are an alcohol serving establishment because the shirts would be exclusively worn during an adult activity. Obren said of the approximately 100 adult softball teams, about half of them have sponsors that deal in alcohol.
"It'd be one thing to put up a sign that says 'national name of a beer' and it's another to say 'so and so distributing' leaving off the specific link then to a product," City Attorney Jeff Farwell said. "If they want that specific sponsorship of that specific brand then that goes on the T-shirt of an adult league."
While Obren and Eggers said they are concerned with promotions that are appropriate for children, they're also concerned about the image being presented from the Recreation Department. The sponsorships and advertising have to be consistent with the department's goal to have quality programs and facilities in a way that enhances the quality of life and operated in an enjoyable and fiscally responsible, professional manner.
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Delores Krieger, RN, PhD, and Dora Kunz, a natural healer, developed Therapeutic Touch (TT) in the early 1970s. TT is an adaptation of several religious and secular healing traditions and is commonly used in nursing practice for many different conditions. TT practitioners hold their hands a short distance from the patient without actually making physical contact. The purpose of this technique is to detect the patient's energy field, allowing the TT practitioner to correct any perceived imbalances. Nurse Healers Professional Associates, Inc. is the primary training organization for Therapeutic Touch and teaches a standardized technique. TT treatment consists of four steps: centering (calming the mind and focusing attention on the patient), assessing the patient's energy field for irregularities, intervention to facilitate symmetrical flow of energy through the field, and evaluation/closure to verify the effects and conclude the treatment. Treatment sessions usually last from five to thirty minutes. Currently there is a lack of formal certification or competency-based assessment for this therapy. The concept of "life energy" or "life force" has sometimes been compared to spiritual rather than scientific principles. Some critics argue that because of its religious roots, TT should be treated as a religion rather than as a healthcare therapy. Skeptics have sought to eliminate Therapeutic Touch as a nursing practice, due to questions surrounding the mechanism of action. However, suggestive results from several human studies, positive clinical experience, and case reports have led to increasing use of TT. Several variations have emerged from the original treatment but aspects of centering and intent have remained the foundations of this technique. Janet Mentgen founded healing touch in the 1980s based on the principles of therapeutic touch. Healing touch adds patient empowerment, practitioner self care, and focuses on the impact of the practitioner-patient relationship...
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The Minnesota Twins organization is no stranger to concussions. Justin Morneau's concussion from a couple years ago still lingers in the thoughts of the front office. The what-ifs that arise out of the handling and aftermath of that confusion surely haunt the Twins. They did not necessarily mishandle Morneau's concussion, but there wasn't as much focus on such an injury are there is now. That's why the Twins will play it extra safe with Joe Mauer's concussion.
Rhett Bollinger of MLB.com says the Twins have now placed Mauer on the 7-day DL designed for concussions. He was held out of last night's lineup with dizziness, and it seemed clear then that he would be diagnosed with a concussion.
Joe Mauer to the 7-day concussion DL. Colabello to be recalled. #MNTwins
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The concussion, not uncommon among catchers, arose from being hit with multiple foul tips. Monday was probably the tipping point. He was struck in the mask by multiple foul balls in Monday's game alone. No diagnosis had been real eased prior to batting practice yesterday, but Mauer felt disoriented and dizzy during BP, so he was scratch and later diagnosed with the concussion.
Mauer has been back to his All-Star level of play the last two seasons after suffering a slight downturn following his injury-plagued 2011 season. The Twins want to ensure he can continue playing at this high level now and into the future, so they will surely play things safe with him.
Mauer is hitting .324/.404/.476 with 11 home runs this season. The 10-year veteran made his sixth All-Star Game appearance this season and will likely get some MVP votes at the end of the year. In his career, he is a .323/.405/.468 hitter.
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When the boss fails to turn up for work, Jimmy begins to worry that something sinister is going on. Quickly discovering that shady Colombian drug dealers are involved, Steve takes it on himself to travel to Colombia, single-handedly bring down an entire drugs cartel, and bring the boss safely back home!
Get ready for 9 minutes and 20 seconds of the most action-packed day at work ever, featuring gun fights, humour, excessive violence and everyone's favourite layabout office hero!
So yeah, I FINALLY finished it - a big thanks to everyone for being so patient with this, and a special thanks to Raz and Shockdingo for providing extra voices. I hope you all love it!
ps. sorry about the ridiculous filesize, this episode turned up going over 16,000 frames so I had to do some movie clip trickery to get this beast into one file.
Rated 5 / 5 stars October 20, 2008
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Rated 3 / 5 stars October 20, 2008
So after 20 months you have finally release a new episode of The Adventures of Steve to the portal. This episode is a huge improvement from your previous episodes, and also a little bit of a disappointment, as well. I am glad that you finally implemented actual lip-syncing into your characters mouths instead of using a loop of their lips moving up and down. The main problem I had was the writing and animation. Compared to your other episodes, the comedy is a bit lacking. Your other episodes were extremely funny and random. That's what made them so enjoyable. This episode, however, seems more like a serious attempt at an actual story than a comedy flash. This is fine, but when your first two episodes in the series contain nothing but random humor and gags, it doesn't make much sense to change that formula. The animation was the biggest problem. Although the action scenes were well animation with a few short scenes of frame-by-frame animation, most of this consisted of tweens. A few tweens are okay, but when 95% of the flash consists of just tweens, then we have a problem. When the characters are talking to each other, they look like mindless dolls. They never move from their position and their bodies look like a piece of wood. The running scene was also a huge problem. They look like they had irritated armpits and refuse to move their arms more in fear of getting them more irritated. You also recycled the running animation from Steve for Steve's boss. That shows many continuity issues. Why would someone run exactly like someone else? Sometimes taking a shortcut in animation is not always a good thing. Overall, it was a huge improvement in terms of animation and lip-sync. But the animation still needs a lot of work to show believable human movements. The writing needs to go back to the original formula instead of a serious flash. Good luck on future episodes.
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and thus ends another boring day at work.
lol good stuff here, was tightly knit, graphics better then number 2's, and use of soundtrack was pretty good all in all worth the wait me thinks
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This is really tight. nice job. what music was used at the end with the steve and his boss running in something similar to a mario 8-bit game?
Rated 2.5 / 5 stars October 20, 2008
A bit iffy.
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The music. I was pleased to hear some Pendulum in there.
The headshots.
The drawing. The landscapes were good and I liked the thicker line around the outside of the characters.
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The animation. As mentioned in plenty of reviews before mine, the little animation you had was a bit rigid, and the running looked particularly weird. I know it's not the easiest thing to do, though,
The voice acting. You need another person to do the ginger kid's voice because it's too similar to Steve's. I'm guessing you just held your nose for that one? I feel bad saying it but you're not the greatest voice actor in the world. Sorry!
The humour. I thought the jokes were pretty basic, but I guess it just wasn't my style. Although I did like the camera zoom-in followed by "that was cool".
So overall it was a good effort, but you need more practise at some aspects. It's a good start, though.


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Not to be outdone by Tesco, Argos, (the holder of the laminated book of dreams*) is launching it's own Android tablet called the MyTablet and is apparently aimed at the 'tween' market. It's £100, but way down in the spec wars compared to Tescos Hudl:
1.6GHz dual-core processor
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Wi-Fi and bluetooth connectivity.
BBC News - Argos launches own-brand budget tablet for 'tweenies'
Given the £20 difference, I'll still want the Tesco one (sold out in Chorley last weekend), and I'll bet the kids won't want a low spec tablet either!
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 | Posted by Matt McCorkell
Square Enix is on the move to a more gritty direction with Dog Days. Check out the latest trailer.
Expect to see lots of dirty streets, neon signs, nudity, and destruction in the next installment of the Kane & Lynch franchise. While a lot of gamers gave the first title a miss, the change in locale might prove to be a big enough incentive to give this game a go. Just one thing bothers me – for a company known for its overwhelmingly polished cinematics (Square Enix) the cut scenes seem a bit on the rough side. That and no dog meat at the market where the gun battle takes place? I know its going to be illegal in China. Since the game is due out in August we aren't holding out hope for a major graphical overhaul so lets just hope the camera work doesn't make everyone motion sick before the gameplay starts.
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...and the root of all -950 rankings. ...Irrelevant links ie. the *source* is NOT related to the *target* won't go nowhere + kill your rankings for life. So a single irrelevant PR9 link can bomb a whole site unless that site has the equivalent in relevant links? It sounds like an easy way to sabotage a competitor. Or do you mean many such links? I was under the impression that dubious incoming links would only ever be devalued, rather than actually hurt a site.
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A look at the congressional budget agreement
Thursday, 12 December 2013 01:54 Published in National NewsA proposed congressional budget agreement would avoid a government shutdown in January and set spending for defense and domestic programs. It would:
—Establish overall non-war-related discretionary spending for the current fiscal year at $1.012 trillion and $1.014 trillion for fiscal 2015. Discretionary spending is the money approved by Congress each year for agency operations. The House budget level had been $967 billion and the Senate $1.058 trillion for the year that runs through next Sept. 30. Fiscal 2013 discretionary spending was $986 billion.
—Ease the across-the-board "sequester" spending cuts by $63 billion over two years, split between defense and domestic programs. In the current fiscal year, defense would be set at a base budget of $520.5 billion and domestic programs at $491.8 billion.
—Increase airline security fees from $5 to $11.20 for a typical round-trip ticket starting July 1, 2014. That would raise $13 billion over 10 years. Current fees are $2.50 per leg with a maximum fee of $10 for a round-trip with connecting flights or $5 for a nonstop round-trip fare.
—Reduce retirement benefits for working-age military retirees. The cost-of-living adjustment would be modified equal to inflation minus 1 percent. The changes would be phased in, with no change in the current year, a 0.25 percent reduction in December 2014 and a 0.5 percent decrease in December 2015. The change would not apply to retirees who left the service because of disability or injury. It would apply to retirees under the age of 62. The change would save $6 billion.
—Increase by 1.3 percentage points the pension contributions paid by federal civilian workers hired after Jan. 1, 2014. Raise $6 billion.
—Restrict access to Social Security death records to prevent identity thieves from filing fraudulent tax returns. Save $269 million.
—Raise premiums paid by corporations to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp. to guarantee pension benefits. Raise $8 billion.
—Eliminate a requirement that the Maritime Administration reimburse other federal agencies for additional costs associated with shipping food aid on U.S. ships. Saves $731 million.
—Cancel $1.6 billion in unobligated balances in Justice and Treasury Department funds that seize assets from criminals.
—Cap the maximum government payment for contract employees at $487,000, indexed to inflation. Agencies could make exceptions for scientists, engineers and other specialists.
—Give the Treasury Department greater access to prison data to prevent prisoners from claiming improper payments. Saves. $80 million.
—Approve a U.S.-Mexico agreement on oil and gas exploration in waters outside their exclusive economic zones.
—Permanently extend a requirement that states receiving mineral lease payments contribute to the federal government's administrative costs. Saves $415 million.
—Extend Bureau of Customs and Border Protection user fees. Raises $7 billion.
Interpreter for Mandela event: I was hallucinating
Thursday, 12 December 2013 01:46 Published in National NewsJOHANNESBURG (AP) — The man accused of faking sign interpretation next to world leaders at Nelson Mandela's memorial told a local newspaper that he was hallucinating and hearing voices.
Thamsanqa Jantjie did describe his qualifications for being a sign language interpreter, but told The Star he works for an interpreting company that paid him $85 for interpreting Tuesday's event. He told Radio 702 Thursday he's receiving treatment for schizophrenia and had an episode while on stage.
Jantjie did not address allegations by sign language experts that he faked interpretation for the Mandela memorial attended by scores of world leaders and broadcast internationally.
The Star quoted him as saying: "I tried to control myself and not show the world what was going on. I am very sorry, it's the situation I found myself in."
Thai protesters resume siege of PM's offices
Thursday, 12 December 2013 01:43 Published in National NewsBANGKOK (AP) — Anti-government protesters in Thailand's capital have resumed their tactic of besieging government offices, cutting off electricity to the prime minister's office compound and demanding that police abandon the premises.
The protesters, who are seeking to force the replacement of caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's government before a Feb. 2 election, threatened Thursday to force their way in if police don't leave.
In a previous confrontation, police withdrew from the compound to allow the demonstrators in without a fight. That withdrawal came after two days of increasingly violent standoffs.
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Data (/ˈdeɪtə/ DAY-tə, /ˈdætə/ DA-tə, or /ˈdɑːtə/ DAH-tə) are values of qualitative or quantitative variables, belonging to a set of items. Data in computing (or data processing) are represented in a structure, often tabular (represented by rows and columns), a tree (a set of nodes with parent-children relationship) or a graph structure (a set of interconnected nodes). Data are typically the results of measurements and can be visualised using graphs or images.
Data as an abstract concept can be viewed as the lowest level of abstraction from which information and then knowledge are derived.
Raw data, i.e., unprocessed data, refers to a collection of numbers, characters and is a relative term; data processing commonly occurs by stages, and the "processed data" from one stage may be considered the "raw data" of the next. Field data refers to raw data collected in an uncontrolled in situ environment. Experimental data refers to data generated within the context of a scientific investigation by observation and recording.
The word data is the plural of datum, neuter past participle of the Latin dare, "to give", hence "something given". In discussions of problems in geometry, mathematics, engineering, and so on, the terms givens and data are used interchangeably. Such usage is the origin of data as a concept in computer science or data processing: data are numbers, words, images, etc., accepted as they stand.
Though data is also increasingly used in humanities (particularly in the growing digital humanities), it has been suggested that the highly interpretive nature of humanities might be at odds with the ethos of data as "given". Peter Checkland introduced the term capta (from the Latin capere, "to take") to distinguish between an immense number of possible data and a sub-set of them, to which attention is oriented.[1] Johanna Drucker has argued that since the humanities affirm knowledge production as "situated, partial, and constitutive," using data may introduce assumptions that are counterproductive, for example that phenomena are discrete or are observer-independent.[2] The term capta, which emphasizes the act of observation as constitutive, is offered as an alternative to data for visual representations in the humanities.
In English, the word datum is still used in the general sense of "an item given". In cartography, geography, nuclear magnetic resonance and technical drawing it is often used to refer to a single specific reference datum from which distances to all other data are measured. Any measurement or result is a datum, but data point is more usual,[3] albeit tautological or, more generously, pleonastic. In one sense, datum is a count noun with the plural datums (see usage in datum article) that can be used with cardinal numbers (e.g. "80 datums"); data (originally a Latin plural) is not used like a normal count noun with cardinal numbers, but it can be used as a plural with plural determiners such as these and many, in addition to its use as a singular abstract mass noun with a verb in the singular form.[4] Even when a very small quantity of data is referenced (one number, for example) the phrase piece of data is often used, as opposed to datum. The debate over appropriate usage is ongoing.[5][6][7]
The IEEE Computer Society allows usage of data as either a mass noun or plural based on author preference.[8] Some professional organizations and style guides[9][dead link] require that authors treat data as a plural noun. For example, the Air Force Flight Test Center specifically states that the word data is always plural, never singular.[10]
Data is most often used as a singular mass noun in educated everyday usage.[11][12] Some major newspapers such as The New York Times use it either in the singular or plural. In the New York Times the phrases "the survey data are still being analyzed" and "the first year for which data is available" have appeared within one day.[13] The Wall Street Journal explicitly allows this in its style guide.[14] The Associated Press style guide classifies data as a collective noun that takes the singular when treated as a unit but the plural when referring to individual items ("The data is sound.", but "The data have been carefully collected.").[15]
In scientific writing data is often treated as a plural, as in These data do not support the conclusions, but it is also used as a singular mass entity like information, for instance in computing and related disciplines.[16] British usage now widely accepts treating data as singular in standard English,[17] including everyday newspaper usage[18] at least in non-scientific use.[19] UK scientific publishing still prefers treating it as a plural.[20] Some UK university style guides recommend using data for both singular and plural use[21] and some recommend treating it only as a singular in connection with computers.[22]
The terms data, information and knowledge are frequently used for overlapping concepts. The main difference is in the level of abstraction being considered. Data is the lowest level of abstraction, information is the next level, and finally, knowledge is the highest level among all three.[23] Data on its own carries no meaning. For data to become information, it must be interpreted and take on a meaning. For example, the height of Mt. Everest is generally considered as "data", a book on Mt. Everest geological characteristics may be considered as "information", and a report containing practical information on the best way to reach Mt. Everest's peak may be considered as "knowledge".
Information as a concept bears a diversity of meanings, from everyday usage to technical settings. Generally speaking, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form, instruction, knowledge, meaning, mental stimulus, pattern, perception, and representation.
Beynon-Davies uses the concept of a sign to distinguish between data and information; data are symbols while information occurs when the symbols are used to refer to something.[24][25]
It is people and computers who collect data and impose patterns on it. These patterns are seen as information which can be used to enhance knowledge. These patterns can be interpreted as truth, and are authorized as aesthetic and ethical criteria. Events that leave behind perceivable physical or virtual remains can be traced back through data. Marks are no longer considered data once the link between the mark and observation is broken.[26]
Mechanical computing devices are classified according to the means by which they represent data. An analog computer represents a datum as a voltage, distance, position, or other physical quantity. A digital computer represents a datum as a sequence of symbols drawn from a fixed alphabet. The most common digital computers use a binary alphabet, that is, an alphabet of two characters, typically denoted "0" and "1". More familiar representations, such as numbers or letters, are then constructed from the binary alphabet.
Some special forms of data are distinguished. A computer program is a collection of data, which can be interpreted as instructions. Most computer languages make a distinction between programs and the other data on which programs operate, but in some languages, notably Lisp and similar languages, programs are essentially indistinguishable from other data. It is also useful to distinguish metadata, that is, a description of other data. A similar yet earlier term for metadata is "ancillary data." The prototypical example of metadata is the library catalog, which is a description of the contents of books.
This article is based on material taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.
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Postfix won't receive external email
I'm running Hardy Heron using the Perfect Server instructions, specifically the Postfix install here:
http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-se...ntu8.04-lts-p5 I've got my Postfix/Dovecot server relaying messages from my Outlook to an account on my mail server out to another email address managed by a different email server. Also I can use telnet to send email to an account on the mail server and Postfix will receive and store the email for that account. The problem is that when people send email from say GMail to an email address handled by my Postfix server, the server will not capture the email. The emails bounce. I'm trying hard, in vain so far, to figure out what might be wrong. I did have all this working, including receipt/storage of inbound email for virtual domains I set up with Virtualmin. Something changed Wednesday evening and suddenly I can't receive email into my domains through Postfix. If it helps, here is my postconf -n output: Code:
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10025 inet n - - - - smtpd Code:
Trying 127.0.0.1... Finally, if it matters, I'm in the process of moving domains hosted on several hosting services into one or two VPS servers. So the redwrangler.com domain is hosted elsewhere for the moment. I do not believe DNS is an issue because I had Postfix working fine with a DNS record and Virtualmin account for redwrangler.com on the new server even though DNS currently points traffic for that domain to the old/current server. Any ideas what might be wrong? How I can figure out what prevents Postfix from receiving and storing emails for virtual domains? Thank you! |
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Of course after I posted I saw at the very bottom of this topic page a link to this forum topic which, while it doesn't solve my problem, does show a lot of useful ways to generate output, to isolate potential issues. Here are the topics:
http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20419 http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20679 If it's useful, here's some more output: Code:
nc -v 127.0.0.1 10025 And more output, if it helps: Code:
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Port 25 was missing...
In case anyone finds this topic through search, the problem was that I left off the first smtp line in the master.cf file:
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