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It was a sunny September afternoon at the mayor's house on East 79th street and Diana Taylor was talking to the two boisterous Laborador retrievers that she shares with her boyfriend, Mayor Michael Bloomberg. "Yes!" she said, in a soothing voice the "Bonnie" and "Clyde" seemed to appreciate, "I'm talking about you!"
She had been describing her early morning hour-and-a-half walks with the dogs (which she bought for the Mayor four years ago) and extolling the virtues of Central Park in that sort of breathless-but-genuine tone that all New Yorkers adopt when speaking appreciatively about Things That Also Impress The Tourists. "Central Park is the most amazing gift," she said. "It's incredible. You find new spots, new people, new friends for the dogs. I love going to parks."
But she wasn't as bubbly as the sentiment would suggest. She erupted in a rare peal of laughter—"Oh my god, that was hilarious!"– only when asked about the Mayor's Spanish speaking skills and the parody Twitter account @elBloombito, which exhorted New Yorkers during Hurricane Irena to "no looto el bodaga! Esta es Nuevo Yorko!" (She explained his technical proficiency despite abysmal pronunciation: he's an engineer; they are very technical.)
As we sat at small table next to the kitchen, she spoke softly but directly, carefully considering everything she was saying. A tall, charismatic figure who often appears to tower over her high-profile partner at public events, her demeanor was warm but professional.
And it makes sense. Until 2000, when she was seated next to the Mayor at a Citizens Budget Commission event, Ms. Taylor's career was the most recognizable facet of her public identity. If her tone seems professional—comforting in one sense, and perhaps a bit over-polished in another–it's because it's the mode in which she's accustomed to operating.
Before she met the Mayor, Ms. Taylor had occupied several high profile job positions in both the public and the private sector and was divorced, with no children.
She still holds several high profile positions and is still divorced with no children, but it's probably fair to say that her day-to-day life now has several added dimensions that weren't there before. Her social life is determined in many ways by the schedule of her partner and nights out (downtown for events, Harlem for dinner at the Red Rooster) are now routinely documented by photographers.
And of course this means Ms. Taylor is being scrutinized in ways she previously wouldn't have expected. Her fondness for tailored, elegant clothing has been noted in various fashion pages and her favorite designers (Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera, Ralphs Rucci and Lauren, natch) have been catalogued for the public. But the look isn't entirely comfortable for the first girlfriend. Our photographer assumed that her consistent, well-put together look was the work of a personal stylist and Ms. Taylor seemed taken aback by the idea.
"My what?" she said, laughing. Stylist? "You're talking to her!"
But, she acknowledged, she did have her own personal style. "I like simple, not too frilly, tailored." And then, with a tiny sparkle of calculation: "And my favorite designers are New York City based designers. So that makes it easy because they're mostly tailored and elegant clothes." We pointed out that the Greenwich native's taste in clothing seemed very, well, Greenwich-ian. "Yeah, I know," she said. "[But] let me put it to you this way: I basically wore overalls all the way through college. I mean, you just try and present yourself as being neat, fairly well put-together. You try to make sure your shoes are from the same pair."
She then informed us that she'd be wearing a business suit for her photo shoot. "I'm not wearing an evening gown; it's the wrong image." The scads of evening gown photos are not how she views herself, or at the very least, not how she wishes to present herself. "There are enough pictures like that, so I'll just wear a simple business suit.
Diana Taylor was born in 1955 in the upscale Connecticut suburb of Greenwich, Connecticut, the daughter of a schoolteacher and a biochemist for Union Carbide chemical company.
She went to college at Dartmouth and was in the second class of women to go all the way through all four years. "There were two hundred of us, or maybe three hundred of us," she said "And three thousand of them at the time." Not entirely a bad ratio in certain respects, she admitted. "It was so much fun. I had a blast; I loved it. And my best friends to this day are people I met my first week at Dartmouth." (Ms. Taylor is now a member of her alma mater's board of trustees.
Much of what happened after Dartmouth was a matter of serendipity. "I have basically fallen into everything I've ever done," she said. "I've never really planned anything. I've basically seen opportunities as they come up and they've turned out to be really good ones.
But there was one thing she planned: "I knew was that I wanted to move to New York City [after college]" she said. Like many twenty-somethings who decamp to Manhattan after undergrad, Mr. Taylor's roommate from Dartmouth was living in a one-bedroom apartment with one other roommate and they were looking for a third. But Ms. Taylor needed to find a job. She was interested in health care and began sending resumes to hospitals but "unfortunately none of them wanted me as their hospital administrator at that point." She got a job in government in the department of social services but realized quickly that it wasn't where she wanted to end up, so she applied to business school in a joint degree program that also included a public health degree.
But she was still working on top of that. "I was an evening and weekend administrator at St. Vincent's hospital in Brooklyn, which was an experience," she said. "It was fascinating." She was also working at Smith Barney in their public finance department and received an offer for a full-time job when she graduated. She moved on to Lehmann Brothers with a couple of her colleagues from Smith Barney, and then on to Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette. And then a couple of guys from Lehman went to DLJ and they took me with them. "And then some guy I didn't even know at the time called me up [four years later]," she explained, "And said 'I'm starting this new firm do you want to come join?' And I'd basically hit the ceiling, if you will, at DLJ and it sounded like a good idea, so I did that. Stuff happens at really good times!"
In 1996, she made a transition to public work as Assistant Secretary to then governor, George Pataki. After brief stints at Keyspan Energy and the Long Island Power Authority (where she served as CFO) she returned to Governor Pataki's office as Deputy Secretary and became Superintendent of Banks in 2003.
In 2007, she returned to the private sector as a managing director at Wolfensohn Fund Management, but still hasn't fully extricated herself from public life.
And how could she? She's partner to the most powerful man in New York City politics. Which has its particular downsides. "Oh it's hilarious," she laughed. "I have the scars to prove how many times I've been knocked over the head by TV cameras running to get a picture of the mayor." But, she notes, it's also not without its pleasures. "Actually I love observing life," she explains. "And it's a great place to observe from. You see a lot in this kind of position and it's incredibly rewarding."
That said, the reality is that when Ms. Taylor walks into a room with the Mayor, she's not recognized as Diana Taylor, managing director at Wolfensohn, or Diana Taylor, former Deputy Secretary to the governor. She's Diana Taylor, girlfriend of Michael Bloomberg. For a woman with her own impressive resume and laundry list of accomplishments, it must be a little, well… ego-bruising.
But Ms. Taylor insisted it was just part of the role she had chosen to play. "One of the things that you just need to remember is that it's not about you," she said. "He's the elected official and you're there for support. And if people want you to do something, you do it and if they don't, you don't. He's the one who was elected and I wasn't."
But, she acknowledged, "That's one reason why it's really good that I'm busy. He's doing his thing and I have my life, too, and things that are important to me."
And many things are important to Ms. Taylor these days. She's on the board of ACCION International, a microfinancing organization that provides loans to small businesses that are under-serviced by banks in emerging economies and recently visited Brazil and Honduras on behalf of the organization. In June she was named to the board of the YMCA of Greater New York. She's a director of Sotheby's, Citigroup and Brookfield Properties.
She's also involved in a variety of charities that benefit women and girls. And she's a natural advocate, having been one of the few women in a variety of traditionally male-dominated environments.
"I think one of the problem that most women have is that they're not really good at advocating for themselves," she said. "They're great at advocating for other people. They're hard workers, they're really smart but they're not very good about marching into their boss's offices and saying 'I need a raise! So-and-so got a raise and I work better and harder than they do and am more productive than they are. Women are just not particularly good at that." It was a broad generalization, she said, but "women tend to have the attitude that, 'if I put my head down, I work really hard, I'll get recognized'. And life is not fair. That's a hard thing."
She attributed much of the gender lopsided-ness to natural attrition rates as women dropped out of the work force in order to have children. "A lot of time you find it's a decision they make to have a family. And they're bringing up kids and working and something's gotta give, and the work's not rewarding enough and they're not getting enough back from their work situation, so they say, you know what? I can't."
Her own decisions were made years ago—what she described as organizing a series of priorities. And for better or worse, being childless probably helped her career. "I'm sure it did," she said. "I never had to run home and help anybody with their homework. That was a whole very time-consuming aspect I didn't have to worry about. "
But, she adds, "you have to do what you're comfortable with and what makes you happy and that's not the same for everybody."
And in looking at Ms. Taylor's choices, the ones paths she decided not to take are as significant as the ones she did. Last year, Senate Republicans approached Ms. Taylor about the possibility of running against incumbent Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and for a while she considered it. "The Senate Republicans basically asked me to run and I thought about it, talked to a lot of people," she said. "But then when I really thought about it, what attracted me to the idea was the race because I knew I could win that race. It was the thought of actually having to go and do that job, that was really not all that appealing."
When asked what she thought of Senator Gillibrand's job performance now, she paused. "I think she works very hard" she said, diplomatically. "I don't agree with her on anything—" She hesitated. "Some things that…" Then choosing the if-you-can't-say-something-nice option, she reiterated: "I think she just works really hard."
But Ms. Taylor insisted she wasn't tempted to run against her now either. She said she had no political ambitions. "I never did!"
She also brought up a complicating factor in any Senate—the convoluted and often antagonistic relationship between the city and the state. "Because what's good for the state of New York and what's good for the city of New York are not always aligned and I'd be representing the state.
"Plus, I'd have to go live in Washington?" she said, rolling her eyes. "And you know, what would I do with the dogs? Would I take them on the train? Would I have to drive? These are the kinds of considerations!"
Then she turned serious. "You're one of a body of 100. I would be a very junior member of the minority party and I didn't feel like I'd have a lot of say in what went on and the decisions that were made. And I don't have a particularly high opinion of Congress at this point."
We pointed out that no one had a particularly high opinion of Congress at this point. (A recent Gallup poll indicated that Congress's approval rate had dropped to a measly 13%.)
"Then I hold the majority opinion on that, l and I think that we're in a situation now where it's sort of a downward spiral," she said. "You know, the opinion of the body itself is so bad, how do you get qualified intelligent good people to run? I don't know the answer to that question."
Everyone has a theory about why things are bad when they are–and as a corollary, how they got that way. Ms. Taylor thinks the system itself can't work in its current incarnation. And not just some piece of the system; the entirety of democracy.
"I put this in the context of [the notion that] democracy is the worst system except for all the others. I don't know what you replace it with and how you fix this. But it does sort of go to the lowest common denominator."
And the primary system is one of the culprits, according to Ms. Taylor. Take the districts in the House of Representatives, for example. "Most of them are completely gerrymandered to be safe districts for whatever party's in control. And when you have something like that with the primary system, you have people [winning] the primary in the majority party of that district."
"There are not very many people who go out and vote in primaries," she added. "So to get elected in a particular district, you have to appeal to the five people who vote in the primary. So you get elected, and you get into office and you have zero incentive to do anything that does not fit with [the agenda of] those five people who elected you, who are the wacko right-wing or the wacko-left wing depending on what kind of district you're coming from—so you have no ability really to go to the center because you will not get re-elected if you go the center."
Re-election incentives have always been a big part of New York City political discourse. Especially with regard Ms. Taylor's boyfriend, whose three-term mayorship has been the source of much controversy over the years.
But she's changed her mind on that one. "I used to be completely for term limits," she said. "I thought it was a great thing. But basically what happens with term limits is that the staff takes on huge power because they're the ones who have the institutional power. I'm not sure that term limits is a particularly good thing."
The key, she said, was changing how districting worked. "I think that non-partisan primaries would be great. I think that would make a lot more sense. Because then you have the whole slate and you don't have people who've run on the total right and total left having to have one set of ideas during the primary and then move to the center for the re-election."
Along those lines, the current field of Republican presidential candidates didn't seem too promising. A ripple of irritation passed her expression. "I don't really like any of them very much. A lot of them scare me… a lot."
"I've never met [Michele Bachmann]. I have read a lot about her and I'm not particularly impressed by what I've read."
As for the other Republican beauty queen-cum-politico: "I have met [Sarah Palin] once, just very briefly. If I were her, the best thing she could do is keep the buzz going and then not run. And she's doing just fine doing that."
She was even less sanguine about Obama. "I think that he's a very intelligent man," she said carefully. "And he has a lot to learn."
Her voice took on a sharper edge. "For somebody's who's going to come in and be the great unifier—you know, that hopey-changey stuff—it hasn't worked very well. The country is more divided now than it's ever been. And he doesn't appreciate other people and what they do. "
Having given this some thought, she had a three-pronged list of his biggest mistakes. "There are probably more," she said, but here were three. He wasn't supporting business, Ms. Taylor said. "He should be a champion for this country and he's not. Because that's where the jobs are going to come from. They're not going to come from government; they're going to come from the private sector." The second: Obamacare. He basically told Congress, 'you know what? I want a health care bill, do something."
"The last time I checked, the president was supposed to sit down and figure out what he wanted and then get Congress to go along with it. And we got a mess. And exactly the same thing with financial regulation and regulatory reform." This was number three. "And we have a mess."
And Ms. Taylor would know a bit about the banks, having worked in both the public and private arenas of banking for decades. Economic uncertainty was making it difficult to get anything done, she maintained. "I mean, Dodd Frank has like 400 things that need to be done—you know, changes, and the regulators have to go and promulgate rules and regulations around those things—and they can't do it. There's so much uncertainty. And whoever has created a situation now where they're basically saying to the banks, well, we want you to lend money, but you can't lend money to anybody who actually needs it!"
Here she became more animated. This was far more interesting to her than Ralph Lauren dresses. "And this whole business of the FHFA suing all the banks around Fannie and Freddie; it's crazy!" Inasmuch as Mr. Taylor would ever be inclined to pound her fist on a table to make a point, she seemed on the verge of it. "I've never—I mean, it just makes no sense at all to me!"
And then there was a glimmer of what Diana Taylor, Freshman Senator might be like. "I think it's a problem throughout the system," she said, gearing up her delivery. "I think it's a problem with Congress. I think it's a problem with the ratings agencies. I think it's a problem with the banks. I think it's a problem with the population at large. Everybody's going like this" she threw her hands up in the air. "And at the end of the day, everybody's responsible in some way or another."
As for what Ms. Taylor is responsible for, she still wants to tackle public health. She's on the board of the Mailman School at Columbia and said her studies there had informed her thinking on things like microfinance "and what people actually need to survive and make their lives better."
It's still easy to imagine her getting involved in some tangential way, though—maybe even with her former boss, ex-governor George Pataki, who's reportedly mulling a presidential campaign.
"Yeah, I don't think that he's going to run," she said. "He's an absolutely great guy, and if he decides to do it, I wish him the best. But I think there's a pretty large field right now." And there was the primary problem again. "You're never going to get through a republican primary if you're pro-gun control, pro-choice. He is a lot more liberal than run of the mill".
Ms. Taylor self-identifies as a Republican, but is socially liberal herself, though fiscally conservative—a libertarian lite, perhaps. "I'm socially very liberal. I don't understand why anybody cares who marries who. I think that guns should not be in the hands of criminals, and I'm rabidly-pro-choice. It's nobody else's business, and I'm fiscally quite conservative." She says she may have inherited this from her family. "My mother has a bumper sticker on the back of her car that says 'pro-family, pro-child, pro-choice.'"
So we were curious: where might she clash with the Mayor, whose politics occasionally differed. She shook her head, determinedly: "Not going there!"
This story appeared in the October issue of NYO Magazine.
I like her simple clothes. Not for me, but for her are perfect!
So what's the news peg here? Diana Taylor got a facelift? Diana Taylor shares her deep thoughts? Despite disclaimers, she's back to contemplating future role as Caligula's horse?
Oh, poor, poor banks! They really WANT to lend the money, they really do! It's just that… the "UNCERTAINTY" (registered trademark, Securities Industry Association and affiliated organizations) is just too much to bear! Dodd-Frank has, like, 400 things to be done! How dare they get into the middle of our profits with that democracy thing?
As opposed to the people who lost their jobs, savings and homes because of mortgage securities fraud, you mean, Diane? My heart bleeds for those poor bankers.
What a jerk.
I cannot believe this woman graduated from Dartmouth. A vast array off brilliant thinkers have graduated from that university. Ms. Taylor sounds shallow, misinformed, and completely ignorant to matters of this city and especially this country. This is the worst interview regarding a public figure's significant other. The sad thing is I am not shocked, learning about her boyfriend's origins to his present position. They sound like they are meant for each other.
What a vile woman. I'm glad she never spawned, at least.
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Rodman recounts his days as a Spur
Newly minted Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman recently spoke with David Aldridge of NBA.com about his career in the NBA which included his time with the San Antonio Spurs.
Rodman was traded from the Pistons to the Spurs in exchange for fan favorite Sean Elliott in 1993. And while there was no doubting what he brought to the court for San Antonio, behind the scenes, Rodman clashed with the Spurs' front office including then Spurs GM Gregg Popovich, and even David Robinson who Rodman felt was not like the more physical centers of the time though he did admire David's abilities on the court:
"(Robinson) used to say to me, 'I need to talk to you about God.' I would say, 'Ohhkay.' So we sat down one day at a restaurant and said, 'I you'll just understand that this is the type of city where people love to go to church, they're very simple, they're not very edgy,' and the whole spiel. And I said, OK, great, cool. I said, 'I can't live that life. All I do is come here, I get paid to play basketball. I didn't come here for people to like me; I come here to play basketball and win.' I think that was one of the biggest problems with me and David, that we kind of bumped heads a lot. Not all negative, but I thought he could have been more aggressive in games, like (Hakeem) Olajuwon, like Shaquille O'Neal, other big men. David wasn't really the physical type center."
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Md. PSC considers hearings on utility bill adjustments
Sunday - 8/19/2012, 6:19am  ET
WASHINGTON - Maryland regulators say they will take another look at the bill stabilization adjustment, a monthly surcharge appearing on power bills.
No matter who the provider is, Maryland customers see a monthly adjustment on their bills. The adjustment is so complicated, even utility experts struggle to explain it.
Sometimes it shows as a credit, sometimes it shows as a charge. But customers still see it, even when the power goes out - and that's making power customers crazy.
Utilities say customers are not charged for power they don't use. But citing the complaints it has received, the Maryland Public Service Commission says it will hold hearings in September on how the adjustment might be changed.
They're considering the elimination of a provision that keeps the adjustment intact, even during power outages. The prospective hearings on the adjustment are not official yet, though.
Montgomery County Council President Roger Berliner, who pushed for the change, says the PSC's decision to take another look at it is a step in the right direction.
The PSC is already involved in a series of hearings on utility performance during the derecho.
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How to adjust MIDI Velocity Sensitivity?
I have both a Novation SL MKII and an Arturia Analog Experience keyboards.
I know how to adjust velocity curves on both. I can get the Arturia to behave reasonably regarding velocity with Reason 6.5 With the Novation the Velocity can't be set aggressive enough for a light touch action. I have to slam the keys on the "Concert Grand Piano" to get them to ring. If I don't, the notes do not ring and are damped. I also use Notation Composer (like poor mans Finale) and use a software MIDI Cable called LoopBe30 to feed Reason. It's MIDI Composing tool. But I can see the same problem if the MIDI file has an average velocity of say 80 on the notes and are Muffled and don't ring. If I boost them to 96 they ring nice, so it's similar issue as with the Notation. There should be a way to preprocess the MIDI Velocity, I've heard other apps have it and someone with the same KeyBoard boosted velocity by 20 to solve the problem (I think the DAW was called Logic). Or tell the instrument how sensitive to be with a given MIDI stream. I'm using the Piano from the Abiram Brizulia example and switched it to Concert Grand Piano. Last edited by mswlogo; 2012-11-26 at 18:08. |
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Definition of logic bomb in English:
logic bomb
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Computing- A set of instructions secretly incorporated into a program so that if a particular condition is satisfied they will be carried out, usually with harmful effects.More example sentences
- That can mean stealing information, destroying files, or virtually shutting down an entire company through the use of a Trojan horse or logic bomb.
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And he's a big fan of syntactic salt. 08:03 neilv: the xml standards are a nightmare 08:03 octopaedos: He likes his matching opening and closing tags. 08:03 octopaedos: neilv, why? 08:03 neilv: keep those people away from racket 08:04 octopaedos: I think the tree is kind of cool and all the semantics stuff they have done. But the standard repraesentation is juts overly verbose, also, I don't like the fact that the syntax for namespaces is so similar to that of attrbutes 08:05 octopaedos: But they don't really like that themselves, but they didn't have a better idea or something. 08:30 (join) Lajla 08:31 (join) lithpr 08:33 (quit) octopaedos: Ping timeout: 276 seconds 08:36 (quit) lithpr: Remote host closed the connection 08:46 (join) tauntaun 09:06 (join) masm 09:09 (join) lithpr 09:18 (quit) drhodes: Quit: Reconnecting 09:18 (join) drhodes 10:11 tauntaun: Good morning. Any reason why Racket's hashtables don't have functions hash-empty? and hash-cardinality? (number of key-value associations). AFAICT, one has to do (compose length hash->list). 10:12 Lajla: hashtable-size 10:12 Lajla: Is r6rs 10:12 Lajla: No idea if racket does the same 10:13 tauntaun was asking about Racket, not R6RS. But thanks anyway... 10:15 Lajla: tauntaun: http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/hashtables.html#(def._((quote._~23~25kernel)._hash-count)) 10:15 Lajla: apparently 10:16 tauntaun: hmmm, I read that page earlier this morning and missed hash-count. Thanks, Lajla. 10:17 Lajla: I never read that page in my life. 10:17 Lajla: And I got it right in one go. 10:17 Lajla: I am a marvel. 10:19 tauntaun: I guess this leads to a more general (and probably naive) question: Why did the PLT group feel the need to define their own hashtables? What was found lacking in the R6RS definition? 10:20 Lajla: racket is older than r6rs 10:20 Lajla: And r6rs is kind of bad in 'standardizing', but in their defence, it's hard to standardize scheme since every implementation has its own ideas. 10:20 Lajla: r5rs didn't have hashes. 10:20 Lajla: I'm partial towards hashtable-length though 10:21 tauntaun: I know that Racket is older than R6RS. But I didn't know that r5rs didn't have hashtables. Thanks for illuminating. 10:21 Lajla: I would double check to see if R5 specifies + 10:22 tauntaun: perhaps not the arity. 10:22 Lajla: R4 I believe didn't require syntax-rules eiher. 10:22 Lajla: Well, it does. 10:22 Lajla: but not with - 10:22 Lajla: It specifies how - and / should behave with more than two. 10:23 Lajla: But leaves its support optional. 10:23 Lajla: R6 hashtables also work in a some-what different fashion I see here, so you can't just make aliases. 10:26 tauntaun: It's a pity R6RS doesn't define sets...or am I being blind again? 10:30 Lajla: tauntaun, it doesn't as far as I know. 10:30 Lajla: But in most languages, sets are basically hashtables whose keys aequal their values. 10:32 tauntaun: Speaking of hashtables, am I correct in seeing that R6RS's definition doesn't support functional updates? 10:32 Lajla: tauntaun, what's a 'functional update'? 10:32 tauntaun: An alternative to mutation, in which most of the older version of the data structure is reused in a newly allocated one. 10:33 Lajla: Ahhh 10:33 Lajla: Like, it returns a new one? 10:33 tauntaun: For example, there are two ways to change '(1 2 3 4) to '(one 2 3 4). 10:33 tauntaun: The imperative is to use set-car! 10:33 tauntaun: The functional is, as you know, .... 10:34 Lajla: Yeah, I know what you mean here 10:34 Lajla: tauntaun, well, there are immutable hashtables, I guess it's up to implementations to optimize what they can. 10:39 tauntaun: Yes, R6RS has hashtable-copy, but I'm not sure what good that does, given that there is no functional update (equivalent of Racket's hash-set). 10:39 Lajla: tauntaun, well, you can write one 10:39 Lajla: It also doesn't have one for vectors or lists. 10:40 Lajla: You can write one, how much it optmizes is up to the implementation, which might provide one natively to guarantee further optimization 10:40 tauntaun: I'm not sure a functional update function can be written without knowing the implementation, which rather defeats the purpose, no? 10:42 Lajla: tauntaun, I mean, you can write a function which performs a functional update, whether the implementatoin optimizes this to re-use the structure internally is not something R6 specifies. 10:43 Lajla: It's not really a language that is known for its concern about performance. 11:19 (join) evhan 11:21 (join) dnolen 11:32 (quit) neilv: Ping timeout: 255 seconds 11:37 (join) neilv 11:49 (join) PLT_Notify 11:49 PLT_Notify: racket: master Mike Sperber * 2bdb988 (1 files in 1 dirs): Don't pop up test-engine window upon innocent REPL interaction. ... - http://bit.ly/fkd75F 11:49 (part) PLT_Notify 11:50 (join) evhan_ 11:52 (quit) dnolen: Quit: dnolen 11:53 (quit) evhan: Ping timeout: 248 seconds 11:54 (nick) evhan_ -> evhan 11:58 (quit) evhan: Read error: No route to host 11:58 (join) evhan 12:09 (quit) MayDaniel: Read error: Connection reset by peer 12:24 tauntaun: Does anyone else find that a fresh call to make- is a little easier than using struct-copy? 12:25 offby1: I can imagine 12:25 tauntaun: Is stuff happening under the hood during a call to struct-copy that makes it preferable to a fresh make-? 12:30 neilv: if you want to do a shallow copy of a struct, i would guess that using struct-copy makes sense, both readability- and performance-wise 12:33 neilv: one operation that would be nice is a struct copy with selective overriding of individual fields 12:33 tauntaun: neilv: that's exactly what struct-copy does 12:34 neilv: ah, i see. duh 12:34 tauntaun: And it's precisely that syntax that makes it rather *less* readable, IMO. 12:34 tauntaun: Seems much easier just to do a fresh make-. 12:35 tauntaun: Actually, I should take some of that back. 12:35 neilv: let's say you're copying a struct with 8 fields, and want to modify 2 of them 12:35 tauntaun: Right, right. 12:35 tauntaun: You've read my mind. 12:40 (join) MayDaniel 12:43 tauntaun: So here's an observation. I'm trying to implement a simple graph API. My first implementation used the adjacency list representation and used Scheme lists and alists throughout. The second uses Racket's structs and its many attractive sequence APIs (sets and hashtables). Interestingly, the code for the second implementation is much more bloated and thus paradoxically feels rather less "functional." Any thoughts? 12:48 (join) ^mye^ 12:49 neilv: if you're using alists as you would fields of the struct (i.e., not do things like shared tails of alists, not iterating over fields, not doing field lookup given only a symbol from some data source when a procedure couldn't be used as easily, etc.), i would probably use structs 12:50 tauntaun: Actually I'm not using alists as fields of the struct. I'm using them to represent graph nodes and their neighbors (adjacency-list representation). 12:50 tauntaun: And I was representing the entire graph as a list of nodes. 12:50 tauntaun: Clearly not very efficient for lookup. 12:51 tauntaun: But amenable to much more concise code. 12:51 tauntaun: (Because of map, compose, curry, filter, fold, flip, etc.) 12:55 neilv: what about hashes? (alist lookups are fairly fast in practice, but algorithmically they are slow, and updates are expensive if they're immutable) 12:57 neilv: structs (whether you use hashes or not) might make it easier to associate data with both edges and vertices 12:58 neilv: otoh, alists are easy to represent literally in code, and easy for racket to write and read 13:00 tauntaun: hashes are exactly what I've used, though encapsulated by the dict API. 13:00 tauntaun: The irony is that the API has somehow forced a bloating of the code. 13:01 (part) Fisherman 13:10 neilv: maybe you can find some opportunity for macros 13:17 tauntaun: wow...you're just one step behind me :) 13:17 tauntaun: I did just use let-syntax to try to neaten things up. 13:18 tauntaun: (neilv, I should have pinged you before typing...) 13:31 tauntaun: OK, by now I probably sound like I'm griping...but I have to ask: Why does racket/set lack set-cardinality? 13:31 tauntaun: (or set-size, or set-count) 13:31 (join) dnolen 13:33 (quit) tauntaun: Quit: Ex-Chat 14:02 lithpr: when running the racket executable as a repl, it does not recognize #lang racket 15:13 (join) shofetim 16:23 (nick) cpach_ -> cpach 16:37 (quit) neilv: Ping timeout: 252 seconds 16:39 (quit) mceier: Quit: Lost terminal 16:40 (join) mceier 16:49 (quit) evhan: Ping timeout: 240 seconds 16:51 (join) evhan 17:16 (join) tauntaun 18:14 (quit) dnolen: Quit: dnolen 18:26 (quit) corruptmemory: Remote host closed the connection 18:32 lithpr: the curried function shorthand is pretty slick 18:42 (join) coyotama|2 18:46 (quit) coyo: Ping timeout: 264 seconds 18:47 (join) dnolen 18:54 tauntaun: lithpr: how does that work? 18:54 tauntaun searches plt-help... 18:57 (quit) MayDaniel: Read error: Connection reset by peer 19:00 lithpr: (define ((make-add-suffix s2) s) 19:00 lithpr: (string-append s s2)) 19:00 tauntaun: yeah, I found that. 19:01 (join) jonrafkind 19:01 tauntaun: I was hoping for a notation that lets you curry functions anonymously, e.g., something terser than (curry map sqr). 19:01 tauntaun: In Haskell, you would just write "map sqr" 19:03 (quit) saint_cypher: Quit: Leaving. 19:07 jonrafkind: i suppose you cuold write a new language level where everything was curried 19:08 tauntaun: Yes, but in Scheme that would only proliferate parentheses further. 19:09 tauntaun: Although, I guess with enough macros you could indeed pull it off. 19:30 DT``: tauntaun, you just need a modified lambda and #%app, that transform (λ (x y) ...) to (λ (x) (λ (y) ...)) and (f x y) to ((f x) y). 19:32 tauntaun: Yes, I was thinking along those lines. 19:33 tauntaun must disappear for a few minutes (change of location). Please don't say anything interesting. 19:33 (quit) tauntaun: Quit: Ex-Chat 19:51 (join) tauntaun 19:59 (join) evhan_ 20:01 (quit) evhan: Ping timeout: 260 seconds 20:37 (join) neilv 20:50 (quit) mceier: Quit: leaving 20:52 tauntaun: check-expect doesn't seem to work. 20:54 offby1: repro 20:56 tauntaun: ? 20:57 offby1: tauntaun: can you paste a small bit of code that demonstrates check-expect not working properly? 20:57 tauntaun: offby1: (check-expect (list) 13) 20:58 tauntaun: rudybot: (check-expect (list) 13) 20:58 rudybot: tauntaun: your sandbox is ready 20:58 rudybot: tauntaun: error: reference to undefined identifier: check-expect 20:58 offby1: what should it do? What does it do instead? 20:58 tauntaun: I *thought* it would complain. 20:58 tauntaun: It does nothing. 20:58 tauntaun: rudybot: (require test-engine/racket-tests) 20:58 rudybot: tauntaun: Done. 20:58 tauntaun: rudybot: (check-expect (list) 13) 20:58 rudybot: tauntaun: ; stdout: "Ran 1 check.\n0 checks passed.\n\tActual value () differs from 13, the expected value.\n At line 1 column 0\n" 20:58 tauntaun: Well that's encouraging. 20:59 tauntaun: But it doesn't work in MzScheme. 20:59 offby1: gosh, I didn't know about test-engine 20:59 tauntaun: Where did you think check-expect lived? 21:00 offby1: not sure I ever used it 21:00 offby1: I'd'a guessed schemeunit 21:00 tauntaun investigates schemeunit 21:00 tauntaun: offby1: plt-help search doesn't recognize the keyword "schemeunit" 21:02 offby1: maybe it's "rackunit" now 21:04 tauntaun: OK, rackunit works fine. 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Military slang
Military slang is an array of colloquial terminology used commonly by US military personnel, including slang which is unique to or originates with the armed forces. It often takes the form of abbreviations/acronyms or derivations of the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, or otherwise incorporates aspects of formal military concepts and terms. Military slang is often used to reinforce or reflect (usually friendly and humorous) interservice rivalries.
Acronym slang[edit]
A number of military slang terms are acronyms. Rick Atkinson ascribes the origin of SNAFU, FUBAR, and a bevy of other terms to cynical GIs ridiculing the Army's penchant for acronyms.[1]
SNAFU stands for the sarcastic expression situation normal: all fucked up. It is a well-known example of military acronym slang. It is sometimes bowdlerized to all fouled up or similar.[2] It means that the situation is bad, but that this is a normal state of affairs. It is typically used in a joking manner to describe something that's working as intended.[citation needed]
The acronym is believed to have originated in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. Attribution to the American military is not universally accepted: it has also been attributed to the British.[3] Most reference works, including the Random House Unabridged Dictionary and Oxford English Dictionary, supply an origin date of 1940–1944, generally attributing it to the US military.[4]Time magazine used the term in their June 16, 1942 issue: "Last week U.S. citizens knew that gasoline rationing and rubber requisitioning were snafu."[4] Frederick Elkin noted in 1946 that there "are a few acceptable substitutes such as 'screw up' or 'mess up,' but these do not have the emphasis value of the obscene equivalent." He considered the expression SNAFU to be "a caricature of Army direction. The soldier resignedly accepts his own less responsible position and expresses his cynicism at the inefficiency of Army authority." He also noted that "the expression ... is coming into general civilian use."[5]
In modern usage, snafu is sometimes used as an interjection, though it is mostly now used as a noun. Snafu also sometimes refers to a bad situation, mistake, or cause of trouble. It is more commonly used in modern vernacular to describe running into an error or problem that is large and unexpected. For example, in 2005, The New York Times published an article titled "Hospital Staff Cutback Blamed for Test Result Snafu".[6]
SUSFU (situation unchanged: still fucked up) is a variant of SNAFU. SNAFU and SUSFU were first recorded in American Notes and Queries in their September 1941 issue.[4]
FUBAR stands for fucked up beyond all recognition/repair/reason. Like SNAFU and SUSFU, it dates from World War II. The Oxford English Dictionary lists Yank, the Army Weekly magazine (1944, 7 Jan. p. 8) as its earliest citation: "The FUBAR squadron. ‥ FUBAR? It means 'Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition."[7] NFG is equipment that is not functional, but may or may not be repairable, FUBAR is beyond repair. It was also mentioned in the movie "Tango & Cash" in 1989, "Saving Private Ryan" in 1998 and "28 Weeks Later" in 2007.
FUBAR BUNDY[edit]
FUBAR BUNDY is an ambulance term, possibly from military background [citation needed] meaning fucked up beyond all recognition but unfortunately not dead yet
TARFU stands for totally and royally fucked up or things are really fucked up. The 1944 U.S. Army animated shorts Three Brothers and Private Snafu Presents Seaman Tarfu In The Navy (both directed by Friz Freleng), feature the characters Private Snafu, Private Fubar, and Seaman Tarfu.[8][9]
BOHICA stands for bend over, here it comes again. It is an item of acronym slang which grew to regular use amongst the United States armed forces during the Vietnam War.[10][11] It is used colloquially to indicate that an adverse situation is about to repeat itself, and that acquiescence is the wisest course of action. It is commonly understood as a reference to being sodomized. An alternative etymology relates the expression to the days of sail and avoiding being struck by the boom, which would swing around the mast due to shifts in wind or the vessel's course. Although it originated in the United States military forces, and is still commonly used by United States Air Force fighter crew chiefs and armament crews, its usage has spread to civilian environments, used to describe unavoidable, unpleasant situations that have inconvenienced someone before and are about to yet again.
FIGMO describes a person, especially one who has a short remaining time on station, who has a lax attitude toward their work. The acronym stands for 'Fuck it, I've got my orders'. The set of orders implied are transfer or release orders, and once you have those it doesn't matter much what your current commanding officer thinks of you any longer.
FUBB, according to Gordon L. Rottman's FUBAR: Soldier Slang of World War II, was a term used by American soldiers and Marines during the second world war. It may either stand for 'fucked up beyond belief' or 'fouled up beyond belief.'
Military brat, or (branch) brat, such as Army brat, Navy brat. Originally from the British Army. When a member of the British Army was assigned abroad and could take his family, the soldier was listed as BRAT status, which stood for: British Regiment Attached Traveler. Eventually it came to refer only to the children of the military member, as the wives of the British Army soldiers objected to it referring to them. The term has been adopted worldwide and is commonly heard in reference to U.S. children. [12] Refers to the child of someone in that branch of the service.[13]
See also[edit]
- List of government and military acronyms
- List of U.S. government and military acronyms
- Grande Armée slang (French Army slang during the Napoleonic Wars)
- Voice procedure
- ^ Atkinson, Rick (2007). The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944. The Liberation Trilogy. Henry Holt. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-8050-6289-2.
- ^ Neary, Lynn. "Fifty Years of 'The Cat in the Hat'". NPR. Retrieved 2008-01-08. "'Situation Normal All . . . All Fouled Up,' as the first SNAFU animated cartoon put it"
- ^ Rawson, Hugh (1995). Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk: Being a Compilation of Linguistic Fig Leaves and Verbal Flourishes for Artful Users of the English Language. New York: Crown. ISBN 978-0-517-70201-7.
- ^ a b c Burchfield, R.W., ed. (1986). A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary. Volume IV Se-Z. Oxford: Clarendon. ISBN 978-0-19-861115-8.
- ^ Elkin, Frederick (March 1946), "The Soldier's Language", American Journal of Sociology (The University of Chicago Press) 51 (5 Human Behavior in Military Society): 414–422, JSTOR 2771105
- ^ Santora, Marc (May 19, 2005). "Hospital Staff Cutback Blamed for Test Result Snafu". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
- ^ "fubar, adj.". Oxford English Dictionary (third ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Pres. 2005.
- ^ "Private Snafu – Three Brothers (1944)". Internet Archive. Retrieved 2011-03-22.
- ^ Pietro Shakarian. "Situation Normal All Fucked Up:A History of Private Snafu". goldenagecartoons.com. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
- ^ Crawford, Samuel C. (2005). "Glossary". Brownwater III. Xlibris Corporation. p. 419. ISBN 978-1-59926-451-6. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
- ^ Elvin, Mike (2006). Financial Risk Taking: An Introduction to the Psychology of Trading and Behavioural Finance. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-02072-2. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
- ^ Mewes, Allison (2011) Intro To Army Life: A Handbook For Spouses And Significant Others Entering The Army.
- ^ Military Brats Are a Special Breed
Further reading[edit]
- Hakim, Joy (1995). A History of Us: War, Peace and all that Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509514-6.
- Jacobson, Gary (August 14, 1994). "Humor best way to remove last of 'Bohicans' resistance". The Dallas Morning News. p. 7H. Retrieved 7 November 2008.
- Stromberg, Rich (May 10, 2005). "Grab your ankles and say BOHICA". UWIRE. Retrieved 7 November 2008.
External links[edit]
Look up Appendix:Glossary of military slang or :Category:Military slang by language in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
- Glossary of Military Terms & Slang from the Vietnam War
- Military Terms of the Modern Era
- The dictionary definition of Appendix:Australian English military slang at Wiktionary
- The dictionary definition of Appendix:Canadian military slang at Wiktionary
- The dictionary definition of Appendix:U.S. Navy slang at Wiktionary


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As much as I like Australia as an investment destination I have to think this move up is a little over done. Amusingly Ben Pedley from LGT Bank, whom I have the utmost respect for, answered an email on the air that I sent in to Asia Squawk Box on the subject. I asked if the Aussie might be a little over bought, he said it probably is but that it could go to $0.82 or $0.83 before any sort of a pullback.
Apparently the futures market is pricing in three rate cuts by the Fed this year. Count me as a naysayer on that action.
I caught a few minutes of the Kudlow show last night and they talked at length about ETFs and one of the guests for the segment was Matt Hougan from Index Universe, way to go Matt.
There was someone from XTF Advisors (please correct me I have this wrong) with a 60/40 ETF portfolio as follows;
- Vanguard Mid Cap (VO) 8%
- iShares Russell 2000 (IWM) 9%
- iShares ST Treasury (SHY) 8.5%
- iShares Intermediate Treasury (IEF) 8.5%
- iShares LT Treasury (TLT) 7%
- iShares Corp Bond (LQD) 5%
- Vanguard REIT (VNQ) 11%
As far as treasury ETFs unless they are for small accounts or for a trade I would say most folks are better to lock in a rate with an actual treasury.
One last point, here is a vote for Pisani to replace Kudlow. Bob mostly just asked question in the part of the show I saw without pounding the audience, or the guests, over the head with his opinions.
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iTunes 11 is out.
As the title says.... Get it if you want it. Go to Help, the "check for updates."
Meh. Big deal. Some pretty'fying to keep the Macoyltes happy with something shiny, but really, like recent iOS upgrades, there's nothing to see here - move along.
It's actually a pretty substantial UI change. Not sure what I think of it yet, but seems easier. Still have to change my thinking about how things behave.
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Montgomery officials are speaking out against new legislation that was passed by the Senate that some say makes Alabama gun laws more lax. Both Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange and Public Safety Director Chris Murphy are against parts of this new bill, saying it could be dangerous for Montgomery. The new legislation, drafted by Senator Scott Beason of Gardendale, would make gettting and carrying a gun easier. There are several sections of the bill that have people talking but two parts especially, have Montgomery officials upset: 1. Would allow Alabamians the right to have a gun in their car with a free, lifetime permit.
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July 7, 2012
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I have played golf for 20+ years. This is as close as it gets without being outside in the elements. I purchased a golf club to go with this game and it does everything advertised. All this for the cost of one green fee at a local golf course. If you're planning to use the Wii connect feature to play with friends over the internet, best check with your ISP provider to see if they're blocking the game ports. I have Suddenlink as my ISP provider and, although they will not admit it, my game ports are blocked. I cannot port forward the game ports on my router as recommended by EA's Tiger Woods PGA Tour user's guide.
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I bought this last week and found a golf mag subscription voucher, which could be used as a $12 mail-in-rebate instead. I will look past the jagged graphics and enjoy this game while I enjoy some beer.
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October 11, 2011
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We have been playing the Tiger Woods PGA games for the Wii for about five years and have very much enjoyed each and every one with the increase in challenge. The caddie feature in this edition is great for beginners but not useful for a more experienced player. The fictional course that comes with the game seems impossible to make par so we'll be working on that one.
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This is a very enjoyable game. The game plays much closer to real golf than the previous versions I have owned. I am very pleased.
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game is as good as tiger woods 2011. Really well like in the house. If I cant play on the course, then play at home in my game room.
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We sent the first game back-it kept freezing up, 10 times during 2 hours of play.The replacement game only froze up twice in 2 days, same play time.We have a tennis game by EA sports that has never froze up.We are keeping the replacement game because it is a lot of fun and has a lot of courses and other golf games. But it is frustrating when the game freezes up on the 8th hole and you are winning.Buyer beware
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This game is awesome. Before you even go to the 'start' menu, your Tiger Woods and attempting to win his 5th Master against Anthony Kim. After you do that, you can start at The Masters, Play Now, Play Online, Game Modes, and Tiger Woods at PGA. This game is especially for the Wii Balance Board and Wii MotionPlus, use if you have them. The graphics aren't that amazing (it's a Wii game, what do you expect). You can also choose the difficulty of the other players and your play type. The caddies tips are very helpful, and you should definitely use the advice that he gives you. If you are an expert in golf, I wouldn't recommend using the caddy because he is only meant for beginners. I've only had it for a day so far, but I can tell I'm going to love it. I can't wait to start the Masters and beat it with Tiger Woods himself. I would definitely recommend to this golfing fans and others who enjoy fun, entertaining sports games.
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As members of Congress figure out how they are going to reduce federal spending, they must avoid making deep cuts in our defense spending.
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The burial benefits available for eligible veterans include burial allowance, plot or internment allowance, headstones or markers, a U.S. flag, a presidential memorial certificate and military funeral honors, including an honor guard and playing of "Taps".
Over the past several weeks Washington has been seized with the issue regarding the President's request to raise the nation's debt ceiling.
For months now the Leadership in the Congress and the Administration have been negotiating the amount of money that the federal government is allowed to borrow. Unfortunately, because of continued out-of-control spending, Congress was yet again asked to increase the debt ceiling – not to create new spending, but to pay for what Congress has already obligated.
Finally, there is a consensus on both sides of the aisle in Congress that, yes, military spending is far too high and has been for quite some time.
Therefore, it must be cut, especially at a time when everyone else (except the rich, of course) is being asked to sacrifice. We have to reform a military budget that is roughly one quarter of what we spend each year.
Last week saw some pretty outlandish outbursts from the left ranging from the highest levels, (Vice President Joe Biden) to the lowest (Rick Howell's The Liberal Agenda).
Uncle Joe called tea party backed Republicans "terrorists." Biden made the remark in a closed door "Democratic" caucus meeting and later denied making it. However, according to Politico's website, several sources who were present at the meeting stated that Biden indeed said it.
History was made Friday when Standard & Poors, one of three ratings agencies, downgraded American sovereign debt from AAA to AA+. It's the first time ever that America's credit rating has taken a hit. The downgrade affects long-term bonds.
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"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
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Shirvan (Sheer-VAHN)
The Golden Flame, Shirvan Silver-Hair, Shirvan Bright-Fire
Pride 2
Divine Charm, Melee Expertise (Sword), Elemental Mastery (Fire), Elemental Purity (Fire)
Questing Hero Who Would Be King, Insatiable Ambition and Will, Fated Fall
Turn 0 Artifact
The Obsidian Blades
Two thin blades made from volcano glass, extremely sharp and unbreakable by mundane means. They stem from the very same volcano from which the god of pride, Shirvan, reconstituted himself as a divine being and are infused with a measure of his own essence.
Their surface is very hot and will burn through almost anything except their wielder, Shirvan, and those he deems worthy to be spared its fiery touch. The more interesting property, however, is that their heat grows more intense according to the prominence of Pride in the immediate vicinity. Thus, even powerful foes might find the bite of the Obsidian Blades surprisingly harsh as their own pride and hubris is turned upon them. The downside is that Shirvan is, of course, its strongest source of power. Should he lose his own confidence and pride, the Obsidian Blades are little more than ordinary short-swords..
Turn 1
Major Acts (3->0):
Gain Ability: Fire Mastery
Up Domain: Pride ->2
Alter an existing race (local human tribes - physical and mental enhancement, longer average lifespan, increased fertility and resistance to volcanic hazards)
Minor Acts (3->0):
Create philosophy/religion (The Path of Excellence)
Create city
Change landscape (lay rivers)
Turn 2
Major Acts (3->1):
Gain Ability: Elemental Purity (Fire)
Create Exarch - Bahiya, The Shield of Ates (Ability: Blade Dominion)
New Ability:
(Type of Object/Material) Dominion
You possess the ability to control a certain type of object or material telekinetically and may even employ it effectively in combat. Generally, this ability is restricted to one's close surroundings (~60 ft.) and allows of control of no more than a dozen separate objects (or an approximately equal amount of a certain material, around 60 lbs., split into a maximum of a dozen separate units).
Minor Acts (3->1):
Create a small number of servants of moderate power - The Four Braves
Create one servant with greater power - The Valiant General
Shirvan, fair and radiant, leaves little doubt as to his divine nature when looked upon. He stands tall and graceful, his form chiseled athletic perfection. His eyes the color of molten gold, his hair the silver of the moon shining at night, to mirror his twin sister in creation, the goddess of radiance and light: Dasque.
Indeed, to look upon this god is to feel admiration -- and Shirvan knows it all too well, for he makes no effort to hide his appearance, nor any to enhance it. He moves with the ease and flexibility of a panther, his expression one of fearless confidence and ardor. As he is the God of Pride, he takes rightful pride in the skills, strength and cunning he possesses, but to be a mere paragon of vanity is not what his Domain is about. Indeed, such egotism would only serve to drive others away when pride, carefully measured, can be a very positive influence.
No doubt, Shirvan's spirit burns with a brightness that makes it obvious why he is twin brother to the goddess of radiance, and has been known to consume those who step too close in his passion, something that many a mortal can attest. But he also acknowledges the strength of others, their passions and skills -- praising, assisting, or simply lending an ear when it is needed. In his presence, most find it strangely easier to take pride in what they do, to overcome those nagging little doubts and let their heart beat with joy over their accomplishments. Such it is with his fellow brothers and sisters in godhood -- for a mortal, even a brief flicker of his attention becomes a moment of joy and pride for the duration of their life, that they were worthy of Shirvan's attention.
While lesser beings may swell with pride to compensate for their shortcomings, the God of Pride is at ease with himself, his confidence as much part of his nature as the ability to breathe. He has little taste for belittling others to aggrandize himself, but neither does he curb his tongue in order to please. He seems much a natural leader, and seeks to foster a healthy measure of the pride that is his domain in others, whether on purpose or merely because it is in his nature to do so.
Shirvan thinks that he has a grand destiny before him, sounding as enthused as a child describing their favorite game when talking of it: riches, power, and followers that thrive under his banner.
Yet his father knows that pride, for all the good that it can do, has its downsides. Not without reason is it considered a mortal sin in other worlds; the fall is inevitable. Soon, Shirvan will find that there is little that satisfies his passion. Former playthings discarded all too quickly (and sometimes cruelly), an eternal ambition that burns at his very core. The silent prophecy Baz'Auran never put words to holds Shirvan's destiny in a taut grip, for at some point, whether through too much success or too many failures, pride will become arrogance; magnanimity, pettiness. The bright flame, a white-hot pyre that consumes more and more.
He claims conquering heroes as his, as well as those who excel and take pride in what they do. His favorites are polymaths, those who master and excel at many different subjects.
Bahiya, the Shield of Ates
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The Four Braves
(Minor Act - Servants of Moderate Power)
Rashid, the Dashing Swordsman
Rashid, the dashing swordsman who dances around his foes with his thin, curved blade.
Faris the Giant
Faris the Giant, who towered two heads even over the tall men of Ates and swung a hammer as thick as a tree trunk.
Mahir, the Silent Archer
Mahir, the silent archer, who wasted neither movement nor word.
And Yaman, who fought without a weapon and knew both a hundred ways to kill and the art of strategy.
Anwar, The Valiant General
(Minor Act - Single Servant of Greater Power)
Taught the arts of philosophy and war, of weapons and horses. Of strategies and tactics as well as the ways of men and gods.
Where Bahiya leads the Four Braves into adventure, Anwar was trained to lead men into war. Victories followed in his wake and his spear became known and feared for its strength.
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Before his ascendancy to Godhood, Shirvan was ... in many ways, a lesser version of what he became after. The process of becoming a god in his own right sharpened him, as if previously he had been a blurry image that suddenly was given proper focus.
With a quick tongue and a healthy mind to accompany the physically perfect body granted to him at his creation, Shirvan was an apt pupil to the many teachings of their mentors. While he never demonstrated the pure intellect and wisdom of some of his kin, he proved himself a great all-rounder. Popular among most and confident to a fault with an easy smile, Shirvan was never really the best at anything he did. He was always good at it, though, and had a tendency to make it look easy -- however, rather than boast he actually went out of his way to aid those who weren't as successful, provided he suffered no rebukes for his presumptions.
But we get ahead of ourselves.
Both Shirvan and his twin-sister Dasque were created in a bright flash of light that briefly filled the White City. Some claim that a remnant of that light is still there, giving both the twin's hair its unique silver shine. Shirvan proved eager to find out more about the first things he saw: his twin, and his creator. And then, the world that Baz'Auran was creating for them and their other siblings.
As inquisitive as Shirvan was from a very early 'age', he was ironically also one of those who questioned Baz'Auran the most when the opportunity presented itself. Shirvan simply wanted to know how things worked -- how the world was created, why it was created and why they were placed above those mortals on the world. Such questions weighed on his mind and, at some point, he was invited to a private dialogue with Baz'Auran. Whatever the creator-god told him didn't seem to satisfy Shirvan, however. Perhaps he thought their Allfather wasn't telling him the whole truth, whatever it was; or perhaps the knowledge he had gained simply weighed heavily on his brow.
From that point Shirvan began to focus more on strengthening himself -- to learn of the sword, of war, and of heroics. His motivation remained unclear, yet it was apparent that the proto-god planned to be the best he could possible be and in that quest pulled quite a few others along with him. He even requested a favor from one of his kin, the smith Haramhold: a pair of swords as black as night, for his perusal.
Shortly afterwards, he caused a small scandal when it became apparent that he had had relations with one of the spirits who were supposed to teach the young godlings: a nymph. In itself not such a problem, had it only been the one. Apparently Shirvan's curiosity did not end with mere philosophy and knowledge. Some involved parties involved responded with outrage, something that Shirvan met with complete obliviousness, as he had never thought of that his behaviour might cause offense. Not quite convinced that he had done any wrong, he nevertheless took it upon himself to perform various tasks for them -- he went about fetching a trinket from that spirit, asking a favor from this spirit to defeating an overbearing sword teaching spirit in single combat to appease them.
And then he learned that it had all been setup for him as a lesson. Shirvan took it remarkably well, all things considered: with a grin and a shrug, but for some reason he stopped his usual approach of asking Baz'Auran questions whenever he could soon after, preferring the company of his own kind.
Faden: "A keen mind for magic, even if he shirks physical confrontation. I'll gladly listen to his counsel, and even follow it when it suits me."
Khalen-Het: "If only he had had the courage to go out and seek after Elanna. I would have gone with him, then, without a moment's hesitation. But Khalen-Het did not and let himself be defined by his loss. Hm? Oh, law is needed in the world, of that I have no doubt. And he is quite skilled at making it. But I will not be judged by anyone other than Father."
Carolinus: "He is the finest guard amongst us. And I'm sure I could trust my back to him, but I don't really know him that well."
Roselia: "A shifty one. Be careful around her, my friend. She likes to play all sorts of mind-games."
Jongo: "I daresay our creator was just testing the waters when he created the first one. Jongo is unfinished, and can't seem to decide what he is. Always a new face, for every day, perhaps for everyone who views him. Or her. I wonder when and how often he will betray us, and whether there is any use in being upset at him the following day."
Soreal: "She doesn't seem to like me much. Perhaps I'm wrong, but can one wearing such a grandiose mask really be shy?"
Lossethir: "A fine one, were he not so lazy under most circumstances. A shame, I'd enjoy going to war with him at my side."
The Weaver: "What is even a god without dreams? He may well be one of the most powerful among us."
Kalandor: "Ha! Perhaps I'll join his wanderings for awhile. Adventure seems to follow where he goes."
Rumel: "How can you not like someone so passionate about his work? And the inventions he creates are quite useful -- it's his scathing wit that truly makes him stand out to me, though. He is exceedingly funny, in his own way."
Aramar: "If I did not find his pets better company than Aramar himself, I might have more to say about him. He is a decent sort, but a bit slow."
Brandis: "Fine company, but little else."
Frellon: "There are few I'd rather have at my side. And he's honest to a fault. Quite refreshing, though I can't help but feel amused whenever he gets lead around by Rose."
Haramhold: "My swords are his work, and finely done. His skill is something to be proud of. But if you want a pair of your own from him, you better be willing to plug the moon from the sky."
Avyra: "A gentle one, but a bit sullen of late."
Dasque: "Ah, sister, you vex me so. I'll make you a gift worthy of your radiance someday."
Contragh: "It must be galling to him, that many of the greatest warlords and conquerors are mine. Someday we will clash, that much is certain. He'll learn why I hold no fear of him then."
Aerin: "Don't ask me about Aerin. He tries so hard at pleasing others that I hold nothing but pity for him."
Nieve: "I see much I like. Such passion ... why, fire and blood often go well together, don't they?"
Fayruz: "I tried teaching Fayruz to defend herself once, with disastrous results, and I fear all hope is lost for her in that regard. Her kindness gives her a dignity that she didn't even lose while flailing around with a rapier in hand, though. She's probably better off with that harp of hers; it's not like she'll be hurting for people willing to protect her. And she does play it beautifully."
Sonata: "Sonata; so similar, yet different, to myself. Our people share some traits we nourish in them both, though I fear hers are more easily broken. A fragile beauty."
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