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4.15 / 5.00 4,539 ViewsFirst of all to clear things up, I know Archie Comics already used this idea in one of their stories but I hated the way they turned a good idea into a corny storyline with a shit ending so here's the same basic idea turned into a much cooler story. If you like plenty of action (and a little bit of humour) then sit back and get ready for the very first episode of the Sonic VS Super Sonic series!
P.S: Sorry I didn't submit this with the movie. I'll try to keep everything together in future. (Please don't vote me down because of it!)
P.S.S: All copyright Sonic characters belong to Sega and Sonic Team (as if we didn't know that already).
Average... Needs inprovement but nice try...
Storyline wise it needs brushing up. It has no closure really and the part where Sonic and Super Sonic detached bodies can become unclear to some unless you make it more "idiot-proof". Byt the way you used the sprites in this animation was impressive. Only flaw is that you did it with 12.5 frames a second. This can bore the spectator's eye and obviously chop the animation up. Try 25 frames a second (30's only for people who got the balls to animate that many frames. 30 frames per second is pretty smooth and a ball braker to animate with). 25 fps and a better storyline structuring. Otherwise it gets a 7 for coolness! It actually looked like Sonic Spinball in some scenes. I loved that!
Try again and i'm sure that you'll get an awesome mark for your next one!
There are two types of people in the world: those that can count and those that can't. The movie wasn't made in 12.5 fps, it was made in 15. I didn't see the need to speed it up because one, when I did speed the frame rate, none of the sounds were synching properly; and two, I didn't want the whole movie to be over in three seconds. I reckon I made it fast enough to keep the fighting intense, but not so fast that people get lost easily. Also, like any kind of spoof, it requires some background understanding, no matter how much "idiot-proofing" you put into it. As I said earlier, I didn't have much on the storyline to begin with because I wanted the movie to start off like a regular 2D Sonic game. Break in, fight robots, beat Eggman. Not much of a story to it, but the story should pick up as it goes. Thanks for your advice though.
you mean, sonic is going to fight himself?
thats just creepy.
ALL new things are creepy to someone! I really hate empty claims! You've gone and blammed me just because "it's creepy"! You never told me why it's creepy, and judging by the massive amount of zeros in your ratings, has told me that you either didn't notice or didn't care how much work was put into this! Next time, if you go tell someone it's creepy, say why, damnit!


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dc.contributor | Svenska handelshögskolan, institutionen för företagsledning och organisation, företagsledning och organisation | sv |
dc.contributor | Hanken School of Economics, Department of Management and Organisation, Management and Organisation | en |
dc.contributor.author | Hearn, Jeff | |
dc.contributor.author | Piekkari, Rebecca | |
dc.contributor.author | Jyrkinen, Marjut | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-12-03T07:31:44Z | fi |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-03-02T14:11:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-12-03T07:31:44Z | fi |
dc.date.available | 2011-03-02T14:11:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-12-02 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-952-232-068-1 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0357-5764 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10227/476 | |
dc.identifier.uri | URN:ISBN:978-952-232-068-1 | |
dc.description.abstract | Mainstream research on management generally continues to ignore gender relations. Even so, over recent years there has been a major growth of international research on gender relations in organizations. Yet, most of this has focused on gender relations in lower or middle levels rather than at the apex of the organization. This book draws on research on gender policies, structures and practices of management in large Finnish corporations. It builds on earlier survey work of gender policies in the 100 largest corporations in Finland, to examine, through qualitative interviews, more detailed gendered processes in seven selected corporations. These represent corporations that are 'relatively active', 'moderately active', and 'not active' in relation to gender equality. Key issues include contrasts between formal policies and organizational practices; different corporate contexts and individual managers' views; definition and scope of gender policy; and the relation of gender policies and diversity policy. This focus on gender policies is understood and located within organizational structures, most obviously gendered corporate hierarchies. Important structures include national context in relation to transnationalization, relations of headquarters and subsidiaries, and interrelations of management, policy development and policy implementation. Gender relations in practice and gender practices are considered in more detail. These women and men managers operate at the intersections of gendered transnational managerial work, careers and family-type relations, including marriage and children, or lack thereof. Women and men managers may be part of the same management levels or management teams, but have totally different family-type situations and gendered experiences. Interconnections of management, domestic life and transnationalizations are intensely gendered matters. The debate on the public/private continues to be important for both gender relations and organizational relations, but complicated through transnationalizations. The modern transnational corporation is considered in terms of gender divisions and gender power, with particular reference to top management. The concluding discussion notes implications for research and policy. | fi |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Svenska handelshögskolan | sv |
dc.publisher | Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Research Reports | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 69 | |
dc.rights | Publikationen är skyddad av upphovsrätten. Den får läsas och skrivas ut för personligt bruk. Användning i kommersiellt syfte är förbjuden. | sv |
dc.rights | This publication is copyrighted. You may download, display and print it for Your own personal use. Commercial use is prohibited. | en |
dc.rights | Julkaisu on tekijänoikeussäännösten alainen. Teosta voi lukea ja tulostaa henkilökohtaista käyttöä varten. Käyttö kaupallisiin tarkoituksiin on kielletty. | fi |
dc.subject | gender | fi |
dc.subject | managers | fi |
dc.subject | management | fi |
dc.subject | men | fi |
dc.subject | talk | fi |
dc.subject | transnationalization | fi |
dc.subject | women | fi |
dc.subject.other | Management and Organisation | fi |
dc.title | Managers Talk about Gender: What Managers in Large Transnational Corporations Say about Gender Policies, Structures and Practices | fi |
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Herbie Hancock (US jazz pianist, keyboardist, bandleader and composer)
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Herbert Jeffrey Hancock, born in Chicago, IL, USA, is without doubt the most well known, controversial and influential of all jazz pianists.
Soon noticed by and involved with Miles Davis, Mr Hancock almost stormed the hardbop Blue Note 60's with a number of legendary sessions, from his (nearly) first record Takin' Off, to The Prisoner.
Recording with the new Mile's cats, he then took an important turn (around the time of Head Hunters), experimenting and mixing genres, thus drifting from his previous fan base expectations.
While the hardbop's crowd thought he was completely lost for the cause, he then took a radical U-turn, with the all-stars-all-jazz V.S.O.P.
He has since recorded and experimented in a lot of directions, exploring "sound textures" and touring with various bands.
Certainly a very complex personality, with an extensive discography.
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound. He was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk music (characterized by syncopated drum beats). Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieved success among pop audiences. His music embraces elements of funk and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz. In his jazz improvisation, he possesses a unique creative blend of jazz, blues, and modern classical music, with harmonic stylings much like the styles of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
Hancock's best-known solo works include "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man" (later performed by dozens of musicians, including bandleader Mongo Santamaría), "Maiden Voyage", "Chameleon", and the singles "I Thought It Was You" and "Rockit". His 2007 tribute album River: The Joni Letters won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, only the second jazz album ever to win the award, after Getz/Gilberto in 1965.
Hancock practices Nichiren Buddhism and is a member of the Buddhist association Sōka Gakkai International. As part of Hancock's spiritual practice, he recites the Buddhist chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo each day. In 2013, Hancock's dialogue with Wayne Shorter and Daisaku Ikeda on jazz, Buddhism and life was published in Japanese.
On July 22, 2011, at a ceremony in Paris, Hancock was named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of Intercultural Dialogue. In 2013 Hancock joined the University of California, Los Angeles faculty as a professor in the UCLA music department where he will teach jazz music.
Hancock is the 2014 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University. Holders of the chair deliver a series of six lectures on poetry, "The Norton Lectures", poetry being "interpreted in the broadest sense, including all poetic expression in language, music, or fine arts." Previous Norton lecturers include musicians Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky and John Cage. Hancock's theme is "The Ethics of Jazz."
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The two-time Booker Prize winner now gives us an exceedingly timely, exhilarating novel—at once dark, suspenseful, and seriously funny—that journeys to the place where the cyber underworld collides with international power politics.
When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into Australia's prison computer system, hundreds of asylum-seekers walk free. And because the Americans run the prisons (let's be honest: as they do in so many parts of her country) the doors of some five thousand jails in the United States also open. Is this a mistake, or a declaration of cyber war? And does it have anything to do with the largely forgotten Battle of Brisbane between American and Australian forces in 1942? Or with the CIA-influenced coup in Australia in 1975? Felix Moore, known to himself as "our sole remaining left-wing journalist," is determined to write Gaby's biography in order to find the answers—to save her, his own career, and, perhaps, his country. But how to get Gaby—on the run, scared, confused, and angry—to cooperate?
Bringing together the world of hackers and radicals with the "special relationship" between the United States and Australia, and Australia and the CIA, Amnesia is a novel that speaks powerfully about the often hidden past—but most urgently about the more and more hidden present.
it was a spring evening in Washington DC; a chilly autumn morning in Melbourne; it was exactly 22:00 Greenwich Mean Time when a worm entered the computerised control systems of countless Australian prisons and released the locks in many other places of incarceration, some of which the hacker could not have known existed. Because Australian prison security was, in the year 2010, mostly designed and sold by American corporations the worm immediately infected 117 US federal correctional facilities, 1700 prisons, and over 3000 county jails. Wherever it went, it travelled underground, in darkness, like a bushfire burning in the roots of trees. Reaching its destinations it announced itself: THE CORPORATION IS UNDER OUR CONTROL. THE ANGEL DECLARES YOU FREE.
This message and others more elaborate were read, in English, by warders in Texas, contractors in Afghanistan, Kurdistan, in immigrant detention camps in Australia, in Woomera, black sites in the Kimberley, secret centres of rendition at the American "signals facility" near Alice Springs. Sometimes prisoners escaped. Sometimes they were shot and killed. Bewildered Afghans and Filipinos, an Indonesian teenager wounded by gunfire, a British Muslim dying of dehydration, all these previously unknown individuals were seen on public television, wandering on outback roads.
The security monitors in Sydney's Villawood facility read: THE ANGEL OF THE LORD BY NIGHT OPENED THE PRISON DOORS, AND BROUGHT THEM FORTH. My former colleagues asked, what does this language tell us about the perpetrator?
I didn't give a toss. I was grateful for a story big enough to push me off the front pages where I had already suffered PANTS ON FIRE. I was spending my days in the Supreme Court of New South Wales paying Nigel Willis QC $500 an hour so I could be sued for defamation. Nigel's "billable hours" continued to accrue well past the stage when it became clear that he was a fuckwit and I didn't have a chance in hell, but cheer up mate: he was betting 3:2 on a successful appeal. That my barrister also owned a racehorse was not the point.
Meanwhile there was not much for me to do but read the papers. FEDS NOW SAY ANGEL IS AN AUSSIE WORM.
"Would the defendant like to tell the court why he is reading a newspaper."
"I am a journalist, m'lud. It is my trade."
Attention was then brought to the state of my tweed jacket. Ha-ha, m'lud. When the court had had its joke, we adjourned for lunch and I, being unaccompanied on that particular day, took my famously shambolic self across to the botanic gardens where I read the Daily Telegraph. Down by the rose gardens amongst the horseshit fertiliser, I learned that the terrorist who had been "obviously" a male Christian fundamentalist had now become the daughter of a Melbourne actress. The traitor appeared very pale and much younger than her thirty years. Dick Connolly got the photo credit but his editor had photoshopped her for in real life she would turn out to be a solid little thing whose legs were strong and sturdy, not at all like the waif in the Telegraph. She was from Coburg, in the north of Melbourne, a flat, forgotten industrial suburb coincidentally once the site of Pentridge Prison. She came to her own arraignment in a black hoodie, slouching, presumably to hide the fact that our first homegrown terrorist had a beautiful face.
Angel was her handle. Gaby was her name in what I have learned is "meat world." She was charged as Gabrielle Baillieux and I had known her parents long ago—her mother was the actress Celine Baillieux, her father Sando Quinn, a Labor member of parliament.
I returned to my own court depressed, not by the outcome of my case, which was preordained, but by the realisation that my life in journalism was being destroyed at the time I might have expected my moment in the sun.
I had published several books, fifty features, a thousand columns, mainly concerned with the traumatic injury done to my country by our American allies in 1975. While my colleagues leapt to the conclusion that the hacker was concerned simply with freeing boat people from Australian custody, I took the same view as our American allies, that this was an attack on the United States. It was clear to me, straight away, that the events of 1975 had been a first act in this tragedy and that the Angel Worm was a retaliation. If Washington was right, this was the story I had spent my life preparing for. If the "events of 1975" seem confusing or enigmatic to you, then that is exactly my point. They are all part of "The Great Amnesia." More TC.
In court, I listened as my publisher got a belting from the judge and I saw his face when he finally understood he could not even sell my book as remaindered.
"Pulp?" he said.
"Including that copy in your hand."
Damages were awarded against me for $120,000. Was I insured or not insured? I did not know.
The crowd outside the court was as happy as a hanging day.
"Feels, Feels," the News International guy shouted. "Look this way. Felix."
That was Kev Dawson, a cautious little prick who made his living rewriting press releases.
"Look this way Feels."
"What do you think about the verdict, Feels?"
What I thought was: our sole remaining left-wing journalist had been pissed on from a mighty height. And what was my crime? Repeating press releases? No, I had reported a rumour. In the world of grown-ups a rumour is as much a "fact" as smoke. To omit the smoke is to fail to communicate the threat in the landscape.
In the Supreme Court of New South Wales this was defamation.
"What next, Felix?"
Rob a bank? Shoot myself? Certainly, no-one would give me the Angel story although I was better equipped (Wired magazine take note) to write it than any of the clever children who would be hired to do the job. But I was, as the judge had been pleased to point out, no longer employable in "your former trade." I had been a leader writer, a columnist, a so-called investigative reporter. I had inhabited the Canberra Press Gallery where my "rumours" had a little power. I think Alan Ramsey may have even liked me. For a short period in the mid-seventies, I was host of Drivetime Radio on the ABC.
I was an aging breadwinner with a ridiculous mortgage. I had therefore been a screenwriter and a weekend novelist. I had written both history and political satire, thrillers, investigative crime. The screen adaptation of my novel Barbie and the Deadheads was workshopped at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute.
But through this, even while bowing and scraping to get "seed money" from the Australian Film Commission, I remained a socialist and a servant of the truth. I had been sued ninety-eight times before they brought me down with this one, and along the way I had exposed the deeds of Kerry Packer and Rupert Murdoch (both Old Geelong Grammarians, btw) always a very dangerous occupation for a family man, and apparently terrifying for those who rely on him for succour. As the doors of the mainstream media closed to anyone unworldly enough to write the truth, I still published "Lo-tech Blog," a newsletter printed on acid paper which was read by the entire Canberra Press Gallery and all of parliament besides. Don't ask how we paid our electricity bill.
I worked as a journalist in a country where the flow of information was controlled by three corporations. Their ability to manipulate the "truth" made the right to vote largely meaningless, but I was a journalist. I did my best. In "Lo-tech Blog," I revealed the Australian press's cowardly reporting of the government lies about the refugees aboard the ill-fated Oolong.
"I can't comprehend how genuine refugees would throw their children overboard," said our Prime Minister.
Once again, like 1975, here was a lie of Goebbelsesque immensity. The fourth estate made a whole country believe the refugees were animals and swine. Many think so still.
Yet the refugees belonged here. They would have been at home with the best of us. We have a history of courage and endurance, of inventiveness in the face of isolation and mortal threat. At the same time, alas, we have displayed this awful level of cowardice, brown-nosing, criminality, mediocrity and nest-feathering.
I was overweight and out of breath but I was proud to be sued, reviled, scorned, to be called a loser by the rewriters of press releases. I took comfort from it, which was just as well because there was comfort nowhere else. As would be confirmed in the weeks ahead, none of my old mates were going to rescue me from the slow soul-destroying grind of unemployment.
a five-star hotel might seem an unwise venue for a bedraggled outcast to lick his wounds but the Wentworth was favoured by my old mate Woody "Wodonga" Townes. My dearest friends all exhibit a passionate love of talk and drink, but of this often distinguished crowd it was Woody Townes who had the grit and guts. He had attended court every day although he had had to fly seven hundred kilometres from Melbourne. Any fight I had, he was always by my side. And when I had endured the whacking from the press I found him where I knew he would be, where he had waited on almost every gruesome afternoon, with his meaty body jammed into a small velvet chair in the so-called Garden Court. The moment he spotted me he began pouring champagne with his left hand. It was a distinctive pose: the heavy animal leg crossed against his shiny thigh, the right elbow held high to ward off the attentions of an eager waiter.
I considered my loyal friend's exposed white calves, his remarkable belt, his thick neck, the high colour in his cheeks and I thought, not for the first time, that it is Melbourne's talent to produce these extraordinary eighteenth-century figures. In a more contested space, life would compress them, but down south, at the Paris end of Collins Street, there was nothing to stop him expanding to occupy the frame. He was a Gillray engraving—indulgence, opinion, power.
By profession my mate was a "property developer" and I presumed he must be sometimes involved in the questionable dealings of his caste. My wife thought him a repulsive creature, but she never gave herself a chance to know him. He was both a rich man and a courageous soldier of the left. He was a reliable patron of unpopular causes and (although he was possibly tone deaf) Chairman of the South Bank Opera Company. He financially supported at least two atonal composers who would otherwise have had to teach high school. He had also bankrolled my own ill-fated play. Woody's language could be abusive. He did occasionally spoil his philanthropy by demanding repayment via small services, but he could be relied upon to physically and legally confront injustice. In a time when the Australian Labor Party was becoming filled with white-collar careerists straight from university, Woody was old-school—he did not fear the consequences of belief.
"Fuck them all," he said, and ground the champagne bottle down into the ice. That would be pretty much the content of our conversation, and three bottles later, after several rounds of fancy nibbles, he called for the bill, paid from a roll of fifties, got me into a taxi and gave me a Cabcharge voucher to sign at the other end.
"No surrender," he said, or words to that effect.
It was only a short drive across the Anzac Bridge to our house at Rozelle. Here the best part of my life awaited me, my wife, two daughters, but—in the narrow passageway of our slightly damp terrace house, there stood, by poisonous chance, five cardboard cartons of my book, maliciously delivered that very afternoon.
Were these for me to pulp myself?
Was this not hilarious, that my puce-faced publisher, with his big house in Pymble, had gone to the trouble and expense of having boxes sent to my humble door? I was laughing so much I barely managed to carry this burden through the house. Apparently my daughters saw me and cared so little for my distress that they went straight up to watch the Kardashians. Claire must have been there somewhere, but I didn't see her yet. I was much more occupied with enacting the court order.
I could never light a barbecue. I had no manual skills at all. It was my athletic Claire who handled the electric drill, not me.
Naturally I overcompensated with the firelighters. Did I really enclose a free firelighter in every book? Was that a joke? How would I know? It was not necessarily self-pitying and pathetic that I set my own books on fire, but it was certainly stupid or at least ill-informed to add a litre of petrol to those feeble flames. I was unprepared for the violent force, the great whoosh that lifted off my eyebrows and caught the lower limbs of our beloved jacaranda.
As the flames crawled from the branches to the second-floor extension, I should—people never cease insisting—have picked up the garden hose and put it out. Fine, but these dear friends did not see what I saw. I made my judgement. I chose human life before real estate. I rushed up the stairs and snatched the audience from the Kardashians. Yes, my babies were teenagers. Yes, they resisted, but here was no time for explanation and I had no choice but treat them roughly. Apparently I smelled "like a cross between a pub and a lawnmower." I rushed them out into the street and left them screaming.
I don't know what happened then, but somehow the next-door copywriter stole my girls and the Balmain fire brigade were soon pushing me aside, dragging their filthy hoses down our hall and Claire, my wife, my comfort, my lover, my friend was waiting for me.
The next bit should remain private from our kids. But I will never forget exactly what was said.
claire was clever, kind and funny. She slept with her nose just above the sheets like a little possum. She woke up smiling. She stripped a century of paint from the balustrades and waxed and oiled them until they glowed. She climbed on the roof during lightning storms to remove the leaves from the overflowing gutters. She canvassed door to door for the Leichhardt by-election. She was a Japanese-trained potter whose work was collected by museums but there was never a night when I came home from Canberra or Melbourne or a union pub in Sussex Street that she was not waiting to hear what had happened.
She was commonly regarded as a perfect mother while I was known to have been unfaithful or at least to have attempted it. I was said to be continually drunk and impatient with decent people whose politics I did not like. I was allegedly unemployable. It was thought I was a communist who did not have the intelligence to see that he had become historically irrelevant.
All day Claire ripped her strong square hands with gritty clay, from which human sacrifice she extracted long necks and tiny kissing lips. She cooked like the farmer's daughter that she was, leg of lamb, baked vegetables, proper gravy. But each night she devoured the life that I brought home. My darling was what is commonly called a political junkie—awful term—but I delivered what she wanted most. We had fun, for years and years. Yes, I developed a Canberra belly and was ashamed to jog. She, as everyone remarked, stayed neat and trim. She wore jeans and windcheaters and sneakers and cut her hair herself, eschewing "sexy" legs and teetering fuck-me heels. After the fire I learned that certain mates had wondered if she might be gay. Idiots. None of them had the slightest clue about our love life. We were tender maniacs in ways known only to ourselves. If not for debt we would be in bed today.
Some people are good at debt. We were bad at it, and only discovered it in the way people who get seasick learn of their weakness when the ship has left the shore. We were a journalist and a potter thinking they could send their kids to an expensive private school. You get the joke.
Earlier I described how I abandoned these children on the footpath. Abandoned? For God's sake, they were almost at the end of their investment curve. To listen to their conversation you would never dream that their parents were both third-generation socialists. Did they even remember their father toasting crumpets in the smoky fire? Can they hear their mother's lovely voice sing "Moreton Bay"?
I've been a prisoner at Port Macquarie
At Norfolk Island and Emu Plains
At Castle Hill and cursed Toongabbie
At all those settlements I've worked in chains
But of all places of condemnation
And penal stations of New South Wales
Of Moreton Bay I have found no equal
Excessive tyranny each day prevails
She sang that to our little girls? You bet she did.
We had made the awful mistake of sending the girls to school with the children of our enemies. We thought we were saving Fiona from dyslexia. In fact we were wrecking her family by putting it under a financial strain it could not withstand. I would never once, not for a second, have thought to call Claire timid. How could I know that debt would make her so afraid? We got a line of credit for $50,000 and every time I acted like myself she hated it. She had loved me for those qualities before: I mean, my almost genetic need to take risk, to stand on principle, to poke the bully in the eye. I could not compromise, even when I was—so often—physically afraid. A sword hung over the marriage bed and I did not see it. I refused compromises she privately thought a father was morally obliged to make.
And of course the girls had not the least idea of what was at stake. If they paid attention to a newspaper it was only the Life and Style section. I doubt they had read a single one of my words, and had no notion of my work and life. They had never seen the evidence that might have justified my absences. If I allowed Claire's bond to be the strongest it was because I saw how much she wanted them to be "my daughters." Only once I bought them clothing (T-shirts, that's all). Then I learned that this was not my job and I should never try again.
Before this final defamation suit, Claire had been the pillion passenger who closed her eyes and hung on tight but the Supreme Court's finding was the final straw. When she heard the size of the damages, she quite collapsed.
As a child she had seen the family farm taken by the bank. Was it that? Was it something else? In any case, she did not believe my assurance that "everything will be OK" because Woody had flown up from Melbourne for the court case. He had promised nothing. She was correct to say this, but she could not grasp that this was exactly the sort of situation when you could rely on Woody. Claire could not grasp his influence. She did not care that he had saved me from my burning car. All she could see was that his father had been a slumlord and a thug.
Nor did she trust Nigel QC because she believed, correctly, that he was the prosecutor's friend. I told her that did not matter. I was right. If only she had trusted me, I would have got back on the bike and taken her hurtling through the bends at a hundred and fifty kilometres an hour. I would have won the appeal. I would have sorted out the legal costs, and we would have celebrated as we had celebrated many times before.
"Everything will be OK," I said, and it was dreadful to see the fury in her eyes.
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If you are looking for an appropriate prayer or reading for your wedding or vow renewal, consider using the Apache Wedding Blessing, but know where it came from.
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The growing consensus concerning the origin of the "Apache Wedding Blessing" is that the blessing/prayer is not part of Apache culture. It appears the "Apache Wedding Blessing" was written in the late 1940s or in early 1950 by screenwriter Albert Maltz for the movie Broken Arrow. Other sources state that the blessing was freely adapted from "Wedding Braids" by Stan Davis. However Stan Davis appears to be an artist and "Wedding Braids" is one of his paintings.
Rebecca Mead: "But so far as I can determine from research in libraries, speaking with scholars of apache culture, and with actual keepers of Apache culture, the prayer appears to be a poetic fiction … It was a Native American, Ramon Riley, the cultural resource director of the White Mountain Apache Cultural Center, in Fort Apache, Arizona, who pointed me toward the apparent source of the Apache wedding prayer. 'It's from a movie called Broken Arrow, starring James Stewart and Deborah Paget,' he told me."
Apache Wedding Blessing – Indian Marriage Prayer
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other.
Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other.
Now there is no more loneliness.
Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you.
May your days together be good and long upon the earth.
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The checkin opened at 7:30 and it was busy. After getting our boarding passes we went though security and immigration to arrive at the Premium lounge. Had a quick bite and relaxed and getting some work done in the comfortable chairs (like the ones at the door massage places). Had a quick shower to get ready for the red eye flight to ...
After one hour flight delay, we arrived in Guangzhou at 4pm but the connection on Turkish doesn't leave until 11pm. Kinda awkward timing as it's too little time to go into the city 41km away but too long until the check in counter opens at 7:30pm. The Guangzhou airport lack serious seating so good thing Air China First Class check in counter as ...
Wow this weekend was full of shena****ns. I took the train and used Ranald's phrasebook because my iPod sat in a puddle for two days and I can't get a new one until Indonesia. Actually a dictionary would be better. Anyway I was playing around with the book and made a fun friend on the eight hour ride to Guangzhou. Sitting up. Because it's a holiday. And there were no more sleeper cars available. Agh.
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I have been researching sites for Service Dogs in Canada. They are few and far between in this country. Therefore, the wait times for a service dog is anywhere from 1 year to 2.5 years. Service dogs are utilized for more than a seeing eye dog, or hearing dogs. There are special needs dogs servicing those with psychiatric needs, autism or those who have mobility issues.I am attempting to set up a site for charitable donations. I will apply asap. Any suggestions for corporate doners? Currently I am one of the people needing a dog asap. The charity will be established and maintained for the future needs of all who might need assistance.
The wait times for service dogs for people who need them desperately, are far too long. There are certified trainers, not the fly by night trainers, who are available to train but the cost is prohibitive, the cost is out of reach for most of us.A charitable website for this cause is desired and needed by many people for a variety of reasons.Would people be willing to help with this cause?


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Very professional staff and doctor. Personal and prompt follow up. Very easy to speak with doctor. Great combination of professional and common sense diagnosis.
This doctor ... Who I have seen for a very long time, just wrote me a letter and had me removed from his practice . What for , you ask? For asking for documentation for getting the power wheelchair ( which HE PRESCRIBED FOR ME) fixed! The battery died, and it needed servicing, and they would not provide the necessary documentation. If this is what you want, or would expect when you need it most.....
Down to earth doctor that's just so easy to talk to. I never feel rushed. It feels like I'm going to chat with a friend more than going for a medical checkup. Always on point with his medical diagnosis. Staff very friendly, but quite busy. I always get a sick appointment the same day. His partners are excellent as well. I've personally witnessed them starting early, staying late, and working through their lunch hour to see sick patients.
The courtesy of the office staff has improved from just a few years ago.
The one young male staff who works over there is very, very, professional.It is always a pleasure to deal with him. He is so, so, nice. I hope the very best for him. I believe, he has a sister who works there also. she is really nice. She is not around any more. The staff had gotten much nicer, ever since couple of them had been changed. It is a big pleasure to talk to them over the phone now. As for Dr. Ferrara, he has been mine for the past fourteen years. I never had any complaint. YES! HE IS THE BEST OF THE BEST. & the other Drs he referred me to are nice, & always professionals. I made sure that my family & friends are with MY DR. because HE ROCKS. A to MY Dr. & HIS STAFF. especially the One YOUNG, AWESOME MALE STAFF OVER THERE!
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Strips of wood nailed to the floor in a "T" shape.
The blocks are spaced so that blocks of wood can slide between them.
A block of wood screwed to the end of the trammel supports the router above the work.
Most carpenters know how to draw an ellipse using string, a pencil, and a couple of nails. But once it's drawn, cutting and sanding a perfectly smooth elliptical curve takes some time.
Stew Junge of Landmark Finish in Andover, Mass., had a lot of elliptical head casings to make, so he built this router jig. It's a temporary setup: strips of wood nailed to the floor in a "T" shape, spaced so that blocks of wood can slide between them. The router trammel is attached with a single screw to each block so that the screws can pivot and the blocks can slide in the channels created by the wood strips. The shape of the ellipse is determined by the distance between the edge of the router bit and each of the pivot points.
Using a spiral cutter, Junge cuts the ellipse in multiple passes, lowering the bit gradually into the stock — in this case a sheet of MDF. A block of wood screwed to the end of the trammel supports the router above the work. To change the ellipse's size and shape, he simply moves the pivot points.
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Are Miranda warnings required when a person is questioned during a routine traffic stop? (Photo Dale Stockton)
Any seasoned police officer can recite Miranda rights from memory: You have a right to remain silent; anything you say can be used against you in a court of law; you have a right to the presence of an attorney; and if you can't afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you prior to any questioning if you so desire.1 Each of these four statements must be given to a suspect prior to any custodial interrogation. Failure to inform a suspect of their Miranda rights could result in the inadmissibility or suppression of evidence stemming from the interrogation.
The key issue in providing the constitutional protections under Miranda is when custodial interrogation begins. A custodial interrogation is generally defined as any questioning initiated by police officers after a person has been taken into custody or is otherwise deprived of their freedom in any significant way. It doesn't, however, involve the officer's general questioning at the scene of an incident as to facts surrounding a crime or other general questioning of individuals during the fact-finding process.
No single factor determines whether a person is in custody during questioning. The courts have used several of the following factors to determine that persons were in custody when questioned:
• Handcuffing the suspect;
• Officers drawing their weapons;
• Questioning the suspect over a long period of time;
• Questioning them late at night;
• The presence of numerous officers;
• Excluding family and/or friends;
• Placing the suspect in the back of a police vehicle;
• Authoritarian and accusatory demeanor of officer; and
• Questioning at the police station.
The courts have found the following factors indicate a suspect is not in custody during questioning:
• Officers stating to the suspect he is not in custody;
• Weapons holstered;
• Suspect not handcuffed;
• Officers' polite and respectful demeanor;
• Short detention and questioning;
• Explanation that he doesn't have to answer questions; and
• Suspect driving self to station.
Of course, determining whether a person is in custody isn't as simple as looking at a chart. This is certainly true when motorists are questioned and arrested on the roadside, perhaps as a result of field sobriety testing or other investigation of criminal activity. Generally, motorists aren't free to leave while police officers are issuing citations, performing field sobriety tests or other law enforcement activities.
That said, are police officers required to recite the Miranda warnings before questioning motorists while investigating traffic offenses, and if so, which ones?
As a general rule, Miranda warnings are not required when a person is questioned during a routine traffic stop or Terry2 stop. A temporary detention—incident to a traffic stop or general on-the-scene investigation—normally doesn't trigger the Miranda protections. A motorist detained pursuant to a traffic stop is entitled to Miranda protections only if they're restrained to a degree associated with a formal arrest.
It's true an ordinary traffic stop curtails the freedom of the detained motorist and imposes some pressures on the motorist to answer questions. But these pressures don't sufficiently impair the motorist's privilege against self-incrimination and Miranda rights. This is true even though someone stopped by a police officer for a traffic violation doesn't feel free to leave.3 Why? Because routine roadside questioning of motorists pursuant to a traffic stop is more analogous to a Terry stop than a formal arrest.4
The following are but a few examples where Miranda warnings are not required during a traffic stop:
• When a motorist can't produce their license and vehicle registration, it's not unlawful for an officer to ask whether the motorist had permission to drive the car, where they were going and whether they had any money.5 The motorist's replies are admissible even though the officer failed to issue Miranda warnings.
• When a motorist is stopped because their license plates are expired, an officer's inquiry into the reason the plates are expired doesn't require Miranda warnings.6
• When an officer stops a motorist for speeding and conducts a cursory search of the vehicle and asks general questions (e.g., who owns which piece of luggage), Miranda warnings are not required because the motorist was not subjected to custodial interrogation.7


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Sound Off: ULB Soundproofing
The moment you've all been waiting for has arrived--the answer to the burning question, "Can we make a hotrod PC quiet?" And the answer is the subject of this article.
Those of you who have been following this series know that Monarch Computer Systems sent us a testbed system, a dual Athlon system. That system now contains, in terms of things that make noise, four Western Digital 36GB 10KRPM Raptor S-ATA drives. The case is a Lian Li PC-6070A that currently uses stock fans. Initially, this article was delayed because one of those fans had issues. To their credit, Monarch got me a new one as quickly as it could; I like good customer service. The power supply is an Enermax with the adjustable fan dial. Finally, the CPU coolers are stock AMD, which I have found from much experience to be a quiet yet effective way of dealing with the prodigious amounts of heat coming off an Athlon.
The real trick in this setup, however, is soundproofing in the case itself; Lian Li installed what appears to be AcoustiPack sound-absorbing foam in the top and side panels of the case, plus a rubber seal on the case door. As a former OEMer, I think it's cool you now can receive a quiet-ized case directly from the manufacturer rather than having to install the soundproofing yourself. Now, I didn't have a control case to compare with, so I explored what happened when you took the sides off completely and opened the front door of the case. Below is what I found; as a point of comparison, I include the numbers for the Dell Precision dual-Xeon workstation I recently reviewed.
Open Closed Dell Precision Front 47.5 45 47 Back 55 55 55 Top 47 45 45 Top Left 48 43 n/a (all values dBa)
Top Left is a new position for taking measurements, one I discovered empirically. It is 24" to the left, as in, side of the case you would take off to expose the PC cards, and 24" above the top front edge of the case. Using the sound meter, I discovered this was the point along the line 24" above the top edge of the case--user ear height, at which the most noise was observed. Other than turning the dial on the Enermax power supply down to the point where it is drowned out by the case fan (setting the fan on max raised the noise from 55 to 56dBa, a 20% increase), there is no soundproofing on the back of the case. As that is the major source of noise, the values were unchanged, but closing them made quite a bit of difference on the front. The 4db difference in sound--given that dBa is a log scale, this represents sixty percent less noise--is dramatic. Also, the system with this arrangement is as quiet as is Dell's dual Xeon system. Given that Xeons are known to be much easier to cool than are Athlons, this is an achievement in and of itself.
Given time and perseverance, we could have gone for a quieter fan in the back. Or, we could have done something as simple as placing rubber grommets on the fan mounts, which would cut the noise quite a bit more, and then installed Zalman coolers. Despite the not-quite-optimal setup, however, I think the preliminary answer to "can you make a quiet hot-rod PC" is an unequivocal "yes". The only problem is that although we can replace the case fans on the Ultimate Linux Box, I don't believe we will be able to replace the stock AMD coolers by press time. You see, no one yet makes quiet coolers for Opteron.
The folks at Monarch have been working hard on this little surprise, and I received an e-mail last Friday saying we will be able to get a custom Lian Li case into which to shoehorn this monster. We'll have the 3Ware/WD 4-drive RAID setup, the ATI Fire GL X1, an Audigy II sound card, a DVD/RW drive and a CD/RW drive, all atop a RioWorks dual Opteron workstation motherboard. We had to get the custom case because the standard case accommodates only a standard ATX motherboard; the workstation (with an AGP slot) boards come in only Extended-ATX formats. The only details left are making sure ATI comes through with a driver for the 64-bit Linux that an Opteron requires. Such is life on the leading bleeding edge.
In closing out this series and getting ready for the print article, I'd like to respond to some feedback I've received over the past couple of months, both specifically and in general. Last week, someone asked me why I didn't use the 160GB Maxtor S-ATA drives, which run at 7200RPM, instead of the 36GB 10k Western Digitals. My response is I am tuning this particular box for speed and not for drive capacity. If space is the primary consideration, then by all means use the Maxtors. Indeed, if I were doing the Ultimate Linux Storage Server, I would grab a 4U rackmount chassis, a 12-port RAID card, 12 of the 160GB Maxtors and have myself 1.7TB of high-speed data storage goodness. But that's not this year's article, which leads me to this conclusion: this isn't your Ultimate Linux Box, this is our Ultimate Linux Box, built with what is available right now. You may have something entirely different in mind for your needs. You may want a gamer's box; or a small, quiet router; or a LAN party box, something with a handle. You may want to run Linux on a PDA or set up the proverbial Beowulf cluster. Your budget may be $100, or maybe you just won the lottery. It's all up to you. That's the fun of Linux--it runs on almost anything. For this author, that's what really puts the Ultimate in Ultimate Linux Box.
The author would like to thank Monarch Computer Systems for its work in helping make this project reality. It's been fun.
Noise, soundproofing, and quiet PC's
There are many ways to improve the noise from a PC, but the cheapest is to use a PC with no moving parts!.
Mini itx and other fan less systems could be the way forward, as they are also more power efficient.
The ideal scenario it to go back to the thin client model with very low powered systems for viewing and inputting data, connected to high power servers to do any heavy processing in a soundproof room away from the working environment.
The total processing power required for the thin client could be well below pentium class.
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until linux can with one install click make a program usable it wil remain a second rate ,could have been a contender, almost ran alternative.
Another useless comment, as above
Firstly, to the anonymous spellchecker: C'mon man. Don't you have anything better to do?
Secondly, not that it matters: I recently ordered a similar configuration from Monarch Computer Systems. My workstations have a Supermicro systemboard with a couple of Xeons attached. Since I'm a big fan of 3ware RAID cards, I told them to nix the supermicro default SATA option for a 4-port 3ware card. I configured them RAID 5 for Windows 2000 Pro installs. "Why Windows?", you ask. Because our compositing applications require it.
Side-wise note: My workstation at home is RH8 XD2. My admin workstation at work is Gentoo with a 2.4.19 kernel!
Re: Another useless comment, as above
"Don't you have anything better to do?"
Do you mean anything better to do than use Windows or RH8?
Yes, I think I do.
Re: Another useless comment, as above
This response is only a record of my declination, therefore it should not be construed as a true response.
Re: Sound Off: ULB Soundproofing
Other than turning the dial on the Enermax power supply down to the point where it is drowned out by the case fax
Does anyone proof read this stuff?
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...1.7GB of high-speed data storage goodness.
I don't think you meant 1.7GB. 1.7TB maybe?
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Wednesday, July 9, 2014 - 6:17pm
(NBC News) — President Obama was in Texas Wednesday evening, epicenter of the immigration crisis.
He wants $3.7 billion in emergency spending to deal with the human tide from Central America, but so far Republicans in Congress don't appear eager to provide the funds.
His decision not to visit the border for a first-hand look at the situation while in Texas drew criticism from both Republicans and Democrats.
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The Human FactorFebruary 2015Monday, January 26, 2015 BY BRIAN LIBBYMatt French opens up South Waterfront. Read more... |
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Transportation Fairness Alliance holds demonstration in Pioneer SquareThe LatestWednesday, January 14, 2015 BY JACOB PALMER | OB DIGITAL NEWS EDITORPortland's cab companies urged city hall for consideration as officials weigh new rules for Uber and other ridesharing companies. Read more... |
5 companies react to lower fuel pricesThe LatestThursday, January 15, 2015 BY JACOB PALMER | OB DIGITAL NEWS EDITORConsumers love the savings they get from low oil prices, but how has business been affected? Read more... |
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Generations of students and graduates have been plagued by the question: What is my true calling in life? Four alumni from Corban University's Hoff School of Business who graduated in different decades say the school helped them find the answer by giving them a practical, well-rounded education.
It's happening whether anyone's ready or not. Businesses here in Oregon and across the U.S. are already experiencing the effects of the largest generational shift in recent history, and these changing tides will impact every level of the workplace — from a company's executive leadership to its cultural core.
Success stories spotlight meaningful career opportunities in Oregon's diverse and lucrative tourism industry.
Local businesses interested in offering retail items, food and beverage, or passenger services at Portland International Airport are invited to attend one of two meetings on March 17.
The Firm was recognized for the strength of its case matters during 2014, including precedents set or verdicts with notable high dollar amounts at stake.
The Oregon Chapter of the Society for Marketing Professional Services, will be hosting it's Annual Dinner and Keynote event on March 12, 2015. The evening promises to be memorable, with this years Keynote, Christine McKinley.