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Rated 3.5 out of 5 by 394 reviewers.
Rated 2 out of 5 by jr1010 The quality of the hotel has gone down We have been going to the Westin Mission Hills for years now and have noticed the quality of the rooms getting worse each year. We really like the convenience of golfing at the Westin and enjoy the beautiful grounds, but you don't get what you pay for anymore. On this last vacation, I noticed the bathroom had dirt and hair on the floor when we first got there. On the second day, after having been out and returning to the room in the evening, the room smelled like dirty diapers -- probably from the "family room" nearby and the vent situation? who knows but it was not pleasant to say the least. Also, the "heavenly" beds aren't as comfortable as they used to be. Overall, I am disappointed and doubt we'll be returning. November 30, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Bordensbored This hotel is Beautiful. Had the best stay. Steven's service upon check in was excellent! Can't wait to stay at the Westin again soon. November 20, 2015
Rated 2 out of 5 by Jone123456 Good views and food but not room This is my first stay as a gold member in SPG hotels. Views are good, food is good, people are good, but not the room. The facilities are old, air conditioner doesn't function in the first place, worst of all, me and my company felt quite itchy after we used the sheet, so we have some sanitary concerns. November 9, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Sheri23 Almost perfect! Everything was great. The only negatives were the coffee and tea were not restocked on the second morning. Also I picked up the mini bar items and was billed for them. I did not realize they were pressure sensitive. My bill was adjusted. November 7, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by DanJ Great golf course views We enjoyed our room overlooking the 14th hole of the Pete Dye course, and the easy access to pools, restaurants, and the amazing views of Mt. San Jacinto. The morning sunrises and evening sunsets were spectacular! And the gentle desert breezes rustling through the tall palm trees created an atmosphere of total relaxation. Cannot wait to return for our next vacation. October 24, 2015
Rated 2 out of 5 Disappointed My wife and I were looking forward to a nice getaway in the desert where we could just relax. We found this property and though it looked good as we are loyal to the Starwood brand of hotels. We had cashed in points for our stay, but on the way out to the hotel saw that the nightly price had dropped to a very resonable $119 per night. We figured it would be better for us to pay for the visit with cash and save the points for a future getaway. When we arrived at the front desk and asked if we could do so, we were told that the nightly room price was $200 per night PLUS a resort fee. That was the first sign something was wrong. We were put in a room that was very old, had unclean sheets, power outlets that half worked, an A/C unit that made enough constant noise to keep us up at night, a TV that occasionally got satellite reception, and a view of the parking lot. To make matters worse, we were woken up by the very loud sounds of lawn mowers right outside our window, which proceeded to last for about 5 hours, and included "popping" noises that sounds like gunshots. I would be aware of all of these items before booking your own stay at the hotel. I don't know how other rooms are but this was our experience with this one. October 19, 2015
Rated 4 out of 5 by Sumiteer Overpriced for what I recievedc I called desert car rentals which was 4 miles away and was charged 50.00 for 5 short phone calls. It would have been nice if someone told me this. I would have used my Canadian cell phone and not have been charged nearly that. Does the hotel really pay that much for local calls in California? My other peave was $6.00 for one cup of coffee. My wife and I should not have to pay $12.00 for coffee at breakfast at Pizimini. The adult pool was nice and quiet which was excellent. The grounds are kept very nice. The overall stay was very nice, but i would not return because of a 50.00 phone bill. October 16, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Esmith1 Everything you want, nothing you don't. Living in the heart of Hollywood, sometimes the hustle and bustle can get to be a bit much. It's for that reason that my lady and I decided to spend her birthday here at the Westin Mission Hills. Best decision we could've made. You wouldn't believe the level of quality for the price. The staff, the room and the accommodations were all on point. I checked in with Adriana who was incredibly helpful throughout our entire stay. Dealing with her, we felt genuinely welcome upon our arrival and were so well taken care of over our three day visit that she felt more like a friend than an employee when all was said and done. She even got other members of the staff involved in helping me organize a little birthday surprise for my lady. That woman deserves a promotion, though that isn't to say that any of the other employees were any less helpful and benign. Looking at my review writing history, I'm not shy when it comes to calling a business out if need be but I have no complaints this time around. Our room was beautiful, staff and guests alike were friendly and courteous, the grounds were kept clean, they're pet-friendly...... even the music playing at the pool was great. Night-swimming to 80s and 90s jams? Yes, please. This hotel has it all and at such reasonable rates. There's a gym, a spa, multiple pools, a great restaurant/bar, one of the top ranked golf courses in the U.S. and much more. We're already looking forward to returning early next year. Next time you're in need of some R&R, definitely consider the Westin Mission Hills golf resort and spa. You'll leave with the sense of bittersweetness just as we did. Glad you came and sad to leave. October 2, 2015
Rated 4 out of 5 by KDiaz1 Relaxing Oasis The hotel was very large and the rooms are comfortable. The views are spectacular. I recommend the breakfast buffet, it was delicious. There is not much to do outside of the resort, but the resort has plenty to offer. Housekeeping accidentally took a pair of my shorts, and though they have not been accounted for, the staff seemed to be pretty responsive. September 28, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Ermias Great Family Resort I love the options you have on site. My son was doing something all the time and it was relaxing. September 8, 2015
Rated 4 out of 5 by NurseRN Repeat Customer Really enjoyed our stay! Already recommended this resort to friends, family, and coworkers. We will be coming back next month as we had a great time. Love the pools and slides. Nice weekend getaway. Keep up the good work. August 31, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Pmglbat Staff All staff in and around the resort were very courteous and polite, but a special mention has to go to Mayola who we met in the fireside lounge , she made us feel so comfortable and made our vacation so much more memorable also must mention Roberto in the bar who helped out with information around Palm Springs. Also Jose Luis and Luis at breakfast nothing was a problem and always very helpful Thank you all August 28, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Gfarmer Relaxing Stay! I spent 3 days at the Westin Mission Hills Resort and had such a relaxing getaway! The Las Hadas pool was great - not too busy mid-week, eith plenty of towels and drink service Friday afternoon. I also had a service at the soa, which was professional and relaxing. The spa is beautiful with lots of amenities. The room itself was kept ckean and comfortable, nothing beats the Westin beds! Everything was perfect, the staff friendly and helpful. August 25, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Sophia25 Loving it Love love the hotel we had a good time staying there you guys are amazing thank you so much we will definitely come back . August 21, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by luv2golf great time Stayed for 3 days. The staff was great. Check in was very easy. There was always a shuttle driver asking if we needed a ride to go anywhere. Used the spa for a massage and facial. Was never pressured to buy anything. I would go back again. Had a great experience. We were there during the week not as crowed as the weekend. August 12, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Jetsfan1 Icon in the Desrert Stayed many times before, always great grounds, and wonderful staff, but there is a noticeable difference in the activation of the resort with extraordinary Kids fun programs. This summer all the bars around the pools are open with very pleasant staff, entertainment in the lounges. They harvest their own honey from their own proprietary Bee Farm. On premise take out, great gym and much more. If you haven't been in a while it's well worth returning. August 11, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by kenneth57 must stay I like everything about our room , large room ,two queen bed ,large bath area.nice tub and shower one one the best rooms i ever had and I stayed at a lot of motels. June 29, 2015
Rated 2 out of 5 by Unsatisfiedclient Hotel needs improvement All pools had dirty water. Certain staff members at pool, coffee shop, front desk and valet were not professional . Hotel was very stingy with supplying additional shampoo and lotion. Some room and pool towels were raggedy. Hotel rooms and certain facilities need a facelift. June 24, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by VBOS Our favorite resort! I have stayed at this resort several times, and I have always been satisfied with the service and overall experience. I chose this resort to propose to my fiancee in February of this year, in part, because this was the very first place we traveled to when we started dating, and we she absolutely loved it. The grounds are absolutely amazing, and there are plenty of things to do in the area. This is, by far, our favorite SoCal resort. We cannot wait to go back in July, and enjoy 5 relaxing days at this beautiful place. June 8, 2015
Rated 4 out of 5 by Couple123 Relaxing Stay My husband and I had a relaxing time at the resort. The bed and linen were comfortable and the room was pretty clean. The staff at the front desk and concierge were very helpful as well. June 1, 2015
Rated 2 out of 5 by Ijoseph Loud and not relaxing From the noise outside and the noise upstairs throughout the night to the freezing cold pool this was not a pleasant experience. This property needs a major update May 25, 2015
Rated 3 out of 5 by Lcook Underwhelmed The condition of the grounds do not meet SPG standards. The interior of our room was very nice, but upon entrance I was confused and thought we were at the wrong hotel. Upon check in I was recognized as a Platinun 5 Star Elite member. I asked if there were suites available and the clerk stated, "We do not have suites at this location." How disappointing, the front desk lied as suites are posted online. She did not say, "There are no suites available." This property has so much potential, but the exterior ares need updating. The SPG program does not provide stated perks. May 25, 2015
Rated 1 out of 5 by Jess12312 Less than expected Poor overall leisure stay, will not return. May 17, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Elijones How to make things right..... We checked into this hotel for a nearby golf tournament. 2 Adults and 2 Kids. We were trying to save money by booking a double occupancy which is just fine for us a short get away weekend. Evening came after a great day of golf, about 10 pm, the people above us decided to throw a pre-wedding bash which quickly went from quiet to riot, including huge plumes of weed coming down through our patio doors. After calling security and my husband talking to the rowdy guests it quieted down. Not wanting to go through the same thing the next night we checked with the front desk. They were so understanding and apologetic, it wasn't even their fault, they really took care of us. Moved us to a suite which the kids thought was great and then delivered a Kettle One Bloody Mary Service on the house as an over the top gesture. What started out as bad experience was a wrong that went way right!! Not to mention my youngest forgetting her favorite swim suit drying on the patio that was turned in by housekeeping and is now being mailed to us. We have stayed at other places in Palm Springs but not ever again. We definitely will be back!! Westin won us over!! May 5, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by 2015travel Great get-away! What a wonderful property! Spent a mom's weekend and had relaxing time. Beautiful property, close to Downtown Palm Springs. Perfect resort for relaxation, also ideal for children. They had movie night while we were there. Really exceeded my expectations. May 1, 2015
Rated 2 out of 5 by Tracy52 Customer service lacking Room was not available when arrived. Had to stand in line again to pickup key at 3:30. Didn't have two queens available. Coffee maker in room was dirty. Toilet backed up and needed to call maintenance to fix. Food at happy hour and by the pool was not good. April 28, 2015
Rated 2 out of 5 by Iwins This hotel disapoints When you have 30 min to eat your bkfast or your chairs at the pool are taken away leaves it far from a great experience I would never put my family through this again The worst vacation April 15, 2015
Rated 1 out of 5 by MRapp Horrible checking process and room I'm writing this as a 15 year Gold Member and previous Platinum member. When making this reservation I requested a bottom floor room next to the pool and a grassy area for my small children as well as early check in. I tried checking in at 12:30 and was told room was not available. After 30 minutes room became available and turned out to be furthest from the pool and facing a parking lot. ( perfect for little kids :( ). I kindly asked to switch rooms per my original request and was told a room was available. After five phone calls and two hours of waiting, I was told multiple times that an attendant would be bringing me new keys and assisting with the relocation. This never happened. The hotel is on a large property and requires driving to the front lobby. After multiple attempts and no assistance whatsoever, I drove to the lobby to get help from a supervisor at the front desk. Ms McMillan assisted me by giving me my new room keys and a $30 meal credit. That equates to $10 per hour of my 48 hour vacation. I went back to my room with my children and to my dismay she removed my old room key so that I could not transport my old luggage from my previous room to my new room. Back in my car we all went to get yet another key to gain access to the old room. Complete disaster. 3 hours and 45 minutes later settled into room. This is the first Westin review I have written in well over 15 years of membership. Completely disappointed! April 10, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Paul Great/Relaxing Vacation We picked this place because of the location and reviews. I will say, the hotel and amenities exceeded our expectations. The grounds, lobby, facilities, and pools are very well maintained and very nice. We walked around and honestly forgot we were in the middle of the desert. The staff is superb. The place is so large, we got lost the first time walking to the main pool. A maintenance worker not only pointed us in the right direction, but offered my son and my wife a ride in his maintenance golf cart as he was heading in that direction. That to me is what customer service is all about. This place caters to families and adults. There is plenty of activities to do in the pools. You are also close enough to shopping and dinning that you don't have to necessarily eat in the hotel if you don't want to. The resort fee is a little high, but to be expected as the property is very well maintained and I would suspect that is the reason why. The food options are also typical hotel prices with all the usual fees and surcharges. We avoided eating in the property because there are plenty of options to dine elsewhere that are more affordable. We will certainly come back! April 5, 2015
Rated 3 out of 5 by golferef Tired Rooms My wife, teenage daughter and myself just completed a 6 night stay at this hotel. While the public areas were fine, the rooms are in need of refurbishing. We had two connecting rooms. In our room, our "heavenly" bed had a significant sag on one side which meant that my wife and I could only sleep comfortably on half of the bed. The refrigerator in our room was broken and appeared to have been so for an extended time as the control panel looked gouged. While they did replace the refrigerator one has to wonder how they had not seen this previously. Both of our room showed considerable wear in the bathrooms to the point that the floors looked dirty and had significant black marks. The public areas of this hotel were fine and the staff was friendly and the setting is very nice, but as an SPG gold member I have come to expect more from the resorts that carry the Westin name and this facility did not meet those expectations. March 24, 2015


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My boyfriend and I were looking around and saw a Diamondback that's slightly out of my price range, but nice nonetheless. Then there's Target, which carries a number of Schwinn bikes for about $100 cheaper.
I'd like to stick with a mountain bike because I like them much better than cruisers and such. But I don't need some fantastic fabulous bike. Then again I don't want one that is going to be obsolete (parts-wise) and worn down in a few years.
Are Schwinn's pretty good in terms of duribility, or should I just invest in the diamond back? I ride my bike less than a mile to and from school about 3 days a week, and anywhere close-by. In the future, I would be riding it about 5 days a week, give-or-take. This is all sidewalk/street city riding. I may be getting back into light mountain biking in the future.
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At first I thought this was a stop-motion hoax!!! :surprised
if u watch closely he is gona fall over some 5 times but doesnt that proves its a fake.
I mean fall over thats NOT part of the demonstration of his balancing skills, but he is gona fall over for real.
I think it is prob a control line hoax where he is supported by thin wires invisible to camera because he oscillates very suspiciously
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Beretta 92 carry options
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March 8, 2009, 05:35 PM
IWB/OWB? How do you carry the 92?
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March 8, 2009, 05:57 PM
In a wheel barrow that I push in front of me. :-)
When I've had to carry the 92, it's always been in a Fobus with a large, loose shirt over it. Far from ideal, but I never saw the reason to spend real money on a gun that I didn't like but had to carry since it was issued.
March 8, 2009, 06:53 PM
With difficulty. :D
I love my 92FS . . but it is not a comfortable carry gun.
March 8, 2009, 08:27 PM
Milt Sparks Executive Companion or Versa Max II are both popular with members of the Beretta forum. www.berettaforum.net
http://www.lightningarms.com/products.htm usually have some stock, Milt Sparks runs 26-30 weeks on orders.
March 8, 2009, 08:31 PM
hmmm let me recall... why in StarGate SG-1 series Carter and O'Neil simply carried Beretta 92's small of back several times when off duty with loose shirts, course it also seemed there was no holster. What??? Tv isn't reality? :eek:
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March 9, 2009, 02:05 AM
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Game On: Wizards-Raptors preview
Young Wizards still learning how to win
The Wizards will try to get back to .500 for the third time this season but they'll be facing a red-hot team in the Raptors, who have won nine of their last 12 games and lead the Atlantic Division.
TV: Wizards Central pregame show on CSN at 6:30 p.m. ET; followed by tip-off from Verizon Center at 7 and Wizards Postgame Live immediately afterward. Radio: 106.7 FM
Last game: Wizards (14-15) lost to the Dallas Mavericks 87-78 on Wednesday; Raptors (15-15) beat the Indiana Pacers 95-82 on Wednesday.
Last meeting: The Raptors won 96-88 on Nov. 22 at Air Canada Centre, but they're an even better team since trading F Rudy Gay to the Sacramento Kings a month ago.
Projected starting lineups: Wizards –- PG John Wall, SG Bradley Beal, SF Trevor Ariza, PF Trevor Booker, C Marcin Gortat. Raptors –- PG Kyle Lowry, SG DeMar DeRozan, SF Terrence Ross, PF Amir Johnson, C Jonas Valancinuas.
Entry passes: 1). Ross averages less than 10 points because he has come off the bench most of the season, but took Gay's spot as a starter. 2). Washington's three-point shooting in its last four losses at home has been abysmal, 21-for-89 for 23.5 percent. 3). The bench had been effective until Wednesday's loss when it contributed just 16 points, only six total from Nene and Kevin Seraphin in the low post. 4). Wall had a season-high 37 points in the first meeting. 5). The Raptors shot 10 more free throws the last time and ended up plus-7 in that category, an area of emphasis for the Wizards.
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X-factors: Wall's right eyelid is still bandaged from an elbow he took from Dirk Nowitzki but it won't hinder him. ... Other than Glen Rice (right wrist) and Al Harrington (right knee), both of whom are coming off surgical procedures, no one missed practice Thursday. ... Beal and Nene still are playing with time restrictions. ... PG Greivis Vasquez, who is playing for his fourth team out of the University of Maryland, is Lowry's backup since being traded in the package for Gay, himself a Baltimore native.
He said it: "They're playing the best they have all year since the trade. Sometimes that has an effect on a team like that when you make a trade. ... At home last night they beat Indiana, and beat them pretty soundly. Not by any kind of stretch of the imagination is tomorrow night going to be some kind of easy game. That's why our intensity and focus has to be the same as it was in the Dallas game and we have to execute a little bit better." -- Wizards coach Randy Wittman
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Green, Elena, The New Presence: The Prague Journal of Central European Affairs
Since our last publication, the Czech Republic has given an abrupt goodbye to one head of state and a warm welcome to another. And while the former was the CR's own Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, the latter was US President Barack Obama. On the 24th of March, the lower house of the Czech parliament cast a vote of no-confidence against Topolanek's centre-right government, stripping the country half-way through its first EU presidency of, most importantly, its credibility. In these troubling economic times, this is one loss a country simply does not want to suffer. And as that aforementioned presidential visitor of Prague knows, confidence and credibility are in short supply.
This issue of The New Presence tackles these two themes, confidence and credibilty, as they relate to the global problems we face today. But as many of our contributors reveal, referring to these troubles as today's problems is a misnomer that overlooks their often historic nature. In our section on immigration, the European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Vladimir Spidla, notes that xenophobia still influences how some EU member-states approach immigration from third (non-EU) countries. As with every EU policy endeavor, the inability to achieve consensus will undermine confidence in the bloc's stated purpose to share common beliefs and values.
Further questions of confidence and credibility rise as we enter a section on the Middle East. Irena Kalhousova, an analyst at the Czech think-tank the Association of International Affairs, asks: how the people of Israel and Palestine can possibly remedy--let alone tackle--a conflict decades-long if their governments are incredible in the eyes of each other and lack the confidence of their people? …


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- A prime motivation for using XML to directly represent pieces of information is the ability of supporting ad-hoc or 'schema-later' settings. In such scenarios, modeling data under loose data constraints is essential. Of course, the flexibility of XML comes at a price: the absence of a rigid, regular, and homogeneous structure makes many aspects of data management more challenging. Such malleable data formats can also lead to severe information quality problems, because the risk of storing inconsistent and incorrect data is greatly increased. A prominent example of such problems is the appearance of the so-called fuzzy duplicates, i.e., multiple and non-identical representations of a real-world entity. Similarity joins correlating XML document fragments that are similar can be used as core operators to support the identification of fuzzy duplicates. However, similarity assessment is especially difficult on XML datasets because structure, besides textual information, may exhibit variations in document fragments representing the same real-world entity. Moreover, similarity computation is substantially more expensive for tree-structured objects and, thus, is a serious performance concern. This thesis describes the design and implementation of an effective, flexible, and high-performance XML-based similarity join framework. As main contributions, we present novel structure-conscious similarity functions for XML trees - either considering XML structure in isolation or combined with textual information -, mechanisms to support the selection of relevant information from XML trees and organization of this information into a suitable format for similarity calculation, and efficient algorithms for large-scale identification of similar, set-represented objects. Finally, we validate the applicability of our techniques by integrating our framework into a native XML database management system; in this context we address several issues around the integration of similarity operations into traditional database architectures.
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- Embedded systems have become ubiquitous in everyday life, and especially in the automotive industry. New applications challenge their design by introducing a new class of problems that are based on a detailed analysis of the environmental situation. Situation analysis systems rely on models and algorithms of the domain of computational geometry. The basic model is usually an Euclidean plane, which contains polygons to represent the objects of the environment. Usual implementations of computational geometry algorithms cannot be directly used for safety-critical systems. First, a strict analysis of their correctness is indispensable and second, nonfunctional requirements with respect to the limited resources must be considered. This thesis proposes a layered approach to a polygon-processing system. On top of rational numbers, a geometry kernel is formalised at first. Subsequently, geometric primitives form a second layer of abstraction that is used for plane sweep and polygon algorithms. These layers do not only divide the whole system into manageable parts but make it possible to model problems and reason about them at the appropriate level of abstraction. This structure is used for the verification as well as the implementation of the developed polygon-processing library.
- A Model for User Based IP Traffic Accounting (2007)
- Nowadays, accounting, charging and billing users' network resource consumption are commonly used for the purpose of facilitating reasonable network usage, controlling congestion, allocating cost, gaining revenue, etc. In traditional IP traffic accounting systems, IP addresses are used to identify the corresponding consumers of the network resources. However, there are some situations in which IP addresses cannot be used to identify users uniquely, for example, in multi-user systems. In these cases, network resource consumption can only be ascribed to the owners of these hosts instead of corresponding real users who have consumed the network resources. Therefore, accurate accountability in these systems is practically impossible. This is a flaw of the traditional IP address based IP traffic accounting technique. This dissertation proposes a user based IP traffic accounting model which can facilitate collecting network resource usage information on the basis of users. With user based IP traffic accounting, IP traffic can be distinguished not only by IP addresses but also by users. In this dissertation, three different schemes, which can achieve the user based IP traffic accounting mechanism, are discussed in detail. The inband scheme utilizes the IP header to convey the user information of the corresponding IP packet. The Accounting Agent residing in the measured host intercepts IP packets passing through it. Then it identifies the users of these IP packets and inserts user information into the IP packets. With this mechanism, a meter located in a key position of the network can intercept the IP packets tagged with user information, extract not only statistic information, but also IP addresses and user information from the IP packets to generate accounting records with user information. The out-of-band scheme is a contrast scheme to the in-band scheme. It also uses an Accounting Agent to intercept IP packets and identify the users of IP traffic. However, the user information is transferred through a separated channel, which is different from the corresponding IP packets' transmission. The Multi-IP scheme provides a different solution for identifying users of IP traffic. It assigns each user in a measured host a unique IP address. Through that, an IP address can be used to identify a user uniquely without ambiguity. This way, traditional IP address based accounting techniques can be applied to achieve the goal of user based IP traffic accounting. In this dissertation, a user based IP traffic accounting prototype system developed according to the out-of-band scheme is also introduced. The application of user based IP traffic accounting model in the distributed computing environment is also discussed.
- Acoustic Simulation and Visualization Algorithms (2008)
- Computer-based simulation and visualization of acoustics of a virtual scene can aid during the design process of concert halls, lecture rooms, theaters, or living rooms. Because, not only the visual aspect of the room is important, but also its acoustics. In factory floors noise reduction is important since noise is hazardous to health. Despite the obvious dissimilarity between our aural and visual senses, many techniques required for the visualization of photo-realistic images and for the auralization of acoustic environments are quite similar. Both applications can be served by geometric methods such as particle- and ray tracing if we neglect a number of less important effects. By means of the simulation of room acoustics we want to predict the acoustic properties of a virtual model. For auralization, a pulse response filter needs to be assembled for each pair of source and listener positions. The convolution of this filter with an anechoic source signal provides the signal received at the listener position. Hence, the pulse response filter must contain all reverberations (echos) of a unit pulse, including their frequency decompositions due to absorption at different surface materials. For the room acoustic simulation a method named phonon tracing, since it is based on particles, is developed. The approach computes the energy or pressure decomposition for each particle (phonon) sent out from a sound source and uses this in a second pass (phonon collection) to construct the response filters for different listeners. This step can be performed in different precision levels. During the tracing step particle paths and additional information are stored in a so called phonon map. Using this map several sound visualization approaches were developed. From the visualization, the effect of different materials on the spectral energy / pressure distribution can be observed. The first few reflections already show whether certain frequency bands are rapidly absorbed. The absorbing materials can be identified and replaced in the virtual model, improving the overall acoustic quality of the simulated room. Furthermore an insight into the pressure / energy received at the listener position is possible. The phonon tracing algorithm as well as several sound visualization approaches are integrated into a common system utilizing Virtual Reality technologies in order to facilitate the immersion into the virtual scene. The system is a prototype developed within a project at the University of Kaiserslautern and is still a subject of further improvements. It consists of a stereoscopic back-projection system for visual rendering as well as professional audio equipment for auralization purposes.
- Acquisition and On-line Reconstruction of 3D Point Data from Hand-held Laser Scanners and Multi-camera Stereo-matching (2014)
- Three dimensional (3d) point data is used in industry for measurement and reverse engineering. Precise point data is usually acquired with triangulating laser scanners or high precision structured light scanners. Lower precision point data is acquired by real-time structured light devices or by stereo matching with multiple cameras. The basic principle of all these methods is the so-called triangulation of 3d coordinates from two dimensional (2d) camera images. This dissertation contributes a method for multi-camera stereo matching that uses a system of four synchronized cameras. A GPU based stereo matching method is presented to achieve a high quality reconstruction at interactive frame rates. Good depth resolution is achieved by allowing large disparities between the images. A multi level approach on the GPU allows a fast processing of these large disparities. In reverse engineering, hand-held laser scanners are used for the scanning of complex shaped objects. The operator of the scanner can scan complex regions slower, multiple times, or from multiple angles to achieve a higher point density. Traditionally, computer aided design (CAD) geometry is reconstructed in a separate step after the scanning. Errors or missing parts in the scan prevent a successful reconstruction. The contribution of this dissertation is an on-line algorithm that allows the reconstruction during the scanning of an object. Scanned points are added to the reconstruction and improve it on-line. The operator can detect the areas in the scan where the reconstruction needs additional data. First, the point data is thinned out using an octree based data structure. Local normals and principal curvatures are estimated for the reduced set of points. These local geometric values are used for segmentation using a region growing approach. Implicit quadrics are fitted to these segments. The canonical form of the quadrics provides the parameters of basic geometric primitives. An improved approach uses so called accumulated means of local geometric properties to perform segmentation and primitive reconstruction in a single step. Local geometric values can be added and removed on-line to these means to get a stable estimate over a complete segment. By estimating the shape of the segment it is decided which local areas are added to a segment. An accumulated score estimates the probability for a segment to belong to a certain type of geometric primitive. A boundary around the segment is reconstructed using a growing algorithm that ensures that the boundary is closed and avoids self intersections.
- Adaptive Extraction and Representation of Geometric Structures from Unorganized 3D Point Sets (2009)
- The primary emphasis of this thesis concerns the extraction and representation of intrinsic properties of three-dimensional (3D) unorganized point clouds. The points establishing a point cloud as it mainly emerges from LiDaR (Light Detection and Ranging) scan devices or by reconstruction from two-dimensional (2D) image series represent discrete samples of real world objects. Depending on the type of scenery the data is generated from the resulting point cloud may exhibit a variety of different structures. Especially, in the case of environmental LiDaR scans the complexity of the corresponding point clouds is relatively high. Hence, finding new techniques allowing the efficient extraction and representation of the underlying structural entities becomes an important research issue of recent interest. This thesis introduces new methods regarding the extraction and visualization of structural features like surfaces and curves (e.g. ridge-lines, creases) from 3D (environmental) point clouds. One main part concerns the extraction of curve-like features from environmental point data sets. It provides a new method supporting a stable feature extraction by incorporating a probability-based point classification scheme that characterizes individual points regarding their affiliation to surface-, curve- and volume-like structures. Another part is concerned with the surface reconstruction from (environmental) point clouds exhibiting objects that are more or less complex. A new method providing multi-resolutional surface representations from regular point clouds is discussed. Following the applied principles of this approach a volumetric surface reconstruction method based on the proposed classification scheme is introduced. It allows the reconstruction of surfaces from highly unstructured and noisy point data sets. Furthermore, contributions in the field of reconstructing 3D point clouds from 2D image series are provided. In addition, a discussion concerning the most important properties of (environmental) point clouds with respect to feature extraction is presented.
- Advances in Equational Theorem Proving - Architecture, Algorithms, and Redundancy Avoidance (2005)
- Automated theorem proving is a search problem and, by its undecidability, a very difficult one. The challenge in the development of a practically successful prover is the mapping of the extensively developed theory into a program that runs efficiently on a computer. Starting from a level-based system model for automated theorem provers, in this work we present different techniques that are important for the development of powerful equational theorem provers. The contributions can be divided into three areas: Architecture. We present a novel prover architecture that is based on a set-based compression scheme. With moderate additional computational costs we achieve a substantial reduction of the memory requirements. Further wins are architectural clarity, the easy provision of proof objects, and a new way to parallelize a prover which shows respectable speed-ups in practice. The compact representation paves the way to new applications of automated equational provers in the area of verification systems. Algorithms. To improve the speed of a prover we need efficient solutions for the most time-consuming sub-tasks. We demonstrate improvements of several orders of magnitude for two of the most widely used term orderings, LPO and KBO. Other important contributions are a novel generic unsatisfiability test for ordering constraints and, based on that, a sufficient ground reducibility criterion with an excellent cost-benefit ratio. Redundancy avoidance. The notion of redundancy is of central importance to justify simplifying inferences which are used to prune the search space. In our experience with unfailing completion, the usual notion of redundancy is not strong enough. In the presence of associativity and commutativity, the provers often get stuck enumerating equations that are permutations of each other. By extending and refining the proof ordering, many more equations can be shown redundant. Furthermore, our refinement of the unfailing completion approach allows us to use redundant equations for simplification without the need to consider them for generating inferences. We describe the efficient implementation of several redundancy criteria and experimentally investigate their influence on the proof search. The combination of these techniques results in a considerable improvement of the practical performance of a prover, which we demonstrate with extensive experiments for the automated theorem prover Waldmeister. The progress achieved allows the prover to solve problems that were previously out of reach. This considerably enhances the potential of the prover and opens up the way for new applications.
- Algorithmische Aspekte des vier-dimensionalen Ultraschalls (2005)
- Ultraschall ist eines der am häufigsten genutzen, bildgebenden Verfahren in der Kardiologie. Dies ist durch die günstige Erzeugung, die Nicht-Invasivität und die Unschädlichkeit für die Patienten begründet. Nachteilig an den existierenden Geräten ist der Umstand, daß lediglich zwei-dimensionale Bilder generiert werden können. Zusätzlich können diese Bilder aufgrund anatomischer Gegebenheiten nicht aus einer wahlfreien Position akquiriert werden. Dies erschwert die Analyse der Daten und folglich die Diagnose. Mit dieser Arbeit wurden neue, algorithmische Aspekte des vier-dimensionalen, kardiologischen Ultraschalls ausgehend von der Akquisition der Rohdaten, deren Synchronisation und Rekonstruktion bis hin zur Visualisierung bearbeitet. In einem zusätzlichen Kapitel wurde eine neue Technik zur weiteren Aufwertung der Visualisierung, sowie zur visuellen Bearbeitung der Ultraschalldaten entwickelt. Durch die hier entwickelten Verfahren ist es möglich bestimmte Einschränkungen des kardiologischen Ultraschalls aufzuheben oder zumindest zu mildern. Hierunter zählen vor allem die Einschränkung auf zwei-dimensionale Schnittbilder, sowie die eingeschränkte Sichtwahl.
- An Automata-Theoretic Approach to Open Actor System Verification (2015)
- Open distributed systems are a class of distributed systems where (i) only partial information about the environment, in which they are running, is present, (ii) new resources may become available at runtime, and (iii) a subsystem may become aware of other subsystems after some interaction. Modeling and implementing such systems correctly is a complex task due to the openness and the dynamicity aspects. One way to ensure that the resulting systems behave correctly is to utilize formal verification. Formal verification requires an adequate semantic model of the implementation, a specification of the desired behavior, and a reasoning technique. The actor model is a semantic model that captures the challenging aspects of open distributed systems by utilizing actors as universal primitives to represent system entities and allowing them to create new actors and to communicate by sending directed messages as reply to received messages. To enable compositional reasoning, where the reasoning task is reduced to independent verification of the system parts, semantic entities at a higher level of abstraction than actors are needed. This thesis proposes an automaton model and combines sound reasoning techniques to compositionally verify implementations of open actor systems. Based on I/O automata, the model allows automata to be created dynamically and captures dynamic changes in communication patterns. Each automaton represents either an actor or a group of actors. The specification of the desired behavior is given constructively as an automaton. As the basis for compositionality, we formalize a component notion based on the static structure of the implementation instead of the dynamic entities (the actors) occurring in the system execution. The reasoning proceeds in two stages. The first stage establishes the connection between the automata representing single actors and their implementation description by means of weakest liberal preconditions. The second stage employs this result as the basis for verifying whether a component specification is satisfied. The verification is done by building a simulation relation from the automaton representing the implementation to the component's automaton. Finally, we validate the compositional verification approach through a number of examples by proving correctness of their actor implementations with respect to system specifications.
- Analyse und Visualisierung raumplanerischer Prozesse mit Hilfe von Voronoidiagrammen (2008)
- Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der visuellen Kontrolle raumplanerischer Entwürfe. Grundlage der Überlegungen ist das gegenwärtige Verfahren, der Planungsprozess, das zur Erstellung der Entwürfe führt. Der Entscheidungsweg hin zum endgültigen Ergebnis erfolgt zurzeit noch ohne Rechnerunterstützung. Die in den Planungsprozess Involvierten stützen ihre Entscheidungen bspw. auf Pläne, eigene Erfahrungen und Statistiken und fertigen im Verlauf von Diskussionsrunden verschiedene Entwürfe an. Dieser Ablauf ist komplex, aufgrund der eingehenden Daten und der damit zusammenhängenden Diskussionen, und langwierig da erst nach einigen Iterationsschritten ein Ergebnis vorliegt. Die Arbeit verfolgt das Ziel, die Akteure durch eine Rechnerunterstützung schneller und zielgerichtet zu einer Entscheidungsfindung zu führen. Meine Untersuchung des Anwendungsumfeldes hat ergeben, dass dies nur möglich ist, wenn zum Einen das entstehende System in der Lage ist, die großen, heterogenen Datenmengen zu verarbeiten und andererseits die Visualisierung der Ergebnisse in einer Form erfolgt, die den Akteuren vom bisherigen Planungsprozess her bekannt ist. Die Visualisierung darf dabei keine bewertende Aussage treffen, sondern muss die Informationen der Analyse neutral in einem dem Nutzer bekannten Format abbilden. Als Ansatzpunkt stellt sich der informelle Bereich der Entscheidungsfindung dar. Es werden zwei Lösungswege aus dem Bereich der Clusteringalgorithmen verfolgt, die die großen Datenmengen verarbeiten und analysieren. Als Ergebnis erhalten die Akteure durch das Voronoi-Diagramm direkt einen Entwurf, der die Einschätzungen aller Akteure widerspiegelt und durch ein Übereinanderlegen mit der Karte des Plangebietes dem klassischen Format im Rahmen des Planungsprozesses entspricht. Dadurch wird die Akzeptanz der Rechnerunterstützung bei den Beteiligten des Planungsprozesses gesteigert. Sollte dieser Entwurf noch keine direkte Zustimmung finden, kann über die entwickelte Informationsvisualisierung eine Anzeige und in der Folge eine Anpassung der Eingangsgrößen erfolgen und somit sehr schnell ein neuer Entwurf entwickelt werden. Die Visualisierung übernimmt dabei die Funktion der bisher in Papierform erstellten Pläne im Entscheidungsprozess und bietet damit auch fachfremden Beteiligten eine visuelle Kontrollmöglichkeit der Qualität des Entwurfes. Insgesamt werden mit dem Tool IKone die Akteure in Anlehnung an die standardmäßigen Abläufe und visuellen Darstellungen mittels eines rechnergestützten Systems unterstützt.


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There's so much hate in this world, but we forget to realise that life truly is beautiful.
Changed my life.
Changed my life.
This sort of makes me think of the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Joel only saw the bad times in his relationship with Clementine. When he started to erase her from his memory, he realized how beautiful their relationship really was, but it was too late to turn back.
Life is beautiful.
Very true. It's scary how simple it is to focus on the negative and become blind to the positive. We take the simple pleasures and goodness of life for granted. Life isn't as hard as some people make it.
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Life is kinda like Cookies.Sometimes its good and delicious,Sometimes its burnt (bad).But Cookies are beautiful when you do it right (Ex.Letting go of Problems is a good way of controlling your life)
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All So True!!!!! <3 I Love this so much!
Lies!....life made me say that...
Life is like a box of chocolate...you never know what you're going to get. Life is a rollercoaster sometimes it can be scary but at times you realize that life is wonderful. Life is a wonderful thing that God gave us...
This is really amazing! And so very true
Life...it's like the ocean. Scary at some times, beautiful at others. I like this. It will all get better eventually.
I know but.....one day life looked up at death and said, "Why do people love me but hate you?" Death said nothing but then whispered "Because You are a beautiful lie and I am the ugly truth." Im just sort or afraid of HOW im going to die ._.
Bull shit. You're one of the people who sleep walk through life hiding behind the lie that its good. But what is life? Its nothing more then a time-bomb waiting to go off. And in the meantime, people are killing and rapeing and stealing and lying. Life will squeeze every last quivering drop of pus out of you, then it will turn to the next fool. Its nothing but hate, agony, sadness, and loss. Nothing good will ever come out of anything. And some day, you will die. And you'll be forgotten. So why the hell should we even bother getting out of the womb? And even then, half of our life is spent doing shit we dont want to do. Why should we spend time doing something we hate, just because someone thought that working until we die was a good idea? Why bother with doing anything anyway? Our effort will be use-less. No one will remember what you did, or even care. Nobody will ever care. And yet, they keep making you feel like shit while you're alive. They make you feel stupid, worthless, and awful. People wonder why so many people kill themselves, well I'll tell you. Its other people. People are rotten and evil by default. They're nothing more then greedy, savage, horrid little rats that want to see you suffer. So yeah, keep thinking life is beautiful. But one day you'll open your eyes and see it for what it is. And when you do, you'll regret it.
Its so true but people are lieing to theirselves
I know...
that's so true! We really need to be reminded what makes life beautiful and good living for thanks for sharing this simply beautiful photo
Life's beautiful. Don't wish it away
life is beautiful for you, but don't worry, it's just for now. One day you will hopefully realise that life is nothing more than a guy in the corner, and when you get close to that guy he throws you in the ground, makes you lose everything you ever had, like family, money, wife, child, friends, everything. And he even laughs at you while spitting on your face. Most people will work and study their asses their entire life, to when they die, they are completely forgotten by everyone, and I didn't even mention the fact that our society is unbalanced and unfair. The ants work TOGETHER for the well being of ALL of them, not just some, and humans, the self-proclaimed most intelligent animal developed a society that is bound to end up destroying itself with wars, be it for food, resources, debts, religion, stupidity, etc...
It's difficult to think that life is beautiful to me, because I know it is not
Did it ever cross you're mind that I HAVE had an unbelievably hard time - but after years of struggle- was fixed. I can still imagine the rope around my neck. But it's gone now and I'm free.
And I don't count on that happening again to me because I have God. But if it does I will: look at myself, stand up, dust myself off- and realise I am me. And noone can take that from me. EVER.
I'm terribly sorry if that has happened to you but you need to stay strong and live the rest of you're life without depression. I pray that It will get better for you tho
And I don't count on that happening again to me because I have God. But if it does I will: look at myself, stand up, dust myself off- and realise I am me. And noone can take that from me. EVER.
I'm terribly sorry if that has happened to you but you need to stay strong and live the rest of you're life without depression. I pray that It will get better for you tho
Nice, at least someone who doesn't glorify death, even though it is often supposed to be "for fun".
A really inspiring pic
I was wondering if I could use this picture for a poem that I wrote.
I will credit you and everything
I was wondering if I could use this picture for a poem that I wrote.
I will credit you and everything
You only have one life... Live it to the fullest. <3
This is beautiful.
Beautiful life....yeah rigth....
Completely beautiful, I am blown away! Thank you for puting this up!!
I was listening to "O Magnum Mysterium" performed by the Nordic Chamber Choir as I read through this, and it almost brought me to tears.
I love this. it's like the story of my life.
it most certainly is! sometimes, I complain, and wish I was someone else, in a different time, maybe. but if you think about it, would you be any happier than where you are right now? the people you know? the experiences you've had, the laughter, the tears, that would all be gone!
I love this photo. In the midst of all the hate, life still has cracks of sunshine making it beautiful.
Words of Wisdom. O u O
wow, it's so lovely! Really, really lovely.
i like it, a lot.
So beautiful
I'm making an inspirational video and I'd love to use this as one of the images, I'd credit you
Sixx A.M.
Or nikki sixx :Life is beautiful
Amazing song!!!!!!
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For someone with so much political experience under his belt, Sen. Biden should know full well how sound bites can be taken out of context. Which leads me to believe this wasn't taken out of context... and is a bit unsettling. So, to answer the questions: Funny? Not really. Smart? Not at all. Silly? Quite.
Not funny, and not acceptable.
At first read, Biden's comment is confusing. When I went back an re-read it, the thought that occurred to me was that perhaps he was trying to show that his wife is attractive and smart. It's great, but I think most voters are far more concerned about what she can bring to the table from a public service stand point (i.e. does she have a strong history of advocating for children, education, etc.). These are the types of attributes he should have mentioned about his wife.
The part where he says she's "drop-dead gorgeous" seems like a nice thing for a husband to say about his wife. And she does make Michelle Obama look frumpy in that picture!
But I can't tell what he means by the doctorate being a problem. My first impression is that Jill Biden's doctorate is a problem for HER, not so much for Joe Biden.
A doctorate can be an albatoss around your neck, sometimes. And maybe Jill feels a lot of pressure to "do" something with all that education. A professor at a community college is certainly respectable, but maybe she has ambition for other things.
A doctorate can pigeonhole a person.
A person could take Joe Biden's statement and assume that he means he wishes his wife were not so smart and educated. But that's not my impression.
It tells me the she thinks for herself - a good thing. A man who is attracted to Smart Girls - even better. I like him and it was a great choice for the Obama campaign.
When I read the quote, I thought, "so what?". I have several degrees and I very much understand the "problem". Lots of people with degrees from competing institutions wonder why I didn't earn my degree at their school (some even dare to ask why), and others without much eduacation ask me why I spent so much time in school. See the "problem"?
I think he was making an attempt at a joke - "my wife is smarter than I am"
Yes, I think CEMBA hit on it. Sort of a variation on the Ralph Kramden theme. So...we may have Ralph Kramden for v.p.
He's giving his wife a compliment. So what. Good for him. I can think of worse things that men say about their wives.
His comment? Probably an attempt at humor. The WSJ referring to her as "Mrs. Biden" instead of "Dr. Biden"? Come on - give the educated woman her due!
Hyper-sensitive. Lighten up. It was obviously intended as both a compliment, and a joke. Do you really want men to walk on eggshells around women? That is not a happy world in which to live. But then, happiness never has been a goal of feminists -- their goal is "power" (but then, just like someone who lives for money or fame, they can never get enough of it, never are satiated, and their unhappiness actually increases, the more they get).
VOICE OF REASON: Apparently all of your "eduacation" did not teach you how to spell. Maybe you should have considered an EDUCATION from another school
I can forgive my eight-seven year old father, most of the time. He has developed a habit -- or maybe I'm just noticing it now--of labeling the women he meets or sees on television as " one good looking woman" or "damn attractive." He is particularly enamored, at the moment, with Michelle Obama. So am I. And while I know that my father doesn't have a sexist bone in his body, the comments about the physical appearance of smart women are really starting to get to me.
Joe Biden is not eighty-seven. He has no excuse for introducing his wife (repeatedly, I might add, as if we didn't get it the first six times) this way:
"My wife, Jill, who you'll meet soon, who's drop-dead gorgeous. My wife, Jill, she also has a doctorate degree, which is a problem."
Shame on you, Senator Biden. I know you're a nice guy and I'm really glad that we'll be seeing a lot more of you between now and November, and hopefully for eight more years after that. I also get that you love your wife. So why put her down? Why remind us that "you got the girl," the model/poster girl, who, oh yeah and by the way, just happens to have a doctorate? How do you hope to win over the 18 million Hillary supporters with this age-old notion that it's not enough to be smart, that real women must be "drop dead gorgeous" too?
Sure, it helps. We've all read the surveys that say that men prefer blonds, long hair and high heels. But isn't this election supposed to be about change? Before I get to your foreign policy, your stand on the environment or how you and Barack will fix the economy or get us the hell out of Iraq, I need you to drop the old boy attitude, the patronizing, offensive references to how your wife looks.
When will it be that people can just take some comments for what they are... humor? Whether it was a bad attempt or not, all Senator Biden was trying to do was lighten the mood. Let's not get too worked up over this. There are an infinite number of issues a heck of a lot more important.
Lighten up! If you only read the statement it sounds a bit peculiar, but if you heard it--and saw Biden's body language--you would know that he was complimenting his smart, pretty wife while simultaneously being self-effacing.
Perhaps, Mrs. Biden should use her english degree and teach her husband correct grammar.
I hope Mrs. Biden can help old Joe with his writing skills so he doesn't have to steal from other writers.
people do always say first impressions last forever. so lets hope for Mrs.Biden's sake she makes a good one
I thought it was a wonderful way to bring attention to his wife. Where is everyone's humor! Do you have to tear everything apart that people in the public eye do and say?? Both Biden's and Obama's are just like us....better in some ways, same in others, probably worse off in other areas...it's just the way life and people are. Give them a break already...or are you all jealous of someone else getting attention and having fun!!!!
tpyical of a politician, no brain no gain. who cares about his wife's looks. i want to know what else your going to take from us.
Sen. Biden is obviously enamored and head over heels in love with his wife - as is Sen. Obama - hmmm - beauty and brains - men loving and being proud of their wives - wow what a great concept...
This is classic Joe Biden material. The dude is funny and he speaks his mind off the cuff. Why the heck is there any criticism.
If you want a comment on what the Senator had to say about his wife then you should give us all of his comment not just the "sound bite".
I think he was trying to beat the press to it, to get the comment out of the way right off the bat. However, I thought it was completely idiotic. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I hate when men say, "My beautiful wife/fiance/girlfriend" when many times they're just plain ugly! It's patronizing and all it does is invite debate (like this one!). Maybe she's super shallow and only married him because he's rich and connected? Who knows and who cares. He would have been better off elaborating more on her achievements and leaving her looks and his "problem" with her having a doctorate out of it.
And besides, does it really matter what he says or how he says it? C'mon -- he's a Democrat. Abortion doesn't trouble him in the least. End of story, right? That's why Bill Clinton was given a pass on things that would have sent feminist organizations flying through the roof if he had been Republican.
I think the comment was slightly "off". Sure he is complimenting her, but there is a way to do so without jokingly appearing to be chauvenistic...some people may take it as that.
I made a typo, and missed it in my quick proofreading. Even WSJ makes those errors.
Your harsh tone, as evidenced by the shouting (all caps) was exactly what I was talking about. So sad. Where dialog could have been there stood a reprimand. From a stranger. Sigh.
As usual people read/hear a small soundbite and try to extrapolate & assign all kinds of meaning to it which was probably never the original intent. Quick being micro managing morons and look at the big picture.
To Lyn @August 27, 2008 at 8:23 am:
As the famous quote by a 85 years old Italian man explaining to a 65 years old one, quipped: "At my age, all women are pretty"
we as a nation, have more important issues to discuss then the introduction of Biden wife... I'm pretty sure she is up for the job.. she has doctorate ya know..lol
Oh Don, you're just the living end....
Thanks, Clotario
BTW, another item to add: Isn't it interesting that Hillary is the choice of feminists, and yet her husband has a long history of being a serial philanderer, including using women who had a LOT less "power" than he did (which, according to feminists, is definitionally a case of "sexual harassment" because of the implied threat of being fired)?
I don't think this comment is a big deal, but I still think little jibes like this are irritating. At 47, I'm getting a little weary of "lightening up" as comments are made about women that aren't made about men.
Don, I'm with you re Hillary and Bill.
We're in for a lot more of the "interesting" comments from Joe over the next few months. At least Obama made the race kind of interesting in that regard.
That is why the world is still behind. Because people like you keep shoving under the carpet the patronizing comments from the old fashion men, as "there are more important issues". This is an important issue! When is it going to be enough? What's it going to take for men to stop trying to shove the patronizing attitudes towards women under the carpet?
It's irony, a joke! If we deconstruct it (to the point that it is no longer funny), Biden is simply saying, "My wife Is smarter than I am, yet I'm the one running for the vice presidential positions!"
It's a complement, not even a backhanded one; and if you think this is an attack on women then you clearly lack the intellectual capacity to deconstruct the english language, something Mrs. Biden has a PhD in!
We can debate over it all day long but who really cares in the end?? If it's not life or death..it's not a big deal.
I was horrified by the comment - the way it insulted voters; that he's a braggart (we generally don't boast about our pretty spouses or children); the inappropriateness for time and place; the way it objectified his spouse; the fact that he thought he had to point it out; that we would care. He's lost me.
How many of you people that are flipping out over this actually watched the speech? I'm sure very few. And if this has you all bent out of shape, then I would hope that you are absolutely livid and infuriated about the hundreds of thousands of lost lives over a war that had no cause other than financial gain for a greedy few.
Find something substantial and pertinent to pour your energy (or cynicism) into.
I think this gets at the heart of the competition between women. As Lyn sort of angrily stated earlier... the long blond hair and high heels means beauty to her. Note: Senator Hillary Clinton and her daughter have the same physical features. I think women need to support women and be proud of however you are beautiful.
We'll see. Ms. Biden is unknown and a lightweight.
As humourless as that comment was, I don't think we should spend time analysing it. It is exactly these sorts of sensitivities that end up marginalising women from the mainstream. We spend so much time being sensitive and forget that as an intelligent and powerful woman, she has the right to fight her own battles.
I think there is a bit of over-thinking on this one. I think Biden was trying to imply that her considerable intelligence "was a problem" as a joke and compliment, in that he has a hard time keeping up. Hardly an insult.
Those who boast are seldom the great. Examine what is said by Joe Biden in speaking and acting absurdly,though with good results.
Remember this folks, it is the President and First Lady who count as our face to the nation and world, then the VP and his spouse.
Joe Biden is in love with his Jill, how nice isn't it for a change. He admires his family and the love is obvious. Jill Biden is a pretty, bright and courageous person taking on a family which was tragically wounded and made them whole family. That is family values which matches Michelle Obamas feelings as well.
There are so many clueless responses to this article. I had no problem when Biden said his wife was "drop dead gorgeous" but it was sexist to say that her doctorate was a problem. It is also sexist to call female Ph.D's "Mrs."


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I have a 5 yr old DS who weighs in at 96lbs. He eats healthy foods and gets plenty of excercise, but the weight is still there. I call him short and stocky, as does the DH. We have no idea as to why the weight is the way it is...have had diabetes test and thyroid tests done and they both came out normal. They are now going to do a swallow study on him this Friday and we will go from there. He has had issues with a strong gag reflex that causes him to be sick at almost every meal or when he gets too hot, the Dr.s think it could maybe have something to do with the weight gain. Up until he was 4, he was the normal size (4-5) clothing...after 4, he now wears like a 16 Husky in pants that I have to hem...I prefer jogging pants, it's just easier. Has anyone else had the sudden weight gain issue with your children and were the Dr.'s able to figure out the cause?
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That's what I take from the fact that when details of Donovan McNabb's reworked contract emerged, it turned out that part of the pact is a $500,000 per year bonus to be paid in $31,250 increments each week of the regular season that McNabb is on the 45-man active roster. If he's inactive that week -- in other words, injured -- he doesn't get that week's $31,250.
When I heard about that clause, I flashed back a few months to Brian Dawkins' messy, confusing departure from Philadelphia. It's indisputable that Dawk got more money and more guaranteed money from the Broncos than he would have gotten by taking the Eagles' offer. The difference seems to be about $2 million over two years, total, but the disparity in the guarantees isn't known and might be more significant. A big difference is that the Eagles' offer was presented as essentially, two one-year contracts, instead of a multiyear deal.
Here's my point, though -- when Dawkins left, we heard from teammates and other sources that one of the reasons he felt "insulted" by the Birds' offer was that he felt they wanted him to "give back money" if he got hurt. I've confirmed from a source close to the situation that the giving back of money perception had to do with the same clause that's in the McNabb contract, and that is in a lot of other NFL contracts. This strengthens my feeling that one of the main reasons Dawkins is gone is that he and the Eagles didn't communicate very clearly during the bargaining.


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Has everyone felt like this? Or is it possible to feel fine and then BAM go into labor?
I'm new to this so I don't know what to expect!
My first I was induced at 39 weeks. I felt fine... I felt normal before I went into labor with my 2nd. Just started suddenly getting contractions. With my 3rd I had 3 days of prelabor... so I was miserable... haha. With this one I have been feeling off, sick and in pain for about a week. I'm only 35 weeks and 4 days....
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I felt perfectly fine and normal up until I was timing contractions and had my husband convince me it was time to go to the hospital :P I never felt any pressure, never any crazy pain or anything like that before labor. My doctor joked that I was the first patient she'd ever had who said I wouldn't mind going late because I felt completely fine.
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