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Starbreeze Studios has quietly shuffled the release of Overkill's The Walking Dead first-person shooter game from this year to the second half of 2017.
The news arrived in a press release touting a $40 million investment in the company by South Korean publisher Smilegate. Starbreeze suggests the delay will allow The Walking Dead to launch simultaneously in Asian markets through the Smilegate platform.
Auctions | A rare drawing of Tintin by Hergé from the 1936 book The Blue Lotus was sold at auction Monday in Hong Kong for $1.2 million. The black-and-white illustration, which depicts Tintin and Snowy being pulled in a rickshaw through the streets of Shanghai, is the only original piece from the book that remains in private hands. [BBC News]
Publishing | DC Comics' Vertigo imprint is the first comics company to use the Wattpad "social reading app," where writers and publishers can share their work with potential readers around the world. Survivors' Club writers Lauren Beukes and Dale Halvorsen are starting things off with a list of their favorite horror movies, and Gail Simone and Holly Black are expected to check in as well. [TechCrunch]
Conventions | Journalist Tom Spurgeon and Bone creator Jeff Smith, co-organizers of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, discuss their concept for a truly comics-focused festival. "We're almost at the point where we're treating comics as a weigh station before you make your money or impact," Spurgeon says. "Comics are solely what we do and it's solely where our efforts go. We want this to be important. We want to celebrate older cartoonists who may have fallen out favor. We want to celebrate the anniversaries of great comics. It's solely comics-focused." [Paste]
Lumbering into Toys"R"Us stores next month, the new assortment of Walking Dead Minimates from Diamond Select Toys will feature characters from the "All Out War" story arc of the acclaimed comic series by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard.
Inspired by Adlard's artwork, each 2-inch minifigure features 14 points of articulation, interchangeable parts and character-specific accessories. The assortment features four two-packs, each with a human paired with a walker. Here's the character lineup:
The Hollywood Reporter has debuted a tribute to the victims of the Charlie Hebdo shootings created by The Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard.
The illustration, which appears in the Jan. 23 issue of the Hollywood trade, depicts Rick Grimes holding up a pencil in his remaining (if bloody) hand to salute the dead. Adlard and the Walking Dead website unveiled a different version of the same image.
Thanks to the pop culture ubiquity of The Walking Dead, series artist Charlie Adlard has become a horror franchise all his own. So it's no surprise he was tapped to draw the U.S. poster for the latest installment of Spain's popular [REC] film series.
The LA Times debuted the image which uses the monochromatic feel of Adlard's Image Comics work to present [REC] 4: Apocalypse actress Manuela Velasco amidst the viral video-style undead at the series' core. The film, directed by Jaume Balaguero, arrives in the U.S. via VOD this month. See the full poster after the jump.
To celebrate the Season 5 premiere of The Walking Dead on Sunday, comiXology is holding an apocalypse-scale sale on the comic series created by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard.
Through Oct. 13, digital editions of the first 126 issues are available for just 99 cents each — the three specials focusing on the Governor, Michonne and Tyrese, too. If you prefer to devour the series in larger chunks, the collections are also discounted, with the majority of the volumes priced at $5.99.
Telltale Games has released the trailer for the penultimate episode of The Walking Dead: Season Two, which will be available beginning July 22.
Based on the comic created by Robert Kirkman,Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard, the episodic role-playing adventure game takes place in the same fictional setting as The Walking Dead. In Episode 3, "Amid the Ruins," the group — now free of its brutal captor — continues its journey north: "But hunger, violence and death have taken their toll. Simmering conflicts and inevitable changes within the group remind Clementine that danger can come from within, as well as without; she must choose her allies carefully."
Titan Publishing has revealed Charlie Adlard's cover for the special Comic-Con International edition of The Walking Dead: The Official Magazine #9. The limited-edition cover, featuring the tyrant Negan and Lucille, will be available exclusively at the Titan booth (#5537) during the July 24-27 convention.
The issue features an interviews with The Walking Dead TV star Norman Reedus (featured on the standard cover) and creator/executive producer Robert Kirkman.
Those die-hard fans who can't get enough of The Walking Dead, even with the comic books, television series, video game, special events, clothing and collectible toys, now have an opportunity to kick up their devotion several notches: the Hyundai Tucson Walking Dead Special Edition soon will be arriving at U.S. dealerships.
Announced in November, the release of the limited-edition model coincides with the 10th anniversary of the comic series created by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard. Featuring an Ash Black exterior with red accents (including surprisingly subtle walker hands), the Tucson comes with decals representing the comic's four factions — Hilltop, Kingdom, Saviors and Survivors — and a 72-hour custom zombie survival kit/backpack, branded with the Walking Dead logo, naturally.
The Walking Dead will return to Universal Hollywood and Universal Orlando for an unprecedented third consecutive year for Halloween Horror Nights 24. This year's mazes will be based on the fourth season of AMC's hit drama, based on the bestselling comics series created by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard.
While attractions at both theme parks will send visitors fleeing from the Prison overrun by walkers into unknown territory as they seek sanctuary at Terminus, Universal Orlando will feature what's being billed as the largest made ever created at Halloween Horror Nights. Guests there will escape to the Big Spot store, complete with crashed helicopter, the burned-down moonshine shack and the dilapidated country club before finally making their way to the End of the Line.
Conventions | Preliminary estimates place attendance at Dallas Comic Con at 45,000, easily a record for the event, which not only moved this year to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center from the smaller Irving Convention Center but is also under new ownership. [The Dallas Morning News]
Conventions | Joe Rodriguez does some shoe-leather reporting at the Big Wow ComicFest in San Jose, talking to creators and attendees about cosplay, digital comics and the perils of self-publishing. [San Jose Mercury News]
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has teamed with Heritage Auctions to auction original art to benefit the nonprofit organization. Although Charlie Adlard's contribution has already been snatched up, the rest of the inaugural lot — original art by Jim Lee and Paul Pope, and a letterpress broadsheet signed by Neil Gaiman — are up for bid through Saturday.
"CBLDF's important work on behalf of the comics industry makes them an important organization to support," Lon Allen, Heritage's managing director for comics and comics art, said in a statement. "We're proud to join the artists who donated these pieces by contributing our services to help the Fund reach our bidder community. We hope to make a meaningful impact on their work protecting comics!"
Telltale Games has debuted the trailer for the third episode of The Walking Dead: The Game Season Two, available beginning this week on multiple platforms.
Based on the comic created by Robert Kirkman,Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard, the episodic role-playing adventure game takes place in the same fictional setting as The Walking Dead. In Episode 3, "In Harm's Way," the player character Clementine and her group are captured by a brutal new leader, voiced by Michael Madsen. Now it's up to players to make the right decision in order for her to escape. Continue Reading »
Conventions | Rob Salkowitz, who wrote a book about Comic-Con International, looks forward to this weekend's sold-out Emerald City Comicon, and explains why it represents the convention of the future: "One reason ECCC is such an ideal place to talk about the future of comics is because the show itself looks like the future of comics–at least the one that I call 'The Expanding Multiverse.' Supportive of creators and celebrities alike, embracing the broadest conception of styles and subjects from indie work to mainstream superheroes, self-consciously diverse and inclusive in its conception of fandom, ECCC and shows like it represent a sustainable path forward for geek culture in an age of super-saturation and sensory overload." Salkowitz will be a participant, not just a fan: He has developed a programming track on comics and digital culture that will feature a number of people (IDW's Ted Adams, Monkeybrain's Alison Baker) giving short presentations, similar to the format and spirit of TED Talks. [ICv2]


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One analyst suggests former Manhattan mayor Michael Bloomberg could be the mystery candidate to save the Democratic Party in 2016. (associated press)
Central Park (Manhattan, NY) - Central Park is an urban park located in the central part of the borough of Manhattan, New York City. It was expanded from 778 acres to 843 acres in 1873, and was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1962. Some of the parks main attractions are the art and sculptures, including Cleopatra's Needle, The Gates and Strawberry Fields. The Boathouse Cafe, Victorian Gardens, and carriage horses throughout the park are some of the most popular leisure attractions.
Wheat grows in a research facility at the Wheat Innovation Center in Manhattan, Kan., Wednesday, March 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
A harness and the end of a rope dangles Tuesday from a window of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago. Two convicted bank robbers used a knotted rope made from bedsheets to escape from their lockup cell, which was 20 stories above the ground. They were still at large Wednesday night. (Associated Press)

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Concerns :
1. I am an Internet Service Provider which also offers shared hosting services for clients. I am concerned about security issues that might arise due to running multiple applications on the server. I do not want application of one customer to access data & sensitive application information of another customer.
2. I run a single application pool & run all my applications under this pool. I am sick n tied of trouble shooting the problem application because many a times problem one of the application [may be due to poor design, memory leaks etc] is affecting all my other good applications. Down time issues & affect on the good applications due to this is really a pain. I am losing my customers due to this. Can i get stability & reliability ?
Common Qs - How can you ensure that individual applications will not affect one another at run time? How can you prevent a single, poorly designed application from consuming critical system-level resources on the server that are necessary to keep other applications running properly? How can you ensure that one application from one company cannot access sensitive data contained in another company's application?______________________
Lets look at a Scenario
Bob has bought a shared hosting from one of the providers & he discovers that his application is running under the application pool configured with a built in default account called "Network Service" account. Bob has been a smart developer, although files requested by the applications are typically opened or accessed using the context of the user making the request, Bob re-writes his application in a such a way that the files are not opened in the context of the account under which the worker process is running. In this case it is the network service account which is used to run the application pool under which bob's app is running.
To explain this further, let's suppose your application is configured for anonymous access, when an anonymous user requests a file from your application, typically the IUSR_ComputerName account is used to access the file requested. Provided this account has sufficient access rights on the file requested it is severed to the user.
Now bob is feeling a bit malicious today, & he invoked the win32API RevertToSelf() Function & checks his identity. Guess what......? yes it is Network Service account. Voliaaaaaaaa Now all subsequent file accesses are being made from the application as network service account.
What are the implications for this from a security point of view? It means that if there are multiple applications running in the same application pool, you can write malicious code to access other applications sensitive data. e.g think of a case where network service account is ACL'ed on the downstream database server for one of the sensitive applications, now you can write code in your application as well to access the data which belongs to other applications.
Or think of a web.config which might contain clear text username and passwords. Possibilities are endless so I won't get in much of exploitation techniques here. Let's talk about what can be done to mitigate this problem.
Here are some Solutions
You need to have an effective application isolation strategy to counter the above issues.
* Separate sensitive or problem applications in to different application pools
* Create unique custom service account to run the different application pools
* Use separate processes for each application. On Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0, run each application in its own application pool that is configured to run under a unique identity. This enables you to use Windows auditing to audit the activity of each application separately, and it allows you to configure Windows access control lists (ACLs) independently for each application. This would also help in isolating application such that problem in one application will not affect other applications running on the server. This will immensely help trouble shooting from operational perspective.
* For highly isolated applications, it is best to create a unique user account to be used for anonymous access for the application, and then assign this user as the anonymous user in the Directory Security tab of the properties for the Web site. This allows you to configure authorization so that applications launched by the anonymous user are constrained to appropriate resources. Configuring one unique anonymous user per site adds a security layer by ensuring that users cannot access content on sites to which they are not permitted access.
The above solution does comes at a cost though :),it's high over head on managing multiple custom service accounts. What I recommend is a balanced solution. You can achieve a balance in this approach by determining application isolation needs for your server. Also considering priority in your context, if security is your first concern or ease of maintenance.
The applications that you deploy on a server might fit into several categories, based on your assessment of their sensitivity, technologies, their demand for server resources, or their history of instability. Group your applications according to the following categories, or make up your own set of application categories, before assigning your applications to application pools. e.g High Demand/performance apps, Critical/Sensitive apps, low risk apps, etc. You can also think of grouping application pools according to business groups you might have within your company. e.g a business group X might have 10 line of business applications, you can group them together in one application pool. Again this solution has its own pros n cons.
Here are some additional resources on application isolation:
- Isolating Applications : http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/0867131b-8e66-4166-8f3d-1b5b6515cf701033.mspx
- Best Practices for application consolidation using IIS 6.0: http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/A/8/1A8689E2-4313-46B1-8655-C62E0389B46A/Web_App_Con_BP.doc
Windows Vista has some cool new security features which can help services isolation problem. More on this later......Stay tuned.........


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Stopped by today. Thanks for the hat and firestarter.
Looks like an option for when I get old.
Tarm solo 40, 4000sf, no storage. 10 cords or so.
I had a good time at the show. Sorry I missed Joe Brown also. Thanks to BioHeat for hosting the hearth.com group.
I plan on going to the show on Saturday. I will try to stop by at noon.
2007 solo 40. 4000sf north west vermont. dhw no storage. 10 cords a year.
I have not installed storage for my Tarm solo 40 yet but I would
look at what you are going to use the storage for. The more storage
you have...
Seems like you could use the temp of the return water from the house to tell if
you should charge your storage. If the house is calling for heat...
Year 1 did not burn wood and used 2600 gallons of propane.
Year 2 tarm installed halfway through the heating season 9 cords + 1150 gallons of...
I see steam from my tarm solo 40 when it is very cold like today.
Other days when it is warmer I do not see any.
I started buring Oct 16 and have burned about 2 cords soo far.
The first year I burned 9 cords so it looks like it will be about
the same as...
I have a solo 40 and I get knocking when the tarm gets going. Not every
time but a couple times a week. Wife was surprised when she first her...
I start with the bottom door open a little and the bypass open.
I light my fire and close the upper door and turn on the fan.
After a 5 minutes or...
I went with 8 inches. The ash can fits right under the bottom door. I works
well for me.
I have a tarm but if you are looking for alot of BTUs I think the econburn is a gasifier
that goes up to 1 million BTUs.
If you do use plates you may be able to get by with a lower water temp.
Some of the benefits with lower water temp are.
1. Water storage lasts...
I have a wire to my Tarm Solo 40. When the Tarm gets too hot it will force 1 of the heating zones to open.
Your tanks is what I would like to do. I want to dig out my 4 foot crawl space a few feet and put concrete blocks at
the bottom and wood at the...
It was a great show and it was nice to meet nofossil. His
shirt made it easy to find him.
You storage idea sounds alot like the storage tanks I would like to add.
I only have 4 feet in my crawl space so I was thinking of digging down
I had my Tram Solo 40 installed Nov 07. I did not do much
of the install and my total is 14,600. 6300 for the tarm, 2600 for
the chimney and...
The DHW does seem high. Last year when I burned propane
I would burn 20+ gallons a day on a cold day for heat + DHW + dryer.
In the summer I...
Tarm solo 40 no storage 4000/sf 7 cords. Installed in Oct.
I used a little more than I expected but I also keep the house
alot warmer.
Last year I was burning 20+ gallons of propane a day when it was cold. This year with
my Tarm 40 installed I am down to 1 gallon a day. I have a...
I have been running my Tarm solo 40 24/7. I have only had the Tarm installed for 6 weeks. Next year I hope to
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Add a touch of brass to your space with this antique brass chandelier from Project Décor featuring swivel shades with white interiors.
Chipperfield's brass table lamp encapsulates the architect's luxe and streamlined vision with no visible joints and minimal directional movement.
Hand-machined and substantial, this brass industrial-style pen makes its mark before it's even uncapped. It fits either Parker ink refills (one is included) or the Pilot Hi-Tec C ink refill.
It's brass, geometric, made by one of our favorite up-and-coming studios, and it's not attached to a key chain. Need we say more?
Up-and-coming New Zealand design and manufacturing company Resident caught our eye with their brass beauty. Illuminated by an LED bulb and controlled via a sphere of polished marble, this task lamp is all about simple forms and unexpected material combinations working in perfect harmony.
The "recontextualization of familiar things" drives Nick Fraser's design. We came across the powder-coated copper pipes and brass fittings of Fraser's handsome hook at the 100% Design show at Earl's Court.


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A man has died in police custody after being arrested and
taken to a police station to sober up.
The 20-year-old man was arrested for breach of peace about
1am on Sunday morning, Counties Manukau District Commander
Superintendent John Tims said.
Police had been called to an address in Manurewa by a member
of the public, where they found family members trying to
restrain an intoxicated man who was violent and aggressive.
Mr Tims said the man was arrested and taken to Manukau Police
Station for detoxification.
The man continued to behave in a violent and aggressive
manner while in custody. He was placed in a monitored cell
and a police doctor assessed his condition.
After 5am he was checked again and found to be suffering from
laboured breathing. He was placed in the recovery position
and police staff performed CPR until ambulance staff arrived.
Paramedics continued CPR for more than 40 minutes.
He was pronounced dead at 6.10am.
"This is a sad and difficult time for all involved," Mr Tims
said. "Our staff make every effort to assure the safety of
intoxicated people while in custody. We extend our deepest
sympathies to the family."
A post mortem examination will be held, and a criminal
investigation and policy and procedures investigation are
under way. The incident has also been referred to the IPCA
and the Coroner.
Police said support was being offered to the family of the
deceased, and police staff involved had been referred to
welfare services.
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Actually a pretty decent car, according to most people grand am's are total shit. But you see those people have no idea how to take care of a god damn car. later Grand am's where equipped with eco tecs, twin cams, and 3400 v6's. The Grand am gt was surprisingly quick and was more than fast enough to shit on your town's local honda civic ricers.
Grand am's are great cars.
Grand am's are great cars.
dude 1:Damn dude that grand am gt just kicked that civics ass!
dude 2: Well yeah grand am gt's are pretty quick
dude 2: Well yeah grand am gt's are pretty quick
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Can you define these popular missing words?
a car made by Pontiac, GM, good engine compact but has a lot of room, and really fast.
damn did you see that car what was it? it went by so fast that i didn't see it.
it was a grand am
it was a grand am
by kathyylynn July 17, 2008
a car made by pontiac with the sole purpose of high expectations and low turnout. features include but are not limited to: broken ac, blown head gaskets, shitty paint, hole ridden carpets, falling headliners, turning signals that cut off the engine, and turn activated horns.
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Michael Campbell's regular caddie for the last decade is
quitting the 2005 US Open golf champion's bag at the end of
this year.
Michael Waite, originally from Taranaki but now living on
Queensland's Gold Coast, will join up with either Korea's KJ
Choi, ranked No 16 in the world, or Australian Robert Allenby
in a job sharing capacity next year.
"The chance to work for a top-20 player doesn't come along
very often," Waite said today.
"KJ's regular man Andy Prodger approached me at the Tour
Championship where I was working with Allenby and wanted to
know if I could share the bag.
"And I've worked with Allenby quite a bit over the years
"I joined up with him in the States again recently when he
nearly won the Turning Stone Championship in New York and his
normal caddie Colin Burwood wants to job share as well, so to
have a couple of really top players wanting you is a great
Waite can arguably claim to be the second most successful New
Zealand-produced caddie after Steve Williams, the bagman for
world No 1 Tiger Woods.
On the world's golf tours since the 1980s, Waite had success
with, among others, Allenby, Ian Baker-Finch and Rodger
He was with Campbell fulltime for eight years, including the
famous major championship in 2005 but has shared the bag
during 2007 and 2008.
Campbell employed seasoned English caddie Peter Coleman for
the bulk of his time on the European Tour this year.
Waite stuck with the mercurial New Zealander during good
times and bad and will be back with Campbell for his
end-of-year three tournament swing in Hong Kong and
Australia, starting next month.
And if Campbell plays in Australia and New Zealand early in
2009, including the New Zealand Open in Queenstown, Waite may
briefly work for him again.
But the father-of-three wants to cut back on his travelling
and said his ideal schedule was to work for about 20 weeks a
Most top players start about 30 tournaments a year so Waite
is hopeful a couple of part-time bags will fulfil that
For the rest of the time he wants to concentrate on a
business venture, making and selling bar stools from
discarded golf bags.
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Ready to go at Governor's aid station location at the top of Camp Bird Road.
An old mine shack on our right
Flowers are nice this year with all the rain
John and Jean-Jaques
Donna and Heather
Dima and Deb
Up through the field cutoff
We usually do this due to snow, but Charlie said to mark this anyway.
Karen coming up
See any snow?
Rick Trujillo giving us a history lesson of the Virginius mine.
First pitch
Dima, Rick and Drew
Dima heading up the middle
Karen and JJ coming up
Coming up the 2nd pitch
Pups are having a fun day
There is some snow, but not on the course
Rick, Drew and Elise
Rick up on the flat between the 2nd and 3rd pitch
Heading up the 3rd pitch
Contemplating the 3rd pitch
Dima went up the middle of the top chute
I went up the trail
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Michael Goodwin:
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His next stop, the Twilight Zone...
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Four in the morning and THIS is what has hypnotized me... I really haven't laughed this hard at DYAC in awhile, even though I have laughed plenty along the way!
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Man Admits Role in Metro-East Highway Worker's Death
4/23/2014 @ 1:28 PMBELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A southern Illinois man faces up to 10 years in prison after admitting in court that he was driving impaired when he caused a 2012 wreck that killed a highway construction worker from Bond County.
The Belleville News-Democrat reports that 36-year-old Michael Jeter of West Frankfort pleaded guilty Monday in St. Clair County to four counts of aggravated driving under the influence.
Authorities have said Jeter was on the sleep aid Ambien and an antihistamine at the time of the May 2012 wreck on Interstate 64.
Authorities say the crash killed 38-year-old contract worker Dennis Beard of Pocahontas and injured three others who were waiting in the median to paint stripes on the freeway.
Jeter's sentencing hearing is scheduled for June 4.
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Baja riders have long known that oiled foam filters provide the best protection from dust and debris. They can be cleaned on the road with solvent, and re-used hundreds of times. Touratech-USA wishes we used this filter kit on our R1200GS when it sucked its original airfilter in the intake and filled motor with dirt! Don't make the same mistake if you use your bike in offroad conditions!
These pre-filters are great for extending the life of your air filter when riding in very dusty terrain. Comes as a set of two so you always have a backup.
This exhaust flap protection is made from 2mm thick, laser cut stainless steel.
A locking oil plug, for the confidence that no one has unauthorized access to your motorcycles oil system. When "locked" the upper part spins freely, cannot be unscrewed. The key engages the lower part, allowing the cap to unscrew.
Fits all years R1200GS, R1200R, and R1200RT, including 2013-on Water Cooled models.
Valuable protection for your R1200 GS oil filler replaces the original plug on the left cylinder for the Hex-head boxer engines. The cap opens and closes with an un-common size 7mm hex wrench so that people who have no business in the engine stay out, but is easy to remove for maintenance and adding oil.
Great protection for the oil system of your R1200GS. Keeps most pranksters out and lets most service mechanics in. This machined aluminum oil cap also looks great in its black anodized finish.
Great protection for the oil system of your R1200GS. Keeps most pranksters out and lets most service mechanics in.
The R1200GS Adventure gear lever is a nice, forged Aluminum part, but the tip is rigid. With our folding tip, you can reduce the risk of breakage in a fall.
With this practical little helper you can connect various electrical devices to the BMW CANbus single-wire electrical system that you want to be controlled by the ignition (key on = accessories on, key off = accessories off). This fuse block allows the addition of electrical accessories to any motorcycle including any 2005 model year and beyond BMWs with the single-wire CAN bus system.


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The background moves. Where would I go to implement this.
The background moves. Where would I go to implement this.
It's a rather simple effect, actually. They are continuously scrolling the body background image by setting a timeout and having the scrollbackground function call itself over and over. Here is the basic code (this is using jQuery):
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
var backgroundheight = 4000;
var offset = 0;
function scrollbackground() {
// decrease the offset by 1, or if its less than 1 increase it by the background height minus 1
offset = (offset < 1) ? offset + (backgroundheight - 1) : offset - 1;
// apply the background position
$('body').css("background-position", "50% " + offset + "px");
// call self to continue animation
setTimeout(function() {
}, 1
// Start the animation
The hardest part of building an effect like this is creating the images. The top and bottom edges of the background image merge seamlessly when the image is tiled, so you never see any break in the animation. It also has a semi-transparent PNG layered on top of it to create the logo and the image of the laptop. The whole thing is quite artistic, really. You need to be skilled with an image editing program if you want to create something like this.
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Current address: Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1830 E. Monument St., Room 308, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Craniodental characters and the relationships of Procyonidae (Mammalia: Carnivora)
Version of Record online: 28 FEB 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00778.x
© 2012 The Linnean Society of London
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Volume 164, Issue 3, pages 669–713, March 2012
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AHRENS, H. E. (2012), Craniodental characters and the relationships of Procyonidae (Mammalia: Carnivora). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 164: 669–713. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00778.x
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- Issue online: 28 FEB 2012
- Version of Record online: 28 FEB 2012
- Received 5 August 2011; accepted for publication 6 August 2011
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- adaptive convergence;
- Ailurus fulgens;
- fossil procyonids;
- morphology;
- phylogeny
Recent phylogenies of Procyonidae based on molecular data differ significantly from previous morphology-based phylogenies in all generic sister taxon relationships. I have compiled the most comprehensive dataset of craniodental morphology that incorporates previous morphological characters, and with the aid of high-resolution X-ray computed tomography, new characters. This expanded craniodental analysis is based on 78 characters and yields new phylogenetic results regarding the ingroup relationships of Procyonidae. These results include Bassariscus astutus as the least derived member of Procyonidae and Ailurus fulgens nested well within the clade. Additionally, there are some similarities to previous morphological analyses of Procyonidae. Although the characters used to unite and diagnose Procyonidae vary depending on the phylogenetic analysis and have ambiguous taxonomic distribution amongst both Procyonidae and Musteloidea, there is significant morphological support for clades within Procyonidae. In addition to the strength of the morphological support within the clade, the disparate topographical regions of the skull from which the characters are derived may indicate that these synapomorphies are indeed the result of homology rather than adaptive convergence, as suggested by analyses based on molecular data.
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Jours-en-Vaux is situated in the Cote d'Or (Burgundy region) in the eastern-center of France at 46 km from Dijon, the department capital. (General information: Jours-en-Vaux is 261 km from Paris).
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Grand sites of France Bibracte-Mont Beuvray (44km)
Most beautiful villages in France (see also beautiful French villages) Chateauneuf-en-Auxois (20km)
Regional Natural Parcs Morvan (45km)
Churches or other religious monuments Hospices de Beaune (Beaune) (19km); Cathédrale Saint Lazare (Autun) (24km); Basilique de Saint Andoche (Saulieu) (38km)
Remarkable gardens Parc et jardins du château de Sully (9km); Abbaye de la Bussière (22km); Parc et jardin du château de Barbirey sur Ouche (27km); Jardin de la Chaux (35km); Parc de Saint-Léger (42km)
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We have 15 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Jours-en-Vaux): Bessey-la-Cour, Champignolles, Cussy-la-Colonne, Ecutigny, Epinac, Ivry-en-Montagne, Lacanche, Maligny, Molinot, Montceau-et-Echarnant, Saint-Pierre-en-Vaux, Santosse, Saussey, Thomirey and Thury.
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A Giant Achievement
Mark Kermode
The Selfish Giant and 12 Years A Slave won top honours at the recent Critics Circle Film Awards in London. Who says the British film industry is in trouble?
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The Selfish Giant and 12 Years A Slave won top honours at the recent Critics Circle Film Awards in London. Who says the British film industry is in trouble?
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Critics in London unanimously agree that Britain produces the best films. Well everything's alright then!
Somewhat off topic but…..
for lovers of classic, quality cinema, news just in that the BFI have remastered Werner Herzog films coming to blu ray in May this year. I can't wait to get my hands on Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972) and the beautifully stylish, emotionally haunting Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979). Christmas has come early this year!
@15 I know what a producer does, just as I know it can also be an arbitrary title as in "associate" or "co-". But as an executive producer, Harvey Weinstein is still a producer who invests TWC's money (or the bank's, however you wish to look at it [how many businesses aren't in debt to the banks?]) into independent projects he believes in, through the quality of the screenplay over any scientific number-crunching formula (taking the belief that awards can boost box office better than double-decker bus advertising can). And however you downgrade TWC's status in the industry, they do invest (naturally some duds as well as hits) and they do make money back - around $150m profit from The King's Speech alone. Of course, they bring in co-investors, hence my comment on their strict $20m ceiling, but at least they invest their own money and it's now paying off in droves, and this makes them a success in my eye, for which I wish we had an alternative here in the UK.
In fact, your second paragraph says all that's wrong with the industry. Too many people paying too much attention to box office receipts rather than on the quality of the project that can bring in those receipts. There's no point planning a beautiful home with a beautiful interior if you don't know how to lay bricks.
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Mansell's Lux Aeterna from Requiem for a Dream is very fine piece of music indeed. I also liked his score from The Fountain. Have to say I found his scores for the Wrestler (I liked the film a lot) & Black Swan much less memorable.
Jonny Greenwood's work on There Will Be Blood was also very fine.
We could add John Powell, David Holmes, Dave Arnold, Harry Gregson-Williams, Rachel Portman and Craig Armstrong amongst others.
It's probably just me, but compared with say John Barry (an impossibly hard act to follow I'll be the first to admit) today's British composers aren't producing classic score after classic score in the way Barry (and for a while at least Malcolm Arnold, Ron Goodwin, Ron Grainer, George Fenton, Roy Budd or John Harris) did.
Possibly it's a lack of opportunity, possibly studios like to play safe – 'call Hans Zimmer' (he's vastly, vastly over-rated IMO)!
I'll concede the point; Britain does have composers capable of competing with Hollywood's finest.
@13: I do appreciate your point, but I think perhaps we are at cross-purposes here: a movie producer is normally the project-manager spending someone else's money - unlike a traditional theatrical producer, who does indeed write the cheques and carries the risk. Speaking for myself, my personal risk is limited to the modest fee which I pay for the exclusive and time-limited right to an original book or screenplay, which I will then try to package up so that I can sell the project (and run it) to the guys with the money.
In this country we just don't have professional movie investors capable of competing effectively and consistently across the global market. Professional movie money comes from the USA, India, China and a mixed bag of consortia predominantly based in Continental Europe. They do not invest on the basis of bravery, or courage. They hire teams of number-crunchers employing theoretical 10-year projection models; who will recommend a project based on risk attrition. Their confidence in a project - call it "balls", if you like - has everything to do with the curvature of the projection graph, and virtually nothing to do with a cracking screenplay. Certainly the writer's name is considered relevant to the risk assessment, because past success might mean future profits - but otherwise most of us have found that the number-crunchers couldn't spot a good original spec screenplay if it wore a tuxedo and had an invitation.
Their predicted annual spend is fixed by reference to an actuarial profile of anticipated loss balanced by the chance of "striking it rich"; a profile spread across a basket of productions in which it is accepted that three-quarters of them may well bomb. TWC is not really a movie investor, so much as an Executive Production company which can offer an extra positive element for the investor's risk assessment because the Weinsteins are prepared to put up some of their own (borrowed) money. Big investors currently love to subcontract investment decisions to project-managers with "skin in the game" - whether money or talent. Hence the clout of TWC, as well as Playtone (Tom Hanks in a release deal with Sony and HBO), Plan B Entertainment (Brad Pitt in bed with Paramount, Warner and 20th Century Fox) and Bad Robot (JJ Abrams in bed with Disney - but don't ask me who is shagging who in that deal).
And certainly, Harvey Weinstein CBE is a big personality and he loves his movies - but even he does not have a crystal ball. Apparently TWC came close to collapse in 2011 (no-one ever knows how close a Hollywood company comes until the Chapter 11 application gets filed in court) - allegedly having to restructure all of its library and borrowings in order to keep going. All this because the typical operating profile requires that, for every money spinning Oscar-winner [e.g. "The Artist"], you have to be prepared to pump out six or seven flat duds ["Hoodwinked Too"; "Scary Movie 5", and the lead-lined bomb that was "Butter"].
There should be the equivalent of "Fantasy British Movie Project" (how about that as a blog series, Mr Kermode?), where we concoct our ideal combination for that perfect big-budget all-British tent-pole summer blockbuster. Trouble is, I'm betting a majority of the cinema-goers of this island nation couldn't agree on the identity of the "opening name", let alone what kind of movie would be so good that it would kill worldwide.
And isn't that just a wonderful thing?
I too am very pleased indeed that The Selfish Giant is getting the recognition that it truly deserves. I paid a tenner to Curzon Cinema On-Demand last year and got a streaming rental of the movie for seven days - and watched it seven times! It's that good. 12 Years a Slave isn't bad either.
On the sadder note, it was put to me years ago that, unless they're unlucky, people, no matter who they are, tend to die as they live - so be careful how you tread! Unfortunately, Philip Seymour Hoffman seems to have proved that point this week. For me Hoffman had a subtly to his work that American actors do not generally possess which made him stand apart from the crowd. He, and his talent, will be missed.
@10 You've contradicted yourself in your final paragraph. Movie financing has everything to do with courage, because, as you yourself say (with William Goldman's line of "nobody knows anything"), there is no trusted formula to a movie's success.
The Weinsteins are independent producers, they don't invest above $20m on any project and, yes, TWC has had its debt problems, but look at them now - second only in box office revenue to Universal, ahead of all the other big guns. Why? Because as Harvey Weinstein said on Kermie's show last year, 'it's all about great writing, if you've got that, you're onto something'. Harvey knows. He knows! And he has the balls to put his money where his mouth is.
Movie producers must be brave, and it won't be an easy ride, but you must gamble or you'll never win.
@jayfurneaux -world class British film composers? Clint Mansell, Jonny Greenwood are two that spring to mind immediately.
The Selfish Giant was my favourite film of last year. Absolutely adored it. Even though it is a very bleak subject I thought the film was beautifully filmed and beautiful to look at. The two boys did really well in the acting roles. These types of films are always my favourites, I loved Fishtank when that came out and this is a similar type of film. I shall be buying the DVD.
Mark - as ever, pithy and engaging blog. In response to some of the above comments...
As a wannabe-screenwriter and (very) small independent producer, I am delighted to see the enthusiasm with which folk express the view that there would be bigger profits available for Brit investors, if only more home-based money was put into the British movie industry. Unfortunately life just isn't like that - in particular for the Movie Industry, which has its own rather peculiar accounting system, and where adherence to Golden Rule One ("Never reveal the actual P&L figures") leads to Golden Rule Two ("Any box-office figures revealed by the competition are not to be trusted").
Since it is a simple fact that no-one in the industry - NO-ONE - really knows what movie will sell, the decision to invest in a movie - any movie - carries one of the highest adverse investment risks of any industry in the world. 75% of all new movies carry a loss, or produce zero return, after one year. You'd have better luck opening a restaurant (25% failure). And the brutal truth is that it isn't the cost of making the "tent-pole" spec movie which is the essential problem: it's the cost of marketing followed by the gouging margins of the typical distribution deal. You could spend a healthy but still relatively modest £3m and end up with a stunning movie - but no-one will see it, not unless (a) you spend at least half again pushing it to potential distributors, and then for an International release (b) you must spend at least another £3-5m on ads and marketing, all knowing that (c) the majority of box-office takings go into the pockets of those providing the screen, the seats and the popcorn. So if people don't arrive in droves for the opening weekend, as a general rule your movie is dead.
There are no more old-style movie-making studios: they were all killed off by economic collapse, whether fast or slow. Majority stakeholders of the main companies in the business are primarily engaged with the industry for the sake of the useful "hop-skip-jump" available within movie accounts [got a loss here? stick it into that column over there...]. And if the movie actually does make a profit, everyone is grateful but no-one knows how or why.
For instance, Disney is primarily an investment vehicle listing holiday resorts and brand-name goods as its primary activities: the making of movies is sub-contracted out in return for sole rights in the only aspect of the business with a stable fiscal return - themed toys, games and accessories. Disney didn't buy "Star Wars" from George Lucas in order to make a string of great movies....
In short, then, it's nothing to do with the lack of "cojones" amongst British investors - because any sane or relatively risk-averse investor ought to run screaming. So if you want a "tent-pole" spec made in this country, either it must carry good prospects of franchise after-sales (in which case the biggest of the Big Money will always come from abroad); or the very idea of the movie has provoked a huge, slightly insane and perhaps wholly unrealistic passion deep within the heart of whatever wild-haired and wonderful investor you have managed to find in that well-to-do private care home or hospital. And I wish you very well indeed.
I love the very idea of making movies - but I wouldn't want to risk my own money doing it.
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|Perfume Tree
|Vancouver, British Columbia
|Ambient, electronica, techno, trip hop, downtempo, chill out, drum and bass, ethereal
|Years active
|1991 - 1999
|Minimum Records
|Pete Lutwyche - programming, guitars, keyboards
Jane Tilley - vocals, bass, guitar
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Ian MacLachlan - programming
Melissa McCabe - bass
Adam Sloan - bass
Jim Peers - bass
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Perfume Tree was a band from Vancouver, British Columbia that existed from 1991 until December 1999.[1] Originally a group of disc jockeys from the University of British Columbia's campus radio station, CITR, members Jane Tilley and Pete Lutwyche went on to form Veloce with Ian MacLachlan.[2]
The song Uneasy, from the album A Lifetime Away, appeared on the soundtrack to the 2007 film Weirdsville.[3]
The samples "Don't you believe in anything?" and "The future's not so bad, have faith in me" from the song Aircraft Engines on The Sun's Running Out are Ace from the Doctor Who episode The Curse of Fenric when she speaks to the Vicar in the empty church.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Ghosts #1
A bland beginning that holds potential. Not a must read for fans, but entertaining nonetheless.
|November 24th, 2009
X-Men Legacy #229
"X-Men: Legacy" is currently telling good old-fashioned superhero stories, and I'm down with that kind of fun.
|November 23rd, 2009
Supergirl #47
This issue of "Supergirl" isn't really about Supergirl at all, but that said it is still enjoyable.
|November 23rd, 2009
Mighty Avengers #31
At the end of the day, "The Unspoken" ends with an uninspired fight scene.
|November 23rd, 2009
Thunderbolts #138
Incoming writer Jeff Parker turns Mister X loose on the current team.
|November 23rd, 2009
Transformers #1
The Transformers return to their first ongoing series in years.
|November 23rd, 2009
The Brave and the Bold #29
Feel like reading a comic where the only point is telling you how much better life was four decades ago? Yeah, me neither.
|November 22nd, 2009
The Authority: The Lost Year #3
A mediocre, average comic book that must compete with a never completed comic that had the potential to be great. The comparison is not kind.
|November 22nd, 2009
Dark Reign: The List — Amazing Spider-Man #1
Spider-Man. Norman Osborn. Thousands of fanboys yelling "Fight, fight, fight, fight!"
|November 19th, 2009
Irredeemable #8
The Plutonian faces his first real threat and we learn more about why he turned evil in one of the best comics on the shelves.
|November 19th, 2009
Flash: Rebirth #5
While the story's a bit slowly paced for a tale about the Flash, this issue reveals something hugely significant.
|November 19th, 2009
Wolverine: Weapon X #7
In part two of the second "Weapon X" arc, things get even weirder, and more terrifying.
|November 18th, 2009
Realm of Kings: Inhumans #1
"Realm of Kings: Inhumans" is giving the political intrigue I was hoping for; with any luck, it won't devolve into fight scenes.
|November 18th, 2009
Adventure Comics #4
In what is surely to be the strangest "Blackest Night" tie-in, the joke is getting a little old.
|November 18th, 2009
Spider-Woman #3
This works much better as an actual comic, particularly with Maleev's expressive color palette.
|November 17th, 2009
Punisher #11
The series takes a turn for the even-more-absurd and it totally works.
|November 17th, 2009
Dark Avengers #11
Norman Osborn and his crew are in serious trouble. "Secret Wars II"-level trouble.
|November 17th, 2009
Realm of Kings #1
"Realm of Kings" kicks off here, but is it wrong that I'm feeling a little event fatigued?
|November 17th, 2009
Phonogram: The Singles Club #5
Laura Heaven comes to the realization that she's not a nice person, and that's okay.
|November 9th, 2009


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Definitive Proof of the Loch Ness Monster
For the past 26 years, George Edwards has spent 60 hours a week at Loch Ness, trying to photograph the lake's famed resident. And now, at long last, he's accomplished it. Behold, definitive, positive proof that the Loch Ness Monster is real. Wow. Just drink it in. The majesty of a centuries-old mystery laid to rest. "It was quite a fair way from the boat," said Edwards. clearly still in awe of the event. "Probably about half a mile away but it's difficult to tell in water." Difficult to tell how far away it is, but not difficult to tell that it is a giant marine dinosaur-thing. So majestic. So terrifying. So Loch Ness. Take a moment to come to terms with your wild new reality: one in which monsters definitely are swimming in the lakes ...
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Yep, that's Nessie. I'd recognize that brown-gray splotch anywhere.
Do I detect a hint of sarcasm?
this guy has waited "26 years" to get this shot and he shoots it on a "compact Samsung digital camera"???? Really? no video? No DSLR with zoomlens?
Sarcasm? Hah, that's original.
I doubt he has tons of cash lying around for great photography equipment when he's spent 60 hours a week at the lake for the last 26 years. Haha


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Voting as Lesser of Evils…
"Voting the Lesser of Two Evils…"
This meme is fundamentally dishonest in the context of Democracy. To use it says you simply don't understand what a Democracy is; don't understand what it means to be in community with "We The People."
If you choose to see voting as a choice between evils, then you are calling Democracy evil; because democracy will ALWAYS require your view to be compromised. Always.
We. Will. Will we?
We. Will. Will We? We will. Or, we will not. We is choice.
One can't choose relationship without first choosing fidelity. Fidelity is the choice. Some aspects of fidelity and infidelity are natural. We is (or can be) transcendent of the so-called human condition. If two (or more) will it to be.
Why so-called? Because "human" applied to us is inexact. Humans are not static. Humans are in flux, evolving. Some are here; some there. Do not confuse a signifier for the signified. Language approximates; it is useful, but can mislead.
Am I free? Chosen will is a better term than free will. I can choose something even when I am seemingly forced to choose something else. This suggests possibility of a chosen will. Choice.
On Bernie, Hillary, Purity and being in Community with We The People…
I grew up with an ideologically pure belief system. For years, good/evil were pure concepts for me. Defined by this belief system, I could categorize anyone very quickly, and place them on a neatly defined spectrum.
That all came crashing down, as do many notions of purity, once the reality of the world beats us up a bit.
"Democracy" gets thrown about by all sides in American politics. But for all the accolades we heap upon it, there's one thing we rarely talk about: Democracy is NOT pure. Pledging to be in community with We The People means pledging to be in community with people you not only dislike, but people you loathe. It means working with those same people in a system of give and take. It means a life-long commitment to compromise and persuasion.
Hillary Clinton is a politician. Of course she has an ideology. But she's chosen to sacrifice a bit of her purity in order to work in this system. So, when she gets asked about things like gay marriage or even war, she analyzes her answer in terms of what is politically possible. It doesn't mean she doesn't have an opinion about what is "right" or "wrong", but she recognizes that few swords are worth falling on in such a system.
This, to me, is strength of its own kind. This is sacrifice of a particular nature.
You may hate this "system" of governance. But the irony is, absent electing a dictator, absent supporting an authoritarian model of government, there's no substantive alternative to it.
I don't "hold my nose" to vote for Hillary, even though my personal political opinions are well to the left of hers; I admire her for the hard work of placing herself in a viable position to help move this Country ever so slightly to the left. Because 3 degrees in the Left direction for the next 8 years is extremely valuable.
Meanwhile…I support Pramila Jayapal for Congress in the 7th. The real work of Revolution is built from the ground up; not the top down.
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FDR Wasn't a Socialist
Bernie Sanders and his campaign are fond of comparing themselves to FDR. They use FDR's New Deal policies as examples of the socialism they'd hope to implement. But FDR himself denied that he was implementing socialism.
Tolerating the intolerant? No.
Tolerance of intolerance violates the law of noncontradiction.
It's common to hear the intolerant attempt to paint the tolerant as hypocrites for not tolerating their intolerance. This is a cheap rhetorical trick that while it convinces nobody, can often confuse an argument. And there's a strong logical foundation for intolerance of intolerance, especially for a philosophy of tolerance. It's called the law of noncontradiction; simply stated, it says that you can't have both "A" and "Not A" at the same time.
Destroying Plato's Theory of Forms
This short video succeeds in destroying Plato's Theory of Forms, Christianity's idea of the perfect man, and Mormonism's Proclamation On The Family. All in under 5 minutes.
The Chosen Interlocutor
Choose wisely who you debate. Some of their ideas will mingle with your own, and thus change you. Therefore, debate only with those people and those ideas that merit your respect even when you may not agree with them.
How To Interview Mitt Romney About Sexism
Ask: Could a woman ever be appointed to lead your religion? Should they?
Mitt Romney is sexist. He adheres to a philosophy, Mormonism, which denies women equal rights. Mormon women are not allowed to hold leadership positions within the church and forbidden ordination into the priesthood.
Similarly, before 1978, the Mormon church did not allow black men to hold the priesthood. Had they not changed that position, Mitt Romney would have no chance to run for President; he'd rightly be branded as racist; that he's not being asked to reconcile his sexism in a similar fashion reveals a troubling double standard.
Sexism isn't sexy, it appears. Racism? That's hot. Homophobia? Get a room. However, when it comes to the most dominant form of inequality, many seem complacent.
The foundational Mormon treatise "The Family, A Proclamation To The World" holds:
By divine design, fathers are to preside over their families in love and righteousness and are responsible to provide the necessities of life and protection for their families. Mothers are primarily responsible for the nurture of their children.
Mitt Romney's vision of a healthy society puts men in the boardroom and women in the bedroom
Here's how the Mormon Church practices this: Women are not allowed to hold the priesthood. Women are not allowed to hold any position of leadership over men. Even within the Mormon organization for women, they are not allowed to set their own budgets or to structure their own teaching materials. Women are not allowed to bless their babies, or even to hold their babies while they are being blessed.
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Post-Atheist: Moving Beyond Belief
Asking whether one believes in God is a nonsensical, and ultimately, meaningless question. One would not ask "Do you believe in King?" God, like King, is a title, a political office. What matters is not belief in the existence of a being who claims the title, but rather, agreement with the political philosophy of any being who would assert power over us.
What is Post-Atheism?
I've coined the term Post-Atheist to convey moving beyond our current understanding of the title of god and our relationship to it. The common questions about god are nonsensical (do you believe) and impossible for finite beings to rationally consider (e.g. debating the attributes of god). Further, belief in a being is a simplistic calculation; more important is agreement with that being on fundamental governing principles.
Would the existence of an all-powerful creator automatically bestow a right to authoritarian rule? Of course not, just as my power to create a child does not bestow upon me a moral right to authoritarian rule.
Rather than our being defined by a best-guess at the existence of a powerful being (atheist, agnostic, believer), it is more important to define what is and is not acceptable behavior from any being who would seek our participation in their community.
Do you believe in God?
This question is nonsensical.
"God" is a title. Titles are descriptive appellations which convey rank, office, or status. For example, "king" is the title of a person holding a political office. A king may also have a personal name; e.g, King George.
Like king, god is a title. Defined generally as "the one supreme being, the creator and ruler of the universe,"1 the title of god conveys rank, office and status.
Sam Harris And Science As Human Right
To match the ideals outlined in the U.S. Constitution, we must define and measure our values.
We have already defined our values. We do not yet measure outcomes.
Science is the only tool capable of abstracting human experience over populations, allowing us to know whether we are achieving our goals.
By choosing not to measure, we violate basic human rights and empower the strong over the weak, the majority over the minority. This threatens to make meaningless our chosen values.
Therefore, Science should be a human right.
Sam Harris' Missing Chapter: Government and The Moral Landscape
Sam Harris recently published a controversial book titled The Moral Landscape, wherein he argues that science can answer moral questions:
Questions about value—about meaning, morality, and life's larger purpose—are really questions about the well-being of conscious creatures. Values, therefore, translate into facts that can be scientifically understood.
Stephen Gould provides a common dissent:
Morality is a subject for philosophers, theologians, students of the humanities, indeed for all thinking people…The factual state of the world does not teach us how we, with our powers for good and evil, should alter or preserve it in the most ethical manner.
I side with Harris.
Most criticism of his position rests in a critique of Utilitarianism; an ethical position that holds the right course of action is the one that creates "the greatest good for the greatest number."
Harris, by presenting his theory abstractly ("some science somewhere could do this") and by responding to the abstract criticisms of his opponents, actually misses the strength of his argument when applied to practical use.
What else are we doing than safeguarding the well being of individuals when we form governments?
Harris' theory can be grounded in Governance. U.S. Democracy, for example, is functionally utilitarian.
What else are we doing than safeguarding the well being of individuals when we form governments? In this light, arguments about whether we can define and measure moral positions are nonsense; we've been attempting to do so since the beginning of recorded history. We've just been doing it poorly.
If, as Harris' opponents argue, this endeavor is impossible, then we should immediately dispense attempts to define communal values and form governments.
David Frum and the Failure of Conservatism
David Frum reversed his position on gay marriage. Conservatives would have you believe that the case for or against it requires a review of evidence.
In framing his reversal this way, he's misrepresenting his previous position, and glossing over the deeper question: is conservatism capable of producing coherent policies in a nation whose foundational values include equality, justice, and union?
Conservatism has been wrong on the most fundamental questions of human rights. The questions of slavery, women's right to vote and interracial marriage were not decided by weighing evidence, and neither is the question of gay marriage.
David Frum, a conservative columnist, recently admitted "I Was Wrong About Same-Sex Marriage."
In linking to his article on my facebook page, I stated:
"Oops! David Frum tries to backpedal his previous opposition to gay marriage. What he doesn't understand is that this is an indictment not just of his previous position, but of conservatism generally."
A friend asked about my strategy of chastising a person who has come to agree with me on one of my core issues. "Why not just pat him on the back and welcome him into the tent?"
David Frum didn't invent his opposition to gay marriage ex nihilo; his core principle, conservatism, predictably led him to make this fundamental mistake.
In his reversal, Mr. Frum states:
"…the case against same-sex marriage has been tested against reality. The case has not passed its test."
Frum's conservatism seems to suggest an evidence-based requirement of change, and yet his position is not now nor ever was informed by evidence.
In his former arguments, Mr. Frum wasn't asking that gay marriage be tested; quite the opposite. He and most other conservatives have viciously fought any attempt to grant rights to homosexuals.
To claim now that gay marriage has been tested and found innocuous is to subtly, but importantly, misrepresent the prior position. What is more important, it's an attempt to ignore the core problem, which is the philosophy of conservatism.
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Why I Choose To Be Progressive
My theory of Progressivism holds that knowledge improves over time, allowing us to better understand ourselves and our environment. Knowledge is advanced by individuals through both free and systemic inquiry. I encourage change through the application of better knowledge, resulting in a more perfect union.
My theory of Conservatism, by contrast, places value on past knowledge, emphasizing culture, history and authority (god, religion) as the source of knowledge. Conservatism suggests the status quo has been earned, and change should be resisted. It seeks to maintain our union as a function of what is or was, rather than what might be.
Human nature is both progressive and conservative. Ours is a story of incredible progress tempered by an appeal to conservation. We hope for that which can be, but hold tight to that which is.
We infrequently seek to understand the philosophical rationale for our actions, most often choosing positions based in a near-term calculus of that which we desire.
This article is meant to represent my current thinking on my own political philosophy. I recognize the choices I make, that my position is not mandated by facts, but rooted in desire.
We hold the power to choose our path, or to have our path chosen for us. I choose to value progress over conservation.
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Foundational Values: A More Perfect Union
The United States has a single foundation: The Constitution. It outlines our legally shared values:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Any appeal to principles not contained herein are not shared values. For example, we are not a biblical nation. We are a Constitutional nation. Argumentation of law must only appeal to legally shared values.
During each political season, we are inundated with campaign slogans and rhetoric which appeal to foundational American values. We hear reference to our being a Judeo-Christian nation, appeals to biblical authority, nostalgic recounting of the founding fathers' personal beliefs, or even the eulogizing of small-town American values. The values of some Americans are identified as real, while others are demonized as un-American.
From this basis of branding values, many attempt to both discredit the ideas of others and to lend authority to their own. Their position is necessary, they'll argue, given the core values they've defined.
The problem? Frequently these defined foundational values are not legitimately shared. Agreeing to a shared set of values is fundamental to any productive argument. Discussion of a topic, absent agreement on the foundational values, is most often pointless.
Imagine a bicycle built for two; if the riders don't agree on the purpose or direction of travel, their odds of arriving at a mutually acceptable place is unlikely. If one rider attempts to define his own values as universal, in this example by seizing the front seat of the bicycle, they'll simply be imposing their non-shared value on the other. Their values, then, are no longer shared, they're authoritarian; one party attempting to force their values on the other.
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Foundational Values: Personal
My Chosen Purpose
- My primary purpose is joy.
- My secondary purpose is pursuit of knowledge.
My Chosen Faith
- I choose faith in free will, in my ability to transcend those forces that limit me.
My Chosen Community
- I choose faith in humanity.
- I choose faith in the equality of individuals
- I choose faith in human rights which exist prior to and apart from communal law.
- I choose faith in democratic pluralism.
I choose joy as the primary purpose of my life. I specifically choose the word joy instead of other similar words such as happiness. In my usage of joy, I mean something more enduring than simple pleasure.
My Definition of Joy: An enduring sense of contentment, measured not in each moment, but as a dynamic summation of experience. The constituent parts of joy include instances of happiness, sorrow, pleasure and pain, boredom, excitement, leisure and work. Joy is the result of life well-lived, adjusted by experience to achieve a net-positive sentiment. It is an expression of my desire.


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The argument from biogenesis: Probabilities against a natural origin of life
- R. C. CarrierAffiliated withColumbia University
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No evidence exists that the accidental origin of life is too improbable to have occurred naturally, but there are numerous attempts to argue so. Dizzying statistics are cited to show that a god had to be responsible. This paper identifies the Argument from Biogenesis, then explains why all these arguments so far fail, and what would actually have to be done to make such an argument succeed. Describes seven general types of error, with examples. Includes a table of forty-seven statistics used by over twenty authors to date.
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- The argument from biogenesis: Probabilities against a natural origin of life
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Biology and Philosophy
Volume 19, Issue 5 , pp 739-764
- Cover Date
- 2004-11
- 10.1007/s10539-005-6860-1
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- 0169-3867
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- 1572-8404
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- Kluwer Academic Publishers
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- biochemistry
- biogenesis
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- R. C. Carrier (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Columbia University, USA


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Captain Kidd
Captain Kidd is a converted warehouse pub, situated very close to the site of the Execution Dock where Kidd was hung for piracy and murder. They serve a variety of beers, wines, spirits and cocktails as well as modern European dishes from an A La Carte menu. They provide outside seating on the terrace.
Venue Details & Map
Captain Kidd
- Address
108 Wapping High StreetLimehouseLondonE1W 2NE
- Telephone:
- +44 (0)20 7480 5759
- Public transport:
- Wapping, Underground
Here we go: sadly another example of a pub with self-righteous staff imagining themselves trade union leaders standing up for bureaucracy. Customers are a hassle. In an empty restaurant, my family are rejected to secondary seating away from our own choice due to the fact that we won't occupy all seats. Well good bye. Although I'm not that unreasonable to recognise that tables need to be...more
A perfectly serviceable Sam Smith's pub with a great patch of concrete outside- perfect view of Canary Wharf; excellent if you work around there and want to be reminded of your day job during the weekend... (or generally excellent in general)
Inside it's dark with nooks and crannies, toilets are not too disgusting on our visit.
It basically is what you'd expect from a Sam Smith pub- nowadays...more
This is a lovely riverside pub that is spoilt by awful food.
The pub grub at its most average. Shame really because it would be mobbed if it sorted this out.
Not helped by the Sam Smiths beers either.
I won't be returning for some time and then only in the hope that things have changed because the location and the outside beer garden on the river is great.more
Nice pub, right on the water, so it offers brilliant views - especially if you go outside.
The vibe is very casual and fun. Everyone seems friendly and at ease. They serve some lovely cider on draft and best of all, they serve chilli peanuts - and not the plasticky kind either!
The whole place is made of dark wood and it has loads of little nooks and crannies, rooms off of rooms and places...more
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me!
I love this pub for a quick drink as it's very close to home. It's a real shame that the upstairs space which is beautiful is wasted on perhaps the worst food you'll come across in all of London. I have given the food several chances and today's food was so disgusting that I had to update my post.
The reason I tried again is that the...more