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Brett White comes clean about his past comic book bias and explains the effect that DC's New 52 has had on him since it launched twelve months ago.
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Axel Alonso turns his weekly column over to a trio of Marvel team-up storytellers as Editor Nick Lowe is joined by writers Jeph Loeb and Dan Slott to go inside "A Plus X," from Cap and Cable to Hulk and Wolverine.
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Marvel's "Avengers" #1 covers feature a surprising lack of female superheroes. Brett White discusses why this troubles him while -- and this point can't be made clearly enough -- accusing no one of sexism.
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In the final Marvel Comics panel of Fan Expo Canada, creators and editors alike discussed what's next for the Marvel U's mutant population after the end of "AvX," from the "All-New X-Men" to "Wolverine" and beyond.
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Low water levels at Lake Thunderbird are affecting nearly 200,000 people in three central Oklahoma communities. Residents are being asked to conserve.
Televisions station KWTV reports that starting this month residents of Midwest City, Del City and Norman will need to reduce water consumption by 10 percent to keep Lake Thunderbird in service. Currently, the water level is 7 1/2 feet below the top of the water conservation pool and is expected to shrink to a record low next month.
The Central Oklahoma Master Conservancy District is warning city managers that the drought that has lowered lake levels may extend another two or three years.
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Part two of this series is intended to support CBS's from each AEA who are involved in the training of assessment of children with challenging behaviors. These trainings coincide with the practical experiences they are receiving from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in FBA and the concepts discussed in this series are designed to increase the technical assistance capabilities of each CBS. This particular series will involve the CBS's as lecturers of the main topics of this series. Details of who will present each topic are still to be determined, however an updated list can be found at the following website:
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November 27, 2013 Introduction to Functional Assessment and History of FBA Presenters: Glenda Harms and Sean Casey Challenging Behavior Consultant, Prairie Lakes AEA and Iowa DE The initial session will focus on a review of the history of FBA technology highlighting the importance of conducting appropriate FBAs prior to the development of BIPs. The full continuum of FBA methodologies will also be highlighted.
December 18, 2013 Indirect Assessments: Checklists, Rating Scales and Interviews Presenters: Jennifer Funk Challenging Behavior Consultant, Great Prairie AEA This session will focus on the implementation of FBA's using Indirect Assessments as a hypothesis development tool to determine the function of challenging behavior(s). Strengths and weakness of these technologies will be discussed.
January 8, 2013 Naturalistic Assessments: ABC Assessments and Descriptive Analyses Presenters: Sandy Lichty and Joleen Doyle and Angela Raddatz Challenging Behavior Consultant, AEA 267 and Grant Wood AEA This session will focus on the implementation of FBA using Naturalistic, Direct Observation, Assessments as a hypothesis development tool to determine the function of challenging behavior(s). Strengths and weakness of these technologies will also be discussed.
January 22, 2014 Experimental Analyses: Functional Analysis Presenters: Seth Piro, Challenging Behavior Consultant, Keystone AEA This session will focus primarily on the implementation of FBA using Functional Analysis, an Experimental, Direct Observational, Assessment that is considered the most powerful technology to determine and confirm the function of challenging behavior(s). Strengths and weakness of this technology will also be discussed.
February 5, 2014 Other Experimental Analyses: Structural Analysis and Concurrent Operants Assessments Presenters: Jan Turbes and Sarah Bergthold, Challenging Behavior Consultants, Northwest and Mississippi Bend AEAs This session will focus primarily on the implementation of FBA using other Direct Observation forms of Experimental Analyses to determine the function of behavior(s). These strategies will be discussed as alternative methods when functional analyses are not possible or provide conclusive results. Strengths and weakness of these technologies will also be discussed.
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Genre/Subjects: Biographical, Drama, Family Issues, Historical/Period
Program: Contemporary World CinemaLanguage: Danish English Subtitles
DIRECTOR: Bille August
Producer: Karin Trolle, Signe Leick JensenEditor: Gerd TjurCinematographer: Dirk BrüelPrincipal Cast: Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Søren Sætter-Lassen, Tommy Kenter, Sverrir Gudnason, Nanna Buhl Andresen, Lene Maria Christensen
She is the beautiful wife of one of Denmark's most famous artists, the widely admired subject of many of his paintings, yet Marie Krøyer sorrowfully confides to her best friend that her life is "a living hell." Her admission comes about a third of the way into this biographical drama, based on Marie's heartbreaking love losses. From the couple's strolls along the beaches of Denmark's northernmost promontory, to art openings packed with an adoring public, director Billie August presents the facade Marie shows to the world. We witness idyllic scenes interspersed with ones of Marie hopefully enduring her husband's wild mood swings and his ultimate descent into mental illness.
Peder Severin Krøyer and Marie were part of the Skagen Painters, a lively community of Nordic artists working in the style of the French impressionists. We see the Krøyers enjoying wealth, fame, and the love of each other and their daughter, Vibs, but it all goes awry as P.S. becomes more and more unstable. His scathing criticism of his wife, his huge ego, and his cruelty to their daughter become intolerable for Marie. She and Vibs take a vacation to Sweden, where Marie falls madly in love with another man. All of this passion and turbulence seethe beneath the proper Victorian manners and dress of the time. The celebrated light that attracted artists to the area floods the screen, and glimpses of beguiling canvases appear throughout.
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Twitter appeared to be back up Tuesday after suffering disruptions and delayed service on Monday when it saw 1.1 million tweets related to the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
During a 13-hour period, Twitter's user support operation issued a series of tweets reporting problems, beginning with, "Profile photo upload is unavailable at the moment. Hold tight, we hope to have it back soon" followed six hours later by "Some users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Engineers are working to resolve this problem."
Frustrated users tweeted out sarcastic responses such as "hi is twitter shutting down for a week or what?"
The problems seemed to be intermittent, with users able to receive updates and post to Twitter one minute, but unable to the next.
The outage started about 2 p.m. Pacific time and Twitter's blog was still reporting about 8 p.m. that some users were experiencing issues.
At one point, Twitter even reported that its help center was having problems.
Twitter's final problem-related tweet Monday night said, "Some users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue."
Then later Monday, without an explanation, Twitter updated the tweet to say, "This incident has been resolved."
Twitter had boasted of extreme usage during Obama's Inauguration Day events, announcing that there were about 1.1 million tweets sent during the official ceremony that referenced the inauguration, easily eclipsing the 82,392 sent during the president's 2009 ceremony.
Twitter had severe issues with outages in the early days of its service but has mostly put the "Fail Whale" to rest in the past few years; the last major outage occurred in early November.
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Percy Shelly averred that poets were the unacknowledged legislators of the world. That was a hope rather than a fact. It might have been true in earlier centuries but the inexorable rise of scientific methodology relegated it as a source of power and influence. Inevitably, the baton passed to science.
Computer designers and software engineers might reasonably claim that they have taken on the mantle previously occupied by their artistic ancestors and everyone is all too unhappily familiar with the baleful, quasi-monopolistic influence of large software companies like Microsoft. Yet, it is not the whole story by any means. All the major players in the world of free software may well feel themselves to be, like Shelly, the unacknowledged legislators of the world given the role they have played in democratizing knowledge and thus empowering people to have control over their digital lives.
If GNU/Linux were a branch of astronomy you would experience little difficulty in navigating the night sky. Against the background of the familiar constellations you could easily name and identify the shooting stars and comets: Torvalds, Stallman, Perens et al. However, if you peer a little harder you might just observe a smaller star of the firmament, an unregarded little stellar object in an unfashionable spiral arm of the galaxy; not a supernova but its influence will be felt for decades to come.
You may not find it listed prominently in the free software equivalent of a star catalogue but look up the celestial index under Kent, Jim and there it is. Some people will have heard of him but I suspect that many have not. His story is well worth the telling and I hope that by the end you will agree with me that it is a story of free software heroism and that Kent deserves the soubriquet as one of the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
The opposition to software patents in the free software community is too well known to require repeating here but if defeating attempts to patent software code is important (and it is very important) what about wetware patents? Wetware? That's you and me, the carbon-based lifeforms on planet Earth. More specifically, in computer terms, our source code. It was not invented but represents three billion years of evolution and the idea that you can or should patent this universal inheritance is repugnant (US patent office please take note).
The same reaction to the very idea of patenting our source code was the catalyst for an extraordinary series of events that began with the race to map the human genome. Ultimately, it was a two-horse race between the National Institute for Health (NIH USA), a publically-funded body with financial help from the Wellcome Foundation (UK), and Celera Genomics, a private company headed up by Craig Venter. Venter's goal was to sequence the genome, patent it and charge subscribers to the database a fee for access. This closed-source model was deeply unpopular with geneticists worldwide and the Human Genome Project was founded in response. (There may be some poetic justice in the belief that Venter was allegedly fired in 2002 by Celera after it became clear that selling genome date would not be profitable.)
The task was huge - some think it equivalent to putting a man on the moon - and the problems encountered reflected that. Without going into the complex details of it all the task was, to put it in computer terms, to decompress and extract the biological zip drive that was the 400,000 pieces of data coded in the human genome. This was a data problem that required a high degree of processing power. Venter at Celera was reputed to have deployed the resources of the most powerful civilian computer in the world.
Kent's senior colleague, Dave Haussler, at the University of the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) was working on sequencing the genome and Kent offered his program on worm DNA as a template to assist the human gonenome project. It was, with the luxury of hindsight, a truly historical moment. A series of events was set in train that ultimately ensured that the human genome remained firmly in the public domain.
How did he do it? He armed himself with the GNU/Linux operating system using a Beowulf Cluster across one hundred 800MHz processers with 256MB of RAM each, the VIM editor, the GCC compiler and icepacks every night to stave off the RSI from hell induced by the herculean task of writing 10,000 lines of code, working eighty hours a week for forty days in a converted garage at the back of his bungalow to complete the task! ("He had to ice his wrists at night because of the fury with which he created this extraordinarily complex piece of code...He's unbelievable,this program represents an amount of work that would have taken a team of 5 or 10 programmers at least six months or a year", Haussler said) The result was a program called GigAssembler which allowed the project to organize the data into a coherent sequence and 22 June, 2000 was the day it went live, followed by another historical date: 7 July of the same year Kent and Haussler posted the results on the web. The genie was well and truly out of the bottle.
History records that the HGP beat Celera by one day but it was declared officially to be a draw and was announced as such at the White House , where, after Kent had uploaded the results to the web and eventually compressed it to a single CD, it was presented and put in a time capsule for posterity. Rightly, Kent was showered with job offers (he declined them) and awards- the most appropriate being the Ben Franklin award from Bioinformatics.org; ironic because Franklin declined to patent his inventions. Oh, and he was also awarded the Overton Prize from the International Society of computational Biology in 2003.
It was a remarkable instance of serendipity. Before his Ph.D in biology Kent had founded and run a software company and led a team of software engineers, so he possessed the necessary computer skills equal to the task. (He wrote paint and animation programs for computers. These included the award-winning Aegis Animator on the Amiga, Cyber Paint on the Atari ST, and Autodesk Animator on the PC.) That provenance is evident in the way he described the task of genome sequencing: it was essentially a task in reverse engineering. DNA was the machine code, genes were the assembler and proteins a high-level language like C. Alright, the analogy has limits of course but you get the idea.
In the spirit of free software Kent released the GigAssembler under a free license for non-commercial use and he clearly understands the significance of open sytems. In an interview with O'Reilly Networks, whilst describing the GPL as "absolutely disastrous" for commercial environments but "particularly beneficial" for operating systems even "copyleft" seemed too restrictive! Kent's summary of the value of free software is well worth quoting at length:
I think that free software for computer operating systems is particularly beneficial. We all want to speak the same language so that we can communicate with each other. We all want to use the same operating system so that we can use our favorite programs everywhere, and so that we don't have to port the programs we've written. An operating system in private hands will therefore tend to die out, become a monopoly, or encourage the people who use it to become a closed group. The pro bono work of the many people developing free operating systems really is helping lift the world out of these three gloomy alternatives. Displacing Microsoft in the Windows/Icon/Mouse/Pointer world may not happen, but I would not be in the least surprised if a computer with good out of the box speech recognition, a nice web browser, and a strictly optional keyboard based on Linux takes over China in 3 years and the USA in 6. Free software, and the low cost, encourages the sharing of information between scientists. If I want to share my work with a colleague, they don't need to spend time or $ acquiring the software needed to review or recreate the work (ever try to buy an expensive piece of software via a University purchasing office?). This also evens the playing field for scientists without the research budgets found at most US universities. I can afford most software through research grants, but a colleague is a less prosperous country may not have the same resources.
This points up the similarity between the methodology of science and free software. Both progress and gather kudos by being open and being open means that the code base and the experiments can be examined in order to debug, verify or refute. If you don't believe me then just recall the episode of Pons and Fleishman and cold fusion. Karl Popper would certainly have approved.
Even peer review can be tainted though. Just as there is high street fashion, there are fashions too in science. Some topics are "sexy" or topical and getting funding, free software or otherwise, can mean towing a particular line in political correctness. Just try getting a hearing or funding to study the correlation between solar activity and global warming and see how far you get. Clearly there is an undeniable human input to climate change but it takes a very brave scientist to swim against the tide and dare to suggest that there may be additional factors. Just ask Henrik Svensmark, a Danish scientist whose finding over ten years in solar activity and climate have been consistently turned down for publication by journal after journal and who only managed to get his research published in The Proceedings of the Royal Society last year. Free software means keeping an open mind.
The Human Genome Project, like the Manhatten Project before it, is big science and that means big funding and the old cliche still stands: he who pays the piper calls the tune. Not for nothing did Eisenhower warn about the military-industrial complex. Open sourcing software or science can be compromised by the politics of its finances. Aubrey de Grey, the gerontologist, has pointed out that being funded by government leaves you hostage to politicians and therefore , at least in a democracy, to the voters and their interests, agendas and lobby groups. If you go down the route of financing from big business it is buffeted by directors, shareholders and accountants and the desire to return a quick profit. Disinterested private finance may be the only unfettered option left, but philanthropic donations without strings are as uncommon as politicians saying they're sorry.
All this may sound a little idealistic, even naive. Perhaps it it, but for all the faustian pacts scientists and software engineers have to make to fund research and for all their all too human foibles, they have done more that any other organised group of human beings to advance and improve this miserable species. If you took science out of the picture a returning visiting alien from Mars would be virtually unable to distinguish between modern man and his far ancestors.
Our progress thus far has been underpinned by pure science and applied technology and the era of computing, particularly free software computing, has acted an an exponential accelerant to the whole enterprise. The next time a clone of John Cleese asks you: "what has free software ever done for us?", go tell them about Jim Kent, not Clarke Kent. As Miranda in Shakespeare's The Tempest said: "Brave new world that has such people in it".
Corrections and Reflections on soft code and wet code
As an open source developer and former employee of both Celera and it's sibling, Applied Biosystems (ABI), I'm writing to provide a different perspective on both open source and the genome project.
For his part, Tony White, CEO of Applera and Craig Venter's former boss claims he fired him because Venter antagonized ABI's customers. (ABI supplied the gene sequencers used by both the NIH Human Genome Project and Celera). In fact it was Venter who wanted to give away the sequence and charge only for annotated data on genetic variation among individuals. It was White who was skeptical of Venter's plan to give away the genome sequence instead of charging for it.
In principle we can all agree that nobody invented the human genome, so our gut reaction is outrage that anybody should be permitted to patent it. On the other hand, it cost Celera half a billion dollars to sequence the genome, and shareholders who fund such ventures have a reasonable expectation of return. The tax-paying public has other kinds of return in mind when funding medical research, and does expect the data to be made public. Like it or not though, patent law does provide a financial incentive that in some cases benefits both private and public good.
By the way, the public HGP was not founded in response to Celera as the article states. It was started back in 1987 under the DOE. However, David Haussler and others admit that Venter's group forced them to retool and complete their project several years ahead of schedule - to everybody's benefit.
But back to the question of inventions, IP, and compensation. At the risk of being crude, let me state two propositions that seem to frame the debate:
1. All people have a right to make a living in exchange for providing value to society.
2. Inventors (including open source developers) should not be subject to lawsuits over patents of which they are unaware.
I call #1 the "quid pro quo" argument, and #2 the "presumption of omniscience" argument. Both of these propositions seem reasonable in the abstract, yet in a capitalist society, they often come into conflict. What's amazing to me is that the debate has become so polarized that well-informed people on both sides of the debate act as if the other side's arguments are baseless.
Those of us who provide their source code at no charge should be aware that it is frequently downloaded and used by "engineers" who make six figure salaries, yet wouldn't have a clue how to write it themselves. We aren't bothered by this or we would stop contributing to it. Yet open source developers still need to eat. It's worth noting that Ben Franklin, who refused to patent his inventions invented most of them after he became wealthy from his printing business. So he made his money not so much from generating information, but for making it widely available. Would he have been so successful in the Internet age? More to the point, does the open source movement mean that only aggregators make money, and developers themselves must be independently wealthy?
Although many believe that information should be free (as in "free beer"), even more believe that software developers should be free to roam the algorithmic landscape without risking stepping on patent landmines. The idea that software developers should be presumed omniscient concerning existing patents, and understand patent law besides, is, we all know, lunacy.
I don't presume to know how to solve the dilemma of "quid pro quo" versus "presumption of omniscience". But I do think that no solution is possible as long as either side views the opposing view as illigitimate. We need to ensure that people who wish to make a living producing useful code have that option, and we need to keep the landscape free of landmines. Perhaps patent law should be changed to except those who unknowingly reinvent a method or algorithm from patent infringment litigation, with the burden of proving "foreknowledge and intent" falling on the patent holder. However, I don't favor throwing out patent law wholesale.
Humanity benefits from the Jim Kents of this world, as well as the Tony Whites and Craig Venters, and with such diversity it is indeed a brave new world.
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[QUOTE]We need to ensure that people who wish to make a living producing useful code have that option, and we need to keep the landscape free of landmines. Perhaps patent law should be changed to except those who unknowingly reinvent a method or algorithm from patent infringment litigation, with the burden of proving "foreknowledge and intent" falling on the patent holder. However, I don't favor throwing out patent law wholesale.[/QUOTE]
This argument is flawed. Patent law as it currently stands is wrong because it blurs the line between idea and implementation. If it can not define that line correctly, it needs to be changed or withdrawn from the realm where ideas and implementation can not be reasonably separated by such patent approval groups.
No one is denying any one the opportunity to make money from useful code. What should not be possible however is the ability to patent an idea with no visible implementation. I should not be able to patent "sorting in ascending order" without a demonstrable algorithm that performs this function. And the patent should be applicable to my IMPLEMENTATION, and NOT THE IDEA, of "sorting in ascending order".
This will allow me to sell my fantastic code that "sorts in ascending order" while at the same time allowing any one else to develop code that "sorts in ascending order" but doesn't use my algorithm.
This is real market economics and will facilitate a level playing field allowing innovators to innovate and not allowing me to monopolize the "sorting" market place with my sole algorithm. Buyers get to choose which fantastic "sorting in ascending order" algorithm they want to incorporate in their product on their grounds - not on mine (the seller).
Your argument that "cost Celera half a billion dollars to sequence the genome, and shareholders who fund such ventures have a reasonable expectation of return" is also simillarly wrong in that it accepts that Celera may want to patent the genome sequence to gain returns for their investment. Any attempt to exploit that which should be available freely for the greater good of mankind is wrong. And Celera wanted to exploit this by getting to the market first. It is good for humanity that tools like GNU/Linux, the Beowulf cluster, the Internet and capable people like Kent are available to take on funded private pirates looking for every opportunity to exploit the ignorant innocent.
JK work has undoubtedly benefitted all of mankind but I don't believe you can call JK a "hero of open source". A "pioneer for mankind" would be a more appropriate title for him. I believe that Jim Kent (JK) does not understand "Open Source" or the purpose of the GNU's GPL.
By releasing his software under a non-commercial licence and claiming to be a proponent of Open Source, he shows me that he doesn't understand Open Source. The first criterion of the Open Source Definition states:
The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
and yet, his actions show that he was willing to forgo this criterion for whatever reason. To me, the failure to adhere to this criterion shows a lack of understanding of the intended purpose of this criterion and therefore it shows a lack of understanding of Open Source.
JK's responses from his O'Reilly Network interviews show me that he doesn't understand the purpose of the GNU GPL. He says:
I'm not sure if open source works so well in commercial environments. These days at least, the GPL is absolutely disastrous, since it really doesn't mix peacefully with existing proprietary stuff.
No duh. I believe JK does not understand about giving the user freedom and therefore cannot understand the intent of the GPL. The GNU GPL is designed to ensure the user's freedom. Proprietary software doesn't guarantee any freedom and in fact, it often imposes very strict forms of user subjugation in the name of "protecting the author's interests". So it isn't hard to see that GPL licensed software not mixing with proprietary stuff.
I do agree with his sentiment that the GPL is disastrous to mixing with proprietary stuff. The GPL was designed so people wouldn't impose extra restrictions on top of what was already restricted and therefore ensuring the freedoms that the GPL provided. Proprietary software imposes restrictions that restrict the user's freedom and therefore proprietary software is inherently incompatible with GPL licensed software.
So yeah, he's a great guy for doing something that progresses society but he's no posterboy for Open Source.
First thanks for the kind words. I was in the right place at the right time with the right skills on the genome project, and ended up with more fame than I deserve compared to other people you don't hear of, like LaDeanna Hillier, Asif Chinwalla, Richard Gibbs, Greg Schuler, and hundreds of other people without whom the public genome project would have never completed in time to avoid wholesale gene patents by Celera and Celera's licensees. I am proud of my role in it the genome project though, and of the work we continue to do to understand the genome at genome.ucsc.edu and elsewhere.
It's true that I don't buy the predominant open source models. I've made money, good money, selling software I've written. I think writing and selling software is an honorable profession. I think the lion's share of the money in software should go to the people who write the software, not the people who write the manual, since it takes longer to write the software than the manual. I think that a lot of really good software requires very little support, and in fact in the consumer categories, the better it is the less support it requires. So the model where I write something for free, and Tim O'Rielly makes good money selling books on it, and Red Hat makes money providing phone support for it and burning it on CD just doesn't work for me.
The GNU model doesn't work for me, because it's sticky. After 10 years I think code should go into the creative commons free for all to use. I think a lot of code should be put there earlier. However if I spend 2 years writing something that is useful, I think I deserve to profit from it if I want. I don't think that someone else should be able to make a copy on a floppy, or these days a CD ROM or web site, and sell it for 50% of what I'm selling it for. If I incorperate Gnu code into my code (if I am reading the license correctly at least) I *do* need to open myself to someone who can undercut me in price because they essentially had no development costs.
That said, I do think that source code should be freely available for others to read, and for customers to modify in all cases.
There are places where the GNU license is useful, where it provides leverage for code to escape from trade secret, or semi-permanent copyright status from a tight fisted company. Still, personally, I like to divide the world of code I write into that which is given away with no strings at all, and that which I sell to make a living. Now that I'm supported by government grants I can afford to give away *all* the code that I write. That has not always been true though for me.
I have been lucky to be my own boss most of my career. If you are working for someone else, having to change jobs reasonably often, I can see how the GPL would be extremely attractive. Among other things once the GPL gets it's hooks in, if you contribute to a GPL project, you can keep working on it even after your startup is bought out by Cisco, even after your enlightened manager gets driven out of the company at Oracle, even after your mature software customization shop gets driven into the ground by the founder's idiot nephew. I've got code I wrote 25 years ago and still use. Hopefully the GPL will help make it so that the programmers caught in the intellectual property mazes of corperate America can experience the same pleasures of extreme code reuse. I still think a better solution would be companies that you'd *want* to work for for 10 years at a time because they weren't run by aggressive *ssh*les, a software license standard like we have with patents that tends to limit royalties on a piece to no more than 3% of the profit on the whole, and copyright laws that expired completely after 10 years. I guess I'm dreaming. Maybe in the face of mega-software-corporations GPL is necessary. I'm not comfortable with it's effects on the smaller software shops like I used to run though. You might ask Walter Bright, Joel Spolsky, or some of the other good small shoppers what they think of GPL. I'm betting their feelings would run pretty parallel to mine, but I've been wrong before!
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verb (past and past participle burst)[no object]
- It swells considerably and has to be pricked with a needle to release the internal pressure and avoid bursting.
- Hoses that burst apart under pressure, or leaked copiously, were another problem faced by fire fighters.
- The pain and agony she kept within her ruptured forth, much like an overflowing dam that finally burst under excruciating pressure.
- Frost expands the water in clay soils, which bursts the heavy clods apart.
- The authority might be able to take some measures to cut the risk of properties being inundated when the beck bursts its banks, a leading councillor has revealed.
- This is in sharp contrast to the rainy season, when the raging water yearly bursts its banks and floods thousands of houses near the river.
- This time, the section was full to bursting with interesting stuff.
- I think it's time we sorted out the kitchen cupboards, they're all full to bursting with even more stuff piled on top.
- As his mouth was stuffed full to bursting with food, he was barely coherent.
- I'm bursting with much emotion here, so please bear with me if it sounds like I'm rambling like a mad man!
- Splendidly pretty and bursting with emotion, this song is the work of a grown-up songwriter who still isn't afraid to cry.
- His features were deadpan but his voice was bursting with emotion.
- He saw Ken's soft, caring eyes squeeze shut and watched as nervous tears uncontrollably burst from them.
- I stood on the front step of the cottage, tears threatening to burst from my eyes as Sol and I said goodbye.
- Tears burst from his own eyes and he ended up gripping his little son more for his benefit than the boy's.
- Suddenly the door bursts open, a gust of wind blows snow into the room, and a man with a bushy beard and camel-skin tunic strides in.
- Suddenly the front door burst open and Zax came running in.
- Suddenly the doors burst open and Marguerite jumped with fear.
- He didn't move when Tina burst into the room, her usual bubbly self.
- As he burst forward, I moved to close him down but I only succeeded in getting a toe to the ball.
- Beverly suddenly burst into the room, looking livid, as always.
- Her friend nodded wordlessly, and the two of them burst into tears and began hugging each other.
- My sister was standing at the sink attacking our mountain of dirty dishes when she suddenly burst out laughing.
- Suddenly he burst out laughing, making total strangers jump in shock.
- A folding forms tray is provided to hold forms to be burst.
- It is desirable that bursting apparatus be capable of properly bursting all business forms used.
- This burster will burst and trim over 1,000 11-in. (279mm) deep forms in less than 10 minutes, and is ideally suited to processing short runs.
- She jumps when the small explosive bursts, splitting the wood in half as intended, and Ted smiles, laughs, and then walks her through the process again.
- A burst of force broke the ground next to them, and a huge, snake-like creature sprouted above ground.
- The blast was followed by smaller grenade explosions and bursts of automatic fire that lasted for several minutes.
- A sudden burst of laughter was heard as David almost fell down.
- A sudden burst of laughter spurted out of Leanne's mouth and the group joined along.
- He uses sonic cues and sudden bursts of noise (laughter, yelling, the blast of a gun) to suggest and confirm the nature of the story.
- IT has been designed to depict the explosive burst of speed at the firing of a sprinter's starting pistol.
- I won't even delve into the profanities this elicited in explosive bursts as I read his latest missive taking me to task for this or that.
- For a start, Tyson in his distant prime attacked in explosive bursts of four, five or six punches, sequences demanding timing and vigour long beyond his capacity.
- A well-taught boxing circuit class, which involves intense bursts of skipping, abdominal exercises, sparring and bag work, is a fast way to shed excess pounds.
- They tend to work in fairly intense bursts and argue that entitlements such as time and a half will add 2.5 to 3 percent to their wage bills.
- They, and the man taking their pictures, are snatching moments between bursts of intense, backbreaking work.
burst someone's bubble
- see bubble.Example sentences
- The other part of me was worried that Betty might not believe me, or even if she did, might resent me for being the one to burst her bubble and it could ruin the close relationship we now shared.
- But when it comes right to your doorstep and bursts your bubble, well that's a different story.
- Men may like to keep this myth going, but I'm bursting your bubble, boys.
Old English berstan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bersten, barsten.
bust from mid 17th century:
Originally bust referred only to sculpture, usually a piece of sculpture representing a person's head, shoulders, and chest. The term came into English in the 17th century through French from Italian busto. The Latin source of the Italian word was bustum 'a tomb, sepulchral monument'. When in the early 18th century a living person was described as having a bust, there was usually some comparison with marble or a sculpture. It was not until the later 19th century that the word appeared in the context of dress and fashion, and the measurement of a woman's bosom for clothing sizes. The bust, meaning 'to break' is a mid 18th-century US variant of Old English burst.
Words that rhyme with burstaccursed, curst, erst, first, headfirst, Hurst, thirst, under-rehearsed, unrehearsed, unversed, verst, worst, wurst
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The sounds of fourth graders eagerly trying to sink a basket ring out at the North Central Missouri YMCA last week. Standing in charge of the mass of young people is Rita Moore, Physical Education Coach at Brookfield Elementary School. Why are they there? Coach Moore has made it somewhat her legacy to take part and excel in the annual Hoops for Heart charity fundraising drive.
"Rita Moore has made saving lives a tradition at Brookfield Elementary School," said Joe Pallikkathayil, of the American Heart Association – Youth and Community Programs Director for Missouri. "Her efforts to support the lifesaving work of the American Heart Association over the years have not only blessed the AHA but truly inspire heart-healthy lifestyles in the Brookfield community."
Coach Moore makes sure that the children in her care have the opportunity to take part in this fun and potentially life saving event each year.
"The American Heart Association likes to share that it costs about $50 to train and certify someone on CPR," said Pallikkathayil. "They think of every $50 raised in donations as another life saved through education. If that's true, Rita Moore has led the students at Brookfield Elementary to save over 1,427 lives just since the year 2000. She has led Brookfield Elementary to be in the top 10 schools in the state of Missouri for almost that long."
This dedication to not only her students, but the world at large, has not gone unnoticed. "Rita Moore has been a valuable member of the Brookfield R-3 team for the past 12 years," said R-3 Elementary and Middle School Principal Melinda Wilbeck. "She has played a vital role in promoting health and wellness with her students and colleagues."
Wilbeck noted that Coach Moore's passion for Hoops and Jump Rope for Heart has rubbed off on her students. "Her passion for Hoops for Heart/Jump Rope for Heart has inspired numerous students to get involved in this worthwhile activity," said Wilbeck. "As a result of her diligence and passion for this project, our school and community has been recognized by the American Heart Association for making significant contributions to help those in need."
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WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. - The University of the Cumberlands (UC) has been one of the more prestigious universities in not only the Mid-South Conference (MSC) but also the NAIA for the last half decade. This can not only be attributed to great coaching, but also the athletes they put on the field. Apparently the NFL is also taking notice of the Patriots, as several football Pats tried out for NFL scouts on Friday February 8.
There were 2 scouts that worked for scouting agencies which represented 28 NFL franchises. Many of the upcoming seniors for UC ran for the scouts in a chance of a lifetime. Head Coach John Bland was exceptionally proud of his players saying, "We have had more and more guys throughout my time that are getting recognized for having great years, and that is great but these scouts are not just looking for that, they are looking for great athletes and that special player to play in the NFL."
The scouts seemed to be impressed as they almost guaranteed scouts will be returning to check out the Patriots this fall. One scout commented, "This is just the starting point to these guy's careers. This is just the beginning. To get here, they have to play well for Cumberlands and do what their coaches want them to do. It is exciting for these players to know they have the chance to get looked at by NFL scouts."
The players participated in the traditional 40 yard dash for the scouts. They did 2 types of 40 yard dashes; one going into the wind, and one with the wind. In what has been a critical test over the years for NFL prospects, the 40 yard dash is a 40 yard sprint that measures the true speed of a player. For many years, this event has been known to make or break a career for an NFL prospect. Many of the Patriots did quite well and a few impressed the scouts with better than average NFL speed. In what has been one of the more magical seasons for the Patriots, this seemed to be the perfect way to end the year.
Cumberlands is not satisfied with just having NFL prospects on campus scouting them; they want to win. Coach Bland feels confident about his chances especially with signing day just ending. He commented, "I have never pushed signing day that hard because we recruit well beyond signing day. However, we were able to sign a bunch of guys on Wednesday and players that we think can help us get to the ultimate goal of winning a National Championship."
Coach Bland reminds people that the Patriots are not done recruiting, giving tours Monday-Thursday and sometimes on weekends.


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When putting two profanities in one word, usually said when not thinking.
Assface: "Shitfuck, I forgot my keys"
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Someone who is both a shit and a fuck a.k.a. fuckhead.
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Offcial curse of the euphonium section. Can be used as an adjective, a noun, or in praise.
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STANFORD -- Name a concern for the U.S. soccer team, and Omar Gonzalez represents it.
The back line lacks World Cup experience? Gonzalez, a central defender, has never played on the game's biggest stage.
The players from Major League Soccer aren't as fit as their international peers? Gonzalez plays for the L.A. Galaxy.
The 25-year-old from Dallas managed to do those worries one better as an inexperienced defender from the MLS with a bum knee.
Gonzalez injured his left knee earlier this month during a Galaxy match, providing all the more reason for fretting when the U.S. team opened training camp here last week.
But with just a few sessions left, Gonzalez is healthy, reasonably fit and competing with Geoff Cameron and Matt Besler for the starting center back spots.
"It was frustrating being on the sideline for the first couple of days," Gonzalez said, "but now that I'm back I'm happy to be working hard with the guys."
Gonzalez participated in full training Sunday and played 30 minutes in a scrimmage earlier this week, working closely with the medical staff to avoid putting himself in risky situations.
"It was definitely a step in the right direction," he said of the scrimmage. "I think I was being pushed pretty hard. Before I got injured, I was probably the fittest I've been in a very long time."
He was feeling good enough to ask fans (via the Internet) to vote for the style of haircut he should get.
The top vote-getter, described as "short and tight," allowed Gonzalez to narrowly avoid embarrassment.
"I'm glad they didn't go with the mullet," Besler said.
"They aren't too long, but they're extremely intense," midfielder Graham Zusi said. "Guys are always able to put in maximum effort."
Zusi then explained a typical day:
"Finish the session, hop in the ice bath, have lunch, get off your feet and get ready for the next one."
There's only one problem:
"It's very bad when the German guys drive," joked defender Timmy Chandler, who plays in the Bundesliga.
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David Irving: A Political Self-Portrait: Electronic EditionTable of Contents
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1.1 Jewish responsibility for anti-Semitism/ pogroms/ Holocaust
[1.1/A]'Why are they [the Jews] so blind that they can not see the linkage between cause and effect? They protest, "What, Us?" when people accuse them of international conspiracy. They clamour "Ours! Ours! Ours!" when hoards of Gold are uncovered. And then when antisemitism increases and the inevitable mindless pogroms occur, they ask with genuine surprise: "Why us?"' ['A Radical's Diary' - Action Report no. 12 - July 1997, p. 22: K4, Tab. 10, p. 60 (at 1)].
[1.1/B]IRVING: [....] But, if somebody says to the Jewish community, "We think you're a liar," suddenly the jail doors are swung open and people say "This way! Come on! You've called them a liar." And this I think does harm to the Jewish people in the long run, because the non-Jewish people will say, "What is it about these people?" I am deeply concerned about this, and I've said this to people like Daniel Goldhagen, who I challenged to the debate at a meeting in New Orleans a few months ago. I said, "You've written a book called 'Hitler's Willing Executioners'. You've talked to us this evening at great length about who pulled the trigger. But the question which would concern me, if I was a Jew, is not who pulled the trigger, but why? Why are we disliked? Is it something we are doing? I'm disliked. David Irving is disliked. I know that, because of the books I write. I could be instantly disliked by writing - I could become instantly liked by writing other books. You people are disliked on a global scale. You have been disliked for 3,000 years and yet you never seem to ask what is at the route of this dislike. You pretend that you're not disliked but you are disliked. No sooner do you arrive as a people in a new country then within 50 years you are already being disliked all over again. Now, what is it? And I don't know the answer to this. Is it built into our micro chip? When a people arrive who call themselves 'The Jews' you will dislike them; is there something in our micro chip? Is it in our micro chip that we don't like the way they look? Is it envy because they are more successful than us? I don't know the answer. But, if I was a Jew I would want to know what the reason is, why I'm being disliked. And not just disliked in a kind of nudge, nudge, wink, wink, he's not very nice kind of sort of way. But we are being disliked on a visceral, gut-wrenching, murderous level, that no sooner do we arrive then we are being massacred, and beaten, and brutalised and imprisoned, until we have to move on somewhere else. What's the reason?" I would want to know the answer to that, and nobody carries out an investigation about that.
INTERVIEWER: What would you say the reason is?
IRVING: Well, I'm just looking at this as an outsider. I come from Mars and I would say they're clever people. I'm a racist. I would say they're a clever race. I would say that as a race they are better at making money than I am. That's a racist remark, of course. But they appear to be better at making money than I am. If I was going to be crude, I would say not only are they better at making money, but they are greedy. I don't care about money. I don't give a hoot about money. As long as I've got enough money to pay the school fees and the grocer's bills, I don't mind. To me, money is not the most important thing. But the perception that the world has of the Jewish people is one of greed, and they contribute to that by their behaviour. They contribute to that, for example, in recent years by their behaviour over the Swiss gold business. It is a curious kind of vague clamour that has begun. We are not quite sure what the clamour is about. Is it about unclaimed bank accounts? Is it about gold that has been transferred from Nazi Germany to Switzerland? Is it about gold teeth and gold rings? Is it about insurance that they can't claim on? But suddenly the clamour is there. Fifty hears after the War, an enormous clamour is being beaten up by the New York Jewish community, by Edgar Bronfman, for example, or by the Anti-Defamation League, and here it has to be said that the number of wise Jews - you'll notice I don't include them as the "wise Jews" -the number of wise Jews, the English Jews, the Swiss Jews, for example, are expressing profound concern about the long term effects of this clamour. They are saying, "This is just going to nourish the neo-Nazi stereotype of the Jew - grasping, gold hungry, greedy, inconsiderate, vengeful; all these anti-Semitic stereotypes that the neo-Nazis have are just being nourished by this latest clamour about the Swiss gold."'[P interview with Errol Morris - 8 November 1998 - K4, Tab. 9, pp. 25-27]
[1.1/C]'And Tom McCormack, the Chairman of St. Martin's Press, said, "What we didn't like about the Goebbels' book, when I read it, was the notion that they had it coming to them" - They had it coming to them; the Jewish community, the Jews of Germany had it coming to them! And I was very indignant at that. I thought, that wasn't in the book. That wasn't the sense of the book. But then, as I thought about it, I thought, well, he may be right, because you're reproducing a lot of what Dr. Goebbels, who was the dynamo behind the Holocaust, he was the one who goaded Hitler on to issuing the orders for the Yellow Star, and all that kind of thing; you're goading him - No, Hitler's goading him on. I've quoted his private diaries. We have watched Goebbels turning from a young innocuous intelligent, rather hypersensitive, lame student of late teens and early twenties at Heidelberg University, when he had no feelings against the Jews whatsoever - in fact he wrote a letter to his private, to his girl friend, criticising her for having made some cheap shot against the Jews in a letter to him, and he writes a letter to her, angrily attacking her - to the time when he arrives in Berlin and he becomes viciously anti-Jewish in consequence. And the American Jews didn't like that because it did rather look like they had it coming to them. It changed him. The entire Germans were changed also. And, therefore, the Jews were in some way to blame themselves. This was not my intention with the book. But if that is the way the Germans were, then it needs to be said. You can't just pass a sponge over it and pretend it wasn't like that. That's not the way to write history. You have to write what you find.' [P interview with Errol Morris - 8 November 1998: K4, Tab. 9, p. 42]
[1.1/D][Commenting on the desire of the German Ministry of Justice to increase the punishment for Holocaust denial to three years imprisonment Irving approvingly quoted Goebbels] 'How ill considered: Was it not Dr Goebbels himself who wrote in his diary, applauding efforts by another country to introduce an identical law during the war itself, these words: "The more the Jews get these special laws passed around the world, the more anti-Semitism there is as a result."' ['Law Report', Action Report, September 1994, p. 10: K4, Tab. 10, p. 37]
[1.1/E][On the cancellation of the publishing contract by St. Martins Press] 'This kind of action by the organised Jewish community can only lead to an increase in anti-Semitism because the general public will regard it as the Jews throwing their weight around again.' ['The Life and Death of "Dr Goebbels"', Action Report, number 10, 5 July 1996, p. 6: K4, Tab. 10, p. 55]
[1.1/F]'And gradually the word is getting around Germany. Two years there from now too, the German historians will accept that we're right. They will accept that for fifty years they have believed a lie. And then there will come about a result, not only in Germany but around the world, which I deeply regret and abhor. There will be an immense tidal wave of anti-Semitism. It is an inevitable result. And when people point an accusing finger at me and say, "David Irving you are creating anti-Semitism," I have to say it is not the man who speaks the truth who creates the anti-Semitism, it's the man who invented the lie of the legend in the first place. [Applause] [P speech at Bayerische Hof, Milton, Ontario, 5 October 1991, p. 15: K3, Tab. 10, p. 15]
[1.1/G]'But if I ever become an anti-Semite it will be their [the Jews who have campaigned against him] fault and if the Australian public has become more anti-Semitic as a result of what they have seen over the last few days, this kind of publicity campaign that was generated against me then once again it will be not my fault, but it will be the fault of Mr Jeremy Jones, Mr Michael Marks [unintelligible name] and all the other, the Rubensteins and all the other commentators and letter writers and authors and journalists and politicians and people who have tried to put pressure on the fair Australian government to suppress freedom of speech.' ['The Search for Truth in History -Banned!' 1993, p. 27:K3, Tab. 15, p. 27]
[1.1/H]PRESENTER: At times in your speech to these groups you speak at, you ask if the Jews have ever looked at themselves.
IRVING: Yes.
PRESENTER: To find a reason for the pogroms and the presentation and the extermination. In other words you're asking "did they bring it on themselves?"
IRVING: Yes.
PRESENTER: Thereby excusing the Germans, the Nazi's.
IRVING: Why... well, let us ask that simple question, why does it always happen to the Jews?
PRESENTER: But isn't that an ugly, racist sentiment?
IRVING: It is an ugly, of course it's an ugly, racist sentiment, of course it is, you're absolutely right but we can't just say therefore let's not discuss it, therefore let's not open that can of worms in case we find something inside there which we're not going to like looking at. ['Cover Story' (Australian television) Sunday 4 March 1997, p. 7: K4, Tab. 8, p. 7]
[1.1/I]INTERVIEWER: And you're telling the Germans that the truth they thought they had before was true, that much of our institutions are controlled by the Jews.
IRVING: The specific institutions I referred to, yes. Well, if you remember when the Nazis came to power, which was in 1933, Dr. Goebbels made a great deal of mileage out of the fact that certainly in Berlin, the Berlin that he arrived at in 1926, that was very largely dominated by the Jewish lawyers, the Jewish politicians, the Jewish police chiefs, the Jewish ministers and so on. And he made a lot of mileage out of that and it was a very unhealthy political situation for Germany. In fact, the odd thing is before Goebbels came to Berlin in 1926 he wasn't anti-Jewish. He turned anti-Jewish by what he saw.
INTERVIEWER: Well I'll put one point to you. We've interviewed a number of skinheads, German and British, who've been responsible for some violent attacks on people, stabbings and woundings, that kind of thing. Among the things they tell us are that are that the gas chambers were a lie and that they have read the works of Mr. Leuchter and your works and they tell them that. Are you happy that your works spread like this?
IRVING: Millions of people have read my works, and I'm not surprised that a number of skinheads, or former skinheads, or future skinheads have read them. It doesn't surprise me at all. In fact I would be surprised if they hadn't read them. And I'd be rather depressed if they weren't convinced and impressed by what I wrote. Why shouldn't they be?
INTERVIEWER: Well I'll go back to my previous question.
IRVING: But I mean that your question basically is, 'Do you not feel worried that what you are writing may be generating feelings that may be leading to violence?'
INTERVIEWER: Absolutely.
IRVING: Okay. If I may phrase your question for you. To which my standard retort always is, the person who's guilty of these feelings and for that violence, is not the person who writes the truth it's the person who writes the lie that the truth corrects. [P interview for 'This Week', 28 November 1991: K3, Tab 12, pp. 9-10]
[1.1/J]'And in Baton Rouge, Louisiana two years ago this half of the audience was entirely made up of Jewish hecklers who had decided to disrupt the meeting, not from outside but to come in, infiltrate the audience and as soon as I began speaking they began barracking and harassing much to the anger of the rest of the audience who wanted to hear what I had to say. And eventually I said to the ringleader, who came from North London, that anecdote, I know why I'm not liked. And I said to him "you people aren't liked either. But you're not liked on a global scale, on a Millennium scale. You haven't been liked for thousands of years and you don't ask yourselves the question why. Maybe there's no answer, I don't know. You're not just disliked in the way that I'm disliked, that you get bad reviews in newspapers. You're disliked in the way that people put you into concentration camps and line you up at the edge of tank pits and machine gun you into them. You're victims of pogroms and you're harassed and hounded and made to move from country to country to country and you never ask yourselves "Why us? Is it something we are doing. Is it a perception that people have of us that makes us unpopular?" I don't, I have to say at this point in the meeting that I don't know the answer and I cannot offer you an answer. But there must be some reason and if you want to prevent Holocausts, really this is the question that has to be answered, not just the question of what happened by why it happened. Why one nation can turn on its Jews or on its gypsies or on some other little faction who they can identify as a scapegoat and ruthlessly and inhumanely dispose of them. And there is something of the answer in Dr Goebbels' diaries.' [P speech in Oakland, California, 10 September 1996: K4, Tab. 7, pp. 14-15]
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