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Hardware freaks flocked to San Francisco last week to hear Intel talk about microprocessors, the electronic brains in PCs. But Advanced Micro Devices made some pretty brainy claims of its own.
The smaller Silicon Valley microprocessor maker expanded its focus several years ago by buying ATI Technologies, known for the chips called graphics processing units that generate realistic-looking scenery in videogames. AMD says the high-end GPU it announced last week sports a whopping 2.15 billion transistors.
That's more features than any chip now for sale by Intel, which prides itself on packing the most tiny components on a given square of silicon. AMD used a production process at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. that creates lines of circuitry measured at 40 nanometers, or billionths of a meter; that is a bit finer than the most advanced chips currently on the market from Intel, which have features rated at 45 nanometers.
Intel is soon expected to leapfrog those numbers using the industry's first 32-nanometer process; an eight-brained version of its Xeon chips for servers coming next year, for example, is expected to have 2.3 billion transistors. But even short-lived bragging rights for AMD in chip complexity shows just how fast the graphics world is advancing. "GPUs lead the nanometer race right now," says Jon Peddie, who tracks the field at his Tiburon, Calif., firm Jon Peddie Research.
Peddie is not sure many people will immediately notice the performance advantages of the new AMD technology, which gamers can purchase on graphic boards that are part of the Radeon HD 5800 family. For one thing, the chip was designed to exploit new GPU programming specifications from Microsoft called DirectX 11, and users won't experience the benefits until the Windows 7 operating system arrives next month–followed by new games that support the technology.
But some reviews by enthusiast Web sites suggest AMD's product is now top dog among cards that use a single GPU, though there are some more powerful two-chip boards based on technology from rival Nvidia. "It's the fastest single chip out there," says Kelt Reeves, president of Falcon Northwest, a boutique maker of gaming PCs.
The situation remains fluid. Two-chip boards based on AMD technology are expected soon. Meanwhile, Nvidia is expected to give an update on its own next-generation chips at a technology conference it kicks off Wednesday.
What about Intel's plans in the field? The industry giant sells graphics as a built-in feature off accessory products called chip sets, but has never competed in high-end GPUs used in add-in graphics boards. That is supposed to change with a long-awaited chip, code-named Larrabee that Intel discussed–very briefly–during its annual developer forum in San Francisco last week.
A speech Tuesday by Sean Maloney, an Intel executive vice president, featured what the company said was the first demonstration of a working Larrabee chip. Rather than showing fast-action gaming, the demonstration showed a scene of an island surrounded by realistic-looking water, interrupted every once in a while by a helicopter buzzing around. The effect was generated using a technique called ray-tracing that is common to movie-making, not interactive software.
The idea was to show how Larrabee will be more flexible to program, since it is based on standard microprocessor components rather than the specialized calculating engines found in GPUs. But some analysts reacted to the Intel disclosures with different opinions about how soon the product will be ready; JoAnne, of FTN Capital Markets Corp., wrote in a research note that it now looks unlikely that Intel will deliver the product in the first half of next year. Peddie thinks the company will do so, but he adds, "it is getting down to the wire."
Intel hasn't been much more specific other than to say Larrabee will appear in 2009 or 2010. An Intel spokesman said Monday that "it's safe to assume" 2010 is more likely.


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Adds two keybinds to the keybinding interface that will zoom in or out the camera while being held down. It is a good alternative to the slower zoom in and out keybinds in the keybind interface if you don't use your scroll wheel for zooming or you don't have a functioning scroll wheel.
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In cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, BRP is recalling the following snowmobiles: the 2009-2010 SKANDIC SWT V-800 and the 2010 GSX 1200, GTX 1200, MXZ 1200 and Renegade 1200.
Consumers should stop using the units unless otherwise instructed, the government says. About 1,500 units are affected.
According to the CPSC, the drive pulley bolts can break due to oil contamination during the assembly process. This can cause debris to come off the vehicle and act as projectiles, posing a "laceration hazard" to riders and bystanders.
BRP has received three reports of projectiles flying off the snowmobiles, including one report of a minor foot injury.
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Indiana's rich basketball heritage was developed by legends like Everett Dean. After a fine three-year playing career at Indiana University during which time he was named to the 1921 Helms Athletic Foundation All-America team, Dean moved on to Carleton College and began his coaching career. In 1924, he returned to coach at his alma mater, and in 1926, led the Hoosiers to their first Big Ten Championship in the school's history. In fourteen seasons at IU, Dean's teams shared three Big Ten titles. Dean left IU in 1938 and became a legendary figure at Stanford, leading his team (then known as the Indians) to the 1942 NCAA Championship. Known as a true gentlemen both on and off the court, Dean also authored two popular basketball books, Indiana Basketball (1933) and Progressive Basketball (1949).
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IMF Recognizes New World, When Will Investors?
Finance ministers of the world's twenty leading economic powers agreed in South Korea over the weekend to give emerging market countries more weight within the International Monetary Fund. Better late than never, I suppose.
Read our coverage here.
In belated recognition of the old Western economies' fading place in the Great Scheme of Things, the G-20′s bargain transfers 6% of voting power to under-represented emerging nations. It also sees Europe give up two seats to them on the 24-member IMF board.
So, if the IMF is going to finally recognise the heft of Brazil, Russia, India and China and all, it's pertinent to ask when developed-market equity investors might unequivocally do the same. So far they've been very reluctant, despite growth prospects which put the old industrial economies in the shade.
In a paper published last month, Goldman Sachs strategist Tim Moe suggested investors in the developed world currently devote a mere 6% of their portfolios to emerging markets.
That would be fairly piffling given the economic weight of emerging markets even at this early stage in their growth. But Moe thinks total emerging capitalization is headed for $80 trillion in 2030, by way of $37 trillion in 2020, and 'just' $14 trillion now'. This means the emerging markets could represent 55% of global market cap in twenty years' time. That 6% is clearly going to have to grow some.
Of course, as U.K. fund manager Standard Life recently pointed out, it is perfectly possible for developed market investors to get decent levels of emerging market exposure by sticking with what Donald Rumsfeld might have called the 'known knowns' of their home indexes. And it seems that is what they have been content to do.
According to Standard Life, emerging market revenue streams account for between 20% and 25% of the total for both London's blue-chip FTSE 100 and the S&P 500 in the U.S., so you can invest there and still be exposed to growth in China and Brazil.
However, it doesn't take a genius to see that yield-starved investors are going to have to branch out sooner or later and invest in the real thing, not a proxy.
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It may seem unimportant on the surface but a Jan. 10 vote by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission will set the tone for tax spending on Missouri highways for years to come. At issue is whether the commission will continue to split all state tax money for highways evenly between the urban and rural areas or whether they will change that formula and allocate money where the "need" actually is the greatest. Like memories of the Clinton administration, the commission will first define "need."
Back exactly a decade ago, the state adopted a highway plan for spending. In that plan - approved by voters - more money went to the rural areas and less to the urban centers of St. Louis and Kansas City. But halfway into the spending plan the state realized the funds would not stretch to all of the projects and thus the 50-50 split was born. Now the commissioners will decide to either keep that spending split or arrive at a new formula.
The urban interests in Missouri are extremely powerful. Urban centers indeed have congestion problems and they need major dollars to solve those concerns. But thousands of miles of rural roads stand neglected because of limited resources. The traffic on those roads is much less than the urban centers but that doesn't diminish the need. Not especially to those of us in the rural areas.
Since the original plan was adopted, Springfield has grown substantially and it now qualifies as an urban center in terms of transportation needs. That will compound the state's problem in arriving at a funding decision.
We can only hope that the rural areas will get their fair share. We believe many rural roadways have been ignored by state officials because we haven't complained as loudly as we should have. It's too late now but our hope is that the rural funding will not fall below the current level. To accept anything less would be a safety concern for rural areas and a gross injustice for rural residents.


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My first sensei was using me as an uke once. he requested a mune tsuki in the head but he was not happy with the way I did it. You could spot my attack miles away, and he told me about it previousely. It wasn't directed streight either. So, to make his point sink in my head he attacked me with a faster and linear mune tsuki, which would land on my jaw, I have no doubt, if I didn't block it.
We never spoke about the incident again, but I am sure each one understood what the other one was trying to say. I don't give away my attacks and he knows an opening may still be protected. But I have no doubt that he would hit me if I hadn't blocked it.
Some years later he started a new dojo and while there was no other students we used to fight. I think "brawl" would be a better word. No rules, but there were no full contact punches (he would tie me in a knot instead - a bit like in that joke - I saw fingers and decided to bite them but they appeared to be mine).
Those fights made me open my eyes to the reality of the fact that even putting someone into a pin may not be the end of a fight, that some people know a bit about Aikido and can escape techniques.
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–, Wednesday, November, 21, 2012, (12:42pm)
In Gaza:
IDF planes on Monday targeted and eliminated another four senior Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists …
In a statement, Hamas said that it could not confirm that the four had been killed by the IDF, and said that they were "out of communication range."
What a lovely way of putting it. Also "out of communication range" are six Palestinians suspected of being informers.
UPDATE. "Collaborators are a very serious issue in Palestinian society," says Issam Yousef, director of the Al Mezan Centre for – ahem – Human Rights.
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Also "out of communication range" are Elvis and some bloke called Jesus!
Wed 21 Nov 12 (12:55pm)
That crew is the epitome of civilization, just the kind of people I like my country to support. Snort.
Seriously, I fully support Netanyahu - now that is a real leader.
Wed 21 Nov 12 (01:11pm)
These "spies" got off easy, compared to Hamas's political opponents.
After the 2006 elections, the winners rounded up members of al Fatah and threw them off tall buildings.
Wed 21 Nov 12 (01:27pm)
Wed 21 Nov 12 (02:17pm)
No no… Hamas were "democratically elected" we are constantly reminded by those on the left who claim to know everything about democracy, peace and freedom…
Wed 21 Nov 12 (02:36pm)
But Dan, Hamas were indeed democratically elected. The Palestinians chose a terrorist organisation to represent and lead them.
Now they must lie in the bed they made.
Wed 21 Nov 12 (04:31pm)
Jupes, you miss my point.
One election, howsoever "free" and "fair" does not make a democracy.
In a Gaza election, the first duty of newly elected officers is generally to crush their opponents and/or murder them. Hamas is continuing a longstanding tradition (although were proactive also, killing many opponents prior to the elections).
My point being that every time you hear about "democracy" it's usually from people who have no true understanding of it. This is also why they overlook Israel's freedoms where even a Muslim woman has more rights and freedom than she would in any Arab country.
In war kill the politicians first
Wed 21 Nov 12 (01:35pm)
Tim, I suspect that many adult Australians would really like to see our current government out of communication range!
Wed 21 Nov 12 (01:40pm)
You can't communicate if you don't have a head!
Wed 21 Nov 12 (01:57pm)
Jew punches terrorist in the nose: Outrage.
Muslim murders people and drags their bloody corpse through the streets: Legitimate resistance, hero worship.
Wed 21 Nov 12 (02:16pm)
Australia gives at least $70mil a year to the Palestinians. I wonder how much of that goes to the Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights or similar "peaceful" organisations.
I am disgusted that we even give one cent to people who have elected terrorists as their representatives. However, if we do have to give them our money, how about we make it contingent that they act in a peaceful manner. We should tell them for every rocket they fire at Israel, it will cost them say, $10 mil in aid.
Wed 21 Nov 12 (02:44pm)
Thu 22 Nov 12 (08:36am)
We shouldn't give out ANY aid.
The world would be a very different place if it wasn't for arts funding and foreign aid.
It actually shows how dumb the Liberals are for not taking an axe to this sort of funding, end the cultural war, stop paying the idiots to fight!
Out of communication range?
Well, that's what you get for signing up to a capped
40 Shekel plan with Vodaphone.
Their coverage is rubbish.
Although, it may be that they are in a circumstance where Jimmy Little might be able to help out with comms to the other side.
Wed 21 Nov 12 (02:50pm)
Thu 22 Nov 12 (06:47am)
".....you can talk to Allah on the porcelain telephone"
This bizarre display is an example of why Israel should never give in to or trust terrorists.
This outrage is being committed as talks are going on for a truce. How could you believe Hamas if this is what they are doing in the meantime? I suspect the "collaborators" are those not totally committed to wiping out Israel.
Many middle eastern countries seem keen to broker a peace deal. Hamas are puppets of Iran.
Iran is getting on with it's nuclear-arms program. It's mad leader constantly talks about wiping Israel off the map. It's not remotely possible that Israel will wait for that, and who could blame them?
Wed 21 Nov 12 (02:55pm)
Is "collaborator" Hamas-speak for "complained when we launched the third missile from their child's bedroom" ?
Wed 21 Nov 12 (02:56pm)
That photo linked to from Bolta is just crying out for a Hellfire missile. POI the "collaborator".
Wed 21 Nov 12 (03:02pm)
Hey, at least they killed them before dragging them around the streets. To Hamas, that counts as bleeding-heart multicultural compassion.
Wed 21 Nov 12 (03:21pm)
Love it!!! Just love it!!!
I know this upsets luvvies of these scumbags, sorry, victims, sorry, poor downtrodden occupied peoples, but, I love it!!!!
Wed 21 Nov 12 (03:38pm)
Splody dopes have their toys moved out of communication range by laser guided munitions.
Wed 21 Nov 12 (03:48pm)
Thank you Tim, I am sorry that I can't write any more because of laughing fits.
Wed 21 Nov 12 (03:51pm)
And to think our military can't be asked to turn a wooden boat around.
Wed 21 Nov 12 (04:01pm)
Excommunicated,I knew that you would find a way to blame the Catholics and Tony Abbott
Wed 21 Nov 12 (05:59pm)
Wed 21 Nov 12 (07:40pm)
Nothing to do with Catholics PC. It comes from the New Standard Constantly Being Adjusted Macquarie Dictionary [7,731st iteration] and is similar to the word "extincted" much favoured by the bloke [?] who was actually our Prime Monster. I think that is probably also a word one could use to describe the Hamas individuals on the receiving end of a guided armament courtesy of the IDF. And may the rest of the evil tribe join them soon. I suspect that if they don't pull their heads in and behave there will be a serious shortage of virgins in paradise soon.
The IDF should describe their air and arty strikes as "aerial-deployed ordnance-enabled close contact counselling".
Amazing how easy this 2#1t is when you've been around it for a few years.
Wed 21 Nov 12 (09:34pm)
It's about time for Hamas to become an "out of communication" zone, the sooner the better…
Wed 21 Nov 12 (09:36pm)
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So it IS an ibex and not a ram as I had thought!
Live and learn . . .
Alternate Alley Oop Chapter 20 "The Coup in Moo Falls Mainly on Oop"(58) 10/10/2013 Thursday
Alley, for the moment, has escaped the clutches of Eeny and Wootietoot's empire. With Dinny his trusted dinosaur Alley escaped the march back to the Arena of Death. At the same time the rebels helped him to escape by drawing the attention of most of the lethal and loathsome xooloo pseudo-spiders that the twin queens use as their army.
After eating berries and drinking pure spring water Alley was taking a long look around on the summit of the hill that contains the spring. He has attracted the attentions of a deadly bird. A bug-eyed bat-winged vulture screaming as it dived at a fast speed right at him. Alley has just seconds to decide what to do.
"Skreee, skreee!!!" It screamed opening its beak shown lined with jagged edges like teeth as its bill gaped at him rushing closer and closer.
He decides to take the batting stance as Babe Ruth had shown him to knock it out of the park.
"Skkreee, skkkereeeee!!" Getting so loud it was hurting Alley's ears. Dinny was watching from below, nervous.
Awww~! Look! He is not eating the Bush~!
He is extending it to our hero, Alley. I believe
he understood perfectly well what Alley
was saying to him. Animals understand
more than you think.
Meanwhile. back at the cave….
Time traveling love connection?
Animals generally understand when talked to.
Morning, Oopsters.
I know what. Let's talk about the weather for the rest of the week.
Its going kind of slow. Let's add another section
Really? Try telling that to my dog. She understands "eat", "walk", "sit" (sometimes), and "ride". Near as I can tell, everything else is blah, blah, blah to her.
Good Morning Benders, John Wooley, and readers of
Alley Oop. So the mountain goat is a Alpine, Ibex which
was locally extinct in many areas of Alps in the 19th century.
With no food on the mountain, it's easy to see why the Ibex
left. As weirded out strangers, Doc and Mary have no points
of commonality and can only fall back on talking about the weather.
"If I could talk to the animals, just imagine it,
Chattin' with a chimp in chimpanzee,
Imagine talking to a tiger, chatting with a cheetah,
What a neat achievement it would be!"
Thats it! Eureka! This arc isnt telling the story of the Inspiration for "Frankenstein"
This arc is the Inspiration for "Dr Dolittle"
Wow, I didn't know Mary Shelly wrote that story too.
Well I for one I hope that lighting scares the GOAT, RAM, LAMB, what ever and he drops the twig and runs off. Then Alley Oop can fullfill his mission.
Has no one here ever talked to their
pet and they responded? C'mon..
We could tell our German Shepherd
not to let the baby out the door when
we hung diapers quickly. He was huge
dog…laid across the door until I got
back, baby could not get through. We
told him simply to let us know when
the phone rang when we in the back
yard. He did , would come find us,
bark until we came. He was an
intelligent dog. It has been said the
intelligence of an animal is in direct
ratio to it's owner.
Well, I guess that explains my dog.
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August 29, 2007
GM Unveils an Advanced Combustion Engine that Reduces Fuel Use
General Motors Corporation (GM) has integrated a prototype advanced combustion engine into two drivable concept cars, a 2007 Saturn Aura and its European sibling, the Opel Vectra. The prototype GM engine uses homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI), a combustion technology in which the gasoline is pre-mixed with air, as in spark-ignition engines, but the engine combusts the mixture using compression, like a diesel engine. HCCI engines operate at lower temperatures than conventional gasoline engines, allowing them to achieve high efficiency and low emissions. The two concept cars feature 2.2-liter, four-cylinder HCCI engines that burn up to 15% less fuel while meeting current emissions standards.
HCCI engines have been under development for years, but they have an Achilles' heel: the timing of the combustion process is difficult to control. The GM prototype accommodates that timing problem at low speeds and under low loads through several advanced engine control technologies, including cylinder pressure sensing and variable valve timing. The engine employs traditional spark ignition when it is started cold, then switches to the HCCI mode once it warms up. Under load and at speeds greater than 55 miles per hour, the engine switches back to spark ignition. GM admits that the transition is "notable" in its prototypes, but the company believes such problems can be ironed out in future production engines. See the GM press release.
Coincidentally, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working with Ford Motor Company on a very similar HCCI engine. Like the GM prototype, MIT's engine switches between spark ignition and HCCI, but the MIT engine has only been operated under test conditions, not in an actual vehicle. However, the researchers have simulated urban driving conditions and have found that the engine would run in HCCI mode about 40% of the time, yielding a fuel economy improvement of "a few miles per gallon." See the MIT press release.


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THEATER REVIEW; For Love of the Games Men Play
By BEN BRANTLEY
Published: September 6, 2002
Contrary to what you may have heard, the unclad, chiseled male physique is not the object of the breathless adoration that runs through ''Take Me Out,'' the much anticipated new play by Richard Greenberg that opened last night at the Joseph Papp Public Theater.
True, there are several sequences in which naked, shapely young men stand around in a locker room in this thought-shaking, frustrating look at pride and prejudice in the world of professional sports. Those scenes are, by design, downbeat and uncomfortable. Their effect in the show, seen earlier this summer at the Donmar Warehouse in London, is more of a lukewarm shower than a steam bath.
Nonetheless, there are indeed moments in ''Take Me Out,'' which has been directed with sure-footed swiftness by Joe Mantello, that raise the temperature. And no, they are not the ones that push forward the provocative central plot about an idol of the playing field who declares his homosexuality. These moments belong entirely to a distinctly unathletic character who is always fully clothed and whose figure is less than Greek.
He is, you see, a man who has just fallen unconditionally in love. And it is the kind of passion of which Dante and Petrarch sang, a love that guides leaden tongues into silver speech and sluggish minds into flight. Mason Marzac, a lonely money manager played to idiosyncratic perfection by Denis O'Hare, has given his heart to the game of baseball.
So, obviously, has the play's author. Mr. Greenberg always approaches his work with a scholar's commitment to research and a novelist's fascination with motive. This is true whether his subject is quiz show scandals (''Night and Her Stars''), genealogical mysteries (''Three Days of Rain,'' ''Everett Beekin'') or those ultimate packrats the Collyer brothers (''The Dazzle'').
But nothing to date has manifested the blissed-out enthusiasm he brings to the topic of baseball, however tempered it may be by cynical asides or aching moral questions. Mr. Greenberg has said that he became obsessed with the sport only three summers ago. And at its best -- which is when it's wallowing in ecstatic contemplation of data found on the back of bubble gum trading cards -- ''Take Me Out'' is a happy, maniacally animated sheaf of a newborn fan's notes.
Mr. O'Hare's character, however, is only an awed kibitzer of the games being played on and off the field. The show's main event and plot-stirring catalyst is an Olympian among mortals named Darren Lemming (the ideally cast Daniel Sunjata), the handsome biracial star of the Empires (read: Yankees) and a man with the luminous, boundary-crossing appeal of a Derek Jeter or Tiger Woods.
Darren's seemingly spontaneous decision to announce that he is gay sets off a fast-spreading rash of insecurities, frictions and confrontations that culminates in a freakish death. The essential problem of ''Take Me Out'' is that it's tough to buy Mr. Greenberg's idea of the inevitability of all this.
At the center of the rush to disaster are Darren's relationships with three men: Kippy Sunderstrom (Neal Huff), Darren's best friend on the Empires; Davey Battle (Kevin Carroll), Darren's morally righteous childhood chum, now a player on a rival team; and Shane Mungit (Frederick Weller), a wild boy from the Ozarks with a golden pitcher's arm and an uncensored mouth.
How these men chafe against one another, and what this irritation leads to, cleanly reflects the play's intriguing theories of destiny and individual responsibility, of tragedy and the enigmas of human personality. As always, Mr. Greenberg shows a healthy respect for the ineffable in daily life.
He also clearly believes to some extent that character is fate. Yet without a strong and credible sense of character, this proposition doesn't translate into a persuasive story. For the most part, through no fault of the excellent ensemble members, what emerges is less three-dimensional characters than constructs who say just what has to be said to further the play's intellectual debates.
The chief arbiter of these arguments is Kippy, whose retrospective narration gives ''Take Me Out'' a deceptively conventional air of sports story romance and suspense. It also gives rise to some pretty hoary scene-ending declarations: ''Which was the next-to-last time they ever saw each other,'' Kippy says portentously after a scene between Darren and Davey.
Played with winning restraint by Mr. Huff, Kippy is also a self-made intellectual. (Or he says he is. Nothing that anyone says about himself in ''Take Me Out'' is to be trusted altogether.) This allows him to comment wryly on what the other characters may or may not be feeling and to raise the sophistication of locker room banter through three acts (and nearly three hours) of talk.
Discussing the awkwardness that has descended upon the Empire players, Kippy refers to ''the submerged -- only no longer submerged -- erotic presence in a male sodality.'' And in one of those notorious shower scenes, which includes the obvious sight gag involving a dropped bar of soap, Kippy speaks piquantly of the loss of innocence that has occurred.


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U.S. troops are known to be brave in battle, but apparently the Pentagon is willing to let spouses clubs walk where even the Department of Defense fears to tread – on the uncertain terrain of integrating same-sex spouses into military life.
Since "don't ask don't tell" was repealed more than a year ago, gay and lesbian troops serve openly in the armed forces. However, their same-sex spouses do not have full military family status. DOD does not recognize same-sex marriage, though it is legal in several states. The Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law, defines marriage as only between one man and one woman, leaving same-sex spouses currently ineligible for military ID cards and most military benefits.
Federal regulations are at odds over whether same-sex spouses can be given military family status. The Defense of Marriage Act says one thing, anti-discrimination laws imply another. A U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the marriage statute is expected in June.
Advocacy groups are asking the DOD to extend benefits to same-sex spouses ahead of that ruling, but for now the Pentagon is silent. The White House is waiting it out too, including the First Lady's military family outreach, Joining Forces.
Stephen L. Peters II, president of the American Military Partner Association, which represents same-sex military couples, said his group has expressed its concerns to Joining Forces.
"They have not taken a proactive approach in advocating for same-sex spouses in terms of the extension of benefits," he said.
With the halls of power battened down and mum on the issue, spouse groups still must grapple with inclusion of spouses who are not yet recognized by the DOD. It appears that some base-level commanders are willing to let them do so on their own.
In November, Ashley Broadway, a same-sex Army spouse asked to join the Association of Bragg Officers Spouses at Fort Bragg, N.C. The organization's board was unprepared to be at the forefront of military social change and negative media attention.
At one point the club's website – including a board roster – was password protected. "Board members and their children were being stalked and threatened," said an executive board member, who did not want to be identified.
In mid-January, citing Broadway's lack of a military ID, the spouses group offered Broadway a "guest membership," which she declined. Although it may have once been presumed that all military spouses have ID cards, that requirement was not in the club's bylaws.
A week ago, Broadway was named Fort Bragg's Military Spouse of the Year in an online commercially sponsored competition, not affiliated with the Bragg spouses club. Hours later, the club offered full membership to Broadway by name, extending the offer to all legally married spouses without ID cards.
Throughout the dispute between Broadway and the spouses club, the commander at Fort Bragg kept his distance. The spouses club is a private organization, he said, implying that he has no responsibility either to direct or protect the members. Anyone who has volunteered for a spouses club knows better.
Though military spouses clubs are private, they operate with the consent of the base commander and must abide by military and federal regulations. Because the federal regulations are currently unclear, the Fort Bragg commander's unwillingness to lead left a momentous decision and its consequences on the shoulders of handful of volunteers – while the world watched.
As the Fort Bragg publicity fiasco unfolded, the Marine Corps commandant's Staff Judge Advocate issued a statement Jan. 10, directing private organizations to admit same-sex spouses to their membership or face expulsion from Marine installations on the basis of discrimination.
Ironically, the same-sex spouses whom these on-base organizations are now required to admit are not granted ID cards – or base access – by the Marine Corps. Still, for Marine-affiliated organizations, the way forward is somewhat clearer. Until the differences between federal directives are settled, all military communities would benefit from clear guidance as well.
With or without ID cards, same-sex spouses are part of the military community. With or without guidance, military life marches on. The path will be more difficult if those who should lead don't. Will military leaders at all levels meet the challenge or will they continue to leave that responsibility with a handful of volunteers?


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In Memory, In Tribute
More than 7,300 people gathered at the Singapore Expo for a hour long memorial service to mourn the victims on Jan 9. I am sure many thousands more witnessed it on television screens both at home or in public areas. At 6pm, the audience stood up and bowed their heads in silence, as did thousands across Singapore. As a siren sounds over the public broadcast system, even the shoppers on Orchard Road [the main up-market shopping district] paused for a minute of silence. Elsewhere, foreign workers from India and Bangladesh gathered in an open field near Weld Road in Little India to watched a live telecast of the memorial service taking place at the Singapore Expo. In Aceh and Phuket, the men and women of the SAF and SCDF involved in the relief work paused from their work to remember the dead. All across Singapore, flags are at half mast.
You can read more about the above in these ST articles (all from Jan 10) up until Jan 13, before it is taken off line from public access ST's website:
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In memory of the dead
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Envoys from Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka and Sweden spoke during the service, thanking Singapore for its aid efforts and for the service that allowed them to share their perspective on the tragedy. You can read about it here: A big thank you from the envoys.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gave a 15-min speech (You can read the whole speech here) in which he mourns the dead and offer the condolences and the hand of assistance of the nation to the survivors. He has this to say about the Singaporean involved in the relief efforts:
The plight of the victims has touched a deep emotional chord among Singaporeans. We share a common humanity with those who have been hit. We had to act and try to make a difference to them.
We have responded as one people, with a massive, spontaneous outpouring of compassion and generosity, on a scale unlike any Singapore has ever witnessed. Young or old, rich or poor, alone or in groups, you gave of your time and resources. In just a few days, hundreds of volunteers came forward, millions of dollars were raised, and tons of food, clothing and other essentials were collected. Children broke open piggy banks to contribute their savings. Schools organised fund-raising activities. Grassroots groups rallied support across the island. Doctors, nurses and those still in training volunteered to go. Temples, churches and mosques passed the hat around their flocks, and organised voluntary relief missions. Companies mobilised their staff and their assets to join the worldwide effort to help the stricken. I want to acknowledge these and many other efforts of Singaporeans and Singapore residents. When we saw our fellow human beings in desperate need, we did not pass by on the other side.
As a government, we are mounting our largest overseas relief effort ever. Our uniformed personnel, our doctors and nurses, and other volunteers are doing their utmost. They are providing relief, carrying out search and rescue operations, and doing forensic work to help identify the victims. I met many of them in Aceh. We also have teams in Phuket, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Our people are doing magnificently. They are professional, resourceful, tireless, and keeping their own spirits high in an emotionally draining environment. When the task force in Meulaboh managed to open landing points to supply the town by sea, all Singaporeans rejoiced in their breakthrough.
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Definición de paralyse en inglés:
(chiefly US also paralyze)
verbo[with object]
1Cause (a person or part of the body) to become partly or wholly incapable of movement: Mrs Burrows had been paralysed by a stroke
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- But, together, the anesthetic paralyzes the body and lets the poison reek havoc.
- A stroke may have paralysed her body but Kate Thomas's mind is still ticking.
- Kim previously worked as a taxi driver until 2001 when he was partially paralysed by a stroke.
disable, immobilize, render/make powerless, incapacitate, debilitate, numb, deaden, benumb, dull
immobilized, incapacitated, powerless;
Medicine paraplegic, quadriplegic, tetraplegic, monoplegic, hemiplegic, paretic, paraparetic
dated palsied
1.1Make (someone) unable to think or act normally, especially through panic or fear: some people are paralysed by the thought of failure (as adjective paralysing) her paralysing shyness
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- People are almost paralysed by fear and a sense of impotence.
- I was paralyzed with fear the whole time, unable to move a muscle even if there had been anything I could have done.
- Dripping with potential but too young to realize the extent of possibilities that lie before us, life can easily seem overwhelming, paralyzing us with fear.
immobilize, transfix, become rooted to the spot, freeze, stun, render motionless, become horror-struck/horror-stricken, petrify
rare gorgonize
1.2Stop (a system, place, or organization) from operating by causing disruption: the regional capital was paralysed by a general strike
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- Jakarta turned into a giant battle field when riots paralyzed the capital city.
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- Massive protests outside Westminster paralysed the capital's roads for more than 12 hours on Thursday.
bring to a standstill, immobilize, bring to a (grinding) halt, halt, stop, freeze, cripple, disable, put out of action/commission, render inoperative, deactivate
rare disenable
paralysingly adverbio
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- What we are seeing is that individual application servers will trend toward 100% CPU usage over time - simply, the appservers get pegged and users on those servers encounter paralyzingly slow load times throughout the site.
- When I emerged, I decided I had better get to work finding a new place to sleep because my room was paralyzingly cold.
- When he is not working, he is socially inept, almost paralyzingly paranoid, and more than a little bit strange.
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Catching Fire
by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire Chapter 15 Summary
How It All Goes Down
- Katniss is with her team, who are prepping her for the opening ceremonies of the Games. Her team is super upset that she has to return to the Games, and they can barely keep it together.
- She keeps thinking about how the people of Panem feel about the victors going back into the arena.
- Cinna comes in and helps Katniss hold it together. He's clearly upset too, but says that he channels his frustration into his work.
- They go to a nice lunch. Afterward, Cinna helps Katniss get ready. He braids her hair and makes up her face with bold colors and strokes.
- Her outfit looks like a plain black catsuit, but Cinna shows her its secret weapon: it lights up as though it's on fire. Katniss appears to be a smoldering coal and thinks it looks amazing.
- She draws courage from the outfit.
- Cinna coaches her on how to act during the ceremony: she should be stern and focused.
- Katniss leaves him and makes her way to the gathering place where all the other tributes are waiting.
- Finnick, from District 4, comes up to her. He's one of the most famous and celebrated tributes in Panem and is dressed in quite the revealing costume. He's exquisitely beautiful and one of the youngest people to ever win the Games. He had advantages going into his Games, none more so than his good looks. Since the Games, she knows, he's had tons of lovers and lived a decadent Capitol lifestyle.
- He flatters her, but Katniss is unimpressed. He tells her that he's collected other people's dark secrets from the Capitol.
- He leaves and Peeta appears. They commiserate about what's happened to the other tributes (they've all turned weird since winning), then get into their transport for the ceremony.
- They turn on their costumes and look like they're on fire, which is going to go over really well with the audience.
- It seems Peeta and Katniss are the standouts of the initial portion of the ceremony.
- They return to the Training Center and meet some of the other tributes, including Chaff and Seeder from District 11, Rue's home. Chaff is missing a hand, and Seeder is in her 60s. They both hug Katniss.
- They head up to their rooms, and on the way they meet Johanna, the tribute from District 7. She's dangerous because she won her Games through sheer trickiness and manipulation.
- She strips naked and flirts with Peeta during the elevator ride up to their rooms, which really irks Katniss.
- When Katniss and Peeta are by themselves, he tells her that all the other tributes are just messing with her.
- Haymitch and Effie come in, and the four go to the area where they'll be staying.
- Inside are their two servants, both Avoxes – people who've been punished by the Capitol and had their tongues cut out. One of them is Katniss' old friend Darius. It's horrifying to realize he's been punished in this way.


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- Soil particles are bound together into aggregates and these influence the precise pore structure of the soil.
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Special Issue "Microwave Energy Applications"
A special issue of Technologies (ISSN 2227-7080).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2014)
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Interests: microwave processing; solidification processing; powder processing; light weight materials (aluminum and magnesium); composites/nanocomposites
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Dear Colleagues,
Microwave technology is an energy saving futuristic technology applicable to many diverse fields and a variety of materials. It has emerged predominantly in several fields of Materials Science and Technology due to its manifold characteristic advantages (fast reaction rates and reduced processing temperatures) over conventional techniques. The heating of a sample being volumetric and fast, the MW processing modifies the structure and microstructure (e.g. size of nanoparticles) and can thus tailor the materials to obtain desired properties. Accordingly, this Special Issue aims to publish papers in the area of microwave energy applications related to techniques (such as single mode, multimode); materials (metals, polymers, ceramics, dielectric, magnetic, bioceramics, composites, bulk and thin films); and applications (such as metal production, sintering, waste processing, etc.).
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SEATTLE — Law enforcement officers searching for a 6-year-old Washington state girl who vanished last weekend say they're aware of a past molestation charge against her father but are focused right now on finding little Jenise Wright.
Court records show James Wright was charged more than a decade ago with molesting two girls, ages 8 and 15. He pleaded guilty in Whatcom County Superior Court in December 2001 to a misdemeanor assault charge related to the older girl. It was not immediately clear why the molestation charges were dropped. Prosecutors there did not immediately return a call.


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Just recently, I attended the Sentosa Feng Shui Trail with a friend. Feng shui is the ancient Chinese ideas of aesthetics. Chinese believe that the cosmic laws of heaven and earth help to channel positive energy into a particular environment. Consequently, by possessing certain items and then positioning them accordingly, one has the ability to ward off negative energy. Here on Sentosa, a predominately Chinese society, examples of feng shui can be found everywhere.
The Sentosa Feng Shui Trail is an educational walk about the island that looks at some of the most significant examples of feng shui. My favorite site was a large piece of Jadeite located in the heart of Sentosa. Jade is a special element of feng shui because it is believed to have numerous healing properties as well as the power to replace negative energy with positive energy.
Even here at Capella, we're more than just heritage buildings and lush greenery. When Sir Norman Foster designed the building, he cleverly integrated the old world charm of the two heritage buildings Tanah Merah I and II with, with elements of feng shui. From a bird's eye view, it can be seen that the new construction creates a Figure 8 when joined by the colonial buildings. The number 8 is considered auspicious in the Chinese culture because it symbolizes wealth and prosperity. Even the word for eight in mandarin is pronounced "bā" (八) sounds similar to the word fā (发), which means wealth.
There are of course many more elements of feng shui both here at Capella Singapore and throughout the country. Having the opportunity to enjoy the Sentosa Feng Shui Trail was a great reminder of this. This is one of the many reasons I love getting to know our magical island.


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Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis are going to have their first child together.
The "Drinking Buddies "actress' rep confirmed to Us Weekly over the weekend that fiance Sudeikis are expecting. Wilde took to Twitter afterward, thanking followers fir well-wishes.
"WOW. You guys are awesome. So kind. Thank you thank you thank you!" she tweeted. Then, joking, she added: "P.S. Babies eat mostly salsa, right?"
Mine did.
Wilde, 29, and Sudeikis, met in May 2011, on the season finale of Saturday Night Live. They went public with their romance in December that ear. They became engaged in January this year.
Formerly married to Italian filmmaker Tao Ruspoli, the actress said in October 2012 that she was "blissfully, hopefully, wildly in love" with Sudeikis (who is divorced from screenwriter Kay Cannon), according to Us Weekly. She even bragged at the time that the two "have sex like Kenyan marathon runners."
Uh ... thanks.
The website said that, earlier this year, Wilde spoke of wanting to start a family with her fiance. "He's so good with kids," she told Marie Claire. "I've never before experienced looking at someone and thinking, 'That's who I want to raise a child with.'"
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D. A department store upgrades its security system by installing a second video camera at the employees' entrance to the store.
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B. Organizational buyers are more geographically dispersed than final consumers.
C. The buyer-seller relationships have fewer permutations in the consumer market than in business-to-business marketing.
D. The distribution channel for final consumers is shorter than for organizational buyers.
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D. to deliver the products on time.
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D. psychographic segmentation
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C. SWOT analysis.
D. marketing survey.
Question 16 of 20
What are the two most commonly used approaches for segmenting markets?
A. Benefit segmenting and psychographic segmentation
B. Advertising segmentation and financial segmentation
C. Nonprofit and profit segmentation
D. Marketing segmentation and geodemographic segmentation
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C. consumer perceptions.
D. consumer locations.
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What does psychographic segmentation focus on?
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D. Consumer lifestyles
Question 19 of 20
What does the term "horizontal dimension" refer to?
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D. Primary motivations
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Employability & Work Placement Skills (CCA507)
Degree: BA (Hons) PR & Communications
Unit Leader: Sally Holland - Senior Lecturer in Communications
This unit was developed to promote employability skills by preparing students for two, two-week work placements. The unit aimed to support and challenge the students to identify the best work placement opportunities that fulfil their future career objectives.
The unit aimed to build up confidence in students so they could approach suitable organisations, and produce the materials for applications, such as CVs, covering letters and telephone skills. The students would use myPortfolio (Mahara) to showcase and enhance their digital profile.
The sessions were delivered in workshop format to maximise on the opportunity for participation and engagement and consisted of a combination of lecturer-led sessions, Careers Advisory sessions & tutorials, and IT workshops with members of the Learning Technologies team.
In order for this unit to be successful, it needed support from the Learning and Information Service (LIS).
Unit Leader & Lecturer
- Sally Holland
Career Advice
Learning Technologies
Unit guide & assignment
CCA507 unit guide
There were a variety of tools used during this unit and assessment including
- Moodle (myCourse)
- Mahara (myPortfolio)
- CareerBox
- YouTube
- SoundCloud
- iSSUU
- SlideShare
On successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:
Knowledge and Understanding
- K1 Identify and interpret what an organisation is looking for, in its recruitment of work placement interns
- K2 Recognise the technical, creative and managerial operations and skills involved in undertaking a work placement.
Cognitive Skills
- C1 Negotiate a clear set of work placement objectives
Practical and Professional Skills
- P1 Design and produce an electronic portfolio to support their CV, to provide evidence of their professional experience
Transferable and Key Skills
- T1 Communicate information and ideas in an accurate, persuasive and creative manner.
- T2 Demonstrate professional conduct in a work placement setting
- T3 Develop confidence to ask for help when required
"The modules often have a strong practical focus and the emphasis on current social media tools is strong. The use of the e-portfolio for the employability module is commendable. The encouragement of finding work experience is most helpful for the students' employability. "
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- Mahara allowed the students to be creative with their presentation
- Students shared their ePortfolios with their employers who thought they were useful
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Definition of rattle in English:
1Make or cause to make a rapid succession of short, sharp knocking sounds: [no object]: the roof rattled with little gusts of wind [with object]: he rattled some change in his pocket
More example sentences
- A sharp series of knocks rattled the door in its frame.
- To sit in it on a windy day was an experience in itself as you listened to the wind whistling through and rattling the galvanised roof.
- Thunder rattled the windows and lightning gave an eerie and unworldly light to halls.
clatter, bang, clang, clank, clink, clunk
jingle, jangle, clink, tinkle
1.1 [no object, with adverbial of direction] (Of a vehicle or its occupants) move or travel with a knocking sound: trains rattled past at frequent intervals
More example sentences
- Soon, dozens of guests began pouring in, their carriages rattling past the front door and around to the back.
- The carriage rattled along the narrow, winding streets to Montemarte, where the Basilica of the Sacre Couer lay.
- Drags of empty coal cars rattle past on their westward run.
jolt, bump, bounce, shake, vibrate, jar;
British judder
rare jounce
1.2 [no object] (rattle about/around in) Be in or occupy (an unnecessarily spacious room or building): the house was too big—we just rattled around in it
More example sentences
- Well, no need to rattle around in a double room or cabin while being penalised with a single person supplement.
- The maintenance backlog alone was more than 100 million and there were too few pupils rattling around in too many schools.
- She said that he had an entire subaquatic palace to rattle around in.
2 [with object] informal Make (someone) nervous, worried, or irritated: she turned quickly, rattled by his presence
More example sentences
- Jack's presence rattled Wilson, reminding him of Henry as a little boy showing Jack how to work the old cash register.
- The sight of Anna, not the slightest bit ruffled, rattled him severely.
- He looked at the capable assistant with sincere eyes knowing that this would rattle him into some flustered explanation of his whereabouts.
unnerve, disconcert, disturb, fluster, shake, perturb, discompose, discomfit, discountenance, make nervous, put off, throw off balance, ruffle, agitate, put off one's stroke, upset, frighten, scare
informal faze, throw, get to
1A rapid succession of short, sharp, sounds: the rattle of teacups on the tray
More example sentences
- In the distance there is the rapid rattle of a Kalashnikov.
- Somewhere around Parliament House, the rattle turned to a clunk.
- There's the rattle and clang of the air lock opening and closing, and it seems she has worn her lead-weighted diving boots home.
clatter, clattering, clank, clanking, clink, clinking, clanging;
jingle, jingling, jangle, jangling
1.1A gurgling sound in the throat of a dying person: there was a choking rattle and his eyes turned upwards
More example sentences
- He laughed and I noticed there was a wheezy rattle in his throat.
- People take a long time to die, accompanied by the cracking of bone, the resistance of gristle, dire last-gasp gurgles and rattles.
- Her body went rigid, and the moan became a rattle deep in her throat.
death rattle
technical rale
2A thing used to make a rattling sound, in particular:
Example sentences
- Traditional musical instruments included rattles, which were prominent in ceremonies.
- It includes ten leg rattles worn by dancers as both a composite musical instrument and a protective device.
- The second movement opens with timpani and rattles, followed by almost electronic sounding little looped musical figures that litter all of Glass's compositions.
2.1A baby's toy consisting of a container filled with small pellets, which makes a noise when shaken.
Example sentences
- The usual teddies, rattles and baby outfits just weren't good enough for five-week-old Ikra Yaseen.
- These ideas are alluded to in this affable portrait by the angelic baby grasping a toy rattle while being tenderly held by its mother.
- Thousands of baby rattles will also be delivered to US senators.
2.2British A wooden device that makes a loud noise when whirled around, formerly used by spectators at football matches.
Example sentences
- In 50 years the mouse has replaced the rattle as the football fans' accessory of choice.
- Prayer wheels are the spiritual equivalent of football rattles, though the motivation is not quite the same.
- Heck, there were even folk with good old-fashioned wooden rattles among the 5,449 crowd.
2.3The set of horny rings at the end of a rattlesnake's tail, shaken as a warning.
Example sentences
- Rattlesnakes shake their tail rattles as aposematic warnings.
- The forked tongue darted from his lips, and the tip of his tail began the familiar sound of a rattle.
rattle someone's cage (or chain)
- informal Anger or irritate someone: put the pressure on him—rattle his cageMore example sentences
anger, annoy, antagonize, provoke, vex, irritate, offendinformal aggravate, rile, needle, get someone's back up, make someone's hackles rise, rub up the wrong way, ruffle someone's feathers, get up someone's nose, get in someone's hair, get someone's dander up, get under someone's skinBritish informal nark, get on someone's wick
- I should like to ask Tom Lubbock: who rattled your cage?
- As The Jackhammer rattled my cage with uppercuts and hooks to the temple, I defended myself, but only made a nominal effort to punch back.
- It appears to have rattled my cage significantly.
rattle sabres
- Threaten to take aggressive action: we've got the miners rattling sabres again See also sabre-rattling.More example sentences
- Ministers are also not required to become emotionally involved, or to throw down ultimatums, or to rattle sabers and make dire threats.
- Why are India and Pakistan still rattling sabres and missiles at one another over Kashmir?
- But if it was so successful, why are we rattling sabers now?
Phrasal verbs
rattle something off
- Say, perform, or produce something quickly and effortlessly: he rattled off some instructionsMore example sentences
reel off, recite, list rapidly, fire off, run through, enumerateinformal spiel off
- She rattled it off quickly and Zenn put his gun away.
- Wellman's actors rattled their dialogue off like machine gun fire while Del Ruth's players took their time to enunciate clearly.
- This weekend, I started reading it again, and rattled it off in a couple of sessions, mainly on the train on the way to Cork and back.
rattle on/away
- Talk rapidly and at length, especially in an inane way: she found herself rattling on about unhappiness and happinessSynonymsprattle, babble, chatter, gabble, prate, go on, run on, jabber, jibber-jabber, gibber, blether, blather, blither, ramble, maunder, drivel, twitterinformal gab, yak, yackety-yak, yap, yabber, yatterBritish informal witter, rabbit, chunter, waffleScottish & Irish informal slabberNorth American informal run off at the moutharchaic twaddle, clack, twattle
rattly adjective (rattlier, rattliest)
- Example sentences
- The 80s model was a rattly, angular, unreliable thing.
- It looks exactly like that, although the fridge is no longer a rattly aquamarine-coloured thing from the early 70s.
- I am on a rattly bus heading past a huge ancient pyramid.
Middle English: related to Middle Dutch and Low German ratelen, of imitative origin.
Words that rhyme with rattlebattle, cattle, chattel, embattle, prattle, Seattle, tattle
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Many of you know of Dr. Andy Pruitt, the guru of knee pain at Boulder Center for Sports Medicine.
In this interview, Dr. Pruitt discusses the importance of proper fit (bicycle, shoes) and equipment (saddle, shorts, gloves, etc) for comfort, longevity and durability in cycling.
Think it's not that big of a deal? Think again. Hear how clip-in pedals and aero-bars revolutionized cycling (and initially caused an injury epidemic). Plus, you'll hear the proper way to pronounce the word, soigneur (if you don't already know). And there's some running stuff in there too…for all of you triathletes.
About Dr. Pruitt
Dr. Andrew Pruitt, Ed.D., is the clinical director of the Boulder Center for Sports Medicine, a widely-published writer on cycling and athletics, and a regular consultant to the U.S. Cycling Federation. Dr. Pruitt sees the country's finest cyclists and athletes from his Boulder, Colorado, practice. He's also a two-time world cycling champion (1985, 1987).
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A Chat With Andy Pruitt – cyclingtips.com.au
Andy Pruitt on Bike Fit – ultracycling.com
Andy Pruitt's Complete Medical Guide for Cyclists – amazon.com