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Dead Space 2's phenomenal production values, including perhaps the best use of sound in modern gaming, ensures the game stands tall amongst its peers. Most of the time, anyway.
There's a bit where, over the radio, Isaac Clarke is told that under absolutely no circumstances must he never ever... and then the transmission cuts to static. Still, blind obedience to a tried and tested bag of clichés is never necessarily a bad thing, and it's always a reassuring eventuality that moving into a monster-infested funeral parlour is never going to end well.
As the big-budget sequel to the 2008 survival-horror epic, developer Visceral Games is attempting to solidify the series' exemplary shooting and top-tier jumpy frights by rounding out the human element of its protagonist. Formerly little more than a mute conduit for the player, giving Isaac a voice and a face is a move which may come back to haunt Visceral Games more than Derek Acorah does Living TV. Personally, I kind of preferred Isaac Clarke when he was just a wheezing death rattle, but now he's into serial cussing and showing off his oft-visible bonce with a range that spans expressionless to completely bemused.
The game, however, is much the same as before: an unrestrained exercise in violence, set around Titan mining colony the Sprawl, three years after calamitous events of the original, and it's all still wrapped up with overarching themes of shady capitalistic enterprise and quasi-religious Unitology fanatics. Before long it becomes clear that the Sprawl is home to another Marker, one of the twisted double-helix structures at the root of the universe's mucky Necromorph problems, and that everybody has been transformed into a monster. Again.
Things kick off pretty quickly, too, and seconds after the opening montage there's a person getting stabbed through the head, with the player watching their grisly, close-up transformation into a gibbering, flailing Necromorph, and gleefully continues throwing up well-designed shots of nasty brutality until its bombastic denouement. The whole game is never anything less than visually stunning, either, with the signature minimalistic UI and a near-unparalleled attention to detail across its many creepy crevices and flickering corridors.
Dead Space 2 is a poster boy for violent carnage, but the unnerving clash between Visceral Games' desire to refocus and remodel Isaac and the situation he finds himself in is epitomised nicely about two-thirds of the way through the game. During this moment the player finds themselves staring at something horrible and iconic from the first game, and the growing sense of dread and unease is neatly undercut when Isaac turns to his female sidekick and cheesily says "I'm full of bad ideas." So was the scriptwriter, evidentially.
I imagine the intention was to replicate something like Ripley's character shift from Alien to Aliens - Dead Space has always been an unashamed attempt to replicate the coolest bits from dozens of sci-fi influences in a survival horror mould, with the mix of borrowed ideas even trickling down to the protagonist's compounded name. But here it doesn't always mesh right. A creeping traversal through a Unitology church is enough to make your palms sweat, but during a section where you stand on top of a massive mining truck as it's driven through an underground tunnel of Necromorph gore, the game errs dangerously close to the point where Isaac might as well take off his helmet, put on a pair of sunglasses and try dual-wielding plasma rifles.


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Welcome everybody to our live blog of Scotland's vital World Cup qualifier against Wales in Cardiff. Coming up next, team news...
Wales v Scotland
FIFA World Cup Qualifier, Group A
Venue: Cardiff City Stadium, Wales
Kick-off: 7.45pm
The Match Officials for this evening's game are as follows:
Referee: Florian Meyer
Assistant Referee 1: Holger Henschel
Assistant Referee 2: Christoph Bornhorst
Fourth official: Michael Weiner
We have the Scotland starting XI for tonight: McGregor; Hutton, Berra, Caldwell, Fox; D Fletcher, Brown, Commons, Morrison, Maloney; S Fletcher
Meanwhile, the home side will line up as follows: Price; Gunter, Davies, Vaughan, Blake, Williams, Allen, Ledley, Morison, Ramsey, Bale
Group Overview: Scotland are presently fourth in Group A and undefeated after two matches. But before we get carried away, Craig Levein's men are still searching for their first win after draws with Serbia and Macedonia at Hampden. Now on the road for the first time in this run of qualifiers, they face a Wales side at the bottom of the table and under pressure after an opening day defeat to group favourites Belgium and a 6-1 hammering by Serbia in their last match.
The Managers – Craig Levein: Having been pilloried for his team selection and conservative tactics, Levein is in desperate need of a victory in Cardiff. But -perhaps in a bid to ease the pressure on his players - he has stated this is not a 'must win' fixture. "Me getting excited or getting worried about anything else is counter-productive. There is no point in that. There is no point in me going into the players and saying, 'We need to win this game'. What kind of psychology is that?"
The Managers - Chris Coleman: Levein's opposite number is also under pressure after Wales' humiliation in Belgrade, where six different Serbian players ended up on the scoresheet. This time around, he is promising more fight from his players and is sparing no sentiment. "When you're stuck in a corner, there's only one way you can go and that's fight your way out. Managers have respect for each other because it's a tough job but I don't worry about other managers."
Previous meetings: Scotland beat Wales 3-1 the last time the teams met in May 2011 in the Carling Nations Cup in Dublin. James Morrison, Kenny Miller and Christophe Berra were the Scotland goalscorers after Rob Earnshaw put Wales in front. All three Scotland goals were scored in the second half that day. The teams have met a total of 12 times now, with two draws and a total of five wins apiece.
Looking at the team selection tonight, some surprise that Kris Commons has gone straight into the starting XI after being called up to the squad late on. Scott Brown, Darren Fletcher and James Morrison expected to line up in the middle of the park with Commons and Shaun Maloney taking up the wide positions. What's your view of the team selection?
James Forrest a notable omission tonight, left out after picking up a knock in training, should be okay for the game on Tuesday
Teams now lining up for the national anthems in Cardiff. A very proud moment for Darren Fletcher tonight, who leads the team out after 11 months out with a chronic bowel condition and fears he would have to retire from the game.
Adam Matthews missing for Wales tonight. His Celtic team-mate Joe Ledley has been charged with a very advanced role, supporting wide on a front three
Both teams wearing pink ribbons tonight as mark of for missing Welsh girl, April jones
Match kicks off in Cardiff
Lovely play in the build-up by Steven Fletcher in a good counter-attack by Scotland. Ends with Maloney firing a ball into box from left that is cleared
Vaughan lucky to escape a booking after a late challenge on Scott Brown
Ball into box by Hutton, won in air by Berra. Wales look nervous as they concede a corner
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High-performance computing is still capable of a few surprises. The recent termination of Thinking Machines Corp., which had long been anticipated by industry observers, does not qualify as a real surprise. The same observers would not have been surprised if the next company to declaim the hymns of Chapter 11 had been Cray Computer. After all, the company had yet to sell any of its products. Even though additional money had been lured from various sources (including the pockets of founder Seymour Cray), it was presumed that the cash would run out soon. Seymour Cray is, however, an expert stage-manager, and surprises are one of his specialties. He has not quite sold a machine, but the National Security Agency (NSA) will pay Cray Computer $4.2 million to develop an unusual hybrid system -- half-vector, half-SIMD. It is anticipated that the new product, the CRAY-3/SSS (for Super Scalable System) will be demonstrated during the first quarter of 1995. This particular surprise may not be sufficient to rescue Cray Computer over the long term, but it certainly enhances the credibility of the company -- along with the standing of its products and its founder.
STRIKE WHILE THE IRONY IS HOT An additional irony is provided by the coincidence between this announcement and the interment of Thinking Machines. From its earliest years, Thinking Machines and its technofounder, Danny Hillis, were tireless advocates of the virtues of systems based upon very large numbers of minimalist processors (about as smart as a primitive digital watch) with distributed memories, operating in a SIMD mode. In contrast, Seymour Cray achieved fame (and made his fortune) deploying small numbers of very powerful proprietary processors sharing a single memory through a complex, highly sophisticated switch. Hillis became a heretic in 1991. Thinking Machines revealed the abandonment of the SIMD/many-tiny-fingers philosophy. They joined the mainstream religion of somewhat smaller numbers (up to a few thousand) of powerful commodity microprocessors. Did this apostasy lead to Thinking Machines' recent doom? This writer is not licensed to consider cases of moral retribution. It seems clear, however, that Thinking Machines as a company found it difficult to manage a mid-stream switch between two very different architectural horses. Indeed, they had to re-shoe the horses in mid-stream because, among other things, the old and new products had different interconnect topologies. It was also difficult for customers who had to adjust their applications from the requirements of one product to quite a different one.
THE OLD ORIGINAL MPP Under Cray's new contract with NSA, a two-processor CRAY-3 vector system will be joined in computational matrimony with a system that emphatically deserves the almost-outdated term "massively parallel". The CRAY-3's partner is to be a SIMD system with 512,000 processors. This is eight times as many processors as the most massive parallel processor ever available for general purchase: the 64,000-processor CM-1 and CM-2 SIMD systems sold by Thinking Machines in the 1980s. It is somewhat reminiscent of the first Massively Parallel Processor (that was its real name) built by Goodyear Aerospace Corporation and installed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland in 1983. This was a specialized machine used primarily for image processing with 16,3845 processors. Each was supplied with 1024 bits of local memory. A Cray Computer announcement says that the microprocessor to be used, known as a Processor-in-Memory (PIM) chip, was developed by the Supercomputer Research Center, an affiliate of the NSA. As on the Thinking Machines CM-2, these are single-bit processors. 64 processors are accommodated on a single slice of silicon, along with 128 kilobits of memory. Thus the Cray/NSA hybrid of the 1990s will have only twice the memory per node of the 1983 Goddard/Goodyear machine. The Goddard/Goodyear MPP system was front-ended by a PDP and a VAX that loaded application programs, looked after I/O, and carried out the other functions that parallel systems of that era were unable to perform on their own. Will the CRAY-3 simply be doing the job that was once done by a humble PDP? Not quite. The Cray Computer announcement explains that the "scalable array will connect to the CRAY-3 memory interface and will be addressable as standard memory to facilitate use of the SIMD array with minimal delays for data transfer." The NSA project will utilize Seymour Cray's exceptional skills in packaging technology as well as the power of the CRAY-3 which, at a clock speed of 2.08 ns, is a tad swifter than its closest Japanese competitors. PIM chips will be packed by Cray using the company's MCM (multiple chip module) technology. Once the current Cray-NSA development project is completed, the PIM chip-based system is said to be able to scale up to one million processors.
SIMD REDUX? Does this signify a general rebirth of SIMD as a widely used, general purpose architecture for parallel systems? This question is answered by a sentence in the Cray Computer release: "The CRAY-3 memory interface bandwidth will allow the application-specific SIMD array to provide dramatic performance improvements over existing architectures for bit and image processing, pattern recognition, signal processing, and sophisticated graphics applications." That sounds good, but this is just about the complete list of applications that do well (sometimes spectacularly so) on SIMD architectures. MIMD architectures, deafened by the din of message-passing among their distributed-memory nodes, have their own problems. Nevertheless, MIMD systems (if supplied with good compilers and a great deal of memory) are able to perform somewhere on a range from adequate to excellent on a wide range of applications, including many of those that consume most of the cycles used in high-performance computing. Since the apostasy of Thinking Machines in 1991, MasPar has been the only company producing SIMD systems for the general market. (Somewhat like the NSA strategy, MasPar packages multiple small processors with associated memory on integrated chips.) After undergoing a financial health/business-focus/leadership crisis analogous to the problems that Thinking Machines seemed unable to overcome, MasPar has changed bosses and slimmed down its staff roster. In particular, MasPar has stopped trying to sell to everybody and has focused upon areas like gene research and statistical analysis where a SIMD architecture, properly equipped with an awful lot of I/O and fast disks to bounce around a great deal of data, offers distinct price/performance over conventional MIMD parallel systems or other solutions. Some of its greatest successes have been in the high-speed comparison and matching of the strings of letters that biologists use to identify the DNA makeup of each individual gene. Who else needs to make high-speed comparisons and matchings of strings of letters? NSA, for one. That is pretty close to a job description of a computer optimized for cryptographic analysis. NSA technologists have been grumping for some time about the present and anticipated shortcomings of current computers. (Indeed, the Supercomputing Research Center was formed in an attempt to cope more effectively with this trend.) Meanwhile, the agency's tasks grow more complicated. The cold war may be over, but other changes are taking place. Sophisticated cryptographic systems have become simpler, cheaper, and are more widely used -- by private persons from banks to cocaine wholesalers as well as governments. In addition, the volumes and speeds of data transmission are growing very rapidly, making it more difficult to identify significant items and pluck them out of the message stream. Along with the rest of the defense establishment, NSA has been under pressure to cut costs. Buying $25 million supercomputers in half-dozen lots is not as easy to justify as it once was. Development of the CRAY-3/SSS is to cost a relatively moderate $9.2 million, divided roughly equally between the NSA and Cray Computer. The government is also to provide software consulting services valued at about $400,000. A new era demands new solutions -- or, in this case, sweeping adaptation of an old solution. For Seymour Cray, from his early triumphs at Control Data through his years at Cray Research, the NSA has always been one of the earliest and best customers for his supercomputers. Now that both Cray Computer and the NSA need help, what would be more plausible than for the two old friends to work it out together? Right up to the end, Thinking Machines sought frantically to secure comparable help from one of its old friends, but nothing could be worked out in time. SIMD or MIMD, the line can be very fine between failure and managing to keep on getting by. These developments are not likely to stimulate vendors of MIMD systems to comb the lists of former SIMD specialists, cut in the most recent round of down-sizing and think about calling them back briefly for a consultation. The CRAY-3/SSS could be a good solution for NSA, but -- with the partial exception of image analysis -- the real growth in high-performance computing is taking place in applications categories where SIMD offers no advantages.


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As a powerful oxidant and purifying agent in food, beverage and water applications, ozone molecules are a voracious force for decontamination. With its extra free radical oxygen molecule, ozone is eager to destroy germs, viruses, and microbes that cause illness. When impurities have been eradicated, ozone naturally reverts to oxygen, leaving the Earth as it found it. Ozone is a simple, powerful, and natural purifier and now, it can be made on demand.
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People whispered but Steven Beard Jr. didn't care. As a recent widower in 1995, the 70-year-old had married Celeste Martinez, then 32. Beard wasn't about to let the age difference interfere with his happiness. Nor did the wealthy retired television executive care that Martinez was a waitress at his country club in Austin, Texas. In fact, he and his new bride lived in a million-dollar home and traveled the world first-class. Still, some friends and relatives wondered how long this unlikely union would last. "They didn't have anything in common," recalls neighbor Robert Dennison, 74, a retired surgeon. "Except his money."
A sensational murder is what links them now. Earlier this year Celeste Beard Johnson, 40, was convicted of killing her husband, in a case that rocked Austin society. From the start Beard's three children wondered whether Celeste was out for their father's fortune. "I wasn't happy about the relationship," says daughter Becky, 50, who has two brothers, Steven III, 54, and Paul, 49. "But Dad was really happy."
Celeste had often lived hand-to-mouth and had already been married three times; she'd had twin daughters, Jennifer and Kristina, by her first husband, welder Craig Bratcher. The twins later recalled having a "troubled" relationship with their mother, who they say often neglected them. By contrast Beard had exhibited a magical touch as a businessman. Smart, hardworking and amiable, he was worth more than $10 million following the sale of KBVO, the Austin TV station he owned. (His first wife, Elise, to whom he had been happily married for 45 years, died of cancer in 1993.)
It did not take long for his family's concerns about Celeste to be realized. A few months after the marriage, Beard's banker informed him that his new bride had been removing jewelry and silver belonging to Elise from his safety deposit box. Beard quickly filed for divorce. "Steve couldn't have his wife stealing from him," says his friend Jerry Inglis. "He was really sad about it." But the couple managed to reconcile, and Beard soon withdrew his divorce petition. For a while everything seemed to go smoothly. Celeste's twin daughters were adopted by Beard when they were 17. Says Kristina, now 22: "He was funny. I really got attached to him." In 1999 Celeste, who had long suffered from depression, checked herself into a psychiatric hospital in Austin because she had become suicidal. She spent weeks in treatment at the facility, where she befriended a fellow patient, Tracey Tarlton, now 46, the manager of an Austin bookstore.
The nature of their relationship is a matter of debate. Prosecutors, backed by witnesses who saw the pair together after their release from the hospital, maintain that Celeste and Tarlton became lovers. Celeste's lawyer later argued that Tarlton was obsessed with Celeste, who simply wanted to be friends. Whatever the case, eight months after they met, events came to a head. At around 3 a.m. on Oct. 2, Beard called 911 for help. A blast from a shotgun had torn into his stomach while he slept at home. When police sergeant Greg Truitt arrived on the scene, he noticed that Celeste—who had supposedly been sleeping in another part of the house—acted strangely. "I remember her saying, 'This is perfect timing. We were supposed to go to Europe tomorrow,'" recalls Truitt. "I found that an odd thing for a wife to say after her husband had just been shot."
More oddities lay ahead. Remarkably, Beard survived the initial shotgun blast, despite massive internal injuries. After spending months in hospitals, he was released, apparently making a full recovery. Meanwhile, within days of the shooting Jennifer had told police of her mother's friendship with Tarlton, whose shotgun was quickly linked to a spent shell casing at the scene. But on Jan. 22 Beard suddenly died from a blood clot, which was ruled a complication from the gunshot wound, making the case a homicide. His kids had assumed all along that Celeste was behind the attack. Following her husband's death, she hardly seemed the grieving widow. She told friends she was so distraught that she was checking into a clinic but instead traveled to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Five months after Beard died, she married a carpenter named Cole Johnson, 41. "She just didn't seem upset," says Kristina, who along with sister Jennifer had increasing suspicions about their mother.
But Celeste's life was about to start unraveling. In exchange for a sentence of 20 years, Tarlton finally agreed to testify against her friend, which led to Celeste's indictment for murder in March 2002. At the trial Tarlton said that Celeste had told her Beard was the only thing standing in the way of the women's future together. "She was flirtatious from the first time I met her," Tarlton testified. Another bombshell piece of evidence was the tape recording of a conversation between Celeste and Kristina, in which Celeste told of trying to hire someone to kill Tarlton, apparently to prevent her from testifying. In the end it took the jury three days this past March to convict Celeste, who was sentenced to life in prison, though her lawyer Dick DeGuerin recently filed an appeal that will certainly drag the case out. Even so, says Beard's son Steven III, "we know now our father is finally at rest."
Bill Hewitt
Alicia Dennis in Austin
Marriage, Money and Murder
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Another variation of "fuck it all to hell"! Also means "who cares", "I could give a fuck", and "blah".
Bob: I just came back from the free clinic and found out I don't have herpes.
Dan: Bah Humbug!
Dan: Bah Humbug!
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An expression used to show digust at the Christmas season, made famous by the fictional character Ebinizer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens novel 'A Christmas Carol'
Guy: I love Christmas, Don't you Mr Scrooge?
Scrooge: Bah Humbug
Scrooge: Bah Humbug
by Tomontherun99 December 18, 2009
bah:an exclamation of disgust or irritation
humbug:something is pure silly,nonsensical, or stupid
humbug:something is pure silly,nonsensical, or stupid
Fred-"Did you see that Vince Vaughn movie"
Marsha-"Bah humbug"
Marsha-"Bah humbug"
by Kool-Aid kid 7 December 05, 2008
A word commonly used by older people (70 and up) around christmas. The older people ussually have no family left and care nothing for the festive seasons anymore.
Young CHild-MERRY CHRISTMAS
Oldman- Bahhumbug
Oldman- Bahhumbug
by HedCandy November 26, 2007
When a girl (typicaly in her 20's) is fucking an older man (typicaly 70s and up) and once the man busts his load he dies on top of the girl.
The old ass fart gave that sorority chick a bah humbug.
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Barbara Walters says Danny DeVito is welcome on The View after appearing to be intoxicated Wednesday on the talk show.
"We love him, we'll have him on again," the co-host and co-creator said on the chatfest Thursday morning, taking the actor's disheveled appearance in stride. She added that DeVito had left a message for her almost immediately after his visit but the two had yet to talk. "It said he was not going to say anything until he talked to me."
DeVito's publicist, Stan Rosenfield, told PEOPLE on Wednesday that the actor had reached out to Walters, but he would not comment on his client's appearance.
Still, co-host Joy Behar put it bluntly Thursday morning: "He was drunk as a skunk."
During the ABC broadcast, DeVito, 62, had slurred his words, told rambling stories and at one point sat on Rosie O'Donnell's lap. After admitting he'd been out with George Clooney all night, he said, "I knew it was the last seven limoncellos that was going to get me."
"Danny DeVito is not an alcoholic. He's just a guy who had too many to drink with his friends," pal O'Donnell said. "He was here, he was enjoying himself, he had a wonderful night out, and he was a little drunk."
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6.8 Moving Sources and Gravitational Waves
This means that the velocity of propagation [of gravity] is equal to that of light. It seems at first that this hypothesis ought to be rejected outright. Laplace showed in effect that the propagation is either instantaneous or much faster than that of light. However, Laplace examined the hypothesis of finite propagation velocity ceteris non mutatis; here, on the contrary, this hypothesis is conjoined with many others, and it may be that between them a more or less perfect compensation takes place. The application of the Lorentz transformation has already provided us with numerous examples of this.
Poincare, 1905
The preceding sections focused on the spherically symmetrical solution of Einstein's field equations represented by the Schwarzschild solution, combined with the geodesic hypothesis. Most of the directly observable effects of general relativity can be modeled and evaluated on this basis, i.e., in terms of the solution of the "one-body problem", a single gravitating body that can be regarded as stationary. Having solved the field equations for this single body, we then determine the paths of test particles in its vicinity, based on the assumption that those particles do not significantly affect the field, and that they follow geodesics in the field of the gravitating body. This is obviously a very simplified and idealized case, but it happens to be fairly representative of a small planet (e.g., Mercury) orbiting the Sun, or a light pulse grazing the Sun. From one point of view, the geodesic assumption seems quite natural and unobjectionable. After all, it merely asserts Newton's first law of motion in each small region of spacetime. Any sufficiently small region is essentially flat, and if we assume that free objects move at constant speed in straight lines in flat spacetime, then overall they follow geodesics.
However, there are two reasons for possibly being dissatisfied with the geodesic assumption. First, just as with Newton's law of inertia, the geodesic assumption can be regarded as giving a special privileged status to certain paths without a clear justification. Of course, in practice the principle of inertia has proven itself to be extremely robust, but in theory there has always been some epistemological uneasiness about the circularity in the definition of inertial paths. As Einstein commented, we say an object moves inertially if it is free of outside influences, but we infer that it is free of outside influences only by observing that it moves inertially. This concern can be answered, at least in part, by noting that inertia serves as an organizing principle, and its significance is due to the large number of disparate entities that can be coordinated simultaneously on the basis of this principle. The concept of (local) inertial coordinates would indeed be purely circular if it successfully reduced the motions of only a single body to a simple set of patterns (e.g., Newton's laws), but when the same system of coordinates is found to reduce the motions of multiple (and seemingly independent) objects, we are justified in claiming that it has non-trivial physical significance. Nevertheless, one of Einstein's objectives in developing the general theory was to eliminate the reliance on the principle of inertia, which is the principle of geodesic motion in curved spacetime.
The second reason for dissatisfaction with the geodesic assumption is that all actual objects are not just passive inhabitants of the spacetime manifold, they are sources of gravitation in their own right (since all forms of mass and energy gravitate). This immediately raises the problem – also encountered in electrodynamics – of how to deal with the field produced by the moving entity itself. However, unlike Maxwell's equations of the electrodynamic field, the field equations of general relativity are non-linear, so we are not even justified in "subtracting out" the self-field of the moving object, because the result will not generally be a solution of the field equations. One possible way of addressing this problem would be to treat the moving objects as contributors to the stress-energy tensor Tmn in the field equations, in which case the vanishing of the covariant derivative (imposed by the field equations) implies that the objects follow geodesics. However, it isn't clear, a priori, that this is a legitimate representation of matter. Einstein, for one, rejected this approach, saying that Tmn is merely "a formal condensation of all things whose comprehension in the sense of a field theory is still problematic". Another approach is to treat particles of matter as isolated point-like pole singularities in the field – indeed this was the basis for a paper written by Einstein, Infeld, and Hoffman (EIH) in 1938, in which they argued that (at least when the field equations are integrated to some finite order of approximation, and assuming a weak field and low accelerations) such singularities can exist only if they propagate along geodesics in spacetime.
At first sight this is a somewhat puzzling proposition, because geodesics are defined only on smooth manifolds, so it isn't obvious how a singularity of a manifold can be said to propagate along a geodesic of that manifold. However, against the background of nearly Minkowskian spacetime, it's possible to define a workable notion of the "position" of an isolated singularity (though not without some ambiguity). Even if we accept all these caveats, it's odd that Einstein would pursue this approach, considering that he usually expressed a disdain for singularities, declaring that they render a field theory invalid – much like an inconsistency in a formal system. In fact, one of his favorite ideas was that we might achieve a complete physically viable field theory precisely by requiring the absence of singularities. Indeed the EIH paper shows that geodesic motion is an example of a physical effect that can be deduced on this basis.
Einstein, et al, discovered that when the field equations are integrated in the presence of two specified point-like singularities in the field, a one-dimensional locus of singularity extending from one of the original points to the other ordinarily appears in the solution. There is, however, a special set of conditions on the motions of the two original point-like singularities such that no intervening singular locus appears, and it is precisely the conditions of geodesic motion. Thus EIH concluded that the field equations of general relativity, by themselves, without any separate "geodesic assumption" actually do require mass point singularities to follow geodesic paths. Einstein interpreted this result to mean that even the classical equations of motion are due entirely to the non-linearity of the field equations. This is actually an example of how meaningful physics can come out of Einstein's principle of "no-singularities". Of course, the solution retains the two point-like singularities, so one might question whether Einstein was being hypocritical in banning singularities in the rest of the manifold. In reply he wrote
This objection would be justified if the equations of gravitation were to be considered as equations of the total field. But since this is not the case, one will have to say that the field of a material particle will differ the more from a pure gravitational field the closer one comes to the location of the particle. If one had the field equations of the total field, one would be compelled to demand that the particles themselves could be represented as solutions of the complete field equations that are free of irregularities everywhere. Only then would the general theory of relativity be a complete theory.
This is closely related to Einstein's dissatisfaction with the dualistic nature of physics, combining the partial differential equations of the field with the total differential equations of particles. His hope was that particle-like solutions would emerge from some suitable field theory, and one of the conditions he felt must be satisfied by any such complete field theory must be the complete absence of singularities. It's easy to understand why Einstein felt the need for a "unified field theory" to encompass both gravity and electromagnetism, because in their present separate forms they are quite incongruous. In the case of electrodynamics, the field equations are linear, and possess only a single gauge freedom, so the equations of motion must be introduced as an independent assumption. In contrast, general relativity suggests that the equations of motion of a field theory ought to be implied by the field equations themselves, which must therefore be non-linear.
One of the limitations of Einstein's work on the equations of motion was that it neglected the effect of radiation. This neglect is usually considered to be justified, provided the accelerations involved are not too great. Still, strictly speaking, accelerating masses ought to produce radiation. Indeed, this is necessary, even for slowly accelerated motions, in order to maintain strict momentum conservation along with the nearly complete absence of aberration in the apparent direction of the "force" of gravity in the two-body problem (as noted by Laplace). But radiation reaction also causes acceleration, so it can be argued that any meaningful treatment of the problem of motion cannot neglect the effects of gravitational waves. As one would expect from a relativistic theory, the full field equations of general relativity possess solutions in which metrical disturbances propagate as waves. For a simple example, consider a metric of the form
By the same procedure that we used in section 6.1 to derive the Schwarzschild metric, we find that the only non-zero Christoffel symbols for this metric are
where subscripts on a and b denote partial derivatives. From these we find that the only non-vanishing components of the Ricci tensor are
Setting these Ricci components to zero (for a vacuum solution of Einstein's field equations), the quantities in parentheses must individually vanish, and we get the following conditions on the functions a(t,x) and b(t,x).
If a and b are both purely functions of u = kt – x for some constant k, then these six conditions are satisfied if and only if k2 = 1 (so the phase velocity is unity, i.e., the speed of light) and
where dots signify derivatives with respect to u. We can choose any function we like for a(u), and then solve this differential equation for the corresponding function b(u) to give a solution of the vacuum field equations. For example, if we set a(u) = cos(lu) for some constant l, then a solution is given by setting b(u) = cosh(lu). Thus we have the following well-known "wavelike" solution of the vacuum field equations
It isn't difficult to splice a region of this solution between two regions in which the metric coefficients are purely linear functions of u, so that we have a complete vacuum spacetime that is entirely flat on both sides of a propagating plane wave. This admittedly is not a wave that could be produced by any realistic physical process, but it at least illustrates the possibility of exact wavelike solutions of the full non-linear field equations. It also shows that such waves would be expected to propagate at the speed of light. In addition, the absence of off-diagonal terms in the metric implies that the wave has two planes of polarization. One might wonder if this metric is actually physically distinct from flat Minkowski spacetime, but it can be shown that the wave carries energy (according to the energy pseudo-tensor).
Many treatments of gravitational waves focus on a linearized model of general relativity, but this is open to the criticism that we can't be sure linear solutions are representative of exact solutions. This is especially true in view of the fact that Einstein's work on the equations of motion suggested that even the lowest order constraints on the paths were due to the non-linearity of the field equations.
We should note that gravitational waves have never yet been directly observed, so they don't, at present, constitute part of the experimentally validated body of general relativity. Nevertheless, there is indirect empirical confirmation of gravitational waves in the apparent energy loss of certain binary star systems, most notably the Hulse-Taylor system, which consists of a neutron star and a pulsar orbiting each other every 8 hours. Careful observations indicate that the two stars are spiraling toward each other at a rate of 2.7 parts per billion each year, precisely consistent with the prediction of general relativity for the rate at which the system should be radiating energy in the form of gravitational waves. The agreement is very impressive, and subsequent observations of other binary star systems have provided similar indirect support for the existence of gravitational waves, although in some cases it is necessary to postulate other (unseen) bodies in the system in order to yield results consistent with general relativity.
The experimental picture may change as a result of the LIGO project, which is an attempt to use extremely sensitive interferometry techniques to directly detect gravitational waves. Two separate facilities are being prepared in the states of Louisiana and Washington, and their readings will be combined to achieve a very large baseline. The facility in Washington state is over a mile long. If this effort is successful in detecting gravitational waves, it will be a very remarkable achievement, possibly opening up a new "channel" for observing the universe. Of course, it's also conceivable that efforts to detect gravitational waves may yield inconclusive results, i.e., no waves may be definitely detected, but it may be unclear whether the test has been adequate to detect them even if they were present.
If, on the other hand, the experimental efforts were to surprise us with an unambiguously null result (analogous to the aether drift experiments in the late 19th century), ruling out the presence of gravitational waves in a range where theory says they ought to be detectable, it would be quite perplexing. Oddly enough, Einstein became convinced for a short time in 1937 that gravity waves were impossible, but soon changed his mind again. As recently as 1980 there were disputes in scholarly publications as to the validity of the quadrupole solution. Part of the reason that people such as Einstein have occasionally doubted the reality of the wave solutions is that all gravitational waves imply a singularity (as does the Schwarzschild solution), albeit "merely" a coordinate singularity. Also, the phenomena of gravitational waves must be inherently non-linear, because it consists of gravity "acting on itself", and we know that gravity itself doesn't show up in the source terms of the field equations, but only in the non-linearity of the left-hand side of the field equations. The inherent non-linearity of gravitational waves makes them difficult to treat mathematically. Most classical wave solutions are based on linearized models, so it isn't easy to be sure the resulting "solutions" are representative of realistic solutions of the full non-linear field equations. Furthermore, there are no known physical situations that would produce any of the simple linearized plane wave situations that are usually discussed. For example, it is known that there are no uniform plane wave solutions to the non-linear field equations. (The exact solution described above relies on one of the metric coefficients being cosh(t-x), which goes to infinity in both directions from the center of the wave.) There are cylindrical solutions, but unfortunately no plausible sources for infinite cylindrical solutions are known, so the physical significance of these solutions is unclear.
It might seem as though there ought to be spherically symmetrical "pulsating" solutions that radiate gravitational waves, but this is not the case, as is clear from Birkhoff's proof that the Schwarzschild solution is the unique (up to transformation of coordinates) spherically symmetrical solution of the field equations, even without the "static" assumption. In fact, we can't even have a single oscillating mass (dipole) source, because, unlike the case of electromagnetism, any entity capable of causing a mass to oscillate must also have equal and opposite mass-energy. As a result, there is no physically meaningful "dipole" source for gravitational waves in general relativity. The lowest-order solutions are necessarily given by quadrupole configurations, such as (in the simplest case) two masses oscillating back and forth connected by a spring.
Consideration of gravitational waves is obviously important in efforts to "quantize" the theory of gravity. Just as Planck's analysis of electromagnetic "black body" radiation led to the quantization of the electromagnetic field (to avoid the ultra-violet catastrophe), we can consider the spectrum of gravitational waves in equilibrium within an enclosed cavity. Naturally this requires us to evaluate the state of equilibrium between the gravitational waves and the walls of the cavity, and also how the gravitational waves interact with each other. Unlike electromagnetic waves, gravitational wave solutions cannot simply be superimposed, so this is an extremely difficult situation to model. Much effort has been put into trying to understand how general relativity could be reconciled with quantum theory, but no satisfactory synthesis has emerged.
Closely related to the subject of gravitational waves is the question of how the force of gravity "propagates". It's not too surprising that the considerations of gravity in the 17th century led to the notion of instantaneous action at a distance, because it's an empirical fact that the gravitational acceleration of a small body orbiting at a distance r from a gravitating source is directed, at each instant, very precisely toward the position of the source at that instant. (When we refer to "instants" in this section, we mean with respect to the asymptotic inertial rest coordinates of the center of mass of the system.) Laplace noted that the stability of planetary orbits implies the absence of any appreciable aberration in the direction of the force of gravity, which led him to infer that the force of gravity must be conveyed a million times faster than light on the assumption that gravity is a purely central force between pairs of material entities. The same reasoning would apply to the electric force between two charges, because the force of electromagnetism also exhibits no first-order aberration. However, by around 1905 Lorentz and Poincare showed that in any relativistic field theory the forces between charges or masses are not generally central, because the field itself is a dynamical element, with energy and momentum, just as are the charges or masses. The force exerted by the field on a particle at any given location and time depends not only on the past position of the source particle but also on its state of motion, due to the dynamic flows of energy and momentum that are induced in the field. This can be seen most clearly in Lorentz's 1904 axiomatic explanation of the null result of the Trouton-Noble experiment, and Laue's later clarification in terms of the flows of energy and momentum of the field itself. The absence of first-order aberration in the direction of the force is seen to be a direct consequence of the local conservation of energy and momentum at every point.
This lack of aberration is obviously a necessary feature of any relativistic theory, as can be seen from examining simple interactions from different frames of reference. For example, we know the electrostatic force exerted on a uniformly moving test particle by a "stationary" charge always points directly toward the source, because the field is spherically symmetrical about the source. But we can just as well regard the test particle as "stationary", in which case the source is moving uniformly. If the force point toward the retarded position in this circumstance (i.e., with a moving source), this would signify that the laws governing electromagnetic force are different, depending on whether the source or the test particle is considered to be at rest. Empirically we find that the force exerted on the test particle always points directly toward the source at the present instant (in terms of any system of inertial coordinates). With a stationary source this is as we intuitive expect, but it may seem surprising for a moving source, because we know changes in the field propagate at the speed of light, rather than instantaneously. How does the test particle "know" where the source is at the present instant, if it can only be influenced by the source at some finite time in the past, allowing for the finite speed of propagation of the field? The answer is that the electromagnetic force function depends not only on the source's relative position, but also on the derivative of the position (i.e., the velocity). The condition of Lorentz invariance of the force law is precisely the condition that the velocity effect cancels out the lag in position, but of course this applies only as long as the source and the test particle continue to move uniformly. If either of them is accelerated, the "knowledge" of this propagates from one to the other at the speed of light.
An even more impressive example of the position-lag cancellation effects involves the "force of gravity" on a massive test particle orbiting a much more massive source of gravity, such as the Earth orbiting the Sun. In the case of Einstein's gravitational field equations the field interaction depends not only on the position and velocity but also on the acceleration, so the aberration cancels out not only to the first-order (as in electromagnetism) but also to the second-order. Thus the "force of gravity" on an orbiting body points almost exactly in the direction of the gravitating source at the present instant, even though the source (e.g., the Sun) is actually undergoing non-uniform motion. In the two-body problem, both objects actually orbit around the common center of mass, so the Sun (for example) actually proceeds in a circle, but the "force of gravity" exerted on the Earth effectively anticipates this motion (to the second order).
The reason the phase cancellation extends one order higher for gravity than for electromagnetism is the same reason that Maxwell's equations predict dipole waves, whereas Einstein's equations only support quadrupole (or higher) waves. Waves will necessarily appear in the same order at which phase cancellation no longer applies. For electrically charged particles we can generate waves by any kind of acceleration, because electromagnetism exists within the spacetime metric provided by the field equations, and we can accelerate a charged object by interaction with neutral objects. In contrast, we can't produce gravitational waves by the simplest kind of "acceleration" of a mass, because there is no background reference to unambiguously define dipole acceleration, and any manipulation of a mass must be performed by some other mass. The Einstein field equations have an extra degree of freedom (so to speak) that prevents simple dipole acceleration from having any "traction". It is necessary to apply quadrupole acceleration, so that the two dipoles can act on each other to yield a propagating effect.
A two-body system such as the Sun and the Earth produces very little gravitational radiation, and accordingly has nearly perfect compensation for the position-lag, so the Earth's gravitational acceleration always points directly toward the Sun's position at the present instant, rather than (say) the Sun's position eight minutes ago. Of course, if the Sun were to suddenly split into two parts that recoiled from each other, the effect of such a disturbance in the Sun's gravitational field would propagate at the speed of light. Thus the fact that the Earth's gravitational acceleration always points directly at the Sun's present position does not imply that the "force of gravity" is transmitted instantaneously. It merely implies that there are velocity and acceleration terms in the interaction (corresponding to the dynamics of the gravitational field) that effectively cancel out the position lag in a simple periodic pattern of motion.


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Radiation Therapy Physics, 3rd Edition
472 pages
September 2004
Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition.
Preface to the First Edition.
1. Atomic Structure and Radioactive Decay.
2. Production of X Rays.
3. Interactions of X Rays and Gamma Rays.
4. Radiation Units.
5. Measurement of Ionizing Radiation.
6. Calibration of Megavoltage Beams of X Rays and Electrons.
7. Dosimetry of Radiation Fields.
8. Treatment Planning by Manual Methods.
9. Diagnostic Imaging and Applications to Radiation Therapy.
10. Computer Systems.
11. Computer Based Treatment Planning.
12. Sources for Implant Therapy.
13. Brachytherapy Treatment Planning.
14. Radiation Protection.
15. Quality Assurance.
16. Advances in Radiation Therapy.
Answers to Selected Problems.
Author Information
Dr. Geoffrey Ibbott is Associate Professor and Chief in the Outreach Physics Section of the Department of Radiation Physics at UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Dr. Eric Hendee works in the Radiation Oncology Department at Waukesha Memorial Hospital.
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Utah Juice Bar Charges Liberal Customers A Dollar Extra For Smoothies
The "I Love Drilling" Juice Bar in Vernal, Utah proudly tacks a surcharge on to the smoothies they make for openly liberal customers.
1. This is George Burnett, he runs the "I Love Drilling" Juice Bar in Vernal, Utah.
2. After five years in Vernal, Burnett has become something of a local celebrity for his controversial juice bar.
3. At the "I Love Drilling Juice Bar" liberal customers pay an extra dollar for smoothies.
4. The extra dollar that liberal customers pay is donated towards "conservative causes."
5. His facebook page is full of positive comments with only a few detractors to Burnett's pricing structure.
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I'd like to see a generic callback mechanism in that I want to be able
to write my own dispatcher for TLS extensions. I also want to be able
to call something to put my own extension data in place per-SSL_CTX.=20
(I want to be able to violate the TLS extension specification, if only
to verify that my application is talking to another instance of
itself, using a high-numbered extension. I'm surprised that the TLS
extension authors didn't create an 'experimental' range of extension
numbers -- it's going to take separate IETF action to reserve a small
Just because a lot of applications don't want to know how SSL/TLS is
done doesn't mean that all of them don't.
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On 2/2/06, Peter Sylvester <email@example.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello,
> The problem is that extensions may require modification of the internal
> states
> of openssl, or at least have to interfere with it in some cases. Or, in
> other words,
> extension doesn't mean that either all extensions are logically
> equivalent because
> they are indicated with some number in the hellos, some are extensions
> of the
> protocol which may be done with almost no interaction with the applicatio=[/color]
> Example, treating the maximum packet size. It would mean that an applicat=[/color]
> would call a SSL_set_hello_extension to set the value of the extension.
> Well,
> ok, but then openssl has to check first, whether it needs additional
> logic to support
> the required extension in any way, but how can it know this?
> I also have the feeling that applications don't really want to
> understand how
> the ssl protocols happens, and neither how encodings are done, but
> rather just
> interfere as either providing parameters or being called at an
> appropriate instance.
> To me it seems too low level to allow applications to interfere with the
> protocol data, I'd prefer an API for some abstract service with set/get
> functions
> and callbacks, i.e., following exactly the same logic as with
> 'normal/standard' features.
> Thus, each "extension" is independant and needs support code. What has be=[/color]
> attempted in the current snapshot is to concentrate the
> encoding/decoding stuff
> in one place where the appropriate encoding/decoding would be added for n=[/color]
> extensions, and then, add the required logic where it has to be added.
> The global compile option of whether tls extensions are supported may not
> really be necessary unless one really has a small footprint problem.
> Well, this is my current state of thinking, the code in the devel snapsho=[/color]
> is experimental, and the core team may change it at any time.
> Am I right that your current patch only provides a callback for ONE
> extension?
> Regards
> Peter[/color]
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IN MARCH last year a man named Keith Rogers was shot dead on the forecourt of a petrol station at Cullaville, County Armagh, in Northern Ireland. He was buried with full IRA honours, his casket draped in the Irish tricolour and the cortège accompanied by men in black berets and dark glasses. Keith Rogers was the latest Provisional IRA volunteer to be killed in action.
With the formal IRA ceasefire a decade old this month - and with Tony Blair and the Irish prime minister, Bertie Ahern, due to meet early next month to discuss how to wind up the IRA's military wing - it could be that Keith Rogers, acting as part of a Provo punishment squad when he was shot, will enter the republican pantheon as the very last IRA man to die in a bloody conflict that has lasted, depending on where you begin, over a century.
The past ten years have certainly seen a transformation for the good in Northern Ireland. Gone are the almost-daily bombings that once reduced central Belfast to a clone of war-torn Beirut. Massive urban redevelopment, funded by the British taxpayer, has turned Belfast into the rival of any contemporary mainland city, with a new convention centre, designer bars and the usual interchangeable brand names on the shops. Folk can go out at night without fear of being machine-gunned because of their religion.
True, the ceasefire has had its wobbles. Some 185 people have been killed since it came into force. There was the 17-month lapse through 1996 and 1997, during which the Provos bombed Canary Wharf in London. That episode was patched over in the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, yet there remain the incessant punishment beatings and knee-cappings, conducted by both sides. The street clashes at Drumcree show that communal hatreds remain ingrained, but in recent years even the traditional Orange marching season has seemed less tension-ridden.
Normality is seeping back into Northern Ireland inch by inch, year by year, even if the two communities remain more separated, geographically and socially, than blacks and whites in apartheid South Africa.
Ten years on, the biggest fly in the political ointment is exemplified by Keith Rogers, the last Provo to die on active service. Rogers was 24 when he was shot. That would have made him 15 when the IRA ceasefire began, too young to have been accepted into the Provisionals. In other words, Rogers must have been recruited, trained and sent on "active service" after the ceasefire. Keith Rogers is proof the IRA has not been in hibernation. New weapons have been acquired, even if a few old ones have been decommissioned.
Above all, the IRA has maintained its intelligence network, researching targets, human or otherwise. In October 2002, Sinn Fein's offices at the Stormont Assembly building were raided by police investigating an IRA intelligence-gathering operation inside the Assembly itself aimed at civil servants and Unionist Assembly members - hardly suggestive of an irrevocable turn to democratic politics. Two weeks later, the then Secretary of State, John Reid, was forced to announce the return of direct rule from London.
The paradox is that, despite the continued existence of the IRA, the Republicans want peace. A quarter of a century of armed struggle got them no nearer the end of partition and the republican community grew weary of the sacrifice. Besides, the boom in the Republic, and the remorseless demographic tide in the North that sees the Catholic population within an inch of becoming a majority, spell a far more permanent historic death knell for Unionism than the Armalite.
Then why the continuing IRA activity? Partly it is historical inertia; partly distrust of the Unionists. And it is a way for the republican leader, Gerry Adams, to keep the IRA hotheads otherwise engaged while Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing, gets on with the real business of elections. Yet even Adams realises things must move on if he is to capitalise on becoming the largest nationalist party in the North. Recently, he described the continuing existence of the IRA as an excuse for Unionists to veto political progress, and said that excuse must be removed.
But Adams has two difficulties. First, can he exercise sufficient control over the military wing to ensure it does not threaten the ceasefire? Ten quiet years have seen many volunteers more likely to enjoy an evening in front of the telly than training in some Fermanagh bog. Sinn Fein's own electoral successes have helped, relegating the IRA to junior partner for the first time. This shift in the balance of forces has been cemented by a move unique in the IRA's history: the leaders of Sinn Fein are now also the military leadership.
A majority of the Provisional IRA's Army Council also are elected Sinn Fein politicians. As a result, the military wing is under firm civilian control, while the two tiny republican splinter groups, the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA, remain isolated.
Adams's second problem is what to do with the volunteers if the IRA is disbanded. He would prefer something which avoids any suggestion of surrender. One idea being mentioned is to accept a demilitarised but legal IRA as a sort of old comrades' association, with veterans being free to attend commemorations and bury old comrades.
All sides now realise that the only way forward - including the return of the Assembly, which everyone wants - is to make some decisive breakthrough on disbanding the IRA. The wild card is the emergence of Ian Paisley's DUP as the largest Unionist party, following last November's Assembly elections. At the coming talks, the DUP will be responsible for the first time for representing the Unionist side, led by Peter Robinson, Paisley's heir-apparent.
Last week, Gerry Adams warned the DUP against making impossible demands. "They cannot set the bar at Heaven's height". But Adams appeared to hint at some compromise on his side, changing his terminology from negotiating the "decommissioning" of IRA weapons to "standing down" the organisation. In the coded world of republican-speak, that signified that Adams was willing at last formally to discuss disbanding the Provos.
However, it remains to be seen if the DUP can make the transition from rejectionist front to deliverer of a final settlement; ie, turning the present armed truce into a genuine peace. Discussions will hinge around the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), successor to the old Royal Ulster Constabulary. Sinn Fein still refuses to recognise the PSNI or participate in running it, though they want the devolution of security powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly. The DUP might just trade Sinn Fein's accepting the PSNI for a formula to ease out the IRA.
Adams says that Sinn Fein's acceptance of the PSNI "would be a bigger strategic compromise than the Good Friday Agreement", because in effect it means the IRA will give up punishment beatings and rely on the PSNI to uphold the law in Republican strongholds. But Sinn Fein's embrace of the PSNI also could provide a solution to how to disband the IRA. The younger, more active IRA volunteers - "the testosterone brigade" in local parlance - could be encouraged to join the PSNI's part-time local reserve.
The result could see former Provos and former RUC members patrolling the same streets together. Stranger things have happened in the strange world of Northern Ireland politics.


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The city's only downtown movie is expanding its options for customers....
Cinema Center is a city asset. Thanks to Digiplex for this improvement.
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I am not aware which movies or how often you have seen movies in the downtown digiplex muncy; however, I have seen quite a few and have no complaints about the patrons. May I suggest you try it again. I believe you just had a bad experience that does not reflect the quality of the theater.
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The problem with the Cinema Center is not that there are not enough screens. Its the trashy people from Williamsport who go there - texting and talking (yes, talking) on their phones during the movie, talking to each other loudly, being rude. This behavior could happen at the mall theater also but it doesn't... 1. because the trashy people don't ride the bus to come there as often and 2. the managers/employees at the mall take of issues when something is brought to their attention. An employee needs to be stationed in the theater to get rid of people who are acting like fools. Until then, the Cinema Center is a joke.
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Some $61 million in wrongful death claims have been filed by the family of a man shot to death in April by a Stanislaus County sheriff's deputy.
The deputy was responding to a 911 family dispute call at a Keyes home when he was confronted by 32-year-old George Ramirez. The deputy tried to subdue him with a stun gun before shooting Ramirez.
The Modesto Bee says claims filed on Oct. 11 say Deputy Art Parra Jr. used unreasonable deadly force on a man with mental problems. Such claims are usually precursors to lawsuits.
A San Francisco legal firm filed a $15 million claim on behalf of Ramirez. Other claims filed on behalf of his parents, teenage brother and another family member each seek $10 million to $12 million.


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Abusing Tina Turner Never Goes Out of Style
Unless your name is Alan Parsons or Trevor Horn, Phil Spector owns your ass when it comes to producing hit songs. Just a sample of his body of work:
Unfortunately, that last part tends to be the only one people focus on these days. That's why I'm going to bet his recent speech at Ike Turner's funeral was more of a diversionary tactic than anything else. In case you're unaware, here's a brief rundown of Ike Turner's career:
I'm not saying those two facts have anything to do with one another, I'm just broadly implying it.
Spector did a good job spreading the shit around, insulting Tina Turner, Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, and Eric Clapton. I guess he just really hates menopausal black women.
That, or the fact that in the later seasons of Next Generation, Whoopi totally sucked up all of Riker's screen time. No, wait, that's why I hate Whoopi Goldberg.
Spector called Tina Turner's book (and the resulting film) pieces of trash, credited Ike with making her the jewel that she was, claimed Ike could play circles around Eric Clapton, and Eric knew it, and said he had an ambivalence about Oprah Winfrey. Well, I think we all do Phil.
But when you get down to it, what did the accused murderer love so much about the drug-addled wife beater? In his own words He never, ever bothered me. He never interfered with me. He never got in my way.
And we all know what happens to people who get in Phil Spector's way.