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by Aaron L. Gronstal for Astrobiology Magazine
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2014
The Sun was once thought to provide energy for all life on Earth - meaning that life could not survive without it. In the 20th century, as astrobiologists began to explore the Earth's most remote and harsh environments, scientists began to question that assumption.
We now know that numerous microorganisms are able to obtain the energy they need for life through chemical reactions that do not involve sunlight. These incredible organisms can be found in many environments - from sediments below the dark ocean floor to microscopic pockets of water inside solid rock.
Many questions about these microbial ecosystems remain. How do microbes get into the deep subsurface in the first place? Are communities capable of growing, or do they just sort of sit there in the rock recycling nutrients and carbon from dead cells? How much of the deep biosphere is actually living, and how much of it is just dead matter trapped in the slow, grinding motion of our planet's geology?
Field studies have revealed that subsurface microorganisms can and do live active lives, even when buried kilometers under the surface. But we're still not entirely sure how large the living subsurface biosphere is, how deep it actually goes, and how it originated.
Previous Studies: A Community Harvest
Previously, scientists have tried to define the depth limit for life based on environmental constraints like temperature. In general, the environment gets hotter and hotter as you get closer and closer to the Earth's core. Life simply cannot survive when it gets too hot. However, it's hard to tell just how close to that boundary a living community can get.
"The reality is that in order to live at high temperatures, you are forced to replace your proteins very frequently," said Tullis Onstott, a geoscience professor at Princeton University. "If you do not have enough metabolic energy to support that replacement then you, as an individual cell, cannot live."
High temperature environments can be challenging for life. Cellular components break down at an increased rate. If a cell cannot actively repair the damage, the conditions quickly take a turn toward the uninhabitable. Proteins stop working, causing metabolism to grind to a halt. Cell membranes, cell walls and DNA also begin to deteriorate. So it's not temperature alone that affects habitability, it also comes down to an organism's ability to repair the damage that high temperatures cause.
"You will die at a lower temperature even though under energy and nutrient-rich situations you can live at higher temperatures and to much greater depths," said Onstott. "The most important constraint that this places on deep life is its abundance as a function of depth."
The depth and abundance of living organisms in Earth's subsurface depends on how active they are, and how quickly they can repair and reproduce. This is a question of resources and energy. Previous studies have often focused on the resource part of the question - specifically the resource of organic carbon.
Carbon is a major building block of life on Earth, so microbes need carbon in order to build more microbes. In order to double the number of living cells in the community, the microbes need to harvest enough carbon. Carbon, like most resources in the subsurface, is limited; and a microbe's ability to grab it has to do with its metabolism. One of the principal research foci for deep subsurface life is to utilize biogeochemical models to estimate the in situ metabolic rates and then from these rates estimate the in situ anabolic rate.
"Directly determining the in situ anabolic rate is important for two reasons," said Onstott. "The first is that it tells how quickly cells may be dividing and this is an important parameter when discussing how quickly life is evolving in the subsurface. The second is that it also tells you indirectly about the in situ metabolic rate, which then constrains the biogeochemical rate. The latter is particularly difficult to estimate in hard fractured rock environments."
But here's the problem. Measuring the anabolic rate of microbial communities in situ (e.g. in their natural environment) is extremely difficult. Instead, scientists have traditionally collected microbes from the environment and then grown them in the lab. Once the microbes are happily settled on a petri dish, you can measure their anabolic rate quite easily... but the lab is much different than their natural habitat.
"Any anabolic rate you measure in the lab tends to be a gross overestimate," explains Onstott.
The Energy Angle
In order to estimate the in situ metabolic rates of microbes in the subsurface, scientists have monitored the fluctuation of certain chemicals or minerals involved in the production of energy. Like us, microbes 'eat' things to get energy, and then produce waste. But instead of hamburgers (or veggie burgers if you prefer), a microbe might eat something like molecules of iron oxide. This changes the composition of minerals or chemicals in the subsurface. From these in situ metabolic rates scientists inferred the in situ anabolic rates expressed as doubling times (time required to accrue enough carbon to match that of the biomass).
Scientists first estimated the doubling times of subsurface microbes using this approach in the early 1990s, and they found it to be an incredible 1,400 to 150,000 years in subsurface water at just 200 meters depth! However, in 2005 another study found doubling times - in sediments up to 34 meters below the sea floor to be far less - an average of around 10 months..
A New Method
The team developed a method based on this concept that uses the amino acid aspartic acid. Aspartic acid is a chiral molecule, which means it exists in two forms that are "mirror-images" of one another. Living cells produce a lot of 'left-handed' L-aspartic acid, but it also can also exist as 'right-handed,' D-aspartic acid. If life didn't have a preference, there would theoretically be equal amounts of the both L and D forms. But when more L-aspartic acid is found in samples, it's a good sign that you've found an environment with living cells that are making it. However, environmental pressures are always trying to bring the levels of L- and D- aspartic acid into balance - a process called racemization.
"Of all the amino acids, aspartic acid has the greatest racemization rate," Onstott explains. "Its abundance in prokaryotic proteins is typically 6 to7%, even for subsurface genomes."
This process of racemization is dangerous for cells.
"Prokaryotic proteins (as opposed to peptides in the cell wall) require L-aspartic acid," says Onstott. "If even a tiny fraction of the L-aspartic acid converts to D-aspartic acid, the protein begins to deactivate. As the protein deactivates the substrate that acts as the promoter for this protein will begin to increase, thereby increasing expression of that protein in order to replace the deactivated ones."
Replacing damaged proteins costs a lot of energy and resources. In many Earth environments, this isn't a problem for microorganisms because there are plenty of resources to go around. But for a cell struggling to survive in the deep subsurface, where the local grocery store is always low on supplies or they are difficult to reach, it's a different story.
"Proteins form half of the cellular biomass," said Onstott. "The replacement of deactivated proteins therefore is a significant energy demand on thermophiles in any environment. For certain environments, like hot springs or deep sea vents, the energy flux is sufficient to support this replacement activity to extremely high temperatures. But in the deep terrestrial subsurface, the energy flux is lower."
The rate at which racemization of aspartic acid happens can be calculated based on environmental conditions, and it's particularly tied to temperature. You can calculate the amount of damaged proteins a cell will experience over time. You can also calculate the amount of energy they need to replenish damaged proteins. Together, these calculations give you a number for the minimum amount of energy that a microbial biomass needs in order to replace their racemized proteins and survive.
Shedding a Light on the Dark
"Previous methods have an uncertainty of three orders of magnitude," said Onstott.
This uncertainty comes primarily from not knowing what fraction of the total cell population is alive and uncertainties having to do with the biogeochemical rates, the principal metabolic processes, the average cellular mass and the growth yield.
This list of missing data can be filled for other environments where it is easier and cheaper to obtain samples. But sampling the subsurface requires expensive drilling programs or access to deep tunnels where cores can be taken. Even when samples are collected, they're often from a very small section of the local environment (a drill core can be only centimeters in diameter). Because so little is known about the subsurface environment, these assumptions are a major barrier to our understanding of this unique habitat for life.
"Our approach is a direct measure of both the protein doubling time and the active biomass, and does not rely on any of these assumptions," said Onstott. "This approach is particularly powerful for mesophilic (moderate temperature) to hyperthermophilic (extremely hot) environments in the subsurface where it is difficult to constrain the biogeochemical rates."
The Heat of the Deep
The researchers found that turnover of amino acid inside cells would take about 89 years at a depth 1 kilometer, where temperatures reached 27 C. At 3 kilometers deep and 57 C, it would take less than 1 to 2 years. This is much faster than previous estimates at this depth based on biogeochemical models. The numbers also point to the potential for hyperthermophiles living in the subsurface at 85 C.
At 85 C, cells have to replenish their proteins very quickly - about every few days. This is a lot of maintenance for a cell to undertake, and the researchers believe that it might be the cells' ability to perform this protein replacement that limit communities at these depths.
This changes the traditional model of how deep microbes can live on Earth. The resource availability when combined with the requirement for protein replacement limits the number of microorganisms in Earth's deep, hot subsurface.
"This study indicates that the deep biosphere may comprise a smaller portion of Earth's living biomass than originally believed," says Onstott.
Deep Origins and Comparative Planetology
The new study could provide some further insight into these theories. The first point is that a high level of L-amino acids in the deep, hot subsurface (instead of equal L- and D- forms) is likely to be impossible without life.
Even if L-amino acids were produced by natural interactions between rock and water (without life), their formation wouldn't be able to keep up with the rate at which they were being racemized.
This suggests two things. First: "The development of non-racemic acids and the strong bias for L-amino acids in proteins is something that arose after the origin of life," said Onstott.
Basically, if the origin of life occurred in the deep subsurface, the first proto-cells must have not had a strong preference for L-amino acids because the balance of L- and D- versions would have been relatively equal at that time. Life's taste for L-amino acids would have come later in evolution.
And secondly: "If non-racemic amino acids are essential for the first proto-cells, then the origin of life could not have occurred in the deep subsurface," said Onstott. "Of course, deep sea vents where you may get formation of non-racemic acids at high temperature and rapid transport into a cold environment remains a viable option."
But even if it didn't begin there, the deep subsurface of Earth may have been a vital refuge for life when conditions at the surface were not as stable as they are today. For instance, the deep subsurface could have sheltered microorganisms from the global devastation of the Earth's surface by large or frequent asteroid impacts. In this way, life could have waited out the disaster in its subsurface bunker, biding its time to thrive another day when the mayhem at the surface cooled down.
The deep subsurface biosphere of Earth likely had a meaningful role in the evolution of our planet, and it also raises questions about the potential for life deep below the surface of other rocky bodies in the Solar System. We now know that liquid water was once present at the surface of Mars, and locations like the Curiosity rover's landing site in Gale Crater were theoretically capable of supporting habitats for life.
If life did gain a foothold on ancient Mars, could it have also gained a foothold in the subsurface of the red planet? And if that were the case, could life still be hiding deep below the martian topsoil, safe from harsh radiation or water sublimation, just biding its time to make an appearance at the surface once again?
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The Honda Racing F1 Team completed a four-day test at the Sepang International Circuit today in preparation for the Malaysian Grand Prix next weekend. The team ran one RA107 car for the event which was extended by a day due to wet conditions on ...
The Honda Racing F1 Team completed a four-day test at the Sepang International Circuit today in preparation for the Malaysian Grand Prix next weekend. The team ran one RA107 car for the event which was extended by a day due to wet conditions on Thursday.
Race drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello completed the majority of the running with Christian Klien rounding off the test programme for the final afternoon. Weather conditions for the majority of the week were extremely hot and humid providing the race drivers with a good opportunity to acclimatise ahead of the Grand Prix weekend.
Rubens began the test on Tuesday with an evaluation of the latest aerodynamic upgrades for the RA107 car. He completed 83 laps on a continually improving circuit, looking at the new aero package over longer runs as the day progressed.
Rubens continued his programme on Wednesday morning with early set-up work as the circuit cleaned up. Unfortunately, on his first full run, the car had an engine failure which caused it to stop out on the circuit. With a new engine fitted, Rubens completed an aero evaluation covering 35 laps. Jenson took over the test programme in the afternoon with early acclimatisation runs before working through a chassis set-up evaluation completing 24 laps.
Overnight rain meant that the track was wet for the majority of the morning session on Thursday therefore Jenson went out on wet tyres for the first time in the RA107 car. He then completed further aero evaluations alongside mechanical set-up work before a downpour soaked the track once again. Jenson therefore switched to wet tyres for a further two short runs, completing 95 laps in total.
Friday morning was once again hot and humid enabling Jenson to continue his planned aero work and he went on to complete 37 laps. Christian took over the car for the afternoon, however his running was affected by another heavy downpour after one run on dry tyres. He switched to wet tyres completing two runs to end the day with 24 laps.
Jenson Button:
"We have run through a lot of test items this week, mainly with new aero parts, trying to resolve some of the issues we had in Australia. The car definitely works better around the Sepang circuit, partly because braking stability is not as important here but also because we have made some improvements over the week. We have by no means solved everything yet and there is a long way to go but we have made a small step in the right direction. The weather has been up and down over my test days so I've also had the chance to experience some wet testing for the first time in the RA107 car."
Rubens Barrichello:
"We had a very busy programme in Sepang this week to work on the car and improve it from Australia. Aero work was the main focus along with controls systems comparisons where we have found some new direction. The new aero parts have given us some positive results in improving the balance of the car and the consistency but we know that we have a lot of work still to do."
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|CVE-2012-2113 libtiff: integer overflow in tiff2pdf leading to heap-buffer overflow when reading a tiled tiff file
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Description Karel Volný 2012-04-06 12:03:58 EDT
Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libtiff-3.9.4-5.el6_2 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. tiff2pdf poc.tif (where poc.tif is the file provided for testing CVE-2012-1173) Actual results: # tiff2pdf poc.tif II*%PDF-1.1 %���� 1 0 obj << /Type /Catalog /Pages 3 0 R >> endobj 2 0 obj << /CreationDate (D:20120406113719) /ModDate (D:20120406113719) /Producer (libtiff / tiff2pdf - 20100615) >> endobj 3 0 obj << /Type /Pages /Kids [ 4 0 R ] /Count 1 >> endobj 4 0 obj << /Type /Page /Parent 3 0 R /MediaBox [0.0000 0.0000 192.0000 145.6800] /Contents 5 0 R /Resources << /XObject << /Im1_1 7 0 R /Im1_2 9 0 R /Im1_3 11 0 R >> /ProcSet [ /ImageC ] >> >> endobj 5 0 obj << /Length 6 0 R >> stream q 192.0000 0.0000 0.0000 61.4400 0.0000 84.2400 cm /Im1_1 Do Q q 192.0000 0.0000 0.0000 61.4400 0.0000 22.8000 cm /Im1_2 Do Q q 192.0000 0.0000 0.0000 22.8000 0.0000 0.0000 cm /Im1_3 Do Q endstream endobj 6 0 obj 191 endobj 7 0 obj << /Length 8 0 R /Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Name /Im1_1 /Width 800 /Height 256 /BitsPerComponent 8 /ColorSpace /DeviceRGB >> stream Segmentation fault (core dumped) Expected results: (some sane error message, no segfault) Additional info: This affects also RHEL5.
Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-04-09 01:59:17 EDT
Here is some analysis of this issue: When the tiff file is read in tif_dirread.c in function TIFFReadDirectory() the following code snippet is used: if (isTiled(tif)) { tif->tif_tilesize = TIFFTileSize(tif); TIFFTileSize() calls TIFFVTileSize(), here the following multiplications occurs: tilesize = multiply(tif, nrows, TIFFTileRowSize(tif), "TIFFVTileSize"); In the case of this repro, this makes tilesize as 2147483648, and then later return ((tsize_t) multiply(tif, tilesize, td->td_tiledepth, "TIFFVTileSize")); Here td->td_tiledepth = -1, this makes tilesize as -2147483648, which is assigned to tif->tif_tilesize Later when the tile is read via TIFFReadEncodedTile(), it calls DumpModeDecode() with cc = -2147483648, which inturn calls _TIFFmemcpy() which is a wrapper around mempcy and the size of in this case is -2147483648. This results in a buffer overflow and libtiff crashes.
Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-04-09 02:08:55 EDT
So to summarise the above, this is essentially a type-conversion issue, leading to a heap-buffer overflow. multiply() return a uint32, but tilesize is tsize_t which is int32, in our case this results in a positive integer being cast as negative.
Comment 6 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-04-09 02:47:37 EDT
Created attachment 576121 [details]
I am not totally familiar with libtiff code, but this patch seems to work and does not produce any visible regressions
Comment 7 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-04-09 02:53:35 EDT
Tom, Hi, can you verify the above analysis and patches, also we need to send this upstream. Thanks.
Comment 8 Tom Lane 2012-04-11 12:18:41 EDT
I talked to upstream and they don't seem to have any better ideas than what I mentioned in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803078#c6, viz adding checks in TIFFVTileSize and TIFFVStripSize for negative result. So I'll push forward on that. t2p_read_tiff_size needs work too.
Comment 10 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-04-17 00:30:46 EDT
Tom, ping, any news from upstream about this?
Comment 11 Tom Lane 2012-04-17 16:50:50 EDT
Created attachment 578148 [details]
patch for uint32 vs tsize_t problems in libtiff 3.9
Comment 12 Tom Lane 2012-04-17 16:52:01 EDT
Created attachment 578149 [details]
patch for lack of overflow checking in tiff2pdf (3.9)
Comment 13 Tom Lane 2012-04-17 16:59:29 EDT
I have written and tested patches for the two issues we are dealing with here. I think that we should actually treat them as two separate issues (two CVEs), because a look into the source code shows that the tsize_t problem is already fixed by upstream in libtiff 4.0.x. So the first one only applies to 3.x releases, while the second is still applicable to 4.0. I also notice that upstream's handling of the first matter in 4.0 is such that they will reject negative signed values for strip/tile sizes, which means that they have already accepted the limitation of buffer sizes not larger than 2GB on 32-bit machines. So that makes me less concerned about back-patching a similar limitation into 3.x. I need to adjust the tiff2pdf patch for the 4.0 code base and then send all three patches upstream; I will ask them about embargo dates when I do that (probably tomorrow). We will also have a bit of work to do to back-port these patches into older 3.x releases, so there's a bit of work to do yet before we're ready anyhow.
Comment 14 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-04-18 01:19:18 EDT
Splitting the CVEs here: CVE-2012-2088: This is for the type conversion flaw, which affects 3.x, but is fixed in upstream 4.0 CVE-2012-2113: This one is for integer overflow in tiff2pdf, which affects all versions.
Comment 22 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-06-18 00:28:35 EDT
(In reply to comment #14) > Splitting the CVEs here: > > CVE-2012-2088: This is for the type conversion flaw, which affects 3.x, but > is fixed in upstream 4.0 > > CVE-2012-2113: This one is for integer overflow in tiff2pdf, which affects > all versions. Based on the above, it makes more sense to split the bugs as well, since these issues are essentially different. This bug is going to be used for CVE-2012-2113
Comment 24 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-06-18 00:58:56 EDT
Created libtiff tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 832866]
Comment 29 errata-xmlrpc 2012-07-03 05:30:27 EDT
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2012:1054 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1054.html
Comment 30 Fedora Update System 2012-07-15 17:25:39 EDT
libtiff-3.9.6-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 31 Fedora Update System 2012-07-15 17:26:47 EDT
libtiff-3.9.6-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 34 Mark J. Cox (Product Security) 2012-08-22 06:20:21 EDT
Acknowledgement: This issue was found by Karel Volný of Red Hat Quality Engineering.


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I've got a stainless-steel pot that I use to sear things in and finish in the oven (not ideal, I know, but it's all I've got for the time being and it is oven-safe). I've done this in the past and while it takes some effort have always been able to get the bottom of the pan shiny and clean.
This time, however, there is a very persistent brownish-black ring at the bottom that I can't seem to remove (short of scratching it with the tines of a metal fork, which I did to get the worst off). I don't think it's really crusted food, since it barely registers when I run my finger over it, but rather some sort of..."burnt". Like an oily residue.
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The second event of the O'Neill Tahoe Cup Race Series was held at North Lake Tahoe this past weekend. The Jam From The Dam was met with optimal conditions making the race a pleasure for both competitors and spectators alike.
The sun was out all day with temperatures in the mid 60's at the start and in the mid 80's by the time the last competitors were crossing the finish. The Jam from the Dam is the only race of the series to have a separate start and finish. The 6-mile race started at Commons Beach in Tahoe City where competitors paddled northeast, cutting across coves and hugging points to the finish at Waterman's Landing in Carnelian Bay.
O'Neill's own Rob Rojas took 1st place in the Men's Unlimited division. He was on point and determined to win and the results showed it. Rob finished over 5 minutes before the next racer Seth Springer, who was followed by Rand carter a minute later. Rob started out the morning by paddling from the finish to the start, which may have helped his victory. "It was great! I really got to check out the course and get a solid warm up before the race" said Rojas, when he was asked about his 6 am trip to the start.
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The idea and style of this series is wryly amusing, slightly odd, which I am sure is exactly what they intended.
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Loving this series. Especially since the thumbnails set those old alarm bells ringing. All of them make a double-take a must, to sort out that contradiction between what you expect and actually get. Then the understated little card in the corner. This is delightful work.
Not really, where??
Mm.. i think i may have seen something.. you mean the piece of wood hanging on the wall??
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MAPCO products have been sold with enormous success in Germany since 1977. the last 40 years millions of MAPCO products have been fitted to a multitude of different vehicle applications. Customer satisfaction still commands the highest priority. Originally founded as a PLC in France, the company now coordinates its entire activities as MAPCO Autotechnik GmbH from its headquarters in Borkheide, near Berlin, GERMANY.
MAPCO has made itself a name in the last three decades all over Europe as a brake specialist. Although the total sales programme for other automotive replacement parts has been dramatically extended during this period, MAPCO has not neglected its original specialism and has continually developed and enhanced its range of brake parts.
MAPCO steering and suspension parts have been available to the German market since 1985. However the programme entered its most dynamic growth phase, leading up to the impressive dimensions which have now been reached, from 1995 onwards. The new technologies for front and rear axle constructions introduced by the vehicle manufacturers in the Nineties, has lead led to an explosive growth in the market potential for these replacement parts. Far in excess of 3500 individual items are carried in this product group. The corresponding catalogue with original photos and illustrations is clearly presented and practice-oriented. The quality, price and availability of these parts set new standards in the marketplace.
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We enjoyed our stay at "le Chardon Bleu" very much. The owners are very hospitable (offering us a nightcap on our late arrival) so we prolonged our stay. We very much recommand the Chef of the hotel, who won several haute cuisine prizes (displayed on the restaurantwalls). From the restaurant we had a beautiful view on the valley of the Bonne. From our breakfast terrace we looked upon a beautifull medieval stagecoach auberge. We did fantastic walks ( f.i. along a historic water canal embedded in the mountainsides) and bicycling tours up the pastoral valleys of de Col d´Ornon and Col de la Morte. Ending our days at the nearby swimming lake. For us a great tranquil place for active leisure to return to. Thanks Lisette en Rokus, the Netherlands
The service was superb, we had dinner there one night which was excellent and great value. The location for the slopes is excellent also. We would recommend this hotel as an excellent place to stay. i wouldn't recommend this hotel for families though, it's definitely a couples or group hotel.
Easy access, easy going. Please open the bar before 5pm...
lovely friendly staff but the hotel was a little 'tired'
The location was excellent. They were very helpful with our late arrival and spoke excellent English. They also did not require a week long stay as many other places in the area did. This had to be one of the smallest "family" rooms we have ever stayed in for the price. The breakfast was also very minimal even for a "continental" breakfast in Europe.
Great loctaion The bar closed at a different times every evening depending on the social life of the staff!
The price and the location
good location the rooms were far to osmall for the amount that we paid and smelled of mould. i think that the carpets needed replacing.
Excellent staff,location and food was varied and of excellent quality My husband is 6ft 3 so was unable to shut loo door as so small!
Great location - perfect for hiking, amazing views from the hotel and the whole village. Very friendly staff, always willing to help. In total - great place for active holiday
The staff were very accomodating
Comfortable room, good breakfast, excellent staff, activity programme Buffet dinner service
Convenient access to Les 2 Alpes slopes and lifts, good prices, inclusion of half board buffet which was relatively good considering the price. Also the bar is very nice and the selection of local wines was good.
The food was good. There was no service whatsoever, the staff did not have a clue about anything, they couldn't give any information about anything in the village, no taxi service or taxi's to call and located half way up the mountain gave us no option to go out in the evenings. No babysitting service or could they offer any help in getting someone, so I asked in another hotel in village who where more then happy to help even though I was not staying there! Babysitting service was stated on the website. No pool or gym which i was made to believe from the website, and one of the reasons i booked this hotel. I could go on and on, very disapointed in hotel, and would strongly advice to stay away from.
Clean, comfortable and good value
The staff was very nice and helpful. The hotel has a magnificent view from the rooms with balcony and in general is very well located. Some room equipment could be renovated.
Very good staff. Good quality food. Room was small and the lifts were very slow.
Very nice, confortable hotel Room didn't have a view
The hotel was very clean, comfortable, quite and charming. Extremely helpful and friendly staff. Nice spa. The rooms were quite small.
The location was not the best, and the description on the website was not clear enough.
THe room was terrible. It is old and smelled with cigarettes.I would only go back for the food in the restaurant. It was magnificent!
Good location. Quiet. Friendly staff. Excellent value menu with very good food. Good basic facilities as one night stop-over en route. Good value overall.
Beautiful location overlooking the old town of La Mure - friendly staff -comfortable room - small pool - excellent dinner menus from ? 17.50 - substantial buffet breakfast None
Excellent food, interesting menu (Gratin of Donkey's Ears!!!) The rooms were fine but were beginning to look a bit tired and in need of sprucing up.
Good kitchen. Helpful and nice staff who tried to understand
We were pleased with the friendliness and helpfulness of the staff
its a nice place ,beutful landscape, nice village near by, swimming pool,friendly staff,good food. The missing of english spoken staff.(it was better before)
The food, we had breakfast and dinner, is very good and the staff very friendly. Every evening there was a very good menu and if you didn't like something it could be changed. We had the Superior Room. Easy access from and to the slopes from. Great hotel!! There is(was) some missinformation on the booking.com website about a discount for this hotel. There is no discount for this hotel. No fault of the hotel.
Food and location in Les Deux Alpes
Excellent food and great location in the resort. The rooms are small,the bathroom is tiny and the wifi was very spotty, and did not work at all in the rooms. In 2011, when people sometimes have to check in and work when on vacation, not having wifi in the rooms was really a huge inconvenience. For this reason alone, I probably won't be able to go back, despite the fact that I loved the food and liked the hotel.
the hotel was warm, well laid out. nobody on reception at 4pm - maybe this is normal. i didn't receive a late key until after the second night.
The hotel is well located at the top end of the ski resort (at the Vanosc end). It is opposite the public elevator that takes you down to the part of the village where you then walk (2 minutes) to the Diable chairlift. It is also next to a staircase that takes you up to the chairlift on the other side of the village, so you have easy access to both sides of the mountains. The hotel is also only a 5 minute walk from the bus stop (Drop Off point Number 4 on the coach company map). The hotel has a cellar storage room for skis and stuff with lockable cupboards to secure your skis/snowboard. There is also a ground floor door from the cellar direct to the street outside. The rooms at the front have a generous balcony. To get to the hotel reception you have to climb a set of outside stairs (or the internal stairs from the basement). Although I was staying on the ground floor (Reception Level) I noticed there was no lift to the upper floors so people with difficulty in climbing stairs may struggle. The hotel staff does help carry your bags to your room though. The hotel is located next to Smithy's Tavern so you should expect some singing in the early hours (around 0430 hrs!) as people leave the pub, but they quickly pass by.
Good Location
Hotel is well located and staff are helpful. Hotel is very basic, bathrooms are tiny.
There was somebody available at the reception at midnight to let us in at late arrival Far too expensive in regards to: size of the room - comfort -bathroom facilities
The location is perfect for all high mountain sports & scenery. The breakfast & Dinner were included & the food was great. Rob is an excellent chef & all the staff were very friendly & helpful.
Simply put we loved our stay at Le Cassini. We came for the Alpe D'Huez climb and I recommend all cyclists to stay here. The food was wonderful, the rooms charming, and the staff very friendly. You can't go wrong.
An extremely pleasant hotel in the most stunning of settings. The owners were extremely friendly and helpful and took the time to provide some excellent advice regarding he best places to ski in the area. The food was absolutely first class The only small complaint I would have would be the lack of tea and coffee making facilities in the rooms.
The hotel is one of those "little spots from heaven". It is very nice, you feel right at home, the food is superb and the service is excellent. They take you skiing in the morning and pick you up in the afternoon. For the after-ski the hotel has a very nice bar where you can have a drink while discussing daily events, while waiting for a superb diner.
The good things about the hotel are the hotel staff (they were very nice and helpful) and the food (the food was really excellent). On the other hand, the room was not very clean and there is absolutely nothing you can do in this village. You have to take a bus (15 - 25) minutes to reach Les Deux Alpes.
Excellent food and great service with warm and friendly staff. It was a great value for money and we can definitely recommend this hotel.
The owners were extremely helpful, food was delighful and the room was excellent. Rob and Dirk run a great place and I would happily stay there again.
The location in the alpes was perfect for out bike rides. We were able to access the classic climbs of the tour right from the hotel. Nothing, my expectations were exceeded in all areas.


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There is great potential to build on recent discussions to strengthen economic relations between Russia and the Latin American and Caribbean states. What are some of the key sectors where Russia and Latin America can jumpstart trade and investment? How might BRICS economies coordinate greater trade and investment in the region to the benefit of all? Can the use of an integrated currency and independent payments systems become a mobilizing factor for stable partnerships?
"We have relied on Russia's support for more than 30 years now. Nicaragua currently serves as a foothold for the development of relations between Latin American countries and Russia."
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By Rob Gillies, Associated Press Writer
TORONTO A formal government inquiry into allegations that former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney received money from an arms dealer while still in office will begin once a parliamentary panel completes its own probe, Canada's leader said Friday.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the announcement two days after receiving a report from David Johnston, a special adviser named to look into a scandal that has further sullied the reputation of an already unpopular conservative Mulroney.
Harper said two months ago that his government would investigate the charges, but said he wanted to wait for Johnston's recommendations on the scope of the inquiry before formally ordering it.
Harper's Conservative Party took power in a 2006 election after campaigning on the promise to clean up corruption in government. The previous Liberal Party administration had been tainted by a graft scandal.
Mulroney, who was prime minister from 1984 to 1993, has denied taking money while in office from businessman Karlheinze Schreiber to lobby on his behalf. He told a parliamentary committee last month that Schreiber would "say anything, sign anything, and do anything to avoid extradition."
Schreiber, who holds Canadian and German citizenship, is being sought by German prosecutors to face trial on charges of fraud, bribery and tax evasion. He was released on bail from a Canadian jail late last year.
Mulroney acknowledged accepting 225,000 Canadian dollars from Schreiber in a series of hotel room meetings in 1993 and 1994, but said it was after he left politics. He said the cash was for promoting Schreiber's private business dealings.
Mulroney's nine-year reign as prime minister came crashing down in 1993 when voters delivered a devastating election defeat to his Progressive Conservative Party, leaving it with just two seats in the 295-member House of Commons.
The defeat came amid widespread unhappiness over Canada's then-depressed economy, with its 11.2 percent unemployment rate, and over a new federal sales tax added on top of already high provincial sales taxes.
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Windows 7 gives IT professionals more tools to streamline deployment and reduce or eliminate impact to users. Join your Microsoft IT Evangelists for this free, full-day Firestarter Event and hear firsthand how to upgrade from Windows XP and solve your application compatibility issues. After lunch (included), learn about Finding, Testing, and Fixing Applications on Windows 7 with the Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.6 and end the day with some Advanced Deployment Scenarios Using the MDT 2010. Seating is limited – register today to reserve your seat!
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I just signed up for it. Looks cool.
Last time I was at one of these was for Office 2007 and won an xBox 360.
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As Blain, our Technet guru would say - SWEEET! Looking forward to seeing you there. Are you familar with where the Microsoft office is up here?
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Yes, the corner of Andrews and Cypress, across the Hooters!
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For all those who didn't make it to the event, here is a link to the deployment videos. YES, you can go directly from Windows XP to Windows 7 and retain the user information and docs...
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We are clients of the Raiffeisen bank. While filling up the bank cheque it is necessary to line 2 parallel lines on the blank space. It's hard without a ruler, and even with an ordinary one it doesn't feels comfortable. May be this ruler will help to solve the problem.
Idea, art direction and visualization project-management : Anton Guglya.
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Image matting tool cuts out objects in photos using an alpha-matting technique. While clear cuts can be found for all objects that are clearly separated from their environment, objects with fuzzy borders and semi-transparent areas don't have a clear outline. The tool creates an alpha channel that defines the degree to which the background shines through the foreground for every pixel. The background color can then be subtracted. The user defines a rough boundary of an object with a large brush and a high-quality segmentation is generated. Problematic areas can be edited manually.
Fotoxx navigates an image collection using a thumbnail browser to choose images to view or edit. Edit functions include brightness, contrast, color, gamma, white balance, tone mapping, red eyes, sharpen, blur, noise suppression, smart erase, trim (crop), resize, rotate, add text, bend/warp, many art effects, HDR, HDF, stack, and panorama. Edit functions use movable curves and sliders. Feedback is live using the whole image. RAW files can be edited and saved with deep color. Areas or objects can be selected using freehand draw, follow edge, and tone matching. Selections can be edited in place with adjustable blending. They can also be cut and pasted into other images. Any metadata can be edited, reported, and searched (filenames, tags, dates, geotags, comments, captions, ratings, etc.). Collections (arbitrary subsets) can be defined and viewed. Batch functions are available for rename, resize/export, RAW conversion, and more.
Arachne is program that implements Avidan and Shamir's seam carving technique for content-aware image resizing. It allows realtime, fluid image resizing using this fascinating technique. Seam carving works by removing the "boring bits" from an image, so it can change the aspect ratio of many images without changing the shape of the objects inside.
GTKRawGallery is a workflow-oriented photo retouching program with the necessary tools to quickly process camera raw images. It brings together Dcraw, Imagemagick, and Exiftool. Important features include an image browser and manager for popular formats, a full-featured Dcraw GUI for fine-tuned raw image pre-processing, image modification tools for 16-bit/channel post-processing, batch conversion with single workflow applicable, a batch processor to speed up the workflow, fast tagging, an advanced metadata editor with EXIF, IPTC, and XMP write support, color management, and print support, Facebook, Flickr, and Picasa Web Albums publishers, and a Dropbox uploader.
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The Ministry of Commerce ("MOFCOM")requested public comments by April 26, 2013 on draft provisions concerning the evaluation, negotiation, implementation, monitoring, reconsideration of the remedies used in the conditional approvals issued as a result of the pre-merger review process as well as related sanctions. Once the draft provisions are finalized, they will replace the 2010 interim provisions on the acquisition and divesture of assets.
This Emerging Issue Analysis was authored by attorneys from the Antitrust Practice Group of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP.
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Hey, Welcome to my first ever post on Instructables!
The Project you're about to read over is setting up a Raspberry Pi to use 'AirPlay' and how I used it, which clashes with the second part, the new life for my old radio.
Step 1: Collect up everything you need.
Whats a must for this project:
- Raspberry Pi (model B or later as you need a Ethernet connection)
- Ethernet cable
- SD card
- Power cable for the Pi
- The audio device you wish to play it though (speakers, Headphone's etc..)
- A way of writing to the SD card, that be a laptop or desktop.
- Its not a need, but music can be stored on a USB thumb drive and plugged into the Pi.
(Before continuing, make sure the SD in fully formatted as if not, it may affect the software.)
Step 2: Putting of the software on the SD card.
Now, not every one knows all the details of how to so this, so i'll explain in detail so everyone can understand.
First, head over to Volumio, click the download button at the top. Follow though on the 'sourceforge' page to download.Make sure to save to copy it over to the desktop to make the next steps easier.
Next, Scroll down to the 'Flash it' section it and click on 'Win32DiskImager' (which is in a dark grey) next to the text 'Download and extract'. Wait for the next site to load, click download, once done, drag it to the desktop too.
Now you have a zipped file, and Win file on your desktop.
Right click on 'VolumioPI.img' file and click extract here, once done this should create a new file.
Remove unused thumb drives and memory cards from the PC just leaving the Pi's SD card in.
Open 'Win32DiskImager' software we downloaded earlier:
- Click on the Blue folder, go to the desktop and open the 'VolumioPI' file we extracted.
- Now on the drop down below device, select the device (SD card) you're writing to (for mine its H:), it will show a warning, press yes to continue.
- Wait for the process to be finished, when done, remove the SD card.
Step 3: Setting up the Pi (This is almost it)
In step one, I made sure not to state a screen as need,this software will self boot, and do all the workings for you.
If a HDMI cable is connected when booting up, It will focus the audio towards that, so if the monitor or TV its linked to has speakers, it will use those over the 3.5 mm jack (Headphone jack).
So if you wanted to just use the 3.5 mm jack, its best just to leave the HDMI cable out.
The set up:
- Put SD card into Pi,
- Connect Ethernet to router or splitter
- (If wanting the HDMI, connect now)
- Last Connect up the power cable.
As it boots, it will create it own directory's, and boot to a point which you can access it from another computer on the network.
Step 4: Accessing the Pi another computer
With it all set up, the Pi booted and connected to the network, open a new tab in browser and try one of the following 'http://volumio.local/' or 'volumio.local/' it should load a new page looking something like the in the images below.
From here, you can click 'Browse', 'WebRadio' then clicking to the right of the station, click 'Add and play' this should add it to the playlist and begin playing, to change order or whats on, click the 'Playlist' tab at the bottom, to change the volume click on the middle table 'Playback'.
Step 5: Not really a step, but this is my use for the project.
I picked up this old radio not long with this project or something alike in mind, reason this one really come in hand is that it has a tape player on the side.
Using a 'CD to Cassette Adapter' converter which is just a cassette tape with a 3.5 mm jack on it, I could use this radio without actually having to do any alteration to it.
This, I put the cable through first before putting the tape so the connection is inside the radio.
With the amount of space at the top, I can link the Pi up for the audio, connect it up to the internet and stream music to it.
Step 6: Thanks for checking this out!
This has been my first Instructables, hope you enjoyed it and found it useful!
If there is anything which seems wrong, let me know so can get changed, also any questions, drop me a comment below and i'll try to get back to you ASAP!
Take care and happy tinkering!


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Saddest Movie
July 29, 2011 by Post Team
Saddest Movie, Clip of the new 1979 version of the film The Champ, starring Jon Voight as a boxer and a little Ricky Schroeder as his son. The end of the film features a scene (which is in the final minutes of the clip above) where the character Voight, Champ, dies in front of your child, and hopefully emotionally. The film received little fanfare in the long term, but there are two notable legacies of the Champ: 1) Ricky Schroder and 2) a scene that has proven very sad that scientists have been able to use in many experiments on mental health people
In 1988, a professor of psychology at the University of California-Berkeley, Robert Levenson, and a graduate student, James Gross (which is converted to a professor at Stanford University), began to look short clips of movies that could provoke strong emotional reactions of test subjects in psychological experiments. After years of wading through hundreds of recommendations, then test them to undergraduates, researchers were able to finally select 16 clips of movies that always aroused key emotions (sad, and disgust, joy, anger, etc.) in the audience, the scene of the Champ to take the first place to stir the emotions sad.
The clip has been used in experiments ranging from testing the responses of tears of depressed people, the elderly and people with eating disorders to track the spending habits of people sad.
However, over the slate has been pointed out that the final list of the clips was liquidated in 1995 – and a lot of great scenes, emotional film have come and gone since then. They are taking suggestions from the latest movie scenes and sad original investigator of the study, Levens, will be putting their two cents on the contenders.
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My wife found this place for me on the internet. To get there you take the Odakyu line to Machida (where there are other interesting beer stores). Take the west exit. Turn right on the major street at the exit. Walk 30 minutes and it is on your left. If you see McDonalds you've walked a little too far. You can also take the bus there from the station in about 12 minutes for 190yen (and other 190 yen back). Beers are approximately $6. They have an enormous wine selection, and they have about 100 beers (one cooler) all Japanese craft beer, except a Chimay or two. I didn't see anything over 10%, but I bought an 9% imperial red and a 8% belgian red from Baird there. It's not worth going there if you plan to visit Tanakaya, but it's probably the best beer store in Machida area.


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Atmosphere- By:Lakota Urbauer
1. There is 5 layers of the atmosphere and they are divided by pressure
2. The troposphere is where we live, where weather occurs, and the coldest layer
3. The exosphere is the layer that is closest to the sun and is the hottest
4. The atmosphere protects us from cosmic impacts.
5. The atmosphere traps in some heat from the sun to keeps our planet warm.
6. There is 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, and 1% of other gasses on our atmosphere.
7. The stratosphere contains the ozone layer
8. The thermosphere is where the northern lights/ Auroras happen


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Review/Music; The Struggles Of a Black Leader In Old America
By BERNARD HOLLAND,
Published: April 16, 1991
NEWARK, April 14— The life of Frederick Douglass has been an opera waiting to happen. Few historical figures so fit the measurements of a genre developed by Bellini and Donizetti and then enlarged by Verdi. Douglass, a prominent black American of the 19th century, funneled his power through oratory, and oratory is in large part the essence of Italian dramatic style.
Moral struggle, moreover, defined his life, and if we are to believe the events of Ulysses Kay's new opera, "Frederick Douglass," so did deception, violence and intrigue -- both political and sexual. As listeners discovered at Newark Symphony Hall on Sunday night, Donald Dorr's libretto points only to the broadest facts of Douglass's career. The invention that has been inserted between them could have been lifted in toto from the early Verdian repertory with only a few names and places to change.
Not only does "Frederick Douglass" oblige tradition, it addresses the present. Born in 1818, Douglass was rescued from slavery, became an eloquent abolitionist and along the way turned publisher, writer, banker and diplomat. His successes were as precipitous as his failures. And in an America where racial harmony now seems to be modulating into a new and difficult key, the opera's themes of racism and miscegenation, and its crosscurrents of persecution and paranoia from both sides of the black-white spectrum could only speak loudly to contemporary concerns.
So what an opportunity it presented for both Mr. Kay and the New Jersey State Opera, which staged this premiere. Neither party used its chances fully, but then it may have taken a Verdi to fill this opera's shoes.
Mr. Kay's language and style are familiar to those who follow American composition -- tonality slightly stretched, the use of sequences moving in half-steps to promote tension, some happy incorporations of traditional 19th-century melody, but also the bleak, tortured, accompanied recitative that pushes dialogue along but is of dubious musical power.
Mr. Kay's curious juxtapositions of brass and strings might be thin on purpose, but Sunday's pit orchestra, under Alfredo Silipigni, didn't make a good case for them. One also began to anticipate with discomfort the doom-ridden chords that immediately preceded every nasty plot turn.
When Douglass, sung by Kevin Maynor, is on stage, Mr. Kay's lyrical juices begin to flow. Most of the set pieces written for him have the shape and character of true aria; the duet with Douglass and his wife, Helen (Klara Barlow) gives life to Act I, Scene 2. Mr. Maynor looked imposing in the role, and though his is not a particularly big bass voice, it had a measure of subtlety otherwise in short supply during the evening.
Indeed, the quartet of plotters (Mark Delavan, Mark Nicolson, Kirk Redmann and Kenneth Church) were either instructed to shout at the top of their lungs or were not discouraged from doing so. Ms. Barlow sang in a harsh soprano. There were two nice exceptions, both tenors. One was Gregory Rahming, who was relaxed and smooth as Douglass's son; the other, Ronald Naldi as Aubrey (an adjutant cum spy) who began in this big hall by pushing uncomfortably but then wisely let his light tenor speak in its natural voice. Singing from both onstage and off, the chorus dithered in moments when decisive ensemble was crucial.
Salvatore Tagliarino's sets had their intermittent attractions, especially the dangling drapes and transoms of the ballroom scene, and the light, pastel abstractions of his exteriors.
Yet at well over three hours, "Frederick Douglass" seems long for what is in it. Scene 1 -- largely sacrificed to a background briefing for the audience -- might be tightened by half. Everywhere there is too much immobile rhetoric for the director Louis Johnson to deal with, and not enough musical inspiration to reach across the drab, inactive stretches. A smaller, lither opera might have fit the resources of this particular "Frederick Douglass," especially since Verdi is no longer around to give the subject the size it deserves.
Photo: Kevin Maynor in the title role of "Frederick Douglass." (New Jersey State Opera)


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The Problem of Science in Heidegger's Thought
Daniel Videla
I. Introduction
In this paper I wish to draw from Heidegger's writings what could be called his "philosophy of science". Particularly, I pose to Heidegger the question whether philosophy can still claim science as one of its subject matters, once doubt has been cast on philosophy's rank of first science endowed with the prerogative to establish the truth-criteria of the particular sciences. Such prerogative is none other than what Habermas has called the role of a Platzanweiser für die Wissenschaften, (1) entitled to indicate the place that the sciences occupy in the universe of human knowledge. Expressed with the convenience clichés always afford, this is the question of knowledge in the post-modern epoch.
If the main trait of the condition of knowledge at the close of the millenium isas Lyotard has itthat science no longer needs to take recourse to any philosophical (narrative, non-denotative) discourse to legitimate the production of knowledge, (2) one may well be entitled to ask what role, if any, is left to an academic discipline that, having science as its object, calls itself philosophical.
Such is the claim of Anglo-Saxon philosophy of science. Rooted in logical positivism, this type of philosophy offers theories that are far more close to science's scientific self-understanding as an independent body of knowledge, than any product of the so-called continental tradition, however sympathetic it may be to the achievements of positive science. For this reason, philosophy has survived, as academic discipline, in its Anglo-Saxon version. Obviously, it would have not been admitted to such institutional place if its claims did not harmonize with the given order of discourse, that is, if it disturbed the epochal arrangement of knowledge that has rendered science capable of justifying its own claims. In order to survive in the age of legitimacy-crisis, the "official" philosophy of science has then taken its cue from science itself: it has remained as little philosophical as possible. It has consequently ceased to ask questions of legitimacyquid juriscontenting itself instead with description, clarification, analysis, and elucidation. Because such healthy, humble purpose is so unlike the traditional character of philosophy, it should be no surprise that, already early in the 20th century, logical positivism proclaimed that the logical analysis of language was also the Ueberwindung of metaphysics. (3)
The paradoxical results of this situation strike us immediately. Insofar as it has been able to retain its academic status, philosophy has become the maid of scienceancilla scientiae. Following the direction set by the Wiener Kreis, it has remained far too close to science to be able to call into question science's historical and discursive conditions. Is this surrender of knowledge-jurisdiction the necessary result of giving up that discredited mode of knowledge, traditionally called metaphysics? What are we left with, if we acknowledge the present arrangement of knowledge but do not want to go with its scientistic version of philosophy?
II. Being and Time: science in the project of fundamental ontology
When addressed by Heidegger, the issue of philosophy's historical marginalization becomes that of its crisis as the discourse that lays the foundations of the sciences. Expressed in the vocabulary of Being and Time, this is philosophy's crisis as ontology, its failing to properly ask the question of Being or Seinsfrage. Itself, this book is aimed at the question's retrieval (Wiederholung), and makes of it thematic beginning. Yet, as explained in Being and Time, the inquiry is not at all something direct, but a hermeneutic exercise.
To ask about Being (Sein) is to actually interrogate the being of beings or entities (Seiende) and then again, only in order to intend or ascertain something elseBeing's "sense" (Sinn), term we must unfortunately render in English as "meaning". Now, according to Heidegger, the meaning of Being is to be intimated as timeat least temporality is the meaning of Dasein's being, out of which the meaning of Being will be obtained. This temporal meaning, in turn, has been suppressed or forgotten as Being has been conflated with one of its time-determinations, the present, and as beings, or being-in-the world, have been understood as presence-to-hand, Vorhandenheit. This interpretation is to be undone by the Destruktion proposed by Heidegger: (4)
One could therefore say that the book brings to relief a philosophical error that goes back to Parmenides: objectifying Being as presence when interpreting the being of entities. Somehow, between our (Dasein's) raw awareness of being in time and the formation of the basic philosophical concepts, a certain slippage of meaning has taken place, falsely rendering time under the guise of one of its determinations: the present. Thus, philosophy has come to operate with a notion of being that orients itself towards an outer object, nature or the world. The foremost example is the interpretation of the world as res extensa appearing to a no less a-temporal res cogitans, or subject of cognition. Philosophy, according to Being and Time, is therefore in need to clarify the often confused understanding of temporality, and the extent to which a one-sided interpretation of time is at work when we "define" or grasp the world as divided among entities of different sorts, as divided between "man" and a "nature" that appears to the man's cognition, or légein.
It is clear that the (objectifying) oblivion of the meaning of temporality only anticipates the modern scientific attitude. In order for the sciences to have objects of research, there must be a previous assignment of (ontological) territories, as well as an interpretation of Being upon which the latter is based. This is the task of ontology, the indication of a place (Platzanweisung, to say it with Habermas) which Kant accomplishes in the first Critique, a task the sciences need not constantly remember (although it runs constantly ahead of them) as they research their assigned domains of knowledge:
If ontology has effectively forgotten the original (temporal) meaning of being, it has nonetheless accomplished a basic crucial assignment: the assignment of objects to scientific researchin the broadest possible terms, man and nature. Clinging to a one-sided notion of Being that is actually best suited to scientific endeavorspresenceontology has forgotten other ways in which Being may be said to be. It has restricted itself to a very narrow interpretation of Being, forgetting at the same time other possibilities of Being.
On the other hand, the revision proposed in Being and Time seeks to yield a standpoint from which what has been forgotten can beif only partiallyremembered. It is as though the book suggested that our knowledge of the world would be different could we only remember that the present is only a determination of Being's time. The task of the destruction of the history of ontology must therefore undo the misguided interpretation of the being of entities that has founded their ontological assignment as scientific objects of research. It must be accomplished as a different ontology, one which is more fundamental, in that it recalls the long forgotten ontological assignment that precedes scientific research:
Oblivion or blindness deserve to be called perversion, to the extent that the original and crucial meaning of Being in terms of time remains concealed. The Seinsfrage therefore calls for correcting the ontological basis upon which the foundations of the sciences have been laid down. It calls for making explicit the understanding of Being that makes it possible for the sciences to have at their disposal regional ontologies. It is, as we have said, an understanding of Being as presence that allows the constitution of objectivity in the different sciences. The task of the destruction of the history is to make that process explicit once again, in order to regain the possibilities it may have displaced. Otherwise, the ontological assignment will remain fundamentally misguided, no matter how rich or complex its basic concepts may be.
But let it be noted that the aim of the Seinsfrage is ascertaining a priori conditions, those of the sciences, and also those of the ontologies that make the latter possible. The clarification called for does to ontology what ontology does to science. For that reason, the transcendental step is twofold: from the ontical sciences to the ontologies which provide their foundations, and from the latter's "rich and compact" systems of categories to the meaning of Being to which they remain blind.
Does this transcendental move, similar to that of the Critique of Pure Reason, imply that Being and Time raises also a quid juris quaestio? If so, then, does fundamental ontology fulfill the above-mentioned role of a Platzanweiser for the sciences, in Habermas' words? (5) Finally, what kind of an arrangement of knowledge can be revealed by an ontology that is more fundamental than the modern, Kantian, one?
One thing seems to be clear: what is to be retrieved is not knowledge of any kind. For, is not the meaning of Being something not knowable as object of research, but a condition of science? Even if here Heidegger does not explicitly invoke the Kantian distinction, the quasi-transcendental purpose of the fundamental ontology requires that we distinguish between (scientific) knowledge and the thinking that thematizes the meaning of Being. Furthermore, one has to pay closer attention to the coexisting deconstructive and hermeneutic traits of the attempted task, the one giving it an essentially negative direction, the other making of hermeneutics the indirect starting point of an ambitious (yet unfinished) enterprise.
In the first place, and in so far as the fundamental ontology is the offspring of a destruction of the history of ontology, it does not ground the empirical sciences, but subverts the very foundations that make these sciences possible. What is subverted here is the "trivial" understanding of Being as presence that has been sanctioned by the tradition, the "prejudices" that make unnecessary any revision of the starting point of Greek philosophy. (BT 21/SZ 2) If the investigation is to yield any results, one might surmise they would make up a reorganization of the regional domains of beings, the Bezirke or Felder (regions) cut up by the traditional interpretations. One might perhaps entertain new concepts taking the place of "man" and "nature", perhaps one might altogether dispense with them. But one can only speculate about this matter for the book was never finish and the author himself never went beyond sketching what an understanding of Beingof Being as timewould be like, once the task of destruction has been brought to conclusion.
In the second place, fundamental ontology proceeds as hermeneutics, that is, it asks about Being through an interrogation of Dasein's about its own Being (actually it is the development of Dasein's own preoccupation with its being): "[T]o work out the question of Being adequately, we must make one entitythe inquirertransparent in its own being" (Dursichtigmachen eines Seiendendes Fragendenin seinem Sein). As we have pointed out, the final meaning to be arrived will actually be that of Dasein's being, and only as the horizon of temporality out of which the meaning of Being is to be obtained. Thus, if this hermeneutic question is the positive side of fundamental ontology, it is nonetheless also indirect and fragmentary. It asks what determines beings in their being, but never actually proceeds to directly spell out such determination.
Therefore, even if Being and Time does raise a questio juris, it looks as though it finally withheld the answer in order simply to preparethrough the hermeneutics of Dasein'sthe task of thinking Being beyond the narrow scheme of Vorhandenheit. Neither is philosophy the Platzanweiser for the sciences, nor is it philosophy of science proper. Close to Kant in its transcendental aspiration (to indicate what could belong to a specific domain of Being), it falls short to actually answer this question, contenting itself with working out the a priori of a restricted domain, Dasein's everydayness.
III. The late Heidegger: science and the task of thinking
It is certainly necessary to follow the development of the position regarding science originally stated by Heidegger in Being and Time. For the sake of brevity, I would like to finish this paper pointing out to some continuities and differences between that book and the later thinking. In Being and Time, the interpretation of Being (as presence-at-hand) that grounds the sciences is called ontological, in order to shownot at all surprisinglythe inner affinity between science and a philosophical tradition that is to be de(con)structed. In the late Heidegger however, that grounding interpretation is not understood as a forgotten establishment to be recalled at the level of a discourse more fundamental, but as an event (rather a withdrawal) of Being itself which is not up to a conscious philosophical act (destruction of ontology, fundamental ontology, etc.) to reverse.
In the late Heidegger, one finds still two levels, as it were, one belonging to objectifying knowledge, the other assigned the task of reversing the objectification by making visible the temporality of Being (if I may use this term without further exegesis). It is clear that the attempt to reach a level that is more foundational than traditional ontologylet alone than that of the ontical sciencesruns through the whole Hedeggerian opus, leading all the way up to the late affirmation that science "does not think" (BW 349). (6) One should however proceed cautiously when drawing such continuities, because the late Heidegger retreats from identifying thinking and philosophical thinking, just as he had before reneged science. Thinking is indeed a good candidate for what, in the late texts, stands for the early fundamental ontology. But the emphasis on thinking in the new Heideggerian vocabulary not only serves the purposes of eliminating the academic overtones of the early fundamental ontology, but also expresses a key tenet of Heidegger's turn: that it is Being itself, and not man, what dictates (through its own withdrawal) all concealment and metaphysical error. The task of thinking cannot therefore be seen as a conscious, purposeful doing (as the former Destruktion of the history of ontology was), but only as an event of Being itself. Thus we read, in the essay that contains the late Heidegger's most frequently quoted indictment of science:
The passivity of the attitude required for thinking follows that it is thinking itself that asks one to be thought, or that withdraws from man's thought altogether. That withdrawal is now epochalized, identified with the economy of discourse of a given epochsmodernity for exampleboth in as far as it has produced an objectifying science and an objectifying metaphysics.
One can now notice how the former three-fold quasi-transcendental distinction between the levels of science, ontology, and fundamental ontology has turned into the gulf between thoughtless science (or metaphysics) on the one hand, and thinking for which man is not ready yet, on the other. On the side of thoughtlessness stands now philosophy, whose epochal marginalization by no means amount to the outright disappearance of metaphysics. Instead, the decline of academic philosophy amounts only to the completion of metaphysics, to its full-development or Vollendung in science.
This the thesis of the late lecture, "The end of philosophy and the task of thinking", (7) where once again thinking is opposed to academic (philosophical or scientific) error:
The autonomy gained by scientific knowledge (the separation of the sciences from philosophy and the establishment of their independence) is once again identified with an inadequate parceling of Being. That such assertion strikes us as new is only because, at the end of modernity, the assignment of types or classes of beings to the different sciences has become a matter of course. That is, the foundational gesture of philosophy has been forgotten or dispensed with.
But because the issue of such foundation is the understanding of Being as mere presence, and therefore the confusion of beings with what makes them present, it matters little how those beings are subsequently investigated, that is, whether they are known philosophically or scientifically. More so, the empiricism of the modern scientific attitude represents an improvement in grasping beings as presence to the senses, positivism. It is for such reason that Heidegger speaks in this context of Marxism as reversed Platonism, and that he maintains that the end of philosophy is the gathering into the most extreme possibilities. To understand the sensorial as more real than the ideal and to make technological use of it is but the utmost possibility of understanding of being as presence.
IV. Conclusion:
Let us go back to the question with which I started, the possibility of a philosophy of science in the late-modern epoch. Here we may say that the survival of a parasitic philosophy of science as academic discipline becomes a further proof that in the sciences metaphysics has attained its completion. Whereas the sciences have remained true to, and further pursued, the allocation of regions within Being, in its analytical incarnation metaphysics has simply confirmed the self-understanding of a privileged region, science, where Being is also understood as mere presence-at-hand. Indeed, in as much as they are a reaction against the so-called continental tradition, the analytic and post-empiricist styles of philosophizing are more a continuation than a rupture with European metaphysics. Both traditions, continental metaphysics and Anglo-Saxon philosophy of science, share the premise, best phrased by Heidegger, that being is presence to a subject of cognition, be it in metaphysical or in scientific cognition. Accordingly, both have equally forgotten the directionality, historicality or event-character of Being, traits that let one surmise that the meaning (the sense or direction) of Being may be time. In so doing they have conflated Being with one of its determinations, the present, and beings with presence-at-hand. The difference resides only in that for traditional metaphysics being appears sub specie aeternitatis, while for positive science, being is presence manifested in empirical knowledge, in the no less eternal, yet more banal regularity of natural phenomena. The demise of philosophy heralded by positivism is therefore the completion of philosophy, a conclusion that can be teased out of the early Heidegger without one having to take recourse to his late texts.
Nevertheless, metaphysics in its traditional form had to be rejected by those who follow the direction of logical positivism. The sheer fact of science's discursive autonomy makes the obsolescence of metaphysics only too obvious. With modernity, the production of knowledge is a process in perpetual, self-referential and self-legitimating motion. It is a production processa mode of technological production of knowledgethat needs not be legitimated, but only acknowledged, or acquiesced. In so doing, however, the prevailing, scientistic or analytic of philosophy of science remains far too close to science to even notice that there has been a metaphysical establishment at the inception of the scientific disciplines. Let us call this inception, establishment or Stiftung an epochal condition whereby being is understood as presence of objects to empirical research. In so far as it is an epochal condition, the demise of philosophy and the rise of science as autonomous body of knowledge belongs to the peculiar discursive constellation we call modernity. In so far as it is a condition, the historical establishment that makes this events possiblethe set of historical conditions thereofconstitutes the given or starting point that must be acknowledged by any discipline that, calling itself philosophy or anything else, attempts to raise the question of the human sciences' place in the late-modern constellation of discourse.
What is then left for philosophy at the end of modernity, when one refuses to comply with the only admitted type of discourse, the analytic one, precisely on account of its complicity with science self-understanding? Not certainly a kind of philosophical or narrative knowledge, but a thinking thatwhile irrevocably exterior to scientific practice--raises the issue of the latter's conditions from the standpoint of the history of Being. Translated into the late-Heideggerian framework, such is the question posed in the second section of the above quoted essay, "what task is reserved for thinking at the end of philosophy?". (BW 378)
(1) Habermas, J. (1983). "Die Philosophie als Platzhalter und Interpret", in D. Henrich (ed.): Kant oder Hegel. Über Formen der Begründung in der Philosophie. Stuttgart, 43.
(2) Lyotard, J. (1979): The Postmodern condition: a report on knowledge, Minneapolis: University of Minessota Press.
(3) Carnap, Rudolph (1932). "The elimination of metaphysics through logical analysis of language", in Ayer, A. J. (ed), Logical positivism. Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 60. Schlick, Moritz (1930/31). "The turning point in philosophy", ibid., p, 53.
(4) All quotations are adapted from the available standard English translation: Heidegger, M. (1962) Being and time (BT). Trans. J. Macquarrie and E. Robinson. New York: Harper & Row, after confrontation with the standard German edition: Heidegger, M. (1927). Sein und Zeit. Tübingen: Niemeyer (SZ).
(5) Habermas, J. (1983), cit.
(6) Heidegger, M. (1977). Basic writings (BW). New York: Harper and Row, 349. [German: Vortraege und Aufsaetze, II, 7]
(7) Ibid. 375-377. [German: Zur Sache des Denkens (ZSD), 63-65]


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Hard hitting opener Robin Uthappa (56, 10x4) and C Raghu (62, 8x4) were the other notable scorers for Karnataka, while Haryana medium pacer Joginder Sharma, who rattled the hosts in the morning with a two-wicket burst, returned with a haul of 3 for 73.
Skipper Yere Goud, playing for his home State after a gap of 13 years, won the toss and elected to bat. Joginder struck telling blows, removing opener Rowland Barrington and Bharat Chipli to reduce Karnataka to two for 35. However, Robin and Raghu added an invaluable 109 for the third wicket to consolidate the Karnataka innings.
Three quick wickets at this stage, with Sunny Singh removing Robin, Joginder trapping Raghu and Sumit Sharma sending back Goud with a brilliant throw, pushed Karnataka to a corner.
However, Tilak and Joshi resurrected the hosts' innings by taking the score past the 300 mark. The duo added 119 runs in 170 balls, staying together for exactly two hours so far.
Brief scores:
Karnataka 301 for 6 (Robin Uthappa 56, C Raghu 62, Tilak Naidu 84 batting, Sunil Joshi 36 batting; Joginder Sharma 3/72) vs Haryana.