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Kristen Stewart Regrets Rupert Sanders, Also World Hunger And Bad Things
According to new statements, Kristen Stewart 'regrets' her affair with her Snow White And The Hunstman director Rupert Sanders. So wait, you mean to tell me that an actress might regret the cheating scandal that effectively ended her career and her relationship with Robert Pattinson? This is entirely new information for me. I'm bamboozled. But apparently good old Rupert doesn't feel the same way, as he's been trying to get in touch with Kristen ever since his divorce from Liberty Ross went through. According to Radar Online:
"Rupert's reached out to Kristen, but she doesn't want anything to do with him. He texted her a number of times after Liberty filed for divorce, however Kristen didn't respond. In truth, she regrets ever getting involved with Rupert, because of how much it hurt Robert and the amount of public backlash she was subjected to."
Well yeah, I mean, that's kind of an understatement. Even though Crushable's theory is that this whole cheating scandal was manufactured to promote Twilight and give KStew and RPatz a non-suspicious way to end their fake relationship, this is still a really odd comment to make. If she really was involved with him, of course she regrets it, even on a simple morality level, but also because of the fact that she's actually less cast-able in the wak eof all this. It it was a ploy for publicity, it got way out of control, and if it wasn't, I can't believe that you were foolish enough to canoodle in front of the Hollywood sign with your married director. Please regret that. And I'm sure you do, because our most recent sighting of you was limping sadly through the Oscars alone, with only your rabid, terrifying fans to stand up for her on the internet; Rob miles away filming, your relationship up in the air:
"Kristen doesn't really know what's going on with her and Robert at the moment, and she's been left in limbo. Ideally, she would like things to go back to how they once were, but that's proving a lot more difficult than she imagined. But when it comes to Rupert, that ship has sailed."
Well hopefully next time it'll sail a little sooner. Like last summer, when all this happened. Or ideally, the first time you look at Rupert Sanders in the face and find him attractive. That would be a good time for a ship to sail. Just saying.
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While I'm not much of a fan of Walmart because the owner of the company is a heavy Democrat donor, it still brings a smile to my eyes to see union thugs fall on their asses again. The Walmart 'protests' on Black Friday turned out to be the best marketing scheme they could hope for. Walmart set records today for Black Friday sales as union thugs couldn't muster crowds larger than 50 Walmart workers.
They've already sold nearly 2 million towels, 1.3 million televisions, and 250,000 bicycles. According to Walmart Chief Executive Bill Simon, over 1.3 million Walmart staffers are on duty. There have been picket lines around the country, but the movement has been far less effective than expected.

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text: On Feb 6, 2008 1:03 PM, Alfonso Acosta <alfonso.acosta at gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 6, 2008 4:32 AM, Bjorn Buckwalter <bjorn.buckwalter at gmail.com> wrote: > > I understand that you (and Wolfgang) are creating a library of type > > level decimals for the purpose of constraining vector (list?) lengths. > > After that I haven't been paying attention fully to the thread. Is the > > goal to create a general-purpose library for type-level programming > > and my module would fit into that grander scheme? > > Yes,the idea is to create a Cabal-ready wide-scope type-level > programming library, joining the operations implemented in the > different type-level libraries which are around. The goal (or at least > mine) is to provide a common reusable type-level library which saves > constantly reinventing the wheel. Ok. Is this what people want -- one big hold-all library with everything, as opposed to smaller more specialized packages? I guess I can see advantages (real or perceived) to both approaches. The other library I use for type-level programming is HList. It has type-level booleans already so you might what to take a look at it if you're not already familiar with it. In fact, if you are serious about creating the de facto(?) type-level programming library trying to get Oleg involved would be very beneficial both in terms of innovation and credibility. > > Or did you have something else in mind with joining efforts? E.g. help > > reviewing your code or writing new code? > > > > This would certainly help too. I'm sure it would. ;) I didn't mean to imply that I have plenty of spare time to invest in this but I'll certainly be paying attention when you start releasing code. Thanks, Bjorn


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Kai Ryssdal: Commodities did a little better today than they were doing at the end of last week. Oil nudged up a bit, back to almost $72 a barrel. The euro edged higher against the dollar. Europe's single currency took a shellacking last week on the foreign exchange markets amid worries about budget deficits over there. There was some tough talk on that topic over the weekend at a big finance meeting in Canada. And it does seem to have calmed currency traders just a bit.
But as Marketplace's Stephen Beard reports from the European Desk in London, markets usually like action, not so much words.
STEPHEN BEARD: European finance ministers assured the G7 meeting that Europe would deal with its deficits. But there was no concrete plan of action. Currency dealers continue to fret over the debt of eurozone countries like Greece. They fear that Athens might actually default.
And that fear is undermining the single currency, says Graham Mather of the European Policy Forum.
GRAHAM MATHER: The danger for the euro itself is that the market anxieties about the Greek public accounts could make people lose confidence in bonds, other things denominated in euros.
Few observers believe that the Greeks will be able to sort out their public finances on their own. Too much austerity is likely to provoke severe unrest.
Daniel Hannan is a member of the European Parliament, and he says there's only one serious solution.
DANIEL HANNAN: The only way for the euro to hold together is if there is effectively a bailout of the Greek economy by essentially German taxpayers.
But when Germany adopted the euro 10 years ago, German taxpayers were promised they would never have to bailout the weaker economies to the south. Some long-term critics of the single currency, like Professor Tim Congdon, say this could be the beginning of the end of a project that was always doomed to failure.
TIM CONGDON: It's never really been done before. Usually you have one country, one government, one central bank, one currency. Instead we've got one currency and 16 governments. I've been amazed it continued this long.
Most analysts say the euro will survive. Its collapse would cause turmoil in Europe, which Germany would be determined to avoid. The stakes are high. The choices are hard. Over the next few weeks, the euro faces the fight of its life.
In London, this is Stephen Beard.


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MENLO PARK, Calif., June 17 (UPI) -- Instagram and Facebook plan to let users take and share short videos in the Instagram app, to compete with the similar Vine app, tech watchers are reporting.
The two companies are said to be planning to unveil the new capability at a June 20 event in Menlo Park, Calif., ArsTechnica reported Monday.
The announcement is seen as a response to Vine, which gave users an easy way to record and share videos as long as six seconds when it launched in January.
The app was introduced by Twitter, which bought the service in October.
Adding video would give Facebook a way to keep users more engaged with Instagram in the face of increasing pressure from the popular Vine app, which has overtaken Instagram when it comes to sharing on Twitter.
Instagram's videos would reportedly be limited to 5 to 10 seconds, similar to the 6-second limitation on Vine videos.


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I have a slow broadband connection so the 360p and 720p YouTube videos load very slowly. The YouTube flash player only allows me to choose 360p and 720p. How can I have YouTube videos in lower quality than 360p?, like non-hd 480x360? There used to be a string you enter at the end of the video url but i can't find it. Also, is there a way to always play YouTube videos in lower quality like a greasemonkey script for firefox?
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I might be wrong, but I thought You Tube plays the lowest resolution by default, and GreaseMonkey allows you to pick higher resolution(s), if available.
Bottom line, if your connection isn't fast enough to play the clips back smoothly, press pause, and get a coffee while it buffers.
&fmt=18 is generally lower quality than the default 360p version. The lowest quality is &fmt=5 (flv1/mp3, 350 kbps).
A script for &fmt=18 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24980
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The lowest quality is &fmt=5
If you upload the video in the correct format, you can get five versions of a video 360P/480P/720P-HD, 1280P-HD, like this video HERE. And apparently a fifth version using the tag above.
I've always assumed that youtube throttles downloading of all their videos. For me, they always start downloading fast, then throttle back after about 25%.
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They probably keep the &fmt=5 version for users with older versions of adobe flash player that don't support h264/aac.
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-I have a slow connection. Never play higher-quality video.
-Choose my video quality dynamically based on the current connection speed.
You have to do nothing, absolutely nothing to watch YouTube videos in low quality.
Quality is relative term depends how one defines it.
One has barely to do anything to watch YouTube videos in low quality coz it is of almost 1/10 of original quality.
Original or at least 1/2 (50%) of original quality YouTube probably never gonna afford the bandwidth without ripping off their advertisers.
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text: The show returned as strong as ever. Nathan Lane's court-appointed trustee add yet another terrific supporting character to the show's already superb rotating roster, matching loyalty and an honest work ethic with the tactics of Sun Tzu. Kalinda's husband Nick is absolutely terrifying, a ferocious monster with iron-clad control over his impulses. Anyone mythical enough to send Kalinda fleeing once has to be her equal, and matched an actor and material in a way that absolutely does that. The balance between the menace and the sex appeal between them was absolutely spot on. EDIT: Season 4. Whoops.


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NEW YORK, 25 July 2005 - UNICEF today applauded the UN Security Council resolution that establishes a monitoring and reporting system for children affected by armed conflict. The new mechanism requires both governments and armed groups to use time-bound plans of action to end the use and recruitment of child soldiers and requires the UN system to monitor and report on grave violations against children, including the killing or maiming of children; recruitment or use of child soldiers; attacks against schools or hospitals; rape and other forms of sexual violence; abduction of children; and denial of humanitarian access.
UNICEF firmly supports the universal principle that the human rights of all children in all situations must be upheld and promoted by all parties to conflict.
Calling the resolution a "decisive step in the right direction", UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Rima Salah said, "Countless children in conflicts worldwide have paid the price of inaction by those who are obligated to protect them. This is a critical measure to hold accountable the parties that continue to harm those children."
As the former UNICEF Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Ms. Salah has worked extensively to spotlight the plight of children caught in armed conflicts in Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Arab Plast 2005 – the Middle East's premier trade show for rubber, plastics and plastic processing, which concluded recently at the Dubai International Exhibition Centre (DIEC), recorded business deals worth US$396 million, up 46 per cent compared to US$271 million in the last edition in 2003.
Announcing the robust results, Al Fajer Information & Services, organisers of the show, said the record success of the seventh edition of ArabPlast this year is a strong and direct indication of the rising potential of the Middle East's rubber and plastics industry and the increasing contribution of this sector to regional economies.
Commenting on the overwhelming response to the show, Mr. Satish Khanna, General Manager, Al Fajer Information & Services, said, "The Middle East is witnessing an expansion in both production capacities as well as consumption levels. Besides, it is the world's largest exporter, offloading 80 per cent of its output to international markets. Arab Plast 2005 showcased the latest technologies and traced market trends of this burgeoning industry. The spectacular response to the 2005 edition was a clear indication of growing international interest in the Middle East's plastics industry."
He said ArabPlast 2005 held from March 20-23, was attended by 9,657 industry professionals from 58 countries as compared to 6,542 visitors from 18 countries in its 2003 edition.
Exhibitors showcasing their latest technology in plastic manufacturing at the fair said the Middle East held tremendous potential for industrial machinery given the rapid expansion of, and huge investments in, its manufacturing sector.
The largest group of exhibitors was from Austria, China, Germany, Italy, India, Korea Taiwan and UAE. The official German group, whose participation was the largest in ArabPlast, was led by the German Ministry (AUMA).
Besides the vibrant market potential, the strong European presence at Arabplast was also due to the fact that, Messe Dusseldorf, - organisers of the world number 1 plastics fair, K -- amassed their expertise in bringing such an impressive display of European exhibitors. Both Al Fajer of Dubai & Messe Dusseldorf of Germany are having joint partnership cooperation for promoting the ArabPlast edition of exhibitions.
"The show provided an ideal platform to interact and build new alliances for new entrants who wished to penetrate regional markets," Mr. Khanna said. The large participation from various countries is an acknowledgement of the region's leading position in global petrochemical markets, Mr. Khanna added.
Leading manufacturers/suppliers participating in the show included Reinfenhauser, Krauss Mafeii, DME, Starlinger, Bielloni, Borouge, ExxonMobil, Qatar Petrochemicals, Astra Polymers, Clariant, EnerPlastics, Reliance Industries Iran Petrochemicals, Intergulf, Chen Hsong, Akdeniz, Qaroh Products, Oman Polypropelene, Modern Plastics, Ferromatik-milacron, Plastiblends, Kabra Extrusion, Kai Mei Plastics, Chern Hrong, and so on.
The exhibition was held alongside the Arab Plast summit which projected crucial trends and the changing dynamics of global petrochemical industry. The summit, addressed by industry experts and heads of leading companies, discussed challenges and opportunities faced by the changing Middle Eastern market.
A report released by McKinsey at the Arab Plast summit cited a shift in the petrochemical business from the West to the East, backed by the region's advantages of low-cost feedstock, cheap labour, rising demand and new technologies. The Middle East is expected to account for 40 per cent of the new ethylene capacity by 2010, while its polyethylene trade to East Asia is expected to grow by 119 per cent by 2010.
On display at Arab Plast 2005 exhibition were new products and technologies in injection moulding, blow moulding, wrapping & packaging, pre and post plastic processing techniques as well as raw materials such as masterbatches, additives and polymers.
It covered a wide spectrum of plastic machinery, plastic/rubber processing technology, pre and post-processing systems, plastic packaging technology, injection moulding, blow moulding, wrapping technology, extrusions, chemicals and additives, semi finished goods, engineering plastics, plastic products and many more.
The next edition of ArabPlast, which will be bigger than the current one, is scheduled to be held from January 13-16, 2007, at Dubai International Exhibition Centre.
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I am currently diagnosed with Bipolar II disorder, with rapid cycling. I was diagnosed a few years ago and eventually went up to 150 mg of Lamictal and .5 mg of Klonopin, which worked great. Then I ended up off of my meds for about a year, which is my fault, I got caught up with so much that was going on with my youngest child and as usual forgot to take care of my own needs. But after nearing a breakdown, I went back to the pdoc in April, and started on Lamictal and Klonopin again.
I don't know if I have increased stressors, with my family and some medical issues that came up for me over the summer, or what, but the Lamictal no longer seems to be helping me like it did before. I was having A LOT of irritability and depressive episodes, so the pdoc upped my dose from 100 mg to 150 mg and a few weeks ago I went up to 200 mg, in addition to the .5 mg to 1 mg of Klonopin I take per day. I don't know if it is a coincidence or what but since I've been at the 200 mg of Lamictal, I have had worse irritability, anger, a ton of racing thoughts, sometimes not making a lot of sense when I talk, jumping around from topic to topic. My irritability is off of the chart, because I have been blowing up at the most minor things, and afterwards I feel terrible about it - so I don't know if I'm having depressive episodes, or just reacting to the aftermath of my temper.
I have moments where I want to just get in the car and drive away, today just hearing the sound of my coworkers laughing made me want to go up and punch them, and I get very snappy with my family. Fortunately, I do have a lot of self control, and I haven't done anything violent, I have been trying to just walk away into another room when I can't take hearing the sound of a person's voice. I just feel so on edge, and today I had to apologize to my husband, in advance, because I'm feeling a bit out of control, and I want to apologize ahead of time in case I say something hurtful to him.
I guess part of me still never accepts being bipolar, because I don't go through true "mania". But I have been able to get used to the bipolar II diagnosis, because that made more sense to me, since I went through many years of going on and off antidepressants, which never really helped me, other than to induce me into manic/hypomanic states, which I learned is classic in bipolar II. The problem is that I'm wondering if the increase in Lamictal to 200 mg could be doing the same thing?
Honestly, I truly don't have a good understanding of "mania" because my issues have primarily been depression and terrible mood swings. I still think of mania as being euphoric, impulsive, risk taking, and that's not me. But what I am is extremely irritable, angry, explosive, with thoughts all over the place, extremely distractible and on edge, and without the massive self-control I try my best to force upon myself, I really don't know what I would be. I have been able to work, but it's getting harder and harder to stay on task and keep my racing thoughts and anger under control. I don't even know why I'm so angry all of the time, why I lose it over the stupidest things? Is this part of mania as well? I still have a hard time wrapping my head around that.
I'm also very ****** that the Lamictal seems to not be helping as much now, when it seemed to a while ago. Why could that be? Why am I worried that I'm slowly shifting into the bipolar I category and not bipolar II - is that even possible after only a few years? I'm ****** that I've been researching other drugs, and Lamictal seems to be the best for bipolar II, for rapid cycling, with the fewest side effects, and best for depressive episodes. So if I'm no longer getting the same level of relief from this wonder drug, what the hell else can I do? All of these other drugs seem to cause weight gain, bad side effects, would not be good considering the NSAID I already take for possible inflammatory arthritis/autoimmune issues. I am afraid of stopping Lamictal because it would take FOREVER to start back up again. But could I take Lithium in addition to Lamictal and Klonopin, has anyone done that? I don't know, I'm just so annoyed right now. I had not planned to go back to my pdoc until the first week of December (at my choice, since I'm having a hard time affording medical bills these days) but I think I will call to see if there is any chance of me getting in the first week of November, because I don't like the place I am in right now.
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|Publication date
|20 Mar 2012
|Filing date
|20 Oct 2005
|Priority date
|20 Oct 2005
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|David P. Van Lerberg, Darren A. O'Rourke
|Original Assignee
|Van Lerberg David P, O'rourke Darren A
|Export Citation
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|Patent Citations (57), Referenced by (1), Classifications (11), Legal Events (2)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application claims the benefit of U.S. co-pending non-provisional application Ser. No. 11/243,034 filed Oct. 3, 2005 which is incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates in general to masonry blocks for use in connection with landscaping, and more specifically to the masonry block manufacturing process and the resultant masonry blocks which may be used as a landscaping supporting element in connection with retaining walls.
Landscape retaining walls are currently used in a variety of places for a variety of reasons such as soil retention, protection of structures and for aesthetic effects on commercial, residential, industrial and agriculture facilities. For example, with the development of a commercial facility, an owner may need to build a retaining wall to protect the structure from water damage or from soil erosion associated with the water. However, the facility may have a nonlinear soil contour surrounding the facility. Some retaining wall structures may limit the ability of the retaining wall from adapting to the contour of the surrounding soil. Other's while permitting adjustment, may only provide limited rotation or rotation based upon the use of a hemispherical center section. The spherical center section may provide structure for securing the retaining wall structure; however, the section does not prevent the structure from rotation after being secured together. It would therefore, be beneficial to provide an adjustable retaining wall structure having a new manner of rotation, allowing the retaining wall structure to match the soil's contour.
Retaining wall form molds are typically used to create a retaining wall structure, the form molds being adapted to receive typical masonry materials. These molds may be adapted for creating structure within the masonry material, as the material cures. However, the molds may provide a static configuration, limiting the adaptability of the forms to one retaining wall structure. Others, while allowing for some modification, may not provide for an interlocking structure between different retaining wall structures. Additionally, some retaining wall structures may utilize reinforcement means imbed through into the wall structure. However, the support for these reinforcement means may not be present in some of the available mold structures. In addition, because of the increasing use of retaining walls in a variety of locations and situations, it is becoming more popular to provide an aesthetically pleasing structure which blends into or enhances the surrounding environment. It would therefore be beneficial to provide an adaptable mold having a structure for supporting a reinforcement means, the adaptable structure providing a visually enhancing structure.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the foregoing is addressed by providing a combination retaining wall structure and masonry form apparatus comprising a first block having a depending lip with non-linear edge, a second block having an upper surface with a recess presenting an inwardly facing edge, the second block being positioned with respect to a rotational axis through the first block. A zone of contact is located at the intersection of the inwardly facing edge and the outwardly facing edge, providing an area for rotation of the first block about the rotational axis of the second block. The first and second blocks forming a non-linear masonry wall structure having an upright axis, about which plural blocks may be rotated. The depending lip and recess being provided by a masonry form having a first, second, third and fourth sides, the first and second sides being removable for interchangeably configuring the first and second block.
Certain terminology will be used in the following description for convenience in reference only and will not be limiting. For example, top, bottom, front, back, right and left refer to the illustrated embodiment as oriented in the view being referred to. The words "upwardly" and "downwardly" refer to directions up or down and away from, respectively, the geometric center of the embodiment being described and designated parts thereof. Such terminology will include the words specifically mentioned, derivatives thereof and words of similar meaning.
Referring to
An upwardly extending ledge 19 is illustrated in
As illustrated in
In general, as illustrated in
Another illustration of the interlocking structure 50 is depicted in
When the first and second masonry blocks 10, 20 are collectively arranged in
As illustrated in
In addition, as illustrated in
The horizontal leg 134 of the reinforcement structure 130 extends though and is generally secured by a concentric receiver 136 located in association with the first surface 110. In addition, an elongated spacer 138 spans the first and second surfaces 110, 112, the elongated spacer 138 being adapted for receiving the vertical leg 132 of the reinforcement structure 130. When the cavity 118 of the masonry block form 102 is filled with a masonry material preferably made from commercial concrete materials, the reinforcement structure 130 provides a lift attachment for positioning and separating the formed wall structure from the form 102A.
In the exploded view of the masonry form 102A illustrated in
Plural slotted receivers 124, are positioned along the lower perimeter surfaces in the first and second surfaces 110, 112 for being engaged by pins 122 positioned along the perimeter of the fourth surface 114. In addition, slotted receivers 124 are located along the outer edges of the first and second surfaces 110, 112 for engagement by pin mechanisms 120 located in the third surfaces 116. The third surfaces 116 also contain slotted receivers 124 securing the third surfaces 116 to the fourth surface 114. The third surfaces 116 are also illustrated having an incline structure with an upper edge oriented inwardly for providing a tapered edge to the masonry material. A taper within the masonry material may allow for varying orientation of masonry blocks within the retaining wall, the wall conforming to the desired curvature of the surrounding landscape with individual blocks being rotated in relation to one another.
The elongated spacer 138 shown in
In operation and referring back to
The masonry form 102 b illustrated in
The second block 20 is then positioned on a generally horizontal surface using the horizontal leg 134 which corresponds to the upper surface rebar structure 142. The first block 10 is then aligned such that the depending lip 152 formed from the first surface 110 is aligned with the recessed portion 158 of the second block 20 using the reinforcement structure 130 extending through the first block 10. The rear surface reinforcement structure or bar 144 corresponds to the vertical leg 132 of the reinforcement structure 130. The depending lip 152 of the first block 10 rotatably engages the recessed portion 158 about the rotational axis 136 of the second block 20. As plural blocks 10, 20 are arranged in the retaining wall structure 2, the blocks are rotated about the upright axis 134, the wall 2 adjusting the contour of the surrounding earth 4.
Alternative half-block configurations are illustrated in
The half-blocks 210, 220, 230 have a width which in comparison to the width of the first, second and third blocks 10, 20, 30, is generally half, the half-width blocks 210, 220, 230 being adapted, for example but not limited to a retaining wall where there is insufficient space to use the first, second or third blocks 10, 20, 30. The first half block 210 is adapted for rotation while overlying another block such as the second or third half-block 220, 230 or for overlying the second or third block 20, 30. The second half-block 220 is adapted for both receiving an overlying block such as but not limited to the first block 10, the first half-block 210, the second block 20, the second half-block 220 or for overlying another block such as but not limited to the second block 20, the second half-block 220, the third block 30 or the third half-block 230. The third half-block 230 is adapted for overlying the earth 4 and for receiving another block such as the first 10, second 20, first half 210 or second half-block 220 which may be rotated about the third half-block 230.
Alternatively configured masonry forms are provided in
The form 302B illustrated in
It should be understood that while certain forms of this invention have been illustrated and described, it is not limited thereto except insofar as such limitations are included in the following claims.
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|Structural blocks and assemblies thereof
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|Iluminated masonary block or brick
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|11 Aug 1998
|Arvai; Louis
|Concrete retaining wall built from stacked concrete blocks of different configurations
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|Forlini; Emidio J.
|Mold for structural blocks
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|Anchor Wall Systems, Inc.
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|Cleaner for inside of water tank
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|11 Apr 2001
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|27 Feb 2003
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|Building block, system and method
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|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|20 Oct 2005
Owner name: BIG BLOCK, INC., KANSAS
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Is your child going to the same school you attended?
no... They are going to a school in columbus Ohio and I went to various schools in massachusetts and plain city/london ohio
no she is not. I am on the opposite coast from where i grew up.
Nope. I went to elem in MD and CO, jr. high/intermediate in CO and CA, and h.s. in CA, and we live in IN.
My elementary kids do go to the same school that both my husband and I went to. Actually, my 88yo MIL went there, too, but it was a one room schoolhouse at that time! LOL It has been added on to a couple of times since my DH and I went there, but the entire school that was there when we went is still in place.
My oldest is headed to middle school. DH and I went to middle school in this district, but the old school was torn down and rebuilt 3 years ago, so my son is going to a pretty new school.
Yes. Both my kids had my kinder teacher for pre-k. I know all the teachers and administration. It was awesome and lets me be really involved with their education.


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Obama Praises Credit Unions, NCUA
President Obama lauded credit unions for the financial services they have provided to Americans.
"At a time of tremendous financial instability and when millions of Americans faced difficulty obtaining credit, this system of nonprofit, cooperative credit unions enabled individuals to come together to promote thrift and lift up one another," Obama said in a presidential proclamation on Thursday.
"On the 80th anniversary of this historic legislation, let us remember that—especially in times of crisis—Americans summon the courage to create solutions to our most urgent challenges. As we mark this special milestone, I commend the staff of the National Credit Union Administration and all those who work and volunteer in our nation's credit unions," he added.
The FCUA was signed into law on June 26, 1934, by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Obama said credit unions play a vital role in the nation's economy by serving individuals from different backgrounds and income levels.
He praised the NCUA for supporting Americans who are striving to reach their financial dreams, and helping ensure that credit unions remain valuable in the future.
NCUA Chairman Debbie Matz said she agreed with President Obama's comments about the credit union industry.
"By keeping credit unions safe, we are working to help Americans with their financial needs, to build a stronger middle class and to allow families to achieve their financial dreams one loan and one share account at a time," she said. "The best way for the NCUA to continue to honor the Federal Credit Union Act is to ensure that credit unions survive and thrive well into the future."


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Faculty Learning Communities: Data Visualization
From DftWiki
If you are interested in the Fall 08 workshop on the Aesthetics of Data Visualization, please go here
(Image from datavisualization.ch)
|A faculty learning community (FLC) is comprised of a group of faculty who meet regularly to discuss and explore a common area of interest. The group defines its scope, schedule, and agenda. ETS will serve as a resource for the learning community and provide support as needed. Each FLC will report on its deliberations at the end of the school year in a forum of the group's choosing. Participation requires a full academic year commitment.
|David Bickar (Chemistry) (link)
|Robert Dorit (Biological Sciences) (link)
|Judy Franklin (Computer Science) (.)
|Aisha Gabriel (ETS, Faculty Learning Community liaison)
|Virginia Hayssen (Biology) (link)
|Nick Horton (Math & Stats) (link)
|Christopher Loring (Director of Libraries)
|Catherine McCune (Director Quantitative Learning Center)
|Eitan Mendelowitz (Computer Science, Art) (link)
|Chester Michalik (Art & photography)
|Larry Owens (History, Umass)
|Lee Spector (Computer Science/Cognitive Science, Hampshire College) (link)
|Dominique Thiebaut, (Computer Science) organizer (link)
|Doreen Weinberger (Physics) (link)
Invited Speaker: Matthew Mattingly
- Multimedia Tools for Data Visualization in Education
- Matthew Mattingly
- Multimedia Director
- Center for Educational Software Development (CESD)
- Multimedia Tools for Data Visualization in Education
- Educational multimedia applications present a variety of data visualization challenges that are not always addressed by standard formats and approaches. The types of data involved may be very specific to a topic or discipline, and the context in which they are to be displayed may not be a simple transfer of information. Study aids, assessment tools and constructivist learning activities are among the applications that use data visualization for learning, and each requires a different mode of presentation. In this talk, Mr. Mattingly will demonstrate some of the projects that the UMass CESD has produced, including interactive simulations, time and map-based displays, and construction activities, and will discuss the processes of their design and development.
He will also introduce some new directions and tools, including online collaboration combined with mobile devices and locative media.
- Educational multimedia applications present a variety of data visualization challenges that are not always addressed by standard formats and approaches. The types of data involved may be very specific to a topic or discipline, and the context in which they are to be displayed may not be a simple transfer of information. Study aids, assessment tools and constructivist learning activities are among the applications that use data visualization for learning, and each requires a different mode of presentation. In this talk, Mr. Mattingly will demonstrate some of the projects that the UMass CESD has produced, including interactive simulations, time and map-based displays, and construction activities, and will discuss the processes of their design and development.
- Link to Matthew Mattingly's material: http://www.cesd.umass.edu/smith-talk.html
Food for Thought
Journalism in the Age of Data
A very nice overview of the state of data visualization. Some of the people interviewed: Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda Viegas, Ben Fry, Jeffrey Heer, Steve Duenes, Matt Ericson, Amanda Cox, Nicholas Felton, Eric Rodenbeck.
Although the video is available on Vimeo, watch it directly on the Stanford's site, where it is annotated.
Augmented Reality Book
From Mark Lukas, [1]: This is a concept and a demo of a book and augmented-reality display of the book contents. The book comes with a CD, which, when loaded up in a laptop uses the video-cam to detect symbols on the pages of the book and displays 3D graphics superimposed on the book.
Implementation: Flash, Felx, Flartoolkit, ARToolkit
- 3rd most popular tool in poll
- discussion on the presentation on R from last week.
- Data Journalism and Visualization
- A short presentation: A (Visualization) Case for WikiLeaks
- A new language: Impure
From TED.com: David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut -- and it may just change the way we see the world.
Invited Speaker: Michael Olkin
- Michael Olkin, GIS Manager for the town of Amherst gives a guest lecture. Olkin worked as GIS Manager for the Town of West Springfield, MA, and worked for Applied Geographics, Inc (AGI). Olkin also served as GIS Coordinator for the Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission and as GIS consultant for the City of Northampton, MA.
Olkin holds a Masters in Geography from the University of Connecticut.
Notable News Items
- Flight Patterns of Refugees: This is a very nice set of three different visualizations showing the flow of refugees through the world over a time scale, using data from the UN.
- Data Store at the Guardian: The Guadian recently launched a new gateway to their data journalism and visualisations - find out what's new at guardian.co.uk/data
Invited Speaker: Prof. Greg Brown, Music Dept. Smith College
- Greg Brown will explore the aesthetic and technical aspects of creating a virtual machine to generate music that evolves in an autonomous and quasi-organic nature. He will provide a brief discussion of the concept of sonification and a review of the rules for Conway's Game of Life and how they can be adapted to the sonic realm. Finally, there will be a presention the music itself along with concurrent video. (Personal Web Site)
- Location FH246.
Recent Discoveries in Data Visualizations
Data Publishing Language
Category: Algorithm/Visual Data Structures
Where: code.google.com
Implementation: NA
Date: Feb 2011
From googleblog.blogspot.com: Today, we're opening the Public Data Explorer to your data. We're making a new data format, the Dataset Publishing Language (DSPL), openly available, and providing an interface for anyone to upload their datasets. DSPL is an XML-based format designed from the ground up to support rich, interactive visualizations like those in the Public Data Explorer. The DSPL language and upload interface are available in Google Labs.
Follow Google's tutorial on DSPL here.
Category: Algorithms
Where: www.aviz.fr
Implementation: Java
Date: 2010
From www.aviz.fr : GeneaQuilts is a new visualization technique for representing large genealogies of up to several thousand individuals. The visualization takes the form of a diagonally-filled matrix, where rows are individuals and columns are nuclear families. The GeneaQuilts system includes an overview, a timeline, search and filtering components, and a new interaction technique called Bring & Slide that allows fluid navigation in very large genealogies.
Map of Collaboration between Researchers
Category: Geographic/GIS
Where: science-metrix.com Olivier H. Beauchesne
Implementation: NA
Date: Jan 2011
From Beauchesne's blog: My employer, Science-Metrix, is bibliometric consulting firm. In other words, we engineer ways to measure the impact and growth of scientific discovery (and publications) in the world. To accomplish this, we license data from scientific journal aggregators like Elsevier's Scopus and Thomson Reuter's Web of Science. The data we have is bibliographic in nature. We don't have the full text of the articles but rather citation networks, authors and their affiliations, abstracts, etc.
From this data, I extracted and aggregated scientific collaboration between cities all over the world. For example, if a UCLA researcher published a paper with a colleague at the University of Tokyo, this would create an instance of collaboration between Los Angeles and Tokyo. The result of this process is a very long list of city pairs, like Los Angeles-Tokyo, and the number of instances of scientific collaboration between them. Following that, I used the geoname.org database to convert the cities' names to geographical coordinates.
The NYT maps census data
Category: Political/Census
Where: The New York Times
Implementation: GoogleMap API
Date: Dec 2010
From The New York Times: Browse local data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009. Because these figures are based on samples, they are subject to a margin of error, particularly in places with a low population, and are best regarded as estimates.
Google API Table
Category: KMS/Software
Where: code.google.com
Implementation: NA
Date: 2011
From coolinfographics.com: From the Google Code site, the Periodic Table of Google APIs & Developer Tools is a cool layout of the tools available. It's actually well designed table, so each element is clickable, and takes you to the information page about that particular API.
Byook: animated books
Category: News/Books
Where: byook.com
Implementation: NA
Date: Feb 2011
From byook.com: Byooks are a new way of reading on an iPhone/iPad.
Using magic and codes defined by books and movies, they entice you to read beyond words. Pictures, animations and sounds bring great classics and today's bestsellers to life.
Relax, open a Byook and reveal the true potential of imagination.
Facebook Friendships
Category: Social Networks
Where: Paul Butler, of Facebook
Implementation: R
Date: Dec. 2010
In [2], Paul Butler says: I began by taking a sample of about ten million pairs of friends from Apache Hive, our data warehouse. I combined that data with each user's current city and summed the number of friends between each pair of cities. Then I merged the data with the longitude and latitude of each city.
At that point, I began exploring it in R, an open-source statistics environment. As a sanity check, I plotted points at some of the latitude and longitude coordinates...
4/15/11 Meeting
- Jon Carris presents his notes from the Amanda Cox talk at Umass. PDF available here.
- Dominique Thiebaut presents his first attempt at using Google's DSPL (Data Set Language). Tutorial available | here.


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This 5 gallon dispenser is easily the best purchase I made for my farmers market life. I use this thing for 5 gallons of cold brew coffee every weekend and it is simply amazing. It imparts no extra flavors into my beverages and keeps everything cold for hours. It dispenses VERY quickly so customers aren't waiting in line long to get their fill. It has help up to years of abuse going back and forth to markets and in and out of the car. Still in tip top shape and working great!
Matthew P. from Simple Roast Coffee Company Posted on 10/26/2016
Bought this for keeping coffee and water hot for outdoor events. It works great. It kept the coffee hot for about 6 hours. When we went to dump it out when done it was still steaming.
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The 5 gallon Insulated Beverage Dispenser container Alternative,Is great for using in hospital's or rehab centers,We put tea in one and hot coffee in the other .and take them down the halls for the residents.
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Tobey Maguire
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Kirsten Dunst
(Mary Jane Watson)
James Franco
(Harry Osborn)
Two years after a spider bite endowed Peter Parker with super powers enabling him to thwart crime under the guise of his secret alter ego, Spider-Man, his life is in chaos. He has just lost his job as a pizza deliveryman, his grades are suffering at college, his part-time job selling photographs of Spider-Man to the
Daily Bugle
is faltering and the girl he loves, actress Mary Jane Watson, fears that he is too irresponsible for a relationship. At his birthday at his aunt May's, Peter's best friend from high school, Harry Osborn, expresses resentment that Peter associates with Spider-Man because Harry is embittered that Spider-Man killed his father Norman after Norman's insanity turned him into the arch-criminal Green Goblin. The next day, Harry introduces Peter to his idol, noted scientist Dr. Otto Octavius, who is working on a revolutionary energy fusion project for OsCorp, Harry's company, which is supplying a small amount of the dangerous element tridium for his experiment. Octavius is impressed with Peter's scientific brilliance, and Peter spends a pleasant day with him and his wife Rosie. That night, Peter is determined to keep his promise to see Mary Jane in
The Importance of Being Earnest
, but arrives too late because he took time to assume his Spider-Man guise and prevent a crime. After the play, Peter is crushed to see Mary Jane kissing another man. Feeling miserable, Peter goes home and inexplicably has difficulty using his spider-like powers. The next day, Peter and Harry attend Octavius' experiment. With many dignitaries and the press watching, Octavius dons an apparatus consisting of four huge metal arms that are affixed to his spine. He then proceeds to create a fusion that he proclaims will solve the world's energy problems. Although the fusion causes a dangerous power spike, Octavius refuses to heed Harry and Peter's warnings. Soon the metal arms seem to come alive and, despite Peter's secretly donning his Spider-Man suit and attempting to stop the now out-of-control metal arms, the lab is destroyed and Rosie is killed. After the mayhem, Harry realizes that he is ruined, and blames Spider-Man, who actually saved Harry's life. That night, as surgeons start to remove the metal arms now fused onto Octavius' body, he and the arms suddenly awaken and kill the medical team. With the added appendages to aid him, Octavius quickly escapes to an abandoned building on the river. The next day, Octavius realizes that the arms are trying to control his thoughts but, despondent over the loss of Rosie, he succumbs to their taunts and determines to rebuild the experiment with money he will steal. Some time later, while Peter is at a bank unsuccessfully helping Aunt May refinance her house to save it from foreclosure, Octavius, now the evil "Doc Ock," enters the bank, breaks open the vault and steals sacks of money. Although Peter quickly becomes Spider-Man, Doc Ock grabs the screaming Aunt May. Spider-Man and Aunt May soon affect her release, but Doc Ock escapes. That night,after J. Jonah Jameson, the testy editor of the
Daily Bugle
, gives Peter the assignment to photograph a society party honoring Jameson's astronaut son John, Peter is crushed to see that John is Mary Jane's date and the man who kissed her after the play. On the terrace, Mary Jane sadly accuses Peter of being an empty shell, then Harry, who is also at the party, drunkenly chastises him for being more loyal to Spider-Man than his best friend. After Mary Jane and John's engagement is announced, a despondent Peter leaves and finds that his powers again are failing. Peter then dreams that his late uncle Ben is saying that his powers are a great gift, but Peter decides that he no longer wants those powers and throws his Spider-Man suit into a garbage can. Freed from the burden of being Spider-Man, Peter soon becomes happier and his grades improve. When he sees Mary Jane, she, too, notices the change, but is worried that it is only temporary. Meanwhile, a garbage man has brought the Spider-Man suit to Jonah, who runs a headline in the
Daily Bugle
proclaiming "Spider-Man No More." Later, after Peter and Aunt May visit Uncle Ben's grave, Peter confesses that he is the one responsible for Ben's death at the hands of a car-jacker because earlier Peter had allowed the criminal to get away after robbing someone who had cheated Peter. Without saying a word, Aunt May goes to her room, leaving Peter alone and feeling guilty. That night, Doc Ock climbs to Harry's penthouse and demands the rest of the tridium. Although initially refusing, warning that all of New York could be destroyed, Harry relents, on condition that Doc Ock bring Spider-Man to him. As Doc Ock departs, Harry tells him that he can find Spider-Man through Peter, but asks him not to hurt his friend. At the same time, while Peter is out walking, he sees a burning building and hears that a child is trapped inside. He immediately rushes into the building and saves the girl but, upon learning that someone else in the building burned to death, Peter feels responsible. While agonizing over his situation in his room, Ursula, his landlord's daughter, offers him a piece of cake and delivers a message from Aunt May. The next day, he visits his aunt and learns that she is resolved to move into a small apartment and thinks that Peter is brave to have told her about Ben's death. She also mentions that Henry Jackson, a young boy across the street, looks up to Spider-Man and wants to be just like his hero. Now determined to recapture his powers, Peter goes to the roof of his building to practice jumping and spinning webs, but has little success, despite his enthusiasm. When he later meets Mary Jane for coffee and she says that she believes that he has changed and wants to get back together, he lies that he does not love her. Just as she asks him to kiss her to prove it, a car crashes through the café, announcing the arrival of Doc Ock. After grabbing Mary Jane in one of his mechanical arms, Doc Ock tells Peter to have Spider-Man meet him at 3:00 that afternoon. Now a resolute Peter regains his super powers and uses his webs to vault into Jonah's office to steal his costume so quickly that no one sees him. Although Jonah had temporarily reversed his outspoken opinion that Spider-Man is a criminal, the theft of the suit convinces him to go back to his original opinion. That afternoon, Spider-Man meets Doc Ock on the roof of Harry's building and enters into a battle of strength and wits that flows over onto an elevated train. During the fight, Doc Ock grabs the train's controls, forcing it into high speed, but Spider-Man casts webs as anchors and uses all of his powers to stop the train before it crashes into the river. During the ordeal, in order to see more clearly, Peter throws off his Spider-Man mask, revealing his true identity to the terrified passengers, who are amazed that he is "just a kid." After the passengers gently carry the exhausted Peter inside the train, two young boys return his mask and everyone promises that they will never tell anyone. After the mask is back in place, Doc Ock returns to the train and carries the still weakened Spider-Man to Harry's penthouse. When Harry unmasks Spider-Man, he is stunned to see that his nemesis is his best friend. Harry does not kill Peter, who flees to Doc Ock's lab. There Doc Ock refuses to release Mary Jane and starts his new experiment, using a large amount of Harry's tridium. A battle ensues between Spider-Man and Doc Ock, during which he begins to think as Octavius again and wrestles with his conscience. Because Peter is still unmasked, Mary Jane sees that Spider-Man is Peter. As energy from the fusion experiment begins to unleash enormous power, Peter tells Mary Jane that he loves her, in case they die. Octavius now proclaims "I will not die like a monster" and forces the mechanical arms down under the water as the building collapses. After they safely escape, Mary Jane tells Peter "I think I always knew," but he says they cannot be together because Spider-Man will always have enemies and she would be in danger. Back in Harry's penthouse, he begins to hear the malevolent laugh of Green Goblin and hallucinates that his father is belittling him. To make it stop, Harry throws the knife with which he had intended to kill Spider-Man through a mirror and finds the hidden room where his father kept his Green Goblin paraphernalia. On Mary Jane and John's wedding day, Mary Jane cannot go through with the ceremony and rushes to Peter's apartment, still in her wedding dress. She says that she cannot live without him and asks "Isn't it about time someone saved your life?" After they kiss, Peter responds to a siren by jumping out the window and flying through the streets on the powerful threads of his spider webs.
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Sam Raimi
Dan Bradley
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Jeffrey A. Lynch
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Eric Heffron
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Lisa A Satriano
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Michael J. Moore
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Bac DeLorme
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Jennifer Giancola
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Lyda Blank
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Stacey Beneville
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Laura Ziskin
Avi Arad
Stan Lee
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Kevin Feige
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Joseph M. Caracciolo
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Grant Curtis
Alfred Gough
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Umm, Did Anyone Else Realize It Was This Bad??
I have a question for the supporters of the war, who think it is good for the Iraqi people. Is there any number of Iraqi civilian deaths that would render the invasion a bad idea, at least on the criterion of helping Iraqis? I realize there is an argument that it's not Bush's fault that insurgents are blowing up people, and I'm asking that, whatever your thoughts on that matter, surely there is some point at which no invasion would have been better.
So I wonder: If, say, one million people died in a single year--and not because of US troops or bombs but from terrorists--would Bill Kristol stop justifying the occupation as good for the Iraqis? Is there some number at which even he couldn't say that with a straight face? If so, what's the ballpark of the number?
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If Iraq does get a representative government and the terrorists still attack, who then would be to blame?ReplyDelete
After all, can't a (relatively) free people choose at any time to liberate people living under a dictator as the dictator has no legitimate moral authority to rule?
Or are we talking something else here ....
After all, can't a (relatively) free people choose at any time to liberate people living under a dictator as the dictator has no legitimate moral authority to rule?ReplyDelete
What do you mean by "liberate"? If this entails killing thousands of civilians, then no I don't think a free people can choose to (morally) do this.
Bob - So the American Revolution was wrong?ReplyDelete
Really we probably have a lot of common ground here. Just don't agree with the implicit line of argumentation.
I was not a supporter of the Iraqi adventure. It runs the risk of being an unmitigated disaster and going into civil war (arguably happening now).
Arrogant people will not learn from history. I seriously doubt our presence (or "Iraqi democracy" even if it did happen) is going to stop 1400 years (I think that's right) of Shiite / Sunni violence.
I'm not sure what you mean about the American Revolution. Are you saying that Sam Adams et al. should've known that the British would retaliate, and that thousands of noncombatant civlians would die? (And did that even happen?)
But to answer your question, yes, as a pacifist I think the American Revolution was unjustified and unnecessary. Gandhi showed a different way to free yourself from the British Empire.
Bob - Don't want to cover ground we've been over; (for instance: I feel having a justice system is worth the cost because it minimizes innocent lives lost even though we know beforehand that we will end up incarcerating and / or killing innocent people - I believe I get your view right if I say you disagree; the same for police pursuits of criminals putting at risk bystanders) - but more interested in the idea that the U.S. "had no business going into Iraq" for the following reasons which I think are questionable:ReplyDelete
1 - The cost of innocent lives necessarily precludes action (as opposed to the cost of inaction which might result in greater loss of life).
2 - There are no benefits that could outweight the cost of innocent lives.
3 - The situation otherwise would have been better over the next 50 years.
I think all 3 are incorrect reasons. There are other issues; for example France supplying Saddam with weaponry and it's radical Islamic population growing rapidly, joint Russian and Iraqi cooperation, etc.
The reason we should not be in Iraq is because of the potential for creating or broadening a war with radical Islamics, the potential for civil war, and the necessity of maintaining a permanent presence (which exacerbates the above), none of which leads to the preservation of human life - unless there are some critical facts I'm not aware of.
Your reasons (1) and (2) aren't empirical, and I simply disagree with you. Your reason (3) is empirical, and there too I disagree with you. Do you agree that right now Iraq is worse than it was under Saddam? If so, after how many years of this would you agree that--from the viewpoint of the welfare of the Iraqi people--the US invasion would be a mistake?
And can you please clarify what you meant about the American Revolution? Are you saying it killed thousands of civilian colonists?
Of course the American Revolution was wrong. Within two decades the people had less freedom than they had under the British. Adam Smith had it right -- Washington et al. just wanted to be in charge themselves.ReplyDelete
Bob - We've no need to empirically endure "1000 rapes" before outlawing that behavior with punishment, and we've no need to repeat the experiment over and over to make sure the "empirical relationship" holds. The idea that when we take action it costs innocent lives (like a justice system does) should not necessarily preclude our action if it can be reasonably supported by history.ReplyDelete
Let's focus on #2 as that seems the real crux of the argument, because we probably have common ground arguing to minimize the cost of innocent human lives.
I am saying - not that there is -but there could be - benefits which outweigh the current cost in lives. You make the extraordinary claim that there cannot be any justification by criticizing the current action without reservation. That's an amazing level of certainty and it requires similarly an extremely strong argument, which I don't believe has been forthcoming.
Here's a basic scenario: Iran achieves nuclear and biological capability in 5 years with rockets that have long distance pinpoint ability to target Tel-Aviv, being secretly supplied by Russia and China or whoever. Some event sparks a war with Israel.
Now what? With the current level of Nazi-like fanatics (according to their own words) running the show, we risk a nuclear / biological / chemical exchange. In fact, with recent "advances" biological warfare can target common Jewish genetic traits excluding most Arabs from harm, relieving yet another constraint on aggressive violent action ... horrible.
Is that better or perhaps strategy and placement really, really matters for the balance of power in the middle east.
Whether it is worse or better for the citizens under Saddam vs. current situation, I'm not sure that's at all clear either. For some people, freedom is more precious than life - and it has not ever been achieved without sacrifice, so the "scale of values" argument isn't very strong.
Neither are the numbers at all clear. Saddam's rule probably cost 100s of thousands of lives, directly (war, arrest) and economically (dictatorships are not successful). Our actions so far are probably on par, but they do (however remotely) have a chance of success.
Yes - I am saying the American Revolution (even leaving England) did kill many innocent people. The people apparently felt that religious and political freedom was more valuable than life. You make the argument that we should not take action in which innocent lives are to be sacrificed, a view I find that history does not adequately support.
Adam Smith foresaw this quite well -- he wrote his comments in a book that was published in 1776. Here's a maxim -- violence should only be used as the option of last resort, and the American colonists were far from that point.ReplyDelete
Gene - If you lived 1000 years and been able to observe one hundred revolutions you probably would have found yourself many times in the losing position with that same argument. Violence should sometimes be the first resort (for instance, when encountering an armed robber in your girl's room).ReplyDelete
To say that "Adam Smith" was right is to make a claim that requires much more than the fact that things turned out as he said. You must also establish that the reasons given by Adam Smith are logically - not just by chance - associated with the outcome and that the reasons given are the most important central issues to determining that outcome. Perhaps he was right.
The American Revolution was debated at length and many opinions expressed; some might even have been right in another time, but turned out not to be true this time.
(I note this is a tangent dealing with a specific situation unrelated to the general question on this string: are there times when action should be taken although it will cost innocent lives? I believe the answer is yes).
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I'll continue the discography in between some of my other reviews. Probably do Crash next.
Dave matthews, bro.
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Thanks Nag, I fixed it. I would go with Crash or Before These Crowded Streets for these guys, the latter is their best. And yeah I guess I have written a lot lately, I might work on another one later.
Ah, but is their best also the best one to start with?
Most of them are pretty accessible but maybe Crash is better to start with.
Crash it is then. Oh, and while I believe you've written better reviews, this is still worthy of a first pos.
Thanks, and I think you're right I need to work on my negative reviews a bit more.
Album Rating: 1.5Dave Matthews Band is really not worth your time, nagarok, no matter what this guy says.
Album Rating: 3.0Everyday is the album most dmb fans wish was never made.
maybe dub sean, but I think this is slightly worse. Luckily Big Whiskey was excellent and they are back.
I think that every DMB album is the album that non DMB enthusiasts wish DMB had never made so they didn't have to listen to people who know jack shit about music drool over DMB being DMB and listen to all 300 of DMB's awesome live recordings of them being DMB.
I know its COOL to hate dmb, but my pet peeve is 95% of the people that make comments like that have never listened to anything other than whats on the radio.
Uhh. I actually rode in a car with my brother for a couple hours just listening to DMB. It was pretty obnoxious. Like, I'm being serious when I say that I wish that DMB had never existed.
I heard You Might Die Trying off this, first live and then studio, and I must say live was infinitely better.
Yeah I actually like the live version, it has much more of a powerful climax and has more energy.
Exactly. Proves they're indeed better live.
Album Rating: 3.0Listen to Hello Again live from the 2004 tour, you will be blown away.
Album Rating: 1.0no thank you, i don't want to get AIDS
Album Rating: 3.0man, that comment was really necessary wasn't it...
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This monitor is coming with a 25-inch large panel, non-touchscreen, but has a built-in webcam that is capable of tracking head position of the user to match the 3D effects displayed on the screen.
LG D2500N-PN glasses-free 3D monitor is featuring 1920 x 1080p native resolution, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 250cd/m2 brightness level, 5ms response time and two display ports (DVI and HDMI).
It sounds like a great technology, but this new baby is going to cost a lot if you want to buy it all-new. The price was set on the level of 150,000 Yen or equal to US$1,923.00, which is about the price of a high-end badass gaming desktop!
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Imperial Beach hopes to attract more commercial projects to the city by creating incentives for developers.
Consultants hired in 2007 to help the city increase tax revenue and development opportunities recently completed their recommendations, which include easing height and density restrictions.
However, residents who attended a public workshop Tuesday objected to any zoning changes that would allow commercial developments they fear would be too tall or dense.
"These recommendations would change radically the landscape of I.B.," said Travis Brazil, one of 35 residents who spoke, some angrily, against several of the recommendations, saying they want to keep Imperial Beach's small-town feel.
Elisabeth Shapiro said the process started out the wrong way and that the community should have been involved first before the consultants. Some said at least a few recommendations in the report would have been rejected immediately if residents were consulted earlier. Many said the city was moving too quickly.
Mayor Jim Janney said that early in the process the consultant began holding meetings with business owners and residents but attendance dwindled. Tuesday he told the crowd of about 75 that the recommendations were "never to be adopted as a whole" and that they were simply a menu of options.
"This is the start of a long, long process," Janney said. "With a major project like this, going slow is the way to go."
Janney said the city would hold a meeting no later than September to figure out how it will move forward. He said he hoped residents and city officials will be able to agree.
"We'll start with looking at the process," Janney said. "Then, we'll look at what might be palatable."
Councilwoman Patricia McCoy agreed, saying that consensus is what the city wants.
"It shouldn't be neighbor against neighbor," McCoy said. "We should be working together."
The incentives were proposed as amendments to the city's zoning codes. One amendment proposes allowing buildings 60 feet tall along Palm Avenue, where the current limit is 40 feet. Some residents balked at the suggestion.
Another recommendation was a proposal to no longer allow the construction of single-family homes west of Ocean Lane between Palm Avenue and Imperial Beach Boulevard. Ocean Lane runs west of but parallel to Seacoast Drive.
It's an area where both residential and commercial buildings are permitted. Property owners said they fear they would be pushed out or not allowed to add on to their homes if the recommendation is adopted.
The workshop drew many locals who recalled fighting against high-rise hotels along the beach in the early 1990s. Those battles over height and density divided Imperial Beach. At the time, a temporary zoning ordinance limiting height and building density was passed by nearly 72 percent of voters, and was added to the General Plan. An increase in the height limit would require voter approval.
The restrictive codes stopped high-rise hotels but also limited redevelopment projects. In 2002, the council amended the zoning codes to allow hotels to deviate from height and other zoning restrictions.
One result is the redevelopment of the Seacoast Inn, a planned four-story, 78-room resort on the city's beachfront. City officials say the project will bring in more property tax revenue and encourage development in the area.
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Ok I had to start this review over because I accidentally deleted the whole thing before I posted it somehow.
I've been waiting on this one for a while, I was lucky enough to get to taste a sample of it a while back and i knew right away that i must have more of it.
The aroma is slightly floral and slightly fruity at the same time with the floral aroma being similar to an orchid type aroma and the fruity aromas being like that of plums or dried cherries, very nice.
The major flavor notes are those of smokey pine, raw cocoa and honey with a pleasant sharpness or dryness on the end/aftertaste.
The minor notes are ever-changing and make the profile of this tea quite complex and hard to write a review on but I'll do the best I can…
There a very slight floral note at times when the tea is warmer those match the orchid notes in the aroma as the tea cools a bit those very slight floral note turn into slightly citrus type note somehow. There is also a slight sweet note throughout this tea that also changes, at the start it is a fruity type sweetness and on the end it is more of a floral or honey type sweetness.
This tea is also very forgiving and can handle abuse of oversteeping and still come out tasting better than ever with no bitter or astringent at all in fact To Me it actually got much smoother with a longer steep and even more mellow as it cool.
Overall Pine Peak is a great Name for this one because the smokey Pine notes are dominate in this one,a wonderful good Keemun IMO that can be enjoyed many ways, I bet It would make for a really great iced tea also.
P.S Also I tasted it with some sweetener just because, I DO NOT recommend that at all, This tea is best enjoyed as it is without added sweetener.
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SHERIDAN — The Sheridan Jets continued to make some progress on the baseball field on Tuesday but were only able to come away with one victory in their doubleheader against Gillette JV.
It has been a trend for the Jets all season long to split their doubleheaders, and the up and down play was in full effect on Tuesday in Gillette.
Jeff Shanor was on the mound for Sheridan in game one, and his ability to find the strike zone helped propel his team to a 5-4 win. Shanor pitched six solid innings, striking out nine Gillette batters.
After the Jets jumped to a quick 2-0 lead in the first inning, Gillette scored three in the bottom of the third to jump ahead of the Jets. Sheridan bounced right back to take a 4-3 lead before Gillette tied the game in the fifth inning.
The game-winning run came in the top of the sixth inning for Sheridan, and Caleb Hoopes came in to relieve Shanor in the seventh inning to get the save.
"It was a good win for our ball club," coach Ryan Murner said. "We continued to pick each other up when we had our errors."
The rest of the night didn't go very well for the Jets, as they seemed to hit a wall going into the second game of the doubleheader.
The Jets couldn't get anything going at bat, only producing three hits for the game. Their problems at the plate made it easier for Gillette to make the adjustments they wanted, scoring seven runs to beat Sheridan 7-1.
"We struggled at the plate against their pitcher," Murner said of his team's inability to produce runs in game two. "We didn't make our adjustments at the plate and got ourselves out constantly by swinging at poor pitches."
It wasn't all bad, though, as coach Murner was happy with his team's pitching and is hopeful for improvements in the batter's box.
"I thought we pitched good enough in both games, but offensively we had problems putting quality at bats together," Murner said. "I believe we will continue to work hard and get better."
The Jets take their 12-15 record into a brief break over the holiday weekend before taking the field for another doubleheader in Cody on July 8.


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Kristen Stewart's run-in with Liberty Ross
Stewart and Sanders, who met on the sets of the film "Snow While and The Huntsman", were caught cheating on their respective partners - Robert Pattinson and Sanders - last year.
Stewart, 23, and boyfriend Pattinson showed up to watch hip-hop act Jurassic 5 at the Californian music festival, only to discover Ross was standing nearby, reported Sun Online. "Kristen has tried so hard to put everything from last year behind her - and she still feels incredibly guilty.
She and Rob had turned a massive corner in recent months and they were both there to enjoy themselves. "The last thing she wanted to do was make Liberty feel uncomfortable, either.
She looked pretty upset in the backstage bar later on that evening," an eye witness said. Ross, 34, filed for divorce from her husband of 10 years, Sanders, in January after his cheating scandal with Stewart became public.