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Independent, Analytical , Compassionate and Spiritual
My passions include mathematics, psychology, music and dance. I am also interested in abstract art. I belong to Delhi
I am quite new to Bangalore. Interested in some fun activities and excursions with fellow group members
Yeah, I think i can be quite active in this group. I came to know about this from the internet
Simple and Broadminded guy . Looking forward to meeting new people. I love exploring diversity and learning about different cultures.
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Hi Vishak,
You can try the Yoga Wellness Center at
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hi Vishak, welcome to group and thanks for the RSVP! any location suggestions? Looks like we could do it somewhere in Indiranagar.
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Welcome to the Yoga group. We meet once a month usually on the 3rd Wednesday to hear a speaker talk about a Yoga/Meditation related topic. You can subscribe to the Yoga Meditation Club by sending an email to [masked] Its free and run by volunteers. Hope you have a regular Yoga practice. Let us know if you'd like to find a teacher/class in your area. Regards Shivani
No issues that you couldnt make it. It wont be always possible to organise meet ups over the weekends as while we are planning the activities we need to speed up as much as possible. Hope to see you next time though.
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Ran a 4.3 at recent practice. Third fastest on the team. Pretty impressive for an "NC State Reject" if I do say so myself.
Posted: 11:59 pm Thursday, June 5th, 2014
NC State football player transferring to UGA
By Michael Carvell
I will take kids like this over Tray Matthews every day of the week.
In one week, they get opportunity to drop four losers and pick up one quality person. Sounds like a win-win situation to me.
why is uga taking nc state rejects? that team is never any good.
He looks fast in his recruiting video and I am excited to have him. UGA looks to have gotten/found a diamond in the rough with this kid but only time will tell. He didn't play much at NC State but he was one of their better recruits in 2012 and they were excited to land him.
Welcome to the Bull Dog Nation young man , best of luck on the field and in the classroom !
Nice to see someone transferring INTO UGA... Welcome Charlie!!
Hope he turns in to a diamond in the rough. Welcome aboard! DforDawgs!!!
Great news welcome to the , DAWG NATION , good luck .
Size? Speed? Come on!. I know that the typical news employee holy grail is "changing the world." But how about shifting back to old school actual journalism long enough to provide some information that thinking people would like to know.
i agree, what's the whole story? Why a hardship transfer? I tried to find the answer elsewhere and there has been an exodus of players from NC State. Looks like due to a coaching/system change. What I did find is that Hegedus never started a game at NC State, so I'm not going to get too excited yet.
Michael, why the hardship transfer? If his other choice was Southern Miss, doesn't seem to be family or location oriented.
I was always puzzled why we didn't offer him out of high school but, hey he's here now and Tech still sux.
As a Lassiter Grad, THWG!
At least he won't have to worry about how many times he can cash a stipend check.
Can he play DB?
Sure he is not a receiver in the Malcolm Mitchell mold? I assume his grades are good? I get it, because he fits the Michael Bennett mold. Does that mean he is White and most likely has a high character and is probably REVOLTED by Hussein Obama? If so, I agree, smart kid!
Welcome to the Bulldawg Nation!!!
Same exact size as Michael Bennett but much faster. If he has MB's hands and heart...lookout.
Charlie.....catch a heap, make 'em weep!!!!
BTW, welcome Charlie. GO DAWGS!
GTBob will probably make an assumption he has a shady background (from the mean streets of East Cobb! lol) and therefore is prejudged as a criminal because he is going to UGA.
Huh GTBooby?
or is GTBob really just prejudiced towards black players?
He looks pissed.
"He's a Michael Bennett-type player."
I assume that's because he's a white receiver. Gotta love lazy player comps.
@HarveyPooka 2 of those 4 did CMR and UGA a favor, those remaining 2 will be pardoned and sentenced to time served. Hopefully they will start acting like young "Men".
Wisconsin should have rejected Russell Wilson then, right? Nice logic, buddy.
@twelveofthirteen He isn't a diamond in the rough. Since leaving NC State he has been working out at a training facility in Atlanta where he has been burning NFL db's and out running NFL wide receivers.He can play now. He has gained 20lbs of muscle since HS, where he put up better numbers than Blake Tibbs. If UGA uses him right, he will make a name for himself. If corners play him close, he will be open on the post, if they lay off him, he is a sure 5 yards. He has deceptively great high end speed, so is always having to slow down and wait on the long ball, takes working with QB's to get timing down and he will be a huge long ball threat which should help open up a passing game. I have heard he may be rooming with Hudson Mason over the summer, who was a HS team mate at Lassiter, so I suspect the timing will be there.
@itchyz 6-2 210, clocked at 4.42 & 4.44, won his 5A regional in 100 sprint, fastest guy on NC States team. Benches 225 16 times. Speed is more at the top end than acceleration, blows past DB's on a post pattern. Great hands. Not great moves after the pass, but gets open and doesn't drop catches.
What does it matter about any of that. He is coming as a walk-on. Georgia loses nothing in letting this guy on the team. If he is any good then he earns a Scholarship , if not he ends up on the scout team helping get our team ready for the next game. Either way Georgia wins. Good luck to him.
@Red-Dog I think UGA was holding open a scholarship for Patterson and when he went to UT, Hegedus had already signed with NC State. NC States coach had Boston College roots where Charlies dad played DB. After Charlies freshman year there was a head coaching change at NC state and they went to an offense where they needed to get lucky to score, so after the catch moves became more important than not dropping the ball and making first downs.
15 yard penalty on Cary for hitting below the belt.
@WeRunTheEast Nice comment...Adolph !
@Quackmeyer that was pretty good...kudos !
@AlternativeDawg Yeah, and I like that, don't you ?
Don't assume dummy....
Michael Bennett is a damn good receiver.
It is a very nice compliment.
@BleedingGold @BoomTown Just to easy sometimes.
@Greg_is_a_Vol @twelveofthirteen According to some "in the know", he had a heck of a summer camp. But then he pulled his hamstring several weeks ago. He returned to practice last week, but in a green jersey and definitely not going all out. I hear it's still sore, so although he will be dressed in red and black tomorrow for Clemson, sounds very doubtful that he takes the field. If Mitchell and JSW are healthy soon, might be best if they red shirt him.....especially considering he didn't transfer in until June. Either way....Go Dawgs! GATA
@KeepOnSmilingWetWillie no need he hits like a girl, and with our punch line of 12 of the last 13 he really does have to grasp at straws.
@HotDawg Must have missed the part where I mentioned anything about his skill set, dummy.
Assume cause he's white....
Stein made the lazy response.
No, just commenting based on GTBob's history of comments.
A lazy response would be typing "cause" instead of the correct word, "because."
Very unoriginal stein.
@HotDawg YOU CANT USE HUMOR WITH UGA FANS...THEY AREN'T COMEDICALLY SHARP ENOUGH AND "WILL" BECOME" OFFENDED.
Or you could go with the even lazier "cuz."
Larry, Not true. It was just a lot of crickets chirping at a lame joke.
@DawgNole @TampGator1 @HotDawg Ore the even lazier, "be"


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On Ask Polly: I Survived a Hard Life, But I Never Learned How to Be Normal
LW, three things:
1. I know no one normal. Every once in a while I meet someone and I think, with a pang of jealousy, "They seem cool, and so normal." Then I know them for longer and it turns out that they have their own matched set of emotional luxury luggage. This incredibly together woman I was talking to at work recently told me that her sister died when she was 23 and she spent the last 5 years of her sister's life taking her in and helping her through chemo and then the next 5 years after that paying off hospital and funeral home bills. And I kid you not, she seemed like the poster child for normal--I just had no idea. Sometimes people act light and breezy because that's just how society functions--you do that until you figure out who you can trust with your real life, and that's okay. Don't assume everyone who looks normal is normal. Look closer and you will find soul mates everywhere, because human beings rarely make it through 30 years completely unscathed.
2. Do not ever apologize for your English again, because it is terrific. Truly--you write better than many native speakers.
3. You are amazing. I wish I could give you a standing ovation in a box that you could open whenever you thought this way. Amazing people attract other amazing people--you will find your tribe soon.


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New Birth Control Pills, Same Old Stroke Risk
Feb. 7, 2002 -- Hopes that the latest generation of birth control pills would put women at less risk of stroke than older formulations were shattered today by research presented at a meeting of stroke experts.
"Women using any type of birth control pills have about twice the stroke risk of nonusers," senior researcher Ale Algra, MD, associate professor of clinical epidemiology at the University Medical Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands, tells WebMD. "We found no difference in stroke risk between the second- and third-generation birth control pills."
"This was a very carefully done study that reiterates our concerns about stroke risk going back to the first generation of birth control pills," Robert Adams, MD, Regents Professor of Neurology at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, tells WebMD.
"The hope was that changing the chemical composition of the birth control pill would avoid the increased stroke risk, but this study shows that there is still a small but real risk," says Adams, who was not involved in the study.
Birth control pills contain synthetic female hormones including estrogen, which prevents pregnancy by interfering with egg release. Unfortunately, estrogen also increases the risk of blood clots, which cause strokes when they develop in the brain.
In hopes of reducing this risk, second-generation birth control pills -- developed in the early 1970s -- contained a much lower dose of estrogen than the first-generation birth control pills introduced in the 1960s.
But women using these pills soon noticed unpleasant side effects, including weight gain, acne, and increased cholesterol, which doctors related to other female hormones, called progestins, contained in the pills.
To cut back on these side effects, third-generation birth control pills developed a decade later also contained low amounts of estrogen, but used different progestins.
Algra's study is the first to compare the three generations of birth control pills. The team looked specifically at the risk of stroke caused by insufficient blood flow to the brain -- usually due to a blood clot that blocks circulation. They studied 203 women who had a stroke between the ages of 18 and 49, and compared them with 925 women of similar age who had not had a stroke.
Stroke risk in women using any type of birth control pills was double that of nonusers -- about six strokes per 10,000 women per year, compared with only three strokes in women not on the pill.
Twice the risk sounds like a lot, but the risk of a stroke is still not that great because women of child-bearing age are at fairly low risk of stroke in general, Adams says, adding that most earlier studies have come up with similar results.
The few women still using the first-generation pill were 1.7 times more likely to have a stroke than nonusers. Surprisingly, risk of stroke was even higher with the newer pills -- 2.2 times that of non-pill users for the third-generation pill and 2.4 times the risk for the second-generation pill.


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Entitlement: (n.) the belief that one is deserving of, or entitled to certain privileges.
Twenty minutes into my daughter's tennis lesson, trying to be efficient, I began to pick up the loose balls on the court. Her instructor stopped me. "Parents," he said, "can mollycoddle their kids, but when they're with me, they clean up their own mess."
Entitlement is pervasive in American culture. The athletes and coaches who traffic drugs or abuse children because the rules don't apply to them; millennials who, at a time of high unemployment, expect more concessions and perks, not fewer; politicians who can legally buy and sell stock based on non-public information. As Aldous Huxley wrote, "Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."…
It is rarely a coincidence when three books exploring the same territory arrive in the same month; a trend in nonfiction publishing is often a barometer of societal anxiety. Creativity has become that.
Will the London Olympics deliver a sustainable social enterprise legacy? via @GuardianSocEnt bit.ly/wi9yio - What do you think?— NACUE (@NACUE) January 12, 2012
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The deep dredge could be in very deep trouble. Miami's most controversial public works project has been under the microscope in recent months as environmentalists have complained the dredge is killing precious coral colonies. This morning, however, those same environmentalists are filing a request ... More >>
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Driving through the soon-to-be completed Port of Miami Tunnel on a golf cart is like going on the world's most expensive theme park ride. In 88 days, the construction site is expected to transform into the largest bored tunnel in North America. Currently, it looks like a Universal Studios homage to ... More >>
Hearing the words "Cuba," "Missiles" and "North Korean," tends to make most Americans uncomfortable, and now international officials are trying to figure out the mystery of why exactly those words all ended up together in this headline.
In January, I wrote about an amazing high-tech submarine race to the bottom of the ocean. In the story, I mentioned how a Hialeah strip club called Porky's had once been the staging ground for an incredible plot to smuggle Colombian cocaine to California in a Russian sub.Then, at the end of August, ... More >>
Carlos Lopez-Cantera is having a helluva week in Tallahassee. On Monday, the Miami-based state rep requested an amendment to Florida law so that the City of Miami wouldn't have to pay taxes on the new Marlins Stadium parking garages -- never mind that such an exemption is probably unconstitutiona ... More >>
The Port of Miami's much-debated "Deep Dredge" will be delayed for months -- possibly years -- as a Tallahassee judge hears arguments for and against the project this August.Port officials tell Riptide that they are optimistic the project will still be completed on time. But a lawyer representing en ... More >>
Like it or not, the Port of Miami is in for some major changesIf you thought the Port of Miami's deep dredging project was controversial, get a load of this.Riptide has obtained a copy of the port's 2035 Master Plan. It calls for adding three new cruise ship berths, a mega-yacht marina near downt ... More >>
Environmentalists are suing to stop a $150 million dredging project from tearing up Biscayne BayFaced with up to two years of underwater blasting that they say will forever scar Biscayne Bay, local environmentalists played their last card yesterday to stop the Port of Miami "Deep Dredge" project: Th ... More >>
Florida's high-speed rail plan is official dead -- done in at the hands of Rick Scott. But the governor giveth as he taketh away. Scott says the state will pick up the tab on funding a project to dredge the Port of Miami, allowing it to handle larger ships. Scott says the project will create 30,0 ... More >>
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I was wrong. Seven years ago, at the Iraq War's start, I wrote a column expressing skepticism about the Bush administration's claim that Adnan Shukrijumah of Miramar was a top terrorist. Earlier today, reports leaked from the FBI that Shukrijumah has become Osama Bin Laden's top man on globa ... More >>
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I've had my MM Embellishment Shelf for about…well, let's just say I got it with a 50% off coupon from Michaels so it must've been since a recent holiday. I finally got it hung ~ all by myself and I even used a level ~ DH would be so proud! Here it is in progress. I'm still working on it, while I organize my entire scrap space. I love to see all my little pretties lined up, so cheerful and colorful. Stickles make me smile :)
Since I took this picture the other day, I decided to add one of the ribbon spool dowels. Yikes, I had put both of them in my bin for Scrapbook Garage Sale and was going to get rid of them. But I had all that cute Target ribbon in the bright Spring/Summer colors so it has been installed. I'll post a pic when I'm all done too.
I actually turned off the computer FOR AN ENTIRE DAY yesterday. Yeah, I know, I didn't think I could do it either. But it was amazing how much stuff I got done when I wasn't saying to myself, "Oh, just one more post on AMR MB….Wait, I want to check my blog stats…Darnit, I need to e-mail so-and-so about whatevah-whatevah…Shoot, one more look at CKMB won't kill me… And before I know it, the entire morning is gone and I still have tons to do, nevermind not getting to those "extra" things that would be nice to get done.
Here is my list of accomplishments from yesterday:
1. Moved all of my scrapbooks to the empty shelf in the living room that has been available for about a month. I wanted them out of my scrap area so people will actually look at them once in a while, LOL.
2. Moved layouts around and got things in chronological order. Put some "homeless" layouts into scrapbooks…you know, the ones you complete then keep in a stack somewhere? I had nowhere near the job of ALI EDWARDS, but it still took some good ol', sit down on the floor and spread it all out kinda' time…
3. Lots of housework ~ yuck! But a good feeling of accomplishment…
4. Continued my scrap space organizing. It's a never ending project, I swear. But I can see my two beautiful Basic Grey Magnetic Mats! So I can actually get some scrapping done now.
5. Found some childhood pics of my hubby, noticed how much one of our children resembles him, and left him a little love note with the pictures for him to see before he left for work this morning.
Believe it or not, I got even more done but you're probably dozing off by now, so I'll stop. I'm sad I missed a whole day of message board and blog haps, and I didn't blog, but feel really good that I got so much done around here. Maybe I'll have more Turn Off the Computer Mondays!
Have you ever been forced to stay away from the computer for a day, just to get something done?
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WOW! What a productive day. I need to do the same thing. There is always so much to be done, but where do I end up going?? My laptop!! Good for you for getting this done!Reply
Oooh, I love that shelf! I'm so envious!! It really looks great, Erika!Reply
I wish I had a wall left to put that on…. Looks great, love your pretties…..Wanna come do my space? LOL
That is such a cute looking shelving unit Erika. I am so envious of your beautiful organisation. I would love to be a bit more together is that respect.Reply


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Greetings from the Honors Shack! This week many people have been a part of a great program called Shack-a-Thon. For those of you who don't know, Shack-a-Thon is a week long program run by and to raise money for Habitat for Humanity. To do this, 15 different organizations bid and win spots in [...]Continue Reading →


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Time to investigate legality of drones
In the latest installment of this blog's coverage of drone warfare, the editorial board of The Daily News in Jacksonville, North Carolina, is taking to task the American public's silence on the Barack Obama administration's use of drones in Pakistan and elsewhere.
When the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism released a report last Sunday claiming that U.S. drone strikes have killed dozens of civilian rescuers and mourners in Pakistan, the American media scarcely noticed.
Similarly, while other countries hotly debate America's covert program of targeted assassination, its legality has never been considered by a U.S. court and is seldom discussed by Congress, which has ceded extraordinary authority over the drone program to the president and the CIA.
That silence could well come back to haunt this country. … It is past time for U.S. courts and the United Nations to explore the legal issues involved in targeted assassination and set rules that take into account advances in technology."
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A new ethical problem with drones?
You might recall that a couple months ago I posted about an article on The Huffington Post in which author Michael Vlahos implied that technological advances in warfare, such as drones, that reduce human casualties are actually undesirable.
This broad concern about drone warfare — in which humans are not directing engaged in combat but control a flying, armed device from a computer thousands of miles away — has been the subject of several posts on this blog, including a full-length essay. If you've read any of those posts, you know that I find Vlahos' argument, and arguments like his, deeply flawed.
However, many people are now worrying about an fresh development in the drone warfare story: new drones apparently might be able to operate without the control of computer-chair pilots. From the Los Angeles Times:
The Navy's new drone being tested near Chesapeake Bay stretches the boundaries of technology: It's designed to land on the deck of an aircraft carrier, one of aviation's most difficult maneuvers. What's even more remarkable is that it will do that not only without a pilot in the cockpit, but without a pilot at all.
The X-47B marks a paradigm shift in warfare, one that is likely to have far-reaching consequences. With the drone's ability to be flown autonomously by onboard computers, it could usher in an era when death and destruction can be dealt by machines operating semi-independently.
Although humans would program an autonomous drone's flight plan and could override its decisions, the prospect of heavily armed aircraft screaming through the skies without direct human control is unnerving to many.
"Lethal actions should have a clear chain of accountability," said Noel Sharkey, a computer scientist and robotics expert. "This is difficult with a robot weapon. The robot cannot be held accountable. So is it the commander who used it? The politician who authorized it? The military's acquisition process? The manufacturer, for faulty equipment?"
Yet Sharkey clearly overlooks two important points mentioned above: that humans would both program and be able to override the drones. As such, I wonder if this new development poses any new ethical dilemma, or if drone opponents are simply continuing to oppose that which they find unethical. What do you think?
Articles of interest: drones
I've spent a good deal of time on this blog discussing the ethics of drone warfare. Recently, strikes in Pakistan and elsewhere have drawn major news coverage. Here are a couple articles of interest on this subject:
- The Wall Street Journal reports that Central Intelligence Agency has drawn back its drone campaign after both military and diplomatic officials complained large strikes were damaging America's relationship with Pakistan.
- Daphne Eviatar argues on The Huffington Post that drone strikes are potentially illegal, unnecessary, and perhaps even counterproductive.
- Mirza Shahzad Akbar details in The Guardian why he is suing the CIA for allegedly killing innocent civilians through drone attacks in Pakistan.
- Human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith writes in the New York Times on the deadly human impact of drone strikes.
As always, your thoughts are welcome.
Ralph Nader on drones
Are drone strikes inherently any more or less ethical than manned aircraft strikes? Is there, or should there be, an ethical distinction between launching missiles from half a world away and sending fighter jets to carry out such an attack?
Those are the questions I posed in a recent essay here. My answers were no.
Not everyone agrees. Indeed, I was just alerted to a new article by Ralph Nader, who condemns drones as inherently unethical and illegal. Much of Nader's argument rests on the notion that drone strikes are only causing more chaos in unstable regions of the world. Nader quotes columnist David Ignatius, who wrote that:
"A world where drones are constantly buzzing overhead — waiting to zap those deemed threats under a cloaked and controversial process — risks being, even more, a world of lawlessness and chaos."
But again, I ask: is there really any ethical difference between the buzzing of drones and the roar of aircraft engines?
White House debates war tactics
Last week, I wrote about the legal and ethical issues with the United States' use of unmanned drones to carry out strikes on suspected militants in areas of world where the U.S. is not formally engaged in war, such as Pakistan.
Just two days after my essay, the New York Times reported that President Obama's legal team is in the midst hotly contested debate on whether to expand the United States' work to kill Islamic militants in Yemen and . According to the Times, it is "a question that could define the limits of the war against and its allies, according to administration and Congressional officials."
From the story:
The debate, according to officials familiar with the deliberations, centers on whether the United States may take aim at only a handful of high-level leaders of militant groups who are personally linked to plots to attack the United States or whether it may also attack the thousands of low-level foot soldiers focused on parochial concerns: controlling the essentially ungoverned lands near the Gulf of Aden, which separates the countries.
The dispute over limits on the use of lethal force in the region — whether from drone strikes, cruise missiles or commando raids — has divided the State Department and the Pentagon for months, although to date it remains a merely theoretical disagreement. Current administration policy is to attack only "high-value individuals" in the region, as it has tried to do about a dozen times.
But the unresolved question is whether the administration can escalate attacks if it wants to against rank-and-file members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen, and the Somalia-based Shabab. The answer could lay the groundwork for a shift in the fight against terrorists as the original Al Qaeda, operating out of Afghanistan and Pakistan, grows weaker. That organization has been crippled by the killing of Osama bin Laden and by a fierce campaign of drone strikes in the tribal regions of Pakistan, where the legal authority to attack militants who are battling United States forces in adjoining Afghanistan is not disputed inside the administration.
The ethics of drone warfare
By Michael De Dora
As you probably already know, the United States has increasingly relied on drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, to carry out warfare in recent years. Drone attacks have been particularly popular under President Barack Obama's administration. According to the New America Foundation, there were 43 drone attacks between January and October 2009 (right when Obama took office), compared to just 34 in all of 2008 (when George W. Bush was still in office). The Obama administration has shown no indication that it will halt the use of drones, which are responsible for the deaths of many alleged terrorists.
The government's increased reliance on drones has sparked public debate on two questions: Are drone strikes legal? Are they ethical? In my reading of various news and opinion articles on the issue, objections to drones come in three varieties:
1. Drones violate domestic law. Many, or even most, drone strikes take place in Pakistan or other Middle Eastern countries where the US has not declared war against a foreign state, but is instead working with local officials to root out terrorists under some "handshake agreement." As such, many people feel drone strikes are an unjustified use of presidential and military power. US officials defend drone strikes on the grounds that they do not target a formal state, but a small group of people that have carried out attacks on domestic soil and plan to do so again. Thus, formal warfare laws do not apply (in other words: hey, it's just the never-ending War on Terror).
2. Drones violate international law, which restricts when and how different states can engage in armed conflict. Yet, as with domestic law, there is no conflict between two formal states. Also, most drone strikes are carried out by the CIA, which as a civilian agency and a noncombatant under international law is not governed by the same laws of war that cover US military agencies.
3. Drones kill civilians. The Wall Street Journal reported via intelligence officials that since Obama took office, the CIA has used drones to kill 400 to 500 suspected militants, while only ~20 civilians have been killed. However, in 2009, Pakistani officials said the strikes had killed roughly 700 civilians and only 14 terrorist leaders. Meanwhile, a New America Foundation analysis in northwest Pakistan from between 2004 to 2010 reports that the strikes killed between 830 and 1210 individuals, of whom 550 to 850 were militants (about two-thirds of the total).
These arguments are nuanced and complex, and you can read more about them in this excellent article in the Wall Street Journal. But let us put these — and any discussion of just war theory — aside for a moment, for I think there is a more basic ethical point here.
Notice that the objections above do not inherently reject the use of unmanned drones. Instead, they make claims about international law, domestic law, and the accuracy of drones. This raises an important question: are drone strikes inherently any more or less ethical than, say, manned aircraft strikes? Is there, or should there be, an ethical distinction between launching missiles from half a world away and sending fighter jets to carry out such an attack?
It seems to me that there is no ethical distinction. The method in which war is carried out — by drone, jet, or a missile launched from a nuclear sub — is less important than the pretenses and justifications for the use of war in the first place (think: laws and just war theory). If an act of war violates domestic or international law, it does so regardless of how the attack was carried out — whether by a manned or unmanned aircraft. If an act of war kills civilians, one must certainly parse whether civilians were intentionally or knowingly put at risk, or whether it was an issue of collateral damage. But I have seen no indication that drones kill more civilians on average than manned strikes (your research is welcome). So why is there such an objection to, specifically, drone strikes?
In reading objections to drone use, I can't help but feel an unspoken and lurking moral sentiment that drone use is especially wrong for no other reason than it removes a human element of war. That is, people reject the use of drones because drones remove a pilot (or, say, submarine crew) from harm's way.
Consider these three passages. The first is from a story in the news outlet Christian Century:
With drones, operators sitting in front of computer monitors in Virginia and Nevada can target enemies halfway around the world. When their shift is done, drone operators retire to their suburban homes.
The second is from an essay in the Catholic magazine America:
Killing with drones is made easy for operators, who often work at great distances from the scene of attack. An Air Force 'pilot' may be in Nevada, while C.I.A. operatives are in Langley, Va., and others, including private contractors, are in Florida, Pakistan or Afghanistan. An operator may launch an attack from a trailer in Nevada viewing a computer monitor and using a joystick. The operators never see the persons they have killed. The pilot of a fighter jet flies over the place where the attack will occur and risks being shot down; a drone pilot never experiences the place where the attack occurs and knows he or she is in no personal danger. The operator can go home at the end of the shift.
The third is from an article on PBS.org:
Missile strikes launched from the comfort of Langley, Virginia, a half a world away from Waziristan, … to critics, remain morally problematic.
On one hand, this seems backward. Drones actually remove a pilot or crew from harm's way, and so they would seem a safer way of carrying out war. Imagine being able to carry out attacks on highly dangerous terrorists and other dangerous figures without having to put your own people at risk of death. This would seem desirable.
On the other hand, perhaps there is something to the idea that warfare made easier means warfare more often; that the more we remove the human element from one side of warfare, the more that side becomes willing to commit to warfare. This does not seem necessarily true, as warfare has not increased — and actually might be decreasing — with increasing technology. But I am also not entirely sure it is a compelling argument against drone use. Rather, it seems an argument against any advance in military technology: from guns that allow troops to shoot their weapons from further away, to planes that allow forces to drop bombs from higher elevations, to even bulletproof vests that provide more safety to soldiers engaged in war.
But, as always, I offer my thoughts to the peer review of the public. What do you think?
The ethics of drone warfare
I just happened upon an interesting news story on PBS.org that discusses in detail several proposed objections to and justifications for the use of unmanned drones during warfare.
Ethicists and religious leaders are beginning to challenge the morality of the drone program, arguing it violates international law as well as key precepts of just war theory. The Christian Century, for example, editorialized in mid-May ("Remote-control warfare," May 18) that while the drone attacks have no doubt killed terrorists and leaders of al-Qaeda, "they raise troubling questions to those committed to the just war principle that civilians should never be targeted."
An even more emphatic critic of the use of drones is Mary Ellen O'Connell, an international law professor at the University of Notre Dame. "Neither the Bush administration nor the Obama administration has been persuasive about its legal right to launch attacks in Pakistan," she wrote in "Flying Blind," an article also published in America magazine. "Even with the legal right to use military force, drone attacks must also conform to the traditional principles governing the rules of warfare, including those of distinction, necessity, proportion and humanity.''
CIA director Leon Panetta has called lethal drone technology "the only game in town" for going after al-Qaeda, and Obama administration officials have strenuously defended both the legality of the strikes in Pakistan as well as their effectiveness in killing suspected militants. They also deny the drones are responsible for an unacceptable level of civilian deaths.
Notice that the objections do not inherently reject the use of unmanned drones. Instead, they posit that America's use of drones violates US or international law, or just war theory.
I think this raises an important question: are drones inherently any more or less ethical than manned aircraft? Is there, or should there be, an ethical distinction between launching missiles from the "the comfort of Langley, Virginia, a half a world away from Waziristan," and sending fighter jets to carry out such a strike? Or is the method in which war is carried out — by jet or drone — less important than the pretenses under which war is being carried out in the first place?


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RollerCoaster Tycoon (RCT or RCT1 for short) is a theme park management simulation game. The player must build successful theme parks to fulfill a set of objectives in various scenarios. The player can build custom roller coasters and tracked rides and add pre-designed rides, shops and stalls, path systems, and scenery to their park.
RollerCoaster Tycoon is the first game of the RollerCoaster Tycoon series; it has two expansion packs – Corkscrew Follies/Added Attractions and Loopy Landscapes and two successful sequels: RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, and RollerCoaster Tycoon 3. The series spawned an unsuccessful Nintendo 3DS-exclusive spin-off, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3D.
RollerCoaster Tycoon started out in 1996 as a planned sequel to Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon. This proposed sequel was soon abandoned and the code of the game was modified to handle roller coasters. By this time, the name was changed to "White Knuckle". Even when Hasbro Interactive became involved, the name was still "White Knuckle". After Hasbro bought Microprose, however, the "Tycoon" name was too good an opportunity to pass up, even for a name like "White Knuckle". Microprose's Railroad Tycoon had done so well that Hasbro hoped the same would happen for White Knuckle. The name was then changed to RollerCoaster Tycoon.
Release Dates
- North America: March 31, 1999
- Europe: April 12, 1999
- Australia: in 2000 (date unknown)
- North America: March 25, 2002
- Europe: March 20, 2003
- Australia: April 11, 2003
Attraction List
|Transport Rides
|Gentle Rides
|Roller Coasters
|Thrill Rides
|Water Rides
|Shop & Stalls
|Bumper Cars
|Boat Hire
|Balloon Stall
|Miniature Railroad
|Go Karts
|Log Flume
|Ferris Wheel
|River Rapids
|Burger Bar
|Haunted House
|Motion Simulator
|Water Slide
|Cotton Candy Stall
|Hedge Maze
|Scrambled Eggs
|Drink Stall
|Swinging Inverter Ship
|Fries Stall
|Observation Tower
|Swinging Ship
|Space Rings
|Information Kiosk
|Spiral Slide
|Pizza Stall
|Popcorn Stall
|Souvenir Stall
Scenery list
- Trees
- Shrubs and Bushes
- Tropical and Desert Trees
- Gardens
- Path Items
- Walls and Fences
- Statues and Fountains
- Classical/Roman Theming
- Egyptian Theming
- Mine Theming
- Wonderland Theming
- Martian Theming
Scenario list
Upon installing, the player can only choose between 5 scenarios, from Forest Frontiers to Evergreen Gardens. With each completed scenario, a new one is unlocked. When all RCT1 parks have been completed, the hidden Mega Park scenario is unlocked.
- Forest Frontiers
- Dynamite Dunes
- Leafy Lake
- Diamond Heights
- Evergreen Gardens
- Bumbly Beach
- Trinity Islands
- Katie's World
- Dinky Park
- Aqua Park
- Millennium Mines
- Karts & Coasters
- Mel's World
- Mothball Mountain
- Pacific Pyramids
- Crumbly Woods
- Big Pier
- Lightning Peaks
- Ivory Towers
- Rainbow Valley
- Thunder Rock
- Mega Park
Expansion packs
System requirements
- Pentium 90 MHz (Pentium 200 MHz recommended)
- Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7
- 16 MB RAM (32 MB recommended)
- 50 MB hard drive space (180 MB recommended)
- 4x CD-ROM (8x recommended)
- 1 MB SVGA video card (4 MB recommended)
- Windows 95/98 compatible soundcard
- DirectX 5.0 (included)
- Mouse
Widescreen resolutions
Out of the box, Rollercoaster Tycoon limits itself to 1024x768, however the game can be edited to run in much higher resolutions, at different aspect ratios. The game will be not stretched either, it will simply look expanded (see screenshot).
Creating a custom resolution
This first method works with the original game, not the GOG/Steam/etc version (the original retail release). If you will need to edit the RCT.exe with a Hex Editor (here is a link to a free one.)
- Before modifying RCT.exe file, make a backup copy first!
You need to search for these two hex values: "58 02 00 00 68 20 03 00 00" and "20 03 00 00 c7 45 f4 58 02 00 00". In both of them you have to change 20 03 to the new width and 58 02 to the new height. In the game, you need to switch to Fullscreen 800x600 in the options menu, as that is the resolution you customized with this method.
- "580200006820030000" <-- (first hex value above, without whitespace)
- "20030000c745f458020000" <-- (second hex value above, without whitespace)
Working resolutions
- 1280 x 720 (16:9): Change "20 03" to "00 05", "58 02" to "d0 02".
- 1280 x 768 (15:9): Change "20 03" to "00 05", "58 02" to "00 03".
- 1280 x 1024 (5:4): Change "20 03" to "00 05", "58 02" to "00 04".
Higher resolutions will not work, though lower resolutions should be possible. Ensure that the wanted resolution is compatible with your video card settings, otherwise it will be set to 640x480.
The hexadecimal values are calculated by converting the width or height number from decimal to hex, then inverting the order of the bytes. For example, 720 in decimal is 2D0 in hex (this can be converted with the Windows calculator in scientific mode). Adding a zero to the left we get two bytes, 02 D0. Inverting the order we get D0 02.
Another example: 800 (decimal) -> 320 (hex) -> 03 20 (two bytes) -> 20 03 (reverse order of bytes), which is the width value to be changed from the 800x600 resolution.
Even Higher Resolutions with Window Mode
While the above method increases the resolution a bit, it's still nowhere near modern standards. To complicate the matter, when Rollercoaster Tycoon is downloaded from GOG, Steam, or similar game stores, the updated game will not have the hex values may not be present to edit at all! Forunately, a youtube user has dug deep into the EXE and discovered that it's possible to use higher resolutions than 1280x1024 if you play the game in Windowed mode (theoretically 32775 x 14340 limit). They have edited the exe and uploaded versions compatible with the original retail release the GOG release, and the Steam release: download link. Place the EXE in the Rollercoaster Tycoon directory and run it.
RollerCoaster Tycoon, being made in 1999, is still somewhat compatible with Windows Vista/7. However, crashes, freezes and strange color changes are common. To fix this, players should check 'Disable visual themes', 'Disable desktop composition', and 'Run this program as Administrator'. Running RollerCoaster Tycoon in 98/Me compatiblity mode on a Windows 7 PC results in the game crashing when trying to load files.
A common complaint was the lack of a scenario editor or a free build mode. Several trainers were released, but the expansions included anti-cheat code that disabled them. Sawyer's belief that RCT was a game, and that as such, should include rules, goals and conditions to keep it from becoming just a design tool[1]; this is likely why there are no money codes included. RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 later added the scenario editor.
Xbox release
RollerCoaster Tycoon was released for the Xbox console in 2003, which included all the options, scenarios and rides from the original PC release and its expansion packs. The Xbox release received mixed reviews, mostly because it didn't differ much from the PC original, despite being released 4 years after its PC counterpart. Other criticism came from the controls, which were difficult because of the joysticks usage (left stick to control the mouse cursor, right one for the camera) and unable to be modified, and the absence of compatibility to a mouse-like accessory which, were it developped, could have rendered the game much easier to handle and even perhaps open the way for other PC game ports.
RollerCoaster Tycoon for Xbox does not appear on Wikipedia's list of Xbox games that are compatible with Xbox 360.
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Graphics: Simon Foster
Sound & Music: Allister Brimble
Additional Programming: FISH (UK) Ltd.
Representation: Jacqui Lyons at Marjacq Ltd.
Layout: Louis Saekow Design
Thanks to: Robb Alvey, Katie Brayshaw, Karen Cumming, Justin Garavanovis, European Coaster Club, Neil Jackson, Victoria Maclean, Martin Sawyer, Elizabeth Slater, Paul Slater, Graham Turner, Ruth Turner, John Wardley, Melanie Warn, Jim Wills , Rich Winger (for help with research and game testing)
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V.P. Product Development Worldwide: Kevin Gillespie
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Director of Creative Services: Steve Webster
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Graphic Designer: Jennifer Brackett
Editorial Specialist: Elizabeth Mackney
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Localisation: Sam Baker, Anton Lorton, Ulrich Mühl, Jinglebell, SDL Polylang International
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Apple is now the world's most valuable company. Can anyone threaten its dominance? We rate the prospects of Apple and its leading tech rivals
When you think about the global superpowers of the technology world, several names spring immediately to mind: Apple, Microsoft, Google and perhaps even Facebook.
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IBM / Microsoft?
Look what happened to them... Every company has it's moment - but it isn't forever.
By mrmmm on 2 Nov 2012
"Five years ago, the first fancy touchscreen iPhone arrived ... and that was long before the idea of a consumer tablet was even talked about."
"HP bought struggling Palm back in 2010, making a dramatic entry into the rapidly growing mobile market." Entry!
I had an HP iPaq4700 handheld touch drive in 2004 running Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003. OK it didn't make phone calls or send texts but those features are rarely used on my current "phone".
I realise you are looking at stock value in the last 5 years but these opening statements are not very accurate When looking to the future, please get the past right.
By stephen_d_morris on 2 Nov 2012
agreed, I had my first HP/Compaq iPaq back in the late 90s... And the later version had an add-on GSM module.
By big_D on 2 Nov 2012
Both seemed all conquering in their day.
Apple will probably retain their dominance for years to come but without Steve Jobs, they are just another tech company, as was proved by their decline in 1985-1997.
By Alfresco on 3 Nov 2012
Sony / Panasonic
Remember when Japanese technolgy companies dominated our world. Apple are a consumer company, they don't solve any fundamental problems other than connsumer preference.
Apple launched 2 new desktop systems but no-one is expecting them to fundamentally change the destop paradigm. Apple is the worlds largest "2 hit wonder".
By milliganp on 3 Nov 2012
IBM have a market cap 10x HP, why are they not on the list?
By milliganp on 3 Nov 2012
I think the cracks are already beginning to show in Apple, possibly as a result of Jobs departure:
* iOS resting on its laurels
* board room bust-ups
* iMaps
@ reacting to instead of leading the market, viz iPhone 5 and iPad mini
* looking foolish and petulant in response to UK court case
So, innovation has ground to a halt - iOS is stagnant and their latest products are mere range extensions in reaction to the market. Technical competence is also questionnable (iMaps). There is unrest in the boardroom, and they are woefully distracted by a sense of their own self-importance. All signs that the rot has set in, as it does with all empires eventually.
By martindaler on 5 Nov 2012
The bigger they are the harder they fall...
Apple is pretty much a two-hit wonder at present. They made their early cash flogging MP3 players when that was the fashion.
They have consolidated with iOS on 'phones and latterly Tablets.
For all the hype about 'disruptive' technology, and the 'post PC World' Apple is not that well-placed.
To use the 1980s\1990s analogy, Apple's looking rather more like IBM than Microsoft. It brought the smartphone \ consumer Tablet to market 1st, but is now in serious danger of being swamped by commoditised 'clones'. Attempts to prevent this, and create a 'walled garden' of proprietary technology failed for IBM, and are likely to fail for Apple too.
The Microsoft \ IBM analogy is instructive as well because it pitted software against hardware. Guess which proved ultimately more profitable & durable?
Obviously we need to expand the analogy to 'Software & Services' in today's world.
Apple is currently top dog here too (in the consumer world), but looking at crude numbers of systems and users, it's hard to see that continuing for any length of time.
In terms of margins, Apple's strongest suit at present, IBM could charge £5,000 for a PC, but only until the clones were plentiful at half that. Apple is attempting to stem that flood through litigation, but ultimately their survival will be down to engineers and designers, not lawyers. Apple's R&D spend is pathetically small for the biggest company in the world, less than 25% of MS's as I recall.
Apple's iStore & iTunes are currently dominant because of the iPod & early iPhone 'hangover': a baby-boomer like bulge which is working its way out of the system with every non-Apple device sold.
Apple are even struggling in the US market being outsold by Android 'phones around 4-1, and that gets worse every day....
It's the curse of the 'mature'(or at least maturing) market and it nearly always hits those who were initially most successful hardest.
Apple is still a major player. Irrespective of Android (or W8\WP8) sales it will flog multi-millions of gadgets over the next couple of years, but Amazon and Google will pretty certainly see the most benefit from the kinds of succulent 'ecosystem' that Apple was so anxious to tie-down with its I-tunes franchise. I haven't even started on 'integration' yet, but whereas the likes of Sky, Amazon, Netflix, and increasingly MS can offer a seamless transition between TV, Tablet, and 'phone Apple seem to be a rabbit stuck in the headlights of that on-rushing vehicle.
Of course with a bit of genuine flair and (dare I breathe it?) innovation, Apple might yet get out of Gaol, but the odds don't look good. They probably won't fade away - there'll always be a market for 'luxury' goods, but their current dominance (said 'innovation' aside) looks increasingly threatened. Apple, like IBM, will find a niche.....
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Astrolabe is an embeddable library for placing icons on the Minimap, and on World Maps. Icons that are placed on the Minimap using Astrolabe are placed in a special buffer and their positions are continuously updated for player movement, based on the world map coordinates provided when the icon was initially placed. Icons remain in this buffer until they are removed.
Astrolabe also provides functions to compute the in-game distance between two points and translate a point from one zoom level of the map another.
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scubab Nov 01, 2014 at 02:18 UTC - 0 likes
Whenever I try to download your zip, Ludo, I get a Failed - Server Problem error
LudovicusMaior Oct 18, 2014 at 12:42 UTC - 0 likes
I have a hacked up version of TomTom/Astrolabe that I have made work in both live and beta, mostly.
Please fell free to use it or not as necessary or to ask any questions.
I'll be updating the zip as fix further bugs.
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In WoD Beta i get:
Message: Interface\AddOns\TomTom\libs\Astrolabe\Astrolabe.lua:1255: Usage: SetMapZoom(continentIndex [,zoneIndex]) .. requested continent out of bounds Time: 09/05/14 15:23:10 Count: 1 Stack: [C]: in function `SetMapZoom' Interface\AddOns\TomTom\libs\Astrolabe\Astrolabe.lua:1255: in function `activate' ...nterface\AddOns\TomTom\libs\Astrolabe\DongleStub.lua:78: in function `Register' Interface\AddOns\TomTom\libs\Astrolabe\Astrolabe.lua:1307: in main chunk
Locals: (*temporary) = 8 (*temporary) = 0
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While trying to use TomTom in WoD:
Date: 2014-07-26 08:52:18 ID: 1 Error occured in: Global Count: 1 Message: ..\AddOns\TomTom\libs\Astrolabe\Astrolabe.lua line 1255: Usage: SetMapZoom(continentIndex [,zoneIndex]) .. requested continent out of bounds Debug: [C]: SetMapZoom() TomTom\libs\Astrolabe\Astrolabe.lua:1255: activate() ...nterface\AddOns\TomTom\libs\Astrolabe\DongleStub.lua:78: Register() TomTom\libs\Astrolabe\Astrolabe.lua:1307: in main chunk Locals: (*temporary) = 8 (*temporary) = 0 AddOns: Swatter, v4.4.1 (<%codename%>) Ace3, v TomTom, vv50400-1.0.0 BlizRuntimeLib_enUS v220.127.116.11000 <none> (ck=6d)
The GetMapContinents() and GetMapZones() no longer return just a list of the names of the continents or zones, but return pairs of map ids and the names.Last edited Jul 26, 2014 by LudovicusMaior
JamesAllenPowell Nov 26, 2013 at 02:29 UTC - 0 likes
I was playing WoW and got this pop-up:
Message: ...ddOns\ZygorGuidesViewer\Libs\Astrolabe\Astrolabe.lua:864: invalid key to 'next' Time: 11/25/13 20:08:24 Count: 1 Stack: [C]: ? ...ddOns\ZygorGuidesViewer\Libs\Astrolabe\Astrolabe.lua:864: in function `UpdateMinimapIconPositions' ...ddOns\ZygorGuidesViewer\Libs\Astrolabe\Astrolabe.lua:1115: in function `OnUpdate' ...ddOns\ZygorGuidesViewer\Libs\Astrolabe\Astrolabe.lua:1333: in function <...ddOns\ZygorGuidesViewer\Libs\Astrolabe\Astrolabe.lua:1332>
Locals: = <no value>
DigitalUtopia Nov 03, 2012 at 02:47 UTC - 0 likes
There seems to be an issue with Astrolabe getting the proper location for the micro-dungeon faction hubs in Vale of the Eternal Blossom - at the very least, for Shrine of Two Moons.
When tracking a single point, the direction seems to be off by about 30 degrees while in Shrine of Two Moons - however, upon stepping outside (Vale of the Eternal Blossom), it will immediately calculate the correct direction.
Everdreamer Nov 01, 2012 at 22:13 UTC - 0 likes
Just my two cents...
The CPU usage of Astrolabe (on CPU profiling) is relatively high, and I believe the most loading is contributed by Astrolabe:OnUpdate. May you consider to lower the frequency of running the actual updating code? For instance, to me every 0.1 sec is smooth enough, every 0.25 sec is a bit zigzag but still acceptable.
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