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The 26-year-old Cardiff Blues centre is hoping to hear on 30 April that he has been selected for a second Lions tour, but before Warren Gatland pronounces he has agreed to set in motion a special match to commemorate the life and achievements of Dr Jack Matthews.
Like Roberts, 'Dr Jack' played for Cardiff, Wales and the Lions as a centre. Like Roberts, too, he also won a Grand Slam, in 1950.
The big kick-off will also have a link to both Dr Jack and Roberts, given that Lions suppliers Rhino have kindly donated match balls that will be used in the tourists' opening game in Hong Kong on Saturday, 1 June, for the special occasion.
It has been less than a year since Welsh sport first mourned the passing of a man who was renowned throughout the world as the most ferocious tackler in the game, and fearless enough to have stepped into the boxing ring with Rocky Marciano for four rounds.
Thanks to the Welsh Academicals and Cardiff Medicals, two teams that Dr Jack was proud to have played for, everyone will now get a chance to pay tribute to the veteran of 17 Welsh internationals and six Lions Tests
"For me, Dr Jack is the ultimate role model for what he achieved as a Lion, doctor and soldier. If I emulate anything near what he achieved in his life then I'll be a very happy man," said Roberts.
"He was a very special person whom I was privileged to meet on a few occasions. I attended his funeral service and the tributes paid to him there made you realise what a legend he was.
"We all know about how tough a tackler he was, how he made so many tries for his great pal Bleddyn Williams and how good a player he must have been to win a Grand Slam with Wales and play in all six Tests on the 1950 Lions tour, but that is only half the story.
"He was a doctor for decades and he did a wonderful job in that role as well – the ultimate doctor, ultimate rugby player and even the ultimate boxer!"
The Welsh Academicals have picked a team that includes a number of British Army representatives, including two Fijians. Jarrad Williams will captain the team from No 8.
"Dr Jack was a hugely popular and respected rugby player and doctor and we felt a match between two teams he was very fond of, on his beloved Cardiff Arms Park, would be the perfect way to pay tribute to him," said Welsh Accies secretary Denys Thomas.
"He captained the Accies against a New Zealand Army XV at Abercynon in 1945 and played for Cardiff Medicals before that, so the fixture is a perfect fit for the occasion."
It promises to be a busy week for Pat Emanuel's Cardiff Medicals side because they are due to defend their National Association of Medical Schools Cup title in Cardiff on Sunday, 21 April. It is the 19th time they have reached the final.
Welsh Academicals: Charles Corderoy (British Army); Ollie Turton (Uni of West Glam), James Cordy-Reddan (Uni of West Eng), Rifleman Jotame Nalewabau (5th Battalion The Rifles), Kieron Driscoll (Uni of West Eng), Owen Thomas (Uni of Glam), Joe Raikes (Uni of Glam/Pontypridd), Rhodri Hanmer (Swansea Met/Rumney), Thomas Owen (Reading Uni), Myles Davies (1 st Queens Dragoon Guards), Harrison Williams (Uni of Newport), Henri Williams (Loughborough Uni), LCpl Cabemaiwasa (Royal Scots Dragoon Guards), Stuart Worrell (Uni of Glam), Jarrad Williams (Bishop Burton College, Captain)
Replacements: Geraint James (Uni of Glam), Jack Williams(Cardiff Met), Ryan Oakes (Uni of Glam), Trystran Treharne (Loughborough), Ross Parsons (Uni West Eng), Huw Reeves (RAF Loughborough), Ben Cullen (Uni of Glam /Nelson), AN OTHER
Cardiff Medicals: Lewis Isaac; Duncan Meikle, Steffan Morgan, Steve Wiggill, Paul Bumford; Chris Edwards, Gian Luca Trisolini; Nick Willetts, Rhys Price, Ben Price, Ivan Anderson, Paul Smith, Mike Cooper, Pat Emanuel (Captain), Tom Hathaway
Replacements (from): Sam Trewick, Tom McAbe, Joe Arthur, James Brook, Liam Carroll, Harri Wilson, Ifan Patchell, Charles Close, Harry Wilson, Lawrence Smith, Dan Phillips.
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Let me state the obvious here and suggest that at this precise moment, you are probably staring at a screen of some sort. We all do it anywhere from several to several hundred times a day. Studies have shown that all this technology can become addictive if we let it. And our children are growing up in a world that normalizes that addiction.
Gadgets such as iPhones, Kindles and laptops have barely been in our lives for a decade, but already it seems as though many of us are addicted to them. And if you think you check your phone or iPad frequently, you should know that your teen is probably checking it even more. A new study has found that the majority of kids spend as much as 75 percent of their days staring at one screen or another. That means that kids go right from phones to iPads to TVs to computers each day with little break in between. And the only nature they are probably seeing is on the flip side of a screen.
Not surprisingly, when efforts are made to limit all of that time, kids exhibit symptoms of withdrawal and depression just as strong — if not stronger — than those associated with drugs or alcohol.
The International Center for Media & the Public Agenda (ICMPA) recently asked 1,000 students in 10 countries on five continents to quit using technology and media for just one day. Just one. At the end of that 24-hour period, they asked the kids how they felt. Here's what they learned:
Students in the study repeatedly used the term "addiction" when describing their dependence on media. One student from the USA noted: "I was itching, like a crackhead, because I could not use my phone."
Many of the students simply could not complete the task, giving in to their gadgets before the 24 hours had passed.
Most students said they felt lost, alone and lonely without connecting to their gadgets.
The majority of students responded they they had no idea what to do with their time if they weren't checking their gadgets.
Students said they missed the source of connection, security and comfort they received from their gadgets, with one U.S. student noting, "My phone is my only source of comfort."
Let me know how it goes!
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Here's my collection of undead-themed terrain. A necropolis is a "city of the dead." After the pictures is the background on how it came to be. None of this terrain is for sale.
You can buy most of these terrain pieces from manufacturers like GW or Armorcast. (I didn't sculpt it.) This gallery is here to show you a collection of well-painted, themed terrain, to encourage you to start your own collection!
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Skull piles
These piles of skulls are by Armorcast. I glued them to a foamcore base, added more skulls, bones and sketons, sanded the base and painted it. The skulls on spikes come from Lance & Laser.
These are the smaller three piles of skulls.
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These are the graves of the cemetery. Each row has a selection of tombstones, skulls and other odds-and-ends that you might expect to find in a fantasy graveyard. There are 19 rows. Most are about 3" wide, but I made the lengths all different. The tombstones come from all kinds of companies, but the majority are Games Workshop.
In the upper left, the rat is dragging away two rotting heads. In the lower left, another rat is looking at a rotting head and thinking the same thing. On the same piece, the head of a pitchfork is leaning against the tombstone, ready for a hand to reach out from the grave and grab it.
In the upper left, an arm is breaking up out of the ground, though it's hard to see in the photo. The skeleton rising from the ground on the upper right is from Reaper. In the lower right, two rats dig into the spilled guts of the torso of a hanged man. In the lower left, there's four heads on spikes, with some heads and skulls below them.
In the upper right is a rotting arm and a coffin lid, both by GW. In the lower left, there's another coffin lid but it's upright between tombstones so it's hard to make out. Another head-on-a-stick adorns the piece to the lower-right.
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More graves
These are the biggest two rows. There are some coffin lids, skulls on sticks, and the impaled skeleton from the GW Black Coach. (I stepped on the impaled skeleton to the upper right, impaling my foot. That was the only unpleasant part of building the necropolis!)
The last of the rows of graves. The tombstones are from Armorcast. I tried something new with the bases, mixing talus (irregular pieces of rock) to the sand, then painting the talus grey. It wasn't tedious and produced a rubble effect. The necropolis was looking too freshly-mown.
Here's another pic.
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Skull spikes
I bought way too many of these skulls on sticks from Lance & Laser. Then I remembered how Vlad would impale prisoners on spikes, so many that the invading Turks thought it was a forest until they got close. So I glued the rest of them to a foamcore base and added several skulls on the ground, including some kind of monster rhino skull in the middle.
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This shrine came from Target Games, but I think they just bought some old Grendel pieces, cast them in resin and resold them for their game Chronopia. Anyway, this is a good piece. It doesn't take up much room on the table, but it has a lot of character.
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These two small tombs are excellent. They're resin, from Armorcast. I went to some effort to paint them carefully so that their detail would stand out.
This is a back shot of the tombs. The detail on the sides is really excellent.
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Sunken cross
This big resin cross, from Target Games, was supposed to be mounted on another piece, but I thought something so big would probably be the first to fall. So I cut out the center of a piece of foamcore and glued the cross down in it. Then I painted it and it turned out well.
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In the process of collecting things for my necropolis, I got more and more pillars. When I began assembling the necropolis, I decided the pillars would be based individually so they could be moved around. This picture is of two evil pillars (left) and two good pillars (right) from Reaper, mounted on 25mm bases. I put them at different angles so you could see them. It was tempting to paint every leaf on them, but I decided they were carved that way and just painted them grey.
These six pillars are old lead Grenadier menhirs mounted on 25mm bases. While painting them, I discovered four of them had words on the side: sea, chaos, hill and dwarf. They apparently came with Giant figures and the words were for each kind of Giant.
I think these three pillars are from Reaper too. They have gargoyles atop pillars with skulls on the ground around them.
These two Reaper gargoyles are meant to be used as miniatures, but I liked them as statues. They're mounted on 50mm bases.
Here are three more pillars/statues. The ghostly one on the left is by Grenadier. The lizard-like one in the middle came from someone else's junk box when he sold his figs to me, so I don't know who made it. There's a snake crawling across the skulls on it. The cross to the right is actually the base of a Reaper figure.
This is just a back-shot of the same pieces.
This came from the same junk box as some other pieces. It's a big statue of death. I mounted it on it's own base since it's so heavy, and added some flock to make it look a little overgrown.
These were the first four pillars I made. I glued old D&D figures (probably Grenadier or Ral Partha) to the tops of wedding cake pillars. They're very top-heavy and prone to breaking.
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Demon's arm
I have a dragon from Ral Partha and don't have any intention of assembling it, so I used its arm as a separate piece. It came holding a tombstone and I wasn't about to let it get away. So I painted it like a demon's arm had broken up through the ground and was clinging to a large tombstone. It would make good chaos terrain for Warhammer, too.
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Giant's spine
This was an attempt at making a giant spine jutting out of the earth. The spine itself is half of a kind of plastic tubing used to protect cables. When it was done, my cousin asked me, "What's that? Did you dig it out of the cat litter box?"
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Extra pieces
These are a Reaper skeleton rising from the ground next to a GW plastic pillar and an old Grenadier ram gutted on a sacrificial altar.
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This was carved with a hot wire cutter out of pink insulation foam. It's intended to resemble a rock chipped into two giant skulls, probably by beastmen or orcs.
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To surround the necropolis, I needed tall walls. Here are pics of the 4" sections. I built
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of fieldstone walls. The bricks were glued to 1"-wide strips of masonite (otherwise known as hardboard or medium-density fibreboard) for stability, durability and storage. For a color scheme, I decided on a mixture of dark blue and grey. That makes the necropolis seem more fantastic and fits the theme of my undead army, the Dusk Brigade.
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I made two sections about 7.5" long just to see what they looked like. The second was made with junk bricks and was a test to see what fieldstone floor tiles looked like stood up on end.
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The 1% solution and the marginalization of civil liberties
Sunday, August 20, 2006
The 1% solution and the marginalization of civil liberties
Sandy Levinson
An article in today's New York Times by a British writer, Christopher Caldwell, is, I suspect, symptomatic of the declining support for civil liberties even among elites. The key part of his article comes toward the end: "Blair's opponents equate today's civil liberties protections with core British values." Caldwell appears to believe that they are best conceived only as "temporary adjustments that were useful under certain specific circumstances in part of Europe between World War II and the late 20th century.
This sounds extremely passive and defeatist. Younger civil libertarians will start "accepting the inevitable" when older civil libertarians start taking seriously such crap. First of all, this entire post reeks of the sort of false even-handedness that has been injected into our ethos by the far right. No, taking global warming seriously and taking measures to study and counteract it are *nothing like* erasing civil liberties under cover of trumped-up, cynical, selfish, political fear-mongering. Nothing. That is a very basic point, and absolutely no ground should be given on it. Why are these entirely dissimilar? The problem with the 1% doctrine is that the (important) people advancing it actually believe nothing of the sort. There is a "1%" chance of any goddamn bad thing you can possibly imagine happening, which is why such talk is so convenient. That is, if the result I want is greater control of the political sphere through a concentration of power in the Executive, guess how many different one-percenters do you think I'll come up with? That's right, an infinite number. Just as in the realm of the rights of the accused, once you accept the false premise that we're playing a zero-sum game, that more Repression translates directly into more Safety, the game is lost. I say, bullshit. The 1% doctrine is cynical manipulation, pure and simple.
Respectfully, I have concerns with Professor Levinson's post. Perhaps better to ask, "How can we properly keep civil liberties where they belong, in the forefront of the bundle of rights which makes our nation worthy of our loyalty and defense," rather than presupposing civil liberties are a lost cause. As I said in response to a post of Professor Balkin's, we must fight the coming of the so called national surveillance state.
But in addition to admonishing that we be wary of tacitly accepting that which we should stridently oppose, there is another matter missing in the 1% analysis of trading civil liberties for "security," that is: Who's liberties will be traded to make whom secure? What of the risk we each take, when forfieting our liberties and rights, that "security measures" come to be used not for our benefit but that of our internal adversaries who would pursue profits at our moral and spiritual expense? What of the risk to you and me that we will be persecuted for dissent? Civil liberties are not an expedient of a naive moment in history; they are the soul, blood and bones of this country's success. But those liberties, those rights; they come with complementary duties: to fight for them at every turn. This, in turn, means constant vigilence that we not swallow poisoned rhetorical pills such as Caldwell's, that we not let ourselves be conceptually penned into complicity with policies proved to work more evil than good throughout the 20th and 19th and all preceding centuries as much as today.
I found jeff faux's "global class warfare" a real eye opener in addressing issues of the general form "what is the cost-benefit trade for this proposed course of action". to summarize and trivialize his thesis, the super "haves" are operating with such different weights that their cost-benefit analyses have nothing to do with those of the rest of us. bush-cheney-gonzales et al know that whatever happens to the social fabric, the economy, US world reputation, foreign populations, etc, they'll do just fine, thank you. so the cost-benefit trade implicit in the 1% solution will always come out favoring an extreme action with any benefit because for them the cost will be vanishingly small.
for example, any washington denizen (especially one with financial interests in the defense industry) will realize a huge benefit from deterring successful "nuculer" attacks on US cities. some will actually benefit from limitations on civil rights (think secrecy in government). but the economic/political elite have few if any family or friends likely to be in combat. so, their benefits from dramatic measures to prevent terrorist attacks are substantial and the costs to them are negligible.
this applies loosely to the issue raised about young lawyers and their commitment to equal opportunity/civil liberties. they probably also assume they will prosper in the society no matter what (abundance may be all they've ever known). those of us who were young in the 40s and 50s often had direct (altho not necessarily personal) experience with some deprivation (in my case, minor - humble but comfortable origins in segregated texas, though white) and could easily empathize with the less fortunate even as affluence enveloped us; ie, visceral sensitivity to the "cost" of inaction in providing equal opportunity, and strong appreciation of the "benefit" of opportunities largely undeserved (after all, one doesn't "choose" to be smart enough to qualify for scholarships, and admissions then were much less competitive). having little contact with contemporary youth, I don't know what their cost-benefit weights might be, but I have experienced many seemingly young blog commenters who apparently feel that whatever your station in life, it's "deserved" in some sense (or in my view, nonsense) of distorted libertarianism.
If the ACLU doesn't want to be marginalized, I think the first step should be for it to stop marginalizing itself, by dropping the transparent rationalizations it has been resorting to, in order to avoid defending those civil liberties it happens to not like.
I can never look at the NRA's membership statistics, without reflecting that if the ACLU had made a different choice some years back, the NRA would still be a club for sportsmen, and the ACLU would be the several million member strong lobbying juggernaut, with a firm footing on both ends of the political spectrum.
Do we make arguments along the lines that we have to bear certain risks (including increasing the probability of serious terrorist incidents) in order to maintain a free society? Or do we say that respecting civil liberties does not in fact increase such risks?
I think that you cast the question too much as one of policy--what risk should we tolerate as a society. But right now, we face a number of situations wherein we are told that because we should tolerate less risk, it is permissible to discard certain constitutional protections--to trade liberty for security. Those trades may or may not be wise; under our constitutional regime, though, they are not permissible.
Christopher Caldwell, just to note, is an American, here in DC and a good friend. He is probably best described as a very nondoctrinaire conservative of the small l libertarian variety. He was roommates at Harvard with, as I recall, Jamin Raskin. Long before the terrorism stuff became an issue, Christopher made a career decision to do what few were doing and become expert on Western Europe. As the big papers were shrinking down their bureaus in Berlin and elsewhere in Western Europe, Christopher undertook very serious, long study of the culture and economics of the EU. He was one of the very few American journalists, even among those who supposedly covered Europe, who could speak with authority on internal politics in Germany, Italy, or Spain. Meanwhile, for most of the media, Western Europe became a sort of arts & culture beat - this is what it still is for the NYT. After 9-11, Christopher's was in great demand, in large part because he had been following the question of Muslim assimiliation in Europe in a way that even few European journalists were doing. His series of long articles on assimilations issues that appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Weekly Standard, and elsewhere are superb - one senior French journalist friend told me that he regards Caldwell's stuff as among the best written and researched, in English or French. Kenneth Anderson
Ghirlandaio, there's precious little "principle" involved in the ACLU's decision not to defend the 2nd amendment, including it's persistant defense of an untenable "interpretation" of that amendment in order to rationalize the failure.
According to Ira Glasser, who spoke at a supper club I was part of back in the early 80's, the decision was motivated by the threat of some major donors to defund the ACLU if it dared to defend that amendment. I suspect he was in a position to know.
Principled? Not on your life!
On the substance of Sandy's final question re changes in generations ... well, my daughter is thirteen years old, a student at National Cathedral School in DC, where she is rather bravely one of the few girls in that bastion of sternly Epicopalian multiculturalist claptrap who will admit to being a conservative and a Republican. This causes my exceedingly lefty wife some level of embarrassment, if not heartburn.
I asked my kid once why she was a conservative, when she takes after her mother in so much else. She said, that's easy, it was sitting at the National Cathedral, the highest hill in DC, on September 11 and watching the Pentagon burn. 9-11 is her living political memory. I then asked what she didn't like about liberals. Again, her answer was immediate - I'm sure she had honed it in arguments at school, usually, I would venture, with her teachers rather than fellow students.
I don't like liberals, she said, because they want to run your life on the one hand, and tell you what to do about everything, but then, on the other hand, they'll put you at risk and let the terrorists blow you up.
My darling daughter probably wouldn't know how articulate this, but I suspect she suspects that the rational for the two things she instinctively dislikes in liberals - the nanny state that bosses you around while failing to protect you - is really the same thing - ideologies of civil liberties and civil liberties that have somehow, in the lifetimes of both Sandy and me, morphed. I have long conversations to point out to her that the police are not always the good guys, that 24's Jack Bauer is not a good person and only on TV do his calculations about the value of torture always pay off; mean old Dad made her read 1984 and Brave New World this summer to make sure she understood that the state is not always good, and Daddy is a conservative.
(It's probably no surprise that the two books Renee has read the most times are Pride and Prejudice and the libertarian Robert Heinlein's The Puppet Masters.) Meet the rising 9-11 generation. Ken Anderson
I have to agree with several of those above who find this post too accepting of Caldwell's thesis.
The idea that civil liberties are a modern fashion is, in the first place, ahistorical. The irony is that it is Caldwell, and not those he criticizes, who is blowing with the winds of fashion.
Geof Stone's brilliant history "Perilous Times" painstakingly documents how many times we have plowed the present ground--what is now said to be undiscovered country, unique, sui generis, the world of "everything-changed-after-9/11," is just old political exigency dressed up in new clothes.
The present crisis is always worse than and different from any prior crisis. So we are always told, in order to justify the truncating of basic freedoms. And always, always, always to our detriment.
Well, I'm 27, and I think I may be nuttier on civil liberties than you are. I don't claim to be representative, but I don't see any signs that I'm particularly unrepresentative...
I think you're misstating the "One Percent Doctrine." It's not: even if there's only a one percent chance of some awful thing happening, we have to work very, very very hard to prevent it because it's so awful. As stated by Suskind, it's: if there's only a one percent of some awful think happening, we have to treat it as a certainty. It's not the Learned Hand equation; it's saying that if the harm is bad enough you just don't bother caring about the probability.
Which is extremely stupid. More than stupid, it's impossible to apply, because there can be a one percent chance of two awful results that you must take contradictory actions to prevent. It may be that there's a 1% chance you stop a terrorist attack by torturing this guy AND a 1% chance that he's innocent and you so infuriate one of his relatives that they carry out a terrorist attack. A 1% chance that you prevent a nuclear attack by invading a country, and a 1% chance that you cause a WMD attack by invading a country.
In practice, you resolve this uncertainty by treating a one percent chance of disaster as a certainty when you feel like it, and ignoring a one percent chance of disaster when you feel like it.
This is nothing like the Hand formula, and nothing like Gore. Believe me, the chances of awful consequences in global warming are a lot higher than 1%.
Many thanks to all who have responded (so far). I offer a few observations:
1) I am glad to be corrected by my friend Ken Anderson as to Caldwell's nationality. (I hope that you don't link me with George Allen in reckless imputations of "unAmericanness"!)
2) I tried to make it (relatively) clear that I remain a strong advocate of civil liberties. But it seems to me that those of us who do view ourselves as ardent defenders must concede that they are not "costless," even as we should extremely wary of accepting the cost-benefit analyses of those who simply underestimate the costs of suppression. That leads to the next point:
3) Cass Sunstein, in his very interesting book on the precautionary principle, indeed emphasized that one problem with it is that people who say there's a 1% chance of X and therefore we must act to prevent it often fail to take into account the costs of the suggested action itself. This, I think it is fair to say, is amply demonstrated by Iraq itself. One can condemn Cheney for his ostensible principle per se, or one can condemn him for his indefensible reliance on "best case" thinking and failing to take into account the potential costs of his own policies. But that doesn't affect the point that if a potential gravity g is high enough, then it is indeed rational to engage in highly costly measures even with only a 1% likelihood of the event's taking place. Richard Posner in his book Catastrophe offers the example of learning that an asteroid might come close to earth. Surely we would not dismiss doing some fairly drastic things to forestall a potential crash even if they were quite costly indeed. Which then leads to
5) We must be more candid in our estimation of the gravity of possible events. One of the first things I learned in the best course I ever had, Marc Franklin's torts class at the Stanford Law School in 1970, was that we factor in what Guido Calebresi called the "costs of accidents" into our decisions to set speed limits higher than the might be, to build bridges, skyscrapers, and the like. X numbers of "statistical deaths" just aren't a sufficient cost to forego the activities in question. We expect people to buy insurance, etc. There is no such thing as zero defects and perfect security. John Kerry, for one brief shining moment, actually tried to initiate a conversation about accepting that the "war on terrorism" would never be won and, therefore, that there would always be a certain amount of scary stuff in the world--the kind that Ken Anderson's daughter alluded to--but,characteristically, he didn't have the gumption to stay with it.
Finally, I am not "giving up" on maintaining a robust form of civil liberties. But Caldwell is surely right that that form does not pre-date the New Deal and, really, post-World War II in the US. Louis Brandeis had no trouble, apparently, upholding sending Eugene Debs to jail for opposing WWI, and the Supreme Court did nothing to prevent the similar jailing of top Communist leaders in 1951. So we have to ask ourselves what are the conditions under which a "civil liberties consciousness" arose and what conditions are necessary to maintain it. I do believe that it wil not be maintained if people get the impression that defenders of strong civil liberties simply don't recognize the potential risks run in protecting some people we have very good reason to believe are quite bad indeed. We need to explain better than we seem to be doing right now why those risks are acceptable.
And by the way, nothing personal, and no disrespect intended. I am speaking bluntly because I think this is very important.
I seldom post on law blogs because I am not an attorney. And I am a particular admirer of Sandy Levinson. But I must take exception to one statement:
"The strong appeal of Al Gore's movie, which I was much impressed by, ultimately rests on a version of the "1% [solution]."
No. Vice President Gore's movie rests on as near a certainty as science has to offer. There is no serious disagreement in the scientific community (apart from those whose livelihood depends on being contrarian) that global warming is happening and will continue to happen... no disagreement at all. All practicing climate scientists who once objected to the concept have retracted their reservations. Only the politically and financially motivated remain. Think what you will of Gore; his thesis in An Inconvenient Truth is unimpeachable. Call it the 99.9 percent solution, not the 1 percent solution.
That said, I have no intention of compromising on civil liberties, however "quaint" they may become. My age has not diminished, and will not diminish, my commitment.
Maintaining your "robust form of civil liberties," whatever that means, is different from having any concern about civil liberties at all. Concern about civil liberties has been an issue since and before the nation's founding. To take 2 19th century examples, there were protests of the Sedition Act during the Adams administration and the suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War.
Pointing out andecdotal examples of violations of civil liberties in the 1910s and 1950s is not evidence of a present or recent golden age of civil liberties. One can point out such violations in any decade since then (such as the black bag jobs done by the FBI against the Weatherman Underground in the 1970s). Caldwell's and Levinson's myopia prevent them from seeing that this tension between security and civil liberties has always been around, and will always be around.
What Steve Bates said about crediting Sunstein with having made a point. Gore's precautionary principle to address a 99% risk of constant planet-wide environmental trouble is to be contrasted, not likened, to Cheney's precautionary principle to address a 1% risk of isolated sporadic WMD trouble. Sunstein's climatology is as religio-politically derived as his biology. Read his take on the Kitzmiller decision.
I am not "giving up" on maintaining a robust form of civil liberties. But Caldwell is surely right that that form does not pre-date the New Deal and, really, post-World War II in the US.
The same could be said of racial integration of public schools. So what? The fundamental principle goes back to the founding documents of the nation, and before.
I agree that I made a mistake in analogizing global warming to a "1% solution." The evidence is far stronger than that. I do think that some environmentalists on some occasions engage in such rhetoric, but Al Gore and global warming is not one of them.
I also agree that there have always been committed civil libertarians throughout our history. Only in the relatively recent past, though, did they have enough social and political clout to capture the courts and mold general public sentiment.
Finally, the analogy to racial segregation is double-edged. Isn't it clear that the movement for genuinely moving toward integration, which, among other things, required busing and the consolidation of urban school districts, did not survive the 1970s, when the Supreme Court basically threw in the towel. I do not believe we are in any danger of returning to a formal regime of pre-Brown segregation--and one can point to much genuine progress that has been made in the past six decades since Harry Truman's courageous decision to desegregate the armed forces (at least as important, in my estimation, as Brown). But we obviously shouldn't be complacent about the state of race relations in the US today, and there is no particular reason to believe that the future wil be better.
I'm not sure why I'm being joined with Caldwell, except inasmuch as I believe that his column raises argument that civil libertarians must confront, not least because, as I argued, a "contributing editor" to the NYTimes Magazine (and a frequent contributor, I gather, to the Weekly Standard, an't be dismissed as an insignificant crank. I suspect I am willing for society to accept considerably more risks, re potential terrorist activity, than he is (and only in part becauses suppression of civil liberties, in addition to raising important questions per se, also may end up increasing risks because of the resentment in will create among people who might otherwise be friendly to us), but there does come a point when the risks could be too high. That, after all, is the premise behind accepting limits on the freedom of newspapers to publish upcoming troop movements and missions and the like. For the record, I think the Times was right to publish their various articles, but I take it that most of us would condemn--and possibly even support punishment of--the Times had it, for example, published an article naming a mole we had placed in al Qaeda. Am I off the mark in this last surmise?
What do we value?
"In today's Wall Street Journal, Judge Richard Posner laments the fact that the federal courts are available to adjudicate whether the President's methods of fighting the war on terror are consistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States."
If the so-called Cheney Doctrine is plausible, then Curtis LeMay was right. We should have launched a first strike against the Soviet Union. But then, Ike and JFK were so 20th Century.
The terrorism threat is vastly overblown, but it contributes (as it is designed to do) to the Bush administration's desire to militarize both international relations and domestic affairs. There was more terrorism in the United States in the 60's and 70's than there is now, thanks to the SDS, Weather Underground, and the SLA. It's more likely I'll die of influenza or be struck by lightning than be a victim of terrorism, but I don't anticipate any "war on nasty viruses" any time soon.
And, as for OBL's desire to "displace" the American government, he already has, as this discussion already demonstrates. I cannot believe how weak the United States is.
Having no problem with the basic formulation (gravity of event)*(probability of event)=(level of threat)[it is effectively the definition of the expected value of a random variable], the "1% solution" begs some serious questions:
Gravity: Conceptually, this makes sense and corresponds to a piece of an ostensible severity distribution estimated/utilized by actuaries. At base it quantifies a cost. As such, can we agree on what is to be included as the components of that cost? Can we agree on valuations of costs that are not readily numerical? Do we have a scale on which to plot the gravity(implicit-can we coherently compare gravities)? If so, is it bounded?
Probability: The probability of rolling snake eyes on a single role of a pair of fair dice is 2.8% while rolling all ones on three fair dice is about .5%. So a 1% probability is not that small. However, dice rolls are discrete in time. How about the probability of a terrorist attack? or the probability that this dictator will supply WMD's to some terrorist organization? What's missing in the previous questions? A whole lot of information, not least of which is the time frame under consideration. Should we apply the 'Cheney Doctrine' when the 1% is the probability of the event occuring from now until the end of time? Now until 2100? The next decade? Where is the vague gray area where we are undecided?
What vast list of information would be needed to reasonably estimate a probability for WMD transfer?
Although it is clear to me that the 1% solution is mostly political windbagging, my biggest objection to the 1% solution turns on 'state secrecy'--who checks your work!
I very much appreciate Steve Farrar's contribution. I think he asks exactly the right questions, including the all-important "who checks the homework" question at the end. One old-fashioned response, which, as I've argued in other postings, is now out-of-date, is Congress, at least when controlled by the President's own party. We've seen a complete and utter failure to do any checking. So we should try to figure out how to reconstruct a system of "fact checking" in the absence of sufficient congressional oversight. Rick Pildes and Daryl Levinson, in their recent Harvard article, have suggested that intelligence committees be controlled by the non-presidential party, in order to create an incentive to check the math. Or one could create special committees of the National Academy of Science or similar such bodies. But I completely agree tht there is no reason whatsoever to trust the calculations not only of this particular Administration, but of any administration that could have an incentive to overrate gravity or probability in order to serve its crass political objectives of being re-elected to office.
I must agree with commenter Gee who said "The idea that civil liberties are a modern fashion is, in the first place, ahistorical."
Prior to the founding of your country Ben Franklin said "Those who would sacrifice essential liberties for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Ben, you will have to agree, is a pre-20th century figure.
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Dough % hydration effect on crust and bread quality
I am fairly new to high hydration doughs. I like everything about them, including the challenges they through at you. A few days ago, I baked 3 baguettes - 66% hydration and the crust generated a beautiful crackling sound as it cooled just after baking. Then, using the same ingredients, I increased the hydration to 70%.
I liked both the 66 and the 70% hydration resulting breads. May have a preference to the 70% look, feel and taste, including the somewhat larger holes in the 70%, but these made no cracking sounds.! The question is.... is there a relation between the crackling sound and the best or ideal % hydration for a particular recipe. Yes, I still need to work more on the lame skills!
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Look, this is no ordinary economic crisis. It is the crisis we are told will take place in the End Times, in the time of the Mahdi. It will probably last for 7 years, as stated in Surah Yusuf. Because it began in 2007 and will possibly last until 2014. The [Turkish] nation needs to take intense precautionary measures against it. The government also needs to take intense precautionary measures. For one thing, great importance must be attached to agriculture. All groups involved in agriculture must be given full backing, either with loans or other forms of support. Great importance must be attached to livestock breeding. And great importance must be attached to poultry rearing. All industries that support agriculture and livestock breeding must be given great importance and support. Lowering interest rates to zero, tax amnesties and reducing taxes as low as possible... But of course the wages of the poor must be raised as high as possible and their purchasing power increased. But as Muslims we of course have to help our brothers and everyone to the fullest extent possible. Wiping off the debts of those who cannot repay them is described as a virtue and good moral behavior in the Qur'an. It is wrong in my view to go to send the bailiffs to people's homes if they cannot pay and take away their fridge or bed or whatever. My conscience cannot live with that. There may come a time when they can pay, and one should be patient and wait. If they say they cannot pay, that is the truth. One must have compassion. One must trust in Allah. Any other behavior may have undesired consequences. Allah has created all things for the best. One must trust Allah, Who gives us our daily bread. Domestic peace is very important. Internal disputes between left and right or whatever must be set aside. We must literally be brothers, and the Turkish-Islamic Union must be set up. Passport and visa requirements must be lifted at once and the borders opened up. That will invigorate trade to an unbelievable extent. It is obvious and certain that we will see excellent results from that, which is one of the solutions. Let me openly state that when these things are done the economic crisis will not touch us at all. But let me also say that if we fail to act in time, we may find ourselves in real difficulties.
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Area Lodging/Rentals
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Al & Nancy's Lakeview Rentals
Updated one two and three bedroom single-familyresidences 125 yds to Silver Beach, walk to Lions Park Beach & Downtown St Joseph. Fully equipped homes: Washer & dryers, dishwashers, weber grills, WiFi, cable, sleeper sofas and C-A/C
America's Best Value
America's Best Value Inn welcomes you to our 108 room semi-full service hotel facility. Conveniently located off I-94 exit 28, you will find an atrium with a large indoor heated pool, Jacuzzi tub, workout room and vending area.
Among the Vineyards Bed and Breakfast
Among the Vineyards Bed & Breakfast is a spectacular romantic 4-bedroom B&B which is fifteen minutes south of Joseph and tucked in the heart of the SW Michigan Wine Trail. Come stay with us and enjoy a time to RELAX, REFRESH, and RENEW.
Baymont Inn & Suites
Baymont provides comfortable accommodations with a unique combination of consistently friendly service and distinctive amenities at a great value.
Beach House Rentals
Our charming beach houses are cozy and comfortable. They feature a living room, kitchen, full bath with shower and 1 to 3 bedrooms. Some units have sofa sleepers.
Best Western
Located in Benton Harbor,MI, the Best Western Benton Harbor-St. Joseph is sure to provide a peaceful and comforting home away from home for any traveler.
Candlewood Suites
Our suites provide everything you need to live, work, and relax while you're away from home.
Chalet on the Lake Rentals
Summer resort on Lake Michigan that offers many amenities including private beach, swimming pools, volleyball, basketball, tennis courts, shuffleboard, playground and horseshoes.
Comfort Suites
An award winning all non-smoking all-suite hotel located near Lake Michigan beaches, wineries, and state parks. The University of Notre Dame is 37 miles and the South Bend Regional Airport is 30 miles away.
Comfort Suites - Benton Harbor
Enjoy a wealth of amenities in a convenient location when choosing the Comfort Suites® Benton Harbor - St. Joseph in Benton Harbor, MI. Our non-smoking hotel is ideally located minutes from the shores of Lake Michigan.
Days Inn & Suites
Fifty-two room motel with free continental breakfast, remote control TVs with HBO. All beds are queen or king size.
Econo Lodge
We welcome guests to our newly renovated rooms at Econo Lodge. Conveniently located just a few minutes drive to Lake Michigan, Whirlpool World Headquarters and Lake Michigan College. Walking distance to restaurants and shops.
Eden Springs Park
A family friendly, historic destination for amusement and entertainment.
Fairfield Inn St. Joseph-Stevensville
Expect superior service at our all-new hotel in Stevensville.
Hampton Inn
Deluxe continental hot breakfast; indoor heated pool; Jacuzzi suites; same parking lot as the 5 O'Clock Sports Bar.
Harbor Light Hotels Pinnacle Hospitality
Our Hospitality Management Company now has (3) Hotels in the Benton Harbor / St. Joseph area of Michigan. The closest beaches are Silver Beach and Lake Michigan. Our Hotels are the Holiday Inn Express® & Suites, SpringHill Suites, & the Staybridge Suite . Our hotel's location along I-94 not only makes it ideal for getting to nearby business but also places guests near the best local attractions. We have everything a business traveler needs for a productive trip. Keep in touch with the office using complimentary Wi-Fi access or at a computer in the Business Center. Plus, because of our hotel's location in the Benton Harbor - St. Joseph, MI area, it's easy to get to companies like Whirlpool Corporation, Lakeland Regional Health System, Four Winds Casino, Indiana Michigan Power / Cook Nuclear Plant, Andrew's University, and Leco, just to name a few.
Hilton Garden Inn
Hilton Garden Inn Benton Harbor / St. Joseph is a focused brand hotel in Southwest Michigan, centrally located, making it easy to visit beautiful beaches, golf courses, world class wineries, art galleries, elegant cafes and more.
Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Benton Harbor
Hotel featuring comfortable rooms, a continental breakfast served each morning in our lobby, an indoor pool, whirlpool, as well as iron and ironing board in each room.
Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites St. Joseph
Welcome to the St. Joseph Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites. Our hotel is located on the shores of Lake Michigan, offering beautiful views and convenience to local attractions and businesses.
Keller Rentals II
Sleeps two with the potential for six. Totally furnished, TV / DVD, microwave, small view of Lake Michigan, walking distance to the beach. Located above Broad Street Cafe.
Little Cottage by the Sea
St. Joseph Vacation Rental
Pier 1000 Marina
Full service marina, boat docks for sale or rent. Winter storage - outside and heated inside. Fuel dock. Service department and ships store. Brokerage boats for sale. Rental boats in the Summer months. Open 7 days all Summer.
Red Roof Inn
Complimentary coffee/USA Today newspaper. ESPN, CNN, HBO, handicap accessible rooms. Nearby restaurants and shopping.
Silver Beach Hotel
Welcome to The Silver Beach Hotel! Ideally located near the beautiful Lake Michigan shoreline and the St. Joseph River.
Springhill Suites by Marriott
All-suite hotel with stylish spaces and inspiring design.
Super 8
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The Boulevard Inn
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The Cottages at Harbor Shores
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The Duncan House Bed and Breakfast
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The Inn at Harbor Shores
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The Painted Turtle Inn
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Why you should add Thailand to your Indie/RTW trip
- The Land of Smiles has some of the most friendly people you'll ever meet in the world.
- The food is fresh, unique, delicious, and super cheap. One of the best and safest street food scenes in the world.
- The variety of what you can do in Thailand is amazing. It has one of the biggest, most bustling cities in the world in Bangkok. Some of the most pristine beaches in the world. Mountains in the north. And little towns everywhere in between. There is literally something for everyone in Thailand.
- While the path is definitely beaten, Thailand is still great for indie travel. It's easy to get around on your own because it's been a popular travel destination for decades.
- No matter your budget, you can find what you want in Thailand. Backpacker traveling on $10 per day? You can do it. Luxury traveler looking for top notch hotels and restaurants? You can do that. Fall somewhere in between? No problem for you either.
Indie Travel TipsThere once was a time when Thailand was a little visited country well off the beaten backpacker path. That time no longer exists. Thailand has been discovered and some might even say "ruined" by its own popularity. When you go there you will likely see other foreigners trekking around, but that doesn't mean that your experience will be ruined. If you work hard and do some advanced planning, you can experience Thailand without feeling like you are just another tourist chasing after the cheese in a crowded maze.
- Start in Bangkok and give it a chance. Yes, it can be chaotic, loud, dirty, and overwhelming. But if you do your homework and know what and who to avoid, there is no matching the energy of Bangkok.
- Hit up one of the biggest markets in Asia at the Chatuchak Weekend Market.
- Eat on the street. Very few cities in the world have the variety, flavors, and value that street carts in Bangkok do.
- Want a bit of relief from the heat? Head north to do some trekking in the mountains. Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai are the two most popular places for trekking. If you're looking for something different though, check out Umphang, Mae Sariang, or Nan, amongst other, smaller, less popular towns.
- Thai islands are a massive draw for travelers. Think about skipping the uber popular islands and beaches like Phuket and Phi Phi and instead head to Koh Chang (head for Lonely Beach), Koh Yao Noi, Koh Tao, or the Similan Islands.
- Take a cooking class somewhere. It doesn't necessarily matter where, but what better souvenir to bring home than making some new delicious dishes.
- Take an overnight train. The train system in Thailand is surprisingly comfortable, and the overnight trains are a hoot. Get a nice sleeper seat and bring a bottle of Sangsom to make some new friends.


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More pictures are available in the Photo Gallery
What is it?
It could be art? Decoration? Science? Any or all of the above. It is however a wall hanging made with 128 tri-color LEDs. Each LED can show one of 4913 colors. It is programmed to show different patterns on the screen, like a 21st century lava lamp.
The idea
I built this project for my Dad for Christmas 2007. The idea was inspired as an extension to the LED Table Project. In combination with seeing the amazing effects from the LED Table, I also saw several projects online where people had built LED arrays to make interesting displays.
The main inspiration for this project is the HypnoCube project. It is a similar circuit but in a 3D configuration. My project has twice the number of LEDs, so the circuitry is essentially doubled.
The main idea in the end was to build a LED display out of an array of tri-color LEDs. I ended up with a 16 x 8 tri-color LEDs, which is essentially an array of 48 x 8 single color LEDs.
Once built, it should be programmed to display various patterns to act as an art display hanging on a wall. You can get Visual Impact LED Screen Rentals at afordable prices for any event that might require you to use a display screen. Check the website of LED Screen Rentals.
Most of the details will be under the Technical Details section, but a brief overview of the steps:
- Design the circuit in Eagle Layout Editor
- Lay out the circuit board in Eagle Layout Editor
- Order the circuit board to be produced and the electrical parts
- Cut the circuit board into the 130 individual small boards for the LEDs
- Solder the 128 LEDs to their boards and the interconnect wiring
- Assemble the main circuit board
- Write the code
- Build the physical frame
- Assemble all of the pieces
The aforementioned process might seem easy at a cursory glance, however, it needs much more experience and accumen to get everything right. Fortunately, there are Altera products for sale at Direct Components Inc. which can make the process much easier by providing trustworthy electronic parts.
Technical Details
Theory of Operation
I would be happy to provide the eagle schematic and board files, as well as any information about the code that you like. Everything here is presented with no warranties whatsoever. Just send me an email.
- Schematic – schematic is here.
- Code: wall_display.c and Makefile.
- Board: Board.png, board-bottom.png, board-top.png
- Eagle Schematic File – schematic is here.
- Eagle Board File – board is here.
- Parts Details
- Theory
The LED display works on the POV (persistance of vision) effect of the human eye. The LEDs each stay on for a very brief period of time, but the human eye and brain together make it appear as if the LEDs stay on the entire time. Because of this effect, the LEDs only need to be lit up for a short time period, which gives us the option to scan through them very quickly. This is important because there are 16 * 8 * 3 = 384 LEDs in the display. Obviously our microcontroller does not have 384 outputs, nor did I want to create a control board with 384 transistors and individual wiring outputs. So the solution is to create a matrix of LEDs. Each row (8) has all of its negative LED terminals tied together, and each column (16 * 3 = 48) has all of its positive terminals tied together. 48 is a feasible number of outputs for a 8 bit microcontroller. Now each row of LEDs can be individually controlled, so all we have to do is scan through the 8 rows in quick succession turning on the appropriate LEDs in each row for the appropriate amount of time, and we have a big colored LED display.
Each LED is set up for 17 levels of brightness, where 0 is off, and 16 is the brightest. For each row, there are 17 individual time periods. At the beginning of the row loop, all the LEDs in the row are turned on, and each is turned off when a counter reaches its brightness level. Once the counter hits 16, the next row is activated. This is all interrupt driven, and is automatic.
The main program loop is simply responsible for setting the color values into an array to be used by the interrupt driven LED code. Each section in the main program loop implements a different display program.
Overview Video
Removing the polycarbonate sheet in front
View of back side of LED Wall Display while running
There are individual videos for each effect available by clicking on the links below
- Out effect
- In effect
- Spiral effect
- Zig Zag effect
- Arrow Left effect
- Arrow Right effect
- Diagonal LL effect
- Diagonal LR effect
- Diagonal UL effect
- Diagonal UR effect
- Whole Screen effect
- Horizontal Scroll effect
- Vertical Scroll effect
- Spinners effect
- Nibbles effect
- Random Colors effect
- Test Colors effect
- Ping Pong effect
Source: www.gseav.com/services/video-walls.


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Foresight Archives
The Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology
November 5-8, 1997; Palo Alto, CA
This page now serves as an archive for the 1997 conference.
The Next Conference
The Sixth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology will be held November 13-15 1998, at the Westin Hotel in Santa Clara, CA. The Tutorial will be on November 12, 1998. Information is available on the web at http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT6/index.html.
Video tapes
Video tapes of the conference are available from Sound Photosynthesis, POB 2111 Mill Valley, CA 94942-2111, USA; 1-415-332-1533; email@example.com. Sound Photosynthesis also offers a Richard Feynman page, where the videotape of Feynman's lecture "tiny machines" about nanotechnology appears.
The 1997 Conference Archive
The conference began with a reception the evening of Nov. 5. It was a multidisciplinary meeting on molecular nanotechnology, that is, thorough three-dimensional structural control of materials and devices at the molecular level. Attendees included chemists, materials scientists, physicists, engineers, computer scientists and others interested in learning about the field and participating in its development.
Topics Covered
This conference was a meeting of scientists and technologists working in fields leading toward molecular nanotechnology: thorough three-dimensional structural control of materials and devices at the molecular level. The conference covered topics relevant to the pursuit of molecular control:
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LittleBigPlanet Karting Review
Sackboy has become something of an industry icon, and now the inevitable has happened to our cuddly pal… a spin off. The first offshoot we've been given is LittleBigPlanet Karting, a kart racer where you can dress up your Sack-person, customize your own kart, create your own tracks, and play the creations of others as well. It's perfectly enjoyable for what it is… but here's the rub: it feels uncomfortably like ModNation Racers, another game in the "Create, Play, Share" line of thinking. And that's the thing. It really is ModNation Racers all over again, just with a LBP theme. While this isn't a deal breaker by any stretch of the imagination, if you own the former, is there really any reason to buy the latter?
In fact, the transition must have been absurdly easy. Everything about LBP Karting follows the tried and tested formula that made the series such a successful franchise: from the hub worlds to the customization to the graphics to the soundtrack, this is LittleBigPlanet through and through, but it was also made by the same people who made ModNation Racers, and you can tell.
The controls are very simple and almost exactly the same as ModNation. Drifting is key, but with more emphasis on speed and less on building up your meter. By drifting for a long enough period, your tires will actually ignite giving you a boost. There are a slew of both offensive and defensive weapons, all stock and standard with a characteristic LBP cuteness thrown in for good measure.
In the end, LBP Karting is exactly like every other karting game I've played, recently or otherwise.
The truth is, it's going to be familiar to anyone who has ever played any game in the genre, harkening all the way back to the original Mario Kart. The fact that you can create your own tracks and play those created by others is fun and engaging… except that ModNation did it first, and did it better in my opinion. What is missing from ModNation is the shield function. It was a clever mechanic that let you stave off those pesky last second attacks if you budgeted properly.
That's because the standard frustrations of the genre rear their collective, ugly heads. Is there anything more annoying that being feet from the finish line and getting zapped or warped or blown up? You even have Sackbots to help you out, although I'm convinced I fell prey to their weapons as often as I did the evil Hoarders. There is a very fine line between providing a healthy challenge and suffering unfair frustrations in these types of games, and I fear sometimes LBP Karting crosses it without even meaning to do so.
You can race online and off, tinker with your creations (more on that later) or download those from others in the online community. There is even a "Story" mode. Craftworld is under threat from the Hoard. These evil little munchkins are hoarding (get it?) all the collectibles in LittleBigPlanet, not to share but to keep for themselves! Those scoundrels… imagine Stephen Fry saying it, that helps. It's not much to go on, but at least it's a good excuse to string a bunch of races together.
Visually, LBP Karting looks familiar, as in cute as a button. Colorful and bright, each track will leave you dazzled. It's difficult not to feel like you're missing something interesting as you whiz by at top speed! It wouldn't be an LBP game without Stephen Fry, and he once again lends his melodious voice to the proceedings. I'm so happy he is sticking with it. I'd like to petition him to do the tutorials for other games. How awesome would it be to hear Stephen Fry tell you how to line up headshots or toss grenades?
There is one interesting aspect that LBP brings to the karting experience: lots and LOTS of collectibles! They are littered all over the tracks. Seriously, you almost need to play most levels twice: once to get the goodies, once to actually try and win. All those collectibles can then be used to customize your Sack-person, kart, hub, and tracks you can create.
The creation aspect is fun and clever, as all LBP games are. There is an interesting mixture of the mechanics from LBP and ModNation. There are quite a few themes to choose from, which basically describe the overall background and space in which you can create. I love the fact that you can "drive" your own track (with the steamroller replaced by a paintbrush, but again it's virtually the same). However, I always felt like in LBP the creation tools were overly complex and not helped at all by the popit configuration. It's confusing unless you really take the time to watch all the tutorials and do some exploring on your own. There was such a learning curve to the system that a great many people (myself included) couldn't be bothered to really explore its intricacies. As a result, populating your track and the surrounding areas if far more in-depth and involved than it was in ModNation. Oh, how I wish there was that "Finish it!" button that would simply auto-populate the track with all the boosts and power ups.
LittleBigPlanet Karting has that indelible LittleBigPlanet charm, but it's difficult not to feel like Sony is trying to take advantage of a recognizable brand. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of Sackboy, and LittleBigPlanet Karting isn't bad per se, but it's difficult not to feel like the little guy is being exploited. If you're a big LBP fan then it might be worth it, but if you've played ModNation Racers, I don't think the slight makeover is enough to warrant a full price tag.
Reviewed By: Simon Waldron
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Rating: 67%
This review is based on copy of LittleBigPlanet Karting for the PlayStation 3 provided by Sony Computer Entertainment.


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32-inch Touch of Luck Sterling Silver Necklace - Turquoise
$ 145.00
Product Details
- 925 sterling silver chain
- Enamel Coating on Both Sides of Charm
- Bottom Magenta Pendant Dangles Loosely at the Bottom
- 32-inch Silver Link Chain
- Lobster Clasp
- Handmade in Italy
Charm Inspiration
Literally meaning "five", the universally recognized 'hamsa' hand is a traditional ward against the evil eye and negative energy. It remains a resolute symbol of protection, and thought to bring happiness to all who wear it, in a spectrum of cultures. It's a must have amulet in anyone's collection.


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Reading text messages from school
In this module you will read three text messages from school, practise reading to get important information and learn new words about school.
In this module you will read three text messages from school, practise reading to get important information and learn new words about school.
When you describe a photo it is important to say where the people are and what the people are doing.
In this module you will learn new words about school and practise answering questions on school forms.
This lesson is about school parents' evenings. It provides students with the chance to read about parents' evenings and practise vocabulary associated with meeting a child's teacher. It also develops the students' ability to ask a range of important questions at parents' evening.
This resource, 'Someone at the door: The teacher's visit', is part of 'English in my home', which aims to give ESOL learners the confidence and the language to deal with situations they may encounter in their homes. In this lesson, Sunita meets her son's new teacher, but where is Arjun?
Teachers often need to talk to the parents of children who are in their class about how the child is getting on.
Watch the film called 'The teacher's visit' and complete the activities so you can feel confident if you have to speak to a teacher about a child s
Tania and Jing meet on their first day at school. Listen to their conversation and try the activities.
Look at the school timetable and do the exercises to practise and improve your writing skills.
This lesson develops learners' reading skills of two different types of text: a text message and a diary page. Ravinder receives a text message about starting an English course and learners read his text and his diary in order to decide which course he is able to attend.


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Found 26 software entries
from category: Audio Editing
Found 26 software entries
from category: Audio Editing
Argeïphontes Lyre 1.001
"A set of time domain audio filters and generators" Argeïphontes Lyre is a beatiful toolbox that hosts several ways of creating and transforming sound. There are non-real-time processes, real-time buffer modulations, concatenations...
Argeïphontes Lyre 2.0.4
"A set of time domain audio filters and generators for the Macintosh" is a beatiful toolbox that hosts several ways of creating and transforming sound. There are non-real-time processes, real-time buffer modulations, concatenations and...
AU Lab 2.2
free digital audio mixing application, AU Lab, is used as a host application for Audio Unit effects, including AURoundTripAAC Audio Unit. auditioning audio, detecting peaks and clipping, and performing double-blind listening tests.
Audio Hijack Pro 2
With Audio Hijack Pro, you can save audio output from any application, and use DSP effects to improve audio quality from any application. Many audio formats, timed recording, alarms, and more.
Audio Visualizer
Audio Visualizer is a program which analyzes and displays the frequency content of sounds, such as music from a CD. The program shows the frequency content of both the left and right channels of stereo sound. The program performs its...
Audiocorder is an audio recorder app for Macintosh.
Bias Peak 3.21 (2432) for Mac OS 8.6-9.2
Digital audio editing and mastering package.
Cacophony 1.2.2 FR
Cubase SE
Station audio numérique de Steinberg en version "d'introduction". C'est la plus petite version du trio SE/SL/SX, l'équivalent actuel de la série Element. 48 pistes audio 24bit/96Khz 5 effets d'insert...
Digital Performer 4
Digital Performer is an integrated digital audio and MIDI sequencing production system. It provides a comprehensive environment for editing, arranging, mixing, processing and mastering multitrack audio projects for a wide variety of...
DJ-1800 is an application that emulates the Denon DN-1800F professional CD Player system used by many DJs and radio stations. It allows the end user to play audio files via an interface that resembles a professional DJ-standard CD player.
mAC3dec is an AC-3 audio decoder for the Macintosh, used to decode the AC-3 audio used on DVDs and convert to AIFF or MP3. mAC3dec can also read QuickTime files, AIFFs, WAVs, Audio CD tracks, and more.
MarcoHack v1.02 + pdf manual MarcoHack is a sound processing program for Macintosh PPC computers developed by Marco Pranger at the Institute of Sonology, The Hague. Using a SoundHack-style interface, sound files may be processed in a number of...
Propellerheads Reason 2.5
includes OS9 and OSX version CD1 - Reason software CD2 - Orkester refill CD3 - Factory Sound Bank refill
Propellerheads Reason 3.0
OSX only CD1 - Reason software CD2 - Factory Sound Bank refill CD3 - Orkester refill
RealProducer G2 (6.1)
Welcome to the RealProducer G2 from RealNetworks. RealProducer G2 lets you convert your audio and video files into RealNetworks RealMedia format. The software and documentation are provided to you in accordance with your license agreement. This...
Basic audio editor - see screenshot above. Probably like an early Audacity but with much less functionality. See screenshot 2 above, which is taken from the comprehensive user guide included with the app.
SndSampler is the ultimate shareware tool for recording, editing, and working with sound on the Macintosh. It's simple enough for the novice but contains many powerful features which will appeal to the sound-editing professional.
Sound Editor
About Sound Editor It's difficult to get a good recording of a sound from your Mac's `Sound' control panel. You're limited to 10 seconds, and if you don't want to cut the beginning or end of the sound off, you have to start...
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The Hayward fault runs through the heart of Montclair, in the Oakland hills behind Piedmont. Montclair Park's duck pond was constructed where the fault left a natural sag in the ground.
Only in seismologists' equations, and perhaps deep down in the crust, are faults smooth, flat planes. In the world, on the surface, faults are as ragged and variable as any other geological feature. The Hayward fault is more of a zone, from a few to a hundred meters in width, with several fractures running through it. Where two strands overlap, a block of ground between them may slump in tension or rise in compression, depending on how the strands are oriented. At Montclair Park, two strands are mapped on either side of the sag basin. Lake Temescal is another example of a sag basin repurposed as a water feature. So, apparently, is Lake Aliso, the pond on the grounds of Mills College.
The first "great San Francisco earthquake" occurred 21 October 1868 on the Hayward fault. The epicenter appears to have been in southern San Leandro, and surface rupture extended from there all the way down to Fremont. In Montclair, the other direction along the fault, there was plenty of shaking of course, but no rupture of the ground from what we can tell. A trenching study, conducted along the third-base line of the little ballfield in Montclair Park, found no sign of recent movement along the fault there. But slow, silent motion does affect the fault in Montclair. The old fire station on Moraga Avenue has been rendered useless by aseismic creep, and some of the houses along the fault appear to show foundation disruption. But generally creep is invisible unless there is some structure that it affects, like the south curb of Medau Place, below. South of here, the fault crosses Route 13, reaching the other side at the head of Dimond Canyon.


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