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Did PC arise to fill the missing manners gap?
With the publication of Jonathan Alter's new book on the first year of the Obama administration, a lot of unsavory details are leaking out about No Drama Obama (Mr. Calm and Collected) and his crew. We already know now that Obama refers to those Americans who oppose him as Tea Baggers, a sexually unsavory term.
Tough guy Rahmbo also has some bizarre sexual obsessions he regularly lets loose at the workplace:
Earlier leaks of the book have included some embarrassing portrayals of White House adviser Rahm Emanuel. New York magazine had some choice bits about Rahm's anger at Bo, the Obama's family dog ("I'm going to kill that fucking dog," and his yelling to a male staffer: "Take your fucking tampon out and tell me what you have to say."
Many of us should be asking ourselves about the wisdom of vesting such extraordinary power in a man with so much anger and so little self-control. After all, he has first access to the president's ear, yet he's often little more than an Id waiting to explode. Of course, since the whole Democratic party seems to be operating on the anger principle, perhaps he's the perfect First Officer for a ship determined to ram (or, should I say, Rahm) itself, and the nation, onto the rocks.
Rahm's workplace outbursts also raise an interesting question about the level and type of civility necessary for a society to function. In times past, someone on the receiving end of Rahm's execrable behavior might have responded by saying "You, sir, are no gentleman" — and, a long time ago, even someone like Rahm might have been abashed.
If you doubt me, keep in mind that, in Jane Austen's perennially popular Pride and Prejudice, when Mr. Darcy proposed to Elizabeth Bennett, he was self-righteously angered by the erroneous factual accusations she threw at him, and was more than ready to defend himself. What stopped him in his tracks, and brought him to his knees, was this statement (emphasis mine):
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner.'
In a vanished time and place, Elizabeth made Mr. Darcy see, not that he had offended her, but that he had demeaned himself.
The notion of gentleman and ladies is an antiquated one, but I suspect that it's much more culturally important than people realize. I've long thought that it's no coincidence that the whole PC insanity arose at the same time traditional manners declined. Without agreed-upon manners, the average person lost a behavioral template.
In the old days, certain things just weren't said in mixed company, or in the workplace, or in public. With those rules lost, people grasped at anything that would smooth over the anger, roughness and chaos that arose in the vacuum crated when old-fashioned dignity and manners departed the stage. PC was there to fill the gap. While the Left created the PC rubric because it required carefully defined victim classes that could eventually override the existing American social and economic structure, most Americans were seeking new rules of civility just so they could get through the day.
Sadly, as Rahm's lizard brain outbursts perfectly demonstrate, the new rules of civility do not focus on the individual who is speaking or acting. This is an important nuance. In the old days, a gentleman or a lady simply didn't do certain things. You were defined by your own conduct, conduct that you were expected to observe in every situation. That's why Mr. Darcy could be so shattered by Elizabeth's charge against him. He had thought himself a gentlemen, bound by a code of conduct, and he had let his own pride and prejudices blind him to his own failings.
In our Brave New World, however, every rule is carefully calibrated to respond to the audience or recipient's sensibilities. We are defined, not be who we are, but by the person at the receiving end of our conversation. What this means is that, if the person at the other end isn't a specially protected class, anything goes. Good-bye Mr. Darcy, who held high expectations for himself, and hello Rahmbo, who sees himself constrained only by the relative power and victim status of the person to him he speaks.
And we, the American public, end up with a gentlemen-free White House, a place in which both dogs and non-PC subordinates are fair game for a lizard brain executive who has the ear of the man whose hand hovers over myriad nuclear buttons, both real and metaphoric.
(h/t The New Editor and Ed Driscoll)


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A sturdy set of padded comfortable straps can make a world of difference when toting a heavy backpack. But o-range, an Italian bag maker, thinks it has come up with an even better solution—a wraparound vest that hugs your entire torso, instead of straps that just cling to your shoulders.
When it's available later this year, the Connector Vest will be targeted at snow sport enthusiasts who want to securely carry all their crap while whooshing down the slopes. Because the vest tightly hugs your torso, it has the added benefit of providing a bit of extra insulation too.
Although, that also means that wearing it in warm weather could be an extremely sweaty ordeal. So the Connector Vest will be sold as part of a backpack kit for around $260, and on its own for about $190. In cold conditions, it can be optionally used with any pack you choose. [o-range via Gizmag]

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If it doesn't work at all, make sure
a) you have directx8/8.1 (in windows xp this is automatically installed)
b) use a 800MHz+ CPU - AMD Athlon XP offers the best price/speed ratio (Highly reccomended)
c) use a recent graphics card. there are many that do work and many that don't. Old voodoo cards are not supported.
d) use recent drivers. Avoid using the "Default Video Card" drivers of Windows 98. Windows XP has new drivers but not much fast.
If you have trouble with game gfx try the following before posting it here:
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b) If you think gfx get cut off then disable TVoutput
Always have the latest ini (Emumaniac's) and see if the game's comment is "playable".
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*About when Nemu 0.9 is going to be released. Most probably there aren't going to be any updated versions of the emulator.
*Asking to be a beta tester.
*That Nemu runs slow on your pc. Requirements are in the readme file included with the zip.
*Saying that a game doesn't work on nemu64.
*Saying that you get an error. Disable all "Show .... Error" in the options menu. If the error persists then post it.
*In other languages than English and German except if addressing to someone speciffically AND it isn't the main body of the post. I personally am very annoyed by this, and i believe everyone gets annoyed, especially if they don't know that specific language
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It looked like they had an awesome crowd live.
Ultimate X: TNA X-Division champion Kenny King vs. Chris Sabin vs. Suicide.
The announcers noted it was the 30th Ultimate X match. Sounds like it's time for an Anthology DVD set.
King backed out of the ring, telling the others to fight amongst themselves. They instead chased him into the ring. He ended up caught between the two and worked over with a double hiptoss and a series of chops. Sabin was obviously the crowd favorite early.
Suicide hit a springboard into a takedown on his opponents. He tried to scramble up but King nailed Sabin and then took out Suicide. Sabin returned with a spinkick but was caught with a t-bone suplex. Sabin and King battled in the corner as Sucide tried to recover.
Suicide caught Sabin with a back suplex. He then did a rana like move that drove King's head into the mat. Sabin grabbed Suicide for a suplex. Sabin nailed a tornado DDT out of the corner, kicking Suicide off in the process. He suplexed King atop of Suicide and started climbing to the top but was pulled down by Suicide.
Sabin was run into the buckles by Suicide but was pulled down. Suicide hit a nice series of moves where his opponents were tied up with each other physically. He went to the cables but was pulld down by King. King went to the top but was nailed with a headbutt.
Suicide went for a superplex but Sabin nailed him and instead drilled King with a fisherman's buster. He looked like he almost lost him. Suicide slipped under Sabin and nailed an Electric Chair. King legdropped Suicide and went to the cables.
King tried to make it across but was pulled down. He and Suicide went back and forth but Sabin nailed an enziguiri. They went into a hot series of moves going back and forth, leaving all three spent and exhausted in the ring. The crowd chanted for TNA.
Suicide faked Sabin out and tried to do a dive. Sabin and King escaped but Suicide hit an awesome springboard dropkick on them both on the floor. They returned to the ring and teased a Tower of Doom but Sabin instead tied them up in the corner and tried to climb to the cables. Suicide grabbed him and nailed a superplex into the ring, wiping King out as well.
King and Suicide made it to the cables and made it to the belt. King knocked Suicide off by grabbing at the mask. Sabin made it over and pulled King off the ropes. He then grabbed and released the belt to win. Sabin, who was bleeding hardway from the head, is your winner.
Your winner and new X-Division champion, Chris Sabin!
Real fun opener with some crazy bumps and a really high energy pace in the ring.
After replays, they showed Sabin on the stage and he had a lot of blood on him from the hardway show. Hulk Hogan came out and raised his hand. He said that he wanted Sabin to hear what the Boston Hulkamaniacs sound like. The crowd popped. Hogan said he wanted to give Sabin his props because he's been in Boston for years and he knows that Boston loves champions like Sabin. He said that every time Sabin comes out, the crowd is going to cheer him just as loud as the first time Hulk beat up Andre the Giant. Hogan said Sabin was the future and pointed out the X-Division champ would have a chance to challenge the TNA champion this summer. He said that he loved Sabin and said congratulations. Cool way to put Sabin over.
Hogan came into the ring alone and said now it's time for some Hulk Hogan business. He said they needed to talk about what was going down tonight. Out came Aces & Eights, led by Ken Anderson. Anderson mocked Hogan and Boston. Hogan said Boston and he aren't afraid of ghosts, terrorists or p***ies. Yes, he said the third one. He said that Joseph Park would take out Devon and start the ball rolling tonight. Bischoff started going off on Hogan and Hogan told him "you're a b*tch and your old man is a b*tch." Hogan then told them they were going to have a six man now.
So, Anderson is replacing Doc in the bout.
Magnus & Samoa Joe & Jeff Hardy vs. Aces & Eights
Anderson and Hardy started. Anderson cut him off early and whipped him into the corner and chopped him. Hardy came back with a big forearm off the ropes and a cruncher legdrop into a dropkick. Anderson backed into the corner and tagged out to Wes Brisco.
Hardy kept control over Brisco, who quickly tagged out to Bischoff. Bischoff was worked over and locked in an arm wringer. Samoa Joe tagged in and stomped and beat the hell out of Bischoff as the place went nuts. Bischoff cut him off and went for a dive off the ropes into a shoulderblock. Joe walked away and shook his head, leaving Bischoff to crash and burn. That was great.
Joe worked over Bischoff who tagged out to Anderson. Anderson was controlled and slammed. Joe nailed a back senton splash. Magnus tagged out and nailed a fall away slam for a two count. Anderson tried to cut him off and locked in a armbar.
Anderson continued to work over Anderson's arm. Brisco tagged in and slammed him. Brisco cinched in an armbar. Aces & Eights started tagging in and out working over Magnus. Brisco nailed Hardy and Joe to try and prevent a tag but Hardy still made the hot tag.
Hardy drilled Brisco with a big forearm and scored a series of clotheslines. He nailed the Twist of Fate on Anderson but Brisco nailed him from behind. Hardy came back and nailed the Whsiper in the Wind. It turned into a six man brawl with everyone battling.
It settled down and Hardy nailed a vertical suple and a slam. Hardy went up for a swanton but had his legs taken out from under him. Hardy crashed hard atop the buckles. Bischoff played to the crowd but Joe attacked him with a running back splasj and enziguiri. Magnus took out Bischoff.
Joe attacked Anderson and locked him in a choke on the ramp. Magnus set up Hardy so he could nail a swanton on Brisco and score the pin.
Your winners, Samoa Joe & Magnus & Jeff Hardy!
Truly solid and enjoyable six man tag. The pace was good and they took a nice back and forth story. Bischoff and Brisco looked good. Anderson looked better here than he did the last few weeks of TV. Joe and Magnus were awesome and Hardy looked energized.
Jay Bradley vs. Sam Shaw: Gutcheck Tournament Final.
Bradley was taken down with a double leg takedown and kept off balance early. Shaw was real aggressive early. Bradley took over but was caught with a backbreaker for a two count.
Bradley caught him with the boomstick and scored the pin.
Your winner, Jay Bradley!
Christy Hemme interviewed Bradley. He said he was the first in the Bound for Glory series and would be the last man out - meaning he would win the TNA title.
Jeremy Borash interviewed Austin Aries and Bobby Roode. Roode said they were going to win because he was the longest reigning TNA champion ever. Aries noted he was the one who beat Roode for the title and that meant they would win championship gold. They were pushing the idea that the X-Divison title cash-in would happen this summer and last time, there was a change. Nice, subtle way to try and reinforce the title's worth.
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One bowl BlondiesSunday, April 26th, 2009
Last week I needed to decrease my stress levels so I decided to spend some relaxing time in the kitchen baking cookies for my colleagues. I choose to bake three different cookies: these yummy Blondies, thumb print cookies (or jam caves as they are called in Sweden) with cinnamon and forrest jam and chocolate cookes. The Blondie recipe I found at Anne's and they are really easy and quick to make. I added dark chopped Toblerone, walnuts and Frangelico liquer to the Blondies, but any chocolate or nuts will be fine. They travel really well and managed my harsh treatment including the flight abroad to the office without any problems. You'll find the recipe here.


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GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM)
The GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) certification is designed for technologists who protect the organization from malicious code. GREM-certified technologists possess the knowledge and skills to reverse-engineer malicious software (malware) that targets common platforms, such as Microsoft Windows and web browsers. These individuals know how to examine inner-workings of malware in the context of forensic investigations, incident response, and Windows system administration.
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System and Network Administrators, Auditors, Security Consultants, and Security Managers responsible for protecting the organization from malicious code
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- 1 proctored exam
- 75 questions
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Oregon Trail, the computer simulation that sends students on a sometimes perilous journey west in the 19th century and that made its way into classrooms across the country in the 1980s and 1990s (and beyond), was originally created by three student teachers — two who led math classrooms and one who led a history class.
Yester writer Jeremy Shea, himself a high school history teacher, decided to reach out to the history teacher in that equation, Don Rawitsch, to talk about games, education, history, and the intersection of all three. A transcript of their conversation follows.
Jeremy Shea (JS): Thank you for talking to us, Don. A lot of us have fond memories of Oregon Trail and consider it a highlight of elementary school, so having the chance to ask you some questions is just fantastic.
So to start things off, where did you get the idea for Oregon Trail? I gather you were student teaching in Minnesota in 1971, but where did you think of using a video game as an educational tool?
Don Rawitsch (DR): Well as a technical point, it wasn't a video game, as it had no video. It was a computer game.
JS: Ah, my bad.
DR: My training to be a teacher included a lot of emphasis on doing innovative things, so when I had my opportunity to do my student teaching, I tried to think of as many things as I could that could get the kids, get their noses out of the textbook. So one of the things that occurred to me was the use of games in the classroom. Now I wasn't thinking computers at the time, I didn't really have a background in it, but I was thinking games that could be used that relied on rolling dice or flipping cards or what was available at the time.
I think back then I was teaching high school — I was teaching the American Revolution — and I actually created a little game to try to simulate the British collection of taxes from the colonies that included the tax information but also included a number of, uh, under the table activities. There were random events that could influence things. So I was interested in trying (games) out.
My second assignment for student teaching was in junior high and I was to teach the westward movement in the 19th century in the US. So I thought, What if I created a huge map on butcher paper of the that part of the country and plotted some of the trails that pioneers used and then figure out something with dice or cards? I can't really take credit for the initial spark of the idea for using computers, but it was my idea to try to incorporate some kind of game. It happened I was sharing an apartment with a couple of student teachers, both of whom were math teachers.
At the time in the Minneapolis public schools, where we were doing our teaching, the district was a forward thinking district and implemented a computer system that could be accessed in the schools through a telephone line as a kind of primitive setup. You did the work on the computer on a teletype, a keyboard device that only printed on paper. My two cohorts had their experience on computer programming in their college work in mathematics, so when they saw me on the floor with this giant map trying to figure out what to do, they looked at each other and said, "I think this will lend itself to a computer program."
JS: So they tackled the technical aspects while you were the one putting in the ideas for what elements of Oregon Trail you wanted to see for the students?
DR: Right. I tried to implement whatever historical foundation I could.
JS: Was there anything you wanted in Oregon Trail that the structure of a computer game didn't allow you?
DR: Well, not that I can recall. We didn't have a lot of examples to look at to figure out what to do. Maybe part of my answer causes me to jump ahead for a couple of years.
After the initial invention of the game it kind of lay dormant for a couple of years until I ended up getting employed at an agency in Minnesota after college. It was set up to help schools come to grips with the fact that computers were coming. So one of the things that I did other than bringing the code to the computer system that ran in the state of Minnesota was to do some research in some diaries of people who actually made the trip on Oregon Trail.
I decided that the thing to do was to create a scorecard of things they reported in their diaries and then use that as the basis for determining the probability that certain things would happen. So if the diaries, for example, indicated that on 15 percent of the days there was some mention of bad weather, then we could build into the computing code that there was a 15 percent probability of each turn of being victim of bad weather. I was eventually able to bring a more specific and focused historical research to the development of the program, but when we first invented it we were still student teachers, and I was more going by the textbook.
JS: Was the initial game, the one before you were rolling with primary source documents, a little more barebones? Can give me a rundown of the basic gameplay of that original version?
DR: It was actually a little more robust than you might think. Between the three of us, we carried a lot of ideas. The game was played as a series of turns. Each turn represented two weeks of time since it generally took people about six months to reach the west coast, if they made it. Typically the game took about 12 turns, which was about 45 to 60 minutes, which was a good fit for our class period. I ultimately wrote a teachers guide where I documented all of the stuff that related to the game, including a diagram that followed all the pathways you might follow for any given turn.
You started out by making decisions on how fast you wanted to travel and how much food you wanted to consume and whether you wanted to hunt or stop at a fort, and depending on those choices, you did those various activities. Then the computer determined, through some probability statements, random events that could happen to you relating to the weather, or injuries, or your wagon breaking down, or your oxen dying and with every one of those events that could happen, there was in the code a consequence to your resource totals. Your food might go down, you might lose supplies, you might get slowed up if your wagon had a problem.
So one of the things I think was key to kids enjoying playing this over and over again was the fact was that although it was simple for the user to operate, the overall model was complex enough for the user to never experience the same turn twice.
JS: I imagine that the students enjoyed that mystery. Even if they thought, "Let's start slowly and stock up food," they still could meet their downfall.
DR: Right. If you decided to take it too slow in order to conserve your resources, you would hit the Rocky Mountains in the onset of winter, which would kick in a whole set of winter related, snow related misfortunes; the kind that beset settlers. I'm not sure if you've sat down at a teletype.
JS: No, I've never had that joy.
DR: Well sometimes you'll see in the old movies that take place in a newsroom a teletype in action. It prints out like a typewriter would but (at) a rather slow pace, typically ten characters printed per second.
Today we would say that's a real disadvantage for things to move slowly, but actually, one of the neat things about that was that it kind of unveiled what was happening to you more slowly. It didn't just all flash on the screen. It was like getting a news bulletin on the wire. So what happened was that the students, who could not predict what was going to happen to them, were all crowded around, waiting for the results of their decisions to be typed out for them and I think that was part of their excitement.
JS: So you had this idea, and with students crowded around the machine, clearly you knew it was popular. While creating the game, did you think that students would be so enamored by the game that it would catch on like wildfire? I mean, it's now part of American pop culture.
DR: Well, it wasn't a situation like you'd have today where you have people working in an office creating a product for the marketplace, saying to themselves, "Wow we've been so creative here that we're going to make millions of dollars."
But when we first invented this thing during student teaching, we had a week or two to try it out for the classes. At the time, the schools would only have maybe only one teletype, so if you wanted to use the computer connection, you might have to wait your turn or schedule a time or wait in line. Once we showed the thing to the students, the line was down the hall. So it was obvious watching them that there was something special about it.
At the time this was during the period where computers were appearing in schools, so the whole idea was kind of new to kids and they didn't have computers at home; it was very unique. That was a lucky thing for us. At that time there weren't large libraries of computer applications that you could use. There were some, but I estimate that at least half of what went on when the teacher would use the computer connection in the his or her classroom, the teacher was showing the kids how to program computers. The idea that there was this game that didn't just take five minutes to do — it took almost an hour — was very unique.
JS: For you as a young student teacher at the time, what was the reaction from older teachers who might question why you were deviating from the norm?
DR: First of all, I'm sure that only a few teachers in one of the schools that we were teaching in knew anything about what the computer could do in the classroom. It wasn't that they were judging it, but they didn't have any experience. But I can tell you that the two teachers that I taught under (as a student teacher) were both guys who were in the second half of their careers. [They] were guys in their fifties, and they taught right out of the textbook. They had no great desire to be innovative, with or without a computer terminal.
So anything that we could do as the younger teachers, the kids generally appreciated. A couple of times, for example, I dressed up as a historical figure. That itself was more fun than they had in history.
JS: It seems that students often come into history classes questioning why they learn history. It's not that they don't appreciate the story, but the way they get information is different. Reading textbooks just doesn't do it anymore. Why hasn't the educational community embraced video games as a method of teaching, especially history, which can be such an interactive subject?
DR: It's true. In my whole career, it has seemed like social studies has always been bringing up the rear for using the computer. I don't know if this is true where you teach, but in the days when I was doing my student teaching and working with teachers, it wasn't unusual for a lot of teachers to be focusing actually on athletic coaching. They had to be certified in something and they picked a subject area that they felt took the least amount of challenge.
It is very easy to assign pages of the textbook everyday so that you can go out and work with the football team afterward. You know if you going to do innovative stuff in the classroom you have to put in the extra work and prep for it, and there are only a certain percentage of teachers willing to do that.
JS: President Obama announced recently that business leaders have pledged $750 million toward strengthening student access to technology. Do you think it would behoove the powers that be to put some of that money toward getting teachers trained to engage students in technology, not just provide them with iPads?
DR: One thing that is interesting if you've been in education for a while, is that the field goes through innovations or fads on a fairly regular cycle. Teachers tend to approach those fads with the mantra, "This too shall pass." And typically it has passed. When I was in school, our school experimented with something called flexible scheduling. Instead of going to history class five days every week, sometimes you'd have a large group lecture, sometimes you'd have small group with a project, and some days you wouldn't have history class. And that's not around anymore, for the most part.
One of the things that has occurred to me is that the use of technology is one of those rare things that did not pass, and society has embraced it to the point that you can't ignore it in schools. You can't ignore it as a teacher, and it is your responsibility to prepare your students for the world that they're going to enter when they leave school. I've never thought there were good excuses for not getting involved.
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And what comes after.
Near death experiences happen to a lot of people. I know people who have been through near death experiences. I know that what these people say is the truth as they understand it.
What do these things mean? Well, first of all, the person did not die. They were near death, not dead. So, I think it's safe to say that what they experienced was not death itself. At the same time, these are not just dreams or hallucinations as dreams and hallucinations usually are. There is a profound quality to what happened, and it fits with what also happens to the person afterward.The near death experiences I know about that I feel secure in believing involve a good afterlife. However, this video contains the story of a Catholic priest who had to deal with the reality of judgement and hell. We will all stand before God one day and give an account of our lives. None of us will escape this. As the priest in the video says, the self-serving explanations we give ourselves for our actions here won't avail us much on that day.
The video raises some of the most important questions any of us will ever have to answer. Give it a watch and see what you think.


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The rumor mill was buzzing this week with news that Nene Leakes of the Real Housewives of Atlanta had dumped her husband for NFL Player Charles Grant.
If you recall, we reported last month that Nene and hubby Gregg Leakes were experiencing marital problems, made worse by her son's recent arrests. According to a report this week, Nene reportedly left her husband for Charles, a player for the New Orleans Saints, and was also recently photographed without her wedding ring.
The rumor seemed somewhat believable as this isn't the first time Nene has been leaked to the NFL player. Nene has however taken to her twitter to deny the news. She posted the following on Friday:
"Y r people saying i'm wit Charles Grant! I hosted his charity event last year & now were dating! How's that possible when we don't even talk
@WendyShow sorry girlfriend! Ur investigation is WRONG! I'm a very smart girl & my happiness is everything 2 me
@WendyShow I don't date Charles Grant! If I did, I would tell'ya! PS: just because a person is mild manners means what? "
Nene's wording is rather interesting, as she doesn't deny a split from her husband Gregg. Makes you wonder…


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The Patient's Medical Home (PMH) is a vision presented by the CFPC for the future of family practice in Canada. The goal of this initiative is for every family practice in each community across Canada to be able to offer comprehensive, coordinated, and continuing care to their populations through a family physician working with health care teams. Teams may involve physically or virtually linked nurses, other specialists, and other health care providers depending on the needs of the patient community. The PMH is where patients can present and discuss their personal and family health concerns and receive a full spectrum of care. Relationships between patients and family physicians and other health care workers are developed and strengthened over time, enabling the best possible health outcomes for each person, the practice population, and the community being served.
The PMH reflects and responds to the changing needs of populations in Canada. It also reinforces the physician–patient relationship and the importance of the Four Principles of Family Medicine. The CFPC's Health Policy and Government Relations department presented the PMH to Members of Parliament in 2011 as a vision for the future of family practice in Canada.
The CFPC will strive to make the PMH a reality in Canada. More details can be found in A Vision for Canada: Family Practice – The Patient's Medical Home. Both full and abridged versions of this document are available here.
For more Patient's Medical Home resources, please visit the official PMH website.


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XCOM: Enemy Unknown preview: Little Gray Target Practice
A hands-on look at XCOM: Enemy Unknown, peppered with thoughts on updating the classic from lead producer Garth DeAngelis.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown is more homage than imitation. While it bears a striking resemblance to the original 1994 classic, Firaxis has broken down the formula into its component parts and reexamined them piece-by-piece, building a game that retains its identity without feeling dated. At PAX, I got a chance to play the game and chat with lead producer Garth DeAngelis about the design process.
"Our mentality when we sat down to re-imagine the game, we defined [gameplay elements] as pillars. We said we need permanent death, we need a strategy layer where you can make these big sweeping decisions, we need turn-based combat," DeAngelis said. "But when we went back and made a prototype that was very similar to the original and play-tested it with folks who didn't play the original, we found that a lot of things were abstract and didn't really make sense to them.
"Game design has evolved in the past 18 years. We know streamlining can be a dirty word, we didn't want to water anything down but we did want to tweak some of the mechanics so as many people can pick up a mouse and keyboard or console controller and enjoy it. That was one of our goals, we wanted the learning curve to be a little more accessible."
It certainly felt accessible enough to me, years removed from the classic game. The demo included a gentle tutorial that outlined the movement and weapon options, then gave a few upgrade paths and choices. Chief among these were how to upgrade individual soldiers from a wide tech tree. The choices were limited, since the demo only spanned a very early portion of the game, but the branches clearly had plenty of room for customizing the team.
I did wonder, though, if that tailored approach would lead to problems if soldiers died. One of XCOM's defining traits is permanent unit death, and losing your best men could easily be frustrating. "We didn't want the challenge to be so difficult that it's unfair," DeAngelis said. "Obviously that puts you behind the 8-ball, and you'd have to do some work to get some of your new recruits up to speed. But there's also some mechanics in the game that encourage having not just one A-squad and leaving all the other rookies with no combat action whatsoever. Even if your soldiers don't die, they can be fatigued, they can be wounded. So you can't just put them in every single mission. Ideally, you'll have a B-squad."
Fortunately, you'll have plenty of soldiers in any event. DeAngelis said the game doesn't have any option to re-spec soldiers, but the game will feed enough squad members to try different combinations of upgrade paths. Even if your best squad gets wiped out, you'll be able to upgrade your rookies with non-story missions.
I was also presented with a choice to help a city in North America or China, knowing full well that it would upset the other. Each country in the council has its own panic level, which rises when you leave them on their own during the alien attack. Players have a tendency to min-max and seek an ideal playthrough, and I wondered if that would even be possible in a game like this.
"If you can make that happen you will be the first I have seen," DeAngelis laughed. "There's many losses in XCOM Enemy Unknown. It's part of the magic of the game, having consequences, odds stacked against you. Even on easy, you are very likely to lose members of the council. It's just something that's going to happen. You don't have enough resources to address everything at once so you're going to have to make tough choices, which is part of the game."
The result of those systems are a game that isn't precisely like the 90s title, but it felt right. It may be a little easier to get into, making it more welcoming to newcomers and console players, but the mechanics are in place. If it iterates on that potential, this Enemy Unknown will be just as complex and strategic as the original.
Steve Watts posted a new article, XCOM: Enemy Unknown preview: Little Gray Target Practice.
A hands-on look at XCOM: Enemy Unknown, peppered with thoughts on updating the classic from lead producer Garth DeAngelis.
Youtube version is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VP4YmExQAE
PC interface demonstration for those interested is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlnBDJkx5_M
Multiplayer match at PAX: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBdaU_a9Tag


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I think I can see where you might feel that way about marriage, however, as others have noted there are other systems to get married by, I.E. Justice of the peace or some humanist/freethinkers can conduct cermonys, capts of ships...etc...I think the important thing is that you and your partner agree what each of you is bringing to the table and what your goals will be once you are married...Its about life time committment. Its about loving each other through thick and thin...its about having a recognized partnership. In my state for example...claiming to be the wife or spouse of someone makes it legally so...common-law marriage...filing taxes together as a couple does the same...its the fact that you are presenting your self as married that makes you married...splitting up at that point actually could require a divorce even though you were never officially married...
it's when, as a couple, you get beef from the fascists/intolerants
and it happens during stressful times or argument
is when atheism comes up at all... the world, scocieties just woke up to the internet; when money is key
yeah, folks get crafty; some go white collar and rip up mid class families
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Talk page for "Types Are Calling Conventions"
This is a discussion page for the paper Types Are Calling Conventions.
If you are kind enough to read this paper, you may like to jot down any thoughts it triggers off, and see what others have written. This talk-page lets you do just that.
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- Batterseapower 08:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC) Note from Max
If you say who you are in this way, we'll be able to acknowledge your help in a revised version of the paper.
OK, I can add the first errata myself: I've just noticed that my section about an alternative translation for type lambdas is total nonsense because it doesn't preserve type variable binding. That's what I get for adding a new section at the last moment... Batterseapower 22:17, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
I'm only half way through but it immediately makes me ask the question of if this helps us to express data types containing functions where we want to specify a particular data representation (ie calling convention of the function). My main example is types for monads eg:
newtype Put a = Put {
runPut :: (a -> {-# UNPACK #-} !Buffer -> [B.ByteString])
-> {-# UNPACK #-} !Buffer -> [B.ByteString]
See this old thread http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2007-March/012188.html
A couple typos: final bit of section 1, final sentence has a spurious '(' before the full stop. Section 6.2 Use-site arity raising, "than than".
Two thirds of the way through now... :-) The basic idea is very appealing. To make it possible (sanely) to express these calling convention optimisations we extend the language to express the before and after picture. It's like the addition of unboxed types/kinds to the intermediate language which enabled the optimiser to express the current worker wrapper transform.
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Covering subjects such as stabbing people with biros, anally raping corpses, and having sex with 14-year-olds, behind all the unsavoury imagery on Plan B's 2006 debut album was an outraged moralist, appalled at the inequality and injustice of the world he saw around him, like some kind of be-hoodied Bret Easton Ellis.
This was not hugely commercial subject matter and for 2010's The Defamation of Strickland Banks the scruffy rapper reinvented himself as a suit-sporting, smooth-crooning pop singer. The transformation was remarkable. While cynical and embarrassing, it was so unprecedented, so drastic and such a success that it was difficult not to begrudgingly admire. With a dubious concept centred around a rape allegation that lands its protagonist in jail, the record's slick soul sounded less like Plan B (aka Ben Drew) had been incarcerated in Strangeways than in Brit School.
Returning his intense, disgruntled rapping to the fore, Ill Manors witnesses the resurrection of angry B. And yes, the riots-referencing title track is the greatest British protest song in years (even if its only noticeable competition is the anti-capitalist anthem 'Price Tag' by jumpsuit-flaunting Marxist polemicist Jessie J).
After this confrontational opening ditty, Ill Manors becomes less overtly political but no less vivid, as the remaining tracks depict in gruesome detail the dismal lives of London's underclass. The polished beats are complemented by dark RZA-influenced effects and the angsty verses interrupted with catchy blues choruses, appearances from the likes of Labrinth and John Cooper Clarke, and samples from Drew's accompanying feature film. I've not seen the movie, but it was so powerful it convinced Edwina Currie (of all people) that Drew is a 'twenty-first century Dickens'.
These songs, however, suggest that we look beyond the long-winded, over-sentimental output of Dickens to an earlier archetype. To an artist living in a less polite age and working in a more immediately striking form. To an eighteenth-century painter whose father (like that of the Victorian writer's) had also been incarcerated in a debtors' prison and whose eye for the urban landscape and the lives of its people inspired Dickens. To William Hogarth.
Gin Lane now flows with crack rather than cheap booze and snuff. Whereas Hogarth's Moll Hackabout travelled from the English countryside to London to be exploited in the bawdy-house, Drew's Katya character is sex-trafficked from Eastern Europe, escaping her pimp only to return to prostitution when unable to find employment. B's harlots progress through similarly bleak lives of suffering and exploitation, while their innocent and unfortunate children are shamefully neglected. Hogarth's babies were deserted or dropped down stairwells by their drunken or prostitute mothers; Drew's are attacked by racists in basements while their addict mums have sex for cash upstairs. Each artist expresses sympathy for those whose lives have been ruined by poverty, coupled with a frustration towards the sometimes hopelessly nihilistic attitudes of the poor. And occasionally the social outrage veers into bleakly absurd caricature, such as when Katya is described "getting fucked in the field from behind while you breastfeed your child just so it don't cry".
Yes, Plan B mocks the Right's 'Broken Britain' rhetoric while portraying a country which if not exactly broken appears divided and depressing. Yes, he rages against the injustices of capitalism and strives to deliver an alternative to the unadulterated materialism of hip-hop while advertising laptop sound systems and cider variants. Yes, he bemoans the problems of society and berates those who contribute to its sorry state without providing much of a solution.
Yet his music is heartfelt, his concerns have reached a wide audience, inciting debate, and satire's purpose is not to provide solutions - and this record is satire, if a rather despairing form which is unlikely to inspire much laughter. Satire can explore, provoke, unsettle, it can encourage examination and contemplation, but it tends to shy away from supplying answers or conclusions and the satirist's principal motivation is to advance his or her career by producing good work.
With rich boy politicians unlikely to change their attitudes or approaches anytime soon, this album (and, I gather, the film) implies that if there is a way to escape the bleak world of Ill Manors, it lies with the determination of the individual to make the right moral choices, avoid the temptations of crime and vice, and work damn hard to get out. In a world where the only religion is greedy materialism ('Lost My Way'), it seems the one thing that can save us is the good old-fashioned Protestant work ethic - just like the one promoted in Industry and Idleness (1747).
Behold Ben Drew, the modern Hogarth.
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The number of wirehouse advisors and their asset base continues to shrink, says a report released by Cerulli Associates on Monday. Still, it remains the largest and most dominant channel in the industry.
There were about 51,750 wirehouse reps as of year-end 2011, according to Cerulli, down from 56,900 in 2007. That's a four-year compound annual decrease of about 2.5%. From 2010 to 2011, though, the wirehouse channel added about 700 advisors for a one-year growth rate of 1.4%.
This year's study, the consulting group notes, included input from 6,000 advisors across a variety of FA channels, up from 1,500 in past years.
"These survey findings indicate a shifting advisor base between channels, with a lot of activity moving away from the wirehouse firms," said Bing Waldert, director at Cerulli Associates of Boston, in a statement.
Cerulli attributes some of the cause for the shift between channels to merger activity among the large wirehouse firms—a la Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney—which has led to restructuring. Plus, the strong growth in the RIA channel has caused a shift in focus from wirehouses to RIAs.
Nonetheless, wirehouse advisors' market share is dominant: Reps in this channel managed about 41% of total assets in 2011. This figure could drop to about 39% this year and 36.5% in 2013.
Other channels, though, have a long way to catch up to the big four: Merrill Lynch (BAC), Morgan Stanley (MS), Wells Fargo (WFC) and UBS (UBS).
The regional-broker channel, for instance, controls about 16% of assets, and the independent channel (excluding dually registered reps) has about 14%. When IBD reps and dully registered advisors are combined, the total level of assets rises to 22%.
Overall, the industry has been shedding financial advisors as low producers leave the industry. It included about 316,100 in 2011, down from roughly 323,550 in 2010 and 333,250 in 2009, Cerulli says.
"Asset managers attempting to distribute into advisor-sold channels are finding an increasingly competitive market, facing challenges of differentiation, passive investment, and broker/dealer profit-sharing concessions," the report explained.
"In order to position themselves for success in the coming years, asset managers must address growth pockets within the industry, position themselves within the context of advisor portfolios, and reap efficiencies in distribution through field and key account efforts."


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The NBA just announced that Zach Randolph will be suspended for Game 7 tomorrow night. The league says that it's for punching Steven Adams in the jaw. We would contend, if Z-Bo punches a man in the jaw, he's going to fall a lot harder than that.
You can watch the play in the GIF above, or in a video on NBA.com, and sure, that's kind of a punch, and definitely quite against the rules. But still: This is Game 7! And it's probably safe to say that if this were KD throwing a 'bow, and happened to catch Tony Allen upside the head, the Thunder wouldn't be missing one of their best players for the deciding game of a series. (Steven Adams, who obviously can take a punch, is apparently just fine.)
Even though Z-Bo has struggled in this series, he's still drawn plenty of defensive attention, and the Grizzlies are unquestionably a lesser team with him out of the lineup. And worse, without Z-Bo in there, there's a better chance that the Thunder stop wheeling their Kendrick Perkins-shaped scrap heap out there, and KD will be able to check James Johnson (or Ed Davis), instead of sliding down to freaking Marc Gasol. In short, this stinks pretty hard for Memphis, and for everyone looking forward to a day full of Game 7's.


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Most often, employee conduct that warrants discipline results from unacceptable behavior, poor performance or violation of the company's policies, practices or procedures. However, discipline may be issued for conduct that falls outside of those identified areas. Equally important, the company need not resort to progressive discipline, but may take whatever action it deems necessary to address the issue at hand. This may mean that more or less severe discipline is imposed in a given situation. Likewise, some company polices like sexual harassment and attendance, contain specific discipline procedures.
Progressive discipline may be issued on employees even when the conduct that leads to more serious discipline is not the same that resulted in less sever discipline. That is, violations of different rules shall be considered the same as repeated violations of the same rule for purposes of progressive action.
Probationary employees are held to the highest standards for behavior and job performance. Progressive discipline is the exception rather than the rule for probationary employees.
The Company will normally adhere to the following progressive disciplinary process:
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Concerning Gov't assistance programs (e.i. welfare, section-8, wic, etc.), individuals either 'qualify' or not-qualify. Thus, there is no incentive for an individual to improve their situation. If they get a job that is a "little" better, they can lose all of their benefits. My proposal is to create a skale that would decrease their benefits as their financial situation improves. If not a skale, at least a point... more »


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BEVERLY HILLS —Breaking Bad, the acclaimed AMC drama that begins its final season next week, won top honors as program of the year at the Television Critics Association Awards Saturday night.
The awards, selected by the 220 members of the critics' organization, honors the best in television, including shows and performances not always recognized by Emmy voters.
HBO's Game of Thrones was named best drama, while the best-comedy award was split in a tie between CBS' The Big Bang Theory and NBC's Parks and Recreation. FX's spy drama The Americans won outstanding new program.
In the acting categories, Louis C.K. of FX's Louie won outstanding achievement in comedy, while Tatiana Maslany, the young actress who played multiple roles in BBC America's Orphan Black, won for outstanding achievement in drama.
In other awards, HBO's Behind the Candelabra, which chronicled Liberace's relationship with a younger man and starred Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, won for best movie, miniseries or special.
Barbara Walters won the career achievement award, while CBS' groundbreaking All in the Family received the association's Heritage Award, accepted by its creator, TV legend Norman Lear.
ABC's Shark Tank won the TCA award for best reality program; PBS' Ken Burns film The Central Park Five won for news and information programming; and ABC Family's Bunheads, recently canceled, won for youth programming.
The awards were presented in a non-televised ceremony hosted by Comedy Central's Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele.


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I have a Core i7 laptop with 4gb ram. In windows, the disadvantage of using the 32bit OS would be that a single app could not use more than 2gb of ram (+ the 2gb shared kernel-space memory) except when setting a boot switch which reduces the amount of shared kernel memory, then it's 3GB max per app.
What disadvantages/limitations would I have in Ubuntu for sticking to the 32bit OS? (If any?) - As I only have 4GB of ram, I can't see why I need to use the 64bit version?


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Monday, November 26, 2012
Festive Chocolate Rum Cake Truffles - Wing It, Don't Fling It!
Chocolate Rum Cake Truffles dipped in melted chocolate and sprinkled with ground white chocolate.
That's the bit of cake that I used to make the truffles. It wasn't much, but it gave me eight delicious little truffles. I know that some of you might be thinking that a monkey could have made cake truffles and it's not necessary for me to describe how I made them, but if there is one person reading this that doesn't know how to turn a cake into cake truffles - then the following paragraph is for you!
To turn leftover cake into truffles, you will need to either whiz the cake in a food processor until it's nothing but cake crumbs, or you could also crumble it manually with a fork if you don't have a food processor. Then stir in a splash of rum (one tablespoon was more than enough for this little bit of cake, but only you know how boozy you want it!) and enough coconut milk to make it doughy. It shouldn't be crumbly, but it definitely shouldn't be soupy. It should be like a soft playdough. Now you're ready to form little balls with your tasty "playdough" and start thinking about your coating. You can roll them in cocoa powder and be done with it, which is the easiest and quickest way to go. Or you could roll them in shredded coconut, or ground up chocolate chips, or ground nuts. If you want to dip them in melted chocolate chips, like I did, you will need to nuke the chocolate chips in the microwave in 30 second intervals at 50% power (stirring every 30 seconds) until they are melted. I don't do double boilers. Dip your balls in the melted chocolate (say nothing) one by one and place them on a sheet of wax paper to set. You can sprinkle some ground up white chocolate or coconut or nuts on top of the truffles while the chocolate is still soft! If you prefer a softer, more ganache-like chocolate coating, you can add about 1/2 tablespoon of coconut milk per 1/2 cup of chocolate chips before you melt them.
Let's crack one open and get in its face...
I think they look rather festive and winter-wonderlandy with the white chocolate on top, don't you? Stay tuned for a Strawberry Santa Hats video coming soon to a blog near you! :)
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Great, frugal idea. Like cake balls, but somehow less gimmicky. Nummy!ReplyDelete
Omg! I have a cinnamon bun cake that I made that was way too dry. I have more than half left of a two tiered 6" cake. I'm totally going to make these truffles. I think I can add moisture to them to make them more yummy and then roll them. What a great idea. My hero! I was just looking at the cake this morning and thinking how much I hate to throw it away. Yay!ReplyDeleteReplies
Throwing away food sucks! I hope you can save your cake by turning it into delicious little truffles. Let me know how it goes! :)Delete
Oh my! So yum! We can't believe it's the same cake. I added too much milk (oops!), so I added a bit of cocoa powder and, voila! Yummy cinnamon-chocolate cake truffles. Now if I can restrain from eating several in a row. Thanks again!Delete
That is awesome, Cindy!! I'm so glad you were able to save your cake! Eat a couple of extra truffles for me, will you? Nice save with the cocoa powder too! Doesn't chocolate always make everything better! :DDelete
So, will the two of you be able to eat all the truffles before they get stale? Or did you add enough rum to preserve them for a while.ReplyDeleteReplies
There is one left now! We always do this - when there is one left of anything, I leave it for Mr. Wing-It and he leaves it for me. In the end we either end up throwing away the last cookie/cupcake/truffle, or we cut it in half and split it. Aren't we cute? :PDelete
Very. You should post a photo of the two of you cutting the last one in half.Delete
That would be something! Getting Mr. Wing-It to get his picture taken is more challenging than getting me to publish mine here! :DDelete
River, I didn't know! I thought you were gonna mash and add frosting a la Bakerella. I like the sound of these more!ReplyDelete


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Thank you for your advice drcouzelis.
As for Slackware? I stand corrected! LOL!
Might I suggest you try installing Arch in a virtual machine to test the waters before you leap into the deep end?
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You are currently running an Arch derivative? Chances are high, that they do not use too many different packages. Make yourself accustomed with pacman and learn, how to create package lists. Create a list of explicitly installed packages, that are not in the [base] and [base-devel] group. Then take this list and check it against the package database (on the package website for example), to find packages, that are in your current distribution, but not in Arch and delete them from your list. Now go through that list again. Is there anything, you do not need? Many distributions install junk on your system you never use. Identify that junk and delete it from the list.
Besides trying to install Arch in a virtual machine, I have successfully installed Arch on USB sticks many times. While the success of this depends on your bios and dongles, it is a good way to practice the Arch install, without having to worry about breaking your system.
My income also relies on a single machine (laptop). I'm pretty impatient though and i enjoy taking risks now and then, so one cold (hot? can't remember but cold sounds better) afternoon in 2008 i just formatted my 2-year old Ubuntu partition and installed Arch using the Beginner's Guide. The rest is history, i'm about 6 laptops further now, and i don't think i've ever had more than 1-2 hours without a working machine since then. So my advice would be to walk into your bathroom, look in the mirror and ask yourself: "well do you feel lucky, punk?". I know i did.
If you want some downtime insurance:
Or, to avoid pretty much any problems, just dual boot with what you're already using. I have four operating systems install. If I break Arch Linux, I can just boot into Haiku or FreeBSD! Just kidding. I just boot into an Arch Linux live CD I keep handy. Which, for the record, I've only had to do once. (Stupid Linux Mint installer...)
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Running Arch for quite a few years now, never had any serious downtime that was not fixable withing half an hour.
Just one thing to remember: never --force !
Just one thing to remember: never --force !
The other rule: always check the news before updating.
Also there is a wiki app in google store if i m not mistaken ( not a andriod user here ). This is a "must have" if you have only 1 machine and you are new commer. Just my 2 cents. Cheers
O' rly ? Ya rly Oo
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Also there is a wiki app in google store if i m not mistaken ( not a andriod user here ). This is a "must have" if you have only 1 machine and you are new commer. Just my 2 cents. Cheers
There is - there's a forum thread about it here, too. As I haven't opened it for months (Android phone is now my alarm clock), I'm not sure if it's up to date, or updates itself. I'd check before relying on it.
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Might I suggest you try installing Arch in a virtual machine to test the waters before you leap into the deep end?
I had considered this, but I am concerned that I may not get the full potential in a VM. I think dual booting will be my best option.
Wow! Thamk you all for the awesome advice! I will be installing arch alongside manjaro on Saturday (my next day off). I am so excited!
Wow! Thamk you all for the awesome advice! I will be installing arch alongside manjaro on Saturday (my next day off). I am so excited!
I made the same transition (ubuntu...manjaro.....arch), about 8 months ago.
If you are comfortable in using manjaro, you will be fine in arch. My advice, go for full install. The Beginners' guide is all you need. Follow it carefully & don't be tempted to use other guides or youtube installation videos...they will only lead you astray. The only up-to-date guide is the archwiki.
Good Luck.
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Might I suggest you try installing Arch in a virtual machine to test the waters before you leap into the deep end?
I had considered this, but I am concerned that I may not get the full potential in a VM. I think dual booting will be my best option.
That sounds like a fine decision. By the way, the purpose of suggesting installing Arch Linux in a virtual machine is to become comfortable with the installation process, not to get the "full potential" of Arch Linux.
I' m totally not into geekie stuff. I' m way better with languages, philosophy and psychologie,than with exact sciences stuff. Nonetheless, I' ve been copy-pasting my way through several more complex distributions for years now. Hardly broke anything with Arch. I guess common sense gets you far enough...
.....My primary concerns surround my computing needs/resources.....extended periods of downtime can be very costly to me..... when I switch to Arch I will need to take the time to build my system to what I want it to be. I am concerned that this may be a problem since I may not be able to use my computer during this period, and masy experience breakages due to mistakes I make.....
You would probably get Archlinux installed fast enough and probably be able to keep it running smoothly. "Probably." If you want assurance that you can keep your computer available for work while you develop your skills then install more than one linux operating system so that you can boot into either one, and make sure that one of them is easy to install and pre-configured, an "out of the box" rolling-release distro, like Sabayon or Manjaro. Both of your distros can give you access to your files in a shared home partition.
A linux distro doesn't require much disk space but installing mutliple distros will probably require that you move all of your personal files "off somewhere" while you get the new home ready.
I have gnome3 installed in four different partitions for four different distros along with big packages like texlive and sage math. The least space needed is 8GB for a simple gnome3 install for Archlinux, and I'm using 16GB for gnome3 and kde4 and texlive on manjaro. I'm using 26GB for a very fully-loaded gentoo with "portage", distfiles, and kernel sources. I generally allow 30 GB for a root partition and it proves to be enough for a full install and plenty of apps for Sabayon, Manjaro, Archlinux, etc.
If could give up 30GB of your disk for "insurance" then you could be almost certain that you can always get work done even when you've got your Archlinux system all screwed up.
There is only one solution to this question: Fuck Yea!
My path to Arch was somewhat different than most expressed here. I experimented with Ubuntu many years ago, and was never a fan. Then cam Linux Mint. In a short time I became very comfortable with Linux even when getting deep into the nuts and bolts, so much so that I built LFS and then just carried on by myself until I had a fully functioning system built by hand. My problem was that maintenance of my own build was far too time intensive. I could have honestly spent all my life just updating it, and so I needed something that offered me my new found freedom to make my system what I wanted without the time penalty. I was pretty much left with a choice between Gentoo and Arch. I chose Arch and honestly haven't looked back.
Sure, there is the odd breakage, and very occassionally there's the showstopper, but for me it's all part of the fun. I don't see the update that stops the boot process in its' tracks as a problem, I see it as a solution to be found and a new learning experience (or a reminder of things I'd forgotten) and can usually recover from even the worst failure in a couple of hours (with more than a little help from the wiki and forum searches).
As others have said, there's nothing at all inherently unstable about Arch, and in fact most of the time it's extremely reliable and dependable, even using testing repositories. You need to give yourself time to fix breakages if you rely on the machine for more than home/informal use. For more than a year I've run a server on my home box and so I had an incentive to keep it alive. Even the three or four big breakages haven't kept the server down for more than a few hours (although, I've this week migrated it to a VPS so that I can give my own machine a rest overnight on a daily basis).
The bottom line, if you are content to take the (small) risk of a critical breakage, and are prepared to put some effort in to keeping your system maintained, then Arch can meet all your needs.
By way of a comparison, when I used to run Windows I probably suffered more critical breakages in a 12 month period than I have with Arch.
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By way of a comparison, when I used to run Windows I probably suffered more critical breakages in a 12 month period than I have with Arch.
This. Not to mention, when you experience breakage in windows, typically there is no real path to recovery other than reinstallation.
Woah. Slackware, the super conservative "release when it's ready" distribution?
not quite, i use slack in server env., they are conservative indeed, but for example, compared to centos they are light-years ahead with the packages. Plus it's a billion times easier to configure and maintain slack (in my opinion of course).
For desktop, Arch rules. I love rolling release, especially getting all the new stuff on a regular basis, plus the KISS philosophy of course. I chose Arch after trying out about 10-15 other distros. Arch indeed is a great distro if you want to start learning linux, if not, then it's not (for newbies).
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I feel that it's really personality that determines if one can be comfortable with using Arch on a normal basis (and even prefer to do so). Arch is the first and only Linux distribution that I've ever tried, and I've been using it pretty much exclusively for a few months now (I may boot into my Windows partition to play games like GTA IV or use EAC or something, but that is rare). I came from Windows not knowing much about OSs. However, I had the right personality. I liked to configure things (such as editing the text files for settings of some pc games like America's Army, Bioshock, Source games, etc.), and I would always read up the subject before I made changes. Naturally this lead me to Arch at some point. I love reading documentation and trying to figure things out for myself by searching, reading, and troubleshooting. So by reading the Beginner's Guide and other related documentation, I've been able to live comfortably on Arch despite having no prior experience with Linux.
If I can install and use Arch Linux, a trained chimp can do it. The best thing about Arch is it's a rolling release, so a fresh installation invariably leapfrogs any problem that resulted in a crashed system.
Arch Linux is suited to the competent user.
Which ranks me right up there at highly incompetent.
Arch is a more constant growing experience. It's hard to ride on the most bleeding-edge of all linux distro's out there without experiencing road-bumps along the way.
Everyone's experiences will be different, depending on many things, but the funny part is Arch is defeintely NOT *Buntu,..., and yet, Arch "is" Linux, equally as *Buntu,..., -heck, they all are.
..., even though Arch is not really the "absolute" bleeding-weirdo-testing-edge, although it can be more easily than others, it still remains something that if you don't keep up with intenal changes, then you're outta luck sonner than you think, Or, you could invariably be enjoying fixes that everyone else hasn't quite implemented yet ???
Then again, Maybe Arch is just a double-edged sword, and that should be tantalizing enough?
I guess I just agree with @czubek for now too.\
...than again, Computer Science is Arch too, so pick your blades and learn to adapt like the rest of us.
The "BSD" things in life are "Free", and "Open", and so is "Arch"
Actually, i never actually "got" linux at all pre-arch.
I had tried ubuntu because it was "the cool thing", but only as an actual user (as in; i just used what was given), and i got no deeper understanding of stuff, and crap, and junk. (besides, hey, packages and pre-set dirs are a nice concept).
I then just booted it from time to time doing nothing particular really, then liking how it was not windows (this was years ago, before ubuntu had that sour and stale and crappy taste to it in the general minds).
I do remember doing a Crux linux install, but i do not think i did use it that much,
and i also do not remember how i ended up trying Arch..
.. But Arch actually taught me, and keeps teaching me, and i feel so much in the know of stuff, junk and crap then i were before.
My bottom line is that i do not think we always need a "let's get used to this lesser distro" first, unless one is really lost to anything lacking a start menu (though i suppose Win are too nowadays )
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There is a lot of FUD about rolling release, and arch, and no, your laptop won't mysteriously stop working.
Arch IS rolling release, but it only uses stable grade software outside of "testing" repos. There are somtimes manual interventions, but rarely breaks.
Most of the problems come from stuff in AUR, which is of mixed quality, but you'll learn how to fix things yourself.


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7.3.5 Flows over Sills and through Straits
The water mass structure in the deep ocean is largely dominated by the flows across a few shallow sills and through straits. The role of such flows for climate change arises from their influence on the THC which in turn can affect surface conditions. Once water has crossed a sill, it descends the continental slope as a dense gravity current and provides the water source for the downstream basin. The water mass properties are determined by the entrainment of and mixing with ambient water (Baringer and Price, 1997). For the NADW which is at the heart of the sinking branch of the global conveyor, the overflow of cold water across the Greenland-Iceland-Scotland ridge is the principal source. Observations show intense flow with speeds up to 1 m/s, in a layer of less than 100 m thickness above the bottom and within 20 km of the continental slope. Model calculations suggest that an interruption of this overflow would lead to a breakdown of the Atlantic THC and the associated heat transport within less than a decade (Döscher et al., 1994). In the past decades the overflow appears to have been fairly steady. Another prominent feature is the Indonesian Throughflow which has substantial contributions to the variability of the THC and heat transport in the Indian Ocean (Godfrey, 1996).
In coarse and medium resolution climate models, the overflow across the Greenland-Iceland-Scotland ridge has been found to be highly sensitive to the precise geometry used. For example, changes in topography by as little as one grid cell resulted in gross changes not only to the amount of cross-ridge flux but also to its location, and to the composition of the water mass actually crossing the sill. Thus, a 50% change in heat flux at the Greenland-Iceland-Scotland ridge latitude could be achieved in a model by the addition or subtraction of a single grid box (Roberts and Wood, 1997). Even eddy-permitting simulations give flows through sills which are very sensitive to model details (Willebrand et al., 2001). The physical processes involve hydraulic control and are not properly represented in climate models, and it is unclear whether a situation with substantial overflow changes can be modelled correctly. Parametrizations for the flux across a sill are only available for the simplest process models (Killworth, 1994; Pratt and Chechelnitsky, 1997) that do not include mixing or unsteadiness, both of which are known to be important at sills (Spall and Price, 1998).
Climate models which are based on depth co-ordinates obtain far too much mixing near a sill. This is caused by both poor mixing parametrizations in such models and by excessive diapycnal mixing resulting from the staircase'-like representation of bottom topography. As a result, water mass structure downstream of a sill is poorly represented in climate models. Isopycnic models are free of this erroneous mixing, and addition of Richardson number dependent mixing to such models results in realistic tongues of dense water moving downslope, mixing at a rate consistent with observations (Hallberg, 2000). A promising new development is the explicit description of the turbulent bottom boundary layer in climate models which yields more realistic flow of dense water down slopes (Beckmann and Döscher, 1997; Killworth and Edwards, 1999).
In summary, the uncertainties in the representation of the flows across the Greenland-Iceland-Scotland ridge limit the ability of models to simulate situations that involve a rapid change in the THC.
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You have the right to be free from discrimination when you receive goods or services, or use facilities. For example, this right applies to:
- stores, restaurants and bars
- hospitals and health services
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October 1999 - The objective of the Paper is twofold: to promote dialogue on protecting human rights in the insurance industry and to examine alternatives to current practices by obtaining input from experts, regulators and consumers. Access to insurance in our society raises significant issues about distributive justice and fairness in the public sphere, issues that have received scant attention in Canada and in Ontario where rate setting has traditionally been viewed as a private matter.
Consultation report: Human rights issues in insuranceOctober 2001 - In October 1999, the Ontario Human Rights Commission released a Discussion Paper for public consultation entitled Human Rights Issues in Insurance. This Consultation Report summarizes comments and viewpoints that were communicated to the Commission. The Report also examines possible directions to ensure human rights issues in insurance continue to receive attention in the future. A summary of relevant Code sections and selected case law is included in the appendices.
Human Rights Project Charter - OHRC, MCSCS, MGSAugust 2011 - The Human Rights Project aims to provide time limited support to MCSCS in its ongoing initiatives aimed at identifying and eliminating any possible discrimination in the employment of MCSCS employees and in the delivery of services by MCSCS. This Project Charter details the agreed upon relationship to be established between the three parties to fulfill these aims.
Age discrimination and transit (fact sheet)
2002 - Under the Ontario Human Rights Code, transit service providers have a legal responsibility to ensure that transit systems are accessible to all Ontarians. Many older persons depend of public transit services to go to work, to get to medical appointments, to go to the grocery store, to participate in recreational activities and to visit family and friends. Transit services that are not accessible can cause isolation and prevent participation of older persons in our communities.
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2002 - Under the Ontario Human Rights Code, older persons have the right to be free from discrimination in health care. This right applies to health care services and facilities including hospitals, clinics, community care access centres, long-term care facilities, home care and health care programs.
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Submission of the Ontario Human Rights Commission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy on an Act to regulate retirement homesMay 2010 - Through its various consultations on age, disability, housing, and mental health, the OHRC has heard about the human rights concerns that have arisen with respect to retirement homes. For example, it has heard about retirement home providers not accommodating older residents' disabilities. It has heard about issues of heterosexism and homophobia, where gay, lesbian or bisexual people's lives were not recognized and their partners not acknowledged, or they were subjected to homophobic treatment by facility staff. Several groups expressed concern regarding the cultural, linguistic, and religious needs of older persons living in care facilities.
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As a student, you have the right to an education where you are not sexually harassed. This includes primary, secondary and post-secondary education, and school activities such as sports, arts and cultural activities, field trips and tutoring.
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Re: Submission of the Ontario Human Rights Commission on Bill 21, an Act to regulate retirement homesMay 14, 2010 - The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) supports the regulation of retirement homes across the province. However, we ask the Committee to consider specific recommendations to amend the Bill to enhance the ability of retirement homes providers to meet their obligations under the Ontario Human Rights Code (Code)