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The federal government is getting criticized because it has not been able to get the frozen U.S. banking system to start lending money again. Many Americans resent injecting taxpayer dollars into beleaguered banks to get them lending again. After all, commercial bankers were among the villains that caused the global financial crisis. Why should they get bailed out with taxpayer money?
There is a simple answer: No economy can function without having banks and other sources of capital available to provide credit to both businesses and households on a regular basis. Without well-functioning banks the economy collapses, leading to massive unemployment and declining incomes.
The main reason most banks are not lending is that many have billions of dollars of toxic assets on their books that are not worth what the banks paid for them. The banks can neither sell those assets to use the capital to lend, nor use those assets as reserves in making new loans.
Washington keeps coming up with myriad ways in a desperate attempt to end the crisis, but nothing has worked. The Federal Reserve opted to keep home interest rates low so that Americans would be encouraged to buy homes, but that did not remove any toxic assets.
Another idea was to use billions of taxpayer dollars to buy ownership positions in banks through preferred stock, thereby supplying the banks with some quality capital. But that approach did not remove many toxic assets off banks' books and failed to restart lending.
Yet another approach was to merge failing banks with successful ones. But that requires paying the successful ones to take the failed banks' assets over; and it's expensive. Merrill Lynch was taken over by Bank of America, but it cost the federal government billions.
Why not just let the failed banks declare bankruptcy, wipe out their equity and fire their managers? As popular as that solution might be, it's a bad idea. The 10 largest banks in the U.S. possess almost two-thirds of all the federally insured assets in U.S. banks and savings and loans. The four biggest banks posses over half of those assets.
The stocks of the big banks are owned primarily by institutional investors in which millions of Americans have invested their savings. If all those big banks went bankrupt, the stock still owned by American households holding out hope for a recovery of value would be totally wiped out. It would be a psychological disaster for the Americans to lose all those assets.
The final way to remove the toxic assets is for the federal government to buy them. One solution is to require that the banks evaluate all their assets by dividing them into toxic and sound groups. The government would be able to verify the bank assessments, and then buy the toxic assets at a big discount.
The government would guarantee to take all the losses, if upon resale the assets proved to be worth less than what they paid for them. Conversely, if upon resale the assets proved more valuable, the government would share half the profits with the banks concerned.
The toxic assets would be held in a "bad bank" within each financial institution, managed by the bank itself. In order to stimulate more lending, the Federal Reserve for a limited time of one to three years would reduce the existing lending reserve requirements from roughly 10% to 5%.
That would double the lending capacity of the banks from the base of their good assets resulting from the federal government's purchase of their toxic assets, plus whatever good assets they already had, plus any new capital they could raise. By keeping the toxic assets within many banks rather than in one national "bad bank," the government would save administrative costs.
If all these changes were to occur, outsiders could invest in buying stock in these banks without fear of having to cope with toxic assets. If the newly approved stimulus package generates more economic activity, then opportunities will arise for banks to make money by lending to firms and households.

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Volume 17 Issue 31 | Dec. 24 - 30, 2004
Stars Al Pacino as Shylock, Jeremy Irons as Antonio,
Joseph Fiennes as Bassanio & Lynn Collins as Portia
Loews 19th Street East
890 Broadway
Opens Dec. 29
Al Pacino superb as a Shylock with pain and flame
Screenwriter Michael Radford and his collaborator, Will Shakespeare
Left, Allan Corduner as Tubal and Right, Al Pacino as Shylock.
By JERRY TALLMER
Signior Antonio, many a time and oft
In the Rialto you have rated me
About my moneys and my usances:
Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,
For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,
And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine,
And all for use of that which is mine own.
Well then, it now appears you need my help . . .
Dustin Hoffman, on Broadway, did this (if memory serves) coldly, rationally, argumentatively. Boris Tumarin, Off-Off-Broadway several decades earlier, did it with icy intellectual disdain, hauteur, as if threading his way for survival through a mob of boorish, bullying, profligate, uneducated, murderous Yahoos.
Al Pacino does it with pain and flame snarling, twisting, roaring flame.
Thats really interesting I just started to think I was finally old enough to play Shylock, the 62-year-old Pacino had said when, at lunch, Angels in America (TV) producer Cary Brokaw threw on the table the idea of a movie of The Merchant of Venice.
The merchant of Venice is of course not Shylock, for Jews are not permitted to be merchants in 16th-century Venice. The merchant is Antonio, who seeks to borrow money a lot of money, 3,000 ducats on behalf of his needy young friend Bassanio, who is seeking the hand of the fair Portia. When Antonios merchant ships, laden with riches, come in to port, the debt to money-lender Shylock will be repaid. Meanwhile, theres the small matter of a bond . . .
There are two questions, says Michael Radford, director of the hard, clean, uncluttered Merchant of Venice that, stunningly shot in Venice with Pacino as Shylock, Jeremy Irons as Antonio, Joseph Fiennes as Bassanio, and Lynn Collins as Portia, opens here December 29.
One, does Shylock really think hes gong to get his pound of flesh? Obviously not. In his heart of hearts, its just his way of saying: [Expletive] you for spitting on me.
And the second question is: When Portia goes into that courtroom dressed as a lawyer, does she know how its going to turn out? Why does she drag out the whole business like that?
Its because shes watching Bassanio and Antonio, says Britains Radford, director previously of two beautiful films, White Mischief (1987) and Il Postino (1994).
The earlier Portia, the Portia of all that nonsense of the suitors and the caskets, is to some minds (mine) not much more than a spoiled, silly schoolgirl. But now
Portia grows through the trial. She realizes shes married this shallow guy, Bassanio, whos going to spend the rest of his life in bars and so forth.
And not just in bars. In beds. Maybe in bed from time to time with none other than the Antonio, his savior, whos so austerely played (as if with toothache of the soul) by the estimable Jeremy Irons. The film underwrites the probability of this with a quick, in-passing mouth-to-mouth kiss between the two men.
I dont think Bassanio was in love with Antonio, said Michael Radford as he took a few minutes out from a clutch of television interviews during what the film world calls a junket here in New York a little while ago. Antonio is in love with Bassanio.
Antonio being the older of the two?
That figures, the questioner remarked.
Radford, the India-born, Middle East-raised son of a British Army officer, gave a short laugh.
If you dont see a homosexual relationship between Antonio and Bassanio, youve got nothing for Portia to fight for, he said.
The director who is also the screenwriter of this Merchant of Venice has been quoted as wryly saying he fashioned the script with my collaborator William Shakespeare. He just contributed the dialogue, the plot, the story, and the characters, and I did all the rest.
But now Radford said: Well, I did a number of things. One of the most crucial was I looked at many Shakespeare movies.
Did you like any?
Not many. Even in the Orson Welles Othello you dont get to know Othello, you dont get to feel for him.
With Radford, and with Al Pacino, you do get to know Shylock, and you do get to feel for him, not only when hes crushed by Portias verdict and sentence but even before that, when his daughter Jessica (Zuleika Robinson) runs off with her gentile boyfriend, Lorenzo (Charlie Cox) and her fathers ducats.
Shylock is a man, who can tolerate any abuse because he can make his way through it. Hes most proud of his heritage. But when his daughter breaks the faith, its too much for him.
That happens all the time in Britain, said Radford. While we were making this film, a man in Yorkshire, an Afghan, murdered his daughter for marrying a Christian. And he was heartbroken. Not a bad man. It was just that his world was torn apart.
Thats what happens to Shylock. But what you cannot do is take the miseries of your race on your shoulders and go on a one-man mission of revenge.
Anti-Semitism in Shakespeares time was a different sort of anti-Semitism than what the Russians and the Germans put everybody through in the 20th century.
I dont know where Shakespeares sympathies lie, said Radford, and I dont care, because Im making this film in the 20th century.
Shakespeare wrote the most heartfelt of pleas for humanity and put them in the mouth of Shylock,
Just last week in London, a man in the audience at a preview stood up and said: I am a Muslim, and I totally identify with Shylock. That was music to me, said Michael Radford. Human psychology has not changed over the centuries.
He points out that Shylock was Shakespeares first great, flawed, doomed tragic hero. Hamlet, Othello, Lear, Macbeth, Antony all came later.
He also points out that, contrary to the belief that Shakespeare never met or saw a Jew, he had in fact, as a spectator, after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, attended the trial, in London, for espionage and treason, of the Queens physician, a Portuguese Jew named Rodrigo Lopez, who was subsequently executed at Tyburn.
A complete frame-up, said Radford. Shakespeare saw villainy heaped on Lopez because he was a Jew. Its feasible that something happened, that he then sat down and wrote that speech, the one that sums up all humanity.
Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you poison us, do we not die?
You should hear Al Pacino do it. As a matter of fact, you can.
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JONESBORO, Ark. – A federal judge has ordered an Osceola, Ark., nursing home company to comply with a subpoena issued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in the agency's subpoena enforcement action against the company, the EEOC announced today. The judge also ordered sanctions against the company for failing to comply with the subpoena.
After an evidentiary hearing held March 9, U.S. District Judge D.P. Marshall ordered that Osceola Nursing Home, LLP, the former owner of nursing home facilities in eastern Arkansas, pay a sanction of $2,500 to the EEOC and make a good-faith effort to locate documents responsive to the subpoena by reviewing all files left at the nursing home facility, including those housed in an off-site storage facility. Judge Marshall ordered Osceola Nursing Home to certify compliance within 30 days. The judge ruled that Osceola Nursing Home's unresponsive conduct warranted sanctions under "the Court's inherent authority to protect and promote respect for the judicial and administrative processes."
The subpoena enforcement action filed by the EEOC's Memphis District Office in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Jonesboro Division, entitled EEOC v. Osceola Nursing Home LLP d/b/a Osceola Healthcare, No. 3:10-mc-00004-DPM, asserted that Osceola
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"Osceola Nursing LLP represented to us on numerous occasions that it would produce the information and failed to do so," said EEOC Memphis District Director Katharine W. Kores. "The EEOC issued a subpoena so that we could obtain the information we need to complete our investigation of the discrimination charges. When that failed, we sought relief from the court, as provided by federal law."
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 gives the EEOC the authority to issue administrative subpoenas during the administrative investigation of charges of discrimination. When companies fail to comply with an administrative subpoena, Title VII also provides the EEOC the authority to seek enforcement of the subpoena in federal court.
EEOC Regional Attorney Faye A. Williams in Memphis said, "We will continue to use the subpoena enforcement authority afforded to EEOC by Title VII, when necessary, to complete our investigations of alleged unlawful conduct in workplaces."
Acting Supervisory Trial Attorney Celia Liner and Trial Attorney Matthew McCoy represented the EEOC at the evidentiary hearing before Judge Marshall.
The EEOC's Memphis District Office has jurisdiction over Tennessee, Arkansas, and portions of Mississippi, with Area Offices in Nashville and Little Rock.
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Holden Hutterite Colony (Holden, Alberta, Canada)
Holden Hutterite Colony in Holden, Alberta, was founded in 1970 (Hofer says 1971) as a division from the Cayley Hutterite Colony. In 2012 the Holden Hutterite Colony was aDariusleut colony. The minister was John S. Hofer and the manager was Darius Hofer.
Additional Information
Location: Holden, Alberta (coordinates: 53.226111, -112.319167 [53° 13' 34" N, 112° 19' 09" W])
Address: Box 59, Holden, AB T0B 2C0
Telephone: 780-688-2232
Map:Holden Hutterite Colony, Holden, Alberta
|Bert Friesen
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|March 2013
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So The FBI Can Just Take A Copy Of All Instapaper User Data With No Recourse?
from the that-doesn't-seem-right dept
Possibly most importantly, though, the FBI is now presumably in possession of a complete copy of the Instapaper database as it stood on Tuesday morning, including the complete list of users and any non-deleted bookmarks. ("Archived" bookmarks are not deleted. "Deleted" bookmarks are hard-deleted out of the database immediately.)Marco is quite reasonably pissed off at the hosting company, DigitalOne, who never contacted him about this (before or after the raid, including up until the blog post, days later). Frankly, that's unconscionable. For an ISP to simply not tell their customer that a server has been seized? Marco is also upset that DigitalOne didn't do anything to stop the seizure. Now, on both of those accounts, it's possible that DigitalOne's hands were tied. There's not much they can realistically do if the FBI shows up with a seizure warrant, even if it's super broad. And we have seen the FBI use gag orders barring ISPs from talking about what was seized.
Instapaper stores only salted SHA-1 hashes of passwords, so those are relatively safe. But email addresses are stored in the clear, as is the saved content of each bookmark saved by the bookmarklet.
The server also contained a complete copy of the Instapaper website codebase, but not the codebase of the iOS app.
Linked Facebook, Twitter, or Tumblr accounts only store their respective OAuth keys. Linked Evernote accounts only store the Evernote email-in address. Linked Pinboard accounts, however, store plaintext usernames and encrypted passwords, and the encryption keys are present in the website source code on the server.
So the FBI now has illegal possession of nearly all of Instapaper's data and a moderate portion of its codebase, and as far as I know, this is completely out of my control.
But, really, that just goes to show, yet again, the problems of such government seizures with no prior adversarial hearings. I recognize that they're looking for evidence that might disappear, but the chance for serious collateral damage, including potentially serious privacy violations, seems pretty high. I'm not sure there's anything he could do, but it certainly would make for an interesting lawsuit if either Marco or an Instapaper customer decided to sue the federal government over these seizures.


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HTC's Profits Take a Deep Dive, and More
HTC's first quarter profits fell 98%. Chinese President Xi-Jinping weighs in on tensions in the Korean Peninsula. A new study says red meat can raise the risk of heart disease. Five-and-a-half tons of Nutella stolen in Germany. Joanne Po reports. Photo: AP Images.
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The only cool thing about this anime is this picture.
Gungrave is a 2003 anime based on a 2002 video game. A video-game based anime?! I'm surprised this series didn't win a thousand Emmy awards from the pedigree alone. The story is about a mute gangster named Brandon Heat who allies himself with a cocky asshole named Harry McDowell. The tale chronicles their rise from low-level thugs to the top of the Millenion crime organization. McDowell only owns a single white suit and never changes it despite the series taking place over the course of DECADES. Geez, that thing must have reeked of B.O. Brandon isn't technically a mute, but he talks less than Ryan Gosling's character from Drive. The first half of the series is OK, but in the second half, things go down hill fast.
Millenion is at war with a rival organization. Their enemies decide that the only way to wrest control of the city from Millenion is to use zombies. Yes, that's right, zombies. Motherfucking zombies. So, we get a healthy injection of the walking dead into what had been a gangster series. The juxtaposition absolutely does not work, and every time a fucking zombie shows up, it just reminds you how far off the rails this show went. Eventually, Brandon gets betrayed by Harry, and he dies. He comes back as a zombie with revenge on his mind. By this point, all the characters in the show are "old." Old by anime standards. As best I can figure, Brandon died at age 43 and Harry was probably the same age since they grew up together. Of course, at the ripe old age of 43, Harry has gray hair and a deep, old gravely voice, sounding like a guy who is about to get thrown into a nursing home. Goddamn you, anime.
Harry is probably age 25 here, and ready for retirement.
The remainder of Gungrave follows what must have actually appeared in the video game. Brandon, now dubbed Beyond the Grave, goes around killing Millenion's army of zombies, and takes down Harry's followers one by one. The show gets even more preposterous as each of Harry's lieutenants has the ability to transform into some kind of retarded fucking monster like giant spiders or some shit. The final episode was decent, as Harry and Brandon have their chance to face off.
Brandon Heat, deaf-mute extraordinaire.
The series offers up plenty of action, but the animation is weak, the character designs inconsistent, and the acting borderline terrible. The show had a good first half, and was certainly promising until the zombies showed up. But I suppose everything needs zombies these days, right? Clearly, the second half's schizophrenic clusterfuck of storytelling and shoe-horning in retarded monsters all came directly from the video game. You can't rely on a video game for good narrative. Didn't these guys learn anything from Super Mario Brothers? They should have just crafted an entirely original story (which they did for the first half of the show), and kept going with that. Fuck all the zombies and spider monsters, nobody wants to see that shit.
Anime can make anything look epic.
(The Legend of) Black Heaven is a 13-episode anime series from 1999. It wasn't terribly popular when it aired, and has long since been forgotten by otaku. Yes, the show has crappy animation. Yes, the show recycles a ton of shots. And yes, the technical aspects of the show cut a lot of corners. Black Heaven is never going to win any awards for animation competence. Nevertheless, it has a very strong story that makes it a terrific watch, despite all the things going against it.
The thing I love about this show is the main character is not a teenager, not a high-schooler, and not a moeblob. He is a middle-aged, married corporate drone. Having a realistic protagonist immediately sets this series apart from the pack. Oji Tanaka used to be a rock star, but eventually retired when his band's 15 minutes of fame were up. He is now working a mundane job, and grappling with the problems that each of us face in middle age: raising a family, keeping a marriage, finances, self-worth, and a sense of identity. Oji still feels he is a musician at heart. But he caved in to the pressures of reality, and conformed to what society expected of him.
"Sup, baby?"
Oji is still a damn good guitar player. Unbeknownst to him, whenever he plays, his music powers a devastating weapon being used in an interstellar war. Aliens come down to Earth to recruit him into playing more often, so they can use his music to defeat their enemies. I know, I know, the story is nuts. It's the kind of thing only an anime could get away with. But Black Heaven has a ton of heart. Putting the premise aside, the majority of the show focuses on Oji (on Earth with his family) struggling to put a band back together, and to come to terms with who he really is. If anything, the show works on multiple levels. Going deeper than face value, we see that the interstellar war is a metaphor for the collective unconsciousness of humanity, as each of us must decide who we are as we get older.
Rock on, guys.
Black Heaven doesn't take itself too seriously. There is plenty of comedy, and a lot of it works. The songs, while repetitive, are actually really good. John Sykes contributes the series opening. The show itself is directed by Yasuhito Kikuchi of Macross Frontier fame. The acting is really good, especially the Pioneer English dub. For anyone who loves music, is looking for an anime with adult characters, or is just in the mood for something a little different, you should check this one out. It's too bad it has been forgotten by time, because this is a series worth remembering.
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ALTAMONTE SPRINGS — Orlando Magic teammates Maurice Harkless and Tobias Harris stood in front of a movie theater filled with children Wednesday afternoon, and Harris asked, "Who's got the best grades?"
Many of the kids raised their hands. One girl belted out, "I've got all A's!"
Harris and Harkless were hosting kids from the Altamonte Springs Boys & Girls Club and the Rosemont Community Center, and together they watched an advance screening of the animated movie "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2."
A few days from now, the Magic will begin training camp, and Harris, Harkless and the rest of their teammates will be the center of attention.
"We all improved a lot, and we're looking forward to the season starting," Harkless said.
Last season, the young Magic took their lumps on the court, finishing with the NBA's worst record, 20-62.
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"A couple of years ago, I was one of these kids who looked up to NBA guys and just wanted to be around them," Harkless said. "It's great to be able to put a smile on these kids' faces."
Harris, a combo forward, is only 21.
On Wednesday afternoon, however, Harkless and Harris flashed back to when they were children — a time that wasn't all that long ago.
Wearing 3-D glasses, they settled into seats alongside the kids just before the movie started.
"I remember when I was a kid," Harris said. "If I met a professional athlete, smiles were on my face all week."
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - IH Moscow? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in IH Moscow? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Russia & C.I.S. View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message teachergirlJoined: 12 May 2003Posts: 6Location: Canada Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 3:12 pm Post subject: IH Moscow? Does anybody know anything about International House Moscow? I'm looking into a fall contact, and any help would be great! Thanx! Back to top roganJoined: 03 Mar 2003Posts: 416Location: at home, in France Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 5:23 am Post subject: *********Last edited by rogan on Tue Jul 08, 2003 6:46 am; edited 2 times in total Back to top marussJoined: 18 Mar 2003Posts: 1144Location: Cyprus Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 6:36 am Post subject: I.H.Moscow Rogan is absolutely right-once you sign that contract,they've got you on a string and will pull it whenever and however they want! Consider LanguageLink,or even working freelance teaching Business in-house,but above all don't sign a contract with I.H. moscow-try asking them to pay you on a hourly basis instead and if they are desperate,which they often are,you may be lucky and earn decent money for your efforts! M. Back to top Kent F. KruhoefferJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 2129Location: 中国 Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 6:48 am Post subject: 2 more rubles for ya! Good Day teachergirl: Rogan speaks the truth and Martin has added some valuable input here as well. I have no first-hand experience to share with you regarding IH, but I can tell you this much: They are the largest chain of language schools in Russia today, and that can be good and bad. Good in the sense that they do have an administration and support staff, which can be very useful, especially if this will be your first experience teaching in Russia. In their most recent advert here on Dave's last week, they were offering $550 minimum per month. You can live decently on that amount in and around Moscow, but not lavishly. Some concrete advice: Try to nail down the details of which branch you'll be working for, and whether they are providing single or shared housing, and how far your daily commute from home to school will be. And lastly, if possible, make an attempt to email someone who's currently on-staff at the branch you'll be working at. Getting your facts directly from the 'horse's mouth' can be very helpful, especially since conditions at all of these EFL schools tend to improve and worsen with the blowing wind. Warm wishes, kEnt Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Russia & C.I.S. All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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After headlining two of his own movies and teaming up to save the world in "The Avengers," the billionaire-playboy-turned-superhero Iron Man is a known quantity. Anytime he shows up, audiences can rest assured that high-tech battle suits, scheming villains, big explosions and snappy banter are soon to follow.
So it goes in his latest outing, "Iron Man 3," which finds Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) donning his famous armor to battle the terrorist mastermind the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), this time under the direction of Shane Black ("Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"). While the film is receiving generally favorable reviews (to say nothing of its massive box-office prospects), many critics seem to have had their fill of Iron Man's heroics for the time being.
In a positive review for the Times, Kenneth Turan calls "Iron Man 3" a "spiritual reboot" and says, "like a stunt driver taking over the wheel while the car is moving at 100 mph, new director (and co-writer) Shane Black has managed to change this billion-dollar-plus franchise's tone for the better while keeping the same actor as Tony Stark." The most interesting thing about the film, Turan adds, "is that, far from being slicker than the first two versions, it is unexpectedly — and successfully — darker and more serious than its predecessors."
While the film "does tend to fall back on massive explosions and action set pieces as the conclusion nears," it also "creates the kind of jeopardy we can believe in, and for a superhero movie, that is an accomplishment in and of itself."
The New York Times' Manohla Dargis, however, finds the film less than original, writing, "despite the needless addition of 3-D and negligible differences in quips, gadgets, villains and the type of stuff blown up, ['Iron Man 3'] plays out much like the first two movies."
Dargis also criticizes the film for exploiting the specter of terrorism as a plot device without really saying anything about it: "Mr. Black and his colleagues, like other filmmakers who use the iconography of Sept. 11 and its aftershocks, want to have it both ways. They want to tap into the powerful reactions those events induced, while dodging the complex issues and especially the political arguments that might turn off ticket buyers."
For USA Today's Claudia Puig, Downey saves the day once again. She writes: "This third installment … has such a surfeit of visual dazzle and eye-popping stunts that it teeters on overload. But Downey reins it all in with his perfectly timed dry wit."
Also turning in fine performances are Gwyneth Paltrow and Don Cheadle for the good guys and Kingsley for the bad guys. (Guy Pearce, as a villainous scientist, is "solid, but not memorable," Puig says.)
Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post is less taken with "Iron Man 3," which she says "seems designed less as an artisanal object or visual entertainment than a full-body assault on the senses." She continues: "A frantic, occasionally funny, finally enervating bricolage of special effects, explosive set pieces, sardonic one-liners and notional human emotions, this branch of the Marvel franchise tree feels brittle and over-extended enough to snap off entirely."
Hornaday does concede that the film has its bright spots, including "a fine ensemble," and says it "ends with a tone of finality which, even if it's ersatz, feels like a well-earned respite."
The Boston Globe's Ty Burr agrees with Puig that Downey carries this third installment. He writes, "The weakest in the series of Marvel Comics-related movies (including last year's all-star pig pile 'The Avengers'), 'Iron Man 3' suffers from confused plotting, flat-footed exposition, and more pure, noisy nonsense than even a comic book movie should have to put up with. Yet whenever Downey is being Downey, it's still the most subversive Marvel franchise around."
And thanks to Black, Burr says, "a little oddball cleverness does sneak into the mayhem."
Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal says the film is technically proficient — "the computer animation is often astonishing, even if the 3-D is indifferent and explosions are explosions, no matter what's being exploded" — but lacking in terms of narrative. "The third iteration of a franchise that began so well becomes a hollow hymn to martial gadgetry," he writes. "The suits and story clank in unison."
Ultimately, Morgenstern says, "'Iron Man 3' is an industrial enterprise fabricated for kids, and they will eat it up just as eagerly as the Iron Giant scarfed scrap metal. If you're not a kid, though, or if you want to keep your memories of the first "Iron Man" unsullied, beware of the buzz and hubbub, and the glowing reviews. You know the story of the emperor's new suit."


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Hi guys, I'm not expert yet on *nix(I'm still learning..)...but I've got this trick...when I tried to installed BSD on laptops;
I assume you've already done your installation for BSD, If you haven't done yet..you can look at here too (I've read tutorial by ratman http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=223701 ).
Installation BSD on laptop is very tricky some times....and after you've done installation and then when you typed "startx" usually end up with "error screen no found".
So I decided to wrote this tricks and I hope this helps:
1. If you haven't got XFree 4.x get it from www.xfree86.org
2. After you've got XFree 4.x..this is what I've done:
-using Vi to edit vi /etc/X11/XF86Conf (I just pick the section I've edited I assuming you don't have problem with your "probe")
Section "ServerFlags"
AllowMouseOpenFail# allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work<<<I added this line (but optional)
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata"
Option "Protocol" "IntelliMouse"<<<<<this is very important part if your mouse not working properly..your X won't start I edit this to "auto" specially if your mousse jumping around like popcorn or not working propely
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" <<< I added this line
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync 30-107 <<<< I added this line(basicly you can edit to your one maybe 30-70...etc)
VertRefresh 48-120<<<< I added this line
Section "Screen"
Identifier " Screen0"
Device " Card0"
Monitor " Monitor0"
DefaultColorDepth 24 <<< I added this line
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "<<<< I added this line (You can edit to 800x600 or 640x480)
# end of XF86Config
And then just typed :wq to save your edit...and then you can start to typed "startx"
For Open BSD before you edit /etc/X11/XF86Conf do this one first:
#XFree86 -configure
#XFree86 -xf86config XF86Config.new <<<<to test your configuration..after you see your black and grey grid and X mouse cursor appears typed this:
#vi XF86Config.new <<and then next step is..look at my tricks for XF86Config editing above
#cp XF86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config <<<<the last part but important
And that's it you finished
BTW don't forget to log in as "root"
PS : -I tried Free BSD 4.5,4.6,4.7 and 5 current and also Open BSD 3.1,3.2 on Laptop Toshiba satellite 1800 series,IBM thinkpad 600, and SONY VAIO..(I hope working for other laptop too)and it works..this trick somehow..


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BLACKBERRY TOWNSHIP – Margo Cherrie smiled as she stood in front of a placard on a table Wednesday afternoon at Marklund; meanwhile, employees and visitors took turns signing their names to be part of the campaign to "Spread the Word to End the Word."
The word is, as literature available at the event pointed out, "the R-word," a derogatory term that once was considered more acceptable as a way to describe those with disabilities.
Marklund is a nonprofit organization that serves those with serious and profound developmental disabilities and special health care needs, and Cherrie, a case manager and a qualified intellectual developmental professional, invited anyone who came into the lobby to sign their name to the cause to fight the casual use of the term.
"They are signing their name to signify that they are ending 'the R-word,'" she said, adding that she has been a big supporter of that cause since her college days at Lewis University.
Information on the cause can be found at www.r-word.org.
Cherrie smiled as employees Shannon Gardner and Cole Paler signed their names. She said visitors also had been signing.
Gil Fonger, Marklund's president and CEO, said the word still is used by some people who might not realize they are offending anyone. He said older people might be comfortable with such a word, as it had a more common usage in the past. He said he has heard it used by well-educated people.
At times, however, the word is used intentionally by those seeking to be insulting. Marklund officials shared such an instance – the word was in an email recently received addressing the Show You Care Kane referendum, which was defeated last week. The referendum sought to raise about $13 million to be administered by a disabilities board – also known as a 377 board – to help those who are disabled.
Officials said the email was sent by an opponent of the referendum who added that it was for "people who aren't even worthwhile members of society."
Although Fonger said such a sentiment still was the exception, rather than the norm, he did say someone stood up at a session addressing the referendum and asked, "Why should we care about these kids?"
He said he appreciated Cherrie's efforts and was pleased that so many were eager to sign the placard, which featured signatures using colorful markers.
Employees helped residents who needed assistance signing their names.
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Ceremony marks start of expansion project at LAX international terminal [Updated]
L.A. city leaders will gather at LAX Monday morning for a ceremony to mark the start of a $1.26-billion expansion-and-refurbishment project at the Tom Bradley International Terminal.
The work is expected to be completed by mid-2013 and will add two concourses and nine new gates for the next generation of large commercial planes. It also will add 1 million square feet for ticket counters, security checkpoints, passenger lounges and expanded customs and immigration facilities.
Stores and restaurants will occupy a central area.
Airport officials said the building project will be the most expensive the city has ever undertaken and is expected to employ about 4,000 construction workers. The Bradley terminal has not undergone major improvements since the 1984 Summer Olympics.
The aging airport has often received poor-to-average marks in surveys of passengers and airlines.
Among those scheduled to attend the 10 a.m. ceremony are Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa and council members Bill Rosendahl, Janice Hahn and Tom LaBonge.
[Updated at 10:20 a.m.: A previous version of this post stated the project's cost was $1.26 million. It is $1.26 billion.]
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Photo: A bust of the late Tom Bradley is located in front of the LAX international terminal named for the former mayor. Credit: Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times
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I have been knitting...
I just finished the Meringue Zig Zag Scarf (knit in Knit Picks Parade, not Meringue), I'm on the second sock of the Knit One,Crochet Too 3X1 Rib socks, I finished one of the two dishcloths (Chinese Wave) I mentioned in the previous post, and I've knit two Hermione's Cable & Eyelet Hats (the one shown has been given to my niece for her birthday and the other is for Mandy - Mandy's is grey) both are knit in some Caron Sport I've had for so many years I can't give an exact time. I'm knitting two more of these hats (I love this pattern) - one for myself and one for one of Mandy's friends. They are both in Caron Sport too - mine is green and Leah's is "thunder blue".
I haven't finished the petal tam yet, but I'll get it back out soon and finish it up. I've started another scarf in some brown Caron Sport - it's called the Double Moss Stitch Scarf in the new issue of Fons and Porter's Love of Knitting. I knit and gave a baby hat (along with the blanket to Mandy's friend who is due any day now) I forgot to take a picture of; but there is a woman at work who is having a baby sometime in February and I think I will knit the same hat for her, so you may see it after all.
I've joined a local gym through work (they got us a nice discount on membership). I'm doing a water aerobics class twice a week and am trying to work myself up to going in for some additional cardio work outs (falling miserably at that right now).
Both kids are good. C. J. is working and Mandy is back at college (and working too) - year 2! She did so well last year - Dean's List both semesters.
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because folks liked my last version of this, for your viewing pleasure, below are the books i read last week. it's a pretty exciting list:
1. Patrik Ourednik's Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century (Dalkey Archive, 2005): The twentieth century boiled down to painstakingly concise and shocking truths. No one is left unscathed or uncriticized in this book. Ourednik's dry humor pairs well with sentences that are dense in their simplicity, that makes sense. For instance: "Psychiatrists said that in many people the First World War provoked traumas that had been previously hidden in the unconscious, and in the 1920s and 1930s the people started to be neurotic because they were not adapted to their inner or outer state, and in Europe in the 1960s, 25% of women and 15% of men were neurotic, and journalists called it the disease of the century. And in the 1970s the number of people suffering from depression also started to rise, and at the end of the century every fifth citizen of Europe was depress" (65). Every sentence in Europeana reads this way: biting, revealing, absurd, contradictory, a slap across an entire century's big sweaty face.
2. Urs Allemann's Babyfucker (Les Figues, 2010 but available now!): This is a book to talk about. This is a book you want to carry around with you, just so people can ask you what it's about. Last week, as I was sitting at a cafe in South Bend, this slender volume lying on top of my usual stack of library books. It's cover is a lovely yellow, it's spine an unobtrusive pink. But the title! The title is what interests people most. So someone asks me: What's that you're reading? And I say: Babyfucker. Just like that. And that person responds: Hmm. There's no follow-up question. I have to force their discomfort. I say: It's a book about a man who fucks babies, or not. It's this little Beckettian book, this man obsessed with the sentence, 'I fuck babies,' constantly repeating, 'I fuck babies. That's my sentence.' Whether or not he actually fucks the babies is irrelevant to the reader, but to that person standing by your chair at the cafe, that's the only question that matters. Here's the thing, I haven't even started touching the substance or the incredible writing in this book, but it's all solid. This is an inadequate review of a truly stunning book, but I've only managed to do exactly what I've criticized that person at the cafe of doing: getting lost in the spectacle. Continue reading


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My houseboy has been on a soft-boiled egg kick lately — or maybe you'd call them gently boiled eggs, because the whites have the firmness of a hard-boiled egg, but the yolk is not quite firm, not quite runny. On sandwiches, they are a revelation.
After a recent egg-boiling session, we put together this twist on a ham, egg, and cheese sandwich. The trio of crisped prosciutto, manchego cheese, and gooey egg provided a fascinating flavor and texture combination — salty, creamy, and reminiscent of some of the best parts of French and Italian sandwich concepts.
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A while ago I was brought into a company to work with a vice president-level executive who, I was told, "may not make it."
This isn't my favorite type of coaching work. In my business it's termed "remedial coaching." I think the Human Resource field coined that term; having never come across it in coaching circles before about 1997. Regardless of where it started, in less gentle words it means "Fix this person. Help them find a remedy for what's ailing them management-wise. Or else we're going to have to change the situation."
The guy I was to work with was pretty typical of those who get remedial coaching. He had previously been a very effective individual but over the past year his performance had gone downhill. He'd had several discussions about his results with his bosses and the HR folks, but it seemed that he simply wasn't going to be able to change his style. And if he didn't; they couldn't keep him around. So they took the next-to-last step and brought in a management coach to see if he could be saved.
What was he doing? And why was it going to get him fired?
1. He was cranky too often. In group meetings and with individuals one-on-one he often blew up. When he got angry he didn't hesitate to let everyone know. He fumed, cursed, slammed doors, pounded his fist, threatened people, turned red. He would get up in the middle of a meeting and leave. Even his e-mails were ugly.
No one wanted to be near him for fear of becoming the next object of his outbursts. Which made it really hard to get things done.
2. He had become fearful. He often said that the tasks or projects his group was working on were in danger of missing deadlines. Worse, he didn't hesitate to tell his team that if they didn't get the job done as expected he'd get fired. He said that if he was let go there would likely be others shown the Exit door.
Not exactly a leader who inspired. My client's actions and displays were very clear that something wasn't right. I'm telling you about both him because I find these two issues to be pretty commonplace in a lot of managers today. And you can prevent it.
Most people won't be as obvious as my client. But the symptoms are there if you look for them. Watch the person next to you in those weekly meetings. Anger may show up as sarcasm or little jokes. Fear may be manifested with more questions, or statements about how much more difficult certain activities are than others.
And sharks smell blood. People above and below those who are showing these characteristics will know that something's wrong. They'll distance themselves from the individual who is in trouble, and that will make it harder for the leader to be successful.
So what's a leader to do if (s)he thinks that they or someone around them is in danger of losing their balance?
Try to nip it in the bud. Be conscious of changes in style. If it's you or someone else exhibiting behavior change, take an honest look at what's going on before it gets out of control. In early stages, both anger and fear can be dealt with fairly easily because we can remember what it was like before.
If it's past the budding stage - thoughtful refection can help a lot. This doesn't require hring someone from the outside, it can be done between colleagues or with a boss/subordinate meeting. If someone is being snippy or expressing too much concern about failure, often all that's required is having someone else play it back for them so they can see what they're doing. I also encourage the use internal mentors for this type of activity.
And if it's full blown? When the person can't even remember their past style and is incapable of dealing with it on their own; invest in them. Tell them that things are bad, that you believe in them, and want to give them some professional help to get back on the rails. Make it clear that this is probably their last chance. You must get their attention because at this point they need to focus.
In the case of my client, we made solid progress together. Initially he felt like he'd been spanked and put in a penalty box. But after a while we figured out what was hassling him and made a couple of breakthroughs very quickly. He's doing well. But if those around him had been more aware of his changing behavior, the whole issue could have been averted.
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This is admittedly, one of my more rushed, rustic crust jobs that I've been rolling out with brown rice flour. Simply because….the bag is sitting on top of my fridge, locally milled and purchased from the farmers market, duh. More importantly, it served as a party pie for a dear friend's birthday last weekend. This combination of saucey, sweet strawberries and the deep, refined tang of balsamic is almost unreal. Frankly, it's been a while since I've seen a pie consumed this promptly.
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PEER Program Crosses Borders to Save Lives
By Marcia Goodrich | Published
On Nov. 9, 2009, Hurricane Ida dumped 18 inches of rain on the northern slopes of the extinct San Vicente volcano. The already rain-soaked mountain could hold no more and gave way.
The massive mud and debris flows that followed killed nearly 400 people. Since then, researchers from Michigan Technological University and the University of El Salvador—Multidisciplinary Faculty of the Central Region, San Vicente, have been working together to mitigate the human toll in future catastrophes.
Fredy Cruz, director of graduate studies and an agronomy professor at the San Vicente campus, came to Houghton last week to collaborate with Michigan Tech scientists and attend a workshop on remote sensing and hazard modeling. "We're working to identify areas that are susceptible to landslides and flooding, and we're also trying to identify those communities that are the most vulnerable, not just geographically, but also economically," he said.
The San Vicente region has a history of disasters, including landslides, flooding and earthquakes. "The University of El Salvador needs to research ways to address these issues," Cruz said. "This project is strengthening our efforts to address those hazards, but the ultimate beneficiaries are the local governments, emergency responders and the people in our communities."
The collaboration is sponsored by USAID and the National Science Foundation through the Partnerships for Enhancing Engagement in Research, or PEER, program. Cruz was joined at Tech by master's graduate Luke Bowman, a returned Peace Corps volunteer and now a PhD candidate in geology, who has been working with Cruz in San Vicente and served as Cruz's interpreter. Rudiger Escobar Wolf, a Michigan Tech PhD candidate in geology from Guatemala, and José Marrero, an undergraduate geology major from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, are also part of the cooperative effort, along with John Gierke, professor and interim chair of the Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Science.
Bowman and Rudiger led the workshop in Spanish, which focused on using remote sensing to map hazard risks and vulnerability. The team focused on processing satellite imagery to identify changes in land use over time, to determine how those changes might play into landslide and flooding hazards.
In addition to training and exchange of knowledge, PEER allows Cruz's team to purchase equipment, both for hazard mitigation and to further research and education. Items include well-monitoring sensors, computers and hardware for an advanced technology classroom.
The PEER program also provides extraordinary opportunities for international students, Gierke added. "I always find these exchanges exciting," he said. "The students we attract to Michigan Tech and the interns, like José, who come here for short periods are so hard working and adventuresome. We are so grateful that they have the courage to come to this relatively unknown place and work with us in these research endeavors."
PEER is a synergistic program that awards funds to foreign counterparts of internationally focused NSF projects, like the first of Michigan Tech's Partnerships in International Research and Education (PIRE). PIRE supports Michigan Tech scientists' travel to El Salvador. In March, Bowman and Gierke worked with Cruz installing instruments to monitor groundwater levels in San Vicente. "Over time, we'll be going back and forth disseminating techniques for modeling," Gierke said.
The international exchange wasn't limited to technology. Cruz's interest in agriculture prompted a tour of local farms. After hours, his hosts took him fishing on Portage Lake and introduced him to grilled venison. "Everyone has been welcoming, and I feel right at home," Cruz said. "And today, it's so hot it feels almost like San Vicente."
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Nope. Checking through the glass door.
Fermentation is exothermic. The thermometers are not calibrated with each other. You need to compare the two thermometers in the same medium.Or pull the temp probe out of the thermowell and hang it in the air for a few minutes until the temp stabilizes.
I don't believe that the temp in the middle of our small fermenters is significantly different from the temp on the outside surface of the fermenter. Fermentation causes currents in the liquid that mix it pretty well.
As for the air temp in the chamber, if it is at 54F and the controller is set to 51F +/- 1F, then the compressor should be running. Either the controller or air temp thermometer is inaccurate, or they are measuring different places and there is a difference in the air temp there.
I assume this is a chest freezer? If the carboy is in direct contact with the side of the freezer, I've noticed it will lose heat more quickly than if it is not.
Or pull the temp probe out of the thermowell and hang it in the air for a few minutes until the temp stabilizes.
I really wouldn't worry about this. The temperature of the beer is what matters, and you have that controlled.


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Orioles fans often hear about the Oriole Way, "Orioles Magic" and the three World Series titles during the team's glory years in the '60s, '70s and '80s. Even 20-somethings who missed the last title, in 1983, have playoff appearances in 1996 and 1997 and the historic career of Cal Ripken Jr. to hold onto. But for many, being an Orioles fan has been nothing but disappointment, a streak of 14 straight losing seasons and teams that have started out hot, with plenty of players showing lots of promise, only to find new ways to crush our spirits. Well, here we are in 2012, and your Baltimore Orioles are sitting atop the AL East standings. It may seem like they're setting us up to let us down again, but here at b, we're buying in, and we offer 20 reasons why you should, if nothing else, go to cheer them on -- one for each year the team has played its home games at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. -- Brandon Weigel
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BEIJING — U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and his Chinese counterpart Monday called for greater cooperation between the two countries' militaries, but their talks fell short of any concrete plans to formalize ties that were broken off by Beijing last year.
China agreed to set up working groups with the U.S. on key issues such as nuclear policy and missile defense without any definite schedule. But those groups would be limited only to exploring the possibility of a future "strategic dialogue" and wouldn't actually discuss the issues themselves.
A meeting between Gates and Vice President Xi Jinping, next in line to be China's president, produced a wooden statement by Xi that noted that the U.S.-China military is a "sensitive field."
The ambiguity of Beijing's position suggested that military relations with China remain estranged a week before Chinese President Hu Jintao will visit Washington.
Still, the remarks by Gates and Chinese Defense Minister Lian Guanglie at a news conference Monday were mostly positive, a notable shift in tone since the Chinese military severed talks with the U.S. a year ago after the U.S. announced a $6 billion-plus arms deal with Taiwan, China's longtime rival and an island China considers to be part of its sovereign territory.
"We are in strong agreement that in order to reduce the chances of miscommunication, misunderstanding or miscalculation, it is important that our military-to-military ties are solid, consistent and not subject to shifting political winds," Gates said.
"There are new opportunities for the two countries to further develop ties," Lian said.
Lian made clear, however, that there are still sore feelings surrounding the Taiwan arms deal.
He warned that U.S. sales of advanced weaponry to Taiwan "jeopardized China's core interests."
"We do not want to see such things happening again," Lian said, according to the translation carried by Chinese state media. "We do not want U.S. weapon sales to Taiwan to further damage the relationship between China and the United States and the two nations' armed forces."
Gates' three-day trip to China is his second since taking office in December 2006. He's also scheduled to stop in Japan and South Korea, an itinerary that emphasizes tensions between China and the U.S. and its allies.
American officials backed Japan in a standoff with China last year over the arrest of a Chinese fishing boat captain that ended with Beijing cutting off crucial mineral exports to Japan. The U.S. also stood by the South Korean government when China refused to condemn North Korea after a South Korean warship was torpedoed in March, killing 46 sailors, and after an artillery barrage that killed four on a South Korean island in November.
Lian, however, tried to play down growing concerns about China's military ambitions.
"We can by no means call ourselves an advanced military force," he said. "The gap between us and that of advanced countries is at least, I think, two to three decades."
In recent weeks, U.S. officials have appeared caught off guard by a series of announcements about Chinese weapons systems that could challenge American reach in the region.
In December, the head of U.S. Pacific Command told a Japanese newspaper that the Chinese had achieved "initial operational capability" of a ballistic missile, the Dong Feng 21D, that's designed to sink aircraft carriers. Last week, photographs of China's first stealth fighter jet, the J-20, were posted to the Internet, which many interpreted as a message from the Chinese military that it's committed to producing advanced weaponry.
In comments to reporters during the flight to Beijing, Gates acknowledged that the Chinese "clearly have the potential to put some of our capabilities at risk," but he added that he hopes the strategic dialogue he planned to push for in Beijing would reduce "the need for some of these capabilities."
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I am looking at building a new system. I will be using an AMD CPU - AM2 socket. I am hopeful to get some suggestions for a motherboard. The motherboard should also hopefully be microATX (to fit in the case I am looking at).
I would prefer online video if possible (I just need basic graphics - no gaming, no video editing, etc.). I was looking at the new ATI 780G - since ATI is now trying to play nicely with the Open Source community. It seems to get great reviews, but I have heard that it and the southbridge it is normally coupled with (SB700 - I think) runs very hot!!!
This system will be geared toward cool and quiet operation (though, I don't think I can go totally fanless!). So, I can't have a north- and southbridge that are untouchably hot (according to one review).
My preferred brand is ASUS, but will consider others as well.
Any suggestions?
Also, I have heard that Seagate hard drives run hot -- any knowledge of that?
And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us. (John 1:14)
In any case, AFAIK temperature doesn't really matter for hard drive performance/lifespan.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
Within reason, that is true: Google released stats a year or so ago about their failure rates, which found little correlations at all between failure and anything environmental.
The only thing that was found was that the time between the first sector going bad and the drive dying was short. The rest of the SMART figures were practically useless.
That Said, if a drive runs hotter than another, equivalent model, then that drive is wasting energy.
The only dumb question is a question not asked.
The only dumb answer is an answer not given.
I have looked at the new Western Digital Caviar GP (Green Power) hard drives. Their performance is not that great, so the reviews say, as it is basically a 5400 RPM drive that can occasionally do quick bursts of 7200 RPM.
I am also looking at the viability of using CF as a hard drive (via a CF2IDE or CF2ATA converter). This looks promising for me. Sure, I won't have 1TB of storage, but I am not going to use it as a multimedia storage box or a RAID server. I have very modest needs (compared to the average user today) for amount of storage: 8-16 GB is more than enough for me.
And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us. (John 1:14)
>Increased temperature can cause the bearings to wear out faster
As robbak already mentioned there is much more belief than real facts in terms of hardware.
use UNIX or die :-)
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And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us. (John 1:14)
A hard drive is made of parts which sometimes can originate from the same sub-parts manufacturer.
Then they are mounted in a low-cost location.
At each step, there are quality tests which are used to accept some specifications.
Essentially, beyond some design, all drives are the same.
There isn't either much price difference between capacities. Currently, almost none for 40G to 160G drives.
Just drives "specified" for AV, retail desktops, commercial grades, industrial grade, hot swapping.
I have few experience with the Seagate (Maxtor or whatever brand they bought).
What I know for sure from Western Digital, is that I buy RE drives, those with product # ending in ***YS.
Specs are better, all around, in MTBF, temp range, shock, ...
It is usual, at one manufacturer, to have 5 to 10 specs for one capacity.
Hence, IMVHO, inter-brand comparative testing is pure BS, not academic at least: comparing B&W drillers to Diamant Board gear.
Hard drives are killed (also) by heat. Negating this is refusing the old chemistry principle of processes speeding or slowing depending on the process temperature.
When hard drive technology near, in measurement, the size of molecules we must now speak of chemistry, hence influence of heat.
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Download the h/w specs for your hard disk from the seagate site and check if the disk temp temp reported (/usr/ports/*/smartmontools) are within reasonable limits.
i wouldn't fret too much about this unless you are talking about performance drives like the raptor (10k rpm), those might require more attention with regards to cooling, cabinet air flow etc.
In general, there isn't much difference in quality b/w the different drives.
Opt for drives that have 3/5 yrs warranty.
just for info, all my disks are seagate.
Hard disks may come cheap these days but keep in mind they are very advanced, high precision devices.
> Also, I have heard that Seagate hard drives run hot -- any knowledge of that?
Generalizations like that are obviously BS.
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Try our spec
From details you give, our spec should be interesting.
We're trying to determine if FreeBSD can support these boards. Linux support was just recently there, SB700 southbridge chip id's added to the 2.6.25 kernel series. There've also been some recent (Linux-speak here) kernel 'quirks' direct from AMD patched into the Linux kernel. We checked all of that before buying. Now someone wants to try FreeBSD though. I'm not clear yet. Just boils down to chipset support really.
Other than that question mark, our spec is what you want. AMD based, quiet, certainly cheap! Not ASUS, but GigaByte is just as good and the boards we got do come in a microATX format as well. If you go for the microATX read some of the NewEgg comments about the chipset heatsink situation; it runs hot. No such issue with the ATX format.
And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us. (John 1:14)
It's the north/south bridge, not the IGP
The comments say the bridge chip gets hot, not the IGP. The solution is a bigger heatsink on the bridge chip. Or go full ATX, which ships stock that way.
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Five States Where Gas Prices Are Plunging
Where are gas prices going? Down, surprisingly. Gas costs 30 cents a gallon less now than it did a year ago. MarketWatch's Jim Jelter looks at five states where gas prices are plunging. (Photo: AP)
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I ... good news for motorists ... are ... gasoline prices are falling in on just a little bit of it ... by Amgen Jelter MarketWatch and today we're going to take a look at the rather remarkable drop in gasoline prices around the country according to the AAA Fuel Gauge the price of a gallon of regular gasoline fell in March for the first time in ten years ... prices are currently thirty cents a gallon was than they were a year ago ... and that's a pattern that reported predicts will last through most of the year so what's behind is relative bargain at the pump ... well first of all Americans are driving looks about two point seven percent once according to the Department transportation ... that might not sound like much but when it added up since about nineteen billion miles Laos over the course of the year another reason is that older cars are being replaced but for more fuel efficient cars but the biggest reason of all is that oil prices are cheaper ... crude oil fell nearly five percent last week along the combination of ample supplies and sluggish demand ... crude oil futures in New York are actually ... down about ten percent from where they traded a year ago so as of April first win states of seeing the biggest drop in gasoline prices from a year ago ... there are the top spot ... Virginia a state with no refineries and no crude oil production has seen gasoline prices that are dropped nine point one percent from a year ago ... the same goes for the lower ... gasoline prices in Washington state were down nine point three percent ... this is not the same as having the cheapest prices in the country ... the boy launch a ... price of the average gallon gas when there was four dollars and twelve cents last month ... which is well above the national average ... same goes for Oregon ... were prices are down nine point four percent from a year ago but the biggest drop the ball was seen in Indiana with gasoline prices are down nearly twelve percent more of it were a year ago ... so what's up with Indiana ... polar importing a lot more crude oil from Canada ... which is a lot cheaper than oil from the Gulf of Mexico ... which is to be their main source or ...