text: On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, drikis at lanet.lv wrote: > I am not so optimistic. Microsoft can buy goverment of some small EU members... Well, of course one of my major concerns with MS is that it can buy critical parts of the government of the US as well, by donating money to key candidates at election time. I found in the newspapers reason to believe that they impacted the Gore-Bush election in some critical states, for example. It is one of the many dangers of large multinational monopolies. Of course in the last two elections their influence is tiny compared to, say, Big Oil, but there are obvious reasons for that. Still, if one reads: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft who can say that they didn't get their money's worth? The Clinton administration sued. Microsoft was caught openly perjuring themselves, falsifying demonstrations, and generally treating the court with contempt. They lost big time, and were at serious risk of being broken up like AT&T had been before. I recall at the time open speculation that if their software business was completely separated from the operating system business, the new baby MS's might well be more or less forced by the market to produce software that runs under both Windows and Linux, that the OS side of the business might find themselves needing to produce Microsoft Linux -- there was a lot of optimism that it would level the playing field. Then Bush won the election and promptly -- 9/6/01 -- announced that they would no longer seek to break up Microsoft, and ultimately settled for a "penalty" that was probably less than MS had been spending on legal defense during the pre-trial phase anyway. Still, recently MS has taken a number of actions that remind me of the smile on the face of a crocodile. They seem to be "for the public good" in bizarre ways. Playing (for Microsoft) relatively nice. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, given that they still have high-level protection in the US marketplace; the only thing I can figure is that Europe and possibly Asia are significantly pressuring them: losing the half-billion Euros probably doesn't impact them at all, but the other constraints established by the settlement may be. rgb > > Quoting "Robert G. Brown" <rgb at phy.duke.edu>: > >> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Geoff Jacobs wrote: >> >>> Everybody take a moment to remember how Windows NT was supposed to be an >>> elegant, microkernel design. >>> >>> In other words, I have infinite faith in the marketing droids being able >>> to screw this one, too. >> >> Good point, and maybe they will. However, this time there is some >> actual pressure not to. I'm wondering if Microsoft isn't feeling the >> burn some in Europe, where they seem to be far more aggressive than we >> are here about regulating monopolistic behavior, a bit more willing to >> mandate open source solutions. Lot of money in Europe... >> >> Maybe, just maybe, they're starting to feel the burn here as well. >> >> rgb >> >> -- >> Robert G. Brown >> Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 >> Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 >> Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 >> Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb >> Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977 >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Robert G. Brown Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977


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Dec. 20
12:03 p.m. — Connie Lemon-Sandoval, 67, of Los Alamos was arrested on a charge of driving on a suspended license, driving without insurance, and having no tail lamps at 38th Street.
(No time given) — Police arrested a 17-year-old Los Alamos teen for possession of a controlled substance in the 1300 block of Diamond Drive. He was then referred to juvenile authorities and released to his parents.
11:48 p.m. — Raynard Frank, 41 of Blackfoot was arrested for aggravated driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs (refusal to submit to chemical testing), and failure to stay in his lane on N.M. 4.
Dec. 21
10:06 a.m. — A 50-year-old female reported to police her house had been burglarized in the 800 block of Scott Way.
Dec. 22
4:06 a.m. — Ben Abelin, 23, of Los Alamos was arrested for aggravated driving while under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs (refused chemical testing) careless driving, possession of marijuana (less than one ounce) and possession of drug paraphernalia at the intersection of Meadow Lane and Rover Boulevard in White Rock.
10:59 a.m. —Patrick Connolly, 30, of Los Alamos was arrested on a charge of battery against a household member in the 2300 block of 37th Street.
11:44 p.m. —Matthew Beckman, 20, of Santa Fe was arrested in another jurisdiction on a Los Alamos Magistrate Court bench warrant.
Dec. 23
(No time given) — Police arrested a 15-year-old teen for possession of marijuana. He was turned over to his parents and referred to juvenile authorities.
Dec. 24
2:14 p.m. — A 20-year-old Los Alamos woman reported to police that she was the victim of a theft of over $250 and less than $500 in the 1900 block of Camino Mora.
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In these works, Joâo Carlos pairs the literature of love tragedies through the ages with the techniques of a fashion shoot outdoors. These images have a composition and balance inspired by the masters of painting and echo their work also in that these stories are the subjects that the great painters would have taken on. Centuries-old castles and palaces in Portugal create a fairy tale setting for the characters to play out their doomed love.
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Once Upon a Water Planet
Among laypeople (and some scientists) the notion that Mars was Earth-like -- warm, wet and verdant -- persisted for decades, until the first spacecraft visited the Red Planet. The Mariner missions of the late 1960's revealed the real Mars: heavily cratered, dotted with extinct volcanoes, colder than Antarctica and drier than the Sahara desert. There were no trees, no canals, no Martians -- and very little atmosphere! "The War of the Worlds" was a fantasy after all.
Subsequent missions mostly confirmed a new paradigm: Mars was once wet, but now it is dry. Spacecraft photos of Mars reveal signs of ancient rivers, lakes and maybe even an ocean. They might have been filled with water billions of years ago, but something happened -- no one knows what -- and the planet became a global desert.
Wherever the moisture went, new data suggest it might not be gone for good. Indeed, water may have flowed on Mars literally as recent as "yesterday or last year," declares James Garvin, Chief Scientist for Mars exploration at NASA headquarters. Evidence is mounting that water lies beneath the Martian terrain, he says. Furthermore, every few centuries weather conditions might become clement enough for that water to "come and go" on the surface as well.
Left: The accumulated debris (or "apron") from this gully on Mars covers sand dunes that may have formed less than a century ago. [more]
Dozens of the gully systems appear on the shaded sides of hills facing the polar ice caps. Their geometry suggests that "swimming-pool volumes of water could be entombed underground until suddenly it's warm enough for an ice plug to burst, letting all the water rush down the slopes," Garvin said.
Many of the gully systems look extraordinarily recent -- sharply carved and crossing older, wind-scoured features. Their appearance is so fresh, in fact, that it has excited planetary geologists such as MOC designer Mike Malin to think that Mars "may have experienced massive, short-term climate changes, where water could come and go in hundreds of years." Indeed, Garvin said, scientists wonder whether liquid water might exist on Mars now, buried in some areas perhaps 500 meters underground, and that "there might be a dynamic cycling of the atmosphere going on even today."
MOC's findings are corroborated by data from another instrument on the spacecraft, the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA). For 27 months -- longer than a Martian year (one Martian year is 687 Earth days) -- MOLA gauged the daily height of the Red Planet's polar icecaps, meticulously recording how much frozen material accumulated in winter and eroded (sublimed or evaporated) in summer in each hemisphere. MOLA documented that each ice cap has a volume as great as the Greenland ice cap on Earth.
Although the upper crust of frost is clearly carbon dioxide, scientists are now convinced that much of both caps' supporting mass must be frozen water--structurally, "dry ice can't stand up two miles high," Garvin remarked.
MOLA and MOC measured how the polar caps shrink in each hemisphere's summer. They shrink so much, in fact, that if the observed trends were continued for just a few centuries, nearly a third of each polar cap could evaporate into Mars's atmosphere. That would pump the atmospheric pressure up from 6 millibars to 30 or 40 mb (the Earth's atmospheric pressure is about 1000 mb) -- high enough pressure for liquid water to be stable on the planet's surface under certain temperature conditions. Thus, perhaps as recently as just a century or two ago, Mars might have been "clement enough for ponds of water" to have dotted its surface like desert oases, Garvin said -- and current trends suggest it might become so again.
All these observations reopen a venerable question: was there -- or is there -- life on Mars?
"Following the water makes sense if you're prospecting for biology," Garvin declared. "If we could find evidence of preserved liquid water on Mars, that would be the Holy Grail."
Looking for water is in fact a prime mission of the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, whose high-gain antenna unfurled on February 6, 2002, and whose instruments began mapping Mars at the end of that month. Odyssey's multispectral camera is imaging Mars simultaneously at numerous infrared wavelengths (from 8 to 20 micrometers) with unprecedented football-field resolution, seeking thermal and mineral "fingerprints" hinting of seeps, volcanic vents, or underground reservoirs.
Above: In this false-color map of Mars, soil enriched in hydrogen is indicated by deep blue. Source: the neutron spectrometer onboard NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft. [more]
Initial science data released March 1 is already tantalizing scientists. Within its first week, Odyssey's gamma-ray spectrometer has detected significant amounts of hydrogen in Mars's south polar regions--possibly indicating the presence of frozen water in the upper few feet of the Martian soil.
"These preliminary Odyssey observations are the 'tip of the iceberg'," Garvin concluded. Perhaps he was speaking quite literally!
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages both the Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey missions for NASA
Mars Exploration -- (JPL) explore the Red Planet yourself at NASA's Mars Exploration Program home page.
War of the Worlds links: What happened? (Syracuse University); listen to the broadcast (EarthStation1.com); the script (Jeff Miller); War of the Worlds by HG Wells (fourmilab);
The Case of the Missing Mars Water -- (Science@NASA) Plenty of clues suggest that liquid water once flowed on Mars, but the evidence remains inconclusive and sometimes contradictory.
Making a Splash on Mars -- (Science@NASA) On a planet that's colder than Antarctica and where water boils at ten degrees above freezing, how could liquid water ever exist? Scientists say a dash of salt might help.
Floods at Mars' equator are recent, scientists say -- (SpaceFlightNow.com) University of Arizona scientists conclude that water flowed near Mars' equator only 10 million years ago.
NASA'S Global Surveyor sees possible climate change on Mars -- a NASA press release
Evidence Suggests Mars Has Been Cold and Dry -- (USGS) On the other hand: The mineral olivine, an iron-magnesium silicate that weathers easily by water, has been found in abundance on Mars. The presence of olivine implies that chemical erosion by water is low on the planet and that Mars has been cold and dry throughout most of its geologic history.
Seasonal Variations of Snow Depth on Mars -- (GSFC) graphs, maps and animations.
Dusty Streaks = Canals? -- Crystal-clear images of Mars captured by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal dusty streaks reminiscent of the legendary Martian "canals."
The Planet Mars: A History of Observation and Discovery -- By William Sheehan, The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Desertification of arid lands -- Mars is a desert today, yet it was likely wet long ago. Find out here how moist places become deserts on Earth.
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Bluehawk2000 wrote:There are better designs for rocket launchers (yours are the the ones that look like my standard rifles turned backwards, right) that look like RPGs link http://www.brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1087. Also, I'll say it again I beat you to the idea by a few months. If your still having that house contest I can build you somthing but I can't say for certain it will be cheap.
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Ericak needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 177 designs submitted by 38 freelance designers.
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This project embodies my passion for running marathons around the world, assisting other women to learn to run or improve their running technique, style, pace, times etc,
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I am a 40 something successful businesswoman who is elegant, stylish, passionate and committed to whatever I do. I have run 5 marathons around the world and the next one will be in London in 2011.
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This afternoon, my mind took a sudden wrong turn, and before I knew it, I was lost in the story of Why Things Should Be Different.
It was such a familiar experience that at first I barely noticed. Then, as the thoughts kept coming like cars in a freeway pile-up, I finally managed to catch myself—to take a step back from my spinning mind and tap into a deeper well.
The ability to move between these two states of being—wishing things were different and being with them as they are—is hugely important in Plan B Nation. With so many things beyond our control—jobs, the economy, other people—it's easy and natural to start feeling embattled and exhausted.
But while it may be easy and natural, it's also decidedly not helpful. In the words of Buddhist teacher Cheri Huber, "[T]he alternate reality in which everything is exactly as you think it should be exists only in your mind, and it exists primarily to torture you."
Over the years, I've experimented with various ways of working with this challenging state of mind (with which, in fairness, I was well-acquainted long before my Plan B Nation foray). What's worked best for me can be summed up in the following three simple steps:
1. Stop
As soon as I realize that my mind is spinning an unwelcome storyline, I try to simply stop. Often, that's easier said than done, so it's good to have strategies.
One of my favorites comes from Buddhist teacher Joseph Goldstein, whom I once heard describe his own tactic for dealing with intrusive thoughts. As soon as he realizes what's happening, Goldstein said he thinks: "Dead End." For some reason, this sort of cracked me up, and probably in part because of that, it's been a useful technique.
Another strategy—also from Goldstein—is identifying the mind's favorite stories and dubbing them The Greatest Hits as in "Oh! There it is again! My-father-never-really-loved me! Greatest Hit #5!" Again, this probably works in part because it's sort of funny. It's hard to take your own mind's Top Forty entirely seriously.
2. Make a different choice
I often think of my mind as making "moves"—from point A to point B to point C, and so on. Just as we watch our footing when crossing a river using stepping stones, we need to be attentive to where we place our minds.
That being said, figuring out what works for us is a very personal thing. The field of cognitive-behavioral therapy offers a slew of exercises designed to change the way we feel by changing the way we think. But for all the research proving the effectiveness of these techniques, they've never worked so well for me. Whether that's because I haven't stuck with them long enough or because (as I suspect) it's simply not my way, I can't say for sure. All I can say is that they haven't helped much while other things have.
Another popular antidote—especially if you spend any time hanging out with Buddhists—is lovingkindness or "metta" meditation. But again, while I've spent a good bit of time working with this practice, it's never really clicked for me in the way it has for friends.
What does work for me—and it's been a process of trial and error—is perhaps best summed up in the words of the Late Medieval Catholic monk Thomas à Kempis: "Those things that cause you inward peace, think upon deeply."
I love this quote. Simply repeating it to myself often helps to steer me back to a state of calm wonder. I also like reflecting on the question of what brings me inward peace. It varies from week to week, and sometimes it's surprising. A promising new friendship. Stringing small white lights around my living room windows. My friend Allegra's spiritually infused Innovation Abbey consulting firm (with which I'm honored to be affiliated.) These are a few of the things that have recently lifted my spirits.
3. Do it
Once you feel a shift, let yourself relax into it. Stay with it for a while. Think about how you might continue to cultivate this way of being.
Buddhism talks of the Blessed Abodes—also known as the brahma viharas—states of mind that lead to love and awareness and away from suffering. These, according to dharma teachings, are our true home. While it doesn't always feel this way, I believe this is true. And I know that my life is always better when I remember the way back.


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Diary of a journey from the Mississippi to the coasts of the Pacific with a United States government expedition / by Baldwin Möllhausen, topographical draughtsman and naturalist to the expedition ... ; translated by Mrs. Percy Sinnett., Volume 1
Description: "Mollhausen was the artist and topographer accompanying the party led by Lieutenant Amiel Weeks Whipple in the Pacific Railroad Survey Explorations of the thiry-fifth parallel in 1853"--Wagner-Camp. The party travelled from Fort Smith to Pueblo de los Angeles in 1853-54, making their way through the Panhandle of Texas.
Date: 1858
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The Yin Release (陰遁, Inton; Viz "Dark Style" or "Shadow Style") techniques, based on the spiritual energy that governs the imagination, can be used to create form out of nothingness. When combined with Yang Release, it allows the use of Yin–Yang Release.[1]
During the Nine-Tails' attack on Konoha, Minato Namikaze used the Dead Demon Consuming Seal to seal the Yin half of the fox's chakra within the Shinigami.[2] According to the Second Mizukage, genjutsu fittingly falls under the broad category of Yin Release.[3]


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